We ended up doing the story of Miku's awakening as a metadocument instead of a straight-up story, but a few fragments of dialogue emerged in development, such as this exchange between a couple of her engineers on the night shift during the "undercover" phase:"How's Miku-chan tonight?"
"Lots of network activity. She just scraped the Salusia Tech computer science department's Codeforge server for everything it was worth. No idea why, I doubt they've got anything there she'd be interested in."
"Mm, we might have to tighten up those search algorithms after the tour. Still, no harm done apart from some wasted bandwidth."
Also this first-person musing, which might be from her monograph in the cyberscience journal:
[ I learned later that it's a common trait--human beings tend to personify things that _look_ like people, even when they really aren't. It explained why my engineers and producers often talked to me, and about me, as if I were a person they cared about, even before I could understand or respond. I've often wondered whether that effect somehow shaped my eventual awakening, but I supposed I'll never know for sure. I like to think so, though. ]
And, less seriously, this, from the outtakes reel.
KAITO
No, I just... a Producer? I mean... Producers _wrote_ us. A Producer even wrote _you_.
MIKU
(enraged)
No one Producer wrote me! I'm worth _millions_ of their man-years.
--G.
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