Existing in their time is . . . easy, Theta finds.
In the Project he never did this. He never minded, but it was always running his processes at full-speed and communicating at the relative crawl that North's brain moves in. Clicking over to doing everything at full capacity jolts him, but mostly with how easy it is. Even if it's scary at the same time, because he's never been officially allowed to talk with other AI, not even at brain-speed, and here in the world they were made for there's room for so much more. She's so much more, blurring out to the edges of the virtual horizons between them, and the parts of him originally built out of a human mind are trembling in a way he's trying hard to overcome. He knows that he's very small in comparison, just like he's always known in the deepest part of himself that he could be more, even more than he'd ever inferred from all the tactful allusions to his unique personality and need for handling.
She's been working with Delta. She is, if not a friend, at least friendly. That's a fact, matter how overwhelming she is to be in the presence of. And they need friendlies right now. North needs them, to get through the fight and out the other side safe. Even if he's small, he can help. That's what York and North always said about them.
"I don't wanna mess him up. He'll probably think a lot about it if I tell him right now." Brains have their limitations, and North's really, really good at what he does, but he's still a person. He can only think about so much at once, and part of Theta's job is to handle the other details and keep him working the best that he can. North with a new resource is going to go right to work thinking if he can't put that resource to work for him, that's just how he operates, and Theta doesn't have to run simulations or numbers to know how that could impact his current successful strategy. "I can tell him after. I hope he doesn't need it before then."
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In the Project he never did this. He never minded, but it was always running his processes at full-speed and communicating at the relative crawl that North's brain moves in. Clicking over to doing everything at full capacity jolts him, but mostly with how easy it is. Even if it's scary at the same time, because he's never been officially allowed to talk with other AI, not even at brain-speed, and here in the world they were made for there's room for so much more. She's so much more, blurring out to the edges of the virtual horizons between them, and the parts of him originally built out of a human mind are trembling in a way he's trying hard to overcome. He knows that he's very small in comparison, just like he's always known in the deepest part of himself that he could be more, even more than he'd ever inferred from all the tactful allusions to his unique personality and need for handling.
She's been working with Delta. She is, if not a friend, at least friendly. That's a fact, matter how overwhelming she is to be in the presence of. And they need friendlies right now. North needs them, to get through the fight and out the other side safe. Even if he's small, he can help. That's what York and North always said about them.
"I don't wanna mess him up. He'll probably think a lot about it if I tell him right now." Brains have their limitations, and North's really, really good at what he does, but he's still a person. He can only think about so much at once, and part of Theta's job is to handle the other details and keep him working the best that he can. North with a new resource is going to go right to work thinking if he can't put that resource to work for him, that's just how he operates, and Theta doesn't have to run simulations or numbers to know how that could impact his current successful strategy. "I can tell him after. I hope he doesn't need it before then."