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[sciencegirl]

Who: Entrapta and OTA
Where: Gymnasium
When: Llama Day 2
What: A Baby is Born (Claudette is activated and Entrapta can introduce her to people)
Warnings: Beep Boop Honk

Closed to Guri

Guri had specifically asked to be here for this. Entrapta makes sure to inform her, and she's extremely anxious by the time she gets there. She wants this to all go right, she's worked so hard on her, longer than she has on most of her robots.

"Alright, are you ready?"

And then without further warning, she uses the screen on her tablet scanner to activate the dinosaur robot. The light on her head glows a brilliant purple and with a clank of metal she starts to find her balance. Legs wobbly like a colt at first, she turns her head to regard her surroundings.

She beeps a couple of times, taking an uneasy couple of steps forward.

Open to Anyone

By the time the acclimation's done, she's able to run and she's doing it plenty. Back and forth through the gym she sprints, sometimes leaving a happy doppler effect trail of "beepbeepbeepbeepbeep" as she runs by because the world is exciting and new.

Then sometimes someone new enters, and they get a mechanically jarring honk of surprise.

"Hi!" Entrapta calls out, watching from the climbing rack. "She's still figuring things out. I have a flashlight if you want to play with her! It would actually help me out a lot, she needs a little more calibration before she goes into rest mode for the night."

Comments

[cureofmanyworlds]

"AH!" Nozomi jumped at the honk. She had wandered into the gym, looking to do something, only for the robot honking at her shocking her.

"Ah, h-hi, Entrapta...!" she replied, recovering and waving. "Is she new? I hadn't seen anything like it before..."

[sciencegirl]

"Sort of new! I've been working on her for approximately two months now. I've just activated her. Her name is Claudette!"

Claudette's tail sways as she steps back, lit face looking Nozomi up and down. She beeps a couple of times. "Sorry I've been so busy with her! I meant to catch up with you but I really wanted her functional before the mission. This way we can do a few days of calibration."

[cureofmanyworlds]

“Hehe, it’s okay, I understand!” Nozomi said. “I usually don’t go out of my way to bother people about things!”

She looked over Claudette, smiling in curiosity. “So, what does she do?”

[sciencegirl]

"A lot of things! She has shielding, a concussive canon, regenerative ability." She offers a flashlight to Nozomi.

"Go ahead! She'll try to catch it. It's going to help her targetting and maneuverability."

Entrapta sounds so proud of her little combat bot.

[marvelous_murderbot]

She is there as soon after Entrapta tells her as she possibly can be. She'd left the science to her, out of respect. Entrapta had a...knack for machinery. Something more than knowledge or inspiration.

Entrapta speaks as she enters, and she nods.

"Yes, of course."

She takes position near - but not too near - to Claudette, folding herself down onto her knees, appearing in every way as non-threatening as she could. She glances at Entrapta, a smile on her face that could light suns, as Claudette takes her first steps.

"Congratulations, Entrapta, she looks magnificent."

[sciencegirl]

"Look at her learn to balance! She's so cute while she's learning her counter-balancing! I'm so proud of her."

Claudette takes a little baby step. Another one. Another one. Looks at Guri crouched and-

Honk!

"That's right, Claudette! That's Guri!" She leans forward to watch her, hands on her knees. Claudette is slowly understanding that tail is meant to keep her front half steadied.

[marvelous_murderbot]

She smiles at that honk, nodding encouragingly.

"You're doing so well, so soon!"

[sciencegirl]

Claudette is booping her face gently against things, not going very fast, judging how far away they are. Her depth perception is going to need a lot of work for accurate targeting and balance.

She nudges Guri's knee when she gets close to her, and then looks up at her with a purple glowing face. She knows she's a machine too.

Entrapta watches on her scanner, somewhere between a scientist and a mom watching her baby take her first steps. "Ooooh, it looks like her joints aren't even sticking! She's just going through her assigned processes. Very good!"

[outofyourshadow]

Lena had just come by the gym to see what was there when the honk catches her by surprise. Then she blinks, looking from the robot to the girl.

