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[fuckwisconsin]

First there is the business of seating himself. Bartleby clearly doesn't spend a lot of time with his wings out or he wouldn't try to sit on a couch. Or a chair. Or anything with, you know, a back. Finally he settles (wobbly, but settled!) on a stool

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[lstcmplx]

Mental Googling is a go! Oh, that's a Grigori.

"Hello Bartleby, my name is Rock." First things first, because it is just polite to introduce yourself. "Um... I don't have a confession but I do have a question." Oh, just go ahead and guess what the robot is going to ask about God. Go on. Guess.

[fuckwisconsin]

Bartleby squints quizzically at Rock for a moment. "Nice to meet you, Rock. Yeah, you seem a little young to've racked up too many interesting stories to get off your chest. What's your question?"

((Ahahaha that kid looks kinda like my older brother when he was little.))

[lstcmplx]

"Is it true that you don't have a soul if you were made and not born? And if you don't have a soul does that mean that God doesn't like you?" 'God doesn't like you' is a ridiculous oversimplification but come on, he was programmed with the emotional maturity of a 9-year-old.

(( lololol imagine it in your brother's voice ))

[fuckwisconsin]

He doesn't answer right away, but it's not a flustered silence; he's gotten this question before, and he's always trying to find the absolute best way of saying it. The last time, it was an android with an older female persona. Definitely using a different approach here.

"It's possible. Humans aren't as good at making things as God is, which is why they're born -- they were made to have souls, it's what they are, but making other things to have souls? Not so good, unless, as you said, it's bearing a child. But a human body is only one kind of vessel. Anything vessel can be filled, it's just that it's easier with a human body: easier to get one, easier to keep it.

"And the soul grows. It changes. It accumulates as people live and experience and learn. If something experiences and learns, all that goes somewhere and builds up -- it makes a soul

[lstcmplx]

Well, dammit, Bartleby, now you just got him curious. Rock can be a regular little scientist sometimes. It's kind of what he was intended to be, before the uh, 'oh my arch rival just reprogrammed all my robots for nefarious purposes, I guess I'm gonna have to turn you into a walking death machine' thing. "How do you know if you have a soul? How big does a soul have to be to go to Heaven?" He looks like he is compiling all of this in a Notepad document in R:/Documents and Settings/Serious Business.

"Sometimes people say that I don't have a soul and that means that God doesn't care about me. I'm pretty sure they're just being mean." The existence of God being something he's just come to accept, being an impressionable kid.

(( IS HE A ROBBIT, Y/N ))

[fuckwisconsin]

... he's going upload Bartleby's words on the interwebs and Metatron is going to come down and frown at him o sh--

"There's no proven method, unfortunately. Generally speaking, if you're wondering that in the first place, chances are you've got something. Not exactly quantitative, though. God is big on the liking everything, like I said. And whoever said that, huh. I'd be like 'well you don't have an eye' and when they were like 'what?' I'd probably poke them in the eye."

Sadly, this is completely true. It's Loki's influence.

((.................................. that WOULD explain why he's never brought home a date))

[lstcmplx]

Apparently he has wi-fi, so it's possible he might! Or someone might HAX! him and steal it, though uh, that would be neither of their faults.

"So if you have even a little bit of a soul you can go to Heaven? If you're nice to people and all that other stuff too, of course. I try to be nice to people even if I have to blow them up."

Pause. "...But that's mean." D: "And then they'd get mad because you poked their eye."

[fuckwisconsin]

"They even let me in, sometimes," says Bartleby solemnly, "and I'm not nice to people. But I want to be nice to people. It's just that some people don't understand, so I have to speak to them in their language."

Pshyeah. Nice save, loser. "Being nice to people because you know it's the right thing to do is okay, but it's even better if you're nice to people because you want to is even better. Because it makes other people feel good, and that makes you feel good." He glances at Rock inquisitively to see if that's true.