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a-friendly-dumpster-fire · 2 years ago

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Link & Rauru (Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom), Link & Steward Construct Characters (Legend of Zelda), Link & Link's Family (Legend of Zelda), Link - Relationship Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Rauru (Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom), Steward Construct Characters (Legend of Zelda), Link's Mother (Legend of Zelda), Link's Father (Legend of Zelda), Link's Family (Legend of Zelda) Additional Tags: Angst, Friendship, POV Link (Legend of Zelda), POV Rauru (Legend of Zelda), Artificial Intelligence, Grief/Mourning, Link Makes a Friend (Legend of Zelda), Ethics Debates on Artifical Intelligence, exploration of humanity, Author Cannot Tag for The Life of Them (This is a Cry For Help) Summary:

LINK: Have you ever died before?

THE CONSTRUCT: I am a construct, Link. We are not born, and we cannot die.

[The campfire whimpers and sputters. They both turn to stare at the empty husk of another deceased construct rotting nearby.]

THE CONSTRUCT WHO IS NOT BORN AND CANNOT DIE: …we cannot die in the same way our creators did.

LINK: But surely it must be similar.

THE CONSTRUCT: I wouldn’t know. Can a machine die like a heart stops beating?

#shameless plug but yeah please check it out #the whole thing with the constructs being completely discarded despite being their own seemingly sentient beings in totk is a complete mindf #so i wrote this #out of spite #fuck you totk writers #you dont drop that kind of shit and write dialogue where the machine's own creator is perturbed by its continual survival and #servitude and NOT ELABORATE ON IT #you dont just leave that behind without exploring the semantics of what it is to be human/living and the complex relationship bewteen #humanity and sympathy #like that one quote #about the irony of the desparate struggle to prove your humanity inadvertently making the struggle inseparable from the humanity #or something like that i dont know im not a poet #just read the actual fic #tears of the kingdom #loz totk #totk fanfic #fanfiction

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