Oh, those were some serious ideas being thrown in the mix. Permanency to the cognitive people here was a fascinating line they had no idea how to reach actually and that takes them to the next question? How would Igor and the other velvet attendants react to an independent AI? Then again it's not like its a full independent identity in its own right. Making a whole person...well, he had learnt to exercise caution after the whole mess that had insuinated with Fatalis or even in the case of that Akechi twin.

It isn't as serious as he's thinking of it, is it?

Takuto chuckles quietly, watching the ideas flicker behind her eyes like data loading faster than the words could keep up. She was always like this—especially when theory wrapped itself around something personal. Even now, even on her birthday.

"You know," he starts, a bit softer now, tone nudging her gently out of the circuitry in her mind, "for all the heavy stuff we're trying to build... it'd be nice if they could also just... enjoy things." He gestures off toward the skyline—past the scattered city lights, toward the distant silhouette of a ferris wheel, just barely spinning under a gradient sky.

"Like going on that rollercoaster near the bay. Or learning what it's like to get bored standing in a line." He grins sideways, boyish and nostalgic. "Maybe even arguing over what snack to get halfway through the park. Just... dumb, ordinary things."