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[sociopathicwolf]

I always looked forward to being able to vote, after today. Guess it doesn't matter, here.

[There, he's posting in this thing. Checking in, even if he doesn't really feel like it.]


[Sealed to Alex and Tahlia]

The full moon's next week. Do either of you want some company for it?

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[sociopathicwolf]

[That's the same reason Derek's glad to see Sollux replying to this.]

Yeah. On my world, most government officials are elected, and people vote for them. But you can't vote until you're eighteen.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

Oh. Huh.

*Human government is weird.*

So I guess you just turned 18...years? old.

[sociopathicwolf]

Yeah, I guess I did. Not that I can be really sure, with how time works here, but the date's right.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

That's a good thing for you guys, right? Having a ...birthday?

[sociopathicwolf]

Normally, yeah, especially when you're younger. Another year towards independence. Or in my case, another year you managed to survive.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

Independence?

[sociopathicwolf]

Yeah. In my world, you're dependent on your parents until you're eighteen. Well, sometimes longer, but 18 is when you're legally an adult.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

...parents?

*Processing*

Oh, your guardian, right?
We don't have an age we seperate from ours, I guess it depends on the troll and lusus.

[sociopathicwolf]

Yeah, guardian. Usually it's biological parents, but sometimes not.

[Pause.]

Lusus?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*Biowhaical?*

I guess a lusus is like a parent for trolls.

[sociopathicwolf]

Oh.

[Huh.]

Are the people who take care of you different from your biological parents?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

Trolls don't have parents.

*At least not in the sense humans know it.*

[sociopathicwolf]

...oh.

[All right, that's interesting. And now Derek kind of wants to ask how that works, but that's prying a little too much.]

All the parent talk must be weird then.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

Yeah, I don't really know what you mean about it. I'm pretty sure its different than a lusus, and your all raised by adult-humans instead of beasts, but I don't know anything else about it.

[sociopathicwolf]

[Derek is pretty much 'deer in headlight'ing it right now.]

Uh.

[Don't quote biology textbook, don't quote biology textbook.]

In the case of biological parents, it's the people that created the kid. Humans reproduce sexually, which is a process where humans create descendants that have a combination of genetic material contributed from two different members of the species. So we get half our DNA from a female human, and half from a male. It's kind of a complicated process, but then usually they'll raise the kid together, and they're called parents.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*Oh, crap, a lecture. And on human baby-making even. Sollux is glad he's in his room, where no one can see him blush at the mention of "genetic material."*

Uh.
Yeah.
I know how wigglers are made. Or...babies, or whatever word you use. Its just we don't know who's, um, material combined to make us and probably never meet them.

*Unless Karkat and the ectobiology stuff counted. But thinking of Karkat as a parent...does not seem right in any way.
Wait.*

You need a female AND a male?

[sociopathicwolf]

[Oh thank god, that means Derek can stop talking about that. Or at least the really awkward part.]

Oh. Yeah, we usually know, and that's usually who raises us.

[Then he pauses.]

Uh. Yeah.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*Sollux just barely stops himself from asking how that works, because he's curious but he's pretty sure he DOESN'T WANT TWO KNOW.*

Huh. Alright then.