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Optimus Prime ([personal profile] thanksoptimus) wrote in [community profile] capitalh2014-05-22 05:30 pm

ORION OPEN LOG 2: NOW WITH DUDE

Who: Orion Pax and YOU
Where: Around the city.
When: Late March, basically whenever.
What: Having recent discovered that he has a holomatter avatar, Orion is now roaming the city like someone's confused dad.
Warnings: shrrruuuuggot. perhaps gay.

Exploring the city would have been a lot easier had Orion known how to do this earlier, but he supposes there is no point regretting wasted time now. Unlocking his holomatter avatar has given him a pleasant alternative to sitting in a parking lot and boredly zoning out into a haze of stress and confusion, and so he is happy to use this human shaped form to explore all the places he hasn't been able to previously.

While he technically does look like a middle aged man (who is not Charlie Swan), everywhere he goes he is followed by a constant air of curious bafflement, like a parent is when going to places they don't understand purely for the sake following their kid around. There is a lot of squinting and fondling going on in every one of these options.

A) Various book stores:

The most notable feature of this man's bookstore experience is that he appears to mostly be reading entire books whole while standing in front of shelves - very quickly, at that. The subject matter varies wildly, but he doesn't seem to be at risk of getting bored any time soon, nor do his legs ever appear to get tired.

Perhaps he has yet to catch on to the fact that reading whole books in bookstores is generally considered to be bad etiquette.

B) In which he goes AFK:

And here is that same man, standing in the middle of the street doing nothing. It isn't the busiest of streets, but he sure as fuck is just standing there while the world continues to go on around him, ostensibly while he stares into space and ignores the thread of oncoming vehicles.

This is actually happening because something distracting is happening wherever Orion's actual body is. Perhaps a sudden carjacking. Perhaps animals. It is a mystery.

C) In which Team Magma happens:

Team Magma can frequently be found doing something stupid, and in this case the stupid thing is trying to steal a bunch of lorries from a truck stop for unknown reasons. The rush the parking lot in a group of about twelve. Most of them are firebending.

Orion is just kind of standing around in the parking lot when this happens, not fully realizing what's going on until there are like a dozen costumed people throwing fire around aimlessly and yelling things about being TEAM MAGMA. Even after a moment of letting it sink in his expression is still more incredulous than anything.

He can not even believe this.
rememberyousoon: (frown//suspicious)

A

[personal profile] rememberyousoon 2014-05-23 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
At some point while Nilin was still in the early stages of rebuilding an identity (an awkward time, don't ask about it), she discovered that she had kind of an affinity for classic literature. It just so happens she's in today for a specific book, and when she finds the place where it is supposed to be there is a man there. Reading the only copy.

Nilin mills around for about a minute, pretending to look at other books, but finally she gets impatient and just asks him, "excuse me, are you going to buy that?"
chapterfiveversenine: (prepare to engage)

C

[personal profile] chapterfiveversenine 2014-05-23 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
CONDOR engineers were nice enough to build quick-release catches into Legion's clothes, ensuring that they don't need to incinerate their pants and jacket whenever they need to deploy quickly, and so Legion is able to move from the identity of unassuming man with lowered hood to superhero fairly quickly.

They begin by tripling the weight of a Magma goon in one of the driver seats, and walk up to Orion's avatar as he tumbles out of it. "You are advised to move to cover," they note calmly.

Then the consensus really looks at Not-Charlie-Swan. "Correction: you are a separate identity projecting an avatar. Species and identity?"
scribes: (And so on but now I think I was wrong)

A

[personal profile] scribes 2014-05-23 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a very big surprise to find Di in a bookstore. Now that she was getting out and doing more her earnest love for them was returning fully.

A look at the table she was commandeered would prove this. It was stacked with a number of books, most belonging to her and of recent Alternian history, and several from the store itself dedicated to Earth history. Several notebooks lay open with her careful and precise handwriting.

At the moment she was looking to put back a couple of the store's books back on the shelf Orion happened to be at.

"Pardon me, may I get by?" She offered him a smile, glad to see someone so engrossed.
rememberyousoon: (smile//finally at peace)

[personal profile] rememberyousoon 2014-05-23 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
"It's alright," she says. "It's just, that's the only one." She gestures to the shelf, where indeed there are no other copies. She does her absolute best not to look impatient and even manages a friendly smile, because it really is just a book and she can probably order one online. But this one's here and she doesn't want to miss out on it just because she's too shy to ask, which she most definitely is not.
chapterfiveversenine: (deploy)

[personal profile] chapterfiveversenine 2014-05-23 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"You are Orion Pax." Legion rockets over to the Magma cultist, hefts him by the collar, and throws him into another, switching to comms to communicate with the Autobot. "What is your status?"
scribes: (pic#7628091)

[personal profile] scribes 2014-05-23 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Di does a double take when she hears that voice coming out of the human in front of her. She just stares at him with a baffled expression, brow furrowing and mouth opening and closing. Surely she just misheard, but how would he know her name?

"He...llo?"
rememberyousoon: (faceless//stealing memories)

[personal profile] rememberyousoon 2014-05-23 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
She takes the book and thinks briefly about just walking away with it, but the look on his face gives her pause.

"You can have it if you want, I just wanted to know if you were going to take it or if you were just... reading it."
rememberyousoon: (smile//thankful)

[personal profile] rememberyousoon 2014-05-23 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Nilin is not entirely sure how to respond to that for a moment. "So you're more of a digital person then," she says awkwardly, at a loss for anything else.
rememberyousoon: (faceless//stealing memories)

[personal profile] rememberyousoon 2014-05-23 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
She smiles because how else are you supposed to deal with this much discomfort? Not by walking away, apparently. She's too curious now.

"I would say so. You've really never owned a physical copy of a book before...?"
chapterfiveversenine: (deploy)

[personal profile] chapterfiveversenine 2014-05-23 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes," Legion affirms, smashing into another pair of Magma grunts. "We have learned of your situation from Arcee and your Alternian ally. Your memory is compromised and your allegiance in the Cybertronian civil war is questionable."
scribes: (wrapped around our minds)

[personal profile] scribes 2014-05-23 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's just as bizarre for Di to be hearing that voice coming out of a regular looking human. It takes her a moment to shake off her surprised, but then she's intrigued.

"It's really you?" Her voice was lowered and she she looked him up and down, trying to find any signs that might give away that he wasn't what he seemed. When none appeared, she tentatively reached a hand out to him.
rememberyousoon: (frown//suspicious)

[personal profile] rememberyousoon 2014-05-23 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Nilin frowns at him, but still does not walk away. "Are you messing with me?"
scribes: (Another promise)

[personal profile] scribes 2014-05-23 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That smile warmed her heart to see, and was met with one of her own. Her hand curled around his, giving it a fond squeeze.

"That's pretty incredible." It was not the first time she had seen a Cybertronian's avatar, but even now it was hard to wrap her mind around, especially since she had known Orion first, as a truck.

She considered there joined hands for a moment, curious. "Can you feel that?"

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