Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
BenRG:
SpookyBot is hard to read but something about panel 3 and 4 suggests that Roko has tripped over a red line of some sort. Certainly the 'K thx bai' moment in panel 4 makes me think that either Roko has signed her name in blood on a contract that she never knew was there or SpookyBot suddenly wants out of there.
Cornelius:
I think it's more they want out of there, especially with their question in panel one. This is a discussion they don't want to have. A bit like asking your friend in IT to fix your computer, really.
Anyway, it all depends on SB's motivation to keep showing up around Roko in the first place. If it's just concern or loneliness, then they just want out before taking on or refusing more than is perhaps healthy for the kind of relationship they want. If there's an ulterior motive, making Roko more eager for their intervention by withholding it now, makes sense.
Or well, the posts above make good points.
Case:
I think they have very smartly given Roko what she had asked for: You see, they haven't said 'No' ... and Roko will remember that later.
In my headcannon, Roko wasn't looking for an easy way out so much as for a bulwark against her burgeoning irrational fear (there's really no reason to assume she will never integrate with her new body just yet). She's regressing a wee bit - it's the 'child' asking the parent "Will everything be alright?".
Spookybutts is the one known entity that is actually as powerful as a child imagines its parent to be - if they said 'yes', it would be unlike one adult reassuring an adult friend (where 'everything will be alright' means 'You and I will do everything we can to make it so, and I'll be there for you'), they'd be referring to an actual possibility.
Leaving like this means they leave Roko's 'hope-thought' alive on the one hand, without allowing her to regress further on the other.
(This is very much Case's OCD-think from early therapy, don't know if it makes sense ...)
brasca:
While I understand the trauma of Roko losing her body I don’t understand the discomfort. Neither Momo or Winslow went through this after they upgraded.
Tova:
They don't have the unusually high level of integration, I guess. They wouldn't faint at the sight of a disconnected foot, either.
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