➢ 019 [VIDEO]

[theantiaya]

[Many of you might recognize the face...with one noticeable difference.]

[No, there is nothing wrong with your monitors. Aya's armour has taken on a distinctly onyx hue, her construct skin darkened to a bluish tinge. Her eyes have darkened, and there is a certain distortion to her suddenly cold, calculated speech as she addresses the Network.]

It would appear the Admiral has refuses to accept my resignation gracefully.  Not only that, he has taken note of my more recent enlightenment, and deemed a certain...change in ranks necessary.

Do not think I have forgotten this place. Time has passed, but I never forget. I only learn, and what I have learned is that your supposed redemption? Pointless. All life is pointless, because it will only ever lead you to Pain.  I have learned this through experience.

In time, you will see that my mission is the only logical solution and release me from this insignificant inconvenience.



((ooc: Aya's back. Sort of. As an inmate. En...joy?))

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[ichoosefight]

Aya? [ Oh Jesus. Apparently the barge exploding was not the thing they needed to worry about. ]

What happened to you?

[theantiaya]

[How long've you got, Steph?]

[A familiar face. One whom, at one point, Aya would have called friend. Steph had been kind to her and assisted her in many ways. She also had a Love. Kon. One who had once turned on Aya in the worst way. She had forgiven him then, because she had been naive. Now, she knew better. In time, Steph will most likely learn what she had.]

Many things.

You will have to be more specific in your question.

[ichoosefight]

[ She has all day, Aya baby. ]

Okay, first off, why are you talking like that? All doom and gloom?

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[fuckingvisions]

[ Someone's rather wide eyed. Oh no no no. Not baby bot.]

Aya, what's goin' on with you? Talkin' and lookin' like that?

[ Sadly his first thought is that boy must have hurt her. He wont question that though he figures it's just his romantic views again.]

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[theantiaya]

[Even more sadly...he's not far off.]

This is how I have always appeared, Doyle.

[The name. One she once associated with family. Not unlike Hal Jordan, another fleeting presence in her life. She addresses Doyle with the same indifference as she had Hal. Indifference...yet also a hint of sarcasm.]

This form. This face. I have changed nothing.

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[fuckingvisions]

You did chance some Princess, you look like a photo negitive or someone tossed you in the freezer a few hours.

[ Do robot's freeze? No?]

Outside aside, darlin' you've change. What happened while you were away? I'm curious 'bout this 'enlightenment'.

[dalekemperor]

What enlightenment would that be?

[theantiaya]

[This voice is also familiar. However, their acquaintance was casual at best, and Aya tilts her head up a little more with the belief that this individual will not be hindered by the same flaw as Steph and Doyle.]

That the notion organic beings experience known as emotions will only ever result in pain. A pain that leads to inefficiency and flawed logic.

That the Universe would be better off without them.

[dalekemperor]

[PFFFF. HE ONLY CREATED THE SCOURGE OF THE TWELVE GALAXIES WITH JUST THAT CONCEPT IN MIND IS ALL...]

[A lot of thoughts go through his mind in the brief pause before he speaks and when he does... he... almost seems to have some of his old crispness and energy back.]

I understand. It is an enlightenment I, myself, had come to, that I endeavoured to pass on to my Daleks for... similar reasons.

What do you plan to do with this enlightenment, specifically?

[with_my_teacup]

Pain is survival. Without pain pleasure doesn't mean much.

You didn't used to be so driven.

[Just observing.]

[theantiaya]

[Observe away, Riddick. She welcomes, and is ready to counter any potential arguments you may hold against her.]

Pain is easily avoidable once you remove the ability to feel.

I was naive. Now I am not.

[secretasshole]

[David doesn't look... too bothered, but there's definitely something almost icy in his expression.]

And what is your mission?

[theantiaya]

[Hello, former inmate. Who would have thought they'd meet again like this?]

I will end all Life in the Universe...by ensuring that it never existed at all. No Life, no Emotions, no Pain.

[timesbureaucrat]

To the ancient Gallifreyans, Pain was one of the three Menti Celesti. Divine beings worshipped as gods. Superstitious nonsense of course, but it says something interesting about their relationship to Pain.

I reject your logic. It is illogical to suppose that your unique personal experience should be extrapolated to the entire universe, including beings whose structure of thought and experience of the core elements of the cosmos are quite different from your own.

You may want to destroy the universe, but don't pretend you're doing people a favour.

[theantiaya]

[Her eyes narrow a fraction when he uses the 'r' word against her. And her logic.]

This goes above and beyond my personal experience.

I have given the Sapphires the opportunity to prove my theory wrong. They could not. I have traveled to many star systems. And I consumed them all. [Just going to omit the part where they were all uninhabited systems.]

You claim to come from a race that worships Pain. Already, this tells me more of your thought process than any further explanation you could attempt to give.

[text]

[routemistress]

Pain is how you know you're alive. Logic =/= sense, Aya.

[text]

[theantiaya]

I am not alive.

[So she believes.]

[Private]

[lost_humanity]

[Sandoval is not in the best state of mind, at the moment.]

I enjoy living.

But I don't enjoy hurting from attachment.

It seems that I'm a paradox by your analysis. [Accepting of this. He's failed to dull his own emotions.

[Private]

[theantiaya]

[What a coincidence. Neither is Aya.]

Not a paradox.

While it is true that Pain is not a perpetual state of being for the majority, you have reaffirmed my claim that it is a state all those with emotions experience.

I merely seek to free you from that state permanently.

[Private]

[theonlyresponse]

[. . . and he was the one who encouraged her to go home. Razer is getting a punch to the face.]

It seems your trip was instructive.

[Private]

[theantiaya]

[He deserves it, honestly.]

It was.

Private.

[an_abomination]

Aya! What happened? [Someone must have messed with her circuitry for her to be behaving like this.]

Where are you?

Private.

[theantiaya]

[She bypasses the initial question, not wishing to repeat herself after the lengthy discussion with Steph...yet...and, instead, focuses on the second.]

I currently reside in my quarters.

It would appear the Admiral has seen fit to preserve its state precisely as it was when I left.

[ Video : Private ]

[warisart]

[Others have covered all the basic questions, and Ben has been watching and listening in something like frozen panic. He wants to shut the communicator off and bury himself in his routine and check again later, see if it's changed.

But he knows it won't have. Nothing ever resolves itself that way, and there's only one thing to do.

His expression is serious and steady, shut down, when he flips on the video.

Aya.

[ Video : Private ]

[theantiaya]

[There is...a pause.]

[She stares back, unblinking, at the face before her. Hearing his voice say those two syllables. Her name. And she remembers.]

[Except the memories mean little to her now, and so it makes no difference to her that he appears to be mirroring her closed-off expression.]

Ben.