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A is living a lie that she is more exceptional than anyone. A quicker study, top tier performer in multiple arenas, a sort of military strategist capable of organizing the resistance to the science center attack, someone who manages an entire second life under the scrutiny of billions using glances and other subtle interpretive clues. If the lie comes out, will her audience kill her like they killed Hruby? Kill each other in a war to end all flame wars? In A's mind, as closely as Basil can model it for us, A feels abject fear about bring found to be a fraud. Capable of one tenth of what she does, piloted increasingly by the intelligence wrapped in her skin, who she maligns.
The existence isn't common knowledge, and Robert avoided broadcasting anything in activating it. It's plausible that moneyed elite have had this for aeons, and he's realized she did it on her own, or Bas on his. Or Bas edited the past in a way other public footage subtly refutes, and an image-minded person inferred the rest.
Comment by centerwingbolt at 28/01/2025 at 15:25 UTC
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Hmm, so the issue at heart is that A is hiding how exceptional Basil is, and the uniqueness of their connection.
I still don’t get what killing Robert would accomplish tho… he pretty much outed her in public, even if it was only speculation. The damage is already done, isn’t it?