1414/The Truth About Kotone

The Truth About Kotone
Date of Scene:	25 January 2015
Location:	Void - Space Ways
Synopsis:	After the horror of old World Brews, Kotone is being repaired by Rory and she finally comes clean to someone, about why she's a full concyborg as she makes the choice to show Rory's her memories of how it happened directly.
Cast of Characters:	Kotone Yamakawa, 673

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Rory White (673) has posed:
    The Cognizant Odyssey was only a small spaceflight away. This time the two are not docked anywhere, but in high orbit around a certain ruined planet. Gee, how familiar in a few ways...

    Thankfully there are no windows in this part of the passenger-boom-turned-workshop, where Rory has set to work probing around inside Kotone's damaged body to figure out what exactly was damaged or missing and fabricating tiny parts of crude but effective design (held together with nano-repair spray and similar means) as a stop-gap measure before she can work on real fixes.

    "Every time these things happen, I feel like my understanding of people LESSENS." Rory idly complains while hovering over Kotone. Her right hand holds a weird tool that has split down into dozens of very tiny fractal arms that scour for metal shearing cracks and damaged electronics to fix...

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa is a mess in more ways than one, she's managed to get her own repair systems somewhat helping, Rory would find by her standards Primative nenobots at owrk but they clearly are overhwelme however minor stuff, stress fratures an the like they are fixing those well she looks to Rory as she speaks but not moving and not embrased at what parts of her she's got to look it.

"I feel the same, someone said there's more ways to wire a human brain in terms of neuron connections than there are stars in the univeres. I'm ... sorry Rory but we're alien and confusing to ourselves so many worlds, histories and cultures..."

Rory White (673) has posed:
    "It seems so! ... maybe I'm just misunderstanding something very basic." Rory postics, still hopeful. Or just plain naive, maybe! By her tone... could be either way. Maybe both!

    Or maybe she's just much, much happier to be doing something she feels is Worth It and kind of Fun. Her emotions aren't quite normal after all!

    "This could be worse. Much worse. The exact parts I need are nowhere to be found, but making patchwork shouldn't be hard. Might not look pretty but most of it's internal!" .. So, does Kotone care?

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa says "In a way Rory you retained a innocent a lot of people lose after behind a child, don't be so eager to lose it, you can't get it back afterwards."

She thinks for a moment as Rory works on her. "Naw it's fine I can get things cosmtically fixed lter though it would be nice to get my hand properly installed back when you have a moment I been disarmed...as it were. Lesst... I didn't kill him even if he wasn't a good man."

Kotone has manage to /avoid/ taking a life so far in cold blood, she's may have killed someone in self defence but she's not certin and she wonders about this life she lives.

"I'm glad I met you, Alexis and everyone else...it's funny I was a nobody I think I'd be what you call a Conerative flat in your world. ... I never told you how I ended up like this did I?"

Rory White (673) has posed:
    Rory's quiet for a bit, unsure HOW to respond to some of that. "You never have!... and I would not easily believe such a claim after you somehow transformed your whole arm!" She makes an odd face. Is that irritation? Amazement? Maybe many things?

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa say "Look I didn't want to kill him if I had a choice, you know?" She says lookinst ar ROy and takes a deep breath for a moment, an old hapbit she's not sure given Rory while very much is a perosn and quite human she doesn't have the normal social base a human would have growing up so far as she knows.

"Do you want to know...if you want heh I could synth memories with you but it wouldn't be plesent."

Not that Rory would realie i but tht offer is a huge level of trust likely only the sort Riva, Inga, or Maaka could get out of her otherwise.

Rory White (673) has posed:
    "I-I'm..." Rory's startled by the sudden choice of words. "...I'm not blaming anyone for what happened! It.. it was too chaotic... and I do not value that man's life over yours..." Even if she doesn't want anyone to die... if possible...

    "... But you sound like you want to tell it...?"

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa looks to ROry as shw works there's a look of turst on her face.

"I know, iI'm glad you care and yes we're choatic most life tends to be I find. Yes but I think perhaps if I can show you and let you experiance some. If your willing to trust me jack in use the port in the back of my neck there's a connector there."

Rory White (673) has posed:
    "A-an XP share? Alright. At least that mnemonic aug adapter's working!" Although it takes her a moment or two to find a proper connector.. she does jack in.

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa looks to Rory embrassed "I haven't used this feature before but maybe you'll understand why once this happens."

