ic contact

[screenplays]

"Whatever it is, I don't care."
text | voice mail | call

Comments

[lyingheart]

I can arrange anytime after school... though Friday would be better.

He's a... lot of energy.

[screenplays]

Friday is fine.

He's a puppy, that's what they're like.

[lyingheart]

Where are you staying now?

Yes, I get that feeling. He's... endearing.

[screenplays]

My new-old place, once I get my things back.

Dogs are like that, it's part of their 'charm'.

[lyingheart]

Do you have an estimated time of arrival on all of that?

Yes... so I'm learning.

[screenplays]

This weekend?

Not a dog person, then?

[lyingheart]

It's more accurate to say pets weren't familiar to me, personally, before. I like dogs, now that I've met them. Anyway, I'll come by this weekend, if that's all right.

[screenplays]

That's fine.

I don't mind cats, but dogs are traditional.

[lyingheart]

Traditional?

[screenplays]

Yeah. A house, 2.5 kids, fence, dog. Human tradition.

[lyingheart]

Ah.. perhaps on the Earth you know.

I'm trying to figure out how you have .5 of a child. Or why the fence is important. A house makes sense. The dog is odd, but I understand the dog better after being here.

[screenplays]

The .5 is a result of aiming for a statistical average. The fence is symbolic - security and conformity.

[lyingheart]

That makes sense. A normal person's ideal. To have a place they belong, to be safe and secure, to have those they love, to have a future. To conform. To be happy, in whatever world it is they face.

Is that what you want?

[screenplays]

I want to be left alone.

[ There's a long pause before he sends the next text, because Thundercracker isn't open with people. But Annie knows about every Cybertronian there is on this Earth, and he figures she knows something about the world they come from. ]

I don't know. I want to be left alone on Earth, away from the war. Bumblebee says it's over but it's never going to be over. It's always going to be Autobots vs. Decepticons.

[lyingheart]

Memories are long... especially for your people, I can imagine. I don't know if it's that things end, but that at some point, when the war isn't happening, you have to learn how to live with and move on with all the things that've happened. Without falling back on the easy things... the familiar labels.

I can understand wanting to avoid it, especially here. I don't think it's impossible to end... but it takes time. It's not quick. Minds don't change like that without a pressing reason, something else to unify against.

[screenplays]

We don't change, not like humanity does. It's not something we do.

[ Which is hilarious, considering that part of their schtick is transforming. ]

[lyingheart]

What decided you to like Earth?

[ Yes, it is rather inherently hilarious. She doesn't point that out so much as start on a different sort of meandering.</small. ]

[screenplays]

You're different than us. You change and you grow from experiences that happen to you.

[lyingheart]

And in seeing that, what did you stop doing?

[screenplays]

Nothing. I wasn't doing anything when I realized it. Just watching TV.

[ Hiding in the rubble of the city he helped destroyed after being shot in the face by someone he's known since he'd come online after blowing up a nuke to save both humans and Autobots. ]

[lyingheart]

[ Thundercracker you are a king of understatement. ]

... Why were you watching TV right then?

shhh i can edit this as many times as i want

[screenplays]

Skywarp didn't like the fact thought our side should have been more honorable than we were. So he shot me point blank in the face and left me to die.

Watching TV was just something to pass the time.

i want more edits next time - nay, i demand them!!!

[lyingheart]

Ah. That's rude.

[ And terrible and horrible, but that's... she hopes that's self evident. ]

Even with something that terrible... I think that's more pointing toward it taking more for people four million years set in their ways to change, but it isn't impossible. Or you wouldn't have said you were no longer part of your side. If you couldn't change at all, you'd have remained loyal. Out of habit... if nothing else.

[screenplays]

[ She's right, in a way. He just doesn't want to expand on the fact he thought killing humans were beneath the Decepticons. That they weren't worth their time or energy to slaughter wholesale like they were. Thundercracker figures that probably wouldn't go down very well. ]

It's close enough to being impossible for it not to matter.

[ He's had doubts about what he was being asked to do since the beginning. Since before the beginning, when he and Skywarp and Starscream had been recruited together. But he's the only one who could have maybe-- if the Autobots where all like Bumblebee--

Well, they aren't. So it doesn't matter looking at the past. ]

[lyingheart]

[ Yyyyeah she may have heard other rhetoric about who is worth killing or beneath notice before, and it wouldn't sit well, but it would also be a recounting of an attitude... and she has already heard Cybertronians have destroyed other species over the course of their millions of years of infighting.

It's a scale truly beyond any her mind can adequately handle. She'd hate to live that long. ]

Pessimist. Denying that it can happen is denying reality. Change has never been about ease. Human lives are lived out in a matter of decades. A change that takes years feels like eons to us.

Though I'm curious... do Cybertronians have a natural expected lifespan?