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[redwinekindofgirl]

What are your families like?

Just curious. I mean, I guess most of us must have them.

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text; @starscream

[vosseeker]

A strange thing to ask a collection of relative strangers, don't you think?

[redwinekindofgirl]

I'm not putting a fucking gun to anyone's head, dude.

[vosseeker]

You're not, but I still wonder your motive. Pure boredom seems unlikely.

[ Don't mind Starscream, cynical and suspicious is his default mode. ]

[redwinekindofgirl]

People expert, huh?

[They're not actually so different in that regard...]

[vosseeker]

Unlike certain uncultured tyrants, I'm actually capable of negotiation and precision.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Weird segue. I guess you want me to ask about the uncultured tyrant now?

[vosseeker]

Not especially, no. The remark was context, not an invitation. For once, I am enjoying him not being the Pit-damned center of everyone's attention.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Kind of an attention-grabber, is he?

[vosseeker]

In the worst way possible.

[ Like Starscream is one to talk, drama queen that he is... ]

You still haven't answered why you're so curious as to the topic.

[redwinekindofgirl]

No real reason. Just got thinking about home.

[vosseeker]

[ Starscream mulls that over for a moment. ]

Cybertronians don't have family units as humans think of them. Outside of instances like split-sparks, nearly all of our cohorts are decided by choice.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Split-sparks?

[vosseeker]

Under unique circumstances, a spark divides into two halves and becomes encased in two separate Forged frames. Loosely analogous to human twins, albeit measurably connected by spark signature. They are relatively rare.

[redwinekindofgirl]

So a spark like, what, to a human.

A soul?

[vosseeker]

Yes. From what I understand of human perception of it.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Huh. That's actually pretty cool.

[vosseeker]

[ Whatever reaction Starscream might have been expecting, that wasn't it, and it throws him... evident in the delay before his next response arrives. ]

Surely you must only think so because human "souls" are so infinitesimal.

[redwinekindofgirl]

I guess you're trying to insult me or something.

But I don't believe in that kind of stuff.

[vosseeker]

Is it an insult if it's true? Many organics believe in the concept without a shred of physical evidence supporting it.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Then how can you prove it's true if no one can even prove that souls even exist?