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[ex_backstab594]

This is no way to run a ship!

You put in a reserve, and then you sit and do nothing but "make icons". I don't need icons! I know how I look. I had thought being as infinitesimally short lived as your species is, you'd have some concept of time management--...

So. Do you want me there, or not?

Because, really. I'm only doing this for your benefit.

I suppose you'll want my input on the personality section. Who knows me better than--

...ggh...suit yourself.

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[futurebatwoman]

Most people in the City would consider themselves neutral parties, actually.

[ squinting she has no idea what he's talking about. ]

I - okay? It doesn't really concern me whether you want pets or not.

[ex_backstab594]

People, humans--of course. [with a dismissive swagga] They don't know, and between you and I, they don't matter. But there are no robots who can remain neutral.

[UGH] Are you insinuating you wouldn't want to be adopted? I could care for human vermin just as well as Prime, if I so desired!

[futurebatwoman]

... Wow, that's -- flattering. But neutrality is always a choice.

[ BEAT ] You just called me vermin. Also I don't actually want to be adopted and I'm a little confused as to why you think I would.

[ex_backstab594]

Oh. If you want to scavenge for scraps of Energon while being shot at by both sides, why not? No home. No allies. No resources. [he says this bitterly, knowing it's the fate he's chosen for himself, but he's not going to admit to her, or even himself, unless he has to]

...you don't...? [WAIT HE IS CONFUSE...]

[futurebatwoman]

I didn't say a great one. But it is a choice.

[ it's like confusion central up in here. ] Adoption's kind of a big deal for a first meeting. And I'm 19 anyways. [ and doesn't want anyone in charge of her :| ]

[ex_backstab594]

[darkly] You don't have to expound on the merits of freedom to me. I'm familiar.

19 what? [snerk] 19 solar-cycles? You're barely a protoform.

[futurebatwoman]

If you say so.

[ shruug -- what no! ] I'm a legal adult! I have a full time job.

[ex_backstab594]

[a pause. Like he's trying to decide if he can smugly rub it in or not] How fulfilling.

[reluctantly decides not to go for the smugging--this time]

I do hope we'll get along.

[futurebatwoman]

[ an assessing pause, and then she shrugs with a grin. ]

I'm sure we will.

It would probably help if you didn't refer to humans as vermin, though.

[ex_backstab594]

Did you just tell me that being dishonest would help? [scandalized]

[futurebatwoman]

... So you seriously think of humans as vermin.

[ex_backstab594]

[exaggerated patience] You have short life spans, and no grasp of technology. You run around--multiplying like there's no tomorrow, and you're always stealing or otherwise tampering with Cybertronian relics. [a beat] Generously, I won't even hold your bizarre fluid emissions against you. The rest stands rather nicely on its own.

[futurebatwoman]

[ opens mouth. closes again. ]

We have a perfectly decent grasp of technology.

[ chooses that to be offended about. ]

[ex_backstab594]

[blinks, and then laughs. It's a weasely laugh.]

I'll admit... your toy airplanes are very entertaining.

[futurebatwoman]

Oh, I didn't mean those. And they get better.

I meant the computers, mostly.