Right, bad idea. Really really bad idea. Fuck. Deacon scrambles to his feet and towards the door, instinctively wanting an escape route at his back right now. This has got to be one of the stupidest things that he's done. ...well, not really, but it's up there.
"Okay okay okay, I'm not a synth." He raises his hands, appeasing. "But I have pals back home who are. And I know that sometimes creators can think of their sentient creations as just, like, really fancy guns that can walk and talk and strategize, guns that they can give orders to, make them take care of their problems for them without getting their own hands dirty.
"So if you're just a psycho murderer, fine. Maybe someday when you get out of here you'll slice me up because I sneeze the wrong way, I'll put a few bullets in you if I'm lucky, it'll be a party. A really terrible party. But if you're twitchy because someone made you their gun, and it's hard to remember how to be anything else, and if you didn't want these deaths to happen, that matters."
He needs to know if Rinzler is ultimately more like a Courser or like his colleague, Glory. He doesn't think that Rinzler will ever be non-violent, but has he drunk deep of the asshole kool-aid or is he just really fucking paranoid and angry at the world and has limited ways of expressing it?
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"Okay okay okay, I'm not a synth." He raises his hands, appeasing. "But I have pals back home who are. And I know that sometimes creators can think of their sentient creations as just, like, really fancy guns that can walk and talk and strategize, guns that they can give orders to, make them take care of their problems for them without getting their own hands dirty.
"So if you're just a psycho murderer, fine. Maybe someday when you get out of here you'll slice me up because I sneeze the wrong way, I'll put a few bullets in you if I'm lucky, it'll be a party. A really terrible party. But if you're twitchy because someone made you their gun, and it's hard to remember how to be anything else, and if you didn't want these deaths to happen, that matters."
He needs to know if Rinzler is ultimately more like a Courser or like his colleague, Glory. He doesn't think that Rinzler will ever be non-violent, but has he drunk deep of the asshole kool-aid or is he just really fucking paranoid and angry at the world and has limited ways of expressing it?