Something Human (Lina 19 Q&A)

[Lina (NAG Mk3-19)]

As I said on Discord - "I tried to picture a slow process of "finding out what it means to be someone and not something", developing and experimenting with a personality and slowly trying to give others hints that 'androids are people', but I feel I dropped the ball midway through xD been fun playing her though!"

EDIT: Might be obvious, might not, but the title (and the title of another thread!) was a reference to this. Which might be good background music for Nineteen!

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[Leo Knight]

Sorry, we never did get that scene! That was my bad. Stupid work...

You talk a bit about your process. What did you find challenging about that, and what did you feel really worked?

[Boogiepop]

As I've said before, I appreciated the small touches you've put into RPing Lina 19, from all the small mechanical touches to the processing of all their social interactions! That I liked very much! I'm kind of curious about her opinions about the humans she interacted with, you would almost think that Lina might have some bad opinions here and there.

Thank you for playing!

[Lina (NAG Mk3-19)]

As I've said before, I appreciated the small touches you've put into RPing Lina 19, from all the small mechanical touches to the processing of all their social interactions! That I liked very much! I'm kind of curious about her opinions about the humans she interacted with, you would almost think that Lina might have some bad opinions here and there.

Thank you for playing!

Thanks a lot Boogie!

Lina's opinions on humans, well... I think she (let's go with she here XD) can't think humans as a whole are all bad, after all it was humans that helped her when she came to terms with the possibility that she was something more than a tool. But her experience in the government (with the whole 'collateral moral system' growing out of it) and with some of the PCs and NPCs makes her feel humans are at least often problematic. Like, some people have taught quite a few things about empathy, but at the same time some of the Corporate folks, android slavers and others seem to treat even other humans like tools, so she's definitely wary.

Not sure if that answers the question! Or were you asking about specific NPCs (or PCs)?

Sorry, we never did get that scene! That was my bad. Stupid work...

You talk a bit about your process. What did you find challenging about that, and what did you feel really worked?

No worries! It would have been fun, but I slowed down quite a bit towards the end of the game too.

I think the most challenging part was to "keep it like a process", if that makes sense? Like I wanted to make it 'progress', with some changes happening as the days went by, and as things happened in the game. I'm not sure I managed to pull that off - in part due to time constraints, in part because of the muse going 'nope' at times. And in part because I'm lazy, I guess XD

I do think some of the feeling of 'discovering human-like feelings and emotions' and the 'human but not quite' parts came out nicely, or at least were headed in the right direction. Not sure if others felt it like that too, but at the very least I enjoyed writing those parts for her

[Boogiepop]

Thanks a lot Boogie!

Lina's opinions on humans, well... I think she (let's go with she here XD) can't think humans as a whole are all bad, after all it was humans that helped her when she came to terms with the possibility that she was something more than a tool. But her experience in the government (with the whole 'collateral moral system' growing out of it) and with some of the PCs and NPCs makes her feel humans are at least often problematic. Like, some people have taught quite a few things about empathy, but at the same time some of the Corporate folks, android slavers and others seem to treat even other humans like tools, so she's definitely wary.

Not sure if that answers the question! Or were you asking about specific NPCs (or PCs)?

That does answer the question a bit, yes! I was asking in general than anyone specifically. I suppose she/they did find some sympathetic humans who were hoping to do right at least to not find them all scummy. Was there anyone (NPC/PC) she considered influential or most curious?

[Ven Garcia-Estravez]

So how confused was Lina's programming at Ven in a skirt?


:3

[Lina (NAG Mk3-19)]

So how confused was Lina's programming at Ven in a skirt?


:3

I think Lina's programming wasn't as confused with him wearing a skirt (they were trying to figure out gender themselves, as I'd hoped to show in some threads! Not sure that came through though) as they were with him... well... wearing nothing UNDER the skirt in that Nautilus scene XD

Thinking about it now though, talking about gender identity and sexual preferences with him would have been interesting!

[Ven Garcia-Estravez]

So how confused was Lina's programming at Ven in a skirt?


:3

I think Lina's programming wasn't as confused with him wearing a skirt (they were trying to figure out gender themselves, as I'd hoped to show in some threads! Not sure that came through though) as they were with him... well... wearing nothing UNDER the skirt in that Nautilus scene XD

Thinking about it now though, talking about gender identity and sexual preferences with him would have been interesting!

HEY he had underwear on . . . just very very skimpy underwear. He's not totally shameless . . . . just mostly. :3