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[eugenesis]

"This is Scorponok. Leave a message, as I am busy at the moment. If you want to see the infant, send me a text before you enter. Don't you dare knock and wake her up."

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[maximalize]

I see. I am honoured to be brought along for your routine together.

[primal has no real thoughts on child rearing, but that seems to check out. if she cries out any time she falls over then she won't learn to pick herself up. best to do it protected.]

Will I need to do anything, or just be present to ease her?

[eugenesis]

You're one of the few mechs that have said any of this was an honor. Too many of us are unnerved by small organics.

[And the fact that Scorponok was obsessed over babies, and his tendency to store them in his chest cavity, and Aura's connections to a member of the Galactic Council.]

Just let her run around. If she runs to you, engage with her.

[maximalize]

I spent centuries amongst them.

[he neglects to mention why or how, but doesn't think scorpinok would be extremely interested. primal is also lucky in that he hasn't quite seen evidence of any of the... weird part of it.

then again, he has endless patience. he can put up with a lot.] As you wish. I'll keep this in mind if she wishes to seek my... body out in the future. When we are able to return to normal.

[he hopes they are. this body is too big, and he liked his own.]

[eugenesis]

Did you? Where you open about your being a mechanical being, or was your disguise that good?

[They tromp their way into the training hall, and the child following them recognizes her play area. She runs inside to grab a stretch band from the pile of exercise equipment and play with it.]

We'd better return to normal. And before the end of the week. This body is extremely inconvenient for my day-to-day.

[maximalize]

We were open to a select few, but our disguises were enough to pass, mostly. We could not afford to be too open with them.

[of course, they did eventually come to be a part of amaru's tribe and family generations ago, but primal doesn't see fit to allude to them more than he already has. a very, very old habit of not wanting to risk anything slipping to their enemies.]

Hmm. [it's a slightly amused huff.] I do apologise, but I can see the height difference.

[eugenesis]

Organics are too hostile towards us, but look at how most of the ship treats my sweet daughter. [Who is going to be spoiled rotten once she can talk.]

I worry that your arms may not be enough to carry her and throw her around as she likes. Small children need that sort of experience to develop their sense of balance. What will happen if she's delayed?

[His previous genius baby...will no longer be number 1.]

[maximalize]

They are hostile to her? [he asks, genuinely surprised. primal can't say he really pays much attention to everything on the ship, and scorpinok's antics are amongst those.] I am stronger than you might think, Scorponok. If this is to be a permanent change, then we can easily work out an alternative.

[eugenesis]

They call her horrible things. How she's an insult to life, that she's gross and should not have been created. [He clutches at his chest with a hand, where the Spark that is now owned by Mama Baba resides.] Some even suggested that we kill her when we first met!

[How could they? Not just because she was a baby, but she was a new lifeform developed via genetic engineering!]

[maximalize]

How terrible, [he says evenly, snorting in a way that would make his true feelings on this (quite put out) very clear, if he was in his own body. primal isn't one for complaining, but he can't say he cares too much for how his beastformer language doesn't translate well.] perhaps for the best that it was you who found her, then.

[eugenesis]

[Scorponok's body naturally adds haughtiness and sarcasm to everything he sways. You can take the smug, monologuing villain out of his body, but you cannot remove the smugness and tendency to monologue out of his body. Aura found it sweet and fatherly.]

It was. Now she'll have a normal childhood.

[maximalize]

As much as possible...

[he crouches down then, to get closer to her level. primal actually would like to see the child.]

Hello, Aura. I am not your father, I'm afraid, but I'm doing my best to help look after you.

[eugenesis]

[Aura Froudine looks away from the exercise equipment that she has decided are toys to stare at the face of her father. Her large red eyes are wide as she tries to figure out what's wrong with her father, who's wearing an strange expression. But, he is her father, and she reaches out with a small hand to grab his face.]

She likes doing that. [Getting her hands everywhere.]