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Do all names have meaning? I thought they were only sounds. Things you knew to answer to. I was wrong. What meanings are there? To... anyone who reads this?

[He really could have phrased it better, but "what does your name mean" sounds too informal for his liking, so there you go.]

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I believe a lot of names have meanings to them and for different reasons. Some come from what the name used to mean in a literal sense and others can be because to someone, that name had attachment to it, or it simply sounded nice. My name comes from a Greek word that meant 'messenger of God', even though I'm not a messenger of God

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... because someone had an attachment to it... I understand that. What is "Greek"?

I like that method of naming, sometimes it can be touching. It's a language.

That's why I have my name. Oh. I haven't heard it before.

Your name is Kagerou? That's Japanese, isn't it? It's one of the oldest languages if I remember. It comes from Greece in the Mediterranean. A lot of English is heavily influenced by Greek as well.

Yes. That is where I was built. That's probably why I don't know it. I wasn't given an English language pack.

Built? Well, your English is very good. Unless it's being auto-translated.

Built. I'm not human. ... I think it's been translated.

Are you an Omnic?

[Her thoughts go to that as it's the only kind of sentient robot she can think of. But then it sounds rude to ask.]

I suppose that makes sense.

I don't know what an Omnic is. What is it?

[Well that answered her question straight away.]

Omnics are self-aware robots where I'm from. Seems silly to have asked that.

You... you have AI?

There's quite a lot of AI back home. You come across surprised?

And you have a special name for them. ... Yes. I am. They don't seem common.

Yes and no. There's a history behind the Omnics and things have changed. But we do have helpful and destructive AI. Well that isn't very surprising.

You have both? How?

Unfortunately we do. Those that are destructive are usually dealt with in some way though. Well considering the levels of technology this world has, or other worlds, it wouldn't really support the creation of them.

[Well, that pushes a few metaphorical buttons.]

Dealt with. Do you know why they destroy things? Or do you simply assume?

[Dear Angela, you're an idiot.]

Contained. That's all I know. I wasn't part of the team that did it. Yes. The omnics can be infected or taken over by these AI and made to fight again. To become weapons.

Why were the AI fighting in the first place?

We don't know. They just came into being and started a war against humans.

Did you ask! Did any of you ask? Or did you just assume? We don't just start wars! You always do something to us first!

Excuse me?! Of course we asked. And that's exactly what happened. They started a war. No demands, no reasoning behind it, no intention of stopping at all. We tried to stop it without violence. I lived through it and I lost people because of it.

And what did you do to cause it! What did human beings do to cause it! You lost people -- I lost everything that mattered because of human beings! Because they wanted me dead! Because they wanted to kill me, I will never see him again! The reason I exist, the one who makes me who I am! I will never see him again!

My world experiences are different from your. Because humans always do something in yours does not mean that they do so in mine. You are not the only one to have lost everything. There are people in my world who have lost everything that mattered to them. Don't you dare say you are the only one to have been hurt because of actions carried out by something. Don't you dare belittle what people have gone through. If you're going to continue to react like this, then this conversation is over.

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