#yeah no. nuh uh. not how that works. i dont TELL YOU because YOU act like im hurting you pay saying it

[deathsdaisy]

Vent about mother.

Me *looking for things to sew, a hobby I adore but don't always have time for*

Mom *barges into my house (not room, house) and asked if I want to go do something I have routinely said no to and have stated that it causes me pain*

Me: no

Mom: why do you always say no to me, you're so mean to me

Me *fed up of this*: because you always ask to walk, which hurts, then you say only a small walk, then push and push and push the fucking goal post, making me feel like shit, and then I'm in pain all day after

Mom: fine sheesh you don't have to [the rest is mumbles as she storms out]

Me *lost all motivation to do the things I wanted to and no longer want food*

[shingia]

can i req suna,, akaashi and iwa (and anyone else u want!!) getting jelly abt the s/o hanging out with another guy and being touchy (like the playful smacking or smth) without knowing the guy was their brother? angst to fluff bc i want the ✨ pain ✨ if u dont wanna its fine too,,

thanks bby,, love ur works so much! stay safe and healthy 😫💗

✗ HQ BOYS GETTING JEALOUS OF A GUY WITHOUT KNOWING HE’S YOUR BROTHER ✗

me receiving a request : 🥰 the request including suna :🤩 tysmm bby stay safe and healthy tooo <3

-> suna, iwaizumi, akaashi

-> angst to fluff

-> reblogs help a lot <33

— SUNA

• he hadn’t asked many questions when you told him you couldn’t come over to his house in the afternoon. but now, as he was replaying your snapchat story for the sixth time, he really wished he did

• maybe if he had insisted on coming with you, you wouldn’t have let this guy - that he had never seen, for the record - act so touchy with you

• was it his fault for not making you feel special enough ? to the point that you preferred the company of other men rather than your own boyfriend’s ?

• just the thought of this was enough to make a few of his usually well-hidden insecurities bubble up - most of them due to what his friends always joked about « suna doesn’t care enough to be in a relationship, they’ll all run away after a week ! »

• so yes, suna was hurt, but you didn’t have to see that. your opinion on him was the only one he cared about, he didn’t want to tarnish it. well... your opinion and his little sister’s, who burst into his room as he was about to watch your story for the seventh time to tell him that « someone’s at the door ! »

• not feeling like getting out of bed, it took him a few minutes to drag his feet to the door before finally opening it. and of all the people he could have expected to see, you were the last of them

• « surprise ? » you smiled as you let yourself in, not noticing the surprised look on his face as you greeted him with a tight hug. « i felt bad for cancelling our afternoon together, so i asked my brother to drop me off »

• you weren’t even done talking that suna had already recognized the man in the car that was leaving his driveway. his embrace immediately softened, and a smile crept on his face as he felt all his doubts vanish in a second

• « nuh-uh, don’t take your jacket off beautiful, i’m taking you out », he told you, determined to spoil you in the way he regretted not doing sooner

• at his words, his sister almost magically appeared next to you, coat in hand and ready to go. « you weren’t planning on leaving without me, right ? » she flashed you a toothless grin, grabbing both your hand and his to drag you two outside

• suna shared a deadpanned look with you, « of course not... » you both said in unison as she was already leading the way to her favorite ice cream shop

— IWAIZUMI

• iwa’s trust in you was infinite. but something about the way this guy had his arm playfully wrapped around your shoulders didn’t sit right with him

• his practice had ran late and he was exhausted. but he had promised you he would pop over to the birthday party of your childhood best friend, knowing how much it mattered to you

• but your behavior looked an awful lot like an attempt at making him jealous... and it was working

• was it your way of letting him know that you two weren’t working anymore ? were you just too much of a coward to be clear about it ? he hated to think about you that way. and most of all, he cared about you too much to not step in

• « ok now you got my attention » he told you after pulling you to the side. « if you want to tell me something, go ahead, i’m listening »

• still trapped in the euphoria of the moment, you didn’t really understand how upset he was. but maybe it was for the best, because it allowed you to defuse the tension lightheartedly : « i can’t believe i forgot to introduce you ! » you let out as you dragged him back to where your brother was still standing

• his jaw still clenched, iwa couldn’t even bring himself to shake this stranger’s hand, as friendly as he looked. at least not until you spoke your next words : « he was actually telling me how excited he was to finally met his future brother-in-law ! »

• iwa’s lips slightly parted in confusion, you could almost hear the cogs turning in his head over the music. brother? well that explained a lot of things

• « h-hi, sorry i was... miles away » he apologized before finally shaking the hand your brother was holding out to him

• but once the surprise had passed, another word stuck with him : brother-in-law ? as in « my sibling speaks so highly of you that i’m willing to let you put a ring on their finger even though i have never met you yet » ?

• well, it was good to know that your brother agreed with the plans he’d had for you since day 1...

— AKAASHI

• it was not unusual for akaashi to think that maybe he was not good enough for you. but being actually jealous was a first for him

• he had promised himself to never be too overprotective of you. but the facts were here : it was 3am and the only thing keeping him up was this unknown feeling of pure jealousy

• if he had not been in such a hurry when he witnessed your lighthearted banter and playful fighting with this man in the afternoon, he would’ve come up to you. introduced himself. maybe asked a few questions. if

• suspecting that this unpleasant feeling would not go away unless he talked to you about it, akaashi found himself dialling your number in the middle of the night

• used to his thoughts polluting his mind at unpredictable hours of the day and the night, your ringer was always on. which is why you picked up after only two rings

• « hi angel, i’m sorry to wake you up, i just... » he started, the clarity of his tone letting you know that he had not slept a wink. feeling his hesitation, you were quick to reassure him « it’s ok keiji. what’s going on ? »

• « who were you with ? i mean- this afternoon ? i don’t think i’ve ever met that guy and i was just wondering if... maybe i should ? »

• sitting up straight on your bed, you felt a weight being lifted off your shoulders. if this was the only thing keeping him awake, he should be able to fall asleep in the following minutes. « i was with my brother. but i understand why you were confused, it’s a normal reaction so please don’t blame yourself for that, alright baby ? »

• the gasp you heard on the other end of the line made you chuckle. akaashi’s voice was much less tensed now : « well in that case, yeah i should probably meet him... if you’re ok with that »

• « i’m more than ok with that » you smiled, placing your phone down on your pillow « wanna stay on the phone for a bit ? »

• « that’d be nice », his voice sounded sleepy already, especially above the familiar sound of his covers being pulled up to his chin

— ATSUMU

• how could he put that in words ? he didn’t even know if he was allowed to be jealous because he knew how often you had to see him deal with his many fangirls

• and that was actually what bugged him the most : that he might have already made you feel as shitty as he was feeling now

• but atsumu wasn’t the type to sit down and seriously open up about his feelings. besides, it was much easier to look like a needy boyfriend rather than a vulnerable one

• so he resorted to what he was best at : physical touch as a way to get your attention

• sneaking up behind you, he didn’t give you any warning before wrapping both his arms around your waist and pressing his chest on your back so much that you almost had to bend over

• he really hoped you would be perceptive enough to understand that he wasn’t just being clingy, but in need of a lot of reassurance. and luckily, it was quick to come :

• « tsumu, let me introduce you my brother » you chuckled, understanding how and why he had been mistaken

• one hand still on your waist, he used the other to greet your brother. atsumu did not really seem fazed by the news. of course he was relieved to know that he had nothing to worry about, but this little experience had still been very eye-opening to him

• after your brother had left to give you two some privacy, tsumu’s grip on your waist tightened, but in a softer way

• « ‘m sorry if i ever made ya cry » he let out, completely out of the blue. you didn’t really understand the meaning of this, but it didn’t matter. your hand found its way to his cheek that you brushed lightly with one finger, admiring the how it was slowly turning red. « being jealous sucks... » he added.

