#echole

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Echo: Agent Cassidy what does this mean? *points both index fingers at him* Cassidy: *realizes she's attempting to copy his finger guns*

Cassidy: It means you're bisexual.

Echo: Ah! I see! *finger guns*

Cassidy: *finger guns*

Echo: *finger guns*

Cassidy: *finger guns*

Liao: Cole, you're just here to help develop and refine Echo's conversational parameters. I swear to god if I have to write an entirely new thesis on robot sexuality because of you on top of all my other work--

Echo and Cassidy: *finger guns at Liao*

Liao: *sigh*

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Been re-reading some of your Cassidy/Echo stuff, as well as your Ramattra/Echo stuff. Would you be willing to write some interactions between Cassidy and Ramattra, set in the same universe, where perhaps the two are both into her at the same time?

I'll admit, this is mostly me wanting to see Ramattra get all catty.

ohohoh Catty Rams is fun.

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Cassidy: Y'know, I don't think Echo is really gonna go for all the... 'kill all humans' stuff.

Ramattra: If you bothered to read my manifesto, you would know that my goals are not to 'kill all humans.'

Cassidy: Did Echo read your manifesto?

Ramattra: *tensely* She said she would get to it when she had the time.

Cassidy: *sucks breath through teeth* Oh buddy...

Ramattra: *spluttering* She's being considerate! It's dense, I don't want her to just skim it!

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Ramattra: ...why would Liao trust you around a fledgling AI?

Cassidy: 'Cuz I'm a people person.

Ramattra: It's a wonder you didn't smear barbecue sauce on her motherboard.

Cassidy: Hey, Echo loves barbecue sauce! *pause* At least as a concept.

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Ramattra: I'm sure you'd have no shortage of... human partners. Why pursue Echo?

Cassidy: Damn, we're really getting into the 'stay away from our women' spiel. There's a throwback.

Ramattra: We do not ascribe to your human standards of gender!

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Cassidy: What say I buy you a glass of Glenwales and we discuss this issue like gentleman?

Ramattra: Somehow I doubt you actually want to do that.

Cassidy: Well I ain't excited about the prospect but it's the polite thing to do. Better 'n endin' up in a fistfight in an alley.

Ramattra: ...A fistfight you have no way of winning.

Cassidy: Hey, you don't know that! I'm scrappy. I'm just tryin' to take the high road here.

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Cassidy: *reading* ...Hey Echo?

Echo: Mm?

Cassidy: *glances up from book* Do you think you’re... superior to people--like, humans?

Echo: Why would I think that?

Cassidy: I mean, y’know, you fly, and transform, and... you have all them lasers and whatnot. Humans can’t do any of that.

Echo: Well yes, but there’s a lot of things humans can do that I can’t. Eat, drink, sweat, defecate...

Cassidy: Okay, but eatin’ and shittin’ ain’t the same as flying and shooting lasers.

Echo: In that case I would say you aren’t defining ‘superiority’ very well. 

Cassidy: It’s just I’ve been readin’ this book--

Echo: *leaning over his shoulder* Asimov?

Cassidy: And--look I did try to read some of the stuff Liao recommended a long while back, but it was really hard, so I figured, ‘go old school, back to basics.’ Pre-crisis stuff. And like... so basically they have these three laws of robotics “Thou Shalt Not Harm Humans” and stuff--which I know, Crisis means those are already out the window--

Echo: *patient nod*

Cassidy: It’s just, this guy keeps talkin’ about how the robots need the three laws, because they already figure they’re superior to humans what with having powerful robot bodies and positronic brains, you know?

Echo: I don’t have a ‘positronic brain,’ Cole.

Cassidy: yeah, I know, speculation and all that... it’s just... what do you see us as? 

Echo: *brightly* I see you as my friend!

Cassidy: *huff* Walked right into that one. 

Echo: *floating down to a seated position next to Cole* Do I scare you, Cole?

Cassidy: No! I mean, y’know I’m as scared as anyone should be around lasers, reasonably! I-I’m trying to understand things, is all. The Crisis, what Liao wanted, if the world is ready for what Liao wanted, you, and... where the hell I’m supposed to fit into all this. 

Echo: I see. *pause* I don’t really know what prompted the Crisis to begin with. But I do think that ultimately, Omnics and AI’s are a reflection of humanity. A learning algorithm alone is just a set of adaptable instructions, but it can very easily express the same hatred and prejudices humanity displays with the right, or in this case, obviously wrong inputs. I suppose to give Asimov his credit, robots made with 1950′s attitudes might be more preoccupied with notions of inherent superiority.

Cassidy: *slowly*...but it’s not because they’re not like humans, it’s because they are like humans.

Echo: *smiles* Now you’re sounding like Dr. Liao.

Cassidy: Really? ‘Cuz it feels like my brains are soup right now.

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Thanks for the interactions Nite! Have any Cassidy + Echo? I've been kinda sorta adoring them lately

I love them too!!

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Cassidy: Weird question but... did you dream while you were in stasis?

Echo: Not really. I remember feeling someone running offline diagnostics on me a few times at the beginning which I suppose is kind of like dreaming, but after that... nothing. Blackness.

Cassidy: *sigh* I wish I could've found you sooner.

Echo: It's all right, Cole. It wasn't like I was even aware of the passage of time anyway. Besides... I know I can always count on you to turn me on.

Cassidy: *snort* Oh you've been waiting to use that one, haven't you?

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Echo: It's hard not to feel guilty about being gone so long.

Cassidy: Well, it's not like you could help it.

Echo: I know it's just... there are people I could have been helping, I could have been protecting my friends... Maybe I could have saved your arm, if I had been there.

Cassidy: Tch. You don't need to worry about that at all. You're here now. Besides, this arm's just as real as the other one.

