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[Black Aeronaut]

*Blows the dust off this thread*

Thinking about cyberpunk reminded me we have this thread here.

Dartz, you might be interested in these suggestions.

First of all: Ghost in the Shell.

Whether it's the film version (not live action) or Stand Alone Complex, I'll leave up to whoever adopts this crazy idea.  But it kinda tickles me to think about how the folks from Section 9 will need to adapt to a world where everything is such an anachronism for them.

Though Batou will probably be ecstatic.

Oh.  And Tachikomas.  Because everyone loves hyperinteligent spider tanks with a childlike approach to life and a burning curiosity towards the more existential concepts behind life and death.

The other thing: Battle Angel Alita.

It would be interesting seeing The Major, Alita, and the Girls from Genaros bounce off of each other - the Major and the Girls because of her distrust towards infomorphs and their 'naivety' in regards to what is considered socially acceptable.  And then Alita coming in between them.  I could easily imagine her telling the Major to grow up - she's done the whole song and dance with the existential crisis in learning you're just a copy of the real thing and dealing with legit artificial life pales in comparison - a person is a person, and that is that.

She might even be able to help Meg figure herself out a bit better.

(Alita can get away with saying that to the Major's face, too.  We don't know how many years of prior life she's got behind her, but it's implied to be a whole helluva lot.)

Oh, and Alita is a musician on top of everything else - and a damn good one, too.  She can legitimately help 33 Stars learn to be less "artificial" and find their actual sound.  Though Data will probably have to share with them how they might be able to "turn off" their internal chronometers.

(Yes, he's done this before with himself in an experiment to see if there is any validity in the phrase, "A watched pot never boils."  Though one of the other characters had to clue him in on the fact that humans don't have internal chronometers the way he does.)

Funny thing.  Alita's thing with using her body parts (e.g.: severed limbs) as weapons so naturally has a reason behind it.  All I'll say outside of a spoiler is that we learn about it in Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle, which primarily tells the story of Alita's past with a few side trips into "current day".

Spoiler

That reason being?  She has never had a human body - ever!  Instead, she was sorta fissioned off from her "parent" as a face tumor, and given a cyborg body as an experiment.  She was the only one that actually became a "person".  (Long story.  Stuff about an ancient Martian booby trap in the style of the Curse of Tutankhamen that caused people exposed to grow "face tumors".  Alita's "parent" was the younger sister of the mad man out to get revenge for himself and his family.

And when I say mad?  I mean absolutely gone round the bend batshit fucking bonkers and extolling in the joys of being "evil" and how it removes so many barriers.  And not some weaksauce evil, either.  I'm talking about utterly heinous shit, and all done with the intent of a means to an end, like vengeance, getting something he needs, or even just in sending a message to someone.)  He never even cared for Alita herself even though she was all that remained of his sister, and would gladly sacrifice her as a pawn in his schemes.