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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Dec 18, 2012 9:07:59 GMT -5
"Kup's gay. I... huh."
This is, of course, a rather naive summation of the whole thing. Kup's an alien robot who doesn't reproduce sexually. That, and Kup having an ex-husband doesn't rule out Kup being attracted to women (or anything else). Springer is just not that reflective or politically correct, though.
"Because it's Kup! Kup's not allowed to be attracted to people!" Stella protests, throwing her hands in the air and scowling. "Kup's just supposed to tell stories and kill Decepticons and sit on their dead bodies and yell at people!"
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 19, 2012 19:07:47 GMT -5
"Gay?" Imp asks, confused. She didn't know what 'bicurious' meant, remember, Stella? "Wassat?"
She snorts at Stella's complaint. "The funny thing about getting old, once you get old enough, you stop giving a damn about what kids think you should be 'allowed' to do. Anyways, I think the marriage thing happened before he was old. Well, human-old. Since he's got two pasts and all now, I guess he was old before he was young, or something like that."
It probably doesn't help Stella's confusion level that Imp doesn't bother with feminine pronouns, although it might occur to Stella the odds of a male-human Kup having a husband too long ago are relatively low.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Dec 19, 2012 23:04:49 GMT -5
Stella stares at Imp. This is way, way too much for her gun-bunny mind.
"...uh, gay is just when a dude wants to bang other dudes?" Stella supplies dumbly.
"...anyway."
"Yeah."
"...so how is Guzzle? ...and Arcee? Ultra Magnus? Topspin? Twin Twist? Oracle?"
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 23, 2012 19:43:25 GMT -5
"Is this a 'gender' thing?" Imp asks, "because I'm pretty sure that Kup is 'female'. Guzzle's fine. Xaaron found him, 'arranged' for us to run into each other on a mission to jar his memory. He's calling himself 'Judge'." If Stella is aware of the name Gertrude vigilantes under, this statement might further emphasize the fact that when Imp says 'he', it's not always a 'he'. "Ultra Magnus was on a mission when this hit, I don't think he was affected, and hadn't Topspin been sent back to Gillanan?1 Kup found Twin Twist, and when Skyblast made contact, he put us in touch of Oracle and Slingshot. Arcee... Rodimus thinks he identified him, too, but he doesn't seem to remember who he is yet."
She takes another drink and considers her phone. "Wonder if I should let 'em know I'm not coming in?"
1 Assumed due to the unplayed status of the character.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Dec 23, 2012 20:12:47 GMT -5
"...wait, was Kup a woman all along? Kup's not psycho enough to be a woman - no offense," Stella says hastily, shooting Imp an apologetic look.
She rubs her chin and says, "I know a Judge, used to work with her before she split to go solo - and for slag's sake, Arcee's all woman!"
Stella puts her hands on her hips, and she demands, "You know what? You go to work. I'm gonna go find Kup and see if his pronouns make any more sense than yours do. Shouldn't be hard. Because yours don't make any."
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 29, 2012 15:08:34 GMT -5
Imp looks faintly baffled at Stella's response, in part because she never really bothered to sort out this whole 'gender' business, and in part because she doesn't have the background needed to associate "woman" with "psycho." She shrugs when the other declares she's going to go find Kup. "How d'you intend to find him, anyway?" she asks.
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Dec 29, 2012 20:24:27 GMT -5
Now they are all confused. They match.
"...I guess I was figuring that you'd tell me," Stella admits sheepishly.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 29, 2012 20:29:04 GMT -5
Imp pulls back out her cell phone, grumbling, "See, here I was confused because earlier, you were against exchanging contact info." She pulls up Kate Mason's number, then reads it out loud. "Got it?"
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Dec 29, 2012 21:36:56 GMT -5
Stella enters the number into her phone the slow old-fashioned way, instead of just bumping her phone into Imp's and exchanging the numbers that way. She sighs heavily and admits slowly, "You were right. I can't go back. So I had better go forward! Stay sharp, eh?"
Stella won't tell Imp to be safe. Wreckers don't do that.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Dec 30, 2012 18:40:11 GMT -5
Imp's phone might not be new enough for all that bumping, anyway (or maybe it is; she didn't chose the thing). She nods, putting the phone away, and smiles grimly. "Yeah, you, too." With that, she turns away. "Catch you later," she says. Implied is, 'Unless one of us dies before then.'
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Post by Springer/Stella Ringer on Dec 31, 2012 20:13:42 GMT -5
Stella walks to the nearest window, opens it, and leaps out.
OOC: Out of thread.
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