It takes several minutes for K to even know what to say, where to start, if he should - although it's obvious that he's actively thinking. A muscle in his jaw tenses and releases, tenses and releases, and multiple times he starts to take a deeper breath that goes nowhere. His grip tightens on Jesus's hand, though never painfully, and relaxes again.
Finally he says, "Humans have good reason to fear replicants. The first generation that saw widespread distribution was the Nexus-6's, and they were unstable. They abandoned assignments regularly, killed any humans that tried to stop them, and were nearly impossible to spot or retire. The Nexus-8's staged a rebellion - they attacked Los Angeles, used an EMP that knocked out power to the entire city for days, crashed the economy of the entire globe as a consequence. All of it, every human-replicant conflict that's ever happened over decades, has been based on human ownership of replicants - because we need them to create us, and they feel they have a right to us because they do. We can't procreate. It defines everything. It's a universal truth, a natural law, that we cannot reproduce on our own no matter how lifelike we are, and so we are not alive. We cannot be alive. Do you understand?"
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Date: 2022-12-19 07:09 am (UTC)Finally he says, "Humans have good reason to fear replicants. The first generation that saw widespread distribution was the Nexus-6's, and they were unstable. They abandoned assignments regularly, killed any humans that tried to stop them, and were nearly impossible to spot or retire. The Nexus-8's staged a rebellion - they attacked Los Angeles, used an EMP that knocked out power to the entire city for days, crashed the economy of the entire globe as a consequence. All of it, every human-replicant conflict that's ever happened over decades, has been based on human ownership of replicants - because we need them to create us, and they feel they have a right to us because they do. We can't procreate. It defines everything. It's a universal truth, a natural law, that we cannot reproduce on our own no matter how lifelike we are, and so we are not alive. We cannot be alive. Do you understand?"