one fish, two fish, red fish, (blue fish)!!

[honorbends]

Who: The passengers of the Blue Fish and visitors!
Action: The Blue Fish!
When: It's a mingle for the month of January, losers!

[ mingle for the month for the blue fish, to meet up with new crew members, hash out stuff. come get free therapy from zuko, who has 100% put up a sign on his door saying 10 credits because allen owes him money. ]

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[kingofbadlifechoices]

You are immortal? [Well, that is the only conclusion he can make. Putting back together, functioning. This man...person...creature probably had no heart either. He would not bleed either.

But he behaved as if he...is a person.] You cannot die.

Are you curious after...beings like...well humans? Or do you feel as if you are one since you are...created after one?

[The questions keep on coming and Robb cannot help it.]

[thezerothlaw]

I can be destroyed. I may not always be repairable. It's true that I don't age physically.

[Is that immortal? Is this life to begin with?]

I have been functioning for twenty decades at this point. Much of me has needed repairs or even replacement in that time, as a human being might need medication or an artificial limb. There may come to be a time when I can no longer be repaired, or an essential part may break down in a way that there is no time to replace it. If my brain were damaged, for example, and then replaced, the replacement would not be... me. He would not have my memories and my thoughts. He would be a new robot with my body.

[A curious thought, actually. He doesn't know how he feels like that.]

I am very interested in humans. I enjoy human company and am fascinated by human ways of thinking. Friend Giskard observed that I was becoming more human with time. I am not human, however, nor will I ever be. I am more like them than many robots, but I am not the same.

[kingofbadlifechoices]

But how...? How do you know you are you when someone else created you? Aren't you shaped after someone else's idea then? [He believes he gets it. Maybe a little. If robots were man-made robots could not be a person. They would always be someone else's person.

Isn't that it?]

Can you have memories then? Is it that...? [What a difficult subject on an evening like this.] When someone faces hardship the memories can go and change that person's thoughts. When a man falls in love, he would do everything for that...for that love. Is it not?

[thezerothlaw]

[Daneel blinks, trying to think this out.]

I know I am myself because my experiences, my memories, are unlike any other individual's, human or robot. They shape my actions, as your memories shape yours. If I did not have memories, I could not learn, nor grow, nor understand new things. I would not be... useful, if that were true.

Forgive me the comparison, but you were also created by someone else, though in a different way than I was. You were created by your parents. You are still you.

[kingofbadlifechoices]

[Maybe he does not understand this at all and the entire train of thoughts that is going through his head makes it hurt a little. It could very well be that this was a bit too much for him.

To him Daneel seems like a different...being. Made of iron and iron brains. It is not the same as being made by two people who love one another. But why...he cannot think of it.]

You were never a babe. [It is the only thing he can think of.] You remain the same for many years... I... [It could very well be that he is just too much of a fool for matters like this. To properly understand he should have come from another time.]

Gods... [Robb laughs the most awkward laugh possible.] ...let us drop this matter. I am afraid I cannot say much for myself.

[thezerothlaw]

As you wish. Don't trouble yourself too much on my account.

[He would hate to think Robb was bothered by him.]

[kingofbadlifechoices]

Worry not, I am not troubled. [Not in that way.] I think it will take a while before I properly understand the workings of beings like you.

[He shifts a little.]

I think it is time for me to get some sleep. [And seek some relief for this headache.]

[thezerothlaw]

[He nods.]

Sleep then. I won't disturb you. I should probably return to the Wonderduck, in any event. It was a pleasure to meet you, sir.

[kingofbadlifechoices]

My thanks. [He nods politely.] Likewise. I would like it if we could meet again, ser. [But maybe after he has wrapped his head around all of this.]