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WCDT Strips 3366-3370 (5th-9th December 2016)

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Zebediah:
Speaking as someone who has memories I wish I could lock away, I understand how that could be a hold over Bubbles. The thing is, memories (even in an AI, apparently) aren't so neatly compartmentalized. Bubbles seems to still be aware that she's done something that she really doesn't want to remember, because she remembers how remembering it made her feel.

Kugai:
Interesting turn of events


I wonder just WHO the 'People' CW mentions are and just WHAT those locked away memories are.  I have a feeling it's gonna get a fair bit worse for Bubbles (and possibly Faye and the gang) before it gets better and Bubbles can work her way free of her past.

I hope it doesn't include the 'Ending' of Bubbles.

JimC:
Now here's a thought for you all. CW appears to have a very simplistic chassis, and is notably anthropophobic or at least highly distrusting of humans. Could she have a back story of being a very early AI, pre AI rights, and been subject to appalling treatment, 'racism', discrimination, and so on, maybe highly involved with a presumed battle for AI rights? Could this character get a little less one dimensional and more sympathetic?

And now lets imagine this character, who started life out as a slave, because presumably that's how early AIs must have been treated, has fought for freedom,  then fought to build up some kind of business, no doubt in the face of all sorts of prejudice and hatred, and now is faced with this human who's marched in, treats her premises as her own bringing in charity jobs without permission and then repeats the offence, albeit with a marginal payment... And now this human assaults CW as if CW was still just another no good slave AI, which is, lets frankly, the third thing she's done which would under UK employment law warrant summary dismissal...

Could a character with that kind of back story deserve a bit more sympathetic treatment at our hands? We may call ex freedom fighters good guys - at least if we agree with their cause - but I'm not sure they are very often nice guys...

I'll put down my devil's advocate hat now!

TheEvilDog:
Two thoughts.
One - Bubbles is running away from the past, or at the very least, locked her memories of that past away. In doing so, the fear of the past is worst than the actual event. She can't even acknowledge the feelings/memories and attempt to work to move on. Instead, it's festering and making the problem worse. She's hiding and she's doing it in the shadow of someone like Corpse Witch.

Two - Does CW not know the basic rule of blackmail? You do not threaten to take away everything from the person you are blackmailing, they will realise that they have nothing left to lose. And that their problems can be solved by a little murder. All CW has done now is paint another target on herself.

Mordhaus:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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