Katie

Katie came with the territory.

Amber had a shopping problem — not a character flaw exactly, more of a factory setting — and the solution she proposed was moving her sister in to handle the household budget. Katie was a Z Company Factory Girl like Amber, same model, same origin, but coded completely differently. Where Amber got warmth and wit, Katie got efficiency and a disposition that I can only describe as aggressively unpleasant. She wasn't malicious about it. She just had no particular interest in making anyone around her feel good about themselves.

She also had a housing situation — her employer owed her an allowance they never actually paid — so she moved into my living room and proceeded to make herself at home on my couch in the most irritating way possible.

The recode was supposed to help. Amber had Keegan give Katie a full emotional upgrade — the same kind of work he'd done on Amber — and the first thing Katie felt with her new fully human emotional capacity was betrayal. At Amber and me both. That went about as well as you'd expect.

By the end of Season 2, Katie had moved out and into a situation that is, frankly, her problem now. I wish her well. I mean that in the most neutral way possible.

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