One of the things I'd like to check is to see if we're all universal donors. I know that my friends and I are, and I know that's the case with you and Connor. But there are others who were changed by coming here. A lot of them spoke to Stephen Strange the other day.
Unfortunately, those very same people were ... reluctant to do any kind of testing, so we might have to hold right now.
If that's the case, why do you think they would choose to do that? Donating blood to each other is a novel idea, but we do have access to medical care in this city if need be. Our falsified IDs can at least guarantee that much, I imagine.
Reluctant? Trust is still an issue?
[Not that this would be surprising to Markus. He is trusting by default, even if he has been treading with an extra dose of caution ever since his arrival. Others, maybe not so much.]
It depends. This world isn't exactly lacking for people, so all the conclusions I'd draw would be based on a very different outcome. I do think that we're meant to be used for something, but I just don't know what.
As for those who opted out—I can't say. I don't get the sense that it's distrust toward me, but distrust in general. For whatever came before.
[That's the gist and sense that both Loki and Thor had given her.]
To be fair, I can't blame them. At the end of the day, most of us are still strangers to one another. Trust isn't so easily given between those from such different walks of life. Maybe eventually they'll come around. Until then, I still don't like the idea of being used for anything at all, but more imporantly, I can't think of what we would be used for.
Consider that many of us have lost abilities that defined us back home. That we have no possessions, no money (beyond what little we've gathered so far), no influence. That we are, for a lack of a better word, aliens in a strange world.
And they've set us loose to do whatever it is we please, whether succeed or fail in adapting. What purpose is there, other than to possibly observe?
I'm not sure if you can answer this: how were androids introduced to your world? I'm not even sure if it's relevant, but I'm curious.
[She's wondering if there's some greater purpose to all of them. She agrees with what Markus has to say, about what's happened to them. To all of them. Even if she benefited more than most—a fact that she keeps close to her chest—she knows the pain of being ripped away from the familiar and told to survive the unknown. Of being asked to be or do something without ever fully understanding the question.
It's her second time through this, and she's not certain where she stands. How she should stand. What she should do. It all remains as one giant unknown.]
I guess I was wondering if we were part of some "line," if you will. Introduced to the world to see how we manage now. Whatever's in our chests is a part of this, as that's another factor that's definitely the same.
They even made certain to install the neural implants that people need in this world. It's a way of monitoring without tracking.
You mean if there's a common thread between us all. Something that makes us perfect specimens for whatever experimentations and purpose they have in mind for us.
[It is just theorizing, but it's better to overthink than not at all.
Speaking of "lines", though-]
I also don't know how relevant it is, but Connor is also from the RK line. He's a prototype as well. The two of us share similarities in that way.
[Hm, that does make sense. If they were targeted in what they were doing.]
You're both prototypes, so you've both been "test runs." It could be useful to know down the line.
Right now, we know one thing. We all have something blue and glowing in our chests. It glows for some more than others, but we all have it. Several people have reported that spot being the way that new objects have been brought here. Supposedly. This is assuming that it wasn't somehow transferred from one place in this world to another.
Which I think is more likely. More scientifically possible. Except for where our bodies are a factor in it all.
Well, at least not that I think. I had my DNA altered to handle large amounts of radiation. I don't know if that still stands, but my blood is still the same color. Black. The crash I was in from the start made it hard for me to pass on finding that particular answer.
[The only problem is that her involvement in making Nightblood was more on the ethical side of things than the biological. She couldn't tell if her blood could still do the same thing, and it's not like she has an opportunity to expose herself to radiation here. It wasn't even easy back home before Praimfaya's effects started to hit.]
[Black blood. Striking, he's sure, but equal parts... disconcerting, in ways that her DNA had been altered to survive radiation. She continues to paint her world in unflattering strokes, which doesn't exactly come as a surprise to Markus. Not after their meeting in the sky park.]
I would think if the color is indicative of change, then that change still exists. Not that I would want for you to test this theory out haphazardly, either.
But given what I've heard about the world outside of the city walls, it'd be useful to know one way or the other. I take it this isn't something that can be easily tested in the labs we have access to?
