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Nov 27, 2011 21:03

If you find yourself in a secluded corner of the Nexus, past the rhinestone statue of a... no one quite knows what that is, but it's blobby in shape. And perhaps not a statue at all. If you find yourself there, you might stumble upon a child's birthday party ( Read more... )

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chiron_survivor December 12 2011, 01:59:05 UTC
Adia was not expecting to walk past a children's birthday party today, and probably would not have noticed but for the sound of familiar laughter. Rather than interrupt whatever sort of celebration is happening (she sees cake, but Victor is in costume and so are the two small, adorable children).

So rather than approach like a socially confident person, Adia just hangs back a ways and looks confused.

((Too late to tag? I didn't see this until recently. <3))

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victormakesart December 15 2011, 04:54:08 UTC
"Oh, gosh, come on in, come on in," Victor insists, trooping up in her little fake beard, feeling ridiculous and very proud of being ridiculous. "Have cake and stuff! The kids turned two today, right on Thanksgiving!"

((Never too late! ♥ Glad to see you!))

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chiron_survivor December 16 2011, 02:13:50 UTC
Oh, so it is a birthday party. That doesn't explain the costumes, or what Thanksgiving is. Adia smiles anyway and shyly waves at the birthday girls. "Happy birthday!" She turns to Victor, full of questions, not sure where to start. "I think you've told me before, what what are their names?"

((I'm going to be out of town from the 21st to the 28th, but I'll try to tag when I can before and after.))

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victormakesart January 1 2012, 00:37:08 UTC
"Thanks," Vic says, because the girls are but two and still working on politeness (at least Anya is, Athena has it down, and Anya will never quite get the purpose of tact).

"This little gal is Anya, and she's Athena," Victor says, straightening Anya's costume because she is super interested in dishevelling herself. Athena, for her part, is being an angel.

((I actually had a similar out-of-townage! Sorry about that, holidays snuck up on me!))

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chiron_survivor January 8 2012, 04:11:47 UTC
"They're very cute," Adia says, because that's what one says about small children, expect she really does mean it, the two are positively adorable. Her gaze lingers on Athena -- this is the child Victor built, the one who Adia was afraid would be like a cylon, except she's just a little girl, not very cylon-like at all.

But her costume, once it registers to Adia, sends a shiver through her. Victor couldn't possibly have known that "toaster" is slang for cylon where she's from. Still, it's a little unnerving. "Is it normal for people from Earth to wear costumes on their birthday?"

((Sorry I'm impossibly slow with tagging. My baby got sick right before the holidays and I'm only now just getting my act together. But I didn't forget!))

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victormakesart January 8 2012, 05:54:28 UTC
Victor would humbly protest and say that, really, Billy mostly built Athena, she just sort of helped a little. The child she built mostly on her own, Jude, has yet to be activated. He's ready to get transferred into his body. He's fully formed, completely built, checked for bugs and run through simulations. But he hasn't been put in his body. Victor's scared to activate him. Precisely why is hard to pin down. Maybe she's afraid that she made a coding mistake. Maybe she's scared he won't like her.

"It's not a normal thing at all, nope. But this birthday has a history theme, so I decided that we'd be dressing up in historical costumes."

The Doctor strolls by in high-waisted silver pants, a cravat, and laser glasses. "...in some cases, historical costumes that haven't happened yet," Victor points out.

((Gosh, no worries!! I hope your kid's doing okay now.))

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chiron_survivor January 9 2012, 02:24:45 UTC
Adia probably wouldn't be able to assuage Victor's fears. She's still lukewarm at best to the idea of creating artificial life. Victor gets a pass because of how kind she's been to Adia and how much love she has for her children.

"I wish I'd known. I would have worn a toga," she jokes. She follows The Doctor with her eyes. "The future is very shiny," she decides with a small giggle. The girls are cute. It keeps her relaxed. "Athena is a toaster." Ha ha. "Anya is... a pilot? And you're...?"

