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fourteentheart

Something I had to get out of my head real quick for Reeve and Cait Sith.

turborozpruwacz

i had a vision

browniefox

I feel like when you ask Reeve about the Neo Midgar project he doesn't even say anything he just looks at you like

heavenpierceher

cinnaminrol

I think the endpoint I'd be heading towards is Test Cait and Reeve just being the same person. Like, anything requiring focus, he has to drop whatever's going on in one body to deal with, but he can easily pick up coffee with Cait while holding a convo as Reeve, but anything serious is like when you need to shut up while driving or playing a game to lock in. One guy, two bodies, but still mostly human ability to focus. Human brains are really good at just sorta adapting to that sorta thing anyways? like how when you're good at driving a car you just know where the corners and tires are, you know where you loose grip, you know when something feels off, that sorta thing. Its not even really magic, that part, that's just normal ass human adaptability. The "Field" models all have basic AI to deal with most things so Reeve can just sorta no-brain and ignore it in combat, they're still 'him' but most of the time its a ghost of him, not really him-him? There an AI handling some of it, he gets alerts when something important is happening, there's a handoff when he takes over, the memory integration is a lil fuzzy but workable. He's technically in both places at once, but not really. So it would be odd to him as he's using Test Cait that things just seem to slowly get smoother. At first it would suck, just too much stimuli, total visual overload, audio confusion, likely migraines, nausea, disorientation. There no AI to do a hand off, but for whatever reason he needs to be in both places at once. But he keeps doing it and eventually he can pay attention halfways to what Cait's doing and what Reeve's doing. If someone talks to one, there's no lag for the other. And it gets easier the more he does it. He can be drawing plans in his office while walking and talking with someone. All with no AI to help manage it. I'm also just imagining the sensory hell when he tries to do that trick in the same room as himself the first time. Thinking it'll be as easy as having the AI and him in the same room. But no, where there's usually a light interface, there's just his brain getting raw stimulus from two bodies at once. Sound would absolutely wreck him, as what direction a sound is coming from gets confused, and vision wouldn't be much better - unlike a mirror you're seeing yourself from both vantages. This man is gonna be trying not to throw up on the floor.

cinnaminrol

A good way to go about Reeve and Cait I think is to make the AI for the robot be more a manager for a soul fragment. Inspire is doing the heavy lifting, though its more like a daydream of Reeve doing the driving if he's not paying direct attention, so the AI has to pick up slack then. The real major function is basically summarizing what happened as a 'journal' of sorts so Reeve can pop in and out cleanly. It ends up with a clean reconstruction of whats been going on, so he's not lost when he takes over. It also makes why healing works on Cait make a lot more sense - there's a soul in there. The remakes allude to Inspire working like that anyways, there's a line where Cait says, when being pressed if he's alive or not, that he might be another trapped soul. And then you have the Test Chassis with a stripped down AI - It was never meant for long term use, or actual espionage, so it doesn't need it, it's only to test out new additions and troubleshoot issues. Basically entirely Inspire run, the 'AI' that's in there is just a glorified translation layer, similar to a prosthetic like Barret has. As things go on, Reeve just starts adding "Would Be Nice"s to the test chassis. Little things he Rationalizes. Does it need a sense of smell? Not really, it just needs a few air quality and toxin detectors. But AVALANCHE is talking about how food smells, it would be nice to know, might be useful. Robots don't need to eat, but it's communal, so it would be nice if Cait could drink a coffee to be part of the morning routine. Might as well make so he can taste it, no sense wasting that. Little things that make no sense for a spy or combat robot to have really, superfluous little add ons. Just adding more and more to the sensor packages, more to meaningless capabilities.

Wouldn't it be nice if rain felt different from mist?

Wouldn't it be nice if hot chocolate tasted different from coffee?

Wouldn't it be nice if a campfire felt warm even though temperature serves no operational purpose?

Wouldn't it be nice if hugs were easier to feel? And If anyone asks, the easy answer is "To see if I can?" or "Why not?" Even as part of him realizes that the sensor density is more then most prosthetics. As someone asks "You built Cait a Stomach? Why?" and he sort of realizes how over the top it is to make it so the robot can process food as bonus power. Because Cait stopped being a place he visits for work, and started being a place he lives. Every modification is an statement of "I'll be here long enough for this to matter." And Reeve doesn't even notice that's what he'd been doing.

browniefox

As much as I love Reeve, for the story and plot it is very important that he is separate from the rest of the group. Still, I think it causes him to get forgotten when people think about Avalanche. So I’m starting a petition for squenix to put Reeve’s live reaction to everything in the corner of the screen like he’s a YouTuber

vivid-saturation

cait sith is hilarious to use for the final boss of final fantasy vii because he'll destroy the entire solar system and this exasperated buisnessman's company-owned fursuit will throw dice at god

randomthefox

LOOOOOOVE the way Reeve can't keep his voice straight during this scene! This moment is ALWAYS ruined in the localization because they just translate the words literally and fuck up what's supposed to be happening here. In japanese Cait Sith talks in a kansai regional dialect, and Reeve talks in kanto dialect. So what's happening in this scene is he's getting all confused and flustered and speaking in Kansai as Reeve, and kanto as Cait Sith.

The biggest props as always to the voice acting for this mod, they nailed it perfectly by having Reeve start speaking in a scottish accent during this perfectly localizing what's supposed to be happening in this scene.

This is also sorta Shinra's last hurrah at this point. They'd been kinda grandfathered out of relevance to the story for a long time now. But here in the end, the head of the snake has been cut off and now the entire corporate machine is falling apart. Say what you want about Rufus, at least he kept things ship shape. The literal fucking second he's dead and not around to give orders anymore, the rats nest starts gnawing itself into bloody pieces.

evil-robot-cat

I have a lot of thoughts about how things went down at Shinra Manor. 🤭

My patrons have had their hands on the whole book for about a year now, so... I think it's finally time to share the main story with everyone! (What else is in the book? Oh... things.)

evil-robot-cat

Hm, hm, Reeve's possessions as far as his mother goes are "books for a child" and "books for an adult with a doctorate".

It'd be a heck of an AU if Reeve was scooped up as a kid and had some kind of sciencey stuff done to make his brain shoot past youth and straight into genius city planner.

Then suppose Cait Sith was not his deliberate design, but that lost childhood manifesting itself in physical form...

Just something fun I'm thinking about today. 🤭

monsterblogging

You know what? Per what we know about Pacific Rim's worldbuilding, it's not inconceivable that Reeve Tuesti could've made Cait Sith. "Man modifies drift technology to control a little kitty robot" is 100% the kind of nonsense Pacific Rim needs, actually.