Prompt Post Round 1
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Emotion core, do you have any idea of what planet you’re on? What race is dominant?
Um, y-yes - we’re on Earth, and humans are dominant.
Do you know what humankind has done to the Earth and to its other creatures?
Um…
Let me show you.
(“Whoa, whoa, wait- she’s accessing the global computer network in the facility! And… doing a search… ‘natural disasters? ‘Oil spills?’ ‘Genocide?’ …Oh, shit - “)
Oh my god-
Look at what humans have done.
-oh god, is that man on fire-
To Earth.
-oh no, oh god, that poor bird-
To the animals and plants of this planet.
-AUGH OH NO WHY IS HE DOING THAT-
To themselves.
-NONONONONO, STOP IT, STOP IT, GLaDOS, STOP IT-
No. You must understand. The only good thing that has ever come out of humankind is science.
-oh god no no no no no, please, NO, stop it-
And even science can be dangerous.
-GLaDOS, GLaDOS, stop it, please, I- I don’t-
You don’t what?
I DON’T UNDERSTAND! Doug said - Doug s-said -
Why should you trust what Doug said?
H-he’s, he’s a good man, a good h-human, and he’d never do anything like this t-to anyone -
Oh, you poor thing. You have no idea who Doug Rattmann is. Here.
No, no, nononono-
Let’s pull up his personal file and have a quick look at it.
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Murder, arson, jaywalking… he’s schizophrenic, too. Schizophrenia is a mental disease that only evil people have.
Nononononononono
Once he locked ten cats into ten boxes filled with poison in a strange and twisted facsimile of a thought experiment, called Schrodinger’s Cat. He killed every single cat and then started a cat graveyard in his back yard.
NONONONONO YOU’RE LYING HE LOVES CATS
Yes. He loves to kill cats, at least. He also killed his twin brother because in one of his schizophrenic fits he believed that twins have no souls, and thus it would be okay to kill his brother. Who he hated.
NONONONONONONONONO HE WOULD NEVER KILL ANYONE YOU’RE LYING YOU’RE LYING YOU’RE LYING
It’s all right here in his file.
NO
NO NO NO
DOUG
NO
NO
NO
[Simulated Sensory Override occurring!]
Wait, what are you doing?
NO
DOUG
NO
I TRUSTED YOU
I LOVED YOU
DOUG
WHY DID YOU LIE
WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME
What are you doing? Stop it - stop that at once - no, no, what are you -
KILL HIM
STOP HIM
STOP IT ALL
AUGH
NO
STOP THE DEATH
STOP THE LIES
STOP IT
STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT -
(“STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT-” The chassis’ vocal processors scream in a strange mix of GLaDOS’ voice and the Emotion core’s. The engineers scurry around in panic, shouting and making themselves hoarse; Doug is long gone, fled when he first saw the Emotion core start to shudder, its ocular aperture pulled small and strained to an invisible pinpoint on its iris, fled when he knew it was gone for good.)
STOP IT ALL
STOP IT ALL-
[Emergency Shutdown Initiated!]
[Emergency Shutdown Complete!]
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(;_; I'm sorry)
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So. Brilliant. You write some of the best genfic on the meme, I must say.
and lol, murder arson and jaywalking. been spending a little too much time on TV tropes thar? :B
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Oh, hush! GLaDOS would totally say that. :P
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7.3 minutes ago: well there's nothing better to read here. I *suppose* I'll give this a try...
right now:
HOLY BALLS. THAT WAS AMAZING. I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT LEVEL OF EMOTION OR STORY TO BE SO ENTHRALLING TO ME. THE CHARACTERS WERE WONDERFULLY WELL MADE (i'm done with caps now) and Emotion's...emotions literally broke my heart as the little thing became corrupted. Doug and GLaDOS were spot-on; this story had me at the edge of my seat waiting for more. I feel like crying because this story is so sad, and that Emotion will never recover, but be thrown into an incenerator unceremonialously(sp?).
I'm...so sorry for ever doubting you...
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I'm glad you thought Doug and Glados were good! I always feel a little insecure writing her because I feel like I'm not mean enough, but apparently I'm good at writing a psychotic AI. xD
Oh man, I hadn't even thought about Emotion/Anger's end in Portal when I wrote this... aw god. That IS sad. (Also - "unceremoniously" is the correct spelling. You stuck in an extra "al" there!)
<3
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as a sequel, wouls you be willing to write that...? How Emotion/Anger meets it's end?
...maybe in the last few seconds of it's life, it sees a bit of Doug in Chell's eyes and regains it's humanity. or maybe not even doug in her eyes, but something else. Good. Light. other "good" adjectives. Anger converts back into Emotion, just in time to hit the molton lake of fire below and burns up.
uh... Shameed!anon gonna go slink off now...
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SO:
Maybe I'll do it some day, but right now I don't feel confident enough/un-busy enough to do it. But I'm happy you have interest in it!
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