Readjustment - Sci-fi audiobook (PAID)
qdoyle for Rex Riptide
Main role.
!N's closest friend, Rex likes to consider himself a scientist. A "super-scientist," to be exact, with the requisite secret labs, mysterious sources of funding, and insufferable self-righteousness shared by !N and all the City's vigilantes. Rex has convinced himself he's an idealist, but in reality he'll do anything, however horrendous, if it's an intellectual puzzle.
Tenor voice; can switch rapidly from optimism and encouragement to impatience and irritability.
Right! Your amygdala perceives certain stimuli—machinery, specifically—as threatening, and triggers a fear response. The idea is that this will condition you to find the creation of destructive devices both dangerous and, er, unpleasant.
(impatience breaking through) You’re not going to hurt people, Helen. With the successful memory adjustments, !N’s fear conditioning seems redundant. Besides, if you can handle tools and assist with my projects you’ll be much more useful to me. I mean... to society.
(indignant) Excuse me? She is not, in point of fact, the most powerful being on this planet. I’ve halted the expansion of the cosmos themselves! In terms of sheer energy release, if you plot my achievements and hers on a log-log plot—
