dear_mun | New muse, testing voice for now.

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New muse, testing voice for now.

...I'm sorry. You didn't have to let me out, if it was going to create such an inconvenience for you. It must have taken a long time for you to make all this for me.

[She shakes her head, smiling.]

Really, I'm okay. You don't have to take me anywhere or do anything with me if you don't want to.

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[Cial stands, with an impassive expression. Innocent reploids? Innocent reploids? Reploid savages who all easily fell prey to that virus? How sickening.]

Do you not realize your course of action is only causing more strife and unnecessary conflict? Just how many more people need to be hurt or killed before enough is enough, Ciel?

You're right...all this fighting is unnecessary.

[Sadness ghosts across her face. Her stomach sinks.]

We should be using peaceful methods to stop this. Cial, why can't I convince you that bringing about the deaths of Reploids is wrong? Don't you care at all what happens to them?

Hmph, I am using peaceful methods. It's because of uncooperative reploids that all of this came about. Your little Resistance isn't helping the matters either.

[Oh, you're sad? Too bad Cial will counter that with all her MAD.]

I am not in the wrong here, Ciel. I am not promoting death, nor violence. I am simply working for a better tomorrow. I fail to see why reploids should fear being remodeled into one of my new-type reploid. Once they submit we can all end this fighting. We can all live together, in true harmony and peace!

[Ciel's fists clench. Holy crap, are you making her voice rise a little, Cial? There's a bit of power in it.]

If it was just a remodel, or fixing a bug, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[Okay, no, forget that. Now her voice is getting louder.]

You're not 'remodeling' them, Cial; you're changing who they are! They're living beings, just like us! What makes you think you have the right to do something like that to them?!

I'm doing what is necessary for our lives. According to the laws, all reploids have to be remodeled if they are to live along side humanity! If they do not, they run the risk of going Maverick! You should know that as much as I do!

Yet instead you chose to run and side with those savage reploids! You have no room to argue with me!

'Savage'...? Cial, are you listening to yourself?!

Yes, the proper patches needed to be administered to hold back the Maverick Virus, but you're not talking about that, are you? You're talking about deleting their personality, their soul. Deleting the essential parts of making them who they are and re-setting them to what you want.

The patch has nothing to do with personality alteration; it doesn't even touch within those directories, Cial! So why?!

Of course I am. Are you?

[Cial shot back. There was no way, no how Cial intended on backing down. After all, like Ciel she believed in her own cause, power trip aside.]

Reploids are no different from machines. Why give them a personality to begin with? A "soul" if you will? Once their job is done they are to be scrapped. It has been that way since the last outbreak of Mavericks. You should know that.

[There she gives a tiny pause when realizing her own anger rearing its ugly head some more. Sighing, Cial straightens herself up while placing on the most pleasant smile ever.]

I am not heartless nor cruel. I may alter their personalities a bit but I don't take away what essentially makes that reploid identity. They keep their memories and they know what they were made for. Plus they do not have to worry about being taken to the scrap. Isn't that what any reploid would want?

They're not, Cial! They're--

[The fact that she's so calm and okay with this, with taking a living thing and molding them to what she wants, even trying to convince her that Reploids are no more than mere appliances...

She knows that humans tend to threat them that way. But it doesn't make it any less wrong.

Ciel took a few breaths, calming herself down, but her mouth tightens to a thin line.]

They're like us.

What if someone did that to a human, then? Altered them slightly, letting them know their 'place' in life. It's all okay, right? It's for the good of themselves, and for everyone else.

[There's an amused look upon Cial's face. Of course, even with her humanitarian views that idea may have been appealing to her. After all, she was already like God to those mindless masses in Neo Arcadia after creating her own models of reploids. Why not completely mold them to how she saw fit...? But she soon laughs, as if to mock Ciel.]

Hohohoho! I fail to see how you are trying to compare a human to a reploid, Ciel. They're made of latex and steel. With 1s and 0s in their brains. Their old designs were flawed! I made them better. More perfect. Just like my Four Guardians.

[Ciel bites her lip. She hates this. She hates seeing her dearest sister, who she cares about so much, doing this. Why can't Cial understand...?

It's almost like she can't. Or won't, rather.]

But they feel, don't they? They think, they feel, and they dream just like we do. They can fall in love, they have control over their own identity.

It's as Descartes said: Cogito Ergo Sum.

Don't make them casualties of some flawed quest for perfection.

[Cial doesn't understand. No, why did Ciel have to complicate things in this way? It was all supposed to be cut and dry.]

They're simply following programs. They are still machines, Ciel. Don't bring nonsensical philosophy into this. After all, isn't it true? Once they're perceived to be of no use....

[To the scrapheap. All of them. No were spared, not even the so called heroes of the Maverick Wars--all but one who rebelled and defied the government's orders.]

It seems talking with you is pointless. Not when it's clear you have no qualms in causing harm and trouble for the citizens of Neo Arcadia.

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