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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans 2018-05-19 01:17 am (UTC)

Well, whoever made the quiz (unless it was one of the other main characters) probably doesn't know much about Station other than what Station voluntarily shows its residents, so they probably are pulling out Station's main traits as, like a) taking care of people and protecting its citizens at all costs, and b) knowing everything and being extremely competent, and c) probably also some element of being different things to different people.

(Also there is an undercurrent where Station is really manipulative and so on, which probably comes through somewhat even if the test-maker isn't really thinking that way.)

A lot of those are just sort of traits that are shared by most Radch AIs, as opposed to Station in particular, but even post-independence most Athoekis probably don't have any real experience with any other AIs, so they would probably think of them as much more specifically Station things.

...Meanwhile they are also things that are very Anaander Miaanaai - after all she built them to value what she considers important - except for the smouldering resentment, which is also a very Tisarwat thing.

I could be wrong though! I suspect Tisarwat is another one who has as lot of difficulty doing the quizzes because manipulating the answers is easier than taking them honestly, except she doesn't even really know what answer she wants to manipulate them to.

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