cross-posted to dear_player (homeless)

[old_timer]

Really, lad? This reminds me of all the times you've picked up other characters, and never done anything different.

Of course, none of them were me, so who knows what might happen?

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[wherehuman]

[ Sorry Kup, you're going to have a tiny human(?) looking at you trying to figure out why a statue moves and talks]

What are you?


((ooc: Mun might be squealing happily because EEE old school 'bot!))

[old_timer]

[Ah, human children. Kup loves human children, because they love hearing his stories. This one looks to probably be Daniel's age, though when you're many millions of years old and a robot, judging organics' ages is hard.]

I'm an Autobot, from the planet Cybertron. My name's Kup.

((OOC: Yay for squee!))

[wherehuman]

[ She thinks a moment.] Planet?

What's that? And do all Au-to-bots smell like machine oil? [ She doesn't mean to be rude it's just where she's from machines usually are about as advanced as a steam engine.]

And tall like mountains? [ Hey she's small even Bumblebee would be huge to her.]

[old_timer]

What's a planet? Well, ah... a planet's a like a big ball, in space. The universe is full of different ones, and each one has different kinds of people living on.

[He smiles, despite the slight dig at his hygiene.] Eh, maybe not all of them. Probably got a leak or something I need to patch up.

Some of them are. There's smaller ones too, but some of them are even bigger than me.

[wherehuman]

[ She looks confused again, sorry Kup, she's from a world that still thinks each body of land is the whole world.]

It's [ She sniffs at the air a moment, more like some sort of animal] Old like it is part of you. Not fresh like it's from you.

[ She thinks on this a moment. ] You don't destroy forests like Humans do do you? For shelters and planting strange plants that give nothing back to the land?

[old_timer]

Wouldn't surprise me. I've been around a long time.

[He shakes his head.] Not if we can help it. We don't even have anything like that where we're from.

[wherehuman]

Sounds dreadful. Like the cities of humans.

Though, you seem more patient than they... Allowing me to ask such questions that are probably weird to you. [ She quirks her head a little as if asking if she's being annoying, she doesn't mean to after all. Some Humans don't like it at all and she really is as curious as a cat when it comes to other creatures that don't live in her woods.]

[old_timer]

Aw, Cybertron's not so bad. It's just not made for people made out of flesh.

[Kup smiles, rubbing his chin.]

When you get to be my age, lass, you learn to be patient.

[wherehuman]

Guess that would be true. But I prefer dirt and grass to stone and smoke.

[ She gives a small sneeze and fox ears show themselves as her had shifts. She quickly moves to tuck them back away.]

[old_timer]

[Okay, he's pretty sure humans aren't able to do that.]

It's okay though. We need lots of room to roll.

[With that, Kup transforms, converting into a Cybertronian pickup truck.]

[wherehuman]

[ She jumps back with a yelp, though watches him curiously.]

You... have another form like I.

[ There's a few small steps forward as she watches him curious.] All your kind?

[ She means does all his kind have other forms, because he's the first she's met that wasn't animal. Werewolves don't count at all though, both forms they're usually beasts.]

[old_timer]

Yep. Every one of us. That's why some people call us Transformers.

Never met a human who could do it, though.

[wherehuman]

[ She seems to ponder this a moment. and shakes her head when he makes his comment.]

Not human. Am.. something else. Born on four legs not two.

Black magics... changed me.

[old_timer]

[Kup takes a moment to return to his humanoid form. He's not unfamiliar with magic, both from recent experiences and older ones.]

Somebody did this to you?

I'm sorry.

[wherehuman]

[ She nodded.]

He, was trying to do something else and missed his target. It hit me instead. Makes... Things difficult at times.

[old_timer]

I'd imagine. Taking on a new shape like that can't be easy. Especially one you don't want.

[wherehuman]

I, have grown used to it. Though moving fast, I still prefer four legs to two. So Humans aren't as graceful.

[ She smirks a little ] And this form, at least doesn't have things thrown at, or called a pest around them either.

Foxes aren't pests like wolves. [ She huffs a little.] And we're naturally smarter. [ Though that's total bias there.]

[old_timer]

That is the nice thing about being able to change. Sometimes you need to roll, sometimes you need hands.

[wherehuman]

[ She looks confused at that for a moment.]

Oh, because you have wheels right?

[old_timer]

Exactly. Gets you places pretty quick.

[deadster_awake]

Oh. It's you. You could come to the Wake, there's a human as old as you there.

Sadly, we've misplaced almost all our Autobots. And I'm the Leader of the Decepticons there.

[old_timer]

You? Leading the Decepticons? They must be in even sadder shape than when we kicked them off of Cybertron.

[deadster_awake]

Now, really? That's just rude. I'm not Galvatron, after all. My flavor of crazy doesn't involve randomly shooting people whenever my cranial circuits short. We don't have Galvatron, Starscream left, and we're not starving for energon. I think we're quite well off, actually.

[old_timer]

Lad, I've got rivets on my backside that'd make a better leader than Galvatron. That ain't saying much.

...But all that doesn't sound like the usual Decepticon M.O. either. "Well off" isn't something I ever thought I'd hear one say.

[deadster_awake]

I can't really argue with you.

Well, it's rather tricky for most Decepticons to thrive in the Wake... one has to be willing to sit back and accept that the bringing the War to Nautilus is utterly pointless and will merely annoy the locals to the point of Doing Something about it. Since I always considered the War pointless and futile, I am doing quite well. At least, until some cosmic horror comes along and devours us body and soul, which I expect will happen any day now.