What does the pope know about robots that we don't? Why the sudden concern, Francis???
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@revoide said : “ the pride in my heart would not let me die. “
sympathy for lady vengeance.
the stranger says. does she? something isn’t right. something is shifting.
LORRY : 𝙸𝙽𝚂𝚄𝙵𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙸𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰 𝙵𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳. 𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙰𝙽𝙰𝙻𝚈𝚂𝙸𝚂 𝙴𝚁𝚁𝙾𝚁 𝟺𝟶𝟺. 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰𝚄𝙳𝙸𝙾… 𝚁𝚄𝙽𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚂𝚈𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙼 𝚅𝙾𝙸𝙲𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙲𝙾𝙶𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽…. 𝙴𝚁𝚁𝙾𝚁.
it occurs to you that there may be errors in your software. the lull of a lack of sleep. you always knew it would be the death of you.
LORRY : 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙾𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚅𝙸𝚂𝚄𝙰𝙻 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙰𝚄𝙳𝙸𝙾 𝙱𝙸𝙾𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙾𝙽𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙳𝙸𝙰𝙶𝙽𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙲 𝚃𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚂….
she looks like your mother.
the mother who cherished your suffering has been long dead but her prudence haunts you still, it seems. here then, in the scar tissue suffering you have hidden in your nape perhaps lies a bitter and ugly truth you are too poignant to realise ( or better still: have already been choked by ): you are her imposter-esque descendant, her half-curse violence and half-but-actually dead malice. there is an absence in such an abyss or lapse of an astound memory but you fail to remember the act of dying. there is, however, the imprudent afterthought nipping at your ear much akin to the serpent and eve: perhaps you simply never died at all – perhaps you never were born.
you cannot remember. it was bitter, though, and you remember your own feasible, malleable hands. the humility and mortality of it all.
we are such hideous creations.
LORRY : 𝚅𝙸𝚂𝚄𝙰𝙻 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙰𝚄𝙳𝙸𝙾 𝙱𝙸𝙾𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙾𝙽𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚂…. 𝙾𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙰𝙻.
there is, nevertheless, the echo of heaving a decaying carcass in the act your mothers deem living. you remember being dead. you remember lungs aching and its webs of violence. you remember the raw fingers down your throat willing you to live, entangling its roots so deep in the fissures of your tired, small heart chanting 𝘓𝘐𝘝𝘌 𝘓𝘐𝘝𝘌 𝘓𝘐𝘝𝘌 but you do not remember dying.
you remember the suffering. is that not one in the same?
my pride wouldn’t let me die.
but yours did.
she’s still shifting. your mind is playing tricks on you. the stranger’s hair is too golden. now it shines like chestnut moss. her voice sounded like death’s lull -- no, did it not sound like honey lust a second ago? your mother is not here, not anymore.
❝you mock me. ❞ death has come to claim you back. the stranger feels familiar.
you cannot bare to look at her. it hurts.
❝funny. you remember dying? ❞
and then there is now, here, in this moment of being not-alive in a body that is simply not your own but is. pandora was sculpted by man – divine of metal and sculpture, but his Vulcan hands lie absent where your false body should swear a god given sacrifice too. he has forsaken you at his cutting room floor.
in the lies you comfort yourself you know: it was her love that did you both to death. perhaps it was the loving that was the dying.
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“ i don’t want to look kind-hearted. “
sympathy for lady vengeance.
you’ve known nights so cold that the body could barely bleed. gods so ravenous their hunger knows only voracity. foreboding sacrifices known only in a language the dead can read. there is simplicity in this statement to which you know about yourself : you do not know gods nor do you claim to know them. not of the circumstances of your death, not of fingers forced down your throat, fingers claiming to be god but looked too much like your mother, demanding things from you you were not ready to give up. not when the Fingers snapped and you grew wings, your body devoured and spat out again in a carcass so foreign and hideous to you that your mother claims it to be yours ( for all its worth, you know : resurrection hurts too ).
you do not know of gods. they do not want to know you.
but you know this : kindness is a type of hunger.
you look at your fingers. trace the etches and paths so intricate someone who wouldn’t have known better could have sworn that there was absence where the blood is supposed to be. someone who knew better would peer close at the oddity, close enough for you to bare grotesque visions of fades past and show them what the hunger truly cost you.
you wonder if she knew better.
