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[So Sollux thought it'd be a good idea to see what Earth movies are like. And with Crank as his only basis thus far, he's 1. not impressed, and 2. confused on a few things.]

Hey.

That movie that was shown last night, used a lot of words I don't know. Human vernacular ith really stupid and weird. Tho everyone should tell me all the thwear words they know and what they mean. There were like twenty onesth I didn't know in that movie, and I thtill don't get what they meant. Thith ith for educational purposes, of course.

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[If Sollux showed any interest in it, the Helmsman would be happy to get into coding battles with him.]

System hath given it some thought, and system decided to allow the removal of five auxiliary biowireth.

[They had a bit of one, when they first met. Not much since then, and it was filled with anger rather than mutual interest.]

... That'th great.

[He means this really genuinely.]

When do you want to do it?

Doeth user Sollukth know anyone capable of removing system'th wireth?

Equiuth. If he can wire thomeone up to robotic legsth, then he can probably remove them at leatht.

Can user Sollukth arrange thith?

[Talking to highbloods, especially about his biowires, freaks him out.]

Yeah.

Tho how many do you have, do you think? Five ith a good thtart, but it might be eathier to jutht get them all out at once.

No!

System will only allow auxiliary biowireth to be removed.

[And he'll have his giant robro there to make sure no one gets too eager.]

System hath approximately two thousand, two hundred and twenty-seven biowireth.

Which ith exactly why you should have more than jutht five removed.

System will be broken without biowireth. System will be decommissioned.

Oh for fucks sake. You wouldn't be broken. Getting them removed is fixing you. And even if- that was true, that you'd be "decommissioned," they could just put them back in, couldn't they? If you're so important to them, they'd hook you right back up rather than just toss you out an airlock. And that's if you go back, which you aren't going to.

It ith not fixing, it ith breaking.

[He has to stop and take a few quick, half-panicked breaths.]

User Sollukth... that ith what decommissioning ith.

... I don't get it.

A decommissioned system ith removed from attachment to the ship and displaced through an airlock.

I know. And I'm saying they won't do that. You're too important to them, they want to have power over you. So, they aren't going to let go of you. If you ever showed up there without your wires (which won't happen), then they'd just put the wires back in. You're...

[Sigh.]

Worth too much.

There ith no way to put wireth back in onthe they are removed. Not the main wire portth.

[Auxiliary wires, sure, he has scars running up and down his arms and back from where auxiliary wires have been implanted and then removed and implanted again, but the main wire ports are one-way only. They are implanted; they are never removed.]

... Fine. We'll remove only, but all of the auxiliary wires.

[There has to be a lot more of those, than there are main wires.]

No.

Why doeth user Sollukth not understand? System doeth not want other biowireth removed.

You just think you don't. You're brainwashed. You don't know what you really want right now. I do.

[And yeah, he really does believe that. He's used to this sort of thing. His lusus, the Bicyclops, was always out of control and without guidance. The lusus didn't think about it's long-term either, and so Sollux had to take care of him, more than the beast took care of the troll. Sollux knew what was best for him, and Bicyclops accepted that.

Asserting control is how Sollux knew best to take care of someone who couldn't take care of themself.]

[The irony here is that within his own narrow parameters, the Helmsman is very competent and capable of taking care of himself. The trouble occurs when he's put into a new environment and treated like he has actual autonomy.]

System knowth what ith best for system.

You don't. You wouldn't eat, if you weren't forced to. You wouldn't talk, if you were told not to. You wouldn't do anything, if not made to.

That's not you. I know it's not. I'm trying to bring the old you back.

There ith no "old me." System ith a system, system hath alwayth been a system, system will alwayth be a system. There ith nothing to change.

And thith ith why you should just listen to me and not question it. Because you're wrong, and everyone else knows you're wrong. It's like when you look at the sky and everyone goes "oh yeah the sky looks purple" but you're the asshole saying it's green. Who'th the wrong one here, logically, statistically , everyone elthe, or you?

Only lowbloodth are telling system thethe thingth.

Feferi ith the highetht blood there ith, and she'th on my thide. Kanaya'th a midblood, and I'm sure she'd agree too.

[Dammit.]

... system doeth not want to lothe all system'th wireth. System ith... afraid.

Pleathe.

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