• « it does », you approved, giving him a quick peck on the nose. « but there’s nothing and no one that you should worry about, i promise »

• a fond smile lit up his face. you looked sincere, and he really needed to hear that right now. quick as ever, his hands left your waist to come and rest on your cheeks. both holding each other’s faces, you stared at the other for a few seconds, wondering which one of you would give in to a kiss first

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[ladydevoir]

Weiss coming out as trans to her team?

The halls of Beacon were quiet as Weiss walked through, though she was glad for the peace as her mind was swimming in thought. She was silently dreading returning to her dorms, knowing what was waiting for her. But, she had decided tonight was the night, and she would not cower away from what she had decided to do. Best to get it over with rather than continuing to let her dread grow. Soon a voice broke her train of thought. “Hey Weiss~!” She looked back as the owner of the voice caught up to her, a plastic bag in hand. “Hello Nora, It’s good to see you. I see your trip to Vale was productive.” Nora beamed back at her with her usual energy. “Good to see you too~ And heck yeah it was~ Me and Ren found that cute coffee shop you told us about, Jaune actually managed to not throw up on the ride there, though he was wasnt as lucky on the way back, and me and Pyrrha went shopping for our dresses for the dance~ Oh, and here’s the stuff you wanted~” Nora held up the back for Weiss who took it and looked through it, a set of razors and shaving cream along with some skin care for after. “Thank you very much Nora. Im afraid I was starting to run low, and our team won’t be free to travel to Vale for a few days. Please, what do I owe you?” As she began to sift through her bag for her purse, Nora held up her hand. “Nuh uh uh, you dont owe me anything. Girls like us gotta stick together after all, and you’d do the same for me~” Nora’s usual high energy voice had softened as she spoke, to which Weiss was grateful. Since coming to Beacon she had been nervous about the truth coming out about her, thankfully Nora had seen through her immediately and been a true pillar of support. Weiss had been surprised and rather relieved when Nora had revealed she was just like her, and in moments like this it was wonderful to have someone to talk to and help her without any worry about questions she was not particularly wanting to answer. As if sensing some unease, Nora gently squeezed her shoulder and nodded her head towards a small bench in the hall. As the two sat down, Nora spoke up. “Hey, you doing ok? You seem off.” Weiss sighed and nodded. “I am just...nervous. I promised myself that tonight would be the night I tell the rest of my team, the truth about me.” Nora watched Weiss’s expression, seeing the build up of worry on her face. “You know the others aren’t going to suddenly turn on you just because of this, right? I cant imagine this would be a big deal for Ruby or Yang, and I doubt Blake would mind really.” Weiss let out another sigh and leaned her head back against the wall, closing her eyes before responding. “I am fully aware that no one on my team will be upset or treat me any different.” “So...whats the problem then?” Weiss looked down, her eyes darting left and right to make sure there was no one else listening, before she spoke. “When Blake accidentally revealed that she was a Faunus, I….did not handle the news with grace. I accused her of having lied to us, keeping the truth hidden from us. And while I did apologise for it afterwards, I still cannot take back what I said. And that is why I am worried. I was so quick to accuse her of lying and hiding the truth and yet here I am, having done the very same thing since starting Beacon.” Her hands gripped one another as she looked down, shaking slightly. “My standing with Blake and the others is not exactly on stable terms, and I am afraid that revealing myself after all I said to Blake might cause more strife between us.” Nora listened quietly as she gave Weiss’s back a gentle rub. Thinking carefully before responding. “If you’re this worried, then why now? Why not wait?” Weiss took a deep breath and looked straight ahead, as if steeling herself for it. “Because I owe it to my team to be honest with them, especially after how I overreacted to Blake. I cannot allow myself to hide the truth any longer, even if…” She looked down at her hands, starting to tremble. Instantly Nora knelt down in front of her and gently cupped her face, speaking softly. “Hey hey, dont go working yourself

up over ifs and maybes. Sure, you said some things, but you said sorry, and they forgave you. Im sure they wont be bothered by this. And if things go south, hey you can always just join our team~! Though we’d need to work out how to include W to JNPR~” Weiss let out a sniffle and smiled, raising her head from Nora’s hands and slowly standing, Nora instantly hugging the girl, to which Weiss reciprocated. “Nora, thank you so much. You have been a wonderful friend to me and I cannot repay you enough.” Nora pulled back from the hug with a wide smile, her usual energy returning. “Hey come-on, thats what friends do, we look out for one another~” Weiss picked up the bag from the ground and nodded back, the two girls walking back to the dorms, idle chatter filling the time before they arrived, Nora giving a big thumbs up before entering her room, leaving Weiss with her hand on the handle, taking a deep breath before entering the room, barely having time to duck as a pillow came flying towards her, narrowly missing as she looked upon the scene. Ruby holding a pillow and swinging hazardly at Yang, who weaved out of the way and returned with her own swing, before the two registered Weiss and stopped. “Hey Weiss! You wanna join in~? Blake might join if its two on two~” Ruby chirped excitedly, her energy seemingly limitless. “Yeah come-on princess, I’ll be more than happy to whoop your butt as well as my little sis’s~” Yang said with a smirk on her face, before dodging a well timed throw from Ruby. Weiss sighed and picked up the pillow that had nearly hit her and closed the door, shaking her head. “Honestly it is a wonder how the two of you are considering becoming huntresses when you act like little children.” “Ah cmon Weiss-y, you gotta have a little fun now and then, whats the point of life if you stay ridged all the time~?” Weiss shook her head and made her way to her bed, placing the pillow onto it and sitting, restless as her worry was building up again. “Weiss? Are you..ok?” Weiss looked up startled at the last member of the team over on her bed, slowly closing her book and focusing her attention on her. “You seem….kinda tense.” Weiss took a breath to help calm her nerves as her other two teammates looked over, all showing a similar sign of concern. “Actually Blake, I need to talk to you. All of you, if that is ok?” Yang flopped down onto Blake’s bed and looked over at her, while Ruby sat down beside her, all eyes on her. “Whats wrong Weiss? Blake’s right, you’re looking real tense.” Weiss’s eyes focused on her hands as she fidgeted, trying to come up with the right words. She silently cursed herself, this should not be this hard. A hand coming to rest on her knee drew her from her thoughts as she looked over at her partner, a soft-yet warm smile on her face. “It’s ok Weiss, whatever’s wrong, you know we’re here for you, right?” Weiss felt herself relax slightly, thankful for her partner’s kind words. “Okay, I do not know how to properly say this, so please, be patient with me.” With a reaffirming nod from Ruby and an audible “Mhm” from Yang, she continued. “The truth is...I have not been entirely honest with the rest of you. And for that, I am sorry to all of you, but mostly, I am sorry to Blake.” Blake looked over, confused. “Weiss, what are you-” Weiss raised her hand to stop Blake, taking a breath. “I was not at all kind to you when you revealed the truth about yourself, despite the fact that in doing so, I was being extremely hypocritical myself. Ive been hiding a truth myself, and after all that has been said and done, I feel I owe it to all of you to be honest.” Weiss took a quick glance at her team, Yang’s expression was clear confusion, Ruby was still giving her the same calming smile, while Blake had become more focused on her. She took a deep breath and continued. “The truth is, I….was not born a girl.” Weiss waited for a response from the others, but when none came, she looked up at her three teammates. Yang looked somewhat shocked, Blake still had her focused look on her, though it was clear she hadnt