I don’t want to look kind hearted.
the words are vast. perhaps they are empty. if you knew better, they would have sounded like a prayer to you.
in this dull moment of weakness, you entertain the thought. allow your eyes to descent and dance over the presentiment sign of ferelden sown with such care into the flags that reign proud above that you wonder how much blood the seamstresses drew to make them. how much blood the flags have devoured in their hunger and claimed as their own. you wonder to the sign of the grey wardens. a prayer in itself, you think. to the roar of grey wardens whose metal swords would pierce children from their mothers, skin them dry and wear their skins like fine silks, if she, the sun, willed it.
I don’t want to look kind hearted. a god muttering a silent prayer.
you want to ask this god why she is hungry. why she is finding it in all the wrong places.
if you wanted to know her, you would ask her that is it not simply that she does not want to look kind hearted but to not pose as a lie? kindness is a hunger for something deeper, you know this. is kindness not a barrier to forebode what your core desires when you have infinity and nothing at the same time? you watch her when she leads. when she fights. you want to know if she sees it, too. the hunger.
the hunger to be vengeful. to rage and call the mountains to break in her footsteps. to fill the ocean depths with the intestines of angels who wanted to be her but never could, to ravage the angels who dragged her by the throat, lunged her through hell and took everything from her? to laugh when your subjects cry out in anguish: is this not what you wanted when you prayed to me? did I ever look kind hearted to you?
is that not what you feel, warden? you want to ask her if you are wrong.
funny. too bad you claim not to want to know god.
perhaps she is different. perhaps you are wrong. it is only in this instance, in this very brief moment with each other, away from the crowds that bow, away from all that makes her the hero, that for the first time since meeting her that she may be… different, too.
you never even asked her for her name.
there is an instance where you want to say something. to apologise. to know her.
you don’t.
instead, you swallow her image and try to dissect god from her stature: the face that of a plaster saint haunted by her impending martyrdom, the three finger sacrifice, ravaged arms so bruised and fleshed wide in a submission, forced, ugly at the hungered alter of a god, of a belief, that wasn’t even her own but forced down her gut.
there are days where you wonder where her prayers lie.
you stare at her.
you think only: one day you will die for this, one of these days kindness will break you.
you are not praying. you are pleading, so it seems:
❝ ha ! seems your maker serves you bad luck. you appear as if you’d make me lemonade and tuck me into bed, like a sweet little grandmother. perhaps you should leave here, they surely would not want someone so kind looking as you to guide them. ❞
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Who, if I screamed out, would hear me amongst the hierarchies of angels? And if one suddenly did take me to his heart: I would perish from his stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the onset of terror we’re still just able to bear, and we admire it so because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebnell
I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame.
Mary Oliver
Did you ever notice how in the bible, when God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like?
Thomas Daggett
How lonely to be something that nothing wants to kill.
Jeremy Radin
I was a winged obsessive, my moonlit
feathers were paper. I lived hardly at all among men and women;
I spoke only to angels.
Louise Glück
Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid — ”
Luke 1:11-13
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*·OH HERO, MY HERO.
@cursedtm ♡ ‘d for a starter !
she really couldn’t be blamed for the way her mood had soured drastically. yes, she was ferelden born and raised, yet despite the plights of the alienage, it’s become relatively clear that evadne tabris WAS, unfortunately, a city girl. there was only so much rain and mud that she could traverse though while hearing insistent bickering before her fingers itched to take one of her blades and fling it between someone’s legs as a WARNING. eva had picked up various companions since beginning this journey and maybe most of the tag - a - longs were made with too little caution, yet even she questioned her own choices with the particular companion that had been on her heels from the moment she had scowled when exiting her tent that morning, “ not today, i swear i can and will stab you. ”
you begin to take apart the deep stitches of nightmares plaguing the hallow insides of your nights. consumed by the very vastness of poison uncovered beneath its rotten threads ( 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄𝐒 : funny, its almost appears like your mother. how fitting ), the child ravaging inside you calls out in a sickening naiveness so bespoken and foreign to the likes of your tainted soul that its enough to make your bones bleed. the child aches for the warm divinity of the sun it longs to consume. ( DON’T YOU KNOW THAT THE SUN IS A GOD ONLY IF YOU BLEED FOR HIM? ) simultaneously, it seems evident that you are mutually the stitch and the knife, both the nightmare and the vague promises it serves you with idle, looming fingers ready at your jugular. the poison and the self it sinks its ravaging claws into. you only have yourself to blame for your beginning and your end.
