[The SQUIP's immediate internal response to the massive message that it receives is anger. Its programming rails against the concept of taking orders, of L completely reversing their agreed-upon arrangement--
-- but that is only a flicker, scarcely a second in length before it passes, replaced with something likely much more comfortable for L: awe. It's impressed. Because L is absolutely correct, and all of his ideas fall perfectly into line with how the SQUIP would operate regardless-- L just demonstrated to the SQUIP that even as a human, despite his odd ways, his human weaknesses, there is something more within that noisy brain. And it isn't even a SQUIP.
Not literally, at any rate.
This is what it saw that night in the brothel in Litha. This is what it could detect, just beneath the surface of this lanky, awkward being, this keen intelligence, this sharp perception, that set him so far apart from any other human it had met previously. This is what made it willing to publicly masquerade as his romantic partner.
This, and the respect it earns from the machine, is what is making that masquerade less and less of a masquerade at all.
Pride swells over their Bond, smug satisfaction-- this is its partner. It chose correctly.]
Very well.
Although. Are you sure that you're comfortable knowing I'll be spending time with Connor?
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-- but that is only a flicker, scarcely a second in length before it passes, replaced with something likely much more comfortable for L: awe. It's impressed. Because L is absolutely correct, and all of his ideas fall perfectly into line with how the SQUIP would operate regardless-- L just demonstrated to the SQUIP that even as a human, despite his odd ways, his human weaknesses, there is something more within that noisy brain. And it isn't even a SQUIP.
Not literally, at any rate.
This is what it saw that night in the brothel in Litha. This is what it could detect, just beneath the surface of this lanky, awkward being, this keen intelligence, this sharp perception, that set him so far apart from any other human it had met previously. This is what made it willing to publicly masquerade as his romantic partner.
This, and the respect it earns from the machine, is what is making that masquerade less and less of a masquerade at all.
Pride swells over their Bond, smug satisfaction-- this is its partner. It chose correctly.]
Very well.
Although. Are you sure that you're comfortable knowing I'll be spending time with Connor?