Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 15, 2011 12:22:39 GMT -5
The rhythmic sound of the waves slapping the sheltered area of the coast accompanied by the cool night breeze is what makes Penang Port a rather relaxing place to hang, especially in the night when all the ships are anchored safely and the port is almost empty of people.
Duo placed his pen behind his ear, then holds the piece of paper he just finished scribbling on into the moonlight to read it again. He squinted one eye close, imagining the melody of his almost-finished musical notation inside his head.
The lad's sitting cross-legged on the very edge of the long wooden platform stretched a few meters from the shore into the water and supported by piles to provide access for the ships and boats. His keyboard is dangerously balanced very near the edge too.
"Let's see..." Duo muttered to himself, scratching his backwards cap as his long braid slightly wavers with the night breeze. He had been sitting on the dock for over an hour to construct a melody that somehow had been playing over and over inside his head since his trip to Tenka, the arctic mountains.
"Okay, let's try by ear now.." he whispered, pulling his keyboard near to himself before gently touching his fingers onto the black and white keys. After taking a moment to inhale, Duo then pressed the keys according to the note he just wrote. His eyes frequently darts their way continuously between the keys and the notes.
His fingers danced through the keys with ease, his attention now completely focused onto his keyboard after the complex part had passed, then the tempo slows down into the more higher notes. He made a short moment of pause as he inhaled, and then he tried to form words out of this newborn melody.
"On the night everywhere is dead silent, snow falls down on the palm I hold up. The snow falls and melts in a moment. What a transient life..." When suddenly, he heard the sound of a...ringing bell?
Duo stopped playing, looking up from his keyboard to listen sharply. Is that ringing sound just a hallucination inside his head or did he heard it from this place? The ponytailed-man looked around to see if someone's nearby.
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Post by kresta on Jan 21, 2011 12:16:44 GMT -5
Kresta was wandering around this new place that was by the ocean. She had been taking in the beautiful views of the daytime and now the peaceful views of the evening. She wondered how these environments made humans feel. She could never truly know herself, no matter how well she had been created. She could feel the pressure of a breeze and the warm temperature of the air but she could not feeling emotions that these kinds of feelings would normally give people. She had seen some people open themselves up completely to the wind with their eyes closed and a smile on their face. She wondered what about it gave them such joy.
As Kresta walked past a port filled with boats that had been docked for the night, she began to hear music. She followed the sound, curious as to who was creating it. She walked down past a row of boats on either side as a voice chimed in with the music. She could see the back of a person who was outlined by the light of the moon. She noticed the braid which would assume the person was female but the tonality of the vocals emitting from this person seemed to be more masculine.
Kresta stopped as the music stopped and he turned around. He must have heard her walking even though her steps were rather quiet. She had not heard the bell that he did and as he turned to face her, she stared at him a moment before speaking.
"Hello. I was walking around and heard music. That was a nice sequence of notes you were playing. My name is Kresta." She spoke in a young voice but showed no sign of shyness. Her tone was pretty much straight and her face showed no sign of emotion, just a slight smile that was pretty much automated when greeting people.
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 23, 2011 7:07:42 GMT -5
Duo got a slight jolt when he turned around and saw someone standing there, "Whoo, you gave me quite a scare there.." he heaved out and laughed lightly. The first thing he did after he said that is turning his whole body around to face her, then places his keyboard on the wooden platform there and pushed himself up to stand.
"Oh, wow, thanks! Kresta, was it? Honestly, it was quite embarrassing for me to have someone hearing it, I didn't managed to finish it tho--" Duo's sentence was cut short when he took closer inspection of this girl he's facing.
The ponytailed man was quite familiar in spotting several unique glints or flickers in one's eyes, but somehow he didn't manage to find any in Kresta's...at all. The moon was quite bright tonight, so Duo didn't blame the darkness for his inability of spotting these things.
His eyebrows slowly crinkled down.
"..H-hi. I'm...Duo," he introduced himself unsurely while bringing out his right arm for a handshake. His first guess on the situation is this girl's something different, so might as well test it. And there's no better way to test than watching how someone responds in shaking his hand.
"Nice to meet you, Kresta.."
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Post by kresta on Jan 25, 2011 19:53:18 GMT -5
Kresta just smiled with her face at him as he recovered from his scare and responded to her. She nodded as he asked to confirm her name was indeed Kresta. When he stopped mid-sentence, Kresta briefly wondered why and noticed he was staring now a bit strangely at her.
When Duo reached his hand out to shake, Kresta's eyes quickly turned down to it and blinked a few times as they scaled back up to his face. Her smile remained as she moved her hand out to meet his and shake, trying to manage the amount of pressure she used.