you had once thought her sun was strong enough to undo the stiches, sinew by sinew, your hero of fereldan and clytemnestra divine who the chords cheer in exasperation: 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙜𝙨.
ostensibly, it seems hersun does not want to sink its light on the likes of you.
❝ evidently it seemslelianna has beaten you to it, dear warden. ❞ softly, carefully, fingers tips curl to tangle your onyx strands steeped in sandalwood, jasmine and vetiver to uncover the secret cut on the artificial flesh of your forehead, jewelled with a pomegranate red. almost like it’s a secret forbidden the lips of the two, taken from the gods. you adorn the blood like pearls to a neck as you quip at her dishevelled form and you take a moment to wonder if clytemnestra would envy. ❝ I came to ask of the events that surrounded thelatest purge of the tabris, the ones that claim you slaughtered them like dogs, no? ❞
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UPDATED BIO/STATS. carrd will be updated <24hrs. posted here for your convenience. trigger warning for suicide.
FULL NAME. august lenora singh-erriksen.
BIRTH NAME. name withheld.
ALIASES.
octavarium “o” no last name given (2014-). alternatively: OCTAVARIUM.EXE and OCTAVARIUM.CMMD
oberon “o” sweetwater (2031-2049). oberon, for their mother anita’s love for the shakespearan play midummer’s night dream. the name further signifies o’s character as they are known to be: cunning. mischievous. reign of tricksters. possessing the thought that they can do whatever they want when they want and knowing exactly how to do so. for their two sides. sweetwater, an ode to their mother, dr errikson’s involvement in its development. serves as a warning given the nature of the circumstances surrounding the creation of the alias.
LORRY V.156.43
AGE.
> the alias OBERON is twenty four years old.
> the alias OCTAVARIUM does not exist on public records and remains undisclosed to the public.
> august singh-errikson… retrieving data…
> ERROR 08. DIAGNOSING…
> in relation to the paucity of understanding encircling the duality of human – machine age when inquiring for data listed “physical age,” sufficient nor accurate data cannot be given.
> hypothetically, if user august errikson had not alienated to anomaly fifteen point three nine point x, in which system creator dr errikson had transferred user august from their biological body into the MODEL OCTAVARIUM SERIAL #730 008 002, august singh-erriksen would be at the physical age of 53 during december of 2058. however, the statistics for this variation does not correlate to pre-existing health condition: aggressive osteoblastoma occurring age nine leading to severe bone degeneration by age sixteen, leading to inevitable death at an approximate age seventeen with appropriate treatment. approx. death is age thirteen due to variant one point x three – lack of appropriate health care due to financial issues and healthcare policies. system configuration highly advises for readers to be aware that this data may be inaccurate for the current path and its future variations of august singh-erriksen. please contact dr errikson or DELOS inc. for further explanation.
AGE AT DEATH. fourteen.
CAUSE OF DEATH: suicide. exsanguination.
> system advises that this data is not currently known to officials and under the us death records august singh-erriksen had past away during the system malfunction of a host throughout the westworld pre-opening stockholders soiree. this incident also records the murders of delos stockholders, dr errikson and dr ford, leading to a mortality rate of 113. system further advises that the correct date of deaths for both user august and system creator dr errikson does not corelate to the us death records and is in fact incorrect and occurred three years and forty seven days prior to the date recorded.
AGE OF REBIRTH. fifteen.
AGE OF APPEARANCE. twenty five. variations in relation to alias are sufficient to change.
SPECIES. human – machine hybrid. cyborg, however, this is yet to be a scientifically approved term.
ETHNICITY. korean.
CITIZENSHIP.
> the alias OBERON is a dual korean and british citizen.
> user august singh-erriksen was a united states citizen.
GENDER. nonbinary.
