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[Community] this modern sorcery (Abed gen)
Title: this modern sorcery
Fandom: Community
Length: 669 words
Prompt: Community ficathon: Abed/Hilda - he installs Hilda on every electronic device he owns through his life
Pairing: slight Abed/Hilda; mostly Abed gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: Hilda walks around on his desktop and sometimes he sets her up on the top of his browser, where she can dangle her feet and watch him argue with other people on IMDB. She keeps him company when he writes his final paper, a pixelated cup of coffee in her tiny hand.
The memory stick only lasts through the year, bashed and battered at the bottom of Abed's backpack. He takes it out when he's throwing away old notebooks, and installs Hilda on his laptop. Luckily, the code is fairly uncomplicated, although he makes a note to take a computer class at some point. He doesn't want to break her.
Hilda walks around on his desktop and sometimes he sets her up on the top of his browser, where she can dangle her feet and watch him argue with other people on IMDB. She keeps him company when he writes his final paper, a pixelated cup of coffee in her tiny hand.
No one quite understands the bond that Abed has with Hilda. She is the only person he's ever met who was solvable. If he wants, he can lay her code bare in Visual Studio, debug her and find out why she was angry when he missed a Saturday night forum thread and went out with Troy instead. He doesn't look at her programming very often. Usually Hilda's motives are quite clear. And it doesn't quite feel right, anyway, to open up her tiny chest and watch her heart beat. (This is not a metaphor Abed would use; he simply feels a touch of dread at the thought of making superficial changes.)
He does have to work on her a year after graduation, when he finally gets ahold of a pair of Google Glasses. Well, two pairs. He and Troy wear them around the apartment, marveling at the technology, which was discontinued not long after it came into production for being too weird to actually own or wear. Abed doesn't need glasses and he knows they don't do anything for his face, but now he can do special effects in real time and he's not going to give that up easily.
He converts her to a newer programming language, working carefully to preserve her memory, and to add some more. She calls it an anniversary present, and Abed carefully types :) in response to her. Expressions are so much easier in text.
Life goes on. Abed spends some time making falafel and some time making indy movies in New York. He and Troy and Annie get a box-sized apartment. The Glasses break and Abed installs Hilda on his phone. She waves at him every time he gets a text message.
Hilda goes with him to Hollywood, where he gets an even smaller apartment and attempts to break into a business where everyone smiles all the time and never says anything that they actually mean. Abed teaches her to catch his spelling errors and tests all his jokes on Troy over Skype. Abed only mentions her once, in passing.
"You still have that thing?" Troy says, face screwed up in comical disbelief. "They don't even put USB ports on computers anymore!"
"I let her onto my wifi network," Abed answers, "which is great until she does too much online shopping."
Troy laughs. It is exactly the right kind of flippant remark; Troy changes the subject and doesn't say anything else about her. Of course, Hilda doesn't do any online shopping. She's not sophisticated enough for that. But Abed has started writing for sitcoms occasionally to pay the rent in-between films, and he knows that women love shopping, at least according to sitcom rules. (Writing for sitcoms is easy. He just plugs in the stereotypes and indicates pauses for the laugh track. The only hard part is not letting anything really interesting happen.)
When he finally gets his big break, he spends part of his first check on an interface for the new neural programming thing that's getting big, and Hilda becomes his virtual secretary. She and the children manage his calendar and phone calls. The CEO of Facebook interacts with her briefly and offers to buy her code. Abed blocks all of his pings.
Technology evolves. Abed directs. Every once in a while, he gives Hilda a virtual flower, and she smiles.
Fandom: Community
Length: 669 words
Prompt: Community ficathon: Abed/Hilda - he installs Hilda on every electronic device he owns through his life
Pairing: slight Abed/Hilda; mostly Abed gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: Hilda walks around on his desktop and sometimes he sets her up on the top of his browser, where she can dangle her feet and watch him argue with other people on IMDB. She keeps him company when he writes his final paper, a pixelated cup of coffee in her tiny hand.
The memory stick only lasts through the year, bashed and battered at the bottom of Abed's backpack. He takes it out when he's throwing away old notebooks, and installs Hilda on his laptop. Luckily, the code is fairly uncomplicated, although he makes a note to take a computer class at some point. He doesn't want to break her.
Hilda walks around on his desktop and sometimes he sets her up on the top of his browser, where she can dangle her feet and watch him argue with other people on IMDB. She keeps him company when he writes his final paper, a pixelated cup of coffee in her tiny hand.
No one quite understands the bond that Abed has with Hilda. She is the only person he's ever met who was solvable. If he wants, he can lay her code bare in Visual Studio, debug her and find out why she was angry when he missed a Saturday night forum thread and went out with Troy instead. He doesn't look at her programming very often. Usually Hilda's motives are quite clear. And it doesn't quite feel right, anyway, to open up her tiny chest and watch her heart beat. (This is not a metaphor Abed would use; he simply feels a touch of dread at the thought of making superficial changes.)
He does have to work on her a year after graduation, when he finally gets ahold of a pair of Google Glasses. Well, two pairs. He and Troy wear them around the apartment, marveling at the technology, which was discontinued not long after it came into production for being too weird to actually own or wear. Abed doesn't need glasses and he knows they don't do anything for his face, but now he can do special effects in real time and he's not going to give that up easily.
He converts her to a newer programming language, working carefully to preserve her memory, and to add some more. She calls it an anniversary present, and Abed carefully types :) in response to her. Expressions are so much easier in text.
Life goes on. Abed spends some time making falafel and some time making indy movies in New York. He and Troy and Annie get a box-sized apartment. The Glasses break and Abed installs Hilda on his phone. She waves at him every time he gets a text message.
Hilda goes with him to Hollywood, where he gets an even smaller apartment and attempts to break into a business where everyone smiles all the time and never says anything that they actually mean. Abed teaches her to catch his spelling errors and tests all his jokes on Troy over Skype. Abed only mentions her once, in passing.
"You still have that thing?" Troy says, face screwed up in comical disbelief. "They don't even put USB ports on computers anymore!"
"I let her onto my wifi network," Abed answers, "which is great until she does too much online shopping."
Troy laughs. It is exactly the right kind of flippant remark; Troy changes the subject and doesn't say anything else about her. Of course, Hilda doesn't do any online shopping. She's not sophisticated enough for that. But Abed has started writing for sitcoms occasionally to pay the rent in-between films, and he knows that women love shopping, at least according to sitcom rules. (Writing for sitcoms is easy. He just plugs in the stereotypes and indicates pauses for the laugh track. The only hard part is not letting anything really interesting happen.)
When he finally gets his big break, he spends part of his first check on an interface for the new neural programming thing that's getting big, and Hilda becomes his virtual secretary. She and the children manage his calendar and phone calls. The CEO of Facebook interacts with her briefly and offers to buy her code. Abed blocks all of his pings.
Technology evolves. Abed directs. Every once in a while, he gives Hilda a virtual flower, and she smiles.