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1st Morph - Voice

[ When you hear Marco's voice, it sounds obnoxiously like an American teenager. ]

When I thought about the future, I certainly wasn't thinking like a hodgepodge of the Cold War with . . . I don't know, Space Odyssey 2001? But with less space travel, and more creepiness. Or that book I had to read that one time for class, something about Big Brother.

[ Which is why Marco nearly lost his shit when he got the folder, contain his name, his powers (oh god), his medical history, and nearly freaking everything else. It's only the fact the woman just simply dumped him on his "housing assignment", whatever that is, is the man reason why he didn't get to . . . he's not sure, exactly, what would happen, but he knows it won't be pretty.

That issue aside, Marco doesn't trust this house, so he never set foot into it.

It's been twelve hours ago.

Not willing to go homeless but not yet ready to go to a house full of probable death, Marco decides to use this thing a try, which is why he using the voice only option. Normally he would use text, but he didn't realized that there is a mental connection to the communicator, so now he is talking at the seat of his pants. He fucked up, guys, so he just gotta roll with it.

Although he gotta say, he rolled with it so well that his hero name is "The Magnificent", although he's not ready to show that off just yet. ]

I mean, I'm not complaining about the hover-cars. Does this mean there are hover-bikes? Hover skateboards? I can dig that, the skateboards I mean.

Also, a question: are frozen bananas really a thing around here?

[ Because he finds his job as a part-time Frozen Banana Stand employee to be hilariously ironic. ]

[ ooc note: Marco is going under his name Marco, not his alias The Magnificent.

Also internet is only slightly faster than a snail on a good lettuce leaf so replies will be a bit slow until Saturday/Sunday. ]

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[Sup Marco- the vocal response is a casual, even tone, under the network ID 'Shinjiro Aragaki'-]

I've seen 'em around the beach areas- Like.. Frozen bananas dipped in chocolate or something? Never tried one.

But yeah, hover-skateboards are a thing. A guy named Jaime Reyes has one in Heropa, I know. He was talking 'bout fixing it up.

So what year'd you come from?

[ Well, back home Marco has been to the beach plenty of times and he had yet to see one. Talk about a missed business opportunity. ]

Skater boys with hover-skateboards? How does that even work?

[ Seriously. ]

I come from a time where where Celine Dion, Bill Clinton, and Forrest Gump have a prevalence in my culture.

[ Like Marco will be any definition of helpful anytime soon. ]

[That earns a faintly-amused snort!] Hell if I know. Like I wanna smash my face into the pavement enough times to find out.

[Long. Pause. Sorry, his pop culture skills are abysmal. Especially with western media.]

...I dunno the names. Any other clues?

[ Well, you kinda stumped Marco since he just named one of the Presidents of the United States. He figured that would be the most obvious clue. ]

It's been a couple of years since the Berlin Wall fell.

[This is what he gets for dropping out of high school WHOOPS.]

That was... what, mid-eighties? Damn, been a while for you, then. It was 2009 in Japan back home for me, which ain't too bad.

Nah, it's the mid-nighties. Ten years close though.

Shit. Like I know dates and crap.

[open a fucking history book shinji jesus.]

Ten years is a long-ass time, though. Hell, even back home for me all these smartphones and shit were only starting to pick up. And I definitely hadn't heard of netflix.

[he was also a hobo so ymmv.]

Smartphones?

[ The hell is a netflix? ]

Yeah- Like think a cell phone, 'cept it's got a touch screen, and you can get the internet on it. The shit they gave us when we got here, to get on the network if we want- they're kinda like that. 'Cept these got the whole psychic-tattoo shit going on, too.

I dunno who started calling 'em that, but I guess it stuck.

Are you telling me that Palm Pilots can actually use to find a Domino's Pizza on the Internet?

Palm- what?

[...nvm he'll roll with it.]

But- yeah, they can search for whatever. I think you can go ahead and order online, too. One of the guys at work just did that last time he ordered for the staff, I think.

