#~bounded vamploid~

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“   You look so biteable today. ”

"...........................................thanks."

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It's fine. It's fine!

"...not like we were enjoyin' the peace'n quiet or anythin'."

Who the hell is making Rock so distressed?

...

Oh. Blues is there.

[absolute-hunter]

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(Vi) You mentioned you have eating requirements-- that normal human grade foods were no good, what's with that?

"Oh. That? It's pretty normal for reploids not to be able to eat." Vile shrugs, obviously nonchalant about the question.

"Think of it like a sliding scale. There's extremes and also a lot of in-between." Which, frankly, could describe almost any aspect of reploid builds.

"Most of us get features based on the jobs we're built for. If we're going to be working a lot with people for example, we're more likely to be as close to human as possible... within budget. Office jobs, daycare attendants, that sort of thing. There's a need to make non reploids feel more comfortable, and food is like a big... camaraderie thing, you know? You share your culture, your time, and more when you eat together." Or that's what he'd observed at least. It's about the socialization more than anything else.

"Even the most high end models still have intake restrictions though. They're basically vegan..? Or have other individual system restrictions. Generally though, it's easier to process plant matter and sugars over animal proteins. Grease and fat can easily cause havoc on your insides when you aren't built for it too. Same reasons you wouldn't pour oil down the sink."

"...which yeah, makes fried foods difficult. There are modifications and upgrades you can get to have an easier time eating but they're pricier which is why it's not really a default. Maybe the only exception is units commissioned to work in restaurants." Hard to imagine a world where that's the norm, even if it sounds nice.

"...then there's the rest of us. Which is a spectrum of not being able to eat period, and only being able to consume specific stuff. Like... y'know, e-tanks. Unless you fall under 'can't eat' you can have that and similar products. There's food and drinks made for reploids to use for minor upkeep, and it's less expensive than making us able to eat what the humans do." For the manufacturers, that is.

"Synthetic foodstuffs are a big market that sprang up practically overnight, but they're in high demand given our limitations. Quality varies though, and it really depends on your individual systems for what works and doesn't. Lots of it looks and smells pretty close to what I see in human diets at the very least."

"Couldn't tell you if any of it tastes like the real thing though. I'm pretty limited in what I can have. I fall closer to the grade of reploids that eats next to nothing. Not really necessary for a combat model, and I have limited interaction with the public..." thankfully.

"You could compare it to a mostly liquid diet for me. Basically synthetic drinks and stuff that's easy to burn off like alcohol is all I get. Something has to be made with virtually only maintenance in mind and like... sugar, for me to be able to have it as a solid. Even then, I have to stick to small portions."

"Lots of folks are like me and can only drink, but it's the cheapest option that still makes us 'relatable', I guess." Hard to tell if he's bitter or not about it.

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(Rock)

28. How long would you wait for the one you love? A year? Fifteen years? Forever? Could you honestly be loyal to an unfulfilled love?

Interview my OC about questions that have no easy answer, [accepting]

"....thought these questions were supposed t' be hard." You're asking like you don't already know the answer. "For MZ? If somethin' happened t' him? I'd wait the rest of my life, however long that's goin' t' be. We are, unfortunately, in that fucked up an' obsessed with each other kind of love." That's the nice...(?) answer, at least.

"...honestly, I don't think I'd call it waitin', though. I'd do some heinous shit if it would get him back." It'd be even easier, if it was for him. "He's not someone I could ever replace, or forget, or move on from. He knows it, too." There's nothing unfulfilled about what we have. "...if I'd never met him? That's a different story, but we ain't really entertainin' that line of thinkin'."

I spent a lifetime chasing love. Chasing death. I would have taken whichever found me first.

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Rock <3

What do you think is the worst possible way to die?

Do you think there’s life after death?

Do you ever wish you were immortal?

If you had to choose a way to die, what would you choose?

Have you ever seen a ghost/spirit?

Ask My Muse About Death | Accepting!

What do you think is the worst possible way to die?

"Depends," an unimpressed arch of the eyebrow. "In general? Or for me personally? Cause those are real different answers."

Rock considers the question, but apparently it's just morbid enough to get him talking.

"For livin' things, prob'ly suffocation, drownin', or maybe bleedin' out. The kind of death that feels long, where you know exactly what's happenin'. The kind that's desperate. Heavy." Terrifying. "A lifetime in a few minutes." 'Can you imagine it?', his tone seemingly asks. "Much worse than a death by disease or starvation. Worse than somethin' instant. It's that place right between." Too quick to stop, too slow not to suffer.

That's not the whole question though, is it? "Physical pain I can handle, not huge on disrepair though. Havin' parts of yourself slowly stop workin'... or worse," he scowls at his own internal process. "I always wondered if it was possible for machines t' think ourselves t' death. What happens when we meet our hardware limitations? When we breach capacity?"

The slow crawl of glitching entropy. Half overwritten data. The fragmented self.

"...suppose it's that or bein' reprogrammed while online. My personal fuckin' nightmare. At the end of the day, I'm nothin' but code, an' when you start changin' the ones an' zeroes...."

...am I still me?

"...give me a physical death any day."

Do you think there’s life after death?

"Never been too sure on that one." Although he doesn't seem all that bothered one way or the other. "Couldn't ever decide if that'd be a good or bad thing in the first place-- miserable, prob'ly." This life isn't exactly something that bears repeating now is it? "Shit if there is one, I sure as hell don't remember it. Died an' been put back together, an' all I got between was a fuckton of nothin', 'n more nothin'." He sounds more inconvenienced than anything else.

"Besides that, I'm pretty fuckin' sure 'bots like me don't really count as alive anyways. Can't join an afterlife when you don't have a life t' begin with, yeah?" Rockwell pauses, something coming to mind. "...suppose I do know someone who believes in that sort of thing. Maybe he's right, but I firmly believe that shit don't apply t' where I'm from."

