[network] @Ecks; In the open [open] [video] evening 156

[ecks]

[She's been thinking about this for days and days now. She's thought about it since House said it was stupid to keep everything a secret and that she'd get more sympathy if she was honest about her age. Since Beckett didn't understand why it was a secret at all. Then since Watson told everyone she was a murderer, but then told Clint she was trying to be a good girl.

Since she ran away from Clint and his people this morning even though he didn't try to hurt her once he knew what she had done to Duster.

She waits until after lockdown just in case they are all wrong and someone will try to find her after this. The video opens with her looking into the camera, her scarf bunched around her neck but her patchwork face clearly on display. Her expression is blank, her voice toneless.]

My name is Ecks and I am not human. I have decided that it is not a secret anymore. I am a golem made out of dead people, but I am a person and that is the part that is important. I am two years old and a few months and I have decided that I do not want to hurt or kill people when I do not have to, and that is also important. Doctor House and Beckett say that it does not matter what I am and I think I would be happy if that is true.

[It seems like there should be more than that to say, but she just stares a moment longer before turning off the camera. She will not bring up the murder if she does not have to.]

Comments

[bookofnope]

Any number of them. The thrill of the challenge, an exacting need for servants, obscure sexual preferences...

[ecks]

the first two are also reasons I was made.

sexual preferences like sex with the made person??
the made person would not be at the age of consent.

[She's not at the age of consent, and she knows it.]

[bookofnope]

I'm sure it would not be a terrible surprise if I told you that people who make people don't tend to be very concerned with ideas like consent.

[ecks]

he would not
you do not know him
do not say things about him
you do not know him

[bookofnope]

Merely a general observation. Speaking from experience, you see. There are always exceptions... so you were made for religious reasons? An offering of life to a god?

[ecks]

not an offering!!

[What a terrifying thought!]

as a continuation of His work
for continuing His work

[bookofnope]

[That's actually fascinating. Sometimes, some things can still kick his curiosity into life.]

As an act of worship, then, following in the god's path.

[ecks]

I am not supposed to explain these things to outsiders.

[bookofnope]

At this degree of outsiderdom, I hardly think it matters. None of us are going back to your world to desecrate your mysteries.

[ecks]

or to be caught and cut apart.

[The more likely outcome, really.]

[bookofnope]

Or to be caught and cut apart. Of course. Am I to surmise that you are made from the spare parts of dead heretics?

[ecks]

from parts of people who lived outside the City mostly I think

what is a heretic?