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[becomemod]

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[becomemod]

My theme color isn't actually red. It's a teal close to the Shinsengumi blue.

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Shinsengumi blue?

[ just immediately assigns him shinsengumi otaku in her mind. although she does pull out a bottle from the shelf after this: ]

Like this?

[becomemod]

[ well, she isn't wrong. ]

Similar. A shade more green, I think.

[ picks one out that's closer to this and nods. they're so close but ssgm blue is yasusada's theme color. ]

But I also wear a lot of red, black, and gold. Why limit yourself to just one color?

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[ looks at all this red in the design and then looks at ray. ]

You need a base though, right? Something to work around as the main design? So.. this annnnd...

[ she's selecting the next colour to compliment it.... black...? and white maybe...? ]

[becomemod]

[ what?? i didn't pick teal for his theme color. ]

I guess so. This is more in Kiyomitsu's wheelhouse than mine.

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[ she will begin the art during all this. to her credit, she's taking her time and being veeerrrrryyy careful. ]

Kiyomitsu? Is that a friend of yours?

[becomemod]

[ he'll just watch in silence for a moment, curious what she's doing with it. ]

He is. [ don't tell kashuu he said that. ] We both served the Shinsengumi together. Our masters were very close.

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[ she's working on a slightly more simple version of this ]

So you were a samurai, then...? I don't have my local files entirely to hand, but that's basic Japanese history.

[becomemod]

[ cute... izuminokami doesn't really have an opinion but he doesn't hate it. ]

We are the swords of samurai. Tsukumogami. I was wielded by Hijikata Toshizou.

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[ she's winning. ]

...

[ huh.






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They had the technology for uploading an AI to a sword back then?!

[becomemod]

[ ...laughs. ]

I'm not an AI, I'm the spirit of the sword Izuminokami Kanesada. It's got nothing to do with technology.

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As far as I'm aware, ghosts don't exist though. Other than, you know. The ghost in the machine.

[becomemod]

[ he smiles, amused. ]

I know a sword famous for cutting down a ghost who would argue with you on that.

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[ she's just stopped painting his nails to squint at him. ]




... This place is going to give me a headache. A... spirit? That's not so different to an AI, except... without the technology?

[becomemod]

Don't ask me exactly how we're born...

[ why would he know that, he's baby ]

I don't know much about technology, but I assume it's similar? We're tools made by and used by humans.

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And given the scope to form your own personality and opinions, while being tied to the form you were made in?

[ it's not like she can touch and move things around normally, looking like this. only in her smaller form, when she's not in ryuki's eye socket. ]

[becomemod]

I don't think they give that to us on purpose. It just... happens.

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… That’s… not exactly how I’m used to things going, but then again I don’t deal in spirits and the supernatural. I’m more a 1s and 0s girl.

[ … ]

But I guess if you set up an AI, that just happens too. You can code the base personality and form priorities and rules for them to run to, but how they turn out isn’t something you can predict.

[becomemod]

[ technology has never been his strong suit, sometimes out of willful ignorance, so izuminokami doesn't fully understand. but he nods anyway. ] Then maybe we are similar to AI, in some ways.

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I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

[ biased. ]

Artificial intelligence isn’t so different from how people function. That’s why there’s so many regulations and concerns about the use of them. Blurring the line between the two’s a bit of a taboo subject, but it’s not impossible. It’s made by other humans — of course one would influence the other.

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I'm still getting used to technology like this. I don't think it's as bad as I used to. [ he grins. ] But at least we don't have that problem. [ no, you're. just illegal in the modern day. ]

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Oh right, you did say you were a beginner at this kind of stuff.

[ pff. ]

What, with regulating swords? Yeah, because swords were outlawed in modern society.

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A friend back home was teaching me, before I arrived here. We still didn't have televisions in the citadel, though. Yes, but we're also considered works of art and national treasures. People came from all over the country to see me whenever I was on exhibition.

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Citadel? [ she’s like :o ? ]

I know some museums have blades on display, but I don’t know if that’s quite the same thing. If someone stole you and ran around waving you around the streets of Japan, it would still be illegal.

[becomemod]

Mm. It's home, since we were summoned.

And I was never stolen, so I'm perfectly legal.