re_alignment | [Voice] Trying Too Hard

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✘ dead space | vandal

[Voice] Trying Too Hard

So that's it then. Everything is back to "normal". As normal as this place gets and we're all left a little more fucked up than when we started.

Let's talk, humans, bears, Autobots, Decepticons. We're all people stuck here. Some of us want to be here, some of us don't...

But.

I just want to hear something good.

It doesn't matter if we're friends or not. But I'd like to hear from you.

Have you made friends here?

Would you rather go home or stay? If you want to go home, what is it there that you miss?

What makes you happy?

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[She makes a mildly disgruntled groan. That was just the kind of line that would have made Starscream furious. Not that she misses him.]

That's a lot about us.

Asking so many open-ended questions, then saying you only want 'something good'. It's like announcing you want- [she pauses.] comforting platitudes!

And you didn't even tell us what put you so in need of reassurance!

[Not that she's being any more forthcoming.]

Uh. Well okay.

Just trying to focus on something positive, nobody's twisting your arm.

And I don't need comforting.

It could be worse. Could be stranded on a rock without resources or popped out inside a star, or near a singularity, or spaced between galaxies. So, that's positive? [She's not the sunniest one in her family.]

Anyway, saying you want to hear something good sounds like you need some cheer. But, no one's saying you're some person that needs others. The one you can rely on most is usually yourself. [She's not happy about it, but she believes it.]

Uh... yeah I guess?

Well thanks for the analysis but I'm not really into talking about me right now.

And that is depressing as fuck, just FYI.

[There doesn't seem much point in continuing the conversation, except that Slipstream really doesn't understand the "depressing" part.]

What do you mean? Who's depressed?

Nobody-

Ah. Y'know. Never mind it.

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