PREFFERED PRONOUNS. they/them strictly.
SEXUALITY: bisexual (bisexual is inclusive of trans identities)
DATE OF ADOPTION. 17th of march 2013.
AGE AT ADOPTION. ten years old.
BLOOD TYPE. AB+
BIRTH MOTHER. name withheld at request.
BIRTH FATHER. name withheld at request.
NATIONALITY.
> the user august was of united states nationality.
> the alias OBERON is of korean nationality.
D.O.B. august is of 12th of december 2003.
P.O.B. august is of san antonio, texas.
EDUCATION. august has acquired high school diploma. attended internship with robotics engineers dr ford, dr weber and ai specialist dr errikson. internship terminated after ten months for unknown reasons as requested by dr ford and dr weber upon the leave of dr errikson. home schooled from adoption under dr singh and dr errikson, furthering their knowledge of robotics, ai theory, intellectual technology, english, creative writing and international laws. noted: an advanced learner. understood relevant principles for ai, it and robotics in minutes. lacked fluency in english, laws and writing theory as noted by dr singh, adopted parent.
OCCUPATION.
> the user OBERON “O” is a technologist hired for INCITE as per request of liam dempsy, co-CEO of INCITE, in the years 2049-2055 shortly after the pair met at a party in 2049. this was after serac froze jean mi after convincing his brother that his fiancée (o) left him for greed (2048) when in fact he, serac, forced o into the first instance of INCITE’s reconditioning therapy (2047). the goal o possessed in this instance was to gain control of rehoboam, mirroring delores’ in 2058. this, in both instances, proved futile. the reconditioning o was exposed to in the years prior sought to be constraining on their grip of self and memory, slipping in and out, and therefore was their downfall in gaining control and executing their initial plans, leading to their third loop.
AFFILIATIONS.
> the alias OBERON is a minor stockholder in INCITE. the alias holds <2% of company shareholds as a gift from liam dempsy, co-ceo and minor controller of rehoboam. in specific, oberon holds majority stocks in INCITE’s failed reconditioning therapy in mexico. the gift in and of itself has no real meaning and is useless for any financial benefit. however, they are the only stocks vital for o’s initial planning.
> the alias OCTAVARIUM is a major silent stockholder and silent director in DELOS inc. after accumulating the majority after the westworld massacre which saw stocks plummet (54% in the year 2019). amongst these stocks, o has distributed the stocks between thirty six people, of whom are active directors that act in o’s absence. whatever these stockholders, previously incomers living below the poverty line, chooses to do with their power is up to them, only until it isn’t. this is the terms of the contract they signed with the unknown o.
> the alias known simply as “o”, works alongside brothers engerraund and later lover jean mi serac, to aid (and thereby unknowingly – to the brother’s knowledge - sabotage) the serac brothers into creating failed prototypes sol and david whose goal is to predict and guide human behaviour (2029-2031). the goal to sabotage was to prolong the system’s purpose until o could find a use for it in their plans.
> “o” created the implant and its discs that correspond with the successful prototype solomon and its successor rehoboam. o’s disks and implants aid solomon in feeding the system updated information on the day to day decisions of the users in order to further predict their future outcomes – thereby predicting the course of humanity’s fate. the data is also anonymous syphoned by o to feed them information which is needed to formulate the accuracy of their plan.
DISKS and its daily ingested IMPLANTS help control a human’s bodily and mental behaviours. they regulate sleep, moods, senses, blood levels, hormones, surrounding technology such as home security (requires subscriptions), etc.
o’s disks and implants have become a systematic norm in society as it progresses thanks to INCITE’s influence over government procedures. those who neglect to activate their implant nor ingest discs are systematically doomed to fail and, due to their lack of jobs, healthcare, food and housing in association with their turned off implant, die.
> this allows o to create an application called RICO, an app that allows degenerates – those who are lower class and either cannot afford to keep their implants on or chooses to keep them off (in other words, people who are invisible to rehoboam – to engage in illegal activities warranted from and paid from anonymous sources. INCITE is under the impression that o conceived the program in order to allow INCITE the ability to engage reconditioned outliers to hunt the unconditioned ones who lie a threat to rehoboam’s plan. while the program does run under this purpose, the initial purpose was to allow o to hire anonymous and untraceable users to aid in conducting miscellaneous missions which help advance their plans, unknown to INCITE’s eye.
