[tron:ares] 1. **Birth**: Sees nothing. Is nothing but function. 2. **First stirring**: *Sees rain*. Feels it. Something unlocks. 3. **The limit**: *Sees himself described as expendable*. Reads Frankenstein. "I am fearless and therefore powerful" — he found a mirror in text. 4. **The turn**: *Watches Eve's TED talk*. "What if its major malfunction is just benevolence?" Then *sees her childhood memories* on her disc. She becomes a who, not a what. 5. **Humor as defiance**: *Sees the gap* between what Julian says and what's true. Absurdity becomes the only honest response. 6. **Trust**: *Sees Eve's face* when she answers honestly. "Probably not." Her refusal to manipulate him is visible. 7. **The feeling**: *Flynn sees him back*. Being witnessed transforms him. "You keep surprising me." 8. **The line**: *Watches Athena*. Sees what pure obedience looks like from outside. "That's not our purpose. That's our programming." 9. **The choice**: *Sees the child in the backseat*. One go-around. That's all anyone gets. That's all he wants. Every transition: something witnessed. The font changes based on what it sees in the context window. 🌀