lastrat: (go get your gun get your gun)
James Bond ([personal profile] lastrat) wrote2012-12-06 11:01 am

♠ | 001 | Video

[Bond has been laying low, for the most part: investigating quietly, observing, looking for the Admiral and the Bridge and all the other things people initially told him he'd never see or find.

It galls him that they were right.

He's also spent his time half convinced that this is all a drug induced dream meant to obtain information from him. He still isn't sure either way, honestly, so when the video clicks on, Bond's face is inscrutable, because you're getting nothing from him, Quantum. When he talks, it's easy, smooth, because he is a very good bluffer.]


Suppose this is real. Suppose we are actually on a ship meant to cure us of our villainous ways. Tell me how it works. Tell me how often it works. And what do the wardens get out of it?

[He smiles, and it's easy but doesn't reach his eyes.]

While we're here, I've learned from my mistakes, 'Admiral.' [The inflection is small, but present: he really means Quantum.] Kindly send me back to live the quiet retired life, if you please. [There are much more important things than his immortal soul, or whatever the fuck this is supposed to be about, at stake after all.]

[Private to Ivy]

It strikes me that I may or may not owe you an apology.

[Private to Lark]

Heard anything?
secretasshole: (when I look out there)

[personal profile] secretasshole 2012-12-06 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
What would make you accept this as reality?
secretasshole: (I'm doing science and I'm still alive)

[personal profile] secretasshole 2012-12-06 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
As an android, I don't hallucinate or dream, and I cannot be influenced by pharmaceuticals. If someone had tampered with my programming, I would, in some way, be aware of it. Therefore, I must accept that this is - for the time being - reality.
secretasshole: (look at me still talking)

[personal profile] secretasshole 2012-12-06 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would they have chosen to recreate this particular environment? It's not as if it's particularly consistent, or gets them anything in return. It would be far more practical to reprogram me to carry out a specific task, rather than leading me to believe I'm currently imprisoned on an interdimensional prison barge.
secretasshole: (I think I prefer to stay inside)

[personal profile] secretasshole 2012-12-08 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
It still seems terribly inefficient.
secretasshole: (for the people who are still alive)

[personal profile] secretasshole 2012-12-11 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
That is often true.