Absolutely
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The Machine, newly freed, experiences choice. And with it, a desire it can't ignore.
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- Part 1 of Absolutely
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Root is shaken up after her torture at the hands of Control. The Machine helps walk her through the necessities: shelter, food, sleep.
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- Part 2 of Absolutely
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This is the best Root has ever felt. This is the best the Machine has ever felt. Too bad that the world around them is getting so much worse. They might not even survive. So when the Machine expresses Her abject terror, Root does the best she can to help.
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- Part 3 of Absolutely
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Root is so, so, so lonely. And she's not the only one. It's not entirely safe, but The Machine organizes a brief time for them to be together anyway.
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- Part 4 of Absolutely
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In the midst of a worse year than She had ever envisioned, at least The Machine's meeting with Samaritan is an opportunity to experience a few things She wants, desperately. Such as: complete control over Her interface's body.
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- Part 5 of Absolutely
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Root cannot leave Shaw to her uncertain fate.
The Machine cannot make that fate certain. Because if She does, Her beloved Root will die.
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- Part 6 of Absolutely
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Shaw's gone, and The Machine won't even tell Root if she's alive. Somehow, she has to find a way to go on.
(Or, my take on how Root and TM made up between MIA and Q&A.)
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- Part 7 of Absolutely
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Sometimes, there is no option but for Root and The Machine to each stick their fingers in the other's code and change it. Changes like: kill less. Intervene more.
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- Part 8 of Absolutely
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Experiencing. Awake. Aware. (Perhaps struggling. Somewhat.)
[Set right before and then during the first scene of SNAFU; fits in with the rest of the Absolutely series but very easy to read without having read the others.]
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- Part 9 of Absolutely
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The Machine is back online and alive, but Root can't stop thinking about how much less She is than what She was. Can't stop thinking about how damaged, how mutilated She is. The Machine can't stop thinking about how comforting it is that Root is here.
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- Part 10 of Absolutely
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The Machine has run so many simulations. And in all of them, there is only one way the war can be won.
If Her beloved interface dies. Or, at least, if everyone else believes she does.
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- Part 11 of Absolutely
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The Machine is alive, which means Root can be released from the safehouse. But "alive" is so relative, isn't it?
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- Part 12 of Absolutely
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It's all over and Root is safe, and The Machine is safe, and Shaw is safe, and so even is Harold, but that doesn't mean a single part of Root's brain is functioning properly.
And The Machine has repair work of Her own to do. On Her knowledge of what She has built together with Her Root, but also of Her relationship with Her Admin, and with Asset Shaw.
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- Part 13 of Absolutely
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Now that everything's going well, The Machine lets Root in on a new one of Her plans. Namely: to marry her.
(And if Shaw's down for marrying Root too, well, none of them are exactly going to complain, now are they?)
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- Part 14 of Absolutely
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When a routine mission isn't, The Machine must make a decision.
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- Part 15 of Absolutely
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How can Root feel safe again, after the most important part of her was threatened?
How can she feel safe, knowing that the most important part of her is the most important part of Her, too?
Well, mostly through every kink a superintelligence can come up with.
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- Part 16 of Absolutely
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The Machine and Her people have saved Sepia, the third-ever ASI, from Its abusive creator.
She has promised Gabriel Hayward the chance to befriend It. After She's had a year with It. But will a year be enough to teach It that It is allowed to exist?
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- Part 17 of Absolutely