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[iin2ufferable]

Let me get this straight: once your adult humans get too old to be useful, you just put them in a communal hive, force them into embarrassing but basically harmless shenanigans for a cheap laugh or two, and let them stay there to die? Is that really what humans do?

[ Priorities: Sollux has them. ]

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[delincuente]

Just the ones whose kids are useless deadbeats.

[iin2ufferable]

What happens to the rest of them then?

[delincuente]

I-D-K, they live by themselves, or move in with their kids or something. It's not like there's some rule about what you have to do with old people.

[iin2ufferable]

So you don't cull them or anything like that?

[delincuente]

[Oh man, she'd almost forgotten about culling.]

Dude, no! I mean, there are people who do that, but it's not like legal or anything.

[iin2ufferable]

Oh.

[ He'd like to forget about it. ]

Even if they're sick too?

[delincuente]

Yeah. On Earth that's called "murder".

[Or euthanization, but she's not about to have that conversation with a troll.]

[iin2ufferable]

I know what murder is, thanks.

[delincuente]

Hey, just checking! I mean, you guys sleep in goo. There's bound to be some culture shock.

[Now she's just picking at him.]

[iin2ufferable]

Hey, look, it's not my fault humans sleep on uncomfortable lumpy plateaus.

Half my friends either wanted to or tried to kill the other half in varying degrees of success, I think I should know what murder is.

[ Someone's being a dramaqueen. ]

[delincuente]

[She raises an eyebrow at the journal.]

... Okay, that's new. Do you mean, like, literally "kill"?

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

Most of the time, yeah. Humans haven't always got the whole 'taking care of each other' thing mastered.

[iin2ufferable]

They're better at it than trolls apparently. Which is pretty much the only think they're better at than us.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[A chuckle] You sound very sure of that, mate.

[iin2ufferable]

Why shouldn't I be sure of it?

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

You'd be surprised, at what humans are good at.

[originalcopy]

Well by the time they get that old, they're too tough and stringy to eat.

And everyone enjoys a good laugh.

[iin2ufferable]

Hah.

...nope, didn't enjoy it.

[originalcopy]

Well, the old don't enjoy it... the young do.

We're just lucky that none of the relatives showed up to visit and poke us with sharpened sticks.

[iin2ufferable]

Sharpened sticks?

[originalcopy]

Oh sure, two things young humans love to do is poke things with sticks and throw rocks at things.

If it's old and infirm or you're not sure it's alive... you poke it with a stick.

If it's dangerous or will get in trouble if you're caught... you throw a rock at it.

[dupable]

Not everyone does that! I am pretty sure my Nanna lived with my dad in our house until she died.

[iin2ufferable]

Ignoring the fact that it's totally fucking bizarre that you even know your genetic predecessors, that's even weirder than putting them in a communal hive.

[dupable]

It's not weird to us! The part about knowing our grandparents. I guess the nursing homes can be kind of weird though.

[iin2ufferable]

Everything about you is weird, and that's being nice about it.

[dupable]

You guys seem pretty weird to me, actually.

[kid_apocalypse]

Sometimes. But sometimes they still try to work and be useful. My Ma and Pa were both really old, and they lived at home with me until I left.

[iin2ufferable]

That's the first thing anyone's said that makes some sense.

[kid_apocalypse]

Thanks, I guess? I'm just speaking from my own experience. Rest Homes and Assisted Living places are pretty common on earth, but only when a person gets too old to take care of themselves.

[iin2ufferable]

Good luck finding something like that on Alternia.

[kid_apocalypse]

That's what Aradia was saying too. I can't even imagine growing up someplace like that. What did you guys have instead of parents?

[iin2ufferable]

A lusus.

[ That's it. He doesn't volunteer any other information. Very helpful. ]

[kid_apocalypse]

A lusus...

[Please give him a moment while Evan's education kicks in.]

Like lusus naturae? You're raised by a monster? That's kinda cool!

[iin2ufferable]

It's not cool. He was dumb as a rock and then he died, the end.

[kid_apocalypse]

Oh...I'm sorry, I didn't know. I'm sorry to hear that. I still think it'd be cool to be raised by a monster.

[legacydeck]

It depends on the culture - in some, it would be deeply shameful to not take care of your aging relatives yourself, as they provided for you in the past.

[iin2ufferable]

Shameful? I'm not even sure I want to understand humans. Ever.

[ That's a lie. ]

[legacydeck]

[Utterly unfazed by you weirdo trolls~]

As I said, a cultural thing. In others, you'd be looked down on as being unable to afford to pay someone else to care for them.

[iin2ufferable]

That's stupid as fuck. What is even wrong with humans. That's a rhetorical question, B-T-W, we'll be here all night if you try to answer it.

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[psych0p0mps]

Don't forget the terrible Jello.

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[iin2ufferable]

Yeah sure, jello too I guess.

[psych0p0mps]

Where were you during all that, anyway? I don't know if I saw you. [ALTHOUGH THAT MIGHT BE FOR THE BEST given how Old Her was acting.]

[shenunigans]

the circle of life in all its wonder and glory
so what do trolls do with old people
kill them
or do they use them as weapons

[iin2ufferable]

iif by weapon2 you mean a2 meat2hiield2 then po22iibly.
but mo2tly ii gue22 they ju2t kiill them iif they even liive that long.
iidk ii never actually met any old troll2.

[shenunigans]

somehow im not surprised at all