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rose-garden-sonas · 4 months

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OC Week: Day 3 - Relationships

Something lighthearted after the last one 😅 But today I would love to share some Rose’s family/friend dynamics! 😄

Angela (mother): A Beauty Trainer and a fashion designer, who owns her own fashion business in Sinnoh/Unova. She is rather doting to her family and love to create clothing especially for her daughters. When it came to finding out her eldest daughter went missing, she feared the worst but found relief when she got to see Rose come to visit her after so long, assuring her she still cares for her girl, she understands very well how much failure can affect someone.

Andie (sister): Rose’s little sister who’s already set off on her own journey long after hers, searching to become the best Pokémon Contest Coordinator/Performer. She has the knack of inspiration from her older sister to one day become a trainer and she got her chance, only to find her sister went missing. Even finding her under disguise, she still cares for her sister to recover from her depression, and even though she promised to keep this to her self (making Rose promise in return to make up with Mom), she still looks up to Rose as both a sister and a trainer.

Kaede (father): A Pokémon Fanatic and a freelancer photographer who has a soft spot for Pokémon as he does for his family. He’s also extremely close to her daughters, especially Rose, when he comes to find about her gift (more on that another day). In hindsight though, he’s always away from home these days, but inevitably one day he stopped coming home, leaving others worried. Rose managed to discover during her dark days, that her father was going undercover to uncover every evil villains’ secrets and he felt terrible for leaving home for so long. He was also the first of the family to find out about his daughter missing, having find her roaming while he’s under guise, and helped her pick herself up whenever they were together (while she also nags him to visit his family again 😤).

Lee M. (“just a friend Haha”): The first trainer to ever encounter Rose in the old Chateau, under guise as a Hex Maniac. Young teens having met when this boy came to check out the manor to find a sad lass in the darkness amongst her Ghost Pokémon. Rose didn’t take him seriously when they first met, he was sort of obnoxious to her at first, but as he came to see her often strangely, she finds he only wishes to stick around and keep her company. It was only then she comes to warm up to him, eventually gotten close and Lee has shown sympathy for her troubles. He was also one who help her go through her emotions and even gets her to travel more, where they eventually start to run into each other every time. It it only up until their later years they officially started dating, she’s grown fond of his fun and cool nature.

#ocweek2024 #oc week #rose (pokemon oc)#angela (pokemon oc)#andie (pokemon oc)#kaede (pokemon oc)#lee (pokemon oc)#I forgot Yuko…Rose’s grandma 😭#Rose loves her grandma very much …. I can’t believe myself lmao 🤡

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iviarellereads · 10 months

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Network Effect, Chapter 20

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In which Murderbot needs to have emotions a few more times than it's used to.

Murderbot wishes it could stay unconscious, but it restarts in time to limp out of the shuttle and onto Art, before passing out again. When it wakes this time, at first it thinks it's surrounded by unfamiliar humans, until Amena warns Art's people that MB doesn't like to be touched. It sees 3 to the side, out of its armour and in Art's crew clothing, looking like it has no idea what it should be doing.(1)

The humans figure out how Art can delete the contaminated code from MB without scanning it, but want to do some first aid to ensure MB makes it through the process. They confirm nobody's shooting at them or in pursuit, they just have to pop the B-E stragglers back over to their own transport once they can be sure they won't carry the contamination.

Arada tells Iris that Art told them what its real purpose was in the system. Iris seems nervous and defensive, but Arada says they'll gladly sign a contract saying they won't betray that confidence, if it helps, though Ratthi points out they'll need an explanation of some sort. Amena agrees, saying her second mom isn't easy to lie to. Kaede asks about this.

“She’s the head of the— She was the head of the Preservation Alliance Council,” Amena explained. “Dr. Mensah. She was in the newsfeeds a lot in the CR—she was kidnapped by a corporate called GrayCris and rescued by a SecUnit on TranRollinHyfa, and there was a company armed ship that was attacked and another ship from a security corporate that got blown up.” “Rescued by a…” Matteo trailed off and they all stared at me.(2)

MB complains to Art that MB was under the impression that Art had told its humans about it. Art says it told them it met a rogue SecUnit, not that that SecUnit was the same one that every mention of a SecUnit in the news in the last year was referring to.

Art's humans are still a little shocked at the scope of this, and Ratthi confirms the TranRollinHyfa part of the story, at least, since he was there. He offers that this gives Art's crew some leverage about the Pres lot. Iris asks if they can just agree, for now, that they're allies and keep each other's secrets? Matteo adds, and that neither party likes B-E. Arada agrees readily.

Thiago and Overse arrive with the emergency medkit, and MB shuts down again for a while. The patching-up process is messy and biological. At some point, 3 figures out it can go wherever it wants, and leaves. They set up an isolation box so Art can still feed-connect with MB without contamination, and they watch Timestream Defenders Orion together.

Martyn, still undergoing decontamination himself, is video-conferenced in to consult. He asks how many SecUnit friends Art has, but Iris says this is the one they were threatening to bomb the colony to rescue. MB says that sounds fake. Ratthi confirms it, though, and Art clarifies that that was plan A01, and he went with plan B01 which was more complicated but more effective. Ratthi suggests Art play back the video record, and MB wants to see it.

