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Yes. But then, you don't need to be in the same crew to be in allied crews. That might work better, from what I understand about crewbonds?

 

-listens to this, still sitting on Nichrome, her head cocked.-
Somehow I donßt think yer meanin the same thing with crew that I´m thinkin of.

 

W-well, you wouldn't mean the same thing as I do with choir, either!

 

Practically allies already via Refractor. "Will support" without qualification implies "as crew proper". Not dying just so Nichrome can feel generous, to say nothing of what I hope Ref's response would be.

 

I see.

...would you like to make an alliance with my choir? Properly?

 

Not Neocybex crew, no. [She floats a single glyph in the air, green and gold lines and far more arcs to it than either modern Cybertronian alphabet.]

 

...could be mutually beneficial, yes. Would have to discuss with Jet; our own bond is too new yet for long-distance communication. I hope.

 

Understandable, I'd also have to run this by Index. I'm positive she'll agree, but it's good to confirm.

 

[Very serious nod.]

 

Speaking of, how is your crew doing?

 

Recovering. [It's not a lie if she doesn't say who's recovering from what.]

 

Ya probably don´t mean a bunch a bots singin together?

Yeah that´s definitely not what I mean. Yer all each other amicas or?

 

....close. Closer still to a decentralized carrier-cassette bond or a non-number-bound trine, if I understand the concepts right.

 

May they recover smoothly!

 

... Look, I'm sorry I'm probably being a clumsy bumbling fool about this. I've never been good at relationships beyond getting picked up in bars, but I'm doing my best.
I take it this is a very serious thing to you. And I'm not sure I completely understand but I'm willing to try? What can I do to help? I'm pretty sure Refractor himself would not be against this "crewbond" thing. Unless courting conjunx wise and being in crew are mutually exclusive?
[She tries her absolute best to look as serious as this clearly is]

 

Sols willing and Deathwings averted. [She nods, making warding signs with one hand at each title.]

[That nearly startles a laugh out of Gess; she stifles the noise quickly, but her pauldrons flick up in amusement.] Not at all; it is expected that one of a conjunx-courting pair will leave their own crew to join their partner's when the two decide to bond. It is... bittersweet, I'm told, but not so much a shock as being entirely cut off with no support system to carry through the initial severing. Traditionally one will move to the crew with fewer people in it so as to bring the two, likely already allies, more into balance, but...

...Unsure what Nichrome means by "help"? Initial insult-threat has been explained and dealt with. Whether Refractor or I jump over is our decision to make, if we ever get that far.

 

[She rubs one of her "ears" awkwardly]
I mean... would seven really be too big? I don't... hm. I originally meant to angle for "helping with possibly joining all potential crew members into one big crew", since Refractor's and my last assignment had us work very, very closely in a group of ten mechs. So I guess Seven doesn't sound... too big to me?

 

Ah. I got no experience with either a those but I can imagine. But why you gotta sever onna you two anyway? We´re all on one ship ya know, ain´t no competin loyalty here.

 

-noof the Captain- Sounds sensible ta me.

 

Possibly maladjusted re: resource availability. Seven is the record as far as I'm aware just because it's hard to find enough energon in any given area besides a well to support more.

...See also: carrier-cassette parallel. Physically impossible for a cassette to bond to two carriers at once, yes? [She glances over to @Archive of Caminus for confirmation.]