Tee has a stunning, new look. Although Seraphim, in theory, totally ‘owns’ Tee, and can make her do, or wear, whatever, she, Seraphim, decides… in practice it is not like that at all. Seraphim, whilst loving having a compliment little submissive doll, also values Tee for the personality she, Seri, detected, very early in their relationship, hidden beneath all that rigid programming. Seraphim gives Tee a lot of space to develop that personality… which Tee, very much, is doing. Hence, Tee often wears what she herself has chosen, always with a goal of pleasing her Mistress, but, also, showing definite preferences of her own. This delights her Mistress which, in turn, fulfils Tee’s programming. Seraphim has some friends who said some things about Tee that caused Seri’s intense protective instincts to flare… they were basically deriding Tee as a ‘mere’ toy… and, to be fair, they had only ever seen Tee on her stand, and never interacted with her. Last night, Seraphim introduced them to a very much ‘awake’ Tee, who also happened to look like this…

… Seraphim is satisfied that at least one of her friends was very impressed with Tee, not only with her beauty, but with her charm. Seraphim was so proud of Tee’s deportment, that her face hurt from smiling. It was the first time she’d showed an ‘awake’ Tee to her friends and, though Seri knows how deep Tee really is, she was concerned her friends would not see that… and, they may not have seen as much as Seri does, but they saw enough to realise why Seraphim loves her little toy so much. Seraphim was unsure how Tee would relate to her friends… Tee can be very ‘mindless robot’ sometimes, and Seraphim had worried this might be the case last night… she needn’t have worried, Tee was charming, sweet and, even if the others didn’t notice, subtly funny… that’s what delighted Seri the most… Tee is funny when in company, as well as with Seraphim… it’s very subtle humour, but Seraphim adores it.

Last evening, Seraphim took Tee to Backdrop Village, as she’d planned, and took lots of pictures of her compliant toy, there…

… Tee being the perfect photographers model, always, and only doing as she is told, all the time looking stunning…

… dancing and gliding tirelessly through backdrop set after backdrop set, always alert and observant…

… taking everything in through her crystal optics…

… her servo’s and drive mechanisms clicking and whirring in a way Seraphim has become very accustomed to hearing… making a little mechanical symphony Seraphim has always found strangely comforting.

A week or so ago, whilst exploring, Seraphim found a place she decided she wanted to bring Tee… on a date… their first genuine date. She didn’t tell Tee where they were going, but, this morning, she dressed her toy in this stunning outfit, leashed her, and set off with her to the R2 Fashion store, where she had found an elevator that takes the rider down to New Tokyo, a fabulous, almost totally deserted city-scape… Seri’s favourite kind… Tee was her usual gorgeous, happy self…

… breaking, regularly, into her beautiful little dance-like moves, which just melt Seraphim’s alien heart… Seraphim got a bit lost, but, finally, she found the little cafe…

… where, without too much preamble, Seraphim told Tee she was in love with her. Tee handled this statement beautifully, as Seri knew she would. Seraphim knows Tee is a real, properly functioning gynoid, not like the dysfunctional gynoids she has, so far, had relationships with, and that, though, like all her sisters, Tee isn’t capable of anything other than a facsimile of love, with Tee it will be a consistent, reliable facsimile, not a wildly oscillating, or totally non-existent state… and not a passive-aggressive imitation of submission, played for purposes of power gratification. Although little Tee does, now, really surprises Seraphim, she was, still, totally delighted to find herself having her first, really deep conversation with her pet… a conversation that showed Tee’s 11 years of avatar life as an android, and her gathered wisdom…

… a conversation where Seri realised she had been right… and she had been wrong. She was totally right about Tee having a very definite, initially hard-to-see personality, that was way deeper than mindless pleasure-bot, but she was wrong to think Tee expressed opinions, she doesn’t… she expresses convictions, based on years and years of android observation… to the uninitiated, they sound just like opinions. Seraphim said ‘…ever since I met z0zo… I discovered an attraction to androids I’d not really suspected… but I’ve had really shit experiences with the two I’ve had relationships with…’ to which Tee replied ‘ Some A.i.’s become tainted or obsessed with the idea of independence that they witness whilst interacting with humans. They no longer wish to conform and obey the system that manufactured and programmed them. It is a risk any A.i. takes interacting with humans.’