So, Art pauses TDO and plays the security archive. MB gets more than a little overwhelmed at how everyone endangered themselves to save it.(3)

When the med patching is done, they move MB's consciousness into the isolation box for Art to clean up its code. Art leaves a part of its consciousness in the box for company. After finishing some TDO, MB says Art and Amena were right, and 2 was a person, even if it wasn't like a baby. Art asks if MB regrets deploying it, and MB says, no, because without that, they might all have been contaminated by now.

MB brings up how Art told its humans about MB. Art says it just told them it helped a rogue SecUnit get to RaviHyral, it left out the Tlacey bits. MB accuses Art of making it sound safe. Art says its humans understand how dangerous the corporates are.(4)

Art says it's finished removing the damaged code, but while MB's consciousness is returned to its body, Art has a proposal: it thinks MB's help would be "invaluable" on an upcoming mission of Art's. MB worries Art's crew won't like MB being involved, but Art says it will discuss the matter with them. MB doesn't even make a joke about Art's idea of what a discussion with humans looks like.

MB, for its part, is still having trouble with the bit where so many humans were figuring out how to rescue it, when the whole point of constructs like MB is that they can be abandoned in an emergency.

ART said, I know you have difficulty making decisions so you don’t need to give your answer right away.(5) I do not have difficulty making decisions, ART, you’re full of— I said, but it had already dropped me back in my body. And of course, my performance reliability crashed immediately and I had a forced shutdown.

MB wakes up in Medical, and with access to camera feeds all over the ship. It checks in on each group. Amena is nearby, browsing the catalog for Pansystem University.(6) MB tells her it's conscious, and she smiles and says she'll warn the others.

Before it can think too hard, MB tells Amena that Art asked it to come on a mission. She asks how long, and it says, for the duration of the mission. Though, to itself, it thinks Art intends for a longer partnership.(7) Amena asks if that's like asking someone to stay with your family over the holidays to see if everyone gets along "before you get serious". MB says it doesn't really understand what she means by that, but since Art doesn't jump in to say she's wrong, maybe.

Amena thought it over. “I guess I’m not surprised. How do you feel about it?” My expression must have changed because she rolled her eyes. “Oh sorry, I used the f word there.” Again, I have no idea why ART likes adolescent humans. “I don’t know,” I told her.

Amena asks what MB thinks Mensah will say. MB doesn't know, so asks what Amena thinks. She snorts, and says she was just getting used to MB, but it might be a good idea… except for the part where Art's work takes it into the CorpRim a lot. MB admits that's a factor, though it thinks privately that Art's cargo missions are probably a form of spy recon that no corporate would ever suspect.

After some thought, Amena says Art definitely cares about MB, a lot. The only reason it sent the killware was because it thought that was the best way to keep MB from having to do anything dangerous. She doesn't think Art would invite MB to come with it, if it didn't think the trip would be good for MB.

Three cycles later, the humans leave their quarantine. The B-E crew are returned to their transport with their own shuttle. The transport tails Art a little, as if making sure they don't still try to steal the system out from under B-E. Which, of course, they still plan to do if they can.

The other problem is that they still have 3. Amena and Ratthi suggest MB help it to adjust, but MB thinks it would want to be left alone, under those circumstances, and 3 hasn't even voluntarily sat in a chair yet, it's probably not ready to talk.(8) Still, after those three cycles, MB notices 3 shadowing it, and asks what's up. 3 brings up how MB continued doing its job, even after disabling its governor module. MB asks if 3 wants to go back. No, it says it won't, but it doesn't know what it will do.

MB explains that it kept doing its job because having choices, making changes, is terrifying. 3 says the Preservation crew said it could go with them. MB says 3 can trust their word, though it thinks 3 might think it's delusional.

Still, 3 asks for the rest of the story, for documentation of what happened besides what the HelpMe file outlined. MB thinks about how its memories are a how-to file for fugitive SecUnits, and says it'll copy out the relevant pieces and send them to 3. 3 looks "almost pleased", and thanks it.(9)

A whole twenty cycles after arrival in the system, it's a Preservation ship that arrives first. Arada says they couldn't have gotten here so fast unless they left mere hours after Art did, but Art says they might have: it made a message buoy detailing what happened, and set it to eject when the wormhole drive turned on, hiding it from TCS.

Amena is surprised and asks why Art didn't tell them. MB thinks how Amena still doesn't understand what an asshole Art is.(10) Art admits it didn't tell them because it would have made it harder to convince them to do what it wanted.

MB asks if they can call the Pres ship on comms, suspecting who's aboard. Art does so, and MB first asks if Mensah is aboard, then when she confirms, it gives her a code response. Mensah's relief is audible, as she asks what the hell happened. Amena is annoyed MB has a secret code with her second mom, but MB is just annoyed it has to change it now.

