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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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[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.