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[Tailgate feels just a little big disoriented. If he had to provide a specific description of how he's feeling right now, he might say that it feels like some otherworld entity decided they couldn't handle him and decided to stick him in a freezer for two weeks. Though if actually asked how he feels, he'll just stick with the shorter explanation of "not too great." It was Swerve who pushed the fourth-wall button, after all, not him.

Having gotten off track in his own inner monologue, Tailgate decides to finally address the network. For the first time, as it turns out.]

Sooo... Do you ever feel like you fell asleep for a long time and suddenly you have no idea what's going on? Because believe it or not, that's happened twice in my life now.

So, uh, my name is Tailgate! Hi everyone! I'm Cybertronian, from Cybertron, my favourite colour is blue, I'm an Autobot and... um... [Oh jeez he's making himself sound so boring!] I... really like human movies, and I saved my world once. That's a good introduction I think. It's nice to meet all of you! I hope we can be friends.

[He fluffed it, he can feel it in his robot bones.]

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What's an autobot?

the opposite of a decepticon
so, like, way cooler
and nobler and heroic...er

You can't define something I've never heard of by something else I've never heard of

oh. right.
um okay so among our species the autobots and the decepticons were two factions who fought a four million year long civil war with each other. the wars over but the factions are still a thing. every other cybertronian on the ship is autobot i believe.

we're the good guys.

4 million years is a long time. And 'good guys' is a pretty loaded term.

we're a very long-lived species. some people on my ship the Lost Light are about that age. im six million years old, which makes me older than a lot of people

i think we're the good guys. we seem to be good people and decepticons seem pretty bad.

That's 2/3 of your life. Seems long to me.

I'm not going to argue with you about whether you're the good guys. Just pointing out they think so too.

ah. well. I didn't actually live a lot of those six million years. I think I've only been conscious for... three? Three years that is. not three million

im not trying to deflect the conversation or anything but what's your name?

I think you only count as being three in that case.

I'm Texas.

Isn't that a country?

A state, actually. We share a name.

why's that?
I mean i think it's a nice name
is it normal to name people after states? what about cities? and countries?

It was a code name. We were all named after states.

[ Of course, that's not the full story of why she was named after that particular state, but it'll do. ]

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