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re_alignment2014-06-06 11:08 pm
young_upstart) wrote in re_alignment2014-06-06 11:08 pm
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╬ [Video] :: Location - Prima's Temple
I don't know what to think with all these disappearances of late, but so long as anyone is still here, we still have things to do, and each other to look out for.
[Yeah, that sounded good. Okay then.]
I've been wondering for a while- I mean, it's not like it seems to be talked about a whole lot so I'm not sure if it's meant to be a secret or something. But...just how many Initiates are there around here? And who do you represent?
[Yeah, that sounded good. Okay then.]
I've been wondering for a while- I mean, it's not like it seems to be talked about a whole lot so I'm not sure if it's meant to be a secret or something. But...just how many Initiates are there around here? And who do you represent?
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Good to know you think so. So you're one of the Initiates, huh? How's that work, exactly?
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Yeah, that's right. One of Prima's. Um...how's what work?
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[One of these days, he'll think to ask Blurr or Bulkhead such things when he's actually talking to them.]
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So essentially, you agree to be their servants...?
[Kagerou had kind of indicated as much as well, though the Earth-bot had apparently felt it a fair trade-off for things gained.]
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No- not exactly. What we're doing basically is the same as what we've been doing overall- keep the Haven safe and continue working on making this place liveable for everyone that comes here.
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I see. What is it you've gained in return?
[Again, he remembers what Kagerou told him months ago, but…he wants to hear other viewpoints. He too had been approached by Alpha Trion, after all, though nothing had come of it.]
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The hope of being able to really do something to make a difference, around here.
[Video] Sorry! The other was a tag on the wrong thread. 9,9
[The Seeker doesn’t say anything, just nods. He won't quite let himself think it, not consciously, but he hopes the same.]
[He won't let himself think it because . . . it's what got him caught up in the Decepticon faction to begin with, all those eons ago.]
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[He's silent another moment before speaking quietly, looking off to one side somewhere. Seems the thought pushed itself to the forefront after all. And if he sounds even just /half/ as old as he's feeling right now…]
Listen, youngling . . . just because you've made an oath to someone doesn't mean you have to stick to it if things turn out to not be the way you think they are now. If the deal rusts on you, get out. The earlier, the better, before you let yourself get to a point that you can't. Don’t try to stick it out thinking maybe you're just reading things wrong. Chances are, you're not.
[Voice of experience? You bet.]
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It weirds him out to be called such, even if considers a lot of the bots around as "old timers," but he only used the title sparingly and out of fondness.
...Kup would probably brain him if he found out he was reminded of through a Decepticon, former or no.]
...I...
[Could he do that? Becoming an Initiate made him tied to this place. The Firstforged had shared their common distrust of Unicron's potential, and Hot Rod didn't want to see the Destroyer have his way. He was told he'd stood up against him once, somewhere, somewhen. He had been drawn here by its dark call before, used and slaughtered. He could have become lost forever, but something had brought him out of it. And even if he hadn't returned to the place he hoped to be, he'd been saved.]
...the only thing that would be wrong would be to not do anything at all. If I had the slightest doubt about accepting Prima's offer, then I wouldn't have gone through the initiation. But I did this- I did it because so long as I function, I'm not letting Unicron have his way.
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[Thundercracker nods.]
That I don't doubt. I think we all stand against Unicron. Just . . .
. . . just that if Prima turns out to be anything other than he's claimed to be, or he changes over time and is no longer the way he is now . . . don't make the same mistake others have.
The one I did, a long, long time ago.
[There. He'd said it. But if he could keep others from the same spark-wrenching horrors, doubts, and feelings of being trapped and enslaved by blindness and a misguided sense of duty…]
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[He nods, and frankly, he can't say that it isn't a concern of his. That he can smile even a little as he speaks up again is proof of the trust he has in himself and others, at least.]
...and besides, if I let something else get to my head, I think Ironhide would knock some sense back into me.
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He wonders, briefly, if the angry fragger would feel any differently now that he's renounced his faction, or would he still be viewed as a hated 'Con, regardless.]Yeah, I imagine he would. Seems like a good mech to the right people.
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Heh, name should probably be Ironhead.
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You said it, not me.
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I may not be a Decepticon anymore, but I can still poke some fun, right?
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No . . . and that goes for both sides. Still, can be worth the effort when you're willing to take the risk.
[He certainly can't complain. His first friends here –his first real friends in a Very. Long. Time. –were Autobots, and still make up a huge chunk of those he counts as friends now.]
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