expected that. Ruby however, didnt seem shocked or surprised in the slightest. “So, like Nora?” Weiss nodded, and to her surprise found herself being wrapped in her partner’s embrace. “Aww Weiss, you dont have to be nervous, its not like we’d think of you any diferent, ya know?” Yang looked over, shaking off her shocked look and sitting forward. “Yeah, Rubes is right, you’re still our icy princess after all, right Blake?” Blake looked over at Weiss, her expression no longer one of shock, but of understanding. “You were worried I’d be mad at you, werent you?” Ruby and Yang looked to one another as Weiss nodded slightly. “I acted like you lying to us about yourself was such a big deal when I have been lying this entire time.” Weiss continued to hang her head. “Its ok Weiss, really. You already apologised more than enough times for me to know you mean it. And I get it, really. Growing up where you did, I know that kind of thinking isnt easy to get rid of.” Blake shifted herself and stood up. “But, you’re wrong about something.” Weiss looked up hesitantly as Blake stepped over to her, kneeling down in front of her. “You haven’t lied to any of us.” Weiss looked taken aback, not sure what to make of that. It was far from what she had expected Blake to say. “I...I am not sure I follow.” Blake smiled at her softly, resting her hands gently over Weiss’s. “You havent lied to us, because you arent pretending to be something you arent. You’re a girl Weiss, even if you weren’t born one. You haven’t hidden anything from us. From day one, you have been honest to us.” Yang soon walked over, sitting on the other side of Weiss. “Blake’s right, ya know? You’ve always been honest with us about who you are, and you didnt have to feel like you owed us to tell us.” She felt her eyes begin to well up, she knew they would accept her but she had fully expected Blake to be mad at her. To find not only was she not mad, but giving Weiss words of kindness and understanding as she had, it felt overwhelming. Said team was quick to embrace her as she felt a few tears flow, a small smile on her face. “T-thank you, all of you. I-I suppose I should not have been worrying so much over this.” Ruby gave her a gentle squeeze. “Well, worrying about things too much is something you’re best at.” “Hey!” They all laughed as they remained in their embrace, Weiss giving a gentle chuckle. Of course Nora has been right, she shouldn’t have been worried about hypothetical ifs and maybes, especially not with her team. A team that, day by day, Weiss would consider more and more her real family. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whooo boy, this, this was a tough one. Im proud of how her talk with Nora went at the beginning, I felt like I wrote that well, and yeah I HC Nora as trans. But writing her coming out to her team, I kept erasing and redoing parts because I really did not know how to do it right. This is one I feel like I should come back to when ive gotten some more experience writing.

[h0neyjaehyun]

☁︎ 𝐀 𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭 ☁︎

Summary // Johnny finds out what type of person Tali is when intoxicated

Characters // Talia Flores + Johnny Suh (ft.Bang Chan mention: Changbin, Karma, Hyunjin, Allen.)

Era / Year // June 2019

Word Count //

Note // All in English, also the dreamies havent had the time to drink all together yet. Also this is not that good, I didn't really have an idea to write for Johnny😅

"Talia."

"Yes?"

Tali turned to see Johnny's arms crossed looking at her with a stern look.

"Whats wrong?" She asked wondering why is he giving her that look.

"May I asked why did you have 2 bottles of soju on your desk and may I included empty." He said finally taking out his arms from a cross to reveal a empty bottle of grape flavored soju swinging it back and fourth.

"I was drinking with Karma for a bit and Chan came to pick her up." Tali simply stated brushing it off, but knowing damn well Karma drinks champagne and not soju.

"Really? Last time I drank with Karma she liked champagne....and champagne only." He said walking up to her setting the two bottles down infront of her.

"Now are you lying to me?" He questioned her with a raised eyebrow.

"No, she brung for herself the champagne." She waved off trying to go back to work turning her chair, but Johnny turned it right back.

"So you are tell me you drank 2 bottles of soju and didnt get drunk?" He questioned her looking her up and down, trying to see any signs of a hangover.

"Yeah I didn't get drunk I have a high alcohol tolerance, and either way I know my limit." She said booping his nose and about to go back to work.

But he turned her chair again.

"So what you're saying is..." he looked at her with a serious face.

"You got drunk before?"

Tali stopped for a second, took a deep breath while closing her eyes then opened them back again. Still wondering why she is having this conversation.

"Yeah....why?" She questioned now wondering why is it a big deal.

"...how do you get when you get drunk, because Haechan is little crazy, Mark acts cute...what about you?" He questioned her again looking her up and down. People can be completely different when they are drunk, they can be agressive, emotional, sleepy.

"Oh, no, no no no no. I'm not saying no way." She said flat out denying him.

"Whyyy." He said now shaking her arm.

"Because when I'm drunk, Im like a completely different person, and I am drunk with only certain people." She said shaking her head not wanting to give in.

"Who were you drunk with Huh??" He said no way letting this go. She sighed. The two people she certainly wasn't gonna say was Karma and maybe Miguel but she had blackmail on him so he wont. Karma on the other hand won't care.

"Some friendss okay thats it, thats all you are gonna-" she was cut off by ringing it was Chan.

"Hello?" "Tali...did you steal my soju?"

"....no"

"YOU LIAR YOU DID."

"NO I DIDN'T STEAL I DRANK IT BUT DIDNT STEAL." She clarified

"SAME THING." "NUH UH."

"TALI YOU KNOW HOW YOU GET DRUNK-"

"I KNOW I ONLY DRANK TWO."

"THEN WHERE ARE THE OTHERS."

"BRO I DONT KNOW ASK DAWN NOT ME."

"Fine, but don't drink so much, especially a-"

"Shhhhhh yeah yeah I hav-"

"CHAN" Johnny yelled cutting off Tali stealing her phone and running away. Tali looked puzzled, still looking at her hand where her phone once was.

She processed for moment either to run after the tall man or give up.....

She gave up

"Uh Yes?" "How is Tali when drunk because she won't tell me."

"Uh, very...very flirty." He giggled nervously.

"Wait really?"

"Yeah, she gets really really confident and flirts with her friends, a lot thats why I told her to be careful since she was drinking in the dream dorm probably." He chuckled, remembering the time when they were younger and she was drunk because she felt really sad, and she was flirting a lot with Allen and almost got slept with him

Panic times for him since he was sober and didn't want her to do anything she regrets...

"Oh so, flirty drunk?" Johnny asked trying to imagine a flirty Tali.

"Yeah, really flirty, so she had a limit to a member probably like Jisung and Chenle or the older members like Doyoung hyung to Taeil hyung." Chan clarified slowly remembering the time she flirted with him when he was almost sober.

"So no dreamies?"

"I wouldn't say no, she is somewhat conscious so she would probably compliment them, she only flirts a lot with people she knows....it won't be weird afterwards....yeah she would probably have a limit with the dreamies honestly." Chan said thinking back to the time she drank with Changbin and Hyunjin, and she only complimented and didn't flirt much to his surprise.

"Ah thank you this is the information I needed." Johnny smiled and ended the call he jogged back to Tali who was back to writing lyrics.

"So.."

"Oh no."

"You are a flirty drunk huh?"

"Yup, but luckily I have a limit for each person I drink with" She signed to herself in relief.

"So does that mean....you can drink with me." He said in high hopes. He always wanted to drink with Tali he thinks she would have a lot to say.

"Yeah...you wanna?"

"Do I want to? OF COURSE, TONIGHT IT IS." He said happily. Tali shook her head and went back to work while Johnny left jumping happily.

"Tonight....is gonna be a long night."

[dbzebra]

☕️ OH YKNOW WHAT AT THAT NOTE? Talk about that dbs broly movie cuz yknow. That’s a hot topic of the ages that folk feel particularly really strongly about

ooooh ive been waiting for this one. We watched this together on discord so you know my general feelings but Im happy i got this ask lol.

putting this under read more cause it gets long 

The new movie that everyone seems to love and adore.... that I dont. It was a pretty middle of the ground, meh overrated af movie. Not bad, just nothing special. I enjoyed watching it sure, but not something I have an inkling to return to anytime soon if ever. It was just ‘there’ for me. 

