Sollux doesn't know Megatron well enough to pick up on that distance - but even if he did, he's too distracted with the idea of the actual story to think of it much. Ever since first seeing Megatron, he's been generally impressed by the bots power and confidence, and having a story like that attached to it - one where the now leader of the Decepticons used to be someone like him, doomed to a meaningless life in a society built for other people...

It makes him more than a little emotional. It shows on his face, too - something like hope mixed with a sense of betrayal.

"Trolls tried to do that once," he says. "It didn't really go anywhere."

Seeing that it's possible elsewhere just makes that fact all the more depressing.