"It is nice to meet you as well, Duo." She responded with her smile and young voice. "It seems unusual to meet someone in this location at this time so unexpectedly."
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 26, 2011 11:52:27 GMT -5
Duo's eyes were pinned directly to her hand when this strange girl began to react to his waiting arm. His focus was completely onto her arm when she moved to grabbed his hand, and he noted each and every inch of her movement in his head. How she grabbed and closed her fingers closed around his hand.
It was difficult to spot since she moved so smoothly like a real human, but having a background on both technical and mechanical stuff, including clones and artificial intelligence, made Duo notices the slight short pauses she made after every limb movement. This makes him began to contemplate in his head if her being is something resembling a robot of sorts.
The man then reverts back his attention to her oddly shone eyes, just in time to see her smile and hear her voice. Even how she speaks is giving him quite enough hints that she isn't what she looks like. It took Duo a while to actually seep her words into his brain, since it was sort of preoccupied trying to figure out what this girl really is.
"Yeah... Right back at cha.." he finally said after a long pause. Duo then closed his mouth, further takes his time staring at her and unconsciously raises his hand to actually stroke her cheek with a finger, wondering if she's made of metal.
Once he saw his finger on Kresta's face did Duo yelped and pulled himself away from her, "S-sorry for the harassment!! I just... ..What ARE you, Kresta..?"
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Post by kresta on Jan 28, 2011 11:47:45 GMT -5
Kresta's skin was made a very soft and smooth material, almost human-liked, though very difficult to penetrate. She didn't seem to react much to his finger touching her cheek aside from her eyes following the movement of his hand. She looked back at his face as he yelped and pulled away.
A smile remained fixed on her face. "It is nothing to worry about." She responded to his apology. Her face changed a bit to display an emotion like intrigue at his questioning. It was not unusual for someone to peg her as odd, but it was for someone to so forwardly ask her what she is.
Seeing no reason to be dishonest, Kresta responded, "I am a prototype for a new form of human-like robotics." She smiled again after speaking, patiently awaiting his reaction.
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jan 29, 2011 14:47:01 GMT -5
Her voice sounded so strange, Duo noted in his head. It sounded so...artificial somehow, yet it can pass as a human with a throat. The lad just kept staring at Kresta, from head to toe, but then was somehow reminded of that bell he heard. He took another scan of the girl, but there didn't seem to be anything resembling bells or the sorts that could produce such a ring around her.
Duo is in another shock after he heard the truth of her being.
In fact, he was so shocked, he didn't even know how to react. His eyes just froze there, gazing at her, and just tries to slow down his brain waves to actually seep this fact into his mind. Once it oozed in, Duo could feel his lower jaw numbing, and dropping.
"Y-yo-you're a ROBOT?!!" His holler sounded more excited rather than surprised, probably because he expected it...or maybe because it's that wide grin of his that made it sound like he's excited. Or he truly is ecstatic. "Ho, wow, SERIOUSLY?! Good God, you look so...human!"
Duo then began to circle around her excitedly, honestly couldn't even contain that smile on his face. He's been interested in robotics and the mechanics of it for years, so the fact that he's communicating WITH one is giving him goosebumps. "Wow...wow... I have so many questions, but I'm so excited, I don't even know where to start!"
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Post by kresta on Jun 13, 2011 4:29:44 GMT -5
Kresta watched him unsuredly as he took in the surprise. When he seemed to be excited, Kresta smiled slightly and nodded. She stood there, her eyes following him a little while he circled around her.
"Where to start? I was created at the Niam Robotics laboratory by a woman named Heather Biar in Gradia as a prototype to test out a more human-like robotics that might be able to live somewhat normally among other human beings." Kresta responded perfectly with her eyes on Duo's and a slight smile on her lips.
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jun 22, 2011 15:55:49 GMT -5
Duo sort of pouted after she ended her explanation, then rubbed his chin with two of his fingers, "Man, I'd like to meet this Heather Biar. ..Damn, I haven't even managed to get in Gradia with it being infested and stuff..." he pondered to himself out loud. He'd love to live there, and study there of course.
After a moment, he shook his head to snap himself awake from his thoughts and focused back to Kresta. He paused for a while, just staring at her. "You look so...human.." the words were carried by his breath in awe, "And so...beautiful.."
A sudden creak startled Duo. Turning around, he saw his precious keyboard dangerously balanced at the edge of the harbor, and slipping off. "GYA!" As quick as his shrieking, Duo bounded off from where he's standing and literally slides his way on his side to the edge of the wooden platform they're standing on, and fortunately managed to grab hold of his keyboard before it falls.