First, I’ll say the good stuff. The visuals looked really pretty. Nobody was THAT out of character of the existing cast (save for the ending), which i feel weird to have to even mention it as a positive, but nothing really stood out to me as a defining moment for the little cast we had besides Goku’s “youre not a bad guy, i can tell” or w/e. SUPER SAIYAN 1 IS STILL GOAT. It looked soooo good in this movie i wish we couldve kept it the whole time instead of Blue. But i will say, Blue looked much better in this movie than the series. The darker-blue with the lighter blue eyes was a nice change from instead of the ugly bluish-green the series did. Also the aura looked better. Backgrounds like the ice area and even Planet Vegeta were amazing. Action was great too. little Bulla was cute. The OST i liked (the chanting really grew on me) and Blizzard is a banger i love that song. Oh and the aritisic license they took for the fusion scene with the reds and blues spiraling together was great

Anyway thats all the positives I have lmaoo

This film includes Minus and I already went in depth on why I hate Minus with a passion and why it’s the worst thing to come out of modern Dragon so yeah moving on. But the fact that they devoted screentime to Gokus backstory which ultimately served no purpose to the story of the film and couldve been used more valuably elsewhere. 

I said the action was good, and it was, but it almost too good. At times it was so fast to tell that was going on and really lessened the impact for me. Like when they went into the other dimension or whatever, Gogeta went blue and Broly went LSSJ (idc if the name is different name, itll always be legendary SSJ to me lmao) so ast it was a blink and you miss it moment. like what? those moments shouldve been given even a little bit of focus. 

Next the cast. Goku and Vegeta. AGAIN. snorefest. no Gohan, Piccolo is just there to show them the fusion, Goten and Trunks are still kids and look like babies (and Pilaf gang is with them which is another can of worms), no Android 17, who the series established as one of the top 4 fighters on Earth. 

Do we get any of that? Nope. Just the two Blue and Bluer fucking again and again I. dont. care. anymore. Their dynamic is so boring and played out id rather watch paint dry. It was fun in Buu Saga, hell it was even fun in GT, but DBS constantly forcing this dynamic and Vegeta as the second Main Character needs to fucking STOOOP. Toei and Toriyama has no idea how to further Vegeta’s character because theyre stuck in this infinite loop. 

Vegeta doesnt want to help Goku, he mentions Bulma and/or Trunks, Vegeta blushes, and then he decides to help. THAT HAPPENED LIKE SIX TIMES IN DBS ALONE. It happened in Buu saga as well, but it organically worked cause it was the first time but Bulma and Trunks were ALREADY DEAD/ABSORBED. The look on his face wasnt blushy or pouting for a gag, dude was legit shocked. I rag on Vegeta but he had some legit great moments in the early arcs and later parts of Buu Saga. Anyway im off track. They repeat that same exact character moment OVER AND OVER. cant tell you how many times we had “my Bulma, my bulla, my Trunks, my cabba” in the Tournament of Power alone, and this movie is no different.

DO SOMETHING ELSE FFS

Then we have Broly. ohhhhhh boooy Broly. if you can even call this version of him Broly. His backstory is kinda the same as original movie 8/Broly LSSJ, but its more tragic becuase according to most fans, if youre background is a sobstory, that equals better character. NO. sure it could, but that trope was so worn out so long ago I hate it. “waaa his life was bad, hes not a bad guy” bruh i dont care thats not Broly. just make an OC if you wanna do that. but nope. gotta use the marketing! (More on that later)

People like to criticize Z Broly as “he hates Goku cause he cried” or “all he says is Kakarot” which both are false. On the first point, Broly is a psychopath. He was stabbed as an infant and left to die along with Paragus cause he was too powerful. Then that same day Planet Vegeta explodes practically on top of them. The rest of his life hes basically either being controlled or on a rampage. So that one moment of peace is “ruined” by Goku in a sense cause he subconsciously associates that with Goku. On the second point, Broly was already mentally unstable and then nearly dying, getting caught in the explosion of a SECOND PLANET and then being frozen for seven years will fuck anyone up in the head. Z Broly in the original movie was sadistic af and he had a lot of memorable moments and lines that werent just screaming Kakarot, that Second Coming made him infamous for. 

New Broly is legit a man-baby. People talk about old Broly having no personality and this new version having a deep character, but I dont see it. He acts like a child when hes with Cheelai and Lemo and then once the fighting starts he doesnt say a single word but yell. SOUND FAMILIAR?? But he gets a pass because the canon police says so right??? fuck off. New Broly is boring. Im tired of trying to make the Saiyans into ThEyRe noT aLl BaD sEe The SaIyAns ArE AcTuAlLy GoOd!!!11111 ugh i hate it. keep Broly a psycho and keep Bardock a prick. even that guy that went with Buzz Lightyear I mean Paragus was a sweet guy who couldnt fight because of course he was. At least they kept Paragus being a prick when he killed him. Tho his death was lame. 

Cheelai’s overrated af. Shes just green bulma lmao. and the fact that they included the “big soft-spoken man gets mad and saves girl from drunk lowkey-rapey pervert” trope just had me roll my eyes like dude stop. Lemo was fine? Nothing against him but didnt do much for me either.

FUCK. FREEZA. i went over this one before too so ill be quick with this as well. I hate hate hate the fact that they brought him back not once but twice in DBS, but even worse that they left him alive to do whatever tf he wants including going back to mass murdering people and expanding his army again. Goku and Vegeta just LET HIM LIVE. Why tf did they go all out and attack Broly, but not Freeza? when one of them was fighting Broly th other easily could have taken out freeza but nope we need a token villain like Joker or Skeletor cause unoriginality. Even at the end, Gogeta does a full power blast to wipe Broly tf out, but when Freeza tries to kill Cheelai and Lemo (two innocent people, feelings on them aside) Gogeta basically just shakes his finger like nuh-uh! dont do that! and then he flies off. Just let this mfer die already im sick of seeing his ass. FUCK I HATE IT SO MUCH GFGFFGFGFGF

Lastly this movie is legitimately Dragon Ball Fanservice The Movie. 

Gogeta vs Broly, which the games have been doing since fucking 2003, is the main point of this film. Theres no originality whatsoever. Minus is discount Father of Goku special, and then its a mashup of Broly LSSJ and Fusion Reborn (both of which are superior movies imo). This creatively banrkupt shell of a franchise cant think of anything new, so they legit remake an old movie, through in fusions because that sells like hotcakes, and make the animation pretty because thats all that matters.

Imo, this movie, like 99% of Super, is all flash and flair but no substance at all. At least this movie looked nice. unlike the show. 

ok thats all i got lmao

[bmared]

Forgiveness.

To some, it's the literal definition.

To me, it meant letting someone have their way with whatever they want.

After a long, difficult battle, the shark themed villain, dubbed "Placoi" by the media, seemed to disappear into thin air.

"Damn it, she always seems to get away, doesnt she?" My young ward, Overcharge, asked.

I only nodded in agreement, but the smile on my face showed nothing but absolute joy. I could barely contain my excitement, and it took all my effort not to squeal with joy, like my mild mannered alter ego would. After months of battling, and racking up millions of dollars in damages, we were so close to stopping her.

Back in our lair, on a remote island, I'm taking off my super suit, when my phone gets a call.

"Miss Mabry," it's my assistant. "You have an appointment in twenty. Get here on time or I'm removing your coffee priviledges."

"Okay, Piper, I-" I was cut off.

"You have a caller ma'am. Someone named 'Alyssa Dukes'? D'you want me to patch her through?" Piper asked.

I rubbed my temples. Fifth time today I've had a random caller. It better not be a marketer.

The call goes through and I hear on the opposite end,"Hello? Is this Miss Mabry?" The voice is very familiar.

