Should I allow mechs to consume food for entertainment purposes?

Hmm.

You can picture them as humanlike as you want tbh? Like

They could be chibi cartoons

Or anime girls/boys/pillboxes (yes that is drake's canonical gender)

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"..." Carefully, the heavyweight frame stepped into Blackbeard's room. It was, as usual, horribly organized.

Zheng picked through various camo nettings, spare armor sets, and a few extra cases of ammunition, checking behind and under the bed, in the closet...

"..." Nothing.

Well. If she... Oh. That was obvious! Opening the window, Zheng began to climb the wall.

===

The lithe frame watched her seismic sensors carefully, lying under a borrowed camo tarp, doing her best to fight her reactor that would *not* stop heating up-

*'I, an a seasoned counter piracy frame! I've snapped enemy mechs in two, why the fuck am I running away?!'*

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Blackbeard sighed, her hands tightening around her arms, crossed as they were under her chin.

*'Its not like she... oh fuck me, she's coming up the fucking wall?!'*

Cursing, she stood up, and got all of ten meters before being tackled off her feet by several dozen tons of robot.

"Gah! Geroff me you crazy bitch!"

*'And stop blushing, they can probably see it all the way out to Europa!'* Stubbornly, her fusion heart refused to cease burning.

"..." Zheng, for her part, made a low noise, and wrapped herself firmly around the poor mech.

"...mgh. Fine. F-five minutes. Then you leggo 'a me and..." Unconsciously, Blackbeard slowly relaxed, wrapped in Zheng's arms and legs as she was.

"..."

It was nice, like this, if... If she was going to be entirely honest. She felt safe.

With all that happened out there-

The internal messaging service pinged in her mind, and she opened the chat-

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YeehawChucklefucks: @ripandtear So, you've finally stopped runnin away?

Drake: Raleigh. You owe me twenty five manna.

xxshipbusterxx: dudes, were you betting on when she'd get with zheng???

Drake: Affirmative.

YeehawChuckleducks: Yeah.

AMazing: This chat is what RA intended, honestly.

Drake: Speaking of. Minotaur, where are you?

xxshipbusterxx: dude, i totally won!

Cross&Skull: Bruh. Tortuga, stop fucking trying to fuck with the betting pool, we all know you were down for something diff...

[xxshipbusterxx is now AWAY.]

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Oh, there went her excessive heating alarms.

Gently, a hand came up to rest on her head, sheathed in metal plate.

"..." Zheng looked down at her, concerned.

"Nnnh..."

Apparently a decision was made because- "WHOA! H-hey! Zheng! Paws off, at least ask first!"

- the other mech hoisted Blackbeard in a bridal carry and borrowed her cable line to rappel back into the building.