"Forgive me," Soundwave says, "but you do know I can read surface thoughts? I always wondered if you couldn't do the same, to some extent. Anyhow, I don't know how you guessed it, but yes, the person you're thinking of is Megatron's conjunx in all but name. Unless you saw them together? It's impossible not to see them as a couple when they're together. He uses mass-displacement to make himself only a little bigger than most of the humans here. I would think it must be uncomfortable, but then again, I have never been able to transform into something as small as a handgun."
He laughs, softly. "And you may be right about the other thing. It makes me feel better to think so, anyway. Because he never did command anything but the air force. Certainly I never let him take over completely when Megatron was incapacitated. If I had, he'd have surely been killed."
"Our Starscream is a puzzle," Ravage says quietly, stroking Viridian's ears. "As I said before, he was a trusted friend to us once. And then he became a fragging idiot. But in the interregnum, following Megatron's abdication, he's been surprisingly and effectively supportive of us. He's not even a Decepticon any more; he's the elected ruler of Cybertron, and he actually does try to rule fairly, and I don't know whether he meant it when he said he shouldn't have tried to murder me, or whether he just doesn't want Galvatron running the faction, but either way, he's been a help that I never expected."
Viridian makes an odd little noise, like she's trying to clear her throat, and Soundwave chuckles. "Yes," he says, "there's that Starscream, too. We have a ghost of some other Starscream haunting this place. He has a lot of opinions on interior decoration, and for some reason, he thinks there were no female Decepticons in his universe. Is that true in your universe? Ravage does not always identify as female, but I can't imagine the faction without people like Ravage and Acid Storm, or Strika and Slipstream and Howlback and Esmeral, who are simply just femmes."
Viridian leans into her parents, but she smiles at Blaster. We can be friends. Just don't ever lie to me. Maybe they thought it was true, but the Autobots who found me told me in Shockwave's laboratory told me that I didn't have a family. Which was believable, because most cougaraiders are cold-constructed and all of us are experimental. So I believed them. I didn't like Shockwave very much, so I believed what they told me. And the people who captured me later were also Decepticons. But then my mother and her friends came and rescued me, and they were also Decepticons too, and I knew she had to be my mother, because I'd seen pictures of her in some records in Shockwave's lab. Then I knew that a lot of the things that people had said to me couldn't be true. And now I'm not sure what I believe at all. Do you think it's true that Optimus Prime, who knew my parents when they were young, was really able to look at me and not see them in me?
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Date: 2021-05-29 04:22 (UTC)He laughs, softly. "And you may be right about the other thing. It makes me feel better to think so, anyway. Because he never did command anything but the air force. Certainly I never let him take over completely when Megatron was incapacitated. If I had, he'd have surely been killed."
"Our Starscream is a puzzle," Ravage says quietly, stroking Viridian's ears. "As I said before, he was a trusted friend to us once. And then he became a fragging idiot. But in the interregnum, following Megatron's abdication, he's been surprisingly and effectively supportive of us. He's not even a Decepticon any more; he's the elected ruler of Cybertron, and he actually does try to rule fairly, and I don't know whether he meant it when he said he shouldn't have tried to murder me, or whether he just doesn't want Galvatron running the faction, but either way, he's been a help that I never expected."
Viridian makes an odd little noise, like she's trying to clear her throat, and Soundwave chuckles. "Yes," he says, "there's that Starscream, too. We have a ghost of some other Starscream haunting this place. He has a lot of opinions on interior decoration, and for some reason, he thinks there were no female Decepticons in his universe. Is that true in your universe? Ravage does not always identify as female, but I can't imagine the faction without people like Ravage and Acid Storm, or Strika and Slipstream and Howlback and Esmeral, who are simply just femmes."
Viridian leans into her parents, but she smiles at Blaster. We can be friends. Just don't ever lie to me. Maybe they thought it was true, but the Autobots who found me told me in Shockwave's laboratory told me that I didn't have a family. Which was believable, because most cougaraiders are cold-constructed and all of us are experimental. So I believed them. I didn't like Shockwave very much, so I believed what they told me. And the people who captured me later were also Decepticons. But then my mother and her friends came and rescued me, and they were also Decepticons too, and I knew she had to be my mother, because I'd seen pictures of her in some records in Shockwave's lab. Then I knew that a lot of the things that people had said to me couldn't be true. And now I'm not sure what I believe at all. Do you think it's true that Optimus Prime, who knew my parents when they were young, was really able to look at me and not see them in me?