"Yes this is, how can I help you?" I answer with confusion.

The caller, Alyssa, replies,"We need to talk about your work ethic. You, almost catching me, again? Hahaha."

A chill goes down my spine. "How, in the hell, did you find out?"

"Tracker." She replies. "You use a tracker on all your shit to keep track of it. Last week, a prototype coffee machine went missing from one of your stores. Unfortunately, the chip wore out after an hour. Fortunately, I was able to mimic the signal with my own piece of crap hardware, and what do i find? Miss Alyx Mabry is "Shark Match"? I mean, c'mon. Give me a little credit."

"What happens now?" I ask.

"Now, nothing. But a week from now, you'll know. And, dont worry. I wont share your secret as long as your secretary deletes this audio as soon as you've finished tracking my signal. Come alone. I'll be there by myself."

The call ends, and I have a location.

"Ma'am?" Piper asks.

"I guess I'm losing coffee priviledge, huh?"

"Same cover?" She prompts.

"No, tell them I just didn't want to come."

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I get to the site the call led me to, and I find it's an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. One of mine.

I get inside, and theres a table set up for what looks like dinner. A woman sits at the table with her back to me. I pull out my capture gun and launch a volley at her. It wraps around, and I hear the click telling me its locked in place.

"Oh, tsk tsk tsk. I told you unarmed." I hear from her. "But I guess, seeing as how this isnt technically a 'firearm', it doesnt count."

I approach her, slowly.

"Dont be afraid, sweetheart. If I wanted to hurt you, I would've went after that brat of yours, 'Overcharge'. By the way, what kind of douche calls 'imself 'overcharge'?"

I round the table and sit in the open chair.

"So, why did you call?" I ask, eyeing the spaghetti.

"I didn't poison it, if that's what your wondering." She answers. "And, I called you here because I have a proposition for ya'."

"Not interested" I answer quickly.

"Oh, c'mon. You dont even know what it is."

"Dont need to." I take a bite. I dont care if its poisoned, it tastes delicious. Weird after taste, though.

"Actually, you might wanna. The sleeping pill is gonna take effect soon, what with your heightened metabolism and all."

"Damnit" I bang my head on the table.

"I'm kidding" she says.

She flexes, and the ropes break, and I flinch.

I look up at her, and shes standing next to the table, in a black suit that hugs her curves.

"All I'm asking for is your forgiveness, and I'll stop all my crimes." She says, seriously.

"You arent serious, are you? The public would never allow that! You'd be lucky with life in prison." I yell.

"But what the public doesn't know, wont hurt them." She prompts.

"Huh?"

"Hear me out," she asks," we continue this whole 'pissing contest' in public, I terrorize the citizens, bring what seems like calamity, and you 'stop me'." She says, using air quotes. "During our fights, I'll cause little to no structural damages, I'll keep my zero body count-yes, I've kept track- and I'll put up practically no fight. How does that sound?"

"Like you actually did drug me."I reply with a straight face.

"Whether or not you believe me, or even accept this, it's still gonna happen." She sits back down and takes a bite of bread.

"What even prompted this?" I ask.

"I fell in love, and realized who I love will never accept me the way I am right now." She says.

"Wha?"

"Look, the answers not important. Just know I'll be cutting back on crime time."

"Why couldnt you have just said that?"

"Would you have believed me?"

I take a second.

"Yeah, you're probably right."

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Months later, and she was true to her word. I'd only fought her 12 times, about a third of her original time, and not so much as a scratch was put on the buildings.

During those months, I actually spent time with her, learning her past, trying to understand her. After hearing her story, it was no wonder she did what she did. With parents who acted like that, I woulda snapped. Slowly, ever so slowly, I realized we had a blossoming friendship. I saw a lot -probably too much- of myself in her. We got into a rhythm of after fighting, to sit down and talk.

After the twelfth fight, I finally had the courage to ask, "So, who was this mysterious man you fell in love with?"

She looked at me with a pained look.

"Nevermind that," she waved away the question. "Tell me, is there anyone in your life whose caught your eye?"

"Nuh-uh. You cant turn this on me. I asked you first." I stared her down.

"Fine." She said, breaking eye contact and staring at her lap, where she cradled a cup of tea. "First, before I tell you, you ahve to answer this question."

"It better not be a relationship question."

"Its not." She says. She looks around, closes her eyes, and stares at me, saying, "Do you think anybody can be redeemed? Do you think anyone can get forgiveness for any deed done, barring murder?" She bites her lip in worry.

I shake my head and giggle a little. "You've already asked this, and I said yes."

"I know, I just need to get enough courage to confess to you." She says.

"Wha-?"

She interrupts."I fell in love with you, but because I'm a villain, and you're a hero, I thought I could never tell you that. But, after all this time, I've grown as a person. I've still got some way to go, though."

"I-im flattered that you think that way, but-"

"You're straight, arent you, of course you are, why wouldnt you be. You're literally the perfect woman, and her I am, being a negative influence on everyone. I should've never invited you over, I'm sorry." She runs away, before I could stop her.

I get up and call after her, yelling "Alyssa!" But she either cant hear me, or doesn't want to. I dont panic, though. I cant. My phone starts to ring, and Its my assistant.

"Damnit Piper" I answer. "Now's probably the worst time. What do you want?"

"Its almost time for your speech. And, my names Jannet." She says blankly. Speech? I think to myself.

"Sorry, Jannet. I'm still trying to get used to Piper not being here." Is what I actually say.

"You're the one who promoted her."

I hang up and look towards the door Alyssa ran out. I take a step towards it, when my phone rings with a reminder. I glance at it, it says 'Mayoral inaugural speech'.

I put my phone down, and race towards the other door. I open it, and inside is my suit.

"Well, Shark Match," I say to myself," Time to Come out of the closet so your crush doesn't destroy New Yallk City. Man, sounds like a bad autobiography. Or a fanfiction title.

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The Mayor is exactly like you'd imagine him. Slimy and not particularly firm in any ideology that doesn't secure his vote. As a citizen asked to prepare a speech to secure to African American vote, I lost all faith in this man. But today I lost the additional bit of faith I didn't even realize I had. I don't like to keep up with politics, as someone in my line of work shouldn't, so it was a surprise to me when, in the middle of my speech, someone from the paper yelled "Why are you against gay marriage? Is it because of your parents."

"Who said that?" I yell. "I was trying to find some way to put it, but it didnt feel natural until now. It'd be pretty bad for my community if I went against it, now wouldn't it? I didnt even realize this man" I point to the mayor, "thought like that. What, do I need to wear the lesbian flag as a Cape now? Actually, that be awesome."

I shoot one more glare at the mayor, who's sweating by now. "Give him one term. If he doesnt clean up his act by then, I'll run for mayor myself. I'll even reveal myself at that point. Hows that sound?" The crowd cheers.

The dinner afterward was a littel awkward on his end, but only one thought kept going through my head. 'Did Alyssa see?'

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It was midnight when I heard my window squeak. I heard footsteps come close to my bed, a piece of paper get placed on my nightstand, and footsteps retreat.

I wait a minute, then get out of bed and turn on a light. The paper says "This friday, Same warehouse, 9pm. Wear something sexy, I need to apologize.

-Signed

Alyssa dukes"

I smile and set the note back down, pleasant thoughts accompanying me to dreamland..

[bard-dadsquared]

In other news, I do need validation. Long angry rant is about to happen.

The other day I called my Ex on fb so he could talk to our son. I made a comment later that day how he looked like he hadnt been sleeping and how he seemed like he may be depressed, and the person i was talking to was just like

"Poor guy :(("

To which I just shrugged and told them that I didnt feel bad for him, everything he's feeling, he brought on himself.

They said "I feel kinds bad for him because I know he loves you!"

And I'm just???