Not without a chamber to test it, and I have to admit that I've been enjoying a life without the constant effects of radiation poisoning. I still get it. I just have to metabolize it.
Still, we may have to ask Morningstar if they have a way to test it and the means to help with the treatment if I don't get better in a couple days.
An option that would be viable only if they were sure they could treat you. Otherwise, not exactly worth the risk. I feel bad enough as it is even suggesting the former.
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Unfortunately, those very same people were ... reluctant to do any kind of testing, so we might have to hold right now.
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Reluctant? Trust is still an issue?
[Not that this would be surprising to Markus. He is trusting by default, even if he has been treading with an extra dose of caution ever since his arrival. Others, maybe not so much.]
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As for those who opted out—I can't say. I don't get the sense that it's distrust toward me, but distrust in general. For whatever came before.
[That's the gist and sense that both Loki and Thor had given her.]
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Consider that many of us have lost abilities that defined us back home. That we have no possessions, no money (beyond what little we've gathered so far), no influence. That we are, for a lack of a better word, aliens in a strange world.
And they've set us loose to do whatever it is we please, whether succeed or fail in adapting. What purpose is there, other than to possibly observe?
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[She's wondering if there's some greater purpose to all of them. She agrees with what Markus has to say, about what's happened to them. To all of them. Even if she benefited more than most—a fact that she keeps close to her chest—she knows the pain of being ripped away from the familiar and told to survive the unknown. Of being asked to be or do something without ever fully understanding the question.
It's her second time through this, and she's not certain where she stands. How she should stand. What she should do. It all remains as one giant unknown.]
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Androids are assembled in plants, owned by a company called CyberLife who began our commercial production in 2024.
Or are you asking specifically how I was "introduced" to the world? Because I'm a prototype, and the above never applied.
[Commercial production, he means. He's the only RK200.]
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They even made certain to install the neural implants that people need in this world. It's a way of monitoring without tracking.
Admittedly, I'm just theorizing here.
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[It is just theorizing, but it's better to overthink than not at all.
Speaking of "lines", though-]
I also don't know how relevant it is, but Connor is also from the RK line. He's a prototype as well. The two of us share similarities in that way.
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You're both prototypes, so you've both been "test runs." It could be useful to know down the line.
Right now, we know one thing. We all have something blue and glowing in our chests. It glows for some more than others, but we all have it. Several people have reported that spot being the way that new objects have been brought here. Supposedly. This is assuming that it wasn't somehow transferred from one place in this world to another.
Which I think is more likely. More scientifically possible. Except for where our bodies are a factor in it all.
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[Not that this applied to him, at least, he doesn’t think so — any abilities he once possessed were connected with a body he no longer possesss.]
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[Even her blood is still black.]
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[They're using a lot of scare quotes here, but it's the easiest way of getting the point across. Markus is admittedly curious.]
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Well, at least not that I think. I had my DNA altered to handle large amounts of radiation. I don't know if that still stands, but my blood is still the same color. Black. The crash I was in from the start made it hard for me to pass on finding that particular answer.
[The only problem is that her involvement in making Nightblood was more on the ethical side of things than the biological. She couldn't tell if her blood could still do the same thing, and it's not like she has an opportunity to expose herself to radiation here. It wasn't even easy back home before Praimfaya's effects started to hit.]
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I would think if the color is indicative of change, then that change still exists. Not that I would want for you to test this theory out haphazardly, either.
But given what I've heard about the world outside of the city walls, it'd be useful to know one way or the other. I take it this isn't something that can be easily tested in the labs we have access to?
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Still, we may have to ask Morningstar if they have a way to test it and the means to help with the treatment if I don't get better in a couple days.
[Because that is the other side of the risk.]
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An option that would be viable only if they were sure they could treat you. Otherwise, not exactly worth the risk. I feel bad enough as it is even suggesting the former.
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[There may even be those who haven't revealed that much about themselves just yet.]
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Thanks for sharing this information, Clarke. Is there anything you need from me going forward?
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Just—listen to what everyone says about themselves moving forward. There may be some clues inherent in what we find there.
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[The driest sort of amusement. Not always a good thing, but in this case, definitely so.]
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I guess it goes around.
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