((She's fine now. Making me get up super early, but that's normal. ;) ))

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victormakesart January 13 2012, 00:58:57 UTC
"Anya is dressed as Amelia Earhart," she says, trying to trick her back into wearing the hat. She's having none of it. "The first lady to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. And I'm... Abraham Lincoln, the fellow who freed the slaves (and was President). Admittedly, I only really dressed as him 'cause he's known as being super tall, and I'm soooo not."

((I'm glad! Though the getting up super early, oof! :) ))

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chiron_survivor January 16 2012, 01:42:22 UTC
"Oh, I see." That does explain the pilot costume. "A president who freed slaves... I'm assuming this was some time ago in your Earth's past?" She laughs. "You're tall enough, Victor. If you were super tall, I'd have to crane my neck."

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victormakesart January 17 2012, 17:31:53 UTC
"Yeah, totally. Like a good... one-fifty years ago. Not long enough for me, though. We never shoulda had slavery to start with. Some places it's still going on." She wants to save the world. She wants to toss on a cape and make everyone act better toward each other. But now's not the time to get broody and grumpy so she kisses the top of Athena's head. "Gosh, I'm itty-bitty. I know all of my kids're gonna get taller than me."

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chiron_survivor January 18 2012, 03:34:14 UTC
"Slavery used to exist on Kobol, but that was thousands of years ago." Not that Adia's climbing on any high horses. The Cylons probably thought of themselves as slaves, and the Saggitarions weren't treated much better. "Sounds like a good president, then." She watches Athena a moment, then asks with a forced casualness, "How's your kid that you... um, were working on?"

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victormakesart January 19 2012, 03:39:23 UTC
"Lucky," she says, and she fully means it. At least in that case, Adia's world is more evolved, better at human rights, if not people rights. Victor chews down on her lip and doesn't even notice that Anya is trying to feed her hat to Ziggy the robot dog. "I've built him. I've programmed him. I just haven't put the two together yet."

She leads a little away from the girls. Anya might not retain the information, but Athena has a memory like a video camera, and good hearing besides. "I'm just nervous, is all. I don't know why. I guess I've never had so much control over the process before. Anya was a surprise, Athena was mostly built by Billy, and now I have the control, and I can't hit the final buttons."

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chiron_survivor January 24 2012, 01:30:20 UTC
It's a bit of a surprise, Victor's reluctance. So don't, she thinks, then immediately feels guilty. Victor is a good, loving parent. The evidence is right in front of her. Her son won't decide one day that he hates all of humanity. She hopes. "Do you feel like... if anything goes wrong, you'll blame yourself, since you built him?"

She looks over at Athena again. Just a cute little kid, doing cute little kid things. "I don't think you have to worry, Victor... if your son is anything like you, he'll be amazing."

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victormakesart January 24 2012, 01:47:50 UTC
"I'm afraid that my programming might not be good enough. What if I activate him and he feels bad? What if all of my studies on the soul gain superficial results and... and he feels like an outsider, or he acts the right way without anything backing it? And what if he doesn't like me. I've done all of these simulations, but I can't know until he's in his body. It's a leap of faith. It's not like I've been programming all my life; just for about three years. And I've had a lot of help, but I'm so scared to fail, and that my failure will hurt the boy." So her worries aren't attached to what Jude might do, but how he might feel. Her concern is for him, not others, which is sweet, in a way. She has full faith that he'll be a good boy.

She looks over at her daughters, too. A small, shy smile, unsure of herself.

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chiron_survivor January 24 2012, 02:06:08 UTC
Adia wonders to herself, briefly, if the cylons worried about these sorts of things when they created their human-looking models. If they cared about having a soul or how they'd feel with false memories. The fact that Victor cares so much is encouraging, but Adia can spot worried over-thinking as she does it often enough herself. "If any of those things happen, it won't be because you failed your programming. He's going to be who he is. But I'm pretty sure he's going to love you, and feel loved."

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victormakesart January 24 2012, 02:17:16 UTC
"I worry," she says, softly, "that I might not be as smart as I think that I am." She depends so much on her own cleverness. But today's a good day, a happy day, pretty much the best day, and she shouldn't be acting like a broodyface. All the same, she looks like a massive weight has lifted from her. The tense little muscles in her face since she started talking about Jude have smoothed out again. She feels better about the whole situation. "He'll be a good boy. Happy."

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