They'll go with whatever's easier- disposal or relocation. They're machines.
[If anything, that's the single thing about all of this that he's confident in. And the one thing his own skirmishes with a number of machines back on his world had taught him. Machines don't care about ethics- they don't get dissuaded, and they don't run. Hence the Shinra's weapons department getting the funding they got after their (mostly) human SOLDIERs abandoned them, or ran.
They follow their programming. Nothing else. And that's usually the most efficient action to take. Nothing else. He lowers his eyes at the thought- raising them when she says her name.]
Cloud.
[He returns, keeping his eyes on her. He's not exactly one to trust. Not easily. But he's seen her around before this particular session. Never spoken to her, sure. But she's distinctive-looking enough for him to have noticed her.
...And she doesn't seem terrible. He's mostly kept himself to himself out of lack of trust for anyone he didn't know (and a complete lack of trust in some faces he knew) but...
She seems okay. So.]
...Keep your head down. None of us know what they really want. Any of them.
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[If anything, that's the single thing about all of this that he's confident in. And the one thing his own skirmishes with a number of machines back on his world had taught him. Machines don't care about ethics- they don't get dissuaded, and they don't run. Hence the Shinra's weapons department getting the funding they got after their (mostly) human SOLDIERs abandoned them, or ran.
They follow their programming. Nothing else. And that's usually the most efficient action to take. Nothing else. He lowers his eyes at the thought- raising them when she says her name.]
Cloud.
[He returns, keeping his eyes on her. He's not exactly one to trust. Not easily. But he's seen her around before this particular session. Never spoken to her, sure. But she's distinctive-looking enough for him to have noticed her.
...And she doesn't seem terrible. He's mostly kept himself to himself out of lack of trust for anyone he didn't know (and a complete lack of trust in some faces he knew) but...
She seems okay.
So.]
...Keep your head down. None of us know what they really want. Any of them.