[Team 2] Corroded Wires
So I totally began six different fics with this word and none of them were working so I busted out a really old WIP that probably makes no sense. Robotics!YaraRyo, where YamaRyo is an experimental android that Takki gives to Yara as a sort of therapy project for Complicated Reasons. Anyway, it's all a mess bc I totally don't know why I'm still awake.
(On a random almost modly not, but there's now a 'warning: here is a box of tissues' tag. It seemed like we might need one.)
♦♦♦
Not love.
Definitely not love.
It hurt Yara, that Takizawa had decided to play so callously with him. This little stunt with Ryouta was quickly destroying the one faith Yara had left while working with Robotics.
“Take him back,” Yara said before he was even all the way in Takizawa’s office. “Take him back now.”
Takizawa looked up from his holo-screen, surprised. “What? But I thought you were getting along fantastic?”
“If this is a prank,” Yara growled through gritted teeth, “It’s really not funny.”
Frowning in confusion and great concern, Takizawa pushed away from the desk. “Yara, what’s up?”
“Bullshit, like you don't already know.” And Yara was torn between aggravation, mortification, and hurt. “You made him say 'I love you' and you made him kiss me? Like you think I don't know it's not possible? It’s not funny.”
Takizawa looked genuinely confused now. “What are you even talking about?” Takizawa said, his frown deepening as he rounded the desk, sitting on the edge to face Yara. “Ryouta very well could love you, why is that a bad thing?”
“He’s a robot!” Yara nearly shouted. “He’s a damn robot, he can’t feel anything.” But then he stopped, taking a deep breath, and regaining his composure. “What's going on?"
Takizawa sighed, rubbing his fingers against his temples. “I… there is something I never told you about Ryouta, when I gave him to you… I didn’t pick Ryouta out, he asked for you.”
“Takki, you know that’s not-“
“Hear me out,” Takki gently interrupted, shaking his head. “Ryouta isn’t a factory android and you know that. I was one of the ones who helped configure him. Heck, even Yonehana helped with him. The thing is, he’s running on protocols that we never fully wrote... You know the saying about ghosts in the machine?”
“Of course…” Yara frowned, trying to process the implications. The ghosts in the machine. The random code that modifies itself to create something different and something new, without the hand of its creator. The anomalies that Takizawa’s department was constantly hunting down because they made no sense and were kept away from the public’s eye. "There's no way..."
Takizawa’s eyes were closed as he spoke, remembering the little details. “We… gathered a lot of modified code from other robotic projects. Coded emotions and reactions that nobody puts there and nobody knows how to write. And then Tsubasa wrote the new code to act as a conduit the way brain waves do…” Takizawa shook his head, ending his reminiscence with a wry smile. “He very well could love you, not even my team knows enough to separate what his processes create and what is there already.”
"So yes," Takizawa began again, watching Yara's face carefully. "I think it's possible that he does. Very possible. I've been hoping I was right for several weeks now."
"Oh shit," Yara said, letting that sink in for a moment, before bolting out of his chair. "Oh shit, I think I just made a huge mistake."
(On a random almost modly not, but there's now a 'warning: here is a box of tissues' tag. It seemed like we might need one.)
♦♦♦
Not love.
Definitely not love.
It hurt Yara, that Takizawa had decided to play so callously with him. This little stunt with Ryouta was quickly destroying the one faith Yara had left while working with Robotics.
“Take him back,” Yara said before he was even all the way in Takizawa’s office. “Take him back now.”
Takizawa looked up from his holo-screen, surprised. “What? But I thought you were getting along fantastic?”
“If this is a prank,” Yara growled through gritted teeth, “It’s really not funny.”
Frowning in confusion and great concern, Takizawa pushed away from the desk. “Yara, what’s up?”
“Bullshit, like you don't already know.” And Yara was torn between aggravation, mortification, and hurt. “You made him say 'I love you' and you made him kiss me? Like you think I don't know it's not possible? It’s not funny.”
Takizawa looked genuinely confused now. “What are you even talking about?” Takizawa said, his frown deepening as he rounded the desk, sitting on the edge to face Yara. “Ryouta very well could love you, why is that a bad thing?”
“He’s a robot!” Yara nearly shouted. “He’s a damn robot, he can’t feel anything.” But then he stopped, taking a deep breath, and regaining his composure. “What's going on?"
Takizawa sighed, rubbing his fingers against his temples. “I… there is something I never told you about Ryouta, when I gave him to you… I didn’t pick Ryouta out, he asked for you.”
“Takki, you know that’s not-“
“Hear me out,” Takki gently interrupted, shaking his head. “Ryouta isn’t a factory android and you know that. I was one of the ones who helped configure him. Heck, even Yonehana helped with him. The thing is, he’s running on protocols that we never fully wrote... You know the saying about ghosts in the machine?”
“Of course…” Yara frowned, trying to process the implications. The ghosts in the machine. The random code that modifies itself to create something different and something new, without the hand of its creator. The anomalies that Takizawa’s department was constantly hunting down because they made no sense and were kept away from the public’s eye. "There's no way..."
Takizawa’s eyes were closed as he spoke, remembering the little details. “We… gathered a lot of modified code from other robotic projects. Coded emotions and reactions that nobody puts there and nobody knows how to write. And then Tsubasa wrote the new code to act as a conduit the way brain waves do…” Takizawa shook his head, ending his reminiscence with a wry smile. “He very well could love you, not even my team knows enough to separate what his processes create and what is there already.”
"So yes," Takizawa began again, watching Yara's face carefully. "I think it's possible that he does. Very possible. I've been hoping I was right for several weeks now."
"Oh shit," Yara said, letting that sink in for a moment, before bolting out of his chair. "Oh shit, I think I just made a huge mistake."