172 - If you could pick anyone in the world, alive or dead, to be your parents, who would it be...?

[number_eight]

Are you joking? I'm a frakking Cylon, and no I'm not going to get into how humans are supposedly our parents or how I have fake memories of parents that I never really knew.

I'll just direct you over to Leoben's answer and leave it at that.

Muse : Sharon (Athena, Boomer, and Downloaded versions)
Fandom: Misc TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count : N/A, but this was all any of the versions wanted to say

Comments

[ki2k]

Leoben is the sort of AI that scares me.

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

I scare a car. Well that's... new.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

*eyes him* You scare a lot of people and Cylons. Why are you surprised?

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

Do I? Are you one of them?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

No, actually. Were you hoping to?

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

No. Why would I want that? It's really not my goal with anyone, least of all another cylon, but if it's a byproduct of being who/what I am, then I can't exactly change that. Not that I'd want to.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I don't know why you'd want that; it's why I asked you in the first place. Since you insist on speaking in riddles, though...

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

...and that breeds fear?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that.

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

Then why? What does? My supposed...imbalance really can't be that big an issue. I haven't been boxed...yet.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

And I doubt that you ever will be boxed. You want to know why people are scared of you? It's because you're a Cylon. That's it. It's not that hard to figure out; they're still scared of me, after all.

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

You scare a lot of people and Cylons.

Your words.

I know why the humans are afraid. It's in their nature to fear what's different from them. I know that. You know that. But cylons fearing another cylon? It doesn't end well.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

Then why am I feared? Don't lie; I know I am. Boomer hates me, hates my daughter... Caprica doesn't seem embraced by the rest of the Cylons any longer. Three hated me.

We're not much better than the humans.

[ki2k]

Actually, most Cylons scare me, if only because of the disregard for human life.

... And perhaps the fact that I find myself sympathizing with your plight.

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

It's surprisingly easy to stomach when you consider how little regard they have for their own. They were killing each other for sport before us. Near inhalation has done wonders for them.

[ki2k]

We don't have to help them on that course. We could work beside them to make their lives better for all of us.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

Really? Why is that?

[ki2k]

He seems rather... unbalanced, to me.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

That's... true, actually.