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Huh...those pink puffballs are aliens?

To be honest I've never met an alien as far as I know...but I think one of my friends back home might be one. Either that or a sexy sleek robot. He always wears a mask and speaks in Haiku. Totally weird.

...also he only has four fingers on his hands...or is it like three fingers and a thumb?

Supposedly. I've visited the mountain, and they do dance in the moonlight.

I think there are some here. Aliens, I mean. I'm not sure about robots, we all become human in this place.

Which by the way? Totally lame!

Why can't we all just be whatever we wanna be? How much more amazing would it be if we had aliens and robots as pokemon trainers? Or if we got to keep our special powers?

I understand why some would feel that way, but I'm afraid I can't agree.

Think how much more dangerous this world would be. And I speak not as a human, but as someone who wasn't before this place. I know how dangerous I would be, and I'm relatively benign.

Aww why'd you have to bring logic into it?

I mean...yeah OK a lot of these people are better off without super powers...especially Jack.

But I miss my robot! And Angel was so cool the way she could connect to tech! And Krieg...

...well actually Krieg is pretty much the same just doesn't have his axe.

All things are a trade. Something must be given, in exchange for this life in this world.

And it is safer.

So, what kind of cool nothuman were you before you came here to be safe?

I was something terrible and forbidden. It doesn't exist outside of my world.

Sounds sexy~ Tell me more.

No but for real, that's kind of why the police were after me back home. For "Creation of unauthorized technology."

Basically I am so badass smart I invented tech that no one else had figured out yet and the facist pigs who were on the government's dime wanted to crush it before more people found out and tried using it to better humanity.

[You know...with more death robots naturally.]

Maybe another time. It's not a nice story.

Isn't that always the way? Of course, some things really are better left undiscovered or unmade.

Ugh, fiiiine but only because you're super cool and I know you're not gonna make me hike all over Jotoh looking for echo devices with your backstory on them. That is the the most exhausting side quest.

[Gaige stop breaking the fourth wall, you don't have enough anarchy for that anymore.]

Yeah but if you met my baby Deathtrap you wouldn't be sayin' that. He's such a handsome hunk of forbidden technology that everyone loves him! I mean...except people who try to kill me. He usually makes sure they don't love him.

I don't talk about my life before here much. It upsets people.

...you made something...alive?

Ah, yeah. I've noticed people around here are a little...delicate compared to what I'm used to too!

And that depends on your definition of "alive". Technically speaking I created a highly advanced robot piloted by a complex artificial intelligence capable of learning and altering it's programming based on the data it collects when it's activated.

Some people may just call him a machine but I love my boy~

Delicate or not, my story isn't a pleasant one.

Hmm. Do you consider that...ethical? To create something that learns and grows and is aware of its own existence?

I mean...Ethics isn't my strong suit on my best days.

But if you say it like that, it makes having kids at all sound unethical.

Mmmm.

There's a difference between biological procreation as nature designed, and creating life with science in ways no God ever intended.

Ah...ok well, I mean if it's a god thing then maybe not? But then again if you believe in a god then god is also the reason I was able to figure out how to create such an advanced artificial intelligence right?

I think at the end of the day it's not so much like...creating something that is alive or really close to it isn't inherently good or bad. It's what is done with that life.

Like Deathtrap? Sure he fights and kills a whole bunch, but it's mostly badguys. Bandits and wild animals trying to hurt me. Deathtrap has saved a lot of lives and the more he learns and grows and advances his tech the more he'll save!

It's like that thing, nature vs. nurture? Kinda like that?

...you are making me think way harder about this then I ever did before be tee dubs. Science isn't about usually shoulda as much as coulda!

Perhaps. Perhaps not. To believe in a god isn't to believe that god is all powerful.

One could argue that a being created in such a manner could never truly be happy, could never truly belong. It would always know its different, know humanity was close but beyond reach.

It's something that should be thought about. To create life is to take on a great responsibility.

It isn't?

....huh well...I mean now that you mention it in the comic books and movies gods usually aren't all powerful. If they were the stories would be boring. They gotta have some weakness to overcome.

AH! But see that's where it's not always the same! Because there's nothing wrong with being different! And sometimes humans suck! In my experience humans can be the greatest monsters and do things that are unthinkably awful!

[She sounds WAY too cheerful about this.]

And if being different means being someone like you? Well...I mean you seem really cool to me. And it sounds like other people like you for who and what you are too!

'Gods' are just...greatly evolved beings with power that we can't equal or understand.

Some differences are. Science can only replicate so much, can only go so far. Humans may be flawed, but they are as nature made them. As they were intended to be.

Mmm. that's because I'm human now.

OK, OK I can go with that. Like how bugs can't possibly understand us and what we do right? Different levels!

[Says the girl who sometimes has mentally unstable ego trips and declares herself a goddess while shooting wildly in all directions.]

I dunno man. Do you act totally different now then you would back home just because you've got a different body?

Yes, I do.

It's more than a different body, my mind works differently, my anatomy is different. I feel guilt, I feel shame, I feel regret. I care about the happiness and well being of others. Other living things aren't just...potential experiments. A boy reecntly arrived from my own world barely recognizes me anymore.

I am well aware of the differences in my own self.

Yeesh, that blows man.

I mean it's great that you're a better person now, it just blows that you had to travel to a whole different universe to unlock the ability. I could say it was always inside you but you know yourself better then I do.

I still think though that there's nothing wrong with bringing artificial life into the world without a plan. Sometimes the adventure is finding out what happens when you're flying by the seat of your pants you know? It's just important to be supportive about it. Not be some kind of dick who just brings someone into the world and ditches them or worse, uses them for your own gain without even thinking about what they want!

[She may be projecting a little bit about someone else's life situation.]

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