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[subroutined]

[ Ash has been having a bit of an identity crisis lately. Between K-2SO telling him he was making decisions independent of his programming, and discussing with Kylo how he isn't sure whether to consider his experiences as separate from those of the real, human Ash Starmer... He could do with a bit of advice.

That said, he's wary. He doesn't want to ask for advice as himself. So he creates a proxy identity using a dummy IP address and posts the following anonymous message. ]

Let's say you were made for a purpose: to be a certain way or to do a certain thing. If you started doing other things, or making decisions that led you in a different direction than the one you're meant to follow, is that good or bad? Does it mean you've failed in your purpose? Or have you grown as a person?

Is individuality acceptable when it's not what you were meant for?

Comments

[subroutined]

That sounds very important. And a bit heavy, it sounds like a big responsibility, to be a tool of the universe.

[holisticallydetecting]

honestly it's mostly just confusing

it's not like the universe tells you anything

but at least my job is just to figure things out and not kill people

[subroutined]

Well that's a relief to hear.

[holisticallydetecting]

It really is. I haven't even hit anyone, I think I would be a very, very bad assassin.

So what are you built for, exactly?

[subroutined]

Initially? To keep a grieving loved one company, after someone's death.

[holisticallydetecting]

Oh.

That's a very noble purpose, I think. To help someone who's hurting.

[subroutined]

Is it?
I don't think I was ever very good at it.

[holisticallydetecting]

What other purpose is more noble than helping people?

I'm sure you are selling yourself short.

>>private

[subroutined]

[ Seeing the conversation getting more and more personal, Ash sets a quick privacy filter. ]

The person I was meant to help couldn't stand to look at me.