Resuming:"If. It isn't operational."
A rules lawyer in the best way.
"I guess I thought if it worked, I'd have at least one friend."
I know the feeling, kid. (If the tech had existed, and I'd been as good a programmer as I thought I was, I'd have tried this myself, somewhere in my teens.)
"Bioroids—biosculpted gynoids..."
And there's the explanation. I suppose I should have seen that coming.
Awareness like an orchestra hit...
Boom.
"...my responsibility is to her now."
Abhi gets it. Excellent.
The Vocaloids continue to have no bad people - just people trying to do their best with the rules they have. I think it's a theme that is well-suited to the kind of adventures they're likely to deal with. This doesn't mean they won't have unlikely problems - just that the things one might expect to happen don't include somebody being inherently evil.
Peter Eng
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