thanksoptimus: (FUCK.....)
Optimus Prime ([personal profile] thanksoptimus) wrote in [community profile] capitalh2014-04-21 11:54 am

gay robot problems

Who: Orion Pax and Starscream, and later Megatron.
Where: The space boat.
When: While Megatron is out talking to Baelhaet.
What: Orion is getting restless and Starscream is getting annoyed.
Warnings: Robots.

Normally, Orion would be extremely hesitant to wander the ship without explicit permission. After all, he's been the one locking himself in his room lately, more than anybody else. But with Megatron off on other business...he feels like this may be an opportunity to speak of his issues covertly.

With Megatron out, he suspects that Commander Starscream must still be in. He isn't in any of the obvious places, and so he finds himself approaching some of the more obscure storage locations.

He considers calling, but the idea is nebulously off putting. So, instead he just moves in closer, listening for sounds of other robotic life.
bigfuckinggun: onetruesikorsky@LJ (u wot m8)

[personal profile] bigfuckinggun 2014-04-24 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Although Orion Pax has always been restrained, he was less so than he would be as Optimus Prime; and although much time has passed, Megatron knows him well enough to see what reaction does make it to the surface for what it really means.

He has had a very, very long time to steel himself against being emotionally affected by anything Optimus says or does. But the disapproval of the Prime who was given what should have rightfully been his, who was his opposite number in all matters, was rather easier to scorn than this, the earnest sadness of someone who trusts him and believes in him and whom – once – he deeply cared for.

It infuriates him.

"Of course not," he says, in a tone rather more clipped than usual. "And of course it is only to be expected that this should... concern you. But as the situation stands... it must not." It's almost an order.
bigfuckinggun: onetruesikorsky@LJ (u wot m8)

[personal profile] bigfuckinggun 2014-04-24 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
For a fleeting moment Megatron feels compelled to suggest that perhaps contemplation could be spared for this subject once this is over – but of course when this is over Orion will have been used for the Forge and disposed of, his usefulness having come to an end; when this is over the power of the Matrix will be Megatron's, the Autobots eradicated, and he will be supreme ruler of all he surveys.

Even if Orion were to be spared his inevitable fate, he would never approve.

So Megatron just nods, curt – as if he, for once, is holding something back.

"If you will excuse me," he says, "I have other matters to attend to."