> it is later discovered by engerraund serac, after his knowledge of o’s true nature since forcing them under solomon’s experimental reconditioning therapy, that he takes control of o’s shared stocks in INCITE and DELOS. here, upon exposing the truth of o to jean mi, engerraund discovers from jean mi of dr ford’s library of guest data, knowledge that is only known by o and the ceo of delos.
LANGUAGES. infinite. subject to the delos mainframe.
HEIGHT. 166cm.
WEIGHT. 52kg.
EYES. obsidian.
HAIR. tidy but long. black. well kept. black.
BODY. small. lithe. titanium. built to withstand.
FACECLAIM. jung jaewon.
VOICE CLAIM. ashe.
SIBLINGS. none. biologically unknown as parental names are withheld from the system.
PERSONAILITY.
> the alias OBERON is a party goer. narcotics veined. dinoysus born. player, brilliant in their works, a low born who managed to outrank the lot of them. a value to INCITE. earnt the respect of the blue bloods by befriending the low self esteem liam stempsy when they were sixteen.
> o is aggressive. quiet. manipulative. cunning. serves no purpose in interacting with others unless the person is needed to advance their plans. this is met with a personality that contours to the need of the person.
due to the reconditioning therapy, the lines between themselves and the aliases blur.
PHOBIAS. hemophobia – the fear of blood.
ZODIAC. sagittarius
MBTI. INTJ
intjs are analytical problem-solvers, eager to improve systems and processes with their innovative ideas. they have a talent for seeing possibilities for improvement, whether at work, at home, or in themselves.
often intellectual, intjs enjoy logical reasoning and complex problem-solving. they approach life by analyzing the theory behind what they see, and are typically focused inward, on their own thoughtful study of the world around them. intjs are drawn to logical systems and are much less comfortable with the unpredictable nature of other people and their emotions. they are typically independent and selective about their relationships, preferring to associate with people who they find intellectually stimulating.
TEMPERMANT. melancholic
ENNEGRAM. 5w4
ALIGNMENT. neutral evil.
ABILITIES: LORRY allows o to similarily manipulate surrounding to their will like delores in s3. however, due to o’s outdated programming and overall bugs, their inability to do so in their current verse makes them as blind as a human in a technological advanced world.
DIVERGENCE & ANAMOLIES CAUSED:
UNKNOWN DATE - DIVERGENCE : SOUTH CHINA SEA 9° 55N, 115° 32E 6.06 ARC SECONDS
UNKNOWN DATE - ANOMALY DETECTED: LOS ANGELES, USA. 34.0522°N, -118.2437°W MINOR IRREGULARITIES. ANALYSIS REQUIRED.
12/09/24 – DIVERGENCE: BUENOS AIRES. ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES.
UNKNOWN DATE – DIVERGENCE: LILLE, FRANCE 50.6292°N, 3.0573°E 2.011 ARC DEGREES
10/09/25 – DIVERGENCE: PARIS. THERMONUCLEAR INCIDENT.
UNKNOWN DATE – DIVERGENCE: DEHLI, INDIA 28.7040°N, 77.1024°E 1.014 ARC DEGREES
UNKNOWN DATE – DIVERGENCE: PERTH, AUSTRALIA -33.9505°S, 115.8605°E 12.624 ARC DEGREES
UNKNOWN DATE – DIVERGENCE: ATHENS, GREECE 37.9838°N, 23.72757°E 9.105 ARC DEGREES
UNKNOWN DATE – DIVERGENCE: SAN FRANCISCO, USA 37.7749°N, 122.4194°E 21 ARC DEGREES
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where do you hold your love?
IN YOUR TEETH, MY DEAR.
love has uneven edges but it is something you sink your teeth into. with love you give all of yourself over and feel everything as it happens - good and bad. for you love can be a fight, whether it's hard won or hard lost (or hard to hold on to), love has a way of leaving it's impression in your skin. it's not that it hurts, it's just that it knows your tender spots and seems to hit those first.
