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I have been wondering... For those of you not from Earth (or from an Earth significantly different from this one), what do you think of humans?

Humans can also tell me what they think of humans. I don't mind.

Do you have favorites? Do you have frustrations? Are you enjoying your stay?

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And who says you get to determine what we should and shouldn't meddle with?

I'm someone with personal experience in what happens when they try.

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So am I, but in my experience, when people don't want us doing something it's not out of concern for us.

So I guess our experiences are at a stalemate.

[ Knock Out frankly thinks that his literal millions of year lifespan kind of trumps this person's experience, but that's going to out his identity rather soundly. ]

It seems so.

And it does indicate that there's certain things that objectively shouldn't be messed with.

Ironically, the only one I'd give you is time travel.

Not something I've personally encountered, but apparently it's possible in my universe.

[ Or a variant of it, based on Riptide's tales. ]

It's possible in mine, too, which is why I'm comfortable saying humans should not do it.

I've done it. 0/10 do not recommend, as modern people say.

[ Knock Out's got a good enough grasp of human media to get the reference. That doesn't mean there's not a few things he'd be going back in time to correct if he had the chance. ]

Sounds like a good tale to tell on the network sometime.

I'd rather not, but it's not one of my zany stories.

All the same, the network could use a little more lightheartedness, especially lately.

Yeah, that's more of the 'time the hawk got stuck to a dolphin' story than the time travel story.

That sounds... peculiar.

When we acquire animals for our morphing, we need to touch them first, as ourselves. Usually it spaces the animals out, but not so much with the dolphins. Tobias is a bird, so he needed to touch the dolphin as a bird. Cue a flailing dolphin and a very unhappy, yelling telepathic hawk.

Honestly, it was hilarious.

Is that an ability people typically have where you're from?

No. Not humans anyway. Or birds that used to be humans.

Why did the bird used to be human? Or rather, why is the human now a bird?

[ Marco's world sounds confusing, and that's saying something. ]

Tobias got stuck in morph. He was a red-tailed hawk and stayed over the time limit. Too long in morph means you're stuck. He got the ability to morph back (and that is a really long story I don't have time to go over), but he's still a bird.

[ This morphing that Marco talks about sounds intriguing similar to Knock Out's own transformation abilities, but the medic can't imagine only being able to use his alt mode for a set amount of time before being stuck in it. He loves his alt mode, but he's also heard horror stories of mechs who were stasis-locked into their alts for vorns. ]

A most unfortunate circumstance for him, surely.

And there's no way to reverse that process?

No, there's not.

I've almost gotten stuck. It's horrifying.

Sounds like a risky ability to use, then. What makes it worth it?

Well, it was use it or let everybody on Earth be enslaved by body-snatching aliens, so we didn't have much of a choice.

Now it's just habit and I pay attention to the time limit.

Honestly, I don't know what's so fascinating about Earth that everyone a piece of it. As far as planets go, it's not that remarkable.

Honestly, it was mostly just that there were so many of us.

They were a parasite species, humans are good hosts, and I guess we're one of the few sentient species stupid enough to breed billions of ourselves.

And they only found us on accident. So not that special. More of a 'right place, right time' thing.

[ Knock Out thinks humans are kind of a parasite species themselves, but he's being good and not saying that. Also choosing his words carefully since this his texts are anonymous and given the general sentiments he's expressing, he'd like it to stay that way. ]

I suppose when you look at it that way...

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