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smashacademy2012-10-16 11:43 am
derivativeofx) wrote in smashacademy2012-10-16 11:43 am
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[Oh, hey X. You're looking... kinda different? He's actually in his armor, for one, and he seems to have... invested in new contacts? Jeez, X, red's a pretty sinister eye color. Might wanna reconsider that one.
He doesn't appear to be in his room, either. People who know the school reallly well might recognize the truancy office.Or recognize Resetti's holes in the ceiling.]
I guess I'd better introduce myself sooner rather than later. My name is X. I'm what you might call a reploid, if any of you are familiar with the term. If you're not, I suppose it'd be simplest to just call me a robot. I'll be joining this school's truancy staff. I expect, of course, that I won't be all that busy. You're all dedicated students here, I hope?
[Is there an implied "or else" in there? No, of course not. Nice reploids like X would never do something like that.]
There's... something a little unusual that I'd like cleared up, actually. I was familiarizing myself with the school's records, and I was more than a little surprised to note that I'm apparently already here; there's an X listed in the enrollment records. Is this some sort of filing error?
He doesn't appear to be in his room, either. People who know the school reallly well might recognize the truancy office.
I guess I'd better introduce myself sooner rather than later. My name is X. I'm what you might call a reploid, if any of you are familiar with the term. If you're not, I suppose it'd be simplest to just call me a robot. I'll be joining this school's truancy staff. I expect, of course, that I won't be all that busy. You're all dedicated students here, I hope?
[Is there an implied "or else" in there? No, of course not. Nice reploids like X would never do something like that.]
There's... something a little unusual that I'd like cleared up, actually. I was familiarizing myself with the school's records, and I was more than a little surprised to note that I'm apparently already here; there's an X listed in the enrollment records. Is this some sort of filing error?
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X calls him sir.
The original X calls him, the imitation, sir.
Like he's somebody important. More important than X himself. Like... like even he believes that Copy is actually X. How backwards is that? An imitation will never be above the original, right?
But... if this X had armor from the Maverick Wars era -- if this X wasn't a Cyber Elf -- then... he wouldn't know, would he? It's just a small little word, probably said unthinkingly, but it hits him like a bolt of lightning. Some part of him had obviously always wanted to outshine the reploid whose shadow he'd been stuck in all his life, but he'd never actually dreamed the original would...
And just like that, a thought pops into his mind: a perfect copy is indistinguishable from the real thing, right? What if... what if...?]