So what were you thinking of? ...this earth is pretty much the same as i remember. Maybe a little different...it's...harder to tell I guess, when you're not from any version of it.

[Rodimus is 100% done pretending to not be an alien at this point. It doesn't seem to make a difference in this world, with all the imPorts and non-humans running around willy nilly, anyhow.]

What's a "banana"? And what's wrong with freezing them?

Not from Earth?

[ No way a Yeerk will be this casual. ]

Does this mean you are from the Bermuda Triangle?

[ Zing! ]

A banana is a food. You eat it. Apparently you can eat them frozen, though no one ever thought to tell me about it.

Not from Earth. Lot's of people aren't from earth here, you know. I don't know where the Bermuda triangle is...my stellar navigation scores were never very good though...

[There goes the joke...yep, way over Rodimus' head.]

Do bananas have juice...like, that you can buy?

[This might sound like a ridiculous question, but listen....it is. It's also very important.]

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Then what exactly are you? Not the Borg, right?

[He has to pause to parse on that. He's dealt with the Ax-man, but he's a little uncertain how to deal with other aliens who discovered the sense of taste. Not all aliens are the same! ]

Bananas aren't exactly juicy, sorry. But you can put them with a blender with other fruits and make a smoothie, though.

I have yet to meet mine.

[Man you can't ask someone what they are, what's wrong with this kid?]

The...borg? I've...never heard of the borg. ...wait is this a joke? Listen I'm not usually this bad at telling I just can't keep up with all these cultural references you guys keep throwin' at me here!

[Rodimus is disappointed about the banana news, but adds "smoothie" to list of things to investigate.]

Normally I'm Cybertronian...d'you have 'em on your Earth?

[ Hey he's being properly prepared! About 90 percent of the time aliens are trying to kill him, and the other times that aren't are usually unhelpful or dead or in the tiny tiny minority of being allies. ]

Cybertronian? Nope.

[ The Chee never called themselves that, right? They are a cyborg race, and Cybertronian is a vaguely cyborg alien race name. ]

Feels a little like the Jetsons to me. Hovercars with some 1960's styling everywhere.

That too. Them knowing my name and that time I had the flu several years back makes it a little too Big Brother for my taste.

Also, roommates.

Yeah, I get you. I've been more candid about my life than I would have been otherwise because of it...

There's that, too. I've gotten along pretty well with mine so far, thankfully.

I have yet to meet mine.

I hope that all of you can live well together, then. It might make it a bit easier to adjust.

Easy is my middle name.

[ hahaha no it's not. ]

[There's a giggle in reply.]

You're more than halfway there, then.

No idea, but I'll try it. Where do you get them? [The bananas, he means.]

Somewhere near the beach, I think.

... In Heropa? Or another city?

Heropa, apparently. I dunno if it is just a franchise that goes in other cities on the coast.

That's a bummer. I'll look. Are they any good?

I don't know. All I know is that I gotta work in one.

You should try them. If they're any good, let me know.

I'll come buy one.

Frozen bananas sound good to have in Floridian heat.

Lots of things are good in the heat too. Like cold sodas and bikinis.

Not fond of the job?

While you wouldn't be the first to expect it, I think 1984 is hardly the expectation to enter with. Assuming something wildly extreme often only clouds you to the truer dangers. The tend to be more subtle, insidious.

But then, I'm sure someone will still be upholding those as right out of Bradbury. If there's one book in human libraries more widely misinterpreted and projected onto, I've yet to see it.

'Human libraries'?

Libraries built by humans, containing literature primarily written by humans, and located on a human world. It isn't that complicated.

I'm implying that you just implied you are not human.

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Of course I implied that. That's a thing that can sometimes be implied when you aren't human.

Hey, kid, don't knock the frozen bananas.

[ Bumblebee actually likes them, okok. ~~has nothing to do with the fact they are yellow, honest~~ ]

I got knocking privileges, yo. I gotta work there.

But you've never had one. Ain't right to judge.

There is only so much you can do with bananas. It is. It like they are a multiuse tool like limes or Doritos.

Doritos?

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