Lotor grins, and pets the birds that come to him, enjoying it thoroughly. Baby animals and friendly animals make everything better, even when the day you're having is already pretty good. "I didn't know you were always like that. I thought maybe you were also in a war like everyone else I know. I'm trying to make friends with the sparklings. Some of them are really nice. I like Blaze."
Ravage thinks about what Cricket's saying. "I don't know that anyone cares so much about who's a he and who's a her where I come from, either. A lot of them wish I'd make up my mind. But I've spent enough time being both things that even when I'm female for a long time, like I have been lately, I don't want to say that this is who I am, because it might change. Sometimes it changes after years. Sometimes it changes on the drop of a pin. When I first came to the Nexus, I was in one of those phases where I'd change in the middle of a sentence. Being stable for a little while is pleasant but I'm changeable, and I always will be, I think."
"The people who matter don't care," Howlback says, and bumps her cheek to her sister's cheek.
Then they talk about Soundwave. Not Ravage's conjunx. The other one.
Ravage frowns. "Okay, Cricket, that does concern me. Do you think he's reporting to someone? Because Soundwave--my mech--talked to him too, and he thinks his Megatron is emotionless, too. The Megatron I know is like, 99.5 percent emotion, running on top of that incredible intellect, and yes, that's partially why he went wrong, but it's also a lot of why he went right in the first place. He more or less said--in recorded clips, the way he does, my husband can do that too, and he does, sometimes--that he never loved anyone except his cassettes, and clearly not in the way my Soundwave loves me, or the way that he loves my siblings. And he idolises his Megatron, but he doesn't love him. I don't think we want that Megatron here, if his perception of his Megatron is correct."
Howlback sighs. "Well, if he was an empurata victim, he was likely also shadowplayed." Howlback turns to Cricket. "There are a few people who have just one optic because that's their frametype, like Clobber and Lugnut. but most of the time, a person with a single optic and clawlike hands, has been maimed, and this was a political punishment that was favoured by the regime the Decepticons rebelled against, for dissent. It normally was accompanied by an unhealthy dose of mind control, and memory editing."
She shrugs. "But unless Cricket knows he's reporting to someone for sure I'd rather talk about anything else," she says, with a smile. "Tell me about those birds that Lotor is playing with."
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Ravage thinks about what Cricket's saying. "I don't know that anyone cares so much about who's a he and who's a her where I come from, either. A lot of them wish I'd make up my mind. But I've spent enough time being both things that even when I'm female for a long time, like I have been lately, I don't want to say that this is who I am, because it might change. Sometimes it changes after years. Sometimes it changes on the drop of a pin. When I first came to the Nexus, I was in one of those phases where I'd change in the middle of a sentence. Being stable for a little while is pleasant but I'm changeable, and I always will be, I think."
"The people who matter don't care," Howlback says, and bumps her cheek to her sister's cheek.
Then they talk about Soundwave. Not Ravage's conjunx. The other one.
Ravage frowns. "Okay, Cricket, that does concern me. Do you think he's reporting to someone? Because Soundwave--my mech--talked to him too, and he thinks his Megatron is emotionless, too. The Megatron I know is like, 99.5 percent emotion, running on top of that incredible intellect, and yes, that's partially why he went wrong, but it's also a lot of why he went right in the first place. He more or less said--in recorded clips, the way he does, my husband can do that too, and he does, sometimes--that he never loved anyone except his cassettes, and clearly not in the way my Soundwave loves me, or the way that he loves my siblings. And he idolises his Megatron, but he doesn't love him. I don't think we want that Megatron here, if his perception of his Megatron is correct."
Howlback sighs. "Well, if he was an empurata victim, he was likely also shadowplayed." Howlback turns to Cricket. "There are a few people who have just one optic because that's their frametype, like Clobber and Lugnut. but most of the time, a person with a single optic and clawlike hands, has been maimed, and this was a political punishment that was favoured by the regime the Decepticons rebelled against, for dissent. It normally was accompanied by an unhealthy dose of mind control, and memory editing."
She shrugs. "But unless Cricket knows he's reporting to someone for sure I'd rather talk about anything else," she says, with a smile. "Tell me about those birds that Lotor is playing with."