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RATATOSKR

You are on a spaceship.

Most of your time will be spent on the bridge, which is exactly as fancy as you’d expect it to be — it looks a little like this. (The chairs are super comfortable!) Your brand new artificial intelligence — which, if you investigate, you’ll find is housed in a small computer chip — has been implanted into the computer terminal on the back wall. The diagnostics readout displayed along the bottom of the screen tells you that the AI has only been outfitted with the most basic of Stability Cores, and is currently Critically Unstable.

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Of course I can!

Program like that would be easy.

...so, would you freak if I donated myself and most likely get an AI in my head?

[aaaaand there goes everything screeching to a halt in his head.]

.........why would you want to do that...?

Because it would help the AI be more than a war machine.

[...on the one hand that's. actually an okay reason in theory.

on the other hand ISSUES.]

...........

...well I mean, it's not a question of whether I'll freak out or not, it's gonna happen, it's already happening because you're thinking about this.

But if you... if you think you can handle it without...

[vague hand gestures that he sort of means to indicate 'getting possessed/taken over/etc' because hell if he can actually articulate these things]

...and if it's to help the AI, then...

[insert mental keysmashing here, why are you asking this of him]

[She reaches over and puts her hands on his cheeks.]

I'll be fine.

I've dealt with compulsions to do weird things for years, the void is a demanding mistress, I can handle an AI.

And then they won't be dangerous.

I bet I can make it a good partnerships. Like you and Fiere.

[He'll allow that. Physical contact is good.]

...You know I can't be okay with that kind of thing. ["And you know why" goes unsaid.] But... I won't stop you.

I know.

Still, it's....good, to take risks like this sometimes. For a lot of reasons. But I trust you'll konk me on the head if I start talkin' crazy. [Winks.]