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thisavrou2016-03-16 04:09 pm
daintylegs) wrote in thisavrou2016-03-16 04:09 pm
[Video] Friends help friends get a social life they don't want
[It’s really nice to be on the network for a happy reason for once. Not that he has a lot of previous experience to draw from, seeing as he’s only ever posted there a grand total of one time. Or was it two? He could go back to check, but the amount of effort that will take is far too much for one marshmallow to handle. He’s pretty sure it’s one though.]
Hello everyone!
[He starts off with his usual good cheer.]
My name is Tailgate and I’d like all of you to meet my best friend and roommate, Cyclonus! He’s your resident Evacuation Specialist, so you can bet you can rely on him if things go wrong! He’s really cool and super into gazing out windows, swords, and warrior stuff. Y’know, just in case someone out there is into that too. Hint hint.
Anyway, Cyclonus, say hi!
[Tailgate’s face is very cute and nonthreatening, indeed he practically radiates “I will befriend anyone even if it kills me”. Cyclonus’s face happens to be the complete opposite of that. It’s a very jarring contrast.]
[Cyclonus is too cool for words. He just looks at the camera and nods acknowledgingly before looking away again.]
As you can see, he’s a real talker. But don’t let that discourage you from trying anyway!
[Tailgate turns the camera back to himself.]
Since I like to, uh, what’s the human saying for it? Kiss two birds with one stone? I’d like to take this opportunity to ask if anyone knows anything about gardening. I tried it recently and ended up killing a thing or two. My basic understanding of the universe says that this is the wrong thing to do, so advice would be appreciate. For the both of us.
Thank you!
Hello everyone!
[He starts off with his usual good cheer.]
My name is Tailgate and I’d like all of you to meet my best friend and roommate, Cyclonus! He’s your resident Evacuation Specialist, so you can bet you can rely on him if things go wrong! He’s really cool and super into gazing out windows, swords, and warrior stuff. Y’know, just in case someone out there is into that too. Hint hint.
Anyway, Cyclonus, say hi!
[Tailgate’s face is very cute and nonthreatening, indeed he practically radiates “I will befriend anyone even if it kills me”. Cyclonus’s face happens to be the complete opposite of that. It’s a very jarring contrast.]
[Cyclonus is too cool for words. He just looks at the camera and nods acknowledgingly before looking away again.]
As you can see, he’s a real talker. But don’t let that discourage you from trying anyway!
[Tailgate turns the camera back to himself.]
Since I like to, uh, what’s the human saying for it? Kiss two birds with one stone? I’d like to take this opportunity to ask if anyone knows anything about gardening. I tried it recently and ended up killing a thing or two. My basic understanding of the universe says that this is the wrong thing to do, so advice would be appreciate. For the both of us.
Thank you!
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No way, he definitely did not just make moon eyes at Tailgate, nope, not at all, ignore that]I have been lucky.
[He raises a hand to his chin. You mean there's a type of human that has armor that looks like him? What a strange coincidence.]
I haven't heard of 'Samurai' before, but I am not well-versed in human cultures. My own frame certainly predates them, and I have never been to Earth. Curious. I, too, am versed in a number of martial arts...
[He tilts his head.] It seems to be a consequence of ongoing war, when the value of life is lost and there is no line deemed uncrossable in the pursuit of victory.
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[Philosophical discussions right off the bat. But now he's curious. What becomes of a warrior when there's no wars, how do you choose what victories are out there.]
I could tell you more about older style Earth military versus the structure that I come from? I wouldn't mind learning more about yours.
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[Choosing a fighter's path or even being born into a warrior cast by merit of your alternate mode is still a far cry from the sheer disposability of the MTOs.
Cyclonus pauses for awhile in thought.]
I would like that. There are many humans aboard this ship, it would be good to learn more about your people.
[And he'd get a chance to vent about how good things totally were back in his day and how the younger generations screwed up everything.]
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And those all sound like reasonable thoughts to me. I was born in a country where many of cities were destroyed, or nearly so. Decades later the country is still scarred. [It's a line of thinking he can respect. More than some he's run into.]
Sparks. Is that-? [What makes them alive?]
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[Only many cities? Only decades?] Perhaps your species' shorter life span is a blessing in its own right. Such short generations are unlikely to sustain a war with a beginning four million years behind them...
[His own people are painfully stubborn.]
Ah. The spark is the center of every Cybertronian, ignited from the metal of the Cybertron by the will of Primus.
[Except for the constructed cold ones, but he always thought that method of reproduction was kind of blasphemous.]