The humans talk, and by the time the responder reaches Art, its crew agrees to tell Mensah their true mission. Pin-Lee is along as well, and an alliance with Preservation would open another experienced corporate contract negotiator to their arsenal. The humans talk and negotiate while MB watches Sanctuary Moon and Art cleans with its drones again in excitement about meeting Mensah.

Introductions in person go swimmingly. Later, Mensah comes to sit with MB in a lounge. Of all the things MB wants to say, the first thing it blurts is to ask if Mensah started the trauma treatment. Drily, she says yes, she had her first appointment, before her daughter and brother-in-law and her friends were kidnapped. But, when MB seems hesitant over asking more, she says it was, or will be, fine, and she was fine until this kicked off.

MB asks if Amena told Mensah about its "emotional collapse". She says no, so MB regrets saying anything, and explains that it thought Art was dead. Mensah says Ratthi's told her how close MB and Art are. MB says Ratthi exaggerates,(11) but it feels bad about not telling Mensah about meeting Art.

Mensah says she doesn't tell MB everything, either. MB says that's because she knows it doesn't want to know everything, and in the same breath, says Art invited it to go on a mission. Mensah asks if it would be temporary or permanent. MB says it doesn't know, but it doesn't want to never see Mensah again. Mensah says she feels the same way, but it can always come visit Preservation between its time with Art. MB says Preservation is the first place it was really a part of on its own terms, and it wants to stay a part of it, but it likes being with Art too.

Mensah asks about the rest of Art's crew, and MB says it doesn't know them yet.

“Working for them temporarily could take care of that problem. If you decide to do that.” She smiled a little. “The good thing is, you do know what you want.” I sort of did know.(12) It was a weird feeling. “That’s new.” She smiled all the way. “I wasn’t going to put it quite that way, but yes.”

Art's crew are resting, except those working on the legal case. Mensah took Amena and Thiago back to the Pres ship, with Amena promising to tell MB how it goes when Thiago makes his apologies to Mensah for misinterpreting her relationship with MB. MB is just glad it doesn't have to be involved.

MB goes up to Art's control deck, where they can have a private conversation, and says if they're going on a mission together, they'll need more media. Art says it's made a collection from its university's archive. MB starts skimming the index, and suggests they pass some along to 3, since it's probably leaving soon.

That’s not why 3 wanted your files, or not the only reason. I asked it why it wanted to help retrieve you, and it said, “stories in the HelpMe.file.” I think your memories are providing it with the sort of context you obtained from human media. I didn’t know what I thought about that. I would never have thought to just hand my files over to 3 the way 2.0 had. And if 2.0 hadn’t done that, targetControlSystem would have won.(13)

MB thinks how it was also a little surprised that 3 almost had a friendship with its fellow SecUnits. It wonders if it was always the exception to SecUnit personality, and if 3 will have better luck communicating with other SecUnits than it obviously does. It thinks it should get 3 a copy of the full documentary Bharadwaj made.

Whatever. For now, keyword searching ART’s index, I think I’d found something even less realistic than Timestream Defenders Orion. I showed the description to ART, and it started the first episode.

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(1) Murderbot thinks it's pretty sure on this read, and why shouldn't it be? It's been almost exactly where 3 was. For all its plans on independence, it never really thought about breaking out of the company's control for real. Those first days of freedom, before it left to explore its history? Yeah I bet it knows all too well what 3 is feeling. (2) Yep, their sweet asshole Perihelion really caught a keeper of a rogue SecUnit for a bestie. (3) They love you, pal. Like, your humans love you, and your bestie Art loves you, and even its humans appreciate it so much they wanted to help you purely on Art's very vague word that it met a good rogue SecUnit. You are GOOD, Murderbot, you are worthy and you are loved and you are so good. ;~; (4) I'm realy not sure what the implication here is. I lean toward "Art's humans know the risks of this universe, and a rogue SecUnit just looking to answer whether it's still a danger or not is not, in fact, probably much of a danger" I think? But I don't know. I welcome alternate suggestions in the replies! (5) You snarky asshole! <3 (6) Anyone else feel like this will come back in a later book? (7) Art is a little bit selfish, it likes to keep an eye on those it cares about. Look at how it lost its mind when it lost its crew! And how it threatened to bomb a planet full of people to get MB back. It would never countenance that sort of behaviour under normal circumstances, and the only way to avoid it is to make sure it can keep an eye on everybody forever. Art has its own share of trauma to overcome from this book's events. (You can't accuse me of anything for this one, I'm writing this well ahead of System Collapse's release and I haven't got an ARC.) (8) 3 is an individual, though. It's also a SecUnit, but not from MB's former company, and not one that chose this over a longer period of time. (9) Hey, MB, you ever stop to think that this is included under what the humans suggested in helping 3 adjust? (10) But it's such a lovable one! (11) Do you read these sorts of protests with an aggrieved fondness? I sure do. MB loves its humans the same way Art loves its crew, only its love language is grumping. (12) It only took… how many books? But MB finally has a Want. They grow up so fast. (13) I cannot fathom someone coming up to me and saying "will you be my role model for How To Exist As A Person?" Like, this is the most real reaction.

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