[ It's a rhetorical question, of course, because unless there's something that strikes him as contradictory, Rio accepts everything that Komaeda says without question. It's difficult to deceive him about subjects that he knows even a little bit about, and yet, so easy on anything that's a blind spot.
He tilts his head to one side. ]
You should talk about yourself more, 'cause you're always a mystery.
[ A simple statement of fact, with no expectation either way, as always. That's part of-- no, the entirety of why Rio could never create an AI based off of him - because it'd be incomplete, and it wouldn't be him, and it would just be a fraction of him, just a snapshot in time that could never learn or grow or teach or share. There would be nothing to learn about it, nothing at all, and that would be lonelier than being by himself.
But after a moment of careful consideration, he lets a few words roll of his tongue slowly, as though he were just learning how to say each and every one, ]
It'd be nice if we could slowly get to know each other...
[ It's such a bland, generic statement, but he frowns a little behind the card as he says it. It should be logical, and yet it's foreign, something illogical and incomprehensible.
He doesn't get it at all. But he stares at Komaeda expectantly, waiting to see what he'll settle on. ]
no subject
[ It's a rhetorical question, of course, because unless there's something that strikes him as contradictory, Rio accepts everything that Komaeda says without question. It's difficult to deceive him about subjects that he knows even a little bit about, and yet, so easy on anything that's a blind spot.
He tilts his head to one side. ]
You should talk about yourself more, 'cause you're always a mystery.
[ A simple statement of fact, with no expectation either way, as always. That's part of-- no, the entirety of why Rio could never create an AI based off of him - because it'd be incomplete, and it wouldn't be him, and it would just be a fraction of him, just a snapshot in time that could never learn or grow or teach or share. There would be nothing to learn about it, nothing at all, and that would be lonelier than being by himself.
But after a moment of careful consideration, he lets a few words roll of his tongue slowly, as though he were just learning how to say each and every one, ]
It'd be nice if we could slowly get to know each other...
[ It's such a bland, generic statement, but he frowns a little behind the card as he says it. It should be logical, and yet it's foreign, something illogical and incomprehensible.
He doesn't get it at all. But he stares at Komaeda expectantly, waiting to see what he'll settle on. ]