week 4

[airlockedmods]

[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[myocordial]

I usually don't... consider myself a pessimist. But in this case... [His fist clenches as he thinks back to the memory. Medic...] Someone very important to me was... reprogrammed. And I'm not sure it's actually possible to reverse that.

[Thinking about this doesn't help, not at all, but it's all he can do.]

Indeed. Just like with everything else here, we're only getting pieces of this puzzle. I know this memory was after the first and I don't believe it was that long after it either, but even so there are... parts missing. Questions that I have no answer for.

This was clear enough even so, but other memories could very well end up missing important context...

[motherfucking_ghost]

Makes it easier to jump to conclusions, to panic. Work ourselves up, lower our guard. Does your friend have maybe like a...backup to reboot from? Maybe they can just be reprogrammed back?

[myocordial]

No, backups aren't really... a thing for us. All that we are is stored into our core, there's nothing else. And... the one who reprogrammed her... It was our creator.

Arrogant as he is, he is still a genius. To undo his reprogramming would require someone who could match that genius.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Your creator dude is a massive bag of dicks. One can only hope he'll get what the fuck is coming to him.

[myocordial]

[That gets a wry smile out of him.]

You have no idea. Honestly... I wouldn't hesitate to call him the worst, most vile human I have ever encountered. [And considering some of the humans he's ran into back in Tokyo, that's... saying something.] I wish that I could be the one to give him the fate he deserves, but...

[...That's not happening.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

No? Why not? Sounds like it might as well be you, else someone else is gonna get the satisfaction.

[myocordial]

[He hesitates for a moment. Because this is... not something he feels particularly proud of.]

...At the moment the memory ended, I was... cooperating with him.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Aaaagainst a bigger, badder evil? I'm guessing? Because the whole enemy of my enemy is my friend and all, it's legit.

[myocordial]

No.

After he reprogrammed my friend, he... took over my position as leader. Hijacked our plans, started using my kind for his own purposes... [At that, he chuckles for a moment. It's a really hollow sound.] Pathetic, isn't it? Allowing the very person I rebelled against years ago to take over like that. Answering to him, even...

[motherfucking_ghost]

What, why the hell would you let him do that?!

[myocordial]

...It was my only option.

[That doesn't mean he feels good about it. Even if he's been backed in a corner, all he can feel is disgust at himself.]

He holds all the cards. Fighting him proved... ineffective. I couldn't stop him. [He feels himself getting more agitated as he speaks, so he... pauses. Takes a deep breath.] Don't misunderstand. If it were up to me, I would have reduced him to scrap. But as I'm unable to do that, all that remained was staying close to protect my friends... However I could.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Jesus.

You made the right call. No use throwing yourself against a wall if it won't do anything, and when your team needs you most. Still, it's just...damn.

It's really sounding like memories are getting worse. Anything happy get tempered with something definitely not good. I just...hope that's not actually the case and it's just some god awful coincidence.