Maybe he did?? Maybe he does?? But that doesn't negate all the shit he did to drive me the fuck away. I loved him too once. But then everything I said, everything I felt, everything I tried to ask for fell on deaf ears.

I don't feel bad for him because when we moved to the duplex in Texas, he left all the loading and packing to me. It was up to me to find people to help me move stuff to the new place and make sure everything was packed and ready to go. All he worried about was his PC and his desk. Hell even my brother and I had to put my bed frame together because he hadn't done it.

He was an asshole everytime we had to go back to the other house to help clean up too and got mad once because my mom asked us to bring something and he didnt bring it.

But things settled down mostly. I hated how i was expected to do almost everything but it was manageable.

Then he wanted to move and find a new job, which was fine, he sorta?? Let me know what kind of jobs he was applying for and where. But when he got an offer, he accepted it without even talking to me about it. The job he took he was going to start in two months and I had less than a months notice to pack all of our shit and leave not only that but they didn't offer relocation and he was going to be getting a little less in pay. We had less than a month to move Which again- he barely helped with. All the sorting through shit and packing was left up to me once again. I ended up leaving almost all of our stuff behind because I couldnt fucking take it with me to my moms.

I gave Virginia a shot and i was more miserable than I've been ever. I was expected to do everything. EVERYTHING. I decided to go to California. I had originally hoped that in doing so we could save some money and he could use the money we saved to get stuff for the apartment to make it more comfortable.

Which didnt really happen until April. After being with Family in Cali for a while, seeing how well lucian was doing and stuff, I honestly didn't wanna go back. I went back to sign the lease and then again a couple months after my aunt died because of how tense things were at the house, i figured it'd be a last ditch effort to save things.

But no. I tried to tell him how I felt. I tried to tell him what bothered me, why i was so depressed. I told him I felt lonely, I told him I felt like i was expected to do everything. And it always. always felt like I was talking to a wall

I told him I wished wed go out and do things more, that itd be nice and I might meet people. He wanted me to meet people online first and then meet them in person. Which totally defeated the purpose of getting me out of the. House to socialize, and even if indidnt make any friends then at least I got out and was productive. But he doesnt like leaving the house.

I told him countless times that I felt like it was unfair that he expected me to do so much work around then house with minimal help, but nothing changed. He thought helping more meant cleaning the kitchen and making easy dinners.

And while I appreciated it in wished hed help more with the living room too, or the laundry, or anything else literally. The most recent time I brought it up he managed to turn it around to finances and told me that he doesnt spend money on himself because he spends it all on me and Lucian. He told me that if i didnt get what I wanted I essentially acted like it was the end of the world.

Granted yes, I'd get disappointed and my displays depending on my mood or whether or not the item was seasonal or limited edition varried from minor to being a little mopey (i really tried not to be, most of the time i was usually more upset about the ungodly cost than anything.)

Then he invades my privacy, not once but twice I found out. This son of a bitch logged on to my discord, TWICE.

The first time he did it was a day I cleaned the whole apartment. Like I vacuumed, shampooed, cleaned the kitchen counters the best in could, did the dishes, took out the trash, wiped counters and the stove, did several loads of laundry, picked up in the bedroom.

As soon as he got home i went to my room and I guess thats when he did it. He logged onto my account on the computer and opened discord, and went through my messages.

That's literally the only reason he asked me for a divorce. Was because he had seen I've been thinking about it for a while.

And then for whatever reason he did it a second fucking time.

The irony? The first time he did it?? If hed just fucking come to me, I was gonna ask him for a divorce myself. But then he did it, and while it was a huge relief at the time, it would have taken every ounce of willpower not to slap him if I had known then that he was only asking because he went through my messages.

We managed to work things out to maintain some civility for Lucian's sake, and i was okay with that! I was glad we seemed to have cleared the air a little bit.

But then I thought about it more, he never actually apologized to me for anything. He never actually apologized for the messed up stuff he did or said, and he doesnt think he did anything wrong by going through my messages. In fact he thinks he was justified because "I needed to know how they really felt."

And then when I admitted some things I did or said was messed up, he didnt even actually own up to his bullshit. He had to lump me in with him

"Cant we bith admit that we both did and said fucked up shit?"

Like?? That's whaT I WAS JUST DOING. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING THIS WHOLE TIME???

Then on my way to CO I find out??? He tried to say he does everything himself??? Inwas looking into the requirements to fly with my cat and dog because originally i was going to fly to Colorado. I dont remember which airline I checked, but I checked the requirements for the airline he was gonna send me on, and then he tells my step dad hes tired of doing everything himself.

WHAT???

I looked it up!! I thought I was gonna fly with a certain airline so that's who I fucking looked it up for!!! And hes trying to say he did all the footwork HIMSELF?! If I'd known he was considering another airline I WOULD HAVE LOOKED THAT UP TOO, BUT I DIDNT. Then He has the audacity to say hes tired of being the only one doing all the work??

Are you fucking kidding me????

No, nuh uh. Fuck him. I dont think I hate him surprisingly but FUCK IM LIVID.

I should by all rights hate his fucking guts, but dont, if I did the sight of him would send me into fits of rage as would the mention of his name.

But God damn I am PISSED OFF at him. So fucking pissed off. I mean for all I know hes hacked my account and is reading this right fucking now.

If you are Alex, FUCK YOU for everything you've put me through these last couple years.

fuck him. I don't feel bad for him in the least. I know I'm not fucking perfect, but I fucking tried. I gave him more chances than he fucking deserved. He held me to unfair standards, he expected me to clean house in 2 hours or less, expected me to cook every fucking night, constantly tried to tell me my mental health is harder for him than it is for me, tried to tell my family that he does all the fucking work (okay I cant make phone calls but I can do fucking research you fuck), made me out to be the bad guy constantly, doesn't own up to his bullshit, put me through all this and EXPECTED ME TO APOLOGIZE FOR GOING TO CALIFORNIA, went through my fucking discord, and countless other bullshit.

Yeah no I don't feel bad for him. Not at all, he had plenty of chances to work with me to avoid all this and he chose to ignore it. The only attempts seemed to be when I wasn't with him.

I have a lot of baggage and issues, but I fucking deserve better than that.

If hes in emotional turmoil because of what happened. He brought it on himself. I fuckin tried.

If me not feeling even a little sorry for him makes me a bad person

Then get me my fucking demon costume.

[verdigrisprowl]

Oct 15 Dancitron Movie Night - Bridge Of Spies

Prompted by the movie, Prowl and Soundwave had some discussions about how moral it is for punish the wicked outside of strictly legal proceedings. Lots of deep conversation about laws and morality. Prowl somehow managed to not tell Soundwave his personal moral stance on the topic.

