re_alignment | [voice/video]

Ah!Thisthingisfinallygettingasignal. [Blurr’s face shows up. It’s been weeks since he posted and he looks tired, scratched and in need of a good rest, but he’s smiling.

Because he's in the wastelands the communication is filled with static and sometimes it might fail completely.]

Greetings! I hope everyone's^{doing well. It's been}some time and now I'm afraid I need your help. [He moves to show rusty old trailer next to him, on its side.]

I replaced the tires of the trailer and tried to the fix the broken _{axels but there}was just so much I could do with something so old and rusted. I’ve been trying to flip it to the right position for hours but I do not process the necessary strength to do that. And in case you are wondering why I ^{want to take this} old thing to the Haven…

[Blurr opens the back of the trailer and sure it’s filled with wheels. Long lasting and highly durable, so durable they survived to this day untouched by time.

Merry belated Christmas, people.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I thought they would just... repair themselves. Like the rest of your frames.

Maybe. But I don't use my tires often.

[He prefers flying to driving.]

NoooooOOOoooo...perhaps because not all of us have wheels when we are created. Depends on the alt mode we choose later.

But maybe you want to give them to someone, as a present. [It's a nice present! By cybertronians standards, at least.]

So... they're not part of you?

Someone. As a present. [Crap who does he know with tires. McCrane has tires, right?]

Well they are once I add them to my frame. I can feel my wheels and everything.

It's just _{an idea. Who} doesn't like tires? [Deckard has tires too. And also 70% of your Police Force coworkers, Kagerou.]

But if you add them, don't they become part of you?

[He doesn't understand this okay.]

Blurr is trying to explin ti the best he can.]

But our bodies can't repair the wheels the same way they can fix the other parts. Let's says, _{I break} one of my optics. That one won't fix itself either, I'd need to get it repaired. Scratches are easier to fix.

Humans bodies can fix themselves to an extent too, it's the same principle.

... So then, you're more like us. Needing parts replaced.

I didn't think it was so similar.

We are all more alike that you think, Kagerou. Do you believe it's a bad thing?

No, I'm just surprised. That's all.

I traveled a lot around the galaxy and I noticed that most sentient races have very similar traits.

Except maybe the Daleks. Those are just insane.

They all change their tires?

[Blurr laugh at that.] No, silly. We share the same behaviour when it comes to certain things like friends, allies and foes. Or family, if they have one.

Do we?

I thought... hm. That's strange.

Yes, but only from my experience.

What did you think?

That an AI like me would be different from real living things.

But you are alive too, Kagerou.

I'm... still trying to accept that.

To believe it.

Take your time. I imagine it's not easy.

No. It's not... trying to believe you're something other than what you've always been told.

I can only imagine.

Humans have a hard time seeing my kind as something more than machines, it takes them time sometimes but even they change their mind. Time helps.

But you're alive. Like they are.e

How would you define 'alive'.

You have souls, don't you?

Yes. In the Cybertronian's case it's easy to tell because those are visible, but how do you know that the humans who made you also had one? What makes you think that? Animals are alive and I don't think humans beleive that they have souls. _Besides the concept of 'soul' is no universal, other races around the galaxy doesn't understand it.

Because they... just do.

That's how it is. That's why they can't be rebuilt, as we can.

[RIGHT...?]

(no subject)

raceme - 2014-01-07 10:46 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-07 19:56 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-07 21:48 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-07 23:12 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-07 23:16 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-07 23:45 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-08 00:05 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-08 05:12 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-13 23:56 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-14 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-16 01:01 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-16 05:21 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-17 22:31 (UTC) - Expand

thxforthememories - 2014-01-18 01:12 (UTC) - Expand

raceme - 2014-01-19 19:56 (UTC) - Expand