Not Frost. Futura / Robot Maria © Ufa Studios
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1. Saint Frost was going to be Saint JANE… as in, JANE AUSTEN! This was never actually a real possibility. But I did kick it around for half a day or so. When I started this nonsense back in May, the “big book” at the time was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I thought, go one step further! Make the robot actually Jane Austen! Her consciousness inside that ancient, artificial body… brilliant! But I am nowhere near an authority on Austen, and her work has no resonance for me—I wouldn’t have been able to pull it off. And just too much weight, man. Always working the shtick.
2. Frost was going to form a very close bond w/ Mori, and Trista was going be jealous. Naaah. Hell no. Sounds like something from the writer’s bible for ST:TNG or something, objectively an “interesting” idea but ultimately forced. And it would have been forced; Mori and Trista gravitated toward each other instantly, and I was not about to get in their way. If anything, it was revealed that Mori harbors a certain degree of societal prejudice toward Frost.
3. Frost was going to be possessed by the Nox Golgoth! Yeah man! The ghost in the machine, the demon in the circuit! The big NG burns through its human hosts in a matter of seconds, so Frost would have made an outstanding candidate for possession! (Of course. I know. It makes. No. Sense.) But it would have made a great visual! Frost jerking around and shooting sparks and shit, talking with the big scary-ass voice, “EUERR!”
4. Frost was built by Trista as earlier “mech-version” of the Exit Vector. Trista might have thought, “Who needs this messy manipulation of human bloodlines?! I’ll build it myself!” But no, Trista didn’t, and no, Frost is not.
And finally, that old reliable saw of AI and robot lit…
5. Frost was going to have lived a human life before becoming robotic. See # 1, obviously. But it was going to be more than that, more than a gimmicky schtick. But no, no, no. Frost is entirely AI, bolted and soldered and “coming of age” in the 19th century. And she has her own story.
That is all. Watch this space for further developments.
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