shitposting rave 3: Dawn of the third rave

"The same here, really? I was so driven as a young one, so determined to make a difference. I finished medical school at fifteen and I took a job with Overwatch at seventeen because they would support my research into advanced techniques and experimental therapies. I've been working on my own inventions constantly.

"I can now bring people back from death up to ten seconds after they die, but no longer. The one I tried who had been dead for longer was ... not entirely successful. He was a friend, and I feel guilty for trying when I knew it was too late for him to come back right."

She sips on her tea, enjoying the warmth spreading through her body from it.

 

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"I don't want it either, Bastion." She leans against the Omnic for a moment; they have known each other for a while.

 

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*stiff gentle robotic shoulder pap*

 

Peh. Sounds like some prime jetfuel. Not like I know enough to help you jailbreak that and fill in the processors if you wanted to, but do you want help? Sounds like you're in a pretty bad situation down there. Not being able to speak just makes it easier for other people to depersonalize you. Trust me, I know.

-She gestures at her own mute throat then back at the words she's projecting.-

I'm Lacuna. What's your name?

 

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I'd shoot the old fool if I could. Still he's far more likely to save lives awake than asleep, no? Wallahi, he is stubborn. Too stubborn to listen to talk. He'll keep on ramming his face into a wall if he thinks it will help. As would I!

Also would you like a bagel, Angela?

*she is holding out a plate. there is a bagel. it is warm and toasted. there is cream cheese. ana's words ask, but her tone commands. and surely while you are distracted again she will find more food.*

 

Yeah, anyone would be sensitive with the programming thing. I'm working on something for a friend, though. He's got brain damage, he has trouble vocalizing, so it'd be a device he could wear that converts the vocalizations he can make to something else he wants. I could probably try to make one for you, if you wanted.

Are you okay with just being called Bastion? My species picks our own names. Not that Bastion is a bad one! But it should be your choice, I think. That's important.

 

She turns to him and smiles. "I'll keep you going for as long as you'll let me, too," she says more quietly, to just Bastion. "Even Torj appreciates your value, although he's an Omnic-phobe. I asked him if he wanted to avoid being assigned with you, and he said no."

Angela reaches out for the bagel and munches on it absent-mindedly, her mind on other things. "You and he are alike in stubborn, Mama Ana. It can be a good thing. It's kept both of you alive, surprisingly."

 

Surprisingly? It's hardly surprising a man that willful refuses to die. It can be a problem though. Stubborn kept me wallowing in bed for a time, after all. Shameful. Ghosts can still save lives.

*sips tea and frowns. that was a shameful time. a bad time.*

 

"Or take them. Case in point, my most famous failure. Gabriel." She lets out a sigh and shakes her head slowly, closing her eyes for just a moment.

 

*tenses up and stays quiet for a moment. she'd seen what was behind the mask. heard what he had to say about angela and jack's role in it both. those images don't leave you*

Gabriel is...Complicated. We should not be so hasty to write him off as a "failure" and yet...Well, I don't know what can be done for him. He has had little to say to me save to blame you and the others.

If have learned anything, though, it is that you can never stop fighting. I made a mistake and men died for it, boys who were like sons to me. How many others have died for my hesitation that day too? And without my eye what was I to do? That is all I thought of for so long. There was still fight left though. That mistake can never be fixed, but perhaps I can prevent others from happening?

*rests a hand on angela's shoulder. you will be hugged soon probably.*

 

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Spoiler: here's a bird for you

 

Yeah, it does sound pretty cool! I just wanted to check, you know?

 

Angela smiles a tired smile that quickly crumbles, but the hand on her shoulder is nice.

"Gabriel hates what he became. He tells me he'd rather have died than what I did. But I was a fool and desperate and he was a friend and I didn't even think. He tells me I even removed his choice to end things, because he's tried to die and now can not. I don't think he cares how many tears I've shed over him, how sorry I am. I don't know what to do."

 

He's complicated, as I said. I can't tell you that I know what to do. I'm not even the slightest bit certain as to how to proceed with him, but still I think it is too early to entirely lose hope for him. The one bit of advice I can give is that you keep going. You keep working, Angela, even if you can't help him now. Or perhaps ever. That's very hard to do though I know. Words mean only so much.

*hugs mercy firmly*

You've made it this far though, haven't you? And still keeping busy too.

 

@Angela Ziegler *robopaps continue*

 

Interesting, now is that suit you are wearing part of you or is it some machine you attached to your body? *drinks Oktoberfest*