...And also these.

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ROOMS BY CHARACTER

N - Q Nami Natasha Romanoff Nelkeila Tarid Nux Nyssa al Ghul Octavia Blake One Peggy Carter Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève

R - U R. Daneel Olivaw Rapunzel Remy LeBeau Riku Robin Redbreast Rogue Santanico Pandemonium Shawn Hunter Stefan (Alesci) Salvatore Steve "Orion" Rogers Steven Quartz Universe Souji Seta Stiles Stilinski Syeira Tadashi Hamada Tekhetsio

V - Z Vash the Stampede Vima Sunrider Vision (The) Wanda Maximoff Wrath Yamanaka Ino

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[dancingmd]

[Eventually, as the list goes on, Beverly brings it to a stop. With no other information to go on, the first two names seem good enough, since she saw their drawers earlier. Closing the Aurora drawer, she opens the Han Fastolfe one instead.]

[thezerothlaw]

[A profile is projected up from this drawer, depicting a bald man who looks about sixty, though given Spacer life expectancies, that may not be a good estimate There's a short biography, a birth and death that do indeed give him a life in the thirty six decade range, three listed wives, and two daughters -- one of whom is Vasilia, who was listed before. He's noted as a prominent roboticist of Aurora for his work with humaniform robots, and a member of the Robotics Institute, as well as for his political work that helped make further settlement from Earth possible.

One of the windows flickers, and begins to play a video. It seems to be from Daneel's point of view, and the same man, Fastolfe, is looking intently at him before breaking into a smile.]

That should do it, Sarton. Yes, that's good, he's waking up. Hello, can you hear me?

[The next voice is Daneel's own.]

I hear you, sir.

[Fastolfe is nothing short of triumphant.]

Excellent. Your name is Daneel Olivaw, do you understand? I'm Dr. Fastolfe, and over there is Dr. Sarton. Flex your right fingers for me, Daneel.

[The view shifts as Daneel turns his head to look at Dr. Sarton, a ginger-haired man who looks shockingly similar to Daneel, though perhaps a little older, who also has an expression of pleased excitement on his face. Here, the recording ends, and the window flickers back to its previous view.]

[dancingmd]

[Beverly stands staring at the drawer for a minute, collecting her thoughts. Essentially, she just witnessed Daneel's birth. Seen from his perspective, it's an odd thing: To not exist and then to suddenly exist, with none of the messy human mechanics of slowly developing self-awareness. Then there's that triumphant look on Fastolfe's face... so different from the joy, the wonder, and yes, sometimes the heartbreak and the rejection, that human babies are greeted with upon entering the world. It's a much more... well, scientific reaction.

And she has to wonder at the egotism of cyberneticists that leads them to create robotic copies of themselves. That, at least, seems consistent between their universes.

While she would like to contemplate the memory she just saw more, it was not particularly helpful in her quest to reactivate Daneel, so she closes that drawer and opens Dr. Sarton's instead.]

[thezerothlaw]

[This drawer produces another profile projection. The closer view of Dr. Sarton just emphasizes how much Daneel looks like him, though perhaps there's something a little idealized about Daneel in comparison. The profile notes a wife, and descendants, that he, like Dr. Fastolfe, was a citizen of Auroran. His birth and death, however, give him a far shorter lifespan, having died a full two hundred years before Dr. Fastolfe. There's a note, too, that he died on Earth.

Another window flickers into a memory: Dr. Sarton, gesturing briskly for Daneel to follow him into the entrance of a set of apartments.]

You'll stay here with me, when we're not running diagnostics on you. You'll have more responsibilities later, but for now, I'll be keeping an eye on you.

[The memory ends there, apparently just a brief thought. After a moment, the word murdered flickers into view on the profile -- someone has difficulty thinking about that, evidently.]

[dancingmd]

[Well, this wasn't any help eith-- oh.

Oh no.

