two 王 video ○ taka candroid

[controlsdesire]

[When the video starts, the camera is facing down towards a particularly non-descript carpet. While the camera isn't moving around a lot, it is shaking quite a bit, and a small, high-pitched noise accompanies it. It almost sounds like a bird is in the room, though the noise is more mechanical than animal. The noise continues near the camera for another few seconds before the camera moves up and over to a patio door, not showing much of the apartment its in on the way there.

Oddly enough, when the camera reaches the patio door, there's just enough reflection to see that it's a small, red and silver mechanical bird, who begins tapping its beak against the door as if to ask to be let outside. It hovers in front of the door, continuing to make the same mechanical caw.

In the background, there's a voice that only a handful of people on the Network might recognize, speaking in Japanese.]

"Stop recording."

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[hopediesalone]

[... ok, it's been ages since his days of tracking down bootleg fansubs on VHS, but "stop" is a pretty basic word. he remembers that one. he's vaguely interested in the mechanical bird, but he doesn't comment on it.]

Pets are always getting up to something.

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[controlsdesire]

It's not a pet. It's a machine.

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[hopediesalone]

Is there really a difference here?

[controlsdesire]

I don't see how either of those things have anything in common.

[hopediesalone]

It's a bird robot that behaves like a normal bird, isn't it?

[controlsdesire]

It's not a pet. Certainly not mine.

[hopediesalone]

Y'know, insisting on talking about it in a certain way doesn't change the situation.

[controlsdesire]

It's not a pet.

[hopediesalone]

Machine or not, then, what would you call it?