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She walks back to her booth, Kiki trailing behind her.
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She doesn't say anything, she gets that she was pissed off and mad but at the same time, he said his apologize and when he did, he left the situation alone..so kiki was wondering why she got so pissed after the fact he had apologized and left the situation alone..was it because he said he wasn't gonna give the number..?..if that wasn't the reason. She would be confused on why she freaked out so much.
It had absolutely nothing to do with his number. Ell didn't even want it. She was pissed because this was the final nail in the coffin for her-the final proof that she needed to get the fuck out of this kingdom. Ell was a cyborg-a literal second-class citizen in New Beijing, as well as many other countries around the world. Many shops had no-cyborg policies, the testing done for the Roselyn plague was being done EXCLUSIVELY on cyborgs, hell there were entire neighborhoods that banned her existence! Practically everyone looked at her as a monster or an experiment-they assumed that simply because she had robotic parts, she was a robot-incapable of feeling emotion that wasn't programmed. This couldn't have been farther from the truth. She WISHED he had called her a robot as an insult, that would have been better than what she had just discovered-that he was woefully, woefully ignorant. He couldn't identify her as a cyborg-that thought never even crossed his mind. He just assumed she was a robot-he never stopped to ask her if she even was-he really just assumed. And telling her that even if she was, her personality was still nice? What a backhanded compliment! For years, she had been holding out this secret, silent hope that maybe things could be better-that HE would be better. But he was just like everyone else, and nothing would ever change-cyborgs would never be seen as equals.
There were A LOT of cyborgs around-but correctemondo, there wasn't much education on them aside from the basics-humans with robotic parts aiding them in their abilities. Some of them had skin grafting, meaning that their robotic parts were indistinguishable from human parts-they were the lucky ones, they could pass for human. Most didn't have quite as many cybernetic parts as Ell-an entire nervous system destroyed and put back together artificially, stronger than before. Generally people were sort of taught to view cyborgs as people who more machine than actual person-basically robots with human emotions. It made sense that he was so ignorant-but it was still upsetting considering he was the future leader of the country.
ok wait you have too much education man but I love the way you put it.
Akira was still walking home thinking about it
-Cyborg..?..what even is that..?..should I ask mom I don't wanna be rude but she seemed so upset when I said robot..I really wish I could say sorry..I feel bad..but she seemed nice..I really didn't care what she was..though I don't care she may have cared and I didn't even think about that, I'm such a dumbass..-
His mom said nothing about Cyborgs not even that they were robots that have emotions he just and only knew about robots