There's a strange feeling aqs it connects and Kotone lets Rory in to to speal the time file is oldish it's over a year ago or so and it's a very different place to so to speak. Everything is from Kotone's on point of view, the first thing the memory play back starts with is? A view of Kotone's face in a mirror, as she looks at it on the way out of a building. The face is differnt and it's clear she's of mixed japanese and european decent though her hair's still the same and is dyed the same as it is now. Kotone now is carrying a package under her arm and gets on a simple looking motorcycle she looks up at a huge building it's impressive looks like some sort of Hypercorp or Megacorp it doesn't matter relly but she gets on the bike and she goes through the city of New Port it's clearly old earth so to speak. Kotone talks to her self muttering about delivery times ndf such hoping she can make it in time. It seems she's running a couier job of some sort she cuts through several parts of town over the lengh of her ride untill she comes ot a unpopulated industrial park. She stops at a red light and that's when a hulking man who clearly has a large amount of cyberware gets in her way physically blocking the way.

<I want everything your delivering!>

Kotone stares there's a good bit of fear and confusion in the memory here and she struggles of ra moment

"What no! I got a job to do get out of the way."

It seems to be the wrong answer aws the macn reahces out anf grabs Kotone, there's a sense of pain the sound of a bone being crush and then she's flung across th stress into a concreet wall and her vision becomes blurr there's a lot more pain afterwards and things black out, what is clear Kotone was /savaged/ by this cyborg and there still seems to be more to come.

Rory White (673) has posed:
    There's a good reason Rory prefers synth Morphs. Human emotions are powerful, and as the playback progresses.. and ends.... she's left wide-eyed and stammering...

    "Why why why why WHYWHYWHY!!!?!?!"

    She flinches back and away from Kotone as if something had struck her, panicked. .. And it is a good five seconds before she starts calming down. Likely thanks to her Muse's efforts!

    ".. Why....."

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone is concerned she gets that her emotions are a powerul thing she seems a sense that she may have hurt her friend and looks she cocerned but there's more she says "You'll see..."

Kotone says softly and due to the link? Rory would feel her sympathy and her concerns for her friend and the doubt of was sharing something like this such a good idea. The next shot is Kotone comming too in a hospital there's no pain but it's clear there's not much left of her to to speak she looks up to a doctor whose hovering over her concerned. The man is kind but firm as he explains her situation that she has some choices about treatment they can do what they can to repair her body but she'll be crippled and likely bedridden. There's a sense of fear helplessnes but when the doctor offers another possiblity of cyberization there's a sense of hope mized with some fear an reultion there's a clear idea that she seems to not be happy with either but she thinks for a moment and rasps.

"I ...want to live...I consent to Cyberization."

There's fear but the desire to live is stong and Korone reches out to try and hold Rory in some fashion as there's one last act to play before this is done.

Rory White (673) has posed:
    And finally it's over. Rory doesn't really tremble much - past the initial wave of freaking out she utterly lacks the requisite biology to experience that so strongly - but spooked? She's definitely been spooked by all of this.

    Whe it's over, she's left with her hands folded, shoulders scrunched up, and a very sympathetic look on her face... "So... that's what happened..."

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa hasn't broken the ink right now as she clearly aware now Rory needs someone lean on too.

"Yes...I was running deliveryu jobs for a delivery company that did high value deliveries by sending hard copy or files on data storage cards, right? No way for a hacker to get something that's not online or hooked up to the web right it paid well but I have no idea...what it was. It was safer that way for long term for the people running deliveries...but that guy I think he was with the yazuka didn't seem to care he could have taken it after he broke my arm...but he just didn't stop... I was ... I guess a luddite by your world's standards. It's funny I never told anyon I considered telling Alexis and Riva but I fear they might go charging off and stir up who knows what..."

Rory White (673) has posed:
    "... " Rory's quiet for a bit, but by no means truly silent. The energy's drained out of her and the heaviest frown has settled in.

    "... I just.... do not calculate why these things happen.. I am sorry, Kotone. I wish you could have had the answer you wanted then...."

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
There iot a faint smile from Kotone as she looks to her firend she's not broken the link. "It's all right nothing can be changed i'm alive, I met you, Alexis, Kyra, Inga, Riva and so many others. I can't say nothing good's come of it really it's just something i'd never have desired but here I am miss cyborg...funny how that goes, huh?"

Rory White (673) has posed:
    "Well, if it helps... the next time someone comes after you, you'll be able to--" She freezes right then and there, then blinks.... yup, Muse is talking to her.

    "...'clean his clock?' Rolan, how does that..."

    It is such a strange phrase.

Kotone Yamakawa has posed:
Kotone Yamakawa laughs "I'm sorry old slang I tuess Rory I just wanted to ... I dunno I felt you deserved the truth. Maybe in a strange way you can better understand me I guess I guess I should come clean with the others before I finish with ... my upgrade shouldn't I. But here I was no one imporant no powers no nothing rapidly getting left behind by the world. As for that sorry really old slang I keep forgetting."

Rory White (673) has posed:
    Leaving the matter of strange phrasing to a later debate, Rory nods a few times. "... Well... I don't see why you have to. But... if the issue is bothering you then yes, why not explain...?"