shitposting rave 2, electric boogaloo

...I'll cut the jokes out. If that helps.

Wait. You think I don't care for Stentato's welfare? That's my top priority!

 

WEIRD

 

Pulse: Wow okay, first of all just because we are still learning doesn't mean we don't know how to set a fragging limb what the frag is your damage? We are young but we aren't Processor damaged.
Get your head out of your aft.

Suture, kneeling next to him: We aren't mean! Or we don't try to be? Anyway!
Curette, kneeling on his other side: If you let us we can do our best to fix that! We've done tentacles!
Puncture, standing behind her sisters: And we've seen worse. That's fixable if you give us a while.

 

... YES OK. Yes fine.
yesssss pay attention to me yessss.

 

Broke the limbs first. Never implied processor damage, only thorough lack of regard for patients welfare.

If he wants you to fix him, you can fix him. Still recording incident for reporting on later.

 

Split sparks frequently transmit pain and occasionally faulty coding. Neglecting yourself in attempts to help him only ends up with neglect getting spread out over both.

...Not having the jokes would help though. Appreciate it. Apologies for intensity of reaction to them.

 

Pulse: Sure man knock yourself out, I'll be over here doing my fragging job.

[Suture, Curette and Puncture as well as Chopper begin to prepare Requiem for treatment in rapid motions. Pulse joins them, holding one of her cables in hand.]
Pulse: Medical port please, Requiem.

 

Yeah, but...

...it still protects him, right?

 

EEEeewww
no

*pops open his medical port. It seems 'Error Codes: The Musical' is playing.*

 

No.

 

No it does not!

 

That's scrap!

 

If Lacuna and her twinned-spark share sensations-- pain, code, whatever-- then any injuries, directly or neglectfully inflicted, are also shared.

...and yes, I'm well aware I said I was leaving. Shh. Cogwheels is under the impression I need "distracting", medical issues are as good a topic as any.

 

We don't share pain. Not normally. Not for little things.

 

Significant internal damage is not 'little'.

 

But I don't feel anything! I'm drinking my cubes now, but I don't need lectures on how I got this. I was protecting us both and I'd do it again.

 

Ideally, situations required that degree of self-sacrifice will not arise again. In which case the behavior remains dysfunctional and should be addressed.

This is me, addressing it.

 

Okay. I'll take care of myself for now, okay? Deal??

 

Thank you. I will try and be less forceful about the issue. I recognize that it isn't helpful. ...Deal?

 

[Pulse sits back on her haunches looking at him with her head tilted]
Pulse: I can also not plug in. But then I can't turn your pain sensors and I think you'd probably prefer that...