004 [Video/open commentlog]

[angleofscience]

[After helping Ironhide, Jetfire had went to get his journal. He'd merely intended to ask a question... But since he'd attempted to challenge himself again when it came to the absolutely dreadful weather, the image that pops up is simply of Jetfire standing at one of the entrances to the barracks, staring out at the snow, for several minutes.]

I... That is...

[He seems to zone out again, having stretched out one arm outside the protection of the doorway, watching snowflakes melt as they meet his armour-plating.]

... Has anyone been here... for long enough to have the data to say for how long this weather is going to last? Or, if not that... The experience to extrapolate how long this colder weather and snow could last..?

[He's not once looking directly into the journal, and his optics are dim, nearly offline. It's hard to say what actually turns the image off when it ends, but whether anyone replies to this, or comes wandering around the barracks, Jetfire is probably quite obvious where he's standing.

He's at least pulled his arm in against his frame, though the small pool of water on the floor would reveal he apparently didn't do it until he got quite a bit of snow on it.]

Comments

[abstinentzombie]

Technically, but I really wouldn't consider them human at all.

[Because all the zombies in her time are all the offspring of the original zombies! 8D]

[angleofscience]

By disassociation, preferring to categorize something unpleasant as removed from yourself, or relying on evidence that the virus has changed their genetic makeup?

[Jetfire could understand the first urge, truly (and his tone implied no accusation, merely curiosity); some have done that on both sides of the conflict as it wore on, but that didn't make both Autobots and Decepticons any less... of the same species.

Procreating zombies? Amazing and terrifying!]

[abstinentzombie]

The virus has become genetic in nature, as well as spread through outside means. Zombies produce offspring already infected. They don't even look very human anymore.

They're the equivalent of animals. They have no upper level consciousness and run on pure instinct. They are not human.

[angleofscience]

Doesn't surprise me. There are viral diseases among humans which attack the genetic code, isn't there? I assume this is a varation of that? Or it caused mutation in the genes.

Do you know how the change to the genes happened?

[abstinentzombie]

No. All I know is that the virus mutated and everything went downhill from there. There isn't any sort of cure, either.

[angleofscience]

It doesn't surprise me. Finding a cure for something that has settled in your species' genetic coding and branching a part of the population off from the main one would be difficult at best. I'm sure you were doing your best.

[abstinentzombie]

They better have been.