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Completely normal, average native to your planet, Earth [ That's nonthreatening, right? ] asking for recommendations on television shows. I like medical dramas. Anything with classic 'handsome human male meets beautiful human female and proceed to deny romantic feelings over nine seasons' will receive priority.

I also need someone to pick up the three television screens I ordered online. They won't deliver to an 'unknown address'. Money's not a problem, I can pay.

[ So what if everyone else is concerned with other things? Thundercracker certainly doesn't care. ]

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[slightlyoffchilt]

Would you accept flattery from me?

[selfimage]

I didn't think you'd have to ask that. It begs the question of who I WOULD NOT accept flattery from.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Perhaps those you considered insincere. Or perhaps too unappreciative of your grander talents?

[selfimage]

Hmmm, I suppose they're all a bit too tied up now to lend me anything of the sort. Spoilers: I'm more of the one to wish flattering from those that I'll never receive it from.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Sounds likes the seedlings of an inferiority complex.

Sibling rivalries?

[selfimage]

Close, but no. We get it on fairly well. Spats here and there, of course, but what's family without them?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Would you define "spat" the same way a neurotypical mortal might? Just curious.

[selfimage]

Definitely not. It's something you have to experience.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Then it stands to reason that your perception might be authentically more fond and forgiving than someone who wasn't privileged with immortality.

In which case, let's hope blood stays out of this water.

[selfimage]

[there's something interesting about this.]

Privileged is a curious choice of words.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Not from my point of vantage.

[One can only cheat death so many times.]

[selfimage]

And the nature of gods?

[slightlyoffchilt]

You're asking an atheist.

[selfimage]

I could use friendlier terms.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Could you? I'm shocked that no one has yet spoken of your amicable tolerance. They have done you a great disservice.

[selfimage]

No, it usually falls into the realm of archaic poetry. Or Wikipedia. One or the other.

It's all right if you don't want to answer.

[slightlyoffchilt]

The only predestination I subscribe to is that of neuroscience and the genetics involved. How else would you like me to answer about such a nature? Am I to project my own humanity onto the presumptions of a higher being?

[selfimage]

Well, yes. That's exactly what I expected, all other dualities aside. It's a tendency mortals seem to have.

[after all, immortality is a privilege.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

So you are drawing me in circles to prove, what, that I am as mortal as any other mortal?

[selfimage]

Oh, no. Definitely not. Actually, I just want to hear what you have to say.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Is that more convincing in person, than it is in text?

[selfimage]

Does it need an emoticon?

[selfimage]

:U

[slightlyoffchilt]

What does that one even mean? It looks mocking.

It's mocking, isn't it?

[selfimage]

Well NOW it is. You've ruined it for yourself. :U