#{VASH WOULD BE AFRAID OF BEING STUDIED BUT I FOR ONE AM HAPPY TO HEAR THAT}

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Ahaha, well, I mean, two of my parents, Brad and Luida, they're over 200 years old and only look like they're in their... 50s? 60s? But that's because of cryosleep.

Yeah. It's.... it was complicated. It's still complicated. But I really wanted to make things work. I'm just relieved that I'm managing that. It took... finding-- well. That's not important, ahahaha.

...yeah, Nai and I aren't human. It means a lot to me to hear that I do act a lot like one. I try really hard to. A lot of folk can tell there's something not quite right about me though. Some sort of innate sense for it, I guess. But then-- you know, you get a guy who matches the wanted posters for over 30 years and he looks exactly the same...

But yeah. Nai and I are the only ones of our kind, that are still... around. And were naturally made. We have a lot of sisters, but they're dependents and can't leave their bulbs and can't do the same things we can... we were raised by humans. Rem, our first foster mother, was made into an independent Plant -- uh, a living generator, like Nai and I -- and then I was raised by other humans.

So yeah, I've been around a lot of humans.

Oh, man, how to explain... um. When I say a ship, I mean a spaceship. Nai and I were born on a human spaceship that was looking for planets to colonize because Earth was dying because of - because of what humanity did. The point was to find a new homeworld, learn from their mistakes. We... crashed, on this planet we now call No Man's Land, and, uh. Yeah.

Officially speaking, I'm an outlaw. I have lots of wanted posters, I've got a high bounty, people want me dead, ahaha. I'm more of a nomad, I just, go from town to town, doing what I can for people for a few days, I advertise myself as a plant engineer to help heal my sisters that keep their towns running, I just try to play up that I'm "quirky" and "like to do my work entirely alone" and people generally accept that because if you're a plant engineer you're probably a little weird anyway.

What else... oh. The insurance agency girls, they're following me to have me under surveillance 24/7, because uh. I don't remember if I'm remembering this right or not-- oh, I remember. I'm a huge risk to their company because I generally... cause a lot of damage when I'm around. They're supposed to prevent things from happening so their company doesn't have to pay out for people who have, you know, "Vash the Stampede destroyed my property" insurance.

Though, it's a lot easier to rationalize my own abilities, being a whole! Extradimensional angel thing! Oh. Right, I almost forgot. So... most Plants, they generate things, right? Things like heat, water, electricity, gravity fields, food, can make land arable, chemical compounds, amino acids... my brother Nai, he's really good at generating some kind of metal that's... very sharp, very hard to destroy or even damage. I'm unusual in that I can heal my sisters and make them feel better, without really... generating much else, though I've noticed I think I can do... something with flora? I've noticed that things seem to grow better around me, and sometimes flowers spring up where I walk. But largely, what I'm best at is healing my sisters.

I think I've also generated bullets before? Uh, I did that a while back and haven't tried since, because they were... really powerful and I try really hard to not kill people.

God, seriously though, I'm not sure what to share! I'm not sure what's interesting or not, you know? Uh, on No Man's Land, all the worms - the most plentiful indigenous life - are part of a hivemind! And that hivemind has a blog! Their name is Zazie and they can look human when they want to.

hold on.

130 years is a pretty long time. most humans live, like. half of that? whole life. you're something else if you have a problem that long and still get over it enough to throw harmless things at him like that. as opposed to, like, very real fireballs or the closest equivalent. take it from me. not that i have an outstanding reputation for forgiveness.

so you're probably not a human. your brother, too, i guess. that's interesting. you act a lot like one, have you heard that before? i guess you must be around a lot of them often... you get more peculiar with everything you say. a desert? a ship? potential magic... what is it you do? you're really weird.

let me prioritize and get my ducks in a row. you're an explosion of information ranging from "travels with insurance company reps" to "at least a few centuries old and just rationalized having powers today."

vash. you sound like more than the local extrovert to me. tell me some things. maybe i'll tell you some back, if it's really good. (: