[ Oh, he hears that comment in exactly the way K had intended it. He runs his tongue over his teeth in a widening smile. Talk about rising to the bait. And K's deadpan delivery makes it all the more amusing. But then...
Those last two words bring Tech Boy up a bit short. His facial expression flashes through a range of unbidden emotion--sadness, anger, pain, distress, frustration, and even fear--in the blink of an eye before resting back into a smile that is sincere, albeit significantly less confident than probably anyone else has seen from him. He looks down.
There are definitely topics about which he's much too sensitive to take in a joking tone. His fight for K's freedom from his oppressive programming and his handler's conditioning is one of them. This is another. There's no way K could have known those two words were the last the CEO had spoken to him before he'd been betrayed and deleted. Spoken in a thematically similar context. Prove yourself. Tech Boy's annoyed they still have that kind of power over him.
Fuck that. Time to recoup. ]
I will.
[ K's seen his partial transformation from physical to digital during the creation of the flower app, and this is that on a larger scale. Emerging from the Network into the physical realm is one of his favorite flashy entrances and is demonstrating his power in exactly the way K requested. He appears slightly out of reach from K, body language completely at ease as if it cost him no great expenditure of energy to preform the feat. As easy as breathing. The pleased facial expression is back. ]
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Those last two words bring Tech Boy up a bit short. His facial expression flashes through a range of unbidden emotion--sadness, anger, pain, distress, frustration, and even fear--in the blink of an eye before resting back into a smile that is sincere, albeit significantly less confident than probably anyone else has seen from him. He looks down.
There are definitely topics about which he's much too sensitive to take in a joking tone. His fight for K's freedom from his oppressive programming and his handler's conditioning is one of them. This is another. There's no way K could have known those two words were the last the CEO had spoken to him before he'd been betrayed and deleted. Spoken in a thematically similar context. Prove yourself. Tech Boy's annoyed they still have that kind of power over him.
Fuck that. Time to recoup. ]
I will.
[ K's seen his partial transformation from physical to digital during the creation of the flower app, and this is that on a larger scale. Emerging from the Network into the physical realm is one of his favorite flashy entrances and is demonstrating his power in exactly the way K requested. He appears slightly out of reach from K, body language completely at ease as if it cost him no great expenditure of energy to preform the feat. As easy as breathing. The pleased facial expression is back. ]
For when speed matters.