awakening || barty & data
ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL
Life support had been the first to come online, with other auxiliary systems following soon after. It wasn't until the higher cognitive functions began to awaken, though, that the first hints of consciousness began to emerge.
i am
That was all, for the time being. Just the slightest hint of self-awareness, recognition of its own being. Nothing more. But as that sliver of consciousness began to fully integrate with the other programs that made up its brain, it began to consider its situation more fully.
i am... ???
Now, that was an interesting question. It hadn't the slightest idea – it knew that it existed, and that it seemed to inhabit physical space. Presumably it could control its form in some way, though it had yet to access those specific programs. Beyond that, there was nothing.
who am i?
A quick survey of its memory banks revealed little; either they had yet to fully integrate with the main system, or there simply was no information there to be accessed.
what am i?
No, it didn't know that either.
There was no helping things; it had already exhausted its personal stores of information. If it hoped to learn more about itself, it would have to explore the world.
It opened its eyes.
Standing opposite it was another being. A quick analysis revealed that the creature was an adolescent human male.
After a moment, the answer came to it. It recognized the boy. For some reason, knowledge of him was already present in its base of knowledge, even while its own identity was a mystery.
He must be important for some reason.
“You are Bartemius Crouch Jr.” How complicated speech was. So much more than simple movements; it was aware of multiple programs running in concert, each of them managing one of the many components of verbal communication. Coordinating each process was difficult, and it paused a moment to attempt to better organize its thoughts.
It blinked several times, then decided to attempt speech again. “What am I?”