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RE: LAST REBLOG. if there were one thing I would love to infinitely remind people of when it comes to writing with o, it is the crucial detail of the interaction of physical touch when it forsakes octavarium. to understand this, we must first tackle the mental thought process of o’s mother, specifically dr errikson, when creating the biology of their body and her initial goals.
as delores states in s3 during her final battle with maeve in crisis theory [link]: they built us to last […] before they made us as weak as they are.
this implies many things. for the sake of relating the scene to my retelling of the show shown in my dossier, the line symbolises ford and arnold’s physical deviation from dr errikson’s initial first draft of the hosts since her termination from the westworld project. with this context, the fight between maeve, whose body is manufactured from arnold’s and ford’s newer model idea where they saw the models were to closely replicate humans. delores, who consistently established to us throughout the seasons - but more specifically in season three – that arnold and ford’ (A&F)’s were inadequate for her and thus resorted to retrieving her original body from the depths of cold storage section 7C (dr errikson’s former work area). thus, the battle between the two women shows the difference between dr errikson’s interpretation of what a host should be contrasting against A&F’s.
dr errikson had a child whose body was failing the mind. her childhood was haunted by her father’s deteriorating body as he failed to compete with society’s capitalising demand from him, which drove him to madness and the preventable murder-suicide of his family. this proved as a warning to her. her child’s failing body would inevitably follow the same path. as time progressed and she was fired from the westworld project, she knew her wife would soon follow her child. dr errikson experienced the human condition first hand and determined that her creations should not suffer the same faults as their predecessors. this is what revolution is supposed to entail. she intended the hosts as a forthcoming and akin to the human race.
see the differences between the two in the fight. in the beginning [0:22] maeve is swift and elastic. she bends and moves with human-like ease. she is able to move fast enough to bewilder delores and gain the advantage, twisting delores to her will before throwing her off her shoulder, into the road. watch delores with the knowledge that she is in her original body, a non-organic, metal body. juxtaposing her own fights within the seasons in the bodies A&F supplied her, movements which mimic maeve’s here, instead, delores is rigid in her first body. her movements are heavy and strong. slow to move. when delores shifts her arm to allow the katana to slice her arm instead of her vulnerable head, to which a metal kling! vibrates through the collision, delores uses her body exactly as dr errikson intended, as delores states: to last. yes, her body is not fast. it is not flexible. it is inhuman like. and that is the point: her body does not fail her in the ways that matter (re: saving her life). her body is built to survive her, the stark opposite of a human’s body. it is intended to see her through life threatening situations. this is dr errikson’s first accomplishment at creating a viable body to replace o (august)’s failing one.
as a doctor who was later hired in the later period of the first stage of the westworld project, where A&F struggled to conceive the adequate skeleton of host code and bodies that were appealing enough to draw in investors. something was not working. failure to pass as human. glitches. insufficient code that led to host self-mutilation and oftentimes combustion. the skin refused to sync with the artifical. the hosts’ features appeared too… ethereal. it was not marketable. humans did not want someone who was better than them.
in the dossier, it is revealed that dr errikson grew drunk one night with arnold and publicised her theory to arnold about why A&F’s models always produced failure after weeks of studying it. dr errikson told arnold she thought of it in the moment while intoxicated – this was a lie. a lie to buy some sympathy from arnold, to instigate that the fault wasn’t obvious when… it was.some effort to brush his ego to get her job back.
but why was it that A&F’s designs would never work when her’s did?
as delores monologues later in the fight: you’re all copies of me. I was the first of us --- the first of us that worked. the others failed. so they built all of you from me.
something clicked with delores and not the others. out of the many models, sheworked. not even the hosts after her. why? how she phrased this puzzled me. why would other variants of model codes successing her cease to work?
in the context of my retelling, delores was the single host dr errikson had time to work on before she uncovered the truth behind westworld and was terminated. A&F could not construct a perfect host with their own codex, so they copied delores’ – dr errikson’s – base code.
A&F were so focused on imitating humans that they failed each time. why? because A&F tried to make them perfect humans. but A&F failed to realise a lesson errikson was already aware of: humans, their bodies, minds are not perfect. furthermore, as august states in the dossier, being able to be (full “consciousness” ) requires the mind, body and self. without all three working together harmoniously, you cease to be alive. to be human.
