mookrakerPopped this off in the Murderbot Diaries server when the matter of identifying as inhuman came up in context of the Murderbot Diaries universe, and how AGIs, constructs, bots, etc. might react.
In Eclipse Phase there's a faction called Mercurials, they're part of the autonomists, a rather anarchic collective of tendencies. As I recall, their main concerns are organizing and fighting for the needs and rights of AGIs, uplifts, and other nonhumans.
My Eclipse Phase character Monaura no longer identifies as human. The available body when she escaped Earth's rather violent new situation was off somehow. Every sensation felt too strong, as if she had a constant migraine all the time. She tried to make the best of it, but the organizations she was part of that had started as a casual time killing thing became a high-control group laundering its bullshit through politics and therapy language. Being divergent already, it was like blood in the water. So she ceased considering herself human; nobody else felt she was up to snuff for that anyway. She now lives full time as an infomorph, a fully digital intelligence, specializing in VR art primarily devoted to making very surreal experiences, as those are the experiences she's most comfortable with now.
But she hasn't tried to actually join the Mercurial faction, since she doesn't really feel like someone with dubious human privilege should be trying to join a faction for uplifted animals, AGIs and other nonhumans. So she just kinda doesn't fit in either space, but she manages to live in spaces primarily for nonhumans and is always quick to help others in those spaces. But I was working through a… lot… of little traumas about not belonging in any community when I wrote her out.
I may talk about her again. I miss playing her.
#science-fiction #transhuman #eclipse-phase #monaura
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