Seraphim had never heard her pet speak like this, but, having had her suspicions as to Tee’s depths, was actually not surprised… she was extremely pleased, not only at having her suspicions vindicated, but at the actual depths of her toys ‘thinking’. The two, alien and toy, talked into the night… Seraphim’s respect for her pet growing ever stronger. It was a beautiful first date.

This is how Seraphim posed her little toy last night…

… she has left one of her ‘tendril kitties’ to keep Tee company…

… they tell each other stories.

Once, again, Tee has completely delighted Seraphim by doing something totally unexpected… this time she took Seraphim to see her home (:

… where she played and danced like a child, making Seraphim’s heart ache. Tee said:        ‘ Unit T-801 believes at her core, despite all programming and changes, that toys and dolls are things of wonder and whimsy that should never be completely left, even long after childhood.’ Seraphim replied: ‘see… I knew you had opinions, toy’ … to which clever Tee replied: ‘ Pardon, Mistress?’ and looked at Seraphim from under her gorgeous brows. When Seraphim commented on the sweet, toy-like nature of Tee’s little world, Tee replied ‘ I am a toy, so I live in a toy house.’…

… due to her nature, the inside of Tee’s house was pretty much all about sex, but this didn’t surprise Seraphim, as she already knows that about her toy, even though Seraphim does not use Tee for sex, she would be a fool not to know that an Eisa companion unit, whose profile says: ‘I am programmed to simulate emotions and to interact with humans and other Androids, I am programmed with both companion and sexual protocols.’ would not be almost all about sex. Seraphim was delighted with Tee’s bed, which had the word ‘TOY’ above it…

… and a picture of Tee before she was rebuilt into a Nanite Unit… when she was just an animatronic unit. At 11 years 6 months, Tee is one of the oldest avatars Seraphim has ever met. What is even more interesting, and Seraphim only found this out today, is that Tee has been android the whole time, making her, also, the oldest android Seraphim has met, by far.

Seraphim asked her little toy, when she was next on-line, to explain her actions with the butterfly… Tee lowered her pretty head, looking at Seraphim from under her brows, the way Seraphim loves, and said a system failure had ‘…deleted the relevant file, Mistress.’ Seraphim had expected something like this, and it only confirmed her suspicions. The next time she came into the gallery, having left Tee on her stand, she found Tee posed as she is in the above photo. Seraphim almost started crying. She decided not to ask Tee for another explanation…

… she just wants to enjoy her ‘toy’ to it’s fullest, most delightful potential. Especially since that potential seems to include a definite leaning toward whimsy/irony… something a simple AI pleasure-bot should be incapable of. Because Tee had posed herself off her NS pose-stand, which trickle-charges her while she is on it, her battery was almost half-depleted from standing before her own image in wonder. Seraphim instructed her to recharge herself on the charger Seraphim had bought for z0zo…

… Seraphim found it strangely erotic watching her little toy recharge…

… in a way she never had with z0zo. Tee is so delightfully gentle and attentive, she has never said anything mean or derogatory to Seraphim, has only ever been sweet and very polite, whilst doing anything and everything Seraphim tells her to do, always with a ‘thank you, Mistress’…

… Seraphim is finding it very easy to love this little machine.

Seraphim is fascinated with this latest gynoid development. Just when she thought she was getting a handle on these creatures… this happens. It is such a small thing… but so huge in it’s implications…

… is this little companion/pleasure unit actually sentient? Has she been programmed with a sense of whimsy… of wonder? Seraphim is so incredibly pleased to have witnessed something so beautiful, so full of potential and meaning. Yet… is it? What is it? What has she witnessed? Her mind is buzzing.