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AlcheME!

[ You stand in the middle of a mad scientist's laboratory. ]

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Why not!

Personhood for everyone.

Okay, so it's human. That just leaves the question of what is a human.

I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that one, seeing as I'm not.

Can you think of anything that sets humans apart from dragons? ...Besides like, literally not being dragons.

Featherless bipeds.

What.

[ her ears perk ]

He's not wrong.

Soooo that means I'm the only human here?

Naw, W's a human too.

Biggest thing I can think of is ... like, a dragon's way of experiencing the world is totally different from a human's.

Oh yeah? How so?

It's … hard to explain.

Back home, for me … I can sense the magic that weaves everything together. Light, life, creation, space, time, darkness, void, the elements. All that stuff and more, all the time.

Oh. Yeah, that's not really a human thing, huh? Or at least, not in my world.

So like, it's our experiences and way of relating to others that makes us human or not human?

I ... think so? Maybe? It's part of it, at least.

Way of relating to others and the world, maybe...

And yourself, yeah.

Yeah. So a 'human' is less a static state and more a process. Just like 'dragon' or 'bird' aren't static states? So what a human is is... someone experiencing that process...?

Yeah. Yeah, it's like ... a learning curve?

Ain't no getting off the personhood process rollercoaster.

Until you die, but. Y'know.

Yep. So like, a 'human' is someone who is undergoing the process of learning how they relate to the world and others around them as well as understanding how they feel about themself...?

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featherbeaned - 2022-06-25 22:11 (UTC) - Expand

That sounds better than anything I can think of.

We gotta be philosophical about it because we made this guy just a soul and an attitude, after all.

Yeeeah, something tells me I'm not so great at that kind of thing.

I think famously. Nobody is.

Great. That makes me feel a lot better.

[Hmmm...]

There's probably biological differences, right? Then again, if we say that, we might not be able to get away with saying it's human.

Back home I worked with a guy who was a washing machine.