[voice test] 2B from Nier: Automata

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Note: For any castmates you can assume the canon setting. I'm playing her from mid-way through the A/B ending before she and 9S head to the flooded city. Though if you have a different idea, go for it!

Non-castmates can do whatever they want with the setting. Maybe they're in a generic DW jamjar setting or maybe they're in an actual one. Maybe one of them has ended up in the wrong world or we're AUing it. Sky's the limit there.

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[crueloath]

[ He nods. ]

All right. [ He grins. He navigates to another edge just above her, following the route his eyes had charted moments before. Ten minutes. Now that he can work with. The sky has all ready grown another few shades darker.

He scales the rocky outcrop as well as he can, finding it hard to take his eyes off the sky—part of his model’s inborn curiosity perhaps, sparking like a hungry flame—a sudden, almost manufactured eagerness fueling his footsteps as he scrambles higher, marking the path for 2B to follow. It’s a feeling he doesn’t think he could suppress if he tried. Emotions may be prohibited, but at times like this, he'd find it a shame, not to feel. ] I think we just need to clear the trees, get out from under the canopies.

[ Anywhere that fit those specifications would probably do.

He reaches the top, eyes darting around the circumference of the area, before mentally choosing a path that cuts through some bushes, spotting an wide, open area twenty feet ahead of him that isn’t obscured by shadow that seems to be facing the direction of the sun. It’s tempting, to just run ahead without stopping. Run as fast as his legs can take him so he doesn’t miss a single second that he doesn’t have, satiate the itch in his limbs, but he’ll wait for the seconds it takes for 2B to reach the top, before finally sprinting ahead. He doesn’t stop until he reaches the area his eyes had marked, finding himself at the edge of another cliff face overlooking a far more open area of the Forest Kingdom with a pond lying just below, leaving the view of the sky and parallel horizon mostly untarnished by obscuring greenery.

He squints a little, against the light, a little bright still, even through his visor, though the sun’s ultraviolet rays pose no danger to an android’s less-than-organic biology. The light is almost polarized now, sky quickly darkening, shade by shade, closer to the color of the deep sea than the usual afternoon sky.

It still takes a moment, but the light is fast receding, and soon he can make out the first black traces of the moon choking off the sun. ]

There. [ He says, once she’s in hearing range, pointing again. ] See? That’s the moon moving in.

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[She follows him with ease. After all the times then and now that she's had to... she could never lose sight of him. But she tries not to think about it--she always tries--and focuses on the surroundings. The more 9S's eagerness takes over the further from familiar territory he starts to lead them. She notices quickly but says nothing and charts a mental note of their path so they can find their way back safely.

However when they reach the top the area immediately becomes familiar again. Ah. A familiar place just a different path to get there. She saunters after him as he pulls ahead but never takes her eyes off him. At least at first but then she happens to glance heavenward.

She stops dead beside him and suddenly finds herself transfixed. She truly hadn't ever seen anything like it. The color is all wrong and the darkness that's starting to settle almost makes her apprehensive. It feels... unnatural to her yet according to 9S it was completely normal. Yet despite the initial negative feelings there's one that shines through the strongest; one that almost feels unexpected. She speaks it before she can stop herself.]

It's beautiful. [She pauses. As if realizing what she just said she glances down at the ground and shifts her feet slightly,] That is... I've never seen anything like it before. The colors and the way the sun has started to just disappear like that... It should be alarming but... [She sounds embarrassed. It should be but it isn't. Instead she just finds it breathtaking.]