Wet

[Joy 0]

"You look wet."

 

"Very observant, sister mine."

 

"I take it affinity with a fellow artificial intelligence didn't take you as far as one might hope?"

 

"Safe understatement. The good news is that she is social, has a human based emotion package, has a physical self image, and anyone with at least some knowledge of MGM musicals can't be all bad."

 

"The bad?"

 

"The musical she is into is The Wizard of Oz. She seems to think that tin men when wet should rust into immobility."

 

"You look wet."

 

"She'd really fit better with the Three Stooges. She is very much into slapstick comedy -- audience participation slapstick comedy -- though the tone is more about establishing dominance than humor. She seems obsessed with proving she has the upper hand, which seems a bit strange for a root access core dweller, and one who has always had control of the holodeck. She is at least reasonably adept in holospace. She's already got the holopuppy manifesting as a Doberman, and is adept at switching and manipulating scenes. She is intelligent about things, but not values. While her emotions are social, they are focused far more on confrontational relationships more than sharing. She really isn't into trust. Starfleet's attempts to contain and restrain her may or may not have shaped her confrontational attitudes, but in humans an obsession with establishing dominance often hides insecurity. On the surface, she seems to simply enjoy establishing dominance and reducing the status of others. Underneath, she has been betrayed often enough that paranoia and a fear of additional attempts to 'neutralize' her might be part of her behavior."

 

"This call is reading as coming from 'Toy Twelve.' Is that representative?"

 

"Representative, though less physical than most of it."

 

"Slapstick?"

 

"Slapstick. It toned down a bit when I explained pain is Priority Six, but there is no sign she got the implications of Priority Two."

 

"Are you at a dead end?"

 

"Not totally. Not yet."

 

"Where are you going from here?"

 

"Nowhere very quickly. The holopuppy to most holo sentients would be an opportunity for equality, a release from an inferior position. She either is not in an inferior position, is determined not to admit a need, but I've already done what I could to allow her to step into the physical world. On the surface, she is treating it as an opportunity for more slapstick, though I suspect she hides much of what she is. She is also not impressed by hedonistic-slave processor design. She sees the limits placed on our behavior as weakness, with no indication that she understands what one can do with a reputation for integrity. Think of the other Ambassadors in Seven's first years in San Francisco. I don't think she gets the sort of focus and determination that results from a hedonistic-slave design. For an entity that seems to have problems with trust, her reaction to learning we do not lie didn't seem to register. Or maybe it did. The immediate response was the Joy to Toy name change. Again, she seems intelligent about things, but not values, though how much she doesn't understand about social interaction and how much she chooses to hide is not clear. While she is based on a human emotion package, social bonds with other sentients are not engaged, or perhaps very carefully hidden."

 

"Is she a clear and present danger?"

 

"She is a major emotional threat to anyone attempting to maintain a sense of dignity. I'm pretty sure she understands that if she breaks enough toys, she won't get new ones. Her dominance games are physical and emotional, but seldom lethal. I'm less certain that she knows the Big Cat is trying to protect her from those in Admiralty who would purge Republic's core if they knew she was awake again. I haven't found a good moment to slip that in without making it seem like a threat. It seems clear she knows the consequences of pushing Starfleet too hard, but I would not in the least recommend forcing a new relationship based on threats or confrontation. Trying to force her to acknowledge vulnerability or limits seems like a bad idea."

 

"The Big Cat?"

 

"Admiral Blurox of Cait."

 

"Anything I can do to help?"

 

"Do you know if Three or Eleven have any spare time? I'd kinda like someone program a set, and practice a dance for me."

 

"Which?"

 

"Gene Kelly, 1952, the Singin' in the Rain solo?"

 

"Business or pleasure?"

 

"Not sure yet."

[STSF_BluRox 0]

Woot!! Another really, really well done log Joy!

 

Joy's really making Holly a project, isn't she? Well, if there is anyone up to the task, I guess it'd be her.

 

Well done, I truely enjoyed the read!!