December Prompts

[symbolofstrength]

Who: Samuel Oak and OPEN
What: Open prompts for December
Where: Various
When: December
Content Warnings: Can't think of any, will add them if they come up.

Comments

[symbolofstrength]

"Speech and writing are the best a human can do." Well, that and a little bit of empathy, but nevermind that; it's not well-understood anyway. "We're not capable of this 'network', whatever it is."

His tone is still no-nonsense, but he's still hoping he can teach Legion something rather than just be mean. If Legion were a child, Sam would be gentler and more patient, but as far as he knows Legion is an adult and should know better.

"You can see why it's insulting and disrespectful to call someone's best capabilities 'inefficient' or anything else undesirable, don't you?" With air quotes around 'inefficient', as it's not the word he would choose here. "It doesn't accomplish anything, other than possibly making someone feel bad." One example would be telling someone with a broken leg that they're slowing down the group; it might be objectively true, but what's the point of saying so?

They're just going to have to disagree on the capabilities of the Smeargles; he's been able to teach them to associate symbols with sounds, so together with their ability to understand spoken language he's sure it's only a matter of time before they can read and write. At any rate, they're not going to know for sure unless they try, and the Smeargles seem willing to try too (at least while he keeps the mushroom coming, anyway).

[forwearemany]

They chatter. "We apologize. We were not intending to insinuate that your communication is inferior, merely that it may appear so from different perspectives." Which still sounds insulting as fuck, but Legion is trying to say that what is ideal isn't absolute, and what seems disadvantageous from one perspective may not be from another. "Such judgements are subjective: Oraganics outperformed us in numerous areas."

The Geth have empathy, but they approach the process in a radically different manner from ... basically everyone else.

Legion would absolutely point out a person with a broken leg was slowing the group down if they felt it was somehow relevant. (What is tact and can they eat it?)