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Thank you, Robot Cat.

What are the so-called good old days like wherever you're from?

In the "Good Old Days", I worked for the Senators.

I had to do everything they wanted me to do. Work-related or not.

My spouse, who has sensory processing disorders which are a disadvantage of his extreme intelligence and processing speed, was considered 'nonfunctional' and tossed out from his rather high caste into the streets to die. Which he would've, if he hadn't called my name out as I passed, and drawn my attention.

I and my best friends took care of him.

When we got his brains working again, he attracted the attention of his former caste members. They were so incensed that he refused to leave me and my friends behind that they reformatted our frames and put inhibitory control programming on us in order to force him to go and work for them, on the condition that he would now own us. He actually agreed to that because he knew very well that I'd end up wiped or put in a smelter otherwise and because I was young and in love, I wanted to live, and because he was young and in love, he wanted me to live, too. Somehow we survived all that and are still together. I don't believe in miracles, but people tell me we are one.

Why you may ask was his relationship with me and his desire to protect us so unacceptable? Because I was given a frame resembling that of an organic animal to denote my subhuman status.

I just finally got all the damage they did to me fixed. And it took a while because we kept finding new things.

One of our closest friends was someone who was created to work in a mine. Which he did for a very long time. After he nearly died, he decided that he didn't want to go back down there, so after he killed his overseer, they sentenced him to the gladiatorial pits.

We started a revolution.

And got betrayed by the middle-caste soft-hearted individual this friend of mine fell in love with, because they offered him a higher position and a chance to 'work for change without violence'.

As if violence wasn't the only way to fix this situation.

But yeah, life was much simpler then.

Name's Ravage.

Our revolution and our betrayer's war against us laid waste to large portions of basically everything in our world, but at least life sucks about the same amount for everyone now, and we're getting better as a species instead of worse.

That. Is a lot to unpack.

Clearly you should be the one explaining to Braveheart over there how yesteryear is not worth romanticizing.

A friend of mine was rebuilt from the brain up too. I don't think he's super happy about the chassis they picked for him either.
I'm glad things are... looking up though?

Much, much better.

I've been rebuilt a few times since then. I don't mind being a feliformer, although I'm glad that I now have a bipedal and a vehicle alt mode. Mostly I mind it that other people mind me being a feliformer, if you get my drift.

I like my sensory modes and I like being pretty.

And maybe I will go have some words with Mr Braveheart.

That's promising.

You know. I don't know a lot of those words you just said. But I still think, ya. I do get your drift. More than I'd ever have expected to.

Good luck if you think it's worth the effort.
Maybe he's had a great run and I'm the asshole for trying to rain on his parade.

Thank you, sincerely. What I said was that I don't mind being shaped like a cat, but I'm glad I can move back and forth between biped and quadruped, and I'm glad to have a vehicular alt-mode (meaning that I turn into a car) because having a cassette alt-mode puts you under the power of your carrier (remember, the part where they made me my boyfriend's property?).

We'll see about Mr Braveheart. Maybe I'll go and learn him a lesson.

Maybe I'll also go and get my partner some energon fizz to drink while he reads his book and lie next to him in the sun for a while while I drink one, too.

That honestly might be more productive.

I have no idea what it feels like to being shaped like a cat. But I'm glad you're some place where you're happy with the things that have changed for you. It's all... strangely inspiring.

Well. Good luck. Which ever one you go with.

I don't know what it feels like to be shaped like a human, so we're even there. Thanks for your good wishes. I hope that your life gets better for you too.

(But I am totally going to go and bring Soundwave a drink and lie in the sun next to him. Because it will be more fun.)

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