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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

[just_a_murder]

Does it count if you feel bad about something but know you'll keep doing it?

I became an assassin because my comatose sister needed expensive care and my parents were too... murdered to help out, and the rest of the family abandoned us. And because I needed to bring the man responsible for all of it to justice. To the best of my knowledge, we only bring down people who do horrible things but are above the law. Still, we kill.

Now Takatori is dead and my sister is awake, but I still kill. I have some excuses--they're evil people, I was declared dead so I have no legal ID, I dropped out of school to work to take care of my sister--but it's also that... I'm good at what I do, and I seem to be addicted to the adrenaline rush of putting my life in danger. I feel guilty, but I continue on.

[fuckwisconsin]

Y'know, people keep asking me that. My question in response: count for what?

Because if you're talking about the afterlife, or karma, or whatever, I don't know. I don't decide things. All I know is that you might be better off considering what it may count for now, in your lifetime, for you and your sister. For your future, and for hers.

[just_a_murder]

I suppose that it was a stupid question. I have no illusions about what I deserve.

I tried to get out of the business not long after I first arrived here, but the rest of my team didn't want to stop. I worry about them, for different reasons for each, so I stayed to do what I could for them. I think they're better for me being around....

...it looks like I may have wasted your time. I'm sorry. I just get the rare urge to talk about it sometimes.

[fuckwisconsin]

It's not a stupid question. But I -- that's something I could talk about, the deserving. I could say, first, that asking for forgiveness is both the hardest and easiest thing in the world, and that once you do it, no matter what you fear the answer is -- you're free. Second, I would have to say something about the old days, because I don't know everything, definitely not omniscient, but when I look at people, I know. I know what they've done. I could say "sinner", or "yes, you deserve this".

I'm not gonna because that's retarded. You have reasons for doing what you're doing. If you question them, though, you may want to follow it down and see where it's leading. I'm sure your friends have their reasons for not wanting to stop. There's only so much you can do. If they never doubt their life, then they'll never look for an alternative, and you can't do it for them.

[campjesus]

"...Wait, God exists?"

AUGH YOU JUST BLEW HIS MIND!! Brody's expression, a visual presentation: :O! ... D: .... DX ... :( ... DDDDX!!!!!!!

[fuckwisconsin]

"Do you like cheesecake?" Bartleby asks, apparently apropos of nothing.

[campjesus]

"No? Wait, what?"

[fuckwisconsin]

He waves a hand, vaguely. "Just wait a bit."

Wow, he's one helpful angel.

[cursed_bird]

::Hey look, it's a zombie!::

Aaaaangel...

[fuckwisconsin]

Hey, how's it goin'.

[cursed_bird]

::Just fine, thanks! ...Hey, mind if he chews on your arm a bit?::

[fuckwisconsin]

... he-y, now, thatOW--

*Bartleby's face is invaded by B| and probably this invasion will be around a few centuries, but he's just all like PUSH at zombieforehead the way older kids sometimes prevent younger ones from hitting them by holding their heads at arms' length........ except Bartleby is sitting on a stool so this is probably going to end in a flailing limbfest of feathers and hatey hate on the floor.*

[talesyettotell]

"Nah." This guy shrugs. "I'm not big on the whole Judeo-Christian thing."

[fuckwisconsin]

"This, what I'm doing here -- not a Judeo-Christian thing, that's what I was explaining." He says patiently. "It's a talking thing. Which even atheists do from time to time, or so I'm told."