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"Uh. Hi everyone. Um. So my partner was kidnapped and beat up, and that is a very not-okay thing, and other attacks happened and people are flipping out about aliens which...uh, is problematic for other reasons."

Since, you know. He's a grey kid with giant bull horns from another planet and all.

"I-I don't know what's being done already, but, uh...it's pretty clear that we are all freaked out and, uh, and it occurs to me, that maybe, because there is a lot going on, and a lot of chaos, if we had some teams that were just focused on one problem or another, we might get more done. Or even both problems, sort of competing to solve them, like a game or something.

"Maybe that doesn't make sense. I, uh, am not a leader person, but we did that before, my friends and me, and it, uh...sort of worked. We found out a lot, anyway."

And now a bunch of private messages in orange courier with a dumb typing quirk!

Private to: Terezi

hI, tEREZI,
uH,
i NEED TO TALK TO YOU,
iF THAT'S OKAY,
pRETTY SOON?

Private to: Kanaya

hI, kANAYA,
iF IT'S OKAY,
tHERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT, mAYBE,
wE SHOULD TALK ABOUT?

Private to: Tali'Zorah

hI, tALI,
i HOPE YOU'RE OKAY,
i HAVEN'T TALKED TO YOU IN, uH,
kIND OF A WHILE,
bUT i HAD SOME THINGS TO,
i GUESS,
rUN BY YOU,
iF YOU HAVE A MINUTE?

Private to: Garrus

hELLO, oFFICER gARRUS,
uM, i HOPE IT IS OKAY THAT i MADE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT,
pOSSIBLY i SHOULD HAVE CHECKED WITH YOU FIRST,
aBOUT OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIONS THAT YOU MAY BE DOING,
bUT,
uM,
i ALSO GUESS i JUST WANT TO HELP,
bECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO DID THAT TO MY PARTNER,
dEFINITELY NEED TO GET CAUGHT!

Private to: No Name (Trowa)

aRE YOU, oKAY?

Private to: Gamzee

hI, bRO,
wOW, tHINGS ARE A MESS HERE,
i DON'T WANT YOU TO WAIT FOR ME TOO LONG,
aS IT IS DANGEROUS,
sO, uH, iF YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO THE SWAMP,
i WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU LATER?

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[Wow that's. A lot to take in. He waits a moment to absorb this before responding.]

Well that at least gives me a bit more to work with. Thank you.

I'm not even sure where to begin. I suppose just try to stay out of everyone's way is the best I can do.

Seems like I came back at a bad time.

Um, apparently there was a viewing, that Mr. Stark held, for the skrull, so, I guess, that is someone who would know the most about them.

And, uh, I guess if it makes you feel any better, probably all times here are bad for somebody?

Hmm. Sounds like a witch-hunt if you ask me.

Good to see things haven't changed much, then.

I think everyone is very confused, and people are being attacked, so it is hard not to panic. Uh, but that is only going to help the enemy!

You're right. You look young, but you're pretty smart, you know. Then again I don't know how your... species ages. What are you, by the way, if that's not too forward a question?

At any rate, the last thing people need is to mob together and throw a fit. Everything in moderation, and reason above action.

Oh. Okay. Wow, thanks! Uh, I'm 6 sweeps, which is about 13, in human years. Um, and I'm a troll. There are others of us around, uh, but some got the power to look like humans. I did not get that power.

[All bull horns, all the time, up in this. Just Tavros's luck...]

Well, it seems like people are too busy not trust each other, to really do the mob thing. Uh, so that's...sort of...good? Or at least not bad in that specific way, but in a different way, which means everyone suspects everyone and not a lot gets accomplished one way or another.

That's fascinating! A troll... I've never seen one before. Only thirteen and you have a very good head on your shoulders. very bright!

[Forgive him, he used to be a teacher. It's in his nature.]

[He grins.] Looking like a human is highly overrated, anyways.

[Yes, he would know.]

Ahaha- yeah... this place makes it hard to get much done sometimes. It's do dangerous all the time, especially if you can't defend yourself.

[Blushing brown, Tavros stammers in the wake of the compliment.]

O-oh. Um. Thank you. Is, uh, not looking human a thing which you have, uh, personal experience with?

[He smiles and nods. He's so awful at hiding himself, he gave up after Calendar Man, really.]

Well. Kind of. It's a work in progress.

Oh. What, um. There are a lot of options that are not human, to be, uh, so what are you?

[Trying. So hard. Not to be offensive.]

Sorry, if that's rude to ask.

I am a cybertronian.

I do not normally look like this, unfortunately I'm suck as a human for now.

Oh. I don't know, if I know what that is! But it sounds, uh, very technologically advanced.

And, humans aren't that bad. You look like a very nice adult human male.

Well. My species is what organics might call a "robot", though that term isn't quite accurate. Robots are automatons, cybertronians on the other hand, are fully sentient, evolving creatures.

No, they aren't. I very much like humans- and their planet. [He laughs.]

I was quite excited to become one. I just didn't expect it to be an extended... situation.

Edited 2012-02-25 22:23 (UTC)

Oh! Huh. That's pretty amazing. So you aren't, uh, vessels for someone's spirit? That, uh, happened to a friend of mine, once. And then, from some time shenanigans, she was hundreds of robots.

Spirits? Oh my, no.

Hmm, her consciousness was split into mechanical containers? Fascinating. What kind of wold do you come from?

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that moment when you catch a typo but it's way too late 8(

that moment when you realize you never replied. c__c

Happens to the best of us. C: