onepassingnight | [007 ☿] Dream a little dream

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[007 ☿] Dream a little dream

[It's been a rainy dream, as Mizuno Ami (aged seven) walks home. Her backpack looks quite plump and full, probably due to the extra books she brings to have something to focus on during lunch.

Some things distract even her.

Ami hops across a few small puddles then, after a quick thought to decide it's alright, she hops across a much larger one. She sails through the air- and clears her target! All dry. She giggles in satisfaction.

The rain has stopped by now and there's a playground nearby, where the ground and equipment are somehow dry enough to use. Ami has a long time before Mama will be home, and she knows the people who live around here and play at this spot.

She can finish her homework after dinner (and she really will). Right now, she really wants to play. She climbs carefully into the seat of one of the swings, which turns out to be a touch too high for her and she pumps her legs but barely gets up momentum.

She might need a little help. She could also use a friend to play with.]

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I don't know if I could do it myself. [And Mama is usually busy at the hospital and Papa needs lots of time to paint.] But sometime, I can try to make one.

It'll take more than one try.

...Hey, maybe I could help! I already know how to build working bots, so it'd be a lot quicker than trying to figure out everything on your own.

[Oh, you read her mind; or the dream did. One of the two. Because she'd been trying to get up the nerve to ask for help.]

Would you?

[Oh, Mama will be so proud if Ami can show off a bot she made. Not to mention it'll be amazingly fun.]

Is it really alright?

Yeah, sure. I don't have anyone to talk robots with, it'd be neat to be able to show someone how they work.

We should probably start with one of the simpler models, so you can follow more of how they go together. Hm... I could probably alter the alarm-bot a bit, take out the alarm functionality and expand on the AI... [He's excited about this, can you tell he's excited about this?]

[Ami's looking pretty excited herself as she brings the swing to a stop. It might be good, or scary, to note she actually seems to understand what Jack means.

300 IQ, she has it.]

We could also use the alarm as a trigger for what we want it to do now.

[Jumps off the swing and lands neatly, before starting to pace in front of the swingset.]

What I was thinking--wait, no, that could work. What I was thinking was improving its ability to chat with you, and just generally be a little pal, but we could rework the alarm a bit and use it as a hibernate setting--so you don't have to turn it all the way off every time you need some time to yourself. Just have it hover in a corner, or a drawer, or something during school hours and stuff.

Mm. Then it won't bother Mama on her days off, either.

[Ami jumps down off the swing once it comes to a full stop.]

Maybe when I'm at school it can even do some housework!

Hm. We'll have to use a different model if you want it to do housework--the alarm-bot's too small and doesn't have arms or anything... We could still use its alarm function for what we want, but we should probably use my basic Jack-bot model for everything else.

Do you have a favorite animal or anything you'd want it to look like?

[Ami raises a finger as the idea hits her.]

A fish. I want a fish that swims in the air! [Jack has only himself to blame for mentioning making it hover.]

Oo, nifty! I'll finally get to reuse my koi-bot model! [He makes a little happy squeak. He never thought he'd use the koi-bot design again!]

Maybe it could have some kind of retractable arms, so it could help around the house better...

[Unfortunately, Ami is a purist.]

Fish don't have arms.

[But then he did say retractable. And fish can't talk, either, but she's planning on this bot talking.]

But I think it's OK this time.

Well yeah, obviously they'd be hidden away most of the time. Since you wanted it to do housework while you're at school... Yeah! We could tie that to the alarm functionality! So that it would only use its arms when you're at school. If that would make it better.

Then it'll be a fish whenever I see it.

[This bot is definitely getting rebuilt in reality when she wakes up, as her own awkward tribute to finding someone who understood her a little bit in dreams.]

[He bobs his head quickly.] Right, that's settled then.

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, don't insult it. I haven't been able to figure out how to install obedience chips without removing the emotion chips, and you'll want the emotion chip if you're using it as a friend... It's not that hard, I mean I treat them well enough apparently, and I'm not the most user-friendly person around.

[And that would be the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for him!]

[Ami can be sweet when not totally chained to her issues. Really.]

I won't! I won't say anything mean to it. [It wouldn't be in her nature anyway.] We're supposed to get along well.

Good. They don't react very well to that. But yeah, as long as you treat them decently, bots make the best friends.

Tell you what, I'll sketch up some plans for you to go over while I get the tools and parts we'll need from my lai--lab.

Alright! [Despite her precociousness, Ami won't end up being good for much more than acting like an assistant: bringing this or that, holding a critical piece in place, following instructions.] I'll read them all over.

[He leaves, and returns after a little while, followed by a hovering robot dragging a cart filled with bits of machinery and strange tools. He's carrying a large mechanical fish.]

I still had one of the old koi-bot chassis, so I figured we'd just start with it and make alterations as we go along.

[Ami looks the bot over from several angles as though considering something rather profound. Finally, she makes her pronouncement.]

It's really nice. And we can do the rest together. Can we paint it blue?

[He beams. He rarely gets compliments on his bots.] Sure thing. We can do that last, so our working on it won't mess up the paint job.

[He lays the koi-bot on the ground and starts picking through the stuff his Jack-bot brought.] Let's see, we should... hmm. Brain first or body first?

The brain is more important, so we should do that first.

[This is the sage wisdom of Mizuno Ami as she crouches carefully near the ground to look at the koi-bot more closely. Your bots are cool, Jack, so expect more compliments soon.]

[Someone else thinks his bots are cool! Glee! Back when he still hung out with people, he was always being told how stupid and useless everything he built was.]

Hm. [He nods.] It'll make the brain simpler to put together too. [He lays down a drop cloth and sets out the brain components.] Right. Let's see. We need the basic parts... motherboard, cpu... and then the brain half of the different functions... Hm. This is going to be the complicated part.

How about I put the brain together, and you take notes? I'll try to stay slow so you can see what I'm doing.

I have paper and a pen. [Ami slips these out of her school backpack, closes it carefully afterward, and voila! She is ready to take notes.]

I'll write down everything you say.

You always start with the motherboard--that's what all the other parts of the brain plug into. [Then he starts showing you which parts plug in where, while explaining what he's doing. The little chips are all sorts of different colors too, to help tell them apart.]

[Ami takes her notes in careful Japanese. She uses the lines of the paper to keep her printing (http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/231/image1vk.png) neat and tidy, not allowing it to drift this time, and she makes a very serious face as she draws each line correctly.]

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Will reply tomorrow :)

kk! <3

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