Do you ever wish you were immortal?

"If you're askin' me this question, then we ain't well acquainted," he drawls casually. "Let me put this in simple terms: I'd rather fuckin' die. There, see? Nice an' easy." There's a grisly sort of amusement in his digital voice.

"I lived a real long time bein' pieced back together. Forced t' keep existin' no matter how mangled an' fucked up I got. I would only wish that on my worst enemy an' frankly I'd still just rather kill him myself."

Get the idea? Good. "Don't ask me stupid shit like that again."

If you had to choose a way to die, what would you choose?

"...well..." this is the first time the Light-bot's demeanor seems to change, his well-worn scorn fading.

"...call me a romantic if ya want, but ideally I'd like it at my partner's hands." It's clear this isn't the first time he's given this subject any thought. "I can't imagine a more satisfyin' end than fightin' until I can't. Pushin; myself to the limit, an' him being the one to put me down..."

Beautifully violent. Destructively intimate.

Briefly, Rock looks a bit embarrassed by his own daydreaming. "Not-- not any time soon, of course."

Have you ever seen a ghost/spirit?

"...no, an' I ain't keen on startin' now," a frown, the machine appearing disgruntled by the question.

"I don't fuck with shit that I can't solve myself. Seein' as I can't exactly create the ghost of a ghost... well, ya get the picture." It's an open and shut discussion for him from the looks of it.

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codedhopes​:

Can she hack everyone’s comms to put them in permanent mute. Going on the board of ‘things she could possibly do to be a problem on purpose’.

He’s heavily encouraging you to do so, dear sister.

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4. Does your muse initiate a lot of physical contact? [[MZ and Seraph]]

Vanilla Sunday Meme

...Depends on the context.

With the random stranger, definitely not, unless it's to be ripping their head off their shoulders in which case sure, I guess he initiates physical contact in the violent sort of way????

With family? Well he doesn't really have one. Ray is the one exception that he's taken in as a sibling-- and he still isn't the touchy-feely sort of guy-- but she does get positive head-pats from him in an older-brother way, and he will allow her to initiate contact on her own, regardless of if it's just flopping on the couch with him to going and hugging him out of the blue.

If you're one ROCKWELL LIGHT though... Watch out man, you're gonna get manhandled left and right. MZ is very affectionate with his husband, and they've got a very-not-healthy-obsession-with-each-other-but-it's-okay-cause-they're-both-fucked-up-too sort of marriage that they're just gonna do, and no one is really stopping them, let alone each other. Good for them.

Just like MZ, Seraph isn't one to initiate physical contact (not even for violence in most cases either lol). He's a little more friendly, and might offer a hand to help someone stand, but he won't go for hugs and nudges, friendly camaraderie with those he doesn't know.

With his siblings (which is now just Harpuia, given Phantom is dead and Leviathan and Fefnir are... reprogrammed), and Cerveau and Alouette however, he's a little more likely to do regular things like hooking them into one-armed hugs or elbowing them in the sides when he's being teasing. Even then though, they're fairly rare for him, not because he has an aversion to touch but usually because he's too busy or distracted to give more than a short 1-2 second interaction.

There's only one person he happens to truly not mind giving and getting contact from-- and that person isn't around often enough for it to be a common thing (and Seraph is still coming to terms with the fact that he might LIKE this guy, and that he can't do anything about it).

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Multimensional Anger Test

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Another year.

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♮ - For a song/piece associated with the muse being angry. [[What's your fav rage song for MZ?]]

[Music Headcanons]

Through Hell And Beyond - The Enigma TNG

(Do you have ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT WAS TO PICK ONE????)

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"....Rock." That's enough.

Rockwell glances up at MZ, then away.

....ah, he'd stopped counting at some point. It'd been a while since that happened. Normally drinking was a much more merry affair for him.

"Can't remember the last time it got like this." Or maybe he doesn't want to. "....sorry 'bout that." He takes a deep breath, internal fans whirring to cool his systems a bit.

"....'m okay." He isn't. That smile is one of Cale's bad habits. He always handled this shit better. Or at least made everyone else think so.

"...not great," he adds after a moment, though MZ has yet to speak. "...but not... bad bad. Promise."

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Speaking of collar, guess who's already tugging on it for a kiss. "We already know how you'll rate me, love, but why not state it for everyone else to hear~?"

"...bein' awful, as always." Not that Rock is particularly objecting to that fact. MZ gets what he wants, and that means he'll get that kiss whether or not he verbally asks.

He's trying. Not to be too flustered about it. They do this every day, and often much worse, yet somehow that feeling never quite goes away.

"...for you, love. A ten is undersellin' it. I don't think a scale exists that could rate you. Might.... be a bit easier t' think when you ain't bullyin' me though... 's not particularly fair t' everyone else."

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we all know the answer but Rock, smash or pass your mans

𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃 “𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒“ 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓   𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒! 𝐍𝐎 𝐋𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃!   

"I don't know why it's no lyin' allowed when we all clearly know my relationship t'--"

Wait.

"Okay smash, whatever. THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT."

"...did you ask this t' MZ?"

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CRIM AND MZ

"MZ is... dangerous." But that's sort of a given, isn't it? Although Crimson doesn't yet know his history, it's clear the blond has more than just some 'maverick tendencies'.

Likewise, it's clear the world MZ came from is already long dead.

Seems he can't really get out of this one without talking more, unfortunately.

"...calling us... friends, would assume he has the capacity for it in the first place." This is... not easy to admit.

"...I don't... dislike him... but being amiable is not the same as trusting someone."

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"...Don't drink that. You don't know if it's truly alcohol."

"That..." hadn't occurred to him. "...is a good point."