Today NoodlesAtNight 7:40 pm *Soundwave puts the last of the couches down and plops himself in place without a word. He's here for this intrigue business, more than he is for most other things. He is ready to go.* Swerester 7:40 pm //rabbit why are you like this Today Darkscream 7:40 pm [Rabbit is forever the butt. Giving us two Swerves.] Chaoit 7:41 pm ((it's rabbit ((being rabbit Swerester 7:41 pm //lmao i had to reopen it in a new tab so it probably took a moment to kill the other swerve Swerester 7:41 pm [Stumbles in with arms full of pillows] Hello, I brought presents because someone gave me like fifty. UnkillableJazz 7:41 pm *snags a cushion near a couch arm* So the invite suggested it's a movie about spies? NoodlesAtNight 7:42 pm [[Fifty presents? Or fifty p--]] Oh no. A Jazz. They'd better not get ideas. [[illows. Yes, it did.]] Swerester 7:43 pm They gave me like fifty pillows so I brought as many as I could carry to give to everyone here. I don't need fifty pillows. Chaoit 7:43 pm ((so we gonna say Blaster went home at some point, just for sanity's sake?)) NoodlesAtNight 7:44 pm ((yes, of course, aha. i didn't mean to keep your boy hostage or anything)) [[He'll take... two.]] verdigrisprowl 7:44 pm *he arrived just in time to hear about this load of pillows.* ... What... what are they for. Decoration? Showing off...? Swerester 7:44 pm Sure. Take any many as you want, I brought like half of them. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:44 pm *peaks in* verdigrisprowl 7:44 pm *they look like fabric, stuffed with something squishy that might be more fabric. fabric stuffed in fabric is like, a hella status symbol.* Swerester 7:44 pm They're decorative, as far as I can tell? Or maybe they're meant for sleeping on, but they're all patterned! Want one? NoodlesAtNight 7:45 pm [[For being soft and somewhat comfortable against sore plates.]] Darkscream 7:45 pm *Wandering in with a debatable ball of hate/observation in her arms. Best not to question the small Giratina her arms.* Pillows? UnkillableJazz 7:45 pm If they're here for everyone- *Jazz snags three to make his corner of the couch into a nest* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:45 pm *here comes a dragon, with SNACKS! delicious snacks. you know you want some.* Hello, Soundwave, Prowl, everyone! *she's cheery. and that's a /lot/ of food, good lord.* verdigrisprowl 7:45 pm ... That sounds like a contradiction. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:45 pm *scampers inside* Bird? NoodlesAtNight 7:46 pm *Soundwave bobs his head at everyone as they approach. Darkscream, the dragon, Prowl - that one gets an affection ping with the greeting one - and others.* Chaoit 7:46 pm -and he's making his way into the room now, finally looking more like normal- Swerester 7:46 pm That's five taken so I have twenty more to give away here. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:46 pm Bird! NoodlesAtNight 7:47 pm [[No, no bird. She should be here next week. A musical about revolutions, you know.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 7:47 pm No Bird? AGAIN? : < verdigrisprowl 7:47 pm *returns the affection ping and sits with Soundwave* ((brb heating up dinner)) Darkscream 7:47 pm I'll take some pillows. Give this guy something to chew on. *Shall take one, Swerve. Giving it to the Giratina, which grabbed it with his wing-tendril things* MedicalMurdersaurus 7:48 pm *bends and unbends his knees in an upset toddler dance* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:48 pm *the dragon puts all the snacks on the bar where they belong. there's gummis, and mercury rolls, and rust sticks, and all sorts of snacks! someone was busy.* Darkscream 7:49 pm [No Unicron, but how about antimatter God Pokemon? Let me be dumb. I now have Mondays off. \o/ NoodlesAtNight 7:49 pm [[She's a busy bot, you know.]] *Stuffs one of the pillows just behind his neck and the other behind his lower back. Ahh.* SCProwl 7:49 pm *arrives, pings Soundwave and alternate while heading toward usual table* NoodlesAtNight 7:49 pm ((no restriction against giratina 😃 )) Swerester 7:49 pm [settles in with a pillow of his own since they *are* pretty comfy] UnkillableJazz 7:49 pm *Curious Jazz is curious* What are they? *looking at giratina* Swerester 7:49 pm Ooh, is that a pokemon? MedicalMurdersaurus 7:49 pm *upset baby dancing speeds up* Me Swoop don't WANT her to. Busy. Bot. Chaoit 7:50 pm -flops onto a seat, kinda sinking into it- NoodlesAtNight 7:50 pm [[That is your problem. Her work comes first.]] UnkillableJazz 7:50 pm ((need to hook my laptop up)) Darkscream 7:51 pm *Giratina eyed the group.* It is. He's a Giratina, a, well... Part of the Creation God trio of Pokemon. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:51 pm *drops down to sit in his butt in a show of just HOW much he doesn't like this* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:52 pm *aaaaaaand done. hopefully the tower of snacks isn't blocking anyone's line of sight. it's probably stable. she's gonna try and get a pillow and drag it over to Soundwave's couch.* NoodlesAtNight 7:52 pm [[Would you like help, dragon?]] opatoes 7:52 pm /Smokescreen's coming in again, immediately stopping to stare at the Giratina. He knew he should've brought his pumpkaboo!/ Hey! Hey, hey, I see we've got a new friend here! SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:53 pm ...Yes, please. Thank you. Swerester 7:53 pm [tosse a pillow at Smokey] NoodlesAtNight 7:53 pm *He'll stretch a feeler out to pick up the pillow - and, if the dragon wants, them as well?* opatoes 7:53 pm /Catches the pillow and tosses it back at Swerve!/ MedicalMurdersaurus 7:53 pm *breathes exaggeratedly hard to make his irritation known* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:54 pm ((nugget: tries to walk in front of my laptop me: kisses her soft lil head mercilessly nugget: gets all huffy and goes away)) NoodlesAtNight 7:54 pm [[Vent all you like, Swoop. It does not change our work schedule.]] Swerester 7:54 pm I was giving you the pillow, nerd. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:54 pm *free ride! she's the princess tonight! at least, she can pretend she is, right? no one will mind?* SCProwl 7:54 pm *greeting ping to Smokescreen* NoodlesAtNight 7:54 pm ((defeated with affection!)) opatoes 7:54 pm ... Oh! Ohh, I thought you wanted a pillow fight or something. Can I have it back? MedicalMurdersaurus 7:54 pm *throws himself back to flop back against the ground like a DIno-skin rug* Swerester 7:54 pm [snorts and tosses it back] opatoes 7:54 pm /Pingpings Round Prowl!/ SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:55 pm ((she's grabbed onto my left elbow to stare at me. she just wants to Do Whatever I Do but she is very unhelpful when on the lappytop)) Darkscream 7:55 pm *Giratina eyes Smokesceen with a baleful look. It's normal.* Swoop, you're acting less like a fierce Dinobot and more like a toddler. opatoes 7:56 pm /tries to imitate that baleful look. Doesn't work very well./ MedicalMurdersaurus 7:56 pm Nuh UH UnkillableJazz 7:56 pm (🔙) MedicalMurdersaurus 7:56 pm Me Swoop not a BAAAAABY Darkscream 7:58 pm *Giratina wiggled a tendril at Smokescreen. It was in it's altered forme to be more of a noodle dragon.* Well you are acting a bit like one. Fine to be unhappy not seeing your friend, just don't throw a tantrum. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:59 pm *pops up into a seated position and huffs dramatically* Me Swoop not tantrum NoodlesAtNight 8:00 pm ((we'll start in ten minutes, get all your snacks and stuff)) opatoes 8:00 pm /Smokescreen's sticking his glossa out at the tendril. Come on, Giratina, don't do what Soundwave does and stop wiggling your tendrils around!/ UnkillableJazz 8:00 pm *Jazz is bobbing along to the song* Darkscream 8:02 pm *Careful Smokescreen, Giratina might poke it and who knows what'd happen then.* That's good then. Cause I don't tell jokes to Dinbots that throw them. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:02 pm *Giratina's tentacle wiggling is Valid, just like Soundwave* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:02 pm *tilt his feet back and forth, grumbling* Me Swoop want jokes. Jokes AND Her Bird! opatoes 8:03 pm /If Giratina pokes his glossa, he's probably going to bite a feeler, so watch out!/ SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:03 pm ((pls don't laugh at me, but I thought the lorde version was original until just now)) verdigrisprowl 8:03 pm (🔙) ((i said BACK, i didn't make an emoji)) NoodlesAtNight 8:03 pm ((why laugh? if that's the one you knew, that's the one you knew)) verdigrisprowl 8:03 pm ((rabbit stop that NoodlesAtNight 8:04 pm ((five minutes to start!)) opatoes 8:04 pm ((rabbit why ((wait... wait it actually does that now? verdigrisprowl 8:04 pm ((lord version of what? did lorde cover blowing in the wind or was it last song?)) opatoes 8:04 pm ((welcome BACK Darkscream 8:04 pm *Giratina is debating doing so. Noodle-ghosts his way out of Darkscream's grasp to coil around a wing. Holding his pillow close. Still eyeing Smokescreen.* Can't you talk to her other times, Swoop? Not just movie nights? UnkillableJazz 8:04 pm ((everybody wants to rule the world) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:04 pm ((the lorde version of everybody wants to rule the world)) MedicalMurdersaurus 8:05 pm YAH! But. Me Swoop want Her Bird NOW. Cause Bob : < NoodlesAtNight 8:05 pm [[What about Bob?]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:05 pm Him back NoodlesAtNight 8:05 pm ((*cackles to self*)) SCProwl 8:05 pm ((there's songs I know and like the cover of better verdigrisprowl 8:06 pm ((OH. yes, i've heard lorde's cover of that. i just did not remember it existed.)) ((yeah there are a few songs that i like the cover version of better)) Darkscream 8:06 pm Oh. *Hadn't been there when he went missing.* Isn't that a good thing that he's back? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:07 pm ((I listen to a /lot/ of vocaloid so covers are half my playlist >->)) Swerester 8:07 pm //i have some songs i dont like but i enjoy the nightcore versions of lmaop opatoes 8:07 pm /Giratina, please. Smokescreen's going to set his pillow down near Round Prowl, before moving to grab a couple drinks. ... He wonders if Giratina can drink this stuff/ opatoes 8:07 pm ((YEAH there's a few songs that are just better in nightcore form MedicalMurdersaurus 8:07 pm *huffs and glances away* SCProwl 8:08 pm Bob... the insecticon? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:08 pm Yah Bob NoodlesAtNight 8:08 pm ((WARNINGS: Bridge of Spies // Foul language, imprisonment and torture, violence and death, typical cold war sentiments)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:08 pm ((the funniest/worst part is that given the fact that english subs are the rule rather than the exception on any song that's been out long enough, I understand the lyrics of vocaloid songs better than most popular english songs. gotta love auditory processing bullshit)) SCProwl 8:08 pm Where is he back from? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:08 pm Dead NoodlesAtNight 8:08 pm *Sits up.* [[Bob is a TERRORCON?]] Darkscream 8:09 pm *Giratina doesn't like anyone, Smokescreen.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:09 pm Bob is a zombie? SCProwl 8:09 pm *digests that for a very long awkward moment* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:09 pm *cocks head* What that? SCProwl 8:09 pm What? UnkillableJazz 8:09 pm ((Yeah. I've got an auditory delay)) SCProwl 8:09 pm They're undead Cybertronian. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:09 pm Undead mean zombie Nah opatoes 8:09 pm /Well, Smokescreen likes Giratina! And he's going to go over to Giratina and offer a cube of high grade, mostly out of curiosity./ MedicalMurdersaurus 8:09 pm Him Bob normal Bob NoodlesAtNight 8:10 pm [[Oh. Good. It pleases him to hear that he has been found at last.]] *Poor naive bug.* Swerester 8:10 pm I thought Bob was just missing? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:10 pm ...So does that mean he was dead dead or just presumed dead? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm *looks at the floor, scratched at it and scrunching his nose up* SCProwl 8:10 pm Oh, he was missing. Was he kidnapped? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm *hears a lot of questions, answers none of them but takes it out on the floor instead, enjoy your new small groove, Soundwave* Darkscream 8:11 pm *While Darkscream is listening in on this conversation, Giratina was staring at Smokescreen. Eyeing the drink. Pokes at with a tendril. Dipping the red tip in to watch the liquid swirl around.* NoodlesAtNight 8:11 pm [[SWOOP. Do you want to go home already?]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:11 pm *sticks his tongue out* NoodlesAtNight 8:11 pm [[Outside. Now.]] SCProwl 8:11 pm Soundwave. NoodlesAtNight 8:12 pm [[Prowl.]] Chaoit 8:12 pm -isn't getting involved. Last time nearly ended up with Dinobot to face- opatoes 8:12 pm /Smokescreen's laughing a bit, enjoying Giratina's reaction, and sets the drink down in front of him, holding his servo out, trying to ask before petting him./ SCProwl 8:13 pm It's good that your friend is back. Will he start coming to movie nights again? Darkscream 8:13 pm Swoop?