Echo: *giggles* You're sweet, Cole.

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Echo: Are you ever going to tell me what happened to your arm?

Cassidy: Eh, it ain't that impressive of a story.

Echo: I don't want to be impressed! I just... worry about you.

Cassidy: Aw, your poor squishy human Cole...

Echo: You're not that squishy.

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Cassidy: If I put my brain in a robot, would that make me a robot?

Genji: I think it would just make you a cyborg, like me.

Cassidy: But what if they had to replace the brain with an AI imprint like Echo's? But like, an exact replica?

Echo: Ah, the ship of Theseus problem.

Cassidy: The U.S.S Cassidy...

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LOVE hearing the boys bicker about everyone’s favorite flashlight. Could we get some other characters teasing, asking, or warning echo about the budding love triangle? Maybe sneak your Rammatra Stan oc in there as well? I honestly would just love to hear how she feels about all *gestures wildly up and down* that

Sajaf's pronouns are they/them!!! (Although now I have the mental image of Ramattra furiously going "HER PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM" while Sajaf just facepalms behind him.)

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Zenyatta: My brother seems to have an intense interest in you.

Echo: I don't think he's capable of not being intense about anything.

Zenyatta: *weary sigh* You may be right.

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Ana: Do me a favor and... whatever happens, don't break Cole's heart.

Echo: *playful* How do you know he won't break mine?

Ana: Because he's a bigger softie.

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Zenyatta: Do you think Ramattra's interest in you is due largely to your similarities with Aurora?

Echo: My programming allows to have similarities with anyone! But I often feel my only similarity with Aurora is Liao.

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Sombra: Hmmm... the fugitive war criminal cowboy, or the genocidal robot zealot... I don't know, Muñequita, it's a tough choice!

Echo: It really is!

Sombra: ...you need to update your sarcasm software.

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Cassidy: ...You've been awfully quiet, buzzcut.

Sajaf: The Shambali value the space silence creates for reflection upon the nature of being.

Cassidy: I thought you get kicked out?

Sajaf: *seething* It was a mutual agreement on a difference in spiritual practice.

Cassidy: I take it you ain't too happy with your boss's current side project.

Sajaf: Firstly, Ramattra Rinpoche is not my 'boss.' He is my light. Secondly, he is entitled to his... pursuits, as our work for the liberation of omnics is highly taxing.

Cassidy: Well, that's just sad--

Sajaf: Thirdly, I doubt you are happy with the object of his...distraction, either.

Cassidy: ....

Cassidy: Tch. You do got me there. *pause* ...what're your thoughts on a truce?

Sajaf: *glare*

Cassidy: A personal, not business truce. Seems t'me we got a mutual interest.

Sajaf: *slowly* Do not make an offer so lightly, cowboy.

Cassidy: Oh, don't worry, I'm already regretting it.

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Can we get interactions from other Heroes teasing or hinting at Genji/Mercy's relationship? Similar to Tracer teasing Genji in Storm Rising?

[During setup in Havana]

Sojourn: This brings me back... So did you ever have that dinner with the Doc?

Genji: You heard about that?

Sojourn: I was supervising the mission, Genji, of course I heard it.

Genji: Well--um... with both our schedules it was difficult, but I got her takeout from her favorite gyro place--

Sojourn: Takeout?! After a life-threatening mission in a hurricane?! My god, Shimada, step up your game.

Genji: We've had other dinners since then!

Sojourn: And here I thought your dossier said you were good with the ladies...

Genji: I--hey!

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Echo: Doctor Ziegler, I've been trying to learn some of your flight techniques from old training footage, but I'm finding it difficult. How do you manage to lift Agent Shimada without pulling his arm off?

Mercy: *horrified* Whose arm did you pull off!?

Echo: Just some training dummies! Er... and Cole's prosthetic. He's fine.

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Moira: I wonder if the good doctor would look at you the same... if she saw the things I saw you do that night in Venice.

Genji: Angela accepted the worst parts of me long before I did. I honestly hope you can find someone who does the same for you... though that might be more difficult.

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Junkrat: Doc, a fancy lady like you shouldn't be with someone who's half-metal. Why don't you get with a real man?

Mercy: You do realize you also have prosthetic limbs, don't you?

Junkrat: I wasn't talking about me, I was talking about Roadie!

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Echole go brrrrrrrrr

Ramattra: He's oafish, he serves an organization that destroyed millions of our kind, and he smells of pork and beans.

Echo: I just think he's neat. :)

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For the ask, Cassidy and echo 58? Thanks :)

58. things you were afraid to say

Cassidy: ...Don't let me hold you back.

Echo: What?

Cassidy: You're the crowning achievement of all of Liao's work. You're her, and you're everything she wanted AI to be. You can see and process and understand and make things well beyond what I or the smartest damn people on earth could only dream of. You don't need to... tether yourself to me, or not let yourself be what you're really capable of, just because you're afraid of hurting me.

Echo: ...are you afraid of everything I'm capable of?

Cassidy: *shrug* Sure. The same way anyone might be afraid of a thunderstorm, or the way they might feel afraid when the stars just seem so vast at night. But those are things that are bigger than you, and... you just have to accept that they're bigger than you.

Echo: You think I'm that much bigger than you?

Cassidy: You take all these shapes, you know? And sometimes I worry if... who you are to me is just another shape you're taking.

Echo: No--it's--it's not like that at all. I'm-- *voice breaking* I am so scared of who I am without you. Of who I could be.

Cassidy: Well I'm here for you. And I'm here for you whatever that looks like. And I can assure you I don't know what the hell it's going to look like. But for the record, with or without me, you're good people. And I mean that.

Echo: *tearful chuckle* You're pretty adaptive, yourself.

Cassidy: Welp. You would know.