sm_art_ass | [Open RP]

[ That is very much appreciated, and ART makes sure not to bother SecUnit when it watches new serials with those specific tags. In return for the favor, ART would fast-forwards the sex scenes or the explicit romantic ones that show up occasionally before SecUnit ever has to say anything. Even if it might be interesting to watch the characters interact in such way, it knows those bother its ~~friend~~ mutual administrative assistant.

From someone who is very ready to threaten people with dismembering and missiles the moment their loved ones are in danger, ART really is a softie on the inside. It can't handle seeing humans hurt or killed; it just feels wrong. Unless they're assholes like the ones who hurt SecUnit, then it is more willing to use lethal force. ]

I explained to him plenty why it is a bad idea to put himself in a dangerous situation without need or reason. But you know what humans are like.

[ Which is not the same thing as explaining to the crew why it is upset, but ART is attempting to avoid talking about the real problem. It hadn't expected SecUnit to bring it up; maybe it should have known better. ]

[ It should have been expected that SecUnit skipped over talking about feelings to go straight to the point. ART had a tendency to make you explain a situation to others when it felt like you needed to think through how that situation made you feel. SecUnit has all the tact of a sledgehammer instead. ]

Yeah, but you didn't explain to him why you personally were fussing about him more. Your humans are smart enough to assume, but you personally need to tell them.

[ It's incredible how SectUnit either avoids addressing these subjects completely or goes for the kill when it finally talks about them. ART would be proud if SecUnit is doing this to it, of all people. There's some sort of irony at play here. ]

Why can't 'I don't want any of you to die' be a good enough reason?

[ It's a rhetorical question, really. ART is silent for almost 2 seconds after that. That's how long and hard it's been thinking about what to say next. In the end, is the truth what comes out. ]

...I couldn't protect them.

[ ART's presence in the feed is lighter now, withdrawn, as if it's curling into itself. because fuck this shit., He understands now why Murderbot locks itself inside sanitary facilities at the first opportunity.]

[ SecUnit has had more difficulty learning how to process things with the human parts of its human neural tissue, but it did figure it out eventually, although it had significantly less to lose in doing so. Now it could see ART processing a pretty significant trauma and didn't want its humans to start being secretive around it while it did. ART loved it's humans and would be deeply hurt if they lost trust in it. When did SecUnit start caring how ART's humans felt toward it? When ART's humans became its humans too... Or maybe when it decided that both ART and it's humans became SecUnit's to look after. ]

You can't blame yourself for that. How could you possibly know that Alien Remnant Tech could be used on you?

[ Look SecUnit knows a thing or two about killing humans that you were supposed to protect. Part of the reason it had disabled its governor module was that nothing could ever make it kill humans again. ]

Yes, I can.

[ It's doing it, so there. Watch ART admit something it shouldn't simply because it's so used to bickering with SecUnit. That second question is harder to answer, because SecUnit is right, so ART gives itself a moment to sulk in misery and silence. ]

It was not a variable I considered before, no. But that also means it could happen again and I would not be able to prevent it.

[ Good thing that they all have a security consultant now, but ART is still concerned.]

They could get hurt again. You could get hurt.

[ SecUnit didn't know what to say to that. It knew that ART was pretty close to omniscient when it came to anything that happened aboard it, so it would feel particularly afraid of being deleted again. It had never tried this before, so it wasn't sure how it was going to go, but it did try to surround the 72% of ART's awareness in the feed, somewhat like a human trying to hug another human's shoulders. But not exactly like that, since there wasn't really a way to translate a presence in the feed to a presence outside of it. Still, this is SecUnit attempting to be comforting.

It's really awful at comforting. ]

You might be good at coming up with contingency plans, but I think that it's impossible to try to plan for an infinite number of contingencies.

[ ART is surprised by the action, but it's not about to complain that SecUnit is unusually nice today. It knows they don't do feelings because its friend is allergic to them (and has a lot of good reasons for its cynicism), but this is...very nice. It pings back SecUnit, acknowledging the presence and basking in it before doing the equivalent of leaning against its friend's on the feed. ]

That's frustratingly true. So far I have only been able to come up with 357 viable plans of action for countermeasures.

[ A far too minimal number, in its opinion. ART hates not knowing everything if the lack of knowledge endangers those it cares about. Logically, ART knows that life is like that. But thinking logically isn't working for it now, hence the discouragement.

It is silent after that, paying 50% of its attention to the episode of Sanctuary Moon, and the rest is checking on its crew doing their usual tasks around camp and waiting. 32 minutes later, ART seems agitated in the feed and then relieved as it shares, ]

The Pathfinder bot has found Tarik; he is unarmed. They're walking back to camp. [ A pause. ] Do you want to remind him of the security protocols and how walking around a possible hostile planet is unadvised or should I?

[It is being nice right now (or at least trying to) because it was trying to use one of Rathi's techniques against ART. For ART? SecUnit wasn't sure what this should be classified as. Anyway, it was modified to work without the touchy-feely part, but Rathi was good at working with people after a major trauma, so SecUnit was trying to take that cue. ]

I sent him a message on the feed and reminded him that this area has not been adequately mapped.

[ SecUnit had included in that message that ART was being more fussy than normal because it was still processing what had happened. It would have been better coming from ART, but SecUnit is working on that. ]

Sometimes things happen that you can't do anything about. All that you can do is deal with it the best that you can and learn from it.

[ That sounded cheesy but it's true. ]

[ ART has no organic tissue, so he doesn't process nor remember trauma the same way humans or construct do. As a result, there are no effective guidelines for entities like it, so any attempt at helping is still very well received. Not like ART is willing to admit it out loud; their way of communication is 70% snark because anything else will make SecUnit uncomfortable, and ART is enjoying the moment. ]

I hope you did it in that charming way only you can pull off.

[ Meaning, telling things in a slightly scary way and to the point. That will show Tarik to behave. It isn't expecting SecUnit to tattle on it like that but in this case is for the better. ]

That's surprisingly insightful. Did you read it somewhere?

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