[open]

[emotive]

Who: emotive & anyone else
When: Backdated to 7/9 = 5/18, prompted by this conversation in particular
Where: The Park
What: Ai goes to do community service by cleaning out the pond and relieving it of a robot skeleton.
Rating/Warning: Skeletons

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[ People may have noticed that the carnivorous fish in the pond looked plumper than usual and usually content at that. The remains of robots had yet to be cleaned up at this point and it's an eerie sight considering the city is usually spic and span. Ai Thao is someone who's quite neat and tidy. In fact, she feels bad whenever she doesn't pick up after herself and that includes the fact that she did push her robot double into the park's pond. It's about time she got around to this since she's been putting it off for too long.

So you may be walking along a path in the park, minding your own business and suddenly fattened fish with long, sharp teeth are floating up into the air...

Wait.

Oh, they're going down again and there's a splash and a voice. ]

It HAS to be down there somewhere!

Comments

[emotive]

Eh? Oh!

[She recognizes Fushimi even if it's been a while since the pho party. She turns to lower the fish down into the pond without making a splash out of consideration.]

I-I'm sorry, I'm... I'm looking for something, but I keeping getting fish instead.

[why does she apologize so much god]

[swordplays]

[That... that just raises even more questions, seriously. Somewhere deep down, he does appreciate not being splashed by descending fish, because that would be all he needs, gross fish water all over the place.

He clicks his tongue quietly, mostly because he really doesn't need to be apologized to, since Ai is weird but not doing anything particularly wrong, and looks at the pond where the hapless fish are probably feeling just as confused as he is.]

"Something"? It must have been valuable if you're going through all of this trouble.

[emotive]

Uh, it's not so much valuable as it is... Well, if it stays in the pond any longer, it could wreck the ecosystem? Maybe??

[Ai crosses her arms thinking...]

Cause the fish got bigger after all and they're dangerous enough as it is....

[swordplays]

[Maybe, she says. He knows that there are probably countless things he doesn't actually understand about nature here, that's a given. He can't even hazard a guess as to what Ai could have done to make the pond life become even more threatening than it already was.

This is why he should have just kept walking.]

Stop being vague. What's down there?

[emotive]

Ah... A-A body.

[A beat.]

Robot body if we're being absolutely specific!

[swordplays]

[This is exactly the right to be as specific as possible, and his mouth is already to say... something, he doesn't know what, when she clarifies that it's a robot body. Who cares, then? Good riddance to those awful things, honestly.]

You thought dropping robot parts in a pond was a good idea? What kind of id... [Be cool, Fishy, be cool.] I guess... the fact that you're trying to fix it now is what matters.

[emotive]

I didn't drop them in! I mean, it was on purpose, but only because the robot was trying to kill me.

[A beat.]

I just realized that I don't sound very good trying to explain myself do I...?

[SHE SOUNDS SO DEJECTED]

[swordplays]

[He could probably come up with a hundred ways to scold her and tell her why it was stupid to do that, but he knows very well how dangerous those robots were, and how difficult taking them down wound up being. He gets it, and really, in the heat of the moment, getting rid of a threat is the most important thing.

He lifts one shoulder in what can barely be called a shrug, he pushes his glasses up and looks away.] It's fine, you don't have to explain any more than that.

[emotive]

Ah... Alright. Thank you for understanding.

[Ai sighs and rubs her head. She's been pushing herself with all the psychic activity.]

I even electrocuted it for good measure, but that was probably overkill.

[swordplays]

[Yeah, he's just going to go ahead and ignore that "thank you" and pretend he didn't hear anything.]

When it comes to destroying those kinds of things, I don't think going that far is too much. Better to be sure than risk it coming back at all.

[emotive]

[what a cold fish]

Did you have trouble with any of the robots yourself? They were all so eerie to begin with, but to think it would develop into trying to copy and replace us...

[swordplays]

["Trouble" is putting it lightly; robot or not, anything wearing Yata's face crying that it didn't want to die was a pretty terrible day.]

... They gave me some trouble, but I handled it. It would have been better not to touch them at all, but anyone that actually trusted them to function normally clearly wasn't thinking.