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angleofscience) wrote2011-12-30 05:42 pm
angleofscience) wrote2011-12-30 05:42 pm
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005 - [Video]
[Jetfire's found his own sack of 'gifts', and while he's kind of grateful, he's also confused. Gifts? Just like that? One of them also had him extremely curious, but it didn't take long to realize that it was merely an extremely simple drone.
But that led to actually wanting to understand how it worked. Which led to this; the video comes on with Jetfire sitting in his room, turning some tiny bit of electronics around in his hand before he looks up.]
Was anyone else gifted with one of these... hm, fake-furred... "drones"? And if you're not amenable to keeping them, I am interested in them, if you'd be willing to part with yours.
[He's not sure what he'll do with them, but if anything, something could surely be done... or they could maybe be used as bases for something else.like spare parts, despite the lousy quality.]
... Starscream, stop that. I thought you weren't talking to me?
[Whatever the other Cybertronian is doing, and is doing in Jetfire's room, will probably go unanswered, as the video cuts when Jetfire closes the journal.]
But that led to actually wanting to understand how it worked. Which led to this; the video comes on with Jetfire sitting in his room, turning some tiny bit of electronics around in his hand before he looks up.]
Was anyone else gifted with one of these... hm, fake-furred... "drones"? And if you're not amenable to keeping them, I am interested in them, if you'd be willing to part with yours.
[He's not sure what he'll do with them, but if anything, something could surely be done... or they could maybe be used as bases for something else.
... Starscream, stop that. I thought you weren't talking to me?
[Whatever the other Cybertronian is doing, and is doing in Jetfire's room, will probably go unanswered, as the video cuts when Jetfire closes the journal.]
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I'll do that then... Ah. Have you just been ignoring it, or, mmm, found a way to quiet it?
[Since he'd noticed they could be... loud. That, along with the fact that it seemed to slowly learn or rather exchange, words in its own "language" (which wasn't really one) for English was what had him first scan it.
Sure, after that, that it was no more than a simple, and simplistic drone of some kind, he'd picked his apart.]
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[That, and he left the whole sack shoved in a corner, so.]
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I'll be over shortly.
[Which he will indeed be, as there's a knock on the door a few minutes later before Jetfire comes inside.]
In that, I assume?
[He'll just... head on over to the sack and peer into it, too see if Ironhide took out the other stuff in there.]
... How's your self-repair managing with those injuries?
[Because he can't not ask.]
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[Because where else is he going to go?]
[He's propped up against a wall and will not be budged. His shoulders drawn up, and a scowl on his face.]
Yeah. That there.
[Everything is still in the sack, too. He hasn't touched it, short of tossing it into the corner.]
Fine. Everything is fine.
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... And for how long will it continue to be fine? If your self-repair can't take care of that, you won't be able to move around easily... or at all.
[Jetfire is, however, not looking at Ironhide as he speaks, which might allow the other mech some ability to ignore what he's saying if he wants to. Instead he simply picks out the wax and the cloth and putting it down, then pulls out the furby, gives it a frown and then shrugs before turning to Ironhide again.]
The quality of the electronics inside is really abysmal, but it might be useful.
... Unless Starscream gets to them first...
[That last might have been muttered.]
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[He sounds more tired than anything. His hand scrubs over his face. How many more times are people going to snap at him for not doing something he doesn't think is possible.]
... What about Starscream?
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... Starscream saw fit to make an over-dramatic statememt about me murdering these things.
[To demonstrate, he holds up the furby.]
He's promised a human girl who was quite... distressed at Starscream's proclamation that he'll "save" any other ones.
[Jetfire huffs amd shakes his helm, both frustrated, annoyed and amused.]
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[Because clearly, that's how you solve your problems, when your name is Ironhide.]
[Especially when the problem is "Starscream".]
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[Give him a moment to stare, and then a shake of his helm.]
No, of course not.
I... try to... refrain from violent response unless we're actually involved in a combat situation.
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[Smacking someone isn't violent, Jetfire! What are you talking about?]
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[Jetfire stared, and then collected himself. It wasn't so much the suggestion of using violence against Starscream that surprised him - many would probaly resort to that - but the idea that he use that (against anyone, without reason or a combat situation) that had thrown Jetfire off.]
Thank you for the suggestion, but I... have never considered to deal with people that way, and I don't think it'll help anything, either. If Megatron hasn't managed to get the behaviour out of Starscream that he wants with violence, I doubt anyone else would succeed either.
[Jetfire's voice, after the initial surprise, was now dry; not so much amused - Megatron and his behaviour wasn't a particularly amusing subject - as bemused.]
[You're a model of social interaction, Ironhide!]
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Hmnf. Point. Getting smacked around with his own limbs never taught him anything... How could you?
[He doesn't make it sound like an insult. It's not meant to be one. Just that Jetfire is about as far from Megatron as he can think.]
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Quite so. Not that I've understood why he wouldn't change tactics if it wasn't working--- Smacked around with his own limbs?
[Jetfire looked up from looking the furby over - he'd of course studied his own before opening it up, that didn't mean he was going to neglect checking this one (or Jael's). Anything less would not be correct - confused. Had Irohide's Starscream been... hit with his own limbs at one point?]
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[He catches that look, and shrugs.]
Yeah. Megatron would take his parts and beat him with them. Happened sometimes.
[He says it so simply -- it's just a part of the war he was all too familiar with.]
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While Starscream would complain - justly so, however - of Megatron's use of pain as a method of conditioning, I don't think he ever actually... beat someone with their own limbs.
[The differences to Jetfire are both facinating and confusing.]
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Not like Starscream never deserved a beating or two. Would have done the same to him, if I could.
[Because the Starscream he knew was guilty of more atrocities than Ironhide could count. There was a reason he served the Decepticons as he did.]
Yours maybe just got lucky.
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[Jetfire shrugs. He's not going to take that further, mostly because his angle would be "why not just kill, if you're willing to merely administer a useless beating", which... isn't an angle he wants to introduce into this conversation.]
Perhaps. There are other punishments he probably got, however.
[Jetfire has no idea what they might be, and isn't going to speculate... and even so, he wouldn't go around revealing them. Since if he knew them, Starscream would have told him, and he wouldn't break such trust.]
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[Or insane -- after all, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting things to change... that's some kind of sign of insanity, isn't it?]
Yours or mine?
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[And it was disctinctly strange to call Starcsream "his" even if it was in a merely practical, definition-by-universe way.]
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[As far as Ironhide was concerned, the Decepticons could all bludgeon each other into scrap metal, and he wouldn't care one bit.]
[There were enough atrocities inflicted on the innocent, without worrying about what the other side did to its own.]