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Author's Note: This is my first fanfic, so be kind if at all possible, and recognize that non-constructive flames piss off the powers that be! This story has a yuri-style tinge to it, however, seeing as it deals with two tiny persocoms, there won't be anything lemony in the least, so don't look for it because you won't find it here. There are also...in a twisted sort of way, in-fanfic fanfics. Let me explain what I mean by that. The story itself is set to a fanfic being read and written by different people to be discovered in later chapters--It isn't who you think it is. I assure you that. The fanfic is fictional and you won't find it anywhere but here, but I guess that means the series is kinda crossing over with itself, in a way...hm. There are also blurbs of information written by characters you'll recognize (such a a report by Minoru..., etc), to be used in the same manner as 'blurbs' or used in the work of say..Michael Crichton: to aid the plot along, or explain why certain events occur in the manner that they do. Any author notes either preceding or following chapters will be denoted by "-----", to prevent confusion between what I'm writing and what our 'unknown' character is writing, seeing as ff.net doesn't allow a separation of author's notes and content. And, yes, the relationship is between Kotoko and Sumomo, so if you're a psycho yuri-yaoi hater, go burn down a synagogue or whatever it is that you derive amusement from.
Disclaimer: Chobits belongs to Clamp, but all the info blurbs and randomness belongs to ME. ::histrionic laughter at finally having ownership of something::
Terms of Sentience
By Papi-chan
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MemoriesA 'City With No People' fanfic by k-sama
Disclaimer: This is my first fanfic here on clampfiction.net, so please be civil, and gentle, and understand that any flames I recieve will be used to torch not only your personal belongings, but your physical being as well. You've been warned. I own no part of the 'City With No People' series, which is copyrighted, in it's entirety, to Hibiya Chitose, however, I do own the concept.
Author's Note: I've noticed that a lot of fanfiction dealing with this series focuses on the lighter part of the story--the ability to find happiness, even by persocoms; love between a persocom and a human, etc. Whatever. However, I decided to delve into the darker side of the story, the part that can not possibly have a happy ending. If all persocoms reserve the ability to harbor, at least to a degree, love for another, can the emotion, when experienced by a persocom, still be defined as being love? And what if the persocom has be taught to believe that it is just that, an it, not a being capable of experiencing emotions? Would it recognize them for what they are? Just what defines love, anyway, and are all persocoms capable of experiencing it---even if that love is for another persocom?
Chapter One: This Room
This city has no people.
They are all inside with them, and yet, this world consisting of them and the people who love them is not a cold and lonely place.
Because the lights within the buildings, and the houses, where they are are warm, heightened by their love for the people that love them, and the happiness that both parties experience because of this love.
This room in which I live is also warm, because I live with someone like myself (one of them), and the person she loves, who loves her in return.
I am one of them. This room in which I live is warm...and cold...and lonely...and dark. I can not tell the difference, because I am one of them. I am not alive. We are not alive. We can not feel, or experience such emotions as humans do, love and pain, happiness and sadness.
And yet they do, or at least, their program-defined emotions are made real by the people who love them and wish for nothing more than to have that love returned.
But what if there is no person to love one of them? Can they still feel? Can they still find happiness, without a person to bring those emotions into existence?