Maison :'D (and mention of a musebox thread)

[thatwasapun]

H-h-h-h-hey, miss mundane, I've got a great idea! How about you not do awful things t'me and then brag about it to all your little friends, huh? Now there's a wild and crazy idea! Or you could just, y-y-y-y-you know, stop bein' such a jerk!

[oh. are you mad, darling? I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of Chrome's mun and I plotting more terrible things to do to you. and your little friend, too.]

!!!

Why I oughta-- you b-b-b-better leave her outta this mess! I-in fact, how about you leave both of us outta it, huh? Doncha have other stuff you could be doin' t'entertain yourself?

[well, I could always do that other thread you're in instead...

WHOA HE WAVES HIS ARMS AROUND SUDDENLY, making loud shushing noises.]

N-n-n-n-n-n-no, uh-uh, nope, we are not talkin' about that out here! I'm done! Y'see this? Done! [he clams up, folding his arms across his chest pointedly.]

Done. One-hundred and fifty gajillion percent done.

Comments

[ohhihumans]

[Inches closer. So VERY interested]

You mean they don't try to bite your toes or shove garlic bread in your face?

[thatwasapun]

Uh... nnnno.

[ohhihumans]

I got to go to a village once. Just the other day. It was really horrible. I didn't want to believe it, but humans are dangerous, but... but you keep them like pets?

[thatwasapun]

Sorta! We kinda keep each other, I guess. The boss right now, Petey, he's my Pappy's family, so we kinda gotta listen to what he says, but most o' the time we kinda look after each other!

[ohhihumans]

[a soft chuckle at that. Sounds a bit like home. Take care of each other, always.] You sure your not a house full of monsters?

[thatwasapun]

Pretty sure! Some of us might kinda look like m-m-monsters, but I'm pretty sure we're all just a buncha robots an' humans, deep down!

[ohhihumans]

I was always told humans were horrible things. [Sneaks in a bit closer, reaching a finger out to poke his chest softly, checking for softness] You're kind of like a suit of armor crossed with a human. It's pretty cool.

[thatwasapun]

[he taps his own fingers at his chest after that, tipping his head a bit.]

I never thought ab-b-bout it like dat before! But I'm allllll robot, just what my Pappy made me!

[ohhihumans]

[She kind of grins, adorable and with a tilted head, much like his] So... why are you so scared of a house then? You look pretty sturdy to me.

[thatwasapun]

It's not the house-- I-I mean, I guess it kinda is, but not like dat. She's workin' awfully hard to figure out ways ta mess me up. She's plannin' ta get the one ghost t' fry me!

[ohhihumans]

[Arms crossed at that]

Fried? That's not okay. You're mundane is really that mean? [is SO new she doesn't even know that her own mun is very mean to her kids in that house already] If I end up there, I wont let that happen.

[thatwasapun]

Uhh... while I do appreciate dat, you'd hafta end up in there pretty darned qu-quick, 'cause she's a handful o' "tags" from it already.

[ohhihumans]

[a blink, then a small outburst]

See?! Humans are dangerous! Are... you going to be okay?

[thatwasapun]

I think so! M-maybe. ... I s-sure hope so.

[ohhihumans]

Oh, I hope so. You seem like a really nice fellow. She's not going to dissemble you, is she?

[thatwasapun]

She better not! Far as I know, this time she's just gonna f-f-fry me up a bit an' then have me KO'd for a lil' while.

[ohhihumans]

You keep saying fry. Like... electricity? Or fire? [in the back of her mind she could hear Uncle Frank say 'Fire bad'...]

[thatwasapun]

Electricity, uh, kinda? S-she says it's gonna be kinda like a system overload. Which sounds preeeetty awful if ya ask me! I guess I'm only lucky that I'm only part electronic!

[ohhihumans]

[head tilt] You're not all electric?

[thatwasapun]

[he gives off a small puff of steam, almost as a display.]

Only my brain's electric! The rest o' me is steam powered! Oh, and, uh, there's also the stuff my core's made of, b-b-but I'm pretty sure I shouldn't talk about that.

[ohhihumans]

[The little puff of steam made her jump, just a bit, raising both brows. Whooooa. That was cool] But... but if your brain is electric and she's frying that then isn't that... I mean, that's nearly like killing you, isn't it?!

[thatwasapun]

Dat's why I'm gonna be KO'd, she says. Soma kinda surge-prevention thing or somethin'. It all sounds pretty hokey ta me, but I guess Pappy mighta thought about dat kinda stuff back when he suited us up to join the army.

[ohhihumans]

[frowning at this.] It does sound kind of hokey. Your, ah, Pappy? He built you for war? I thought you said you were a musical automa--ah, atumat--er.. a musical robot.

[thatwasapun]

We were originally supposed ta be m-m-musicians, but then some stuff happened and he ended up havin' ta send us inta the army instead. We got back outta it, though, and now we're back ta playin' music!

[ohhihumans]

For 116 years old you've sure seen a lot, haven't you? [envy!]