#6

[manticorean]

That thing over the past couple of days? The thing with the not talking? Let's not do that ever again.

Comments

[idkmybfftony]

It majorly sucks that we don't have a say in what happens, but considering everything else it's the most tame so far.

[manticorean]

Tame or not, I don't like it when I can't do the things I'm used to doing. I thought I had gone deaf in my sleep or something.

[idkmybfftony]

...Yeah, in that way it's a little scary.

But at least nobody died!

[manticorean]

Great. Leave it to me to wind up in yet another place where zero casualties means you're having a good week.

[idkmybfftony]

Well, usually in times between wars, zero casualties is a good thing!

Is that.. not how it works by you?

[manticorean]

Most people don't have to think of their day-to-day schedules in terms of casualties, that's all. I left one place in the beginning of a war and now I come here... it's depressing, you know?

[idkmybfftony]

Ahh..

Apologies, then! That's the only way I know of how to keep days..

Well, there's others, like holidays and stuff, but.. I guess here, it's like one big war, huh?

[manticorean]

Nah, don't sweat it. Body counts might suck, but that's all life comes down to in the end. Like someone once said, you shouldn't take life so seriously since no one gets out alive anyway.

[idkmybfftony]

That's a rather depressing outlook...

[manticorean]

I call it realistic. If you know any other way to look at things, lay it on me.

[idkmybfftony]

Our 'realism' is vastly different. I choose to keep thinking of how I can improve myself for my people, in how to better my economy and keep them safe.

I've been around for over 200 years, and lived through quite a few wars. I don't doubt the fact that it's hard being a human.. but I want to do what I can to make sure everyone has the best moments they can.

[manticorean]

Nice... but there's a flaw in that. I'm not strictly human, nor are any of my "siblings." Hence the war. We were more than willing to live our own lives and forget where we came from, but people decided that we were freaks that needed to be put down.

Sure, I get it. They're scared, and they're just doing what their instincts are telling them to do. You can't fight what's in your genes. So no matter how hard I tried to do what was right and keep them from hurting us or us from hurting them, I was fighting a losing battle.

Realism's a real bitch, but idealism wasn't a walk in the park, either.

[idkmybfftony]

Well...

Heh, survival's important on all sides, I suppose.

But freaks? That's harsh. I guess everyone goes through discrimination at some point though..

[manticorean]

Sure. Total extinction wouldn't really make anyone happy, I don't think.

Funnily enough, they keep telling us to come back to where we came from. We were made by their government, in a lab in Wyoming. So I guess that makes us even more American than some of the idiots spewing their hate at us.

[idkmybfftony]

...wait.

The American government made you?

[manticorean]

Yup. Born in the good ol' U.S. of A., with a barcode to prove it.