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[sketchycharacter]

[Presented (mostly) without comment]


AN ARTIST'S RENDERING OF CURRENT ROBOT DRAMA

[This has been a courtesy shitposting interlude.]

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[sketchycharacter]

[His jaw hands open for a minute before he shuts it with a click.]

The purple one. Right.

[He shakes his head.]

And here I thought their love for the Muppets meant they were soft.

[t65]

What... what are muppets?

[sketchycharacter]

Puppets, kind of—a specific kind. Used to have a TV show on Earth, where I'm from. Apparently there are DVDs or something onboard the Moira, and a couple of the robots are really big fans.

[t65]

[Luke snorts.] I guess I'll have to look into them.

Look, all of them that I've met are good people. [Even the purple one.] You just have to be careful around them, they're big and very durable. I guess... they don't know their own strength?

[sketchycharacter]

Or they don't know ours. We must seem like squishy meat sacks to them.

[What a great mental image.]

[t65]

[Gross, dude.]

No, no. You should try talking to more of them. A lot of them have a great respect for human life.

[sketchycharacter]

[That's the point.]

Except the purple one, right.

[t65]

[Luke sighs.] His name is Tarn. He's... dangerous to most people. I wouldn't approach him unless you absolutely had to.

If you do, tell him you're under my protection.

[sketchycharacter]

[Sorry, Luke, that actually makes him laugh out loud. Not meanly, he promises.]

I appreciate it, Luke, but I can protect myself. I'll just avoid punchy robots.

[t65]

[And Luke kind of blinks, confused by that reaction. For the last four years, he's been The Man Who Destroyed The Death Star; it doesn't occur to him that, without that knowledge, he's a bit easy to underestimate.]

I- I know, I mean... [Oh, whatever. It's not like he can ask.] Well, just be careful, alright? We don't need any more deaths on our hands.

[sketchycharacter]

[In fairness, it's less to do with Luke and more to do with the fact that Nate's had a lot of people try to kill him for a long time now.]

I will, I promise. I don't really want to get squashed, and it'd really piss off my wife. She's scarier than the robots.

[This is possibly said for Elena's benefit, in case she's listening. And oh right, she's here!]

[t65]

[TO EACH THEIR OWN.]

Tarn's more likely to kick you into a wall. It worked last time. [Groan.]

[And then he laughs.] I'll be sure not to let her hear that if she shows up here.

[sketchycharacter]

[It's not like he asks for it!!!]

If it's a robot versus me, I don't think it would make much difference to the state of the body.

[Yuck.]

No, no, she's here now. Was, I guess, I just didn't know.

[t65]

[Luke's face absolutely lights up.] She is? Nate, that's wonderful! I'm so happy for you!

[sketchycharacter]

[His face is pretty lit up too. What a gross loser in love.]

Me, too. She's got better things to do than be in space, but I'm gonna be selfish about this.