Beverly quickly slams the door shut. That's not something she should be prying into. Yet... there is that small part of her that desperately wants to know, that is intrigued by the word "murdered," so she backs away from the filing cabinet for now. She comes back to Daneel and lays a cautious hand on his.]

Daneel? Please tell me you're in there.

[thezerothlaw]

[Going through the memories seems to have triggered something; Daneel's finger twitches under Beverly's touch, and his eyes open. He seems able to focus on her, but not quite able to speak. He lifts a hand to touch the cable in the back of his head, but stops and lowers his hand again.]

[dancingmd]

[Beverly's shoulders relax when he moves and she lets out a long breath.]

Can you understand me? Blink twice if you can.

[thezerothlaw]

[He does blink, twice. This is... disorienting, to say the least, for someone who does not sleep. After a moment, he lifts his hand, and points at the nearby computer panel.]

[dancingmd]

[Good. Now they're getting somewhere. Maybe. At least he's moving. She goes to the computer panel he indicated and studies it for a minute.]

I don't totally understand what I'm looking at here.

[thezerothlaw]

[The panel seems to map out the power system Daneel is linked into. It indicates his own power source is on standby, and he's currently running on external power. Deactivating the one will release him, but his own internal power must be reconnected first.

It does look like it can be done remotely.]

[dancingmd]

[After closer examination, everything slowly starts to make sense. It's fortunate she's had experience with this sort of thing before. Still, it makes her nervous not to know for sure that what she's about to do is the correct thing. However, from her previous dream encounters, she reasons that no lasting damage will occur to either Daneel or her in this room so she finally goes for it, putting in the appropriate commands to reconnect his internal power and disconnect him from the external source. She turns back to face him.]

Daneel? Did it work?

[thezerothlaw]

[He opens his mouth, then gives a sigh that sounds oddly exhausted, a very human sort of sigh.]

Yes. I am operating on my own power now. Please, help me disconnect.

[dancingmd]

[She comes over to him and places a cautious hand on the cable connected to the back of his head.]

Do I just... twist it?

[thezerothlaw]

Yes, that should remove it safely.

[He reaches back, pulling open the seam in his neck around the cable.]

[dancingmd]

[Beverly twists the cable with care and when she hears it detach she pulls it away slowly.]

Are we good? Operations normal?

[thezerothlaw]

[Daneel reaches back to close up the seam in the back of his neck, the edges of his artificial skin melding together invisible. He rises, because it seems improper to be seated while she is not.]

Everything as it should be, Dr. Crusher. Thank you for your assistance. Did you need something?

[dancingmd]

Yes. I ah.... don't know where I am.

[thezerothlaw]

This is a robotics workshop, much like Dr. Fastolfe's, or like many in Aurora's Robotics institute. This apparatus can be used to impress a new matrix upon the mind of a robot.

[dancingmd]

I see. So all those files... they are your memories?

[thezerothlaw]

[He looks at the drawers, his expression almost quizzical.]

They appear to be. Interesting.

[dancingmd]

I'm sorry - I saw some of them... I didn't realize, I just thought it was a database and I was trying to figure out how to reactivate you.

[thezerothlaw]

That would be a reasonable supposition, even if it was false.

[Still. He does have secrets. She doesn't seem... shocked in any way, so that's reassuring.]

What did you learn?

[dancingmd]

I saw when you were first activated, by Dr. Fastolfe and... [Deep breath.] I saw Dr. Sarton as well and that... I didn't see any details, just you and him in an apartment together, but the computer - your memory - said that he was murdered.

[thezerothlaw]

Ah. Yes, this is so.

[He takes a deep breath, because he does find this upsetting, however long ago it was.]

He... was not the target. The culprit was an extremist who wished to destroy me, but Dr. Sarton answered the door of his apartments that day. Dr. Fastolfe arranged it so that I was the Spacer representative in the homicide investigation.

[dancingmd]

Oh, Daneel. [Empathy is written all over her face, as she remembers Dr. Reyga - and he and she did not even share the same sort of connection Daneel and Dr. Sarton did.] Did you find them, the person who did it?