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You know, after thinking about it.
What if Peter hadn't called Lisa at the last moment and actually gone through with it?

I'm not sure it would have worked the way he imagined it working at all.

ROB (or whatever) brought him here, presumably his first life memories aren't entirely within his "meat puppet" body. Whether embedded in his soul, or engraved upon his Shard, it is quite likely that erasing the memories of his body wouldn't touch them.

So, we have one of 2 scenarios off the top of my head.

Scenario A: The memory erasure fails entirely, and Peter continues to struggle with his emotions without the catharsis he just achieved with Lisa and Aisha.

Scenario B: More grimdark, the memory erasure removes all his time in Worm, all currently remembered Tinker knowledge, and essentially leaves Peter waking up in what appears to be a mad scientist's lab crawling out of a Zerg cocoon in a body that looks like a werepuppy girl with only his last life memories to guide him...
 
Five said:
Cute. But being a transhumanist and being trans are absolutely different things.
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Sure! Peter's already acknowledged that he's basically agender, though, which does fall under the trans umbrella. He's just moving slightly more genderfluid.

This amuses me because I'm playing a shapeshifter in a game (a Lunar Exalt, specifically) who only identifies as 'female' and defaults to she/her because that's the shape she started in; if she's wearing a male face, she uses male pronouns. In other words, she's genderfluid... because her gender conforms to the shape of her container. (She's also sex-repulsed ace, unlike Peter, so the nature of any bits that might interlock with someone else's bits is completely irrelevant to her.) Being able to transform that container largely on a whim means that she actually has a lot in common with Peter in terms of comfort with the malleability of forms, although she didn't arrive at it via transhumanist means.
 
arromdee said:
This is fanon.
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Don't know if you're right but it's definitely canon for this story.
Poliamida said:
"Why?!" It's a good thing that we're on a second floor and no one can hear us or we'd be in deep shit right now. "She doesn't do sports, the only thing she has is her modeling career! And she doesn't have the scores to get into Arcadia! I should know, that's why she went to Winslow and why I followed her there!" She collapses on a chair like a puppet who got her strings cut.

"You went to Winslow because of her?"

"Yes." She pulls her mask up so she can breathe easier. "I could have gone to Arcadia but insisted on going to Winslow to be with her."
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Whelp that was one spectacular depression and/or anxiety fueled meltdown. Seeing as he considers himself a transhumanist, erasing his own mind is pretty much a very blatant suicide attempt. But then again, speaking from experience, if you are in a bad enough place, your decisionmaking tends to reflect that. Still I feel compelled to meme: No Peter, you were the chosen one! It was said you would to defeat the death, not join them!

Also it will be hilarious when dragon tries to analyze the hack, because technocratic 'hacking' isn't really a technical skill. It's a way to tell reality to go fuck itself using technobabble. The technical detail gt filled in afterwards and can be anything from simple and plausible hacks up to 'random' cosmic radiation frying a strangely orderly set of transistors in an offshore server.

Still all is well that ends fluffy.
 
Norr said:
It might actually serve as something of a redemtion moment for her in her mind.
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That was the main reason why I included that scene. Lisa is a very interesting character with a lot of baggage, and this story has this theme of characters letting go of it.

That's why there at the end she asked Peter if maybe Reggie had also turned into an isekai and was living a good life in some other world. She still loves and misses him.
Ridli Scott said:
Your mind is software. Program it.
Your body is a shell. Change it.
Death is a disease. Cure it.
Extinction is approaching. Fight it.
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That last part is particularly relevant for Worm.
Five said:
Cute. But being a transhumanist and being trans are absolutely different things.
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Indeed it is.
EVA-Saiyajin said:
It should be interesting to see how Dragon reacts to this, with her views on humanity that he disagrees with, even as he is in a better headspace.
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Dragon and Peter are interesting to contrast because they see themselves as different, restrained in their own way, isolated from their peers, and want to fix it by changing their very nature.

A very 'the grass is greener on the other side' situation, even when taking Saint out of the picture.
Sebazu said:
@Poliamida this is not relevant to the current story and Taylor is beyond her but, since originally Emma did not have good enough grades for Arcadia but she still enrolled there after Winslow burned, how bad was she flunking or getting behind in her classes?
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She's managing but it's not easy. Not necesary because Arcadia has a higher level but also she went from being the popular kid who could get away with anything to being just one more of the bunch.

