"And they're not sentient on my Earth, either. But we . . . I don't know, when we're creating art for children, it's pretty common to assign human personalities or emotions to animals. So these are cheerful frogs who mean no hard to the dragonflies."
"To what ends?" Ratchet's just as fascinated by this as the eating habits of frogs, perhaps more so. If all humans grow up with experiences like these, maybe he'll gain further insight as to how they think.
"It's art. It can be incredibly interactive, what you see, what you focus on, what the viewer brings to the experience. The emotions it evokes. What you think the story is."
She looks down at the sketch.
"It's about color and shape and having something beautiful that people who love you took the time to make for you.
"I'm the medic for the contingent of Autobots on Earth." Which would be all the Autobots they know about. "In my freetime, however, I've been studying humans and the other flora and fauna in an attempt to make myself useful to the humans we share a base with."
He smiles. "It's a bit difficult, though, when they're so much smaller than yourself."
In generally, his tools aren't small enough to work on them, though he's been tinkering with ideas to fix that.
"Oh, I see. Yes, that would make us much harder to study, unless you tried employing microscpoes, and most humans I know would not take kindly to that.
"Shouldn't the frogs be eating the dragonflies?" He asks, a bit confused. He's still building his Earth biology.
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And it's Angela, and it's Milliways, so the speaker's appearance doesn't even warrant much of a flicker of surprise before she answers.
Angela grins.
"It's a mural, or it will be, for a friend's nursery. I don't think he wants his daughter to sleep under a vision of dragonfly carnage."
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"I was unaware frogs were capable of carnage."
He's being serious, mind.
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She smiles.
"I'm Angela Montenegro."
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"Hello, Angela. I'm Ratchet." He doesn't extend a hand. He's used to being much bigger.
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"Nice to meet you, Ratchet.
"And they're not sentient on my Earth, either. But we . . . I don't know, when we're creating art for children, it's pretty common to assign human personalities or emotions to animals. So these are cheerful frogs who mean no hard to the dragonflies."
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"Also, my friend's wife just likes frogs. She thinks they're cute."
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He doesn't really get most TV, though he's rather fond of the Discovery channel.
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She looks down at the sketch.
"It's about color and shape and having something beautiful that people who love you took the time to make for you.
"Even if it's just frogs."
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"It sounds like you have fortunate friends."
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She smiles.
"What about you, Rachet? What do you do?"
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He smiles. "It's a bit difficult, though, when they're so much smaller than yourself."
In generally, his tools aren't small enough to work on them, though he's been tinkering with ideas to fix that.
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"I think I got a little confused in the middle of that somewhere.
"What's an Autobot?"
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"Normally you would only come up to about here," he says, holding his hand at about knee height.
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Fortunately, Angela's had a lot of practice.
"Oh, I see. Yes, that would make us much harder to study, unless you tried employing microscpoes, and most humans I know would not take kindly to that.
"To say nothing of the smaller fauna and flora."
[OOC: I'm falling asleep -- slowtime okay?]
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