It should really stop trying to avoid the truth. Trying to brush over things only seems to come back to bite it. SecUnit actually finally steps away from the water, its arms coming up to cross in front of it, covering the place where the weapon fire hit.]
It's not as bad as it looks.
[If it were human, that shot would probably have killed it. Technically, that kind of point-blank weaponfire did shut it down. And there was a lot of... spattering. Even at the less than ideal viewing angle Danse probably had.
It doesn't want to seem unstable. It needs the people here to trust it. It needs Danse to trust it not to be a threat, because it knows all too well how dangerous other constructs can be to each other.
(It's filing that memory wipe thing for later.)]
That was to stop the combat override download via emergency shutdown. [But as for why...] Those humans were noncombatants. They wanted to help, but they couldn't do it in time. [They're my friends. It doesn't say something so stupidly sentimental, but there's a protectiveness to its voice, like it's ready to defend their actions.]
no subject
It should really stop trying to avoid the truth. Trying to brush over things only seems to come back to bite it. SecUnit actually finally steps away from the water, its arms coming up to cross in front of it, covering the place where the weapon fire hit.]
It's not as bad as it looks.
[If it were human, that shot would probably have killed it. Technically, that kind of point-blank weaponfire did shut it down. And there was a lot of... spattering. Even at the less than ideal viewing angle Danse probably had.
It doesn't want to seem unstable. It needs the people here to trust it. It needs Danse to trust it not to be a threat, because it knows all too well how dangerous other constructs can be to each other.
(It's filing that memory wipe thing for later.)]
That was to stop the combat override download via emergency shutdown. [But as for why...] Those humans were noncombatants. They wanted to help, but they couldn't do it in time. [They're my friends. It doesn't say something so stupidly sentimental, but there's a protectiveness to its voice, like it's ready to defend their actions.]