Date: 2018-12-18 12:02 pm (UTC)
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Alia heads off in a different direction for now to help elsewhere.

"Yes, he is, Ed replies. "That's my wife, Evelyn, and our daughter Stephanie over there." He indicates a woman with a spiky-short haircut on about a third of her head, and a mix of honey blond and brown-black for the rest that would have to be some kind of dye job. Her bathing suit is a mix of green and animal prints, but no longer divided into neat stripes (and if anyone knew her old costume, they notice the clown-like dotted section missing, and that the spiky section is now a light brown instead of hot pink). She may be mostly in a state of recovery from her 'dissociative identity disorder', but she's still trying to find some balance to who she is now. Stephanie, in contrast, has strawberry-blond twintails and a green bathing suit with one big questionmark on the front.

Edward smiles down at Dee briefly. "I've been in the Batmobile." At least once while conscious, even! "If there was an AI, it didn't say anything. Though, you're right to suggest the comics would reveal things that Batman would have tried to keep hidden from me... I haven't noticed any mentions there, either. Yet." He's going to go looking for that later.

Tad nods, serious-faced as he keeps his eyes on where he's walking and only occasionally looks up to see if he's still going in the right direction. Several times he pauses only to turn up a suspiciously colored pebble, or note that it was just light glinting off the sand. A couple of the more interesting pebbles he pockets for later, along with a pretty shell. There aren't as many pieces this far up the beach.

"Blues... Light-Wily by preference, but last names get complicated."

One of Ed's eyebrows goes up. That name sounds familiar...

"When I was new... It's not easy being the only one of your kind. I looked up any kind of fiction I could get my hands on that had any kind of AI. A few episodes turned up of an old TV show from the 1980's that had a talking car in it. Two of those had a second car... a prototype to the first."

"Should I suspect you found that ironic later?" Ed asks.

Blues nods slightly. "Just for the record, I hate being called Proto." When Ed nods, he grins and says, "We can exchange autographs later." That gets a short laugh out of Ed, and Blues gets back to what he was saying.

"At some point during development they realized KARR was potentially capable of harming a human if necessary to defend himself, and shut him down." And this time Blues can't keep the anger out of his tone. "He was accidentally reactivated by a pair of thieves, but by then there was already some damage to his systems from the storage. He was described to the show's 'heroes' as being like 'a loaded gun in the hands of a child'. And their solution was to try to kill the child. As both an AI and a parent, I find this offensive."

"I know how to be safe with guns," mutters Tad, showing that he's listening despite seeming completely focused on the ground. Oh, hey! He finally found something, a small piece of circuitboard with a couple chips on it.

"They ran him off a cliff into the ocean in the season 1 ep. He stayed buried in the sand until season 3, and by then it's likely his damaged power systems weren't repairable. Best explanation for his sudden deus-ex-machina explosion at the end of that ep. He was last seen in pieces and on fire. And just for the record, unless it happened offscreen and was left out of the novelization of the first ep, he never actually killed anyone." Made a few threats and understandable attempts, and did put one guy in the hospital, but Blues decides to leave that out for now. The kid had been in a really tough spot, and most of his family have done a lot worse. "Can't be sure how accurate any of that is, because of the way this place is... but I have a feeling that if he was from some alternate universe where things went differently, he wouldn't be showing up here in pieces."

And by then, they're close enough for Punk Wily to spot them. "Hey, kid. Is that one of the side mirrors?"
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