FYS: Mutual Satisfaction (Quisling and Khan, PG-13)

[jeriendhal]

So instead of writing drabbles this week, I somehow pop this out over a lunch break. WTF?

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She was becoming seriously addicted to massages. Especially long, slow ones where heated oils were rubbed gently into her skin, leaving her boneless, as Khan watched over her.

“Y’know,” she mumbled into her pillow, “if I’m supposed to be producing

Comments

[seawasp]

I would probably *trust* them but not *like* them (as a class) because I don't like a Humanoids scenario. But I would be willing to believe they sincerely meant well.

Why are they ALL fur-morphs, though? No human ones? Some people would find them unutterably creepy inherently from their appearance.

[jeriendhal]

Authorial Reason: It's a handy visual shorthand to indicate a character is a morph.

In World Reason: Once industrialized governments realized that complex non-sentient AI's in humanoid forms were possible, they created strict laws to prevent the creation of morphs that can pass directly as human, so as to prevent someone from building a duplicate human for nefarious purposes. Manufacturers of robots capable of using human equipment or used for social interaction with humans got around that by making them appealing cartoony and fluffy. The trend towards anthromorphs has been fixed for almost a generation by the time the Revolt occured.

Note that industrial robots, automobiles, and many military air/sea/ground drones (such as the local equivalents of SJGame's Ogre cybertanks) are decidedly Not Furry. For example the dentist morph that took care of our narrator's teeth in the first story. If someone really wanted a morph that looks like Sony's ASIMO robot, they certainly can get one, and there are plenty maintaining the Ring for the

[seawasp]

But what if someone is CREEPED OUT by the morphs and wants human-looking ones?