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Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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No. I do not require sleep.

[Meanwhile, Jaime's staring at the communicator all bleary eyed, all "WHAT THE HELL I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD TEXT ON YOUR OWN".]

Edited 2014-08-19 02:00 (UTC)

[Oh, that's new. He's gonna guess that the black text is Blue Beetle. Texting isn't so easy on the phones but someone did tell him about some handy technology to help. Two conversations at once, he can do this.]

I know. I'm sorry if I woke you, Blue Beetle. Me either. What do you do all night long?

normally this line is for emerges

energy

emerson

The Blue Beetle is having difficulties with the mechanism on the communicator known as 'auto-correct'. He was attempting to express that this line is usually used for emergencies. But he finds it acceptable for us to use this for correspondence and has gone back to sleep. I go on the Internet at night. It is a valuable resource.

Oh. I didn't know how else to contact you. Please apologize for me again when he wakes up. Do you ever run out of things to look at on the internet and have nothing left to do for the rest of the night?

We have been registered as one by the government. There is no other method of contacting us. Occasionally.

[Sorry, Al - the Scarab doesn't understand the 'asking questions' part of conversations quite yet!]

That doesn't seem fair. You aren't the same person. Do you have internet in your world?

[It's okay, maybe with time he will.]

It is a logically sound assumption. I do not have a separate form. Yes.

But you can still type and get on the internet. We don't have the internet in Amestris. Or superheroes so there isn't anything to do at night.

Irrelevant. The Blue Beetle's communicator is sufficient. False. The hour has no significance to many activities. [Amestris] is not in my database. More information is needed.

I suppose so. [Except when Al accidentally wakes him up.]

My home is different from this place. Everything is closed at night. It's a country, surrounded by Drachma, Creta, Aerugo and an unnamed desert.

Query 1: Destinations needed to 'do things'? Query 2: [Drachma] [Creta] [Aerugo]: also countries?

I guess not but it isn't really any fun if there isn't anyone awake. That's how it was back in Amestris anyway. Almost everyone slept through the night. Yes, we don't have states like America does.

Many popular nighttime activities require an organic body. Dancing. Copulation. Overconsumption of alcohol.

[Jaime, stop watching TV for teens with the Scarab. This can't end well.]

[Oh god, he might have just woken Ed with the noise he made.]

I'm not old enough for the last two anyway. Dancing sounds nice though.

What is your mental age?

Fourteen. I lost my body when I was eleven.

[The Scarab doesn't respond for a hair longer than the last time, because it has Research to do.]

Correct. The legal drinking age in the United States is 21. It is easily observed that many ingest alcohol underneath the age of 21 without negative repercussions. But humans over the age of 14 may legally engage in sexual activities provided their partner is underneath the age of 17.

[For a moment he wonders what Khaji is doing.]

Even if I had my body back, those activities aren't on my list of things to do or eat. If I had a relationship with someone I would want it to be because we both had strong feelings for each other.

Query: Do you believe age is relevant to possessing [strong feelings for each other]?

No but I've never found anyone that I did have strong feelings for.

[Well one day when he was younger Al considered marrying Winry but since then he's given that up.]

[There's another small delay as the Scarab cross-references that with Jaime, and his feelings for Traci. Humans are weird.]

Your reasonings are emotional. Not legal. Understood.

Exactly.

[Good, can they move on now?]

Can I ask you questions about yourself? You don't have to answer if you don't want.

[Al won't ask personal questions about Blue Beetle and compromise his secret identity.]