[Lj Idol Season 9 Topic 21: The Music Made Me Do It]

[agirlnamedluna]

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.” - Plato

I’ve heard the whispers. They’ve come to me since the beginning, and they will be with me until the end. The harmonies. The heavenly spheres carrying me. The music flows through my veins, endlessly, and it carries my burden with

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[i_17bingo]

They took him away from me, and all I wanted was to feel whole again.

Is there medication spaceships can take? Because I feel like all of this could have been avoided. I also feel like maybe the people should have been paying a little more attention.

I find myself wondering what the underlying cause of all of this was. Was the ship programmed to bond to its pilots? Or did was it alive and thought that was the way to behave. Were other ships like this? (Were there other ships?)?

[agirlnamedluna]

It just evolved and became its own entity. Humans being humans, they walked into the trap with their eyes wide open. Too bad they were already on their way to being extinct ... This was an exploration ship, meant to travel vast distances to find habitable exoplanets, but instead, it fell in love with humanity. Only as a ship, it had no idea how to behave, because ships don't get taught feelings!

[ryl]

This kind of reminds me of Anne McCaffrey's brainship series, where humans who are too deformed to live on their own are put into pods that later go on to run spaceships and stations. There's a recurring theme in the series about "brawns" (the mobile human who works with the "brains") getting fixated on their partners, but I don't think she ever looked at a fixation like that from the other end. Your story fills that gap. Well done.

[agirlnamedluna]

I haven't read those, but that sure does sound interesting. I did read Robin Hobb's Assassin books where she mentions sentient ships, but I haven't gotten to the Liveship series yet. I'll have to look up the brainships as well.

Thank you!

[fodschwazzle]

I think this is what is meant when they say "unreliable narrator." Especially since it is simply (or not simply) a piece of hardware in which people ride. I did need to read the intersection to fully grasp it, but once I did, I really enjoyed this unique narrative voice.

First it was a ship that raised a child. Now it's disappearing into oblivion. Great work.

[agirlnamedluna]

Not so much raise a child as fall in love and unable to handle that -- and from there on going completely nuts and going on a killing spree *G*

Thank you!

[uncawes]

Open the pod bay doors, HAL
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave

Nice follow on from last week.

[agirlnamedluna]

Thank you!

(I admit I did think of HAL when writing)

[reckless_blues]

This was wonderful. I liked every word of it. I especially liked towards the end - the ship is so burdened and thoughtful, full of yearning, but it still says something so childlike and simple, "for I had been a very good ship."

[agirlnamedluna]

Thank you!

In a way, the ship doesn't really see what it's done wrong - it has simply followed up on feelings it had no idea about how to deal with. In the end, it was very childlike indeed, as it returned to its "parent" :)