AUDIENCE: TAMA

[becomemod]

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[ballies]

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.

[ballies]

… 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.

[ballies]

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.

[becomemod]

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. ]

[ballies]

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.

[becomemod]

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.

[ballies]

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.

[ballies]

Just a whole fortified town for... swords?

[ hewwo ]

Mmhmm. But what if you are stolen someday, what then?

[becomemod]

More or less. We're pretty self-sufficient, too - grow our own vegetables and everything. [ he says this but he was never that fond of working in the fields, even if he's gotten used to it. at least it's not horsekeeping. ] They won't. I was well protected in the museum.

[ballies]

[ kanesan whining about picking vegetables is kind of a funny image. ] Honestly, more places should be. Climate change is real.

[ help ]

Never say never!

[becomemod]

[ some of his chore lines are sooooo grumpy. ] Climate change? [ do you think they follow politics in the citadel? they don't. it's time government or nothing, baby. ] I was stored there for centuries before being summoned and no one ever stole me.