He's just out of luck isn't he

[digginyourtomb]

Really? This is the username you let yourself be enabled into?

[Pharaoh just puts his hand over his face, rubbing his eyes as his mun giggles.]

Yes, I know the double meaning. And I can see the pun too. You don't even like puns.

...

Oh, trust me. I do blame Uri. And until you change it, I'm not cooperating.

......

..........

Okay, okay! I give up! Just stop... giving me those eyes. Ug... stupid women... And tell Yugi I want to see that Puzzle of his at some point.

Comments

[towhatcolor]

Double meaning...?

[digginyourtomb]

[why Uri]

Uh, yeah. There's kind of a pun in there.

[towhatcolor]

[People taking pleasure in your pain

Staring at it for a little while...]

I don't understand. You dig tombs?

[digginyourtomb]

I dig in tombs, yes. I help excavate artifacts and spot traps so that the workers don't get hurt or fall into them.

[towhatcolor]

I see. You do important work, then.

[She...still can't spot the pun, though.]

[digginyourtomb]

[And he's not going to explain it unless she makes him.]

I do, yes. After all, I can just be repaired. It's better if I step into one than a human.

[towhatcolor]

[And her interest is piqued.]

Are you mechanical?

[digginyourtomb]

[Oh, she didn't know?]

I'm a robot, yes.

[towhatcolor]

[A pause.]

Were you made for this work, then? Or did you choose it?

[digginyourtomb]

I was created for it, but I enjoy it, so I don't mind that much. Especially since my creator cares about all of us, so it's a little hard to feel ungrateful to him.

[towhatcolor]

[There's a quiet, thoughtful noise. She doesn't seem entirely satisfied with that answer.]

"All of us". Do the other creations also dig in tombs?

[digginyourtomb]

No. We all were made for different things.

[towhatcolor]

Do you all enjoy your appointed tasks?

[digginyourtomb]

As far as I know. If any of my brothers have ever really hated what they were made to do, they've never said much about it. Though Drill does complain about not having hands a lot...

...Well. Thinking about it, Ring and Skully probably don't, now that they're not running off Wily's programming. But they're trying to figure out something else, and I'm sure they'll find something they like doing.

[towhatcolor]

--Their programming was tampered with?

[digginyourtomb]

All of ours was.

[Sigh. He doesn't like thinking about it, but it's important to explain.]

An evil man named Dr. Wily kidnapped Kalinka -- Dr. Cossack's daughter and someone we all cared deeply for. He threatened her to make Dr. Cossack work for him to try to destroy Megaman, a robot who had stopped him from taking over the world about three times by then.

None of us wanted Kalinka to be hurt, so the six of us that originally existed were modified to fight him; Dr. Cossack even went a step further and created Skull and Ring specifically for fighting Megaman.

[towhatcolor]

...What a cruel thing to do.

[She stares down at her hands, wringing them uncomfortably.]

But you were all repaired? This...Ring, and Skull as well?

/secretly pretends she didn't Freudian slip

[digginyourtomb]

Wily is a very cruel man.

But, yes. A robot named Blues saved Kalinka, so Rockman was able to stop Wily. And with Wily gone and Kalinka safe, it was easy enough for Dr. Cossack to recover our remains and fix us all back up.

But you can see the problem Ring and Skull have. Unlike the rest of us, they weren't made for a helpful purpose, so they're having to figure out how to help on their own.

[shadowscall]

Better than mine.

[Really. His allows for no hope of change, ever. Forget character growth, it's not a thing.]

[towhatcolor]

Even with such beginnings...it is possible to change greatly.

I hope they succeed in finding a purpose to their liking.

[digginyourtomb]

So do I. They're our brothers, after all.

[digginyourtomb]

At least yours is serious.

[Hi, his mun has put a Disco Tut reference in his.]

[towhatcolor]

"Brothers"...

You consider your tie to them familial?

[shadowscall]

Too serious.

[Hey Kai, the mun reminds you it could've been worse. A notebook, two hours to kill, and thirty possible names. It could have been so much worse.]

...But I can live with it.

[digginyourtomb]

Isn't it the same with humans? The methods and specifics are vastly different, but aren't siblings just ones who were "made" by the same people?

Certainly, we only have one creator, but why should it be different for us?