animusnpcs: (Zo)
Animus NPCs ([personal profile] animusnpcs) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-07-13 04:10 pm

and I need someone to talk to apart from you

Characters: Zo, open
Setting: floor 001
Format: brackets, party-style
Summary: Zo visits the residential levels of the Tower.
Warnings: none so far

[The elevator dings as its doors slide open--that's not an unusual occurrence, really, for a floor that not only houses one of the elevator stopping points but also the most reliable food sources. What's unusual, though, is the boy who steps out of it.

Zo enters the cafeteria, looking around as if he hasn't seen it in some time, which is true. He's followed by one retrieval unit. While she looks as blank as any retrieval unit, her collar is chipped and she wears glasses. In fact, she might be a bit familiar to some, though she will not respond (but there's something... Unusually alive about her, even so).

Though he's careful not to stray far from his bodyguard, he smiles at the floor in general.]


Um... Hi! Wow, it's been a while since I've been up here!
nobarnacles: (excuse my angst)

[personal profile] nobarnacles 2013-07-13 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? Why not just leave us? It's none of your business what happens to us!

[ It sounds like such an immature, stupidly hopeful answer, and for a moment, Zel almost buys that answer. But he's seen what something that appears as a human child is capable of doing, back on his own world, and glares between the boy and the retrieval unit. ]

No human could do all of this.
nobarnacles: (gtfo)

[personal profile] nobarnacles 2013-07-14 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
What makes it your right to save us? If you are what you say you are, you're not a god, just a boy. You think we want to stay here, watched by these things?

[ He shoves at the retrieval unit, meaning to push her out of the way. ]
nobarnacles: (gtfo)

[personal profile] nobarnacles 2013-07-14 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Then tell her to stop!

[ The paralysis deters him from making any more moves, but doesn't do much to cool his anger. He grits his teeth, shaking slightly with frustration. ]

It's better for us to live in this prison, then? Better to be your living dolls?
nobarnacles: (excuse my angst)

[personal profile] nobarnacles 2013-07-15 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Then why give us collars? Why trap us here? If we aren't your toys, why aren't we free to do as we wish?