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[ The video comes on and it's mostly his bright yellow motorcycle helmet, the garish smiling face and GOOD LUCK printed over the visor. ]

--fuckin' hell.

[ He's off balance, but he catches himself and flips up the visor to give a toothy grin. ]

Lookin' to get my hands on some paint or dye or fabric. Bright colors.

[ He looks thoughtful for a moment. ]

Or music. Somethin' loud and fast. Gotta be somethin' worth looking at or listening to on this ship.

Name's Kobra Kid, by the way. Anyone heard of me? Kind of a big deal where I'm from.

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You're like the second human who showed up with nothing on their feet. That's... really weird.

Kinda? Autobot. There's a difference.

Okay. Cool.

[ He nods quickly, remembering that Girl had told him not to call the robots robots. Oops. ]

You're sentient, right? Emotions and everything?

Yeah. I mean, do I sound like a cleaning bot to you?

All they say is "beep beep", by the way, so the answer's hopefully "no".

[ And everything apparently includes sass, but Kobra kind of likes it. Sassy robots. That's like something out of a comic book. ]

Shiny. You know the AI on Del Pascia is sentient, too. Said it feels stuff, but it's not too lonely. Probably should've asked it if there's another AI in the system. Seems like anyone would get lonely if they were really by themselves.

Wait, you're talking to it?

But it's just an AI, dude. They're programmed with that kind of stuff. It's not real.

Seemed real enough to me. Why would it lie about having emotions?

[ Why program a robot to lie about that? He really can't see any point. ]

Anything that can think is worth regardin' as something that can think.

I dunno, dude. Maybe that's in its programming or something.

[Casual AI racism? Yep.]

But it's different, though, isn't it? If it's all data and stuff.

No, either it can think for itself or it can't. Anything that can think for itself is a person.

[ And yes, he does think that the sex droids back home were people. ]

... Can we go back to talking about music?

This is kinda. Hurting my processor.

Yeah.

[ Maybe he'd been a little insensitive about the whole robot thing. He should probably apologize, but he's not really an expert at that sort of thing, so he lets it go. ]

What kinda music do you like?

[And just like that, he's grinning again, spreading his hands as he talks.]

Oh man, like almost literally everything? The dance kind! The really fast stuff, y'know?

Yeah? I like anything loud and fast.

[ Something they can floor the gas pedal to or something he can fight or fuck to. ]

Yeah! Same, dude!

It's really stupid they took it off us when we got here, though.

Fuckin' fascist bullshit. Why would they do that?

Wait, what's 'fascist'?

Like... totalitarian. Won't let you fuckin' breath or think for yourself. Just gotta do what they tell you.

Oh.

So like Megatron.

Is that like... a person? Or...

Unfortunately.

He's the big dude who went bonkers and murdered half the planet. And then showed up here, trying to play nice.

Sounds like a great guy. He got a reason for all the mass murder?

Uhhhh no, unless you count "He felt like it" as a reason.

Not a real good one for something like that. Big difference between fuckin' someone and takin' their life.

... between what-ing someone?

You know. Like... sometimes you both wanna bang, so you just bang. Ain't hurtin' no one. Or maybe there's more than two of you. I don't know.

...

Pretty sure getting shot hurts, dude.

[Sideswipe, no. Not that kind of 'bang'.]