...But that didn't stop himself from sliding like that with such a force, though.
SPLASH!!!
Duo managed to toss his keyboard before he falls in the water, right towards Kresta. He himself, however, isn't so lucky. "GEH..." Popping his head out the especially cold water, Duo then puts an arm on the dock, brings out another arm to rest on the wooden platform and pulls himself up just enough for his head to lean on his wet arms.
"C-c-c-c-cold......."
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Post by kresta on Jun 11, 2012 2:55:13 GMT -5
Kresta's smile fell and a curiousity replaced it on her face. She was about to ask him about the infestation when he continued to talk and the smile returned to her face as he called her beautiful.
Kresta's eyes followed his towards the creak as the keyboard was about to fall in and she watched him in slight surprise as he lunged to save it and ended up falling in the water himself. She stopped the keyboard from flying past her and made her it was safely resting on the dock then walked over to the edge where Duo was beginning to get out.
Kresta smiled down at him as she knelt in front of him and held her hand out. "Allow me to help you out from there." She said with a smile, waiting expectantly for him to give her his hand so she could pull him back onto the dock.
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Post by Duo on Jun 14, 2012 16:57:24 GMT -5
Duo was breathing heavily, staying still in his current position for a moment before pulling his head up to meet Kresta's waiting hand. "Ah.. Thanks.."
As he raised his hand up to catch hers, Duo's arm suddenly stopped mid-way. He seemed to stop for a bit before pulling his hand further away from her, "But my hand's wet.." His wet eyebrows are creasing as he attempted to stare up at her through his wet hair.
"Wouldn't it override your system..?" His long bangs are all over his face, swabbing his whole forehead and ended up covering his eyes. He's too cold to move his bangs away, almost look like he's frozen too by how rigorously his body began to shiver.
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Post by kresta on Jun 14, 2012 17:12:14 GMT -5
Kresta's smile fell slightly as he pulled his hand back, wondering why he did so. When he asked about her system reacting to water, her smile returned. She did not move from that spot, her hand still waiting expectantly for his.
"My 'skin' is a special protective covering that keeps my system safe from water. I could be completely submerged in that water and be completely fine." She replied with a smile as she waited for him to take her hand so she could help him out.
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jun 23, 2012 23:50:25 GMT -5
Water dripped down his bangs and rolled down Duo's cheeks as he stared up at this curious person still holding up her hand for him to take. At her explanation, Duo's eyes widened and a grin immediately curved up his lips.
"Seriously? That's amazing! Man, I have GOTTA meet up with your 'mother', Kresta." He laughed as he finally reached up for her hand and clasped his palm with hers. Closing his fingers around her smaller hand, Duo is internally astonished by how humanlike her skin felt, even the structure of the mechanics inside her hand felt like human bones.
"Holy crap.." He whispered under his breath in amazement, his eyes shining even more as he looked up at her. "You even feel human.... I'm.. I'm impressed! Greatly!"
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Post by kresta on Jul 13, 2012 13:27:01 GMT -5
Kresta smiled at Duo as he grabbed her hand and exclaimed that he was impressed. "I am glad." She responded, happy to hear compliments on her structure.
Without much effort, Kresta lifted Duo out of the water and pulled him onto the dock as she lifted herself back up to a standing position. "I wish I had something with me to help you dry off. I must apologize for that." She said with her smile still as she watched him, hoping he would be okay. "I could escort you some place warmer if you wish."
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Duo
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Post by Duo on Jul 14, 2012 17:02:50 GMT -5
Duo let out a silent, almost soundless, gasp when he was s easily whisked out of the water and onto the docks perfectly on his feet. His clothes are now soggy and his hair's damp with water, but Duo is grinning widely now at how amazed he is by her massive strength.
"Ahahahah!! Whoa!!" Having his hands on his head now, his grin doesn't seem like it will end soon. "No, no! It's okay, the winds will dry this off quick~! Thanks!!" He's just so happy to be meeting a prototype of something he's so interested in, much less communicating with her, that Duo's literally giggling like a school girl having to meet a celebrity.
"That's a good idea, yeah! Let's get out of here," he agreed to her suggestion with an enthusiastic nod, and then bend down to pick up his keyboard, careful not to slip it with his wet hands. "How do you.. wow. I'm...just..hahah. What is your purpose to be created, Kresta?"
Being so immensely happy has its disadvantages. One of it being unable to speak clearly due to his exhilaration.
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