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[The days of January have passed relatively uneventfully for Lucas.  He's had a lot to think about, and a lot to consider.  For now, though, each time passes much like the rest, and he will take happiness in whatever peace he can get.  His routine is fairly straightforward.

1: Every morning, early morning, Lucas gets on his tea table and delivers his paper. He's still getting used to the hang of it, though. Maybe he'll accidentally smash it into your door, at which point, he'll hurriedly get off to check to see if he damaged anything. Most of the time, he hasn't.
2: After school, he practices piano alone in the music room. By this point, he can be eavesdropped upon without anyone wanting to forbid him from ever touching an instrument again. The songs he plays are strangely melancholy.
3:
In his free time, he sits in the park or in his house and practices his sketching.  Most of the time, he's drawing his friends, so perhaps you'll run across him drawing you.]

[voice]
[A phone call is broadcast to everyone later that night.]

Hello?  A-Ah.  This is Lucas.

I've been thinking a lot lately, and there's something that's been on my mind.  I guess I want to ask . . . How long has this town been here?  How long have people come in and out?  Does anyone really know?  But what's more important is . . . does anyone really remember everyone who's been here? 

When people get droned, we think they've gone home, right?  It's the hope we have, and a lot of the times it's true, but can we really be sure that it's everyone? Sergei -- the Russian man.  He, um.  Didn't he say that they were in a lot of pain?  That some people who were droned . . . that they were still inside.  If that's so, then . . . then we can't just forget about them, right?  Even if one person is still here as a drone, we can't forget about them.  And either way, it's terrible to forget the people you've become friends with at all.  To forget about the people who've come to Mayfield and who've gone.

............. I know I've already started to.

Does anyone think we should maybe start keeping track?  Just . . . something so that the people who come here won't ever be forgotten.  Maybe even signatures.  So if you do start to forget, then you can look back and see everyone's name and remember.  Small things like . . . Miss Margot, and how she was always caring for her sister.  Fuuko and how much she loved starfish.  Mr. Zero, and how fun his gym classes were.

It might be a bad idea.  Or too much work.  But . . . Well.  I guess if you don't want to talk about that, maybe we can just share stories of people who've been here and how important they were to us.  I'd love to hear that kind of thing.

[Please specify 1, 2, 3, or voice.  Although the actions are really just default Lucas interactions if your character has no interest in this topic.]

Date: 2011-01-29 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
Have you been in Mayfield very long, um . . . Oh! I haven't introduced myself yet, sorry. I'm Lucas.

Date: 2011-01-29 04:59 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
No problem. I'm Rin, and I've been here since Christmas week. ♪

Date: 2011-01-29 05:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
It's nice to meet you, Rin.

Only about a month, then. So you probably haven't gotten to know your family too well. Luke's really nice -- I think so, anyway.

Date: 2011-01-29 06:21 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
We've hung out a little, and we had a New Year's party too! ♪ I wouldn't mind getting to know him.

Date: 2011-01-29 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . .

You had a party, huh? Say, was Luke feeling pretty sick afterward?

Date: 2011-01-29 01:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
Well I didn't stay the whole night, since I had to sing with Miku-nee... ♪

[Rin was a tad drunk herself by the end of it, although she just thought it was her human body being strange.]

He was really sick the next day though. ♪

Date: 2011-01-29 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
[Old mystery solved.]

Eheh. . . . I thought it was probably something like that. I hope you didn't feel too badly afterward, too.

Date: 2011-01-29 04:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
Me? No way! ♪

Date: 2011-01-29 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
[Suddenly, random thought. It's something Lucas has been thinking while listening to her, courtesy of the music notes everywhere.]

Um. Just by the way . . . you have a really nice sounding voice, Rin. It almost sounds like you're singing.

Date: 2011-01-30 04:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
Hehe! ♪ Thank you! ♪

[That is indeed what the music notes are meant to convey! Her syllables are all tuned to notes when talking, as Rin's about to explain.]

I am singing, technically. My program is geared toward songs, so I have a bit of an accent when I try to speak normally.

Date: 2011-01-30 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
Oh, really?

[Lucas has no idea what you mean, and this is asked in that polite way that people say things when they have no idea what you mean.]

That's why you sound so . . . musical, then. But could you explain that a little more?

Date: 2011-01-30 04:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
Sure.

[No worries Lucas, she gets that a lot, especially since coming here.]

I'm actually a humanoid robot called a Vocaloid. My voice is a computer program that simulates vocals. ♪

Date: 2011-01-30 04:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
[Well. That was blunt. But he's met robots before.]

Oh! Wow . . . That's the first time I've heard of something like that. So you meant that you were programmed to . . . sing?

Date: 2011-01-30 07:22 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
[she wouldn't know how to gently break it to someone, anyway...]

Right! ♪ Any more questions?

Date: 2011-01-31 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
Um. If this is rude, I apologize, but . . . can you do other things besides sing outside of Mayfield? Or only because you were turned human when you got here? I mean . . . Were you always sentient?

Date: 2011-01-31 04:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
Oh, um... Not always, but before I came here I had A.I. and a body. I don't think that's changed. My personality was the same when they made me human. ♪

Date: 2011-01-31 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . . All the other robots I met here have been built to be just like humans. You're the first one who's talked about being programmed.

Date: 2011-01-31 04:48 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
I'm proud to be a Vocaloid! But it still makes me a little happy when people can't tell the difference, hehe. ♪ Anyway, my program came first, the personality and stuff was developed later.

Date: 2011-01-31 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
Ohh.

[Lucas sounds genuinely interested.]

. . . Can you tell me more about how you were made and that sort of thing? I understand if it's personal, though.

Date: 2011-01-31 06:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
Hmm... I don't think I can explain that. ♪ I'm a robot, not a roboticist!

Date: 2011-01-31 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
I guess that's fair. Sorry. I'd just like to find out more about it, if I can.

[Reasoning: How do people get turned into cyborgs and would it be possible to change them back is an important question he needs answered.]

Date: 2011-01-31 05:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] roadroller
No, I'm sorry, I honestly don't know. Anyway, it's probably top secret so that other people don't try to make copies of me. ♪

Date: 2011-02-01 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
It's alright. Please don't worry about it, Rin.

. . . Well, I'll let you know if we get started on a project like this. If you have any ideas, just let me know.

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