[Video -> TEXT] [TRANSMISSION ORIGINATING FROM: LIEGE'S FORTRESS]

[4_toteachus]

[Well... okay he's never seen anything like this before. Is it like a typewriter? Because he knows how to use a typewriter. Four doesn't really understand what a "network" is, but he's determined to find out. He's been told that this will help him communicate with others, and... as frightening as that is, he really, really, really wants to talk with people.

Even the robots, who he figures can't all be bad...

Right?

He plays around with it a little, and accidentally turns on the video function. Tiny optics blink out onto the network, and he continues fiddling around with it until he manages the texting function.]

areallofyoulostlikeiam?

[Wait, how do you do spaces? Give him a moment, he'll figure this out.]

My name is 4.

There are a lot of machines and living things here. I have never seen anything like you before.

can you answer some of my questions please?

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[my_own_trope]

And I find your sense of self preservation to be lacking.

No, not abilities. What is your energy source? What allows you to run?

[4_toteachus]

My energy source was given to me by someone very kind and dear to us. I am part of a human soul.

May I ask what powers you?

[my_own_trope]

[Dude what? What, Dude? What?]

...

[Humans have sparks? Humans can split their sparks and insert them into toys and make them run?
???????!!!??????
Since when was this a thing?!]








Is that -- Are you some sort of symbiote?

[4_toteachus]

I don't think so. The definition of symbiosis is the close and often long-term interaction between different biological species.

I am merely one part of a soul, the rest of my family make up the other parts. There are 9 of us, so the one who created us split his soul 9 times to allow us to live.

[my_own_trope]

[Mutter:] Or the dead. [/mutter]

What was the fate of the original host?

[4_toteachus]

The Scientist died after giving the final piece of his soul to 9.

[my_own_trope]

Are you a Horcrux?

Why not simply further divide the 'soul'? Is there a limited amount of times it can be fractured? What other variables exist? Size? Shape? Quality of these human sparks? Can it be recombined? Do you and your comrades function like a gestalt?

[Sorry Stasrcream hasn't answered any of your questions except to ask a million of his own. ~You've intrigued his "scientific curiosity"~]

[4_toteachus]

I am not familiar with the science of the soul, my information on the topic is incomplete. Though you raise many interesting questions, I am not sure how you would go about answering them.

Unless you were to take a human and separate his or her soul from their body, and examine it from there. Such thing is impossible however.

And unethical I suppose.

[my_own_trope]

Yes, why ever would I want to do that. [It comes out practically a purr]

Tell me, because I didn't get a good enough look from your video, but where are you located presently? The halls look familiar.

[4_toteachus]

I am living in Liege's Fortress.

I think I'm here so he may examine me.

[my_own_trope]

So our Liege has an interest in you too.

I also wouldn't mind giving you a look over. Which floor are you on?

[4_toteachus]

[Four would mind very much being given a look over.]

I would rather not say.

You do not strike me as the type I would like to meet in person.

[my_own_trope]

Now you've gone and hurt my feelings. :(