Artifact

Myriad Reality

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I’ll put it like this. Where I started was point A. Where the ideals my dad had are point B.
*Holds up a finger on each hand*
I was at A, and had B, but there was nothing in my mind that connected the dots between them. So it was just nonsense to me, for a long time. But as I made friends, and became attached to various people and things in the world, I slowly made progress toward it-
*Moves my fingers closer together as I speak until they touch*
Until bam. One day it clicked. The ideals and philosophies became important to me, because I had found people and places that were important to me.

@Revolutionary

So I’m guessing the guy that—
*Nods my head toward Rhoan*
Was talking about didn’t qualify as one of those people.

Myriad Reality

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No. I could decide to be that way, but I’m not for a few reasons. I was made for a reason, in the end. My dad didn’t just make me for nothing. I appreciate that I was allowed the ability to become my own person, and on a deeper level, I appreciate him for allowing me the opportunity to learn the importance of those ideals myself as well.

@Revolutionary

Since you already know philosophy, how do you know that those ideals are really important to you instead of something you can’t decide for yourself?

Myriad Reality

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He ended up not liking people very much. At all. Pretty much drew all the wrong conclusions from ideas he was born with. Which is why I was then designed only with the seeds sprinkled in, but still allowed to go out and attach myself to the world, and develop as a person all on my own.

@Revolutionary

Are you resentful over having those starter ideas wired into you?

Myriad Reality

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I did it on my own, because I wanted to. But it was also kind of another thing that I was kind of designed to do anyway. It was my dad’s second attempt to artificially create a successor to his ideals and will, and the first attempt didn’t exactly work out when he tried to hard-code it. We call him Omega, and he’s not a very nice guy.

@Revolutionary

What happened with him?

Myriad Reality

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It’s hilarious now. I can look back and laugh. But I get that pang of “Eesh, wow, I really did that, huh?” Mixed in with the amusement.

@Revolutionary

Why didn’t the people who made you help out?

Myriad Reality

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Often. Not always. Probably even more often than I recall, people probably just thought I was weird.

@Revolutionary

Aww, that’s sad. Can you at least look back and laugh now?

Myriad Reality

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They do. I have too many stories like that for my own good. One time a friend told me this dude’s voice on the radio was “the best he ever heard”. I wanted to be cool like the guy on the radio, so I just duplicated his voice. For a little over a day. Pretty sure he thought I was joking at first until it got very old.
*Chuckles*
Even had to sit down and have a serious talk with me about why it was bizarre.

@Revolutionary

Did they realize you were still learning how everything worked?

Myriad Reality

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The kind of mistakes you make when you’re innocent, and don’t really understand social implications… Example: early on, I was talking to a lady I met in a bar. Was there because I had made friends with the bartender, but she told me she really liked the guy she went there with but wasn’t super sure if she should say anything, and that she “found it hard to be honest with him.” So I said “Oh, it won’t be hard for me” and turned without hesitation to him the moment he came back and told him how she felt for her. She ran out out of embarassment, and I had no clue why at the time.

@Revolutionary

Oh, the things you feel guilty about now. But hey, at least it makes for a great story now.

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Well, if we have any normal, non-powered humans with us... without the project, their expected survival rate is 1% with a control group of 100.

@souleaterfan320

That high? This is going to be easier than I thought.

Myriad Reality

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There will bea high risk of Loss of Life. This is quite litterally a war we're fighting. People die in those.

@souleaterfan320

Quantify it for me. That’s too nebulous for my taste.

Myriad Reality

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A lot of meandering about the IA, hanging around places, meeting people, making connections. Making mistakes.

@Revolutionary

Mistakes? What kinds of mistakes are there to make like that?