space 🎶 mizuki

[teenrebellion]

we can shitpost later

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[psynchroneyes]

I don't think I'm being that weird.

[ can't a girl be slightly abnormal in peace. anyway. Mizuki sinks back into the couch a little. ]

But—fine. I guess maybe... it wouldn't hurt to say.

[teenrebellion]

[ he just stares at her with an eyebrow raised like are you gonna say something or what ]

[psynchroneyes]

Well.

[ how to put this. ]

I have a fake eye with an AI in it.

[ frankly, apparently ]

[teenrebellion]

[ well at least he's read the profiles but. squints. ]

That's why your eyes are different colors? [ ... ] Why?

[psynchroneyes]

Why?

[ she echoes, like this is somehow a strange question. ]

I lost my eye when I was a kid, so it's not exactly something I like spilling to everyone.

[teenrebellion]

Most people just get regular prosthetics, that's all.

[ he's never even heard of an eyeball with ai before. fuckin weird tbh but kazuki's not enough of an asshole to say that out loud.

his voice softens a little. ]

Sorry for prying. [ ... ] It's hard not to notice when you're acting like that.

[psynchroneyes]

I did have one for a while...

[ But sometimes you get an upgrade. ]

Most people just accept that I have a little chat with myself sometimes. Doesn't everyone do that?

[teenrebellion]

Out loud? While you sit here watching something you say you're not interested in?

[psynchroneyes]

It happens...

[teenrebellion]

Do people actually buy into that?

[psynchroneyes]

It's not like most people have a reason to suspect me of anything.

[teenrebellion]

Like I do?

[psynchroneyes]

You totally just were!

[teenrebellion]

Because you were acting weird. Just like you did in the trial.

[ ... ]

So the AI that lives in your eye likes bugs?

[ what the fuck. ]

[psynchroneyes]

Don't get too weirded out by it because I'm the one who has to deal with her fussing.

[teenrebellion]

It talks?

...She talks?

[ ais are gendered??? ]

[psynchroneyes]

[ this feels judgmental somehow ]

You're making me reconsider this conversation, you know.

[teenrebellion]

What? We don't have AIs like that where I'm from!

[psynchroneyes]

Yeah, but I've been sitting here like, okay it's been a week on this weirdass ship, surely this of all things won't be that weird to him.

[teenrebellion]

Since when do you care what I think?

...A talking AI is probably one of the less weird things here. But like I said, we just don't have this stuff back home.

[psynchroneyes]

I'm a sensitive girl sometimes... [ citation probably needed ] And, well—you might. It's technology that's a pretty huge secret where I'm from, too.

[teenrebellion]

Could've fooled me.

...Why would it be secret? Something like that sounds like it'd be all over the news.

[psynchroneyes]

That's exactly why it needs to stay one.

[teenrebellion]

Why, though? If the technology's meant to help people, what's the point of keeping it secret?

[psynchroneyes]

Umm...

[ ... ]

That's—kind of complicated.