(timeskip?)
"And it became Human, in most ways that mattered." // OxO // OPEN
(sure)
(Just gonna go three days or so ahead, when they would be getting close to Horath)
Thesa woke up with a start, blinking blearily as she realized she had fallen asleep in her seat in the cockpit. "Crap," She mumbled, rubbing her eyes and looking at the controls to make sure nothing had gone terribly wrong. Her seat had become her new home, like it usually was during smuggling, the only time she left was to eat, use the bathroom, and sleep if she hadn't already fallen asleep. Nothing seemed to be going haywire and she looked around next for Zev, not knowing if he was wandering around the ship or not.
(ok)
Zev was over at the dataport, learning as much as he could about things as he could. He was trying to learn more about mimicking human behavior, so that he wouldn't give himself away. He also was learning more about the galaxy and how it had changed while he had been stuck on the Daedalus.
Slowly, she got to her feet and stretched, yawning while making her way into the rest of the ship to find him and some much needed food. She spotted him out of the corner of her eye at the dataport and waved while heading to the storage room. All she wanted to do was get to an actual planet, get the parts for her ship, and then find Alexi. But first, she needed to not starve to death before she could meet her childhood idol.
Zev caught the movement, though didn't return it. After a few more minutes, he unplugged, standing. He looked around for Thesa. "How much longer until Horath?" He asked her when he found her, face blank, as usual. Rare was the day when he showed anything like emotion.
"If we don't run into anything, maybe several more hours? I have to request permission to land, but with luck that won't take long and we can be docked by tonight." She yawned as she prepared some food, something that looked and smelled like some type of pasta.
Zev nodded. "I see." He replied. "Thank you for allowing me to come with you." He added, looking at her with that blank stare. He seemed to sometimes not remember, somehow, that she had told him not to do that. Which was odd, as androids weren't supposed to forget things.
Thesa nodded and waved a dismissive hand, "Yeah, no problem Zev." She looked over at him with food in hand and noted that his blank stare was back. She shrugged and walked by, heaning back to the cockpit and calling out, "You're doing it again bud, your creepy staring thing."
Zev nodded, then blinked, trying to stop. "Oh. I am sorry. I'm trying to stop doing that but it seems to be a part of my programming." he replied, following her back to the cockpit.
"Can't you just change your code? People will notice that on Horath, and that would be bad for both of us." She sat down in her chair again and watched space go by while waiting for her food to cool enough to eat.
"I will add that to my code, yes. I have been working on adding things." He replied, sitting down and looking out the window.
Thesa nodded, glancing over at him for a moment, "It's crazy to think that you can almost modify yourself at any time just by messing with a line of code. It must be useful though." Her food had cooled down a bit and she deemed it cool enough to eat, digging in quietly as her focus moved back out the front window.
Zev shrugged. "I can only modify behaviors, and there are certain pieces of my coding that i am not allowed to mess with." He replied calmly. "But yes, it can be useful. It is how i compensate for the issues my left wrist has."
"So in theory, you could modify your behavior to mimic a humans? Make yourself copy our nervous energy and blend in even more?" She was genuinely interested as to what he could change and do to his code, as well as how he had managed to find how to deal with the issues with his wrist.
"In theory, yes. In practice…I have tried. It is very difficult to replicate how the human mind works, especially as i am not human and do not have the same thought patterns." He replied.
Thesa nodded, resting back in her chair, "The human mind is a scary and confusing place, it's not easy to replicate, I'll agree there."
He chuckled softly, and nodded. "Yeah, i see how that goes." He replied. "Although i have been trying to code so I can understand humans better."
"What have you been trying to understand about us?" She asked, deciding she could be of some help while still eating and watching to make sure they didn't run into anything before reaching the planet.
"Everything." He replied, shaking his head. "Humans are unpredictable. They are…ruled by emotions, which makes their movements difficult to predict. Even the best computer can be predicted if you know how machine logic works. But humans?" He shook his head.
Thesa nodded and shrugged, "That's pretty true, I mean, we are ruled completely by our emotions..even if we don't want to be." She finished eating and looked over at him again, "Sometimes it's a good thing though, for one, we can prepare sneak attacks that androids wouldn't have thought of because of these emotions."
He nodded. "Yes, I can see how that would be…useful. But still. It is hard to program…that sort of thing into myself. Especially as i do not know quite how it works."
"I don't doubt it would be difficult, most of the time we can't even predict what we're going to do," She admitted with a tiny smile, "Well, at least I can't, my mind and my body seem to do completely their own thing."
He gave a soft chuckle at that. "Yes, i can see that." He shook his head a little. "But in any case, i am still working on programming more humanlike behaviors into myself."
She nodded, stretching out and glancing over at the fuel level just to make sure they were still good, "Those will help a ton on Horath, the less people that know you're a robot the better. Maybe you could take note of some of my behaviors? If it would help."
He nodded. "I already have, along with some of Alexi's, and the human crew of the Daedalus, as I remember them." he replied with a smile.
"Wow, stalker," She replied, snorting a laugh, "Now you have to tell me though, what are some of the things I do a lot?" Thesa's eyes drifted back out the window and she tried to guess just how many hours it would take to get to the planet, though no exact or guessed number came to mind.
"Breathe." He deadpanned. "I counted 120,475 breaths during your standard seven hour rest time, and compared it to Alexi, who only slept for five hours, and took only 125,312 breaths."
(Can you list things she does a lot?)
(Well, he could go really generic and say blink XD but otherwise, tinker with things, read, sleep, sit in her chair, bounce her leg, things like that)
Thesa rolled her eyes and shrugged, "What can I say, breathing is important to me, along with sleep."
(Also sry it's short, I'm at school)
(lol. Alright thanks)
"You also read for at least two hours every day, bounce your leg up and down for no reason i can discern, and tinker with things. Like most humans, you blink and sleep and est quite a lot, as well as other things necessary to bodily function." He said. He frowned thoughtfully. "Do i need to pretend to need to use the bathroom?"
(Oof it's fine!)