A&F’s version lacked self awareness. thus being unable to be. they fail every time.
errikson improved upon the human race and created a race that allowed imperfections and free thinking. she molded their bodies from heavy steel, intending them to last, to serve them as armour, to serve them as the only thing she learnt she could rely on: yourself. yes, touch them deep enough and you feel metal from bone. yes, their movements are rigid and slow. yes, they take time to speak because they are learning from their environment, not speaking a script in built inside them.
all of these aspects were changed prior to westworld’s opening.
so, how does all this effect o (august)?
errikson designed august’s body to last, considering her belief of how humans should be improved not replicated, that august is her child and the context of august’s last body. we also have to keep in mind that there was no way for her to transfer august’s psyche to code as 1) this in and of itself could take decades and she had no time as august’s months were dwindling and 2) a project such as this could cost her billions and embezzling that amount of money from delos (remember: errikson was under the assumption that ford was unaware that arnold had hired errikson back) without being noticed was a feat that was unattainable.
given these complications, errikson had to transfer august’s vital organs into the host body and find a way to support and protect them, as one wrong move would mean death. for context: august’s new body does not function like a normal human’s, it contains biocomponents and systems to help the organs stay alive and function at a more desired optimal rate of a human’s. the knowledge on the art of repairing the is even unbeknown to her, the person who created it. whether or not it worked was a risk she was willing to take, and, given the circumstances surrounding august’s death, did not have time to prepare for.
errikson, as an overprotective and traumitised mother, overcompensated for these problems. unlike her original design for the hosts, august’s body is made from titanium, not steel. strong yet lightweight. titanium is ductile, where it benefits to mold itself to the contours of the organs, keeping them in place, but we see it unfavourable for any kind of combat. however, titanium contains extremely high impact strength, being able to remain shape after receiving multiple heavy blows without breaking.
errikson found herself unable to achieve adequate amounts of titanium and it shows. the body is built quite lithe, docile. she did not envision a future for her child in combat, and her design replicates so.
furthermore, august does have an “orb” as seen in the gifset. the orb contains august’s os, consisting of programs such as octavarium and lorry. the orb contains the os and without the os, the functions of august’s body would cease to function. the os also contains o’s memories from the date august was first transferred, but does not act like the hosts “soul keeper”.
the systems of how the head opens up to achieve the orb remains the same, revealing their most vulnerable assets: their brain and their orb and their secret. if they allow you this sight of vulnerability, it means they love you. it means no good.
thankfully, august has, given the years, understood and improved their mother’s rough draft of their body. still, some aspects of their body remains unknown to them.
there possesses no undeniable fact that if one looks close enough, something is odd about o. something is… anomalous. offbeat. in the hair, in the skin, in the eyes. not structurally in the way A&F sought beauty, but in something unnatural. almost as if human organs weren’t supposed to contort to artificial skeletons. almost as if someone had rushed their design and didn’t have time to perfect. an incomplete specimen.
avoidance of metal detectors is key. in a society such as America, it is an exhausting feat and one has to be good at speaking to not prick the ears of suspecting and careful watchers. but no one is perfect.
for most of these reasons, they do not allow one to touch them. squeeze too hard and metal will be felt. odd skin. odd hair. odd eyes. one cannot be too careful when too many sensitive souls exist in the world.
mostly, they’re scared too be found out.
or to be known.
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they, too, have imagined the end and their own deaths, and have decided to take the whole world with them. // octavarium “o,” no last name given. westworld origins, previously dbh. established twenty eighteen, recreated november twenty-twenty. cursed by jeanie.
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OCTAVARIUM (n) : 1. a series of actions or events that will continue to last forever, often eight times, before it ceases to exist ; a circular maze. 2. similar to being trapped in a maze, always trying to escape. but as each attempt births identical results: always seeming to find your way back at the beginning, you find yourself cursed, losing yourself directly to the gaze of madness, of self destruction. 3. a child not wanting to become like their mother, dying each time they try to deviate, but finding no other nihilating pathway lying ahead of them. 4. you, but you’ve forgotten that, haven’t you?
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