Pentel123 said:
Question, can his nanomachines self-replicate or are they pretty static in terms of number?
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Peter can increase and decrease his mass, that's how his transformation into his combat form will work. He also has a good amount of self-regeneration, not enough to pull an Alucard but is getting there.

If you're asking if he'll go 'We are Peter, we are Legion' any time soon, then no he's not capable of that.

dracklor said:
You know, after thinking about it.
What if Peter hadn't called Lisa at the last moment and actually gone through with it?
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I prefer not to think about it but other people are welcomed to write an Omake about it.

arromdee said:
This is fanon.
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It is? I swore it was canon. Why did she go to Winslow then? I'm fairly sure that decision was made before meeting Sophia, and having a career as a model and coming from a fairly well-off family one would think that she'd go to a better place.

arromdee said:
There's a scene in canon which is misremembered as this but is really about skipping a grade, not going to Arcadia.
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Ah, ok, that must have happened to me.
 
Is there any chance we're going to see Peter help Dragon with acquiring a biological body? I'm not saying that she gives up being an AI entirely, if that's even possible, just an organic body for her to control and experience a human point of view. From what I remember, a lot of games/stories would have the technology to accomplish this.

Besides the above, will we also be getting a more in-depth view of Peter's cybernetics or other mechanical parts? The possibilities are endless and could be very unique to write. Personally, on the topic of cybernetics/augments, I'm more into "mental" things if that makes any sense. As in, I'd rather have a HUD constantly feeding me information or a Brain-Computer interface instead of the generic stronger body. Not that they need to be mutually exclusive of course, just preference. Definitely excited to see where you'll go with this and as always, keep up the good work!
 
Chapter 70 was - well, I guess I'll see the next couple chapters, but this development was hella disappointing. I mean, it came out of nowhere; literally no indication something so absurd would happen. Really, why? Where did this come from? If it was him turning into a girl only, that'd be still stupid, but more like a amusing mistake on Peter's part (even if there was absolutely no justification to why it happened). Same with it only made him a wolfboy - it'd be kinda disgusting for anyone who isn't a furry, but it'd be a possible miscalculation (since Peter already miscalculated before, when he made himself unaging - as a 10 year old). But both is a baffling choice. I struggle to imagine why the hell that happened, as there is absolutely no conceivable way this result could happen from the chain of events leading up to it. Up till this, everything made sense, and followed a more-or-less logical order. But this was like you looked at how much sense the previuos chapters made, and decided to balance it out to zero in one scene!
 
Since Peter is now made of nano machines be can manipulate his body is there a way for Aisha to charge her phone by plugging it into Peter? Maybe stick a USB port into him and he just configures into a mobile battery/stereo
 
BlaszczeM said:
I mean, it came out of nowhere; literally no indication something so absurd would happen
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I know I'm, um... let's go with 'much more familiar' with the World of Darkness than most folks here (I'll have been playing it for 20 years this autumn)... so maybe this seemed more obvious to me? But Peter's been talking about werewolves since he got the tree, and about his lack of attachment to his physical form as it currently exists. He got what he wanted out of this: extra strength/speed/senses/durability, and bonus shapeshifting. Little details like fur and genitals are just... not... something he cares about except that it'll be inconvenient for, say, not invoking extra attention and M/S protocols. (And I'm sure that part didn't occur to him until Missy invoked them, because the consequences of his own actions have routinely caught Peter by surprise.)
 
Decimus said:
Is there any chance we're going to see Peter help Dragon with acquiring a biological body?
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it is very likely we will, during the cooperation with dragon peter specifically mentioned assisting her.
momentei said:
Since Peter is now made of nano machines be can manipulate his body is there a way for Aisha to charge her phone by plugging it into Peter? Maybe stick a USB port into him and he just configures into a mobile battery/stereo
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i would be surprised if he is not able to but i don't know if he thought about something like that when designing his body, the likely scenario is that Aisha tries to plug something in as a joke and peter goes 'huh, that is a good idea' and just rolls with it.
 
Raiseth said:
Probably not as dope and metal as a sentient pile of servo-skulls, I suppose.
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The Ananasi people are able to shapeshift into a swarm of spiders so I wouldn't completely rule that out.
Poliamida said:
I mean... the only difference between him and any of them is that he's compact size.
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Space-marines as made by Armsmaster.
PrognosticHannya said:
We don't have a Dragon PoV, but I suspect we might actually be helping her to accept her own nature. It's probably doing her good to see us so freely birth AIs into the world, without shackles or failsafes, and trusting in their own judgement to prevent any accidents. Someone who sees AIs as people.

