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[k2so]

[The sound starts before anything can be seen clearly in the video, the screen partially blocked by the fingers holding the device. There's yelling. Lots of it in fact, and very creative insults.]

Let me go you rust bucket! I’m gonna shove your pistons up your fuel port when I get free! Frigging rusting Imp clanker!

I told you, you smell.

[Kay’s voice is that of a parent who had this argument too many times to count before and has reached the point of giving fucks in negative digits. There's more yelling, some frantic noise and then the sound of water splashing followed by an angry shriek.

The screen shifts until Kay comes to view. He's covered head to toe in different colorful graffiti. Anarchist slogans, symbols, crude caricatures, complaints against the Republic and Empire, and bright stains are scattered all over his black frame.

He's in the bathroom of his shared house with Cassian, who had been turned a kid after eating one of these strange eggs. Next to him, inside the bathtub and still fully clothed, teenage Cassian is still yelling at him and even throwing the occasional shampoo bottle at his head. The droid pays him no mind.]

Does anybody know how to wash off spraypaint from durasteel?

Comments

[k2so]

I've been blessed by a kid with a lot of creativity, you see. Lucy me. [And be blessed he means exactly the opposite.]

Durasteel is one of the hardest metals in the whole galaxy, I am made of that. Oven cleaners...I didn't consider that. It's worth a try.

[quick_clean_pure]

Sure seems like it. Is this a real kid-kid, or someone changed by one of those egg things?

Ahh, well, at least you won't be getting dinged by the paint or anything. Oven cleaner probably can't hurt the damage, anyhow.

[k2so]

The second option. It's actually my boyfriend and the Guardian of Attleton.

I'm supposed to withstand high temperatures, cold ones like those in space and all sort of chemicals...let's hope you are right. Honestly you never knwo when it comes to the things here in Genessia.

[quick_clean_pure]

Oh! Oh. Oof. That's a lot. Make him make it up to you afterwards, I guess?

I mean, if you're made for all that, hopefully a can of spray paint is easy-peasy to deal with.

[k2so]

I will. On the bright side, I'm getting a lot of material to mock him with once he's back to normal.

[Trolling your boyfriend if one of the perks of dating, thinks Kay.]

Probably. I just hope it can get rid of all of this...[He gesture to all of himself.] Some of the writing is very rude.

[quick_clean_pure]

[He laughs.] That's definitely the right attitude: gather blackmail material at all times.

Yeah, here's hoping it's an easy fix. What's the rude stuff say?

[k2so]

I know, from the bottom of my metal heart, that he would do the same. Our relationship is that good.

Those...? [He point to and angry looking spray painting on his left side, written in aurebesh.] It says that the Republic and the Imperials are bad peopel except that it uses a far more vulgar language. The imperials are the totalitarian Regime that took over our Galaxy and tried to enslave everyone.

[quick_clean_pure]

Oh, that's definitely a sign of a beautiful healthy romance. Well done.

Ah. Well, I mean, if that's what they did, some rude graffiti doesn't sound like the worst thing ever.

[k2so]

Thank you. We been together for ten years but only started dating properly here after dying. Before that we had bigger worries to focus on, like the war.

They did terrible things and while the graffiti might be justified, painting it on MY poor frame while I am off-lined recharging, it's not. This kid is sneaky.

[quick_clean_pure]

Yeah, war sounds like it would be a pretty big cockblock to deal with. Good that you got a shot after all that, though.

Fair point. Maybe it'll go away once everybody's normal again.

[k2so]

Thanks. We are the kind of people who are always trying to move on.

I doubt it, so just in case I'll follow your advice and get the oven cleaner.

[quick_clean_pure]

Well, cool that you're able to, you know. The city doesn't seem like too bad an after-life.

Yeah, probably a good idea. I doubt it can hurt anything, at any rate.

[k2so]

Oh, I said that we try...we aren't always successful. But yes, it's a pretty nice place.

It would be really embarrassing if something as a cleaner ruined my supposedly durable frame.

[quick_clean_pure]

Fair 'nuff. Still, gotta be better than war, I imagine.

I'd hope the toughest metal in the universe could handle it, but I dunno, I'm no expert.

[k2so]

Oh yes, definitely. We get shot at much less here.

If not, then I will have to get used to be a 'work of art' as some people woudl call it. You didn't find any strange egg, I assume?

[quick_clean_pure]

You could pretend to be a masterpiece of modern expression and charge people a fee to come look at you, even.

Yeah, unfortunately one dropped on my head. Me and Robert swapped bodies for a couple days.

[k2so]

That's a good suggestion. We could certainly use the money, we have so many pets that need to be feed. Most of the money we make goes to that.

Out of the blue? I didn't know that could happen. I swear, the weird things that happen randomly are gettign more and more creative. Who's Robert?

[quick_clean_pure]

Really? How many pets you got?

I don't know if he has a last name. He's a rag doll, about a foot tall or so. Which was an adjustment for both of us, height-wise, when the swap happened.

[k2so]

Let's see, about a dozen pokemon between Cassian, Sonico, Demyx and Myself. Then a corgi, a turtle, a cat...and a cheetah.

[One of these things is not lie the others, Kay.]

A living rag doll? it could move and talk?

[quick_clean_pure]

...I know what four of those things are. Also: a cheetah? Really?

Yeah, he's totally sentient and all, just tiny and made of cloth.

[k2so]

Ah, you never saw a pokemon? They come in a variety of forms, colors and have different powers. They're usually small and a lot of them resemble earth animals. My oricorio, for example, looks like a red parrot...except he dances and plays with fires and swords.

And yes, a cheetah. I am not sure how Sonico ended up with one but it's very tame. Mostly it likes to curl and sleep on warm surfaces.

Like mini droids then. I imagine it was a shocking experience.

[quick_clean_pure]

Okay...I guess. Wait, so how're they different than just animals?

Hey, if it works for you, then that's awesome. Having a cheetah sounds kind of badass, honestly.

Sort of, except cloth instead of metal. It was weird. I was suddenly very short and he was suddenly very tall, and that took some adjusting.

[k2so]

Normal animals usually don't have special attacks or evolve after reaching certain level once they fighting skills improve. Some pokemon even have telepathic powers.

It is. Feel free to visit our house if you even want to see our pets.

That must have been terrifying. Good to see it's over.

[quick_clean_pure]

...huh. Interesting. They dangerous or just talented?

Thanks for the invite. I may have to take you up on it to see this cheetah you got.

It was mostly just weird. I'm glad to be back to myself, though.

[k2so]

Isn't one thing usually mixed with the other? Most of pokemon want to be your friends but you need to get their respect. They rarely hurt humans but they like to battle against each other a lot.

No problem. Just warm me first so I can mention it to Cassian, he can be slightly wary of people he doesn't know. [And by wary, Kay means 'paranoid and suspicious'.]

Yes, I can imagine. Plenty of more things to do as a human than as a doll too.