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[droptheious]

[The video feed opens in Varian's creepy basement lab where health and safety regulations go to die. The boy himself isn't looking that great, his skin has a grey-ish tinge to it and he looks more exhausted than usual. But that's fine, he's fine. He turns the camera around to take in some sapphires on his workbench. Some are soaking in various chemical substances, some are under a microscope, some are in various steampunk-y machines: it's clear some testing has been going on. ]

So, Flynn was kind enough to give me some of the crystals that grew on his corpse during...whatever weird new thing death is here. [He doesn't sound as excited about this as his usual projects and anyone who knows about his deeply unfortunate past will know why.] I have experience in creepy, magical death rocks -no...no I'm not going to elaborate on that- so I decided to study them. They seem to be crystalising the actual cells of the body- so not just a separate coating. I also found traces of warmblood within the crystals themselves, which I think is what Flynn is? A-anyway, it seems they're working on a cellular level, like they're what jumpstarts the reversal of the cell degeneration after death- so- so it's possible they're what reverses then entire process.

Anyway, moral of the story is, they're probably super important in resurrecting people so maybe don't mess with the process when it's happening? Of course, without having any other samples to compare this to, it's all conjecture right now.

[A beat, he turns the camera back to himself, grimacing.]

Sorry, I forgot who I was talking to. Please don't take that as encouragement to get yourselves killed in the name of science.

[Another beat, then he waves a hand airily.]

Thaaaaaat said, this is October, so statistically, there's a high chance that a not-insignificant portion of the population will be dead by the end of the month. So...if you wanna donate your death crystals for science then, that would be less...morally grey. Probably? Probably.

Comments

[droptheious]

Yeeeaaah that's kind of a problem. Maybe I can work it with blood samples instead? See how that reacts without...actually drowning someone.

...Probably should avoid drowning someone.

[eugenesis]

[He's right. They'd die and come back to life angry. Scorponok doesn't want that.]

What if the blood only reacts when in contact with a living creature? Should we inject it into a fish?

[droptheious]

[He hums thoughtfully.]

Maybe I could try and create non-sentient organic matter? So we could test it out without uh... morally dubious areas?

[Probably. It feels like a thing he should probably be doing. ]

[eugenesis]

Fish aren't intelligent, sentient beings. I am not the same thing as a typical techno-scorpian.

[droptheious]

I live with a sea monster so I beg to differ on that one. And given how omens work in this world, we can't rule out that they aren't sapient anyway.

[You just never know!!]

You aren't? There's a difference?

[eugenesis]

I'm not going to experiment on an omen. [That's just stupid!] I wouldn't even experiment on my own.

[And Varian hits a nerve.]

Is a Cybertronian who transforms into a car the same thing as a car? When I transform into a scorpion, do you think I am an unintelligent as an animal?

[droptheious]

Oh good, nice to be...sure.

[He scratches his cheek.]

Well, no, you're not. But where I come from, animals aren't unintelligent. They're all pretty smart- we can talk to them and everything. They're almost like humans.

[eugenesis]

Then you don't eat animals on your planet?

[At least, most species don't eat other sentient species.]

[droptheious]

I-

...Well okay, we do eat animals on my planet which I realise now really doesn't look great.

[Disney explain yourself. ]

[eugenesis]

[Even Scorponok has to acknowledge that's kind of messed up.]

[droptheious]

[Welcome to the horrible fridge-logic of Disney, buddy!]