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[anobserver]

Um. I think I've learned how to use my Darkblood powers.

The only question now is how do I turn them off?!

[Nosferatmew and Mewnos: The Paws of Fate float on past the screen, each batcat not flapping its wings as a variety of other things in Lexi's bedroom float past Lexi, the batcats completely chill.

the batcats along with everything else in her bedroom, the remnants of a cocoon visible on the bed]

Looking for people who can also help me test the rest of my abilities, too. If not, I'll be back in the Satellite of Love tomorrow!

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[entreats]

[ Ange just hums.

It's hard to tell with how emotionless she seems - but then again, maybe it's exactly that fact that gives off the impression that she doesn't really mind talking about this, or just listening to Lexi ramble on about it. Ange doesn't seem to be protesting over here, either way, even as the other goes on.

Even as the items are slowly starting to get close enough to the floor again. ]

Ah, you don't have to convince me of that. I know very well exactly how awful people are. [ In fact, it's only this place that's making her the tiniest bit convinced that good people actually do exist.

Her own world never managed to do that. ]

But do you think that robots would be better than people if they didn't have those laws in place? Do you think they'd all be good by nature? [ Ange doesn't sound like she really falls either way on her opinion on that - mostly because she's never extensively thought about robots before.

Maybe she's just curious as to Lexi's answer to that. ]

What if they turn out just as crappy as humans?

[anobserver]

Yeah. It's depressing how so many people are. And how many times they don't have to pay for it! If it were up to me, I'd be some--some kind of karma Charles Bronson back home. I can think of at least a couple of people who have it coming.

[Nate Jacobs, to be first. she hadn't really had a problem with him until she heard the rumors about him trying to fuck Jules up at a party. and when Fez told her that Nate had turned him in to the cops for threatening him. he kind of looms in Lexi's mind as the personification of toxic masculinity white male privilege and he deserves to be taken down]

Not necessarily. They'll be like people: some good, some bad, mostly average. Average seems to be the default setting for humans, so why not robots? After all, their artificial intelligence will be patterned off of our own. And I can think of a lot of unintelligent people back home.

[and a laugh] As crappy and we'll all end up wiping each other out and the pet cats will inherit the Earth!

[entreats]

Of course it's the cats. [ Ange replies with a huff.

(She's definitely not just thinking of normal pet cats, but she doesn't elaborate on that either.) ]

I'm not so sure about the default setting for humans being average, though. Or maybe it changes from world to world. [ Ange is sure to keep her tone relatively calm as she says it.

The last thing she wants to do here is accidentally agitate Lexi and make her powers go all wild again, after all. But she still has to say this much. ]

Where I come from, I'd say the default setting was definitely bad. I haven't met a single good person there. [ But she's at least willing to admit, especially at this point where it feels more natural: ] It's very different here.

[anobserver]

Sometimes I think they already have. [at least Nosferatmew and Mewnos have, they're both thoroughly pampered batkitties]

Well, maybe average is an overstatement. Most people from back home are kind of assholes. [and she still had no idea of what was going on with her sister, Cassie. she knew something was, but Cassie would freak out and scream at her every time Lexi tried to find out what it was.

but that was a problem to solve back home. right now, her powers had to come first because they were what she was working with] Oh, jeez. That's got to be awful. Lonely, too. [but the idea of sharing a world with entirely bad people is horrifying] Yeah, it is. It's kinda weird, but I'll take it.