His priority. Fingers curl and voice locks, a different sort of stall than the impossibility of stripped permissions. His priority.
[Serve Clu.] [Protect the system.] A fractured whisper of (fightfor), wrenched from all its associated claims. Rinzler was never meant to be anything more than a weapon. But Rinzler is, and Rinzler has been, and 'the you that exists outside of Clu.' The prickle of potential, coiling so strangely in his throat.
'Rinzler doesn't belong to anybody.'
They'd been wrong. They still aren't right. But Chara said that much for him. Chara fought, and Chara safeguarded his code. His choice. Even when they couldn't have agreed.
"Can try."
It's not much of a return. It's nothing he hasn't already promised and already failed, more than once. He wouldn't have stopped regardless. They know this. But Chara is a user, and maybe they can. Maybe they've chosen that.
If that's what they ask of him... he'll keep trying for them.
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[Serve Clu.] [Protect the system.] A fractured whisper of (fightfor), wrenched from all its associated claims. Rinzler was never meant to be anything more than a weapon. But Rinzler is, and Rinzler has been, and 'the you that exists outside of Clu.' The prickle of potential, coiling so strangely in his throat.
'Rinzler doesn't belong to anybody.'
They'd been wrong. They still aren't right. But Chara said that much for him. Chara fought, and Chara safeguarded his code. His choice. Even when they couldn't have agreed.
"Can try."
It's not much of a return. It's nothing he hasn't already promised and already failed, more than once. He wouldn't have stopped regardless. They know this. But Chara is a user, and maybe they can. Maybe they've chosen that.
If that's what they ask of him... he'll keep trying for them.