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[rootinest]

[It's taken some time for him to sit down and actually try this because every instinct he has is screaming at him that it's not allowed. The rules toys follow aren't just something they choose to follow, they're instinct. Instinct they can fight, certainly - like when he and Sid's toys had scared Sid - but instinct nevertheless.]

[But this is a special circumstance and maybe Buzz has the right idea. One of the big people had been nice to him, sabotaging his back switch so it didn't actually change anything when switched to demo mode.]

[This situation is so much bigger than them, bigger than any other chaotic situation they've ever faced, bigger even than their little prison break at Sunnyside. What's an escape from a daycare compared to an otherdimensional...whatever? A place where magical shock devices have been put inside them and now they're being expected to, what, go on missions? His only job is being huggable and good for playing pretend. How that's supposed to translate to "missions" is beyond him.]

[In any case, it's so big that maybe he and Buzz need a little help from the big people. Or at least for them to know the two toys hanging around are actually alive.]

[But that doesn't mean it's easy to talk to them. He decides to do it first over text. And decides to maybe test the waters a little instead of launching right into "Hi I'm woody, I'm a talking rag doll."]

[The comm is almost as big as he is, so he has to rely on the voice-to-text to type anything because it's so much work hitting all the buttons.]

Hi. Hello. So.

How nonhuman would someone have to be for you all to think they were too weird for you to want to deal with? Asking for a friend.

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[tarnishedavenger]

We've got a robot, mutants, cyborgs, aliens, animals, and Mac.

I think we're a fairly open-minded bunch.

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[bringinghopewithme]

Nonhuman's a wide net to cast there, mate.

[case in point.]

[scavengineer]

I'm a mouse and normally humans can't understand me. I kind of think that says more than enough? In case it doesn't, though, your friend is probably fine.

MAC_ATTACK

[morebetter]

o my god are you a talking dog

are we getting a dog???

dude do we all get dogs or are you just the one dog

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[onlyordinary]

My mom was a robot and I lived with a mutated ape with a doctorate.

Not much is too weird to me.

[gempathizing]

I haven't hit my weirdness limit yet! So... I guess they'd have to be not sentient?

And it seems like you're probably sentient.

So we're already off on the right foot.

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[credit_not_blame]

As long as your "friend" has something resembling a face, they're probably fine. Humans like faces, and the majority of people here seem to be human or human-adjacent. I cannot speak for the non-human-or-human-adjacent people.

Though if your friend is an eldritch horror or a giant spider or something, a paper bag with a smiley face might be a good idea, at least until everyone gets used to them.

[takenalive]

That's certainly a human-centric point of view.

An intangible god-monster of war and entropy taking the form of a tower with a flaming eye. I want no more dealings with those, though strangeness is not my primary concern there.

[wheyoftheadept]

no upper limit there, chummer. just give me the basics on how to treat you right and respectfully so i dont have to mindread.

[cachedout]

It's less the nonhumanity thing and more just the weird thing for me. Most of the weirdest people I didn't want to deal with were actually human in the first place, or close enough.

Of course, that's to say nothing of the murderous jerkface coefficient. That's probably a way bigger factor than what planet somebody's from or what they're made of or how much face they got, in my book.

[walkingballpit]

I was going to give you the rundown of mutants, aliens, and gods that make up my weird life, but I think it’d take too long. They’re generally bipedal, but not exclusively, carbon-based - I think, generally between 4-7 feet but can be anywhere from subatomic to 100 feet tall. I can’t even say they all breathe oxygen and have warm blood. Skin tones require Pantone colours.

Gonna need more than “nonhuman”.