"Uh...okay? Sure."

[sciencegirl]

"Today is her first day of operation!" Entrapta says happily from her perch, legs dangling as she holds out the flashlight with a lock of her hair.

"Everyone and everything is new to her. Her name is Claudette! She'll calm down once all of her systems have adjusted."

[outofyourshadow]

Walking over, she takes a flashlight from the other person to shine on the ground in front of the robot. "Claudette, huh? Nice. What's she do?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva's starting to get used to all these not!porygon robots, yet she can't say she's seen one as energetic as Claudette is.

It's kinda cute in its own way.

"I can do one better and send Lele out, if you want?" Eva offers with a tap of the levelball on her belt as she heads over towards Entrapta. "And if she hurts it, it's not an issue."

It isn't like yet another dent on Lele will hurt it.

[sciencegirl]

"Sure!" Entrapta watches from her high vantage point as Claudette stops to walk around Eva curiously, tail swaying before she abruptly stands up straight like a bird watching for anything unusual.

"Claudette has shielding and can self-repair so if Lele gets a little rough she'll be okay. ...I've not actually seen Lele so I'm kind of curious too." She brings up her magical scanner to take video.

[sos_pilot]

Della blinked rapidly, rather wary due to Gyro's usual robot and robot-looking-things usually turning homicidal. But hearing and seeing Entrapta put her back at ease, all smiles.

"So, this little lady have a name?"

[sciencegirl]

"Yes! Her name is Claudette!" Entrapta is absolutely thrilled with her new baby, and the mechanical creature, for the most part, isn't intentionally looking hostile. Just curious. She even bumps a ball with her head, knocking it forward just enough to chase it.

"She's still learning. She'll be less active once she's become familiar with her environment."

[sos_pilot]

"No problems here!" Della chirped, because if Entrapta made it, then it had Della's seal of approval. "Any way I can help you both out?"

[labcatte]

"Oh wow," Bacon says, startled more by the sudden presence of robot than the actual shape of it. "I— sure. I'll play with her. What do I do with the flashlight?"

[sciencegirl]

"Let her chase the light on the ground. Just flash it around. She's calibrating her depth perception."

Which is important with a head that has multiple lenses inside of a singular occular input. "It's also fun for her! She likes the attention." She hands the flashlight down with her hair.

[labcatte]

"So like you would with a cat and a laser pointer," Bacon says, taking the flashlight from the hair with a momentary widening of their golden eyes. "I think I can do that."

They switch the flashlight on and start shining it around in various directions.

[blue_ice]

"....a what now?"

Kaiba stumbles back a step or two at the honk. What?

Oh. There's Entrapta. Must be hers. He looks up and squints. "So who's this?"

[sciencegirl]

"That's her! I finally built her! That's Claudette. She's ready for her Alpha Test."

Entrapta is so happy. She's been working on her for two months, since her first mission, and Claudette follows after Kaiba with her odd head tilted and swaying her tail.

[blue_ice]

Kaiba nods at Entrapta as Claudette tracks his progress. "Big milestone. So you're waiting here for fighters to take a swing?"

[firewalled]

"W-Woah!" Rich instinctively puts up his dukes when he's suddenly honked at, and doesn't quite let his guard down when he realizes what it is. It's only Entrapta's voice that convinces him to lower his fists, give the creature another odd look, and then gaping.

"This is Claudette? Damn..."

[sciencegirl]

Any of her previous attitudes have ebbed. She's just so happy her baby is functioning.

On one hand, Claudette has a very Jurassic park vibe. On the other, she has a very dumb emu approach to distractions when she's excited.

Right now she's walking towards Rich like she wants to 'sniff' him (an up-close scan).

[firewalled]

Rich definitely got the Jurassic Park notes, which freaked him out, until he saw how those robot legs awkwardly danced around, unsure whether or not she wanted to get too close.

Fair enough, he's a little nervous too. He laughs softly, carefully holding out a hand.

"Uh... hey there... I'm not gonna hurt you if you don't hurt me, 'kay?"