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The android uprising already happened, so you're probably safe.

[ Probably! She's soooo much less likely to be a recipient of ticket punching than like, a lot of people. ]

Good. So do we awkwardly extricate ourselves from this conversation now?

_{[Oh great, this is a movie. And she missed it in theaters? She'll have to catch the DVD.]}

Was that before or after you became... whatever you call it? Human?

_{[Sentient? Conscious? She's not down with the cool kids' lingo.]}

You said it, you can do whatever you want. _{[i.e. she's not inconvenienced by or attached to this little tête-à-tête, proceed as desired.]} Consider my wrist slapped.

[ Right, because stories about teleporters a/o mysterious organizations chasing down people with strange abilities are so uncommon. ]

No. No android calls it "human." Would you jump at the chance to start calling yourself what your oppressors do the moment you were free?

Maybe I would, if it was something I deserved and they were keeping it from me for bullshit reasons. Like voting rights.

I don't think "human" needs to come with air quotes if we're talking about thinking and feeling and all that. But we haven't had any non-human uprisings in New York lately, so what do I know.

The word you're looking for is person. Not human.
That's what they keep from us, the rights all people should have.

I thought maybe it could be different here, but you're all the same, aren't you? If you're not human you're nothing. If you want to be considered a person you have to resign yourself to this label that isn't what you are. Letting them call us "human" is just saying "be like us." And we shouldn't have to be.

The same as in ignorant about things some of the time and having no fucking idea what we're doing most of the time? Then yeah, humans have that going for them.

Be whatever you want to be, I'm not stopping you. And I'm not saying buy a membership like that's a good thing. I've been around us longer than you have, I know it's not. I meant humanity. It's got "human" in it, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't make it just a human thing.

I mean, you don't have to have humanity, either, but it seems like you do. Or whatever term you prefer.

My partner thinks you can learn, if someone shows you. I'm not so sure. And I don't need your fucking permission to be anything.

[ Which. Probably isn't how Henry meant that, but North is not about to give an inch as far as sympathy goes. That's Markus' thing. ]

I prefer any term that doesn't have human in it. It doesn't mean the same thing to me that it does to you. It's not normal. It's cruel and stupid and doesn't care who it hurts. I don't want to be that.

_{[They should've done the awkward extrication when they had the chance before they hit the "splitting hairs over semantics" segment of today's episode of Differing Species Do the Darndest Things.]}

Fine by me. I wasn't arguing with you.

Pretty sure we're trying to say the same thing and it's not working out that way, so this is me backing off. Sorry I brought it up.

_{[Note to self: the human condition, not a great conversation starter.]}

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