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YoRHa Type A No.2 ([personal profile] botrayal) wrote in [community profile] fellmemes 2020-01-28 02:27 am (UTC)

A2 / nier: automata / court of stars

m[a]rkets of the coast.
[ Even under normal circumstances, A2 is not exactly the most social of androids. Even if the atmosphere around the city is a somber one, the fact that there's any kind of hustle and bustle at all - and not a single machine lifeform in sight - is enough to set her on edge. These...are humans here. Living, breathing humans. If Pod hadn't assured her, she wouldn't have believed it, and even then, she isn't familiar enough with his programming to assume that he is unequivocally right.

But that's far from the only unbelievable thing going on here, even if it's the most striking, and instead of hanging around and aimlessly wandering the city, she travels to Kyst and encounters an unfamiliar quadrupedal creature - a cat, Pod tells her, his insight unsolicited - that offers her an objective. Annoying as the creature is, it gives her a direction to point herself in, and once that, hopefully, won't require her to interact with anyone else. 

That said, A2 is a hunter of machines, not sea creatures, and she sure as hell isn't going in the water. She could use Pod to try and fish it out, but her instincts tell her that won't end well. What she needs is a way to lure it to the shore to slay it, but how?

For the moment, frustrated at her lack of options, she chucks a sizable rock into the surface of the water, snarling. ]


Come on, damn you! [ Then, quieter, to herself: ] This was a waste of time...

[ Why the hell did she even take this mission? She didn't need to. ]

[b]eyond the cities.
[ The Gods Wood is far less frantic for A2. It's quiet and melancholic, filled with the solace of age and death. It suits her — or, at the very least, it suits her much better than anywhere else she's been in this strange world yet. She may not know those being honored here, but she can still pay her respects with her solemnity. She knows well, after all, the toll of war.

The people she encounters in the Wood are infrequent enough that they don't set her too much on edge — until one weary-looking woman approaches her with a coin, and presses it into A2's palm. ]


No, I —

[ ...But how can she turn down a request like that? Loss is not a human concept alone, and it's not as though she doesn't have those to honor, even if many of them she lost so very long ago.

So after a moment of hesitation, she approaches the offering bowl, her chin tipping down, as she drops in the coin. ]


...I'll be with you all soon.

[ ...Though the last time she had uttered similar words, she hadn't quite gotten what she expected. ]

wild[c]ard.
[ Have another scenario you'd like to play out with A2? Go wild! ]

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