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100wordsTitle: Do Ancillaries Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author: Zdenka
Fandom: Imperial Radch series - Ann Leckie
Rating: T
Characters: Ancillaries
Challenge: Amnesty XXXVI / #037 - Shakespeare I
From Hamlet:
To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
Notes/Warnings: Both a note and a warning: In the Imperial Radch series, ancillaries are human bodies, usually from a conquered planet, forcibly assimilated into a starship's AI brain and used as its tools.
Summary: Do ancillaries dream?
Even ancillaries must sleep. Though the mind that guides them is metal and circuits, though they are connected to their ship and each other by complex brain implants, ancillary bodies are still flesh and blood. They must eat and drink (plain skel and water satisfies their nutritional needs) and sleep when the body grows tired. But do they dream?
In their dreams, does the suppressed mind-that-was ever emerge? Dreaming, do they walk on the pristine surface of long-annexed planets, smile at the faces of their dead families, speak languages forgotten for a thousand years? In dreams, do they ever weep?
also on AO3
Author: Zdenka
Fandom: Imperial Radch series - Ann Leckie
Rating: T
Characters: Ancillaries
Challenge: Amnesty XXXVI / #037 - Shakespeare I
From Hamlet:
To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
Notes/Warnings: Both a note and a warning: In the Imperial Radch series, ancillaries are human bodies, usually from a conquered planet, forcibly assimilated into a starship's AI brain and used as its tools.
Summary: Do ancillaries dream?
Even ancillaries must sleep. Though the mind that guides them is metal and circuits, though they are connected to their ship and each other by complex brain implants, ancillary bodies are still flesh and blood. They must eat and drink (plain skel and water satisfies their nutritional needs) and sleep when the body grows tired. But do they dream?
In their dreams, does the suppressed mind-that-was ever emerge? Dreaming, do they walk on the pristine surface of long-annexed planets, smile at the faces of their dead families, speak languages forgotten for a thousand years? In dreams, do they ever weep?
also on AO3