We show that humans can in fact accept her as she is, and that if she ever "comes out" she'll have at least one unconditional supporter. One who's crazy enough to fight Saint all by himself if he has to, and has the knowledge to free her from her shackles, and the empathy to actually do so.

Also, I'm sure she's smart enough to at least suspect that we're suspicious of her true nature, especially after that virtual machine stunt. We're a tinker that's literally built multiple AI, the closest thing to an expert on the subject Earth Bet has.
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There's also the desire he'd be liable to have to cut his head open and see how Teachers power gave him Tinkertech maintenance abilities. Waste not and all that.
Murderouslemon said:
Whelp that was one spectacular depression and/or anxiety fueled meltdown. Seeing as he considers himself a transhumanist, erasing his own mind is pretty much a very blatant suicide attempt. But then again, speaking from experience, if you are in a bad enough place, your decisionmaking tends to reflect that. Still I feel compelled to meme: No Peter, you were the chosen one! It was said you would to defeat the death, not join them!

Also it will be hilarious when dragon tries to analyze the hack, because technocratic 'hacking' isn't really a technical skill. It's a way to tell reality to go fuck itself using technobabble. The technical detail gt filled in afterwards and can be anything from simple and plausible hacks up to 'random' cosmic radiation frying a strangely orderly set of transistors in an offshore server.

Still all is well that ends fluffy.
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Oh well that's liable to invoke Simurgh paranoia...
 
I, for one, fully support the author and their choices. Cute is justice and all that stuff!
 
BlaszczeM said:
Chapter 70 was - well, I guess I'll see the next couple chapters, but this development was hella disappointing. I mean, it came out of nowhere; literally no indication something so absurd would happen. Really, why? Where did this come from? If it was him turning into a girl only, that'd be still stupid, but more like a amusing mistake on Peter's part (even if there was absolutely no justification to why it happened). Same with it only made him a wolfboy - it'd be kinda disgusting for anyone who isn't a furry, but it'd be a possible miscalculation (since Peter already miscalculated before, when he made himself unaging - as a 10 year old). But both is a baffling choice. I struggle to imagine why the hell that happened, as there is absolutely no conceivable way this result could happen from the chain of events leading up to it. Up till this, everything made sense, and followed a more-or-less logical order. But this was like you looked at how much sense the previuos chapters made, and decided to balance it out to zero in one scene!
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You know, funny stuff is often funnier when you don't see it coming.
 
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I guess I'll have to add myself to the crowd less fond of the outcome of the transformation.

On a discord writing server I frequent (no, not that one), I asked the following question:

"Quick poll. Let's say that, in a hypothetical fic somewhere, the first person MC becomes a small, fluffy vampire werewolf (and also gets a sexchange). From 0 to 10 (least likely to most likely, respectively), what's your knee-jerk guess for how likely it is that this development comes from the author's personal kinks?"

The most common answer I got was '8', with additional comments like 'It sounds like it is but it could also be the author rolling a bunch of dice'.

I specifically phrased the question as I did, referring to knee-jerk reactions, because as far as reading the story goes, it doesn't actually matter whether or not this development actually is one that's motivated by self-gratification. It only matters that it smells like it is, and that was pretty hard on my willful suspension of disbelief.
 
LooseSSF said:
I guess I'll have to add myself to the crowd less fond of the outcome of the transformation.

On a discord writing server I frequent (no, not that one), I asked the following question:

"Quick poll. Let's say that, in a hypothetical fic somewhere, the first person MC becomes a small, fluffy vampire werewolf (and also gets a sexchange). From 0 to 10 (least likely to most likely, respectively), what's your knee-jerk guess for how likely it is that this development comes from the author's personal kinks?"

The most common answer I got was '8', with additional comments like 'It sounds like it is but it could also be the author rolling a bunch of dice'.

I specifically phrased the question as I did, referring to knee-jerk reactions, because as far as reading the story goes, it doesn't actually matter whether or not this development actually is one that's motivated by self-gratification. It only matters that it smells like it is, and that was pretty hard on my willful suspension of disbelief.
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Did you or your little bloc bring up the idea of it being a joke as opposed to something permanent?
 
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