Father Figure
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- Joined
- Sep 21, 2015
Sadness could be a living thing.
The apartment would not have necessarily radiated that thought to anyone who entered the residence, not without looking around to discern a bit more about the occupant. In fact, most people in Night City would have been thrilled to live in such an elite and upscale establishment. At the top of one of the magnificent corpo towers in the city, the penthouse apartment was a two-story affair that emphasized lavish luxurious wealth. It came complete with a small garden, patio, pool, and custom security equipment to deter anyone operating on the wrong side of the law. Living in it was tantamount to denying the lives of most of Night City, a place defined by its class disparity, but that was part and parcel of the perks of having the ancestry of this young man.
A trust fund baby, Reginald (Reggie to his friends if he had any) Wright, was as well to do as one could hope to be. A member of the Wright Family, Reginald's grandfather had originally invested in the founding of Night City when it was established by Richard Night in 1994. Situated at the head of Del Coronado Bay, the place was a modern multicultural metropolis which had been overtaken by corporations, corruption, gangs, and violence. Reggie had never needed to worry about that kind of thing though, living a pampered lifestyle in the year 2077. He had been given everything a human being could want and like most people he found that money certainly could not buy you what you truly needed in life.
Yet, he ached inside.
The only thing his apartment, his life, did not come complete with was someone that loved him. He had fallen in love when he left Night City to attend a prestigious college. The first couple of years had been wonderful ones with Emma, ones that had helped him grow as a human being. She had made him a better person. Just not quite good enough. When Emma involved herself in activism on campus, when she began to rail against the megacorporations and the government of Night City, when she had finally asked him to renounce his family name and his money so that he could be free of it allโฆthat had been the moment that Reginald had failed to live up to her expectations of him. When he returned home, he returned with no personal memorabilia, videos, or photos of his time away. It had left him apartment spartan and absent of human touch.
Then he purchased her. It had happened several months ago, the night which had culminated in this decision. Reggie had become a veritable hermit. Living by himself after returning, he had not gotten a job. It was not as if he lacked for opportunities, it was just the feeling of malaise that had fallen over him. A deepening depression that one evening had him standing in front of a mirror with a bottle of pills. That moment might have been the end of everything, but outside of his window he saw one of the holographic advertisements rising towards the sky and on it was the most beautiful woman he could have fathomed. It was for one of the new androids, an Arasaka Elite Companion Bot, and for one brief second, he felt like maybe he could find something to take away the shadow across his soul.
Reginald purchased the premiere package, including all the bells and whistles, but what interested him most was the thought that the artificial intelligence would be seeking to understand him. Would be formulating its neural network around who and what he was and his expectations and needs. Today she had been delivered and he stood with the remote in front of the offline persona, wondering for a moment what he would name her and then finally it came to him. He pressed the button, holding it down ten seconds till the light turned from red to green, and he spoke her name into the air.
"Saphira?"
Yet, he ached inside.
The only thing his apartment, his life, did not come complete with was someone that loved him. He had fallen in love when he left Night City to attend a prestigious college. The first couple of years had been wonderful ones with Emma, ones that had helped him grow as a human being. She had made him a better person. Just not quite good enough. When Emma involved herself in activism on campus, when she began to rail against the megacorporations and the government of Night City, when she had finally asked him to renounce his family name and his money so that he could be free of it allโฆthat had been the moment that Reginald had failed to live up to her expectations of him. When he returned home, he returned with no personal memorabilia, videos, or photos of his time away. It had left him apartment spartan and absent of human touch.
Then he purchased her. It had happened several months ago, the night which had culminated in this decision. Reggie had become a veritable hermit. Living by himself after returning, he had not gotten a job. It was not as if he lacked for opportunities, it was just the feeling of malaise that had fallen over him. A deepening depression that one evening had him standing in front of a mirror with a bottle of pills. That moment might have been the end of everything, but outside of his window he saw one of the holographic advertisements rising towards the sky and on it was the most beautiful woman he could have fathomed. It was for one of the new androids, an Arasaka Elite Companion Bot, and for one brief second, he felt like maybe he could find something to take away the shadow across his soul.
Reginald purchased the premiere package, including all the bells and whistles, but what interested him most was the thought that the artificial intelligence would be seeking to understand him. Would be formulating its neural network around who and what he was and his expectations and needs. Today she had been delivered and he stood with the remote in front of the offline persona, wondering for a moment what he would name her and then finally it came to him. He pressed the button, holding it down ten seconds till the light turned from red to green, and he spoke her name into the air.
"Saphira?"
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