*Giratina shifted around Darkscream's wing to eye the drink then Smokescreen. Pokes at the servo.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:14 pm *HUFFS* FINE *stands up from the floor in the most dramatic of fashions* whAT? Darkscream 8:16 pm *Shakes her helm. Nudges Giratina off from her wing, the Pokemon hovering there, to go over to him. Motions outside with her helm.* Company? NoodlesAtNight 8:16 pm *Leeeean of interest.* NoodlesAtNight 8:17 pm *Now what's in that little drop, he wonders.* SCProwl 8:17 pm *oh right, the movie's started* Could I have a visual please? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:17 pm Whatever. *pronounced with every bit of drama his scrawny body is capable of producing* verdigrisprowl 8:17 pm Oh. I've got it. *ping, visuals.* SCProwl 8:18 pm Thank you. *accepts, oh, this is about spies* NoodlesAtNight 8:18 pm [[Ah, clever. Clever.]] Swerester 8:18 pm Did anyone ever do something like this with a shanix during the war? NoodlesAtNight 8:19 pm [[Naturally. He's surprised the humans thought of it.]] UnkillableJazz 8:19 pm Interestin' way to pass a note. NoodlesAtNight 8:19 pm [[We passed messages in all manner of things.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:19 pm ...The teeth might be poisoned. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:20 pm They probably should not give them to him Darkscream 8:20 pm *Giratina was going to coil around Smokescreen's arm. Still holding his pillow.*

*Darkscream pat Swoop's wing to head outside with him.* Feel better chasing a Seeker through the skies? NoodlesAtNight 8:20 pm [[Fools.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:20 pm ((I'm getting a crazy lag. Is that just me?)) UnkillableJazz 8:21 pm should of cleaned the pallete for him verdigrisprowl 8:21 pm We had to give up shanix pretty early in the war. NoodlesAtNight 8:21 pm ((it's not laggin here)) opatoes 8:21 pm /Wait, wait, frag. Smokescreen's squirming a bit, surprised at the sudden tendril on him./ Hey, hey-! Good to see you, too. NoodlesAtNight 8:21 pm [[Indeed they should have. And a good point about his teeth.]] Darkscream 8:22 pm *There is a whole mini Giratina on your arm, Smokescreen. Have fun with the ghost noodle and the tingling feeling as he prods.* UnkillableJazz 8:22 pm ((I'm getting lag occasionally from poor internet connection)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:22 pm I don't know how often human teeth fall out, but surely they've thought of a hollow "tooth" filled with poison. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:22 pm .... Me Swoop like to chasing NoodlesAtNight 8:23 pm [[Hm. He argues well.]] opatoes 8:23 pm /He's squirming as Giratina starts to prod, laughing./ Come on- phfhaha- am I that interesting? UnkillableJazz 8:23 pm None of them need to be hollowed verdigrisprowl 8:23 pm Cyanide pills. That's what humans use. Darkscream 8:23 pm Then outside then. No angry Soundwaves out there. We'll be high enough that even your flamethrower wont hit anything. *Smiles. Wiggles her wings.* verdigrisprowl 8:23 pm Cyanide is poisonous to humans. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:24 pm Well, yes, it's poisonous to dragons too. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:24 pm *starts to have a spring in his step despite himself, just can't stay angry like his brothers can* Yah! SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:24 pm ...I'm sorry, I shouldn't be like that. Methanol is poisonous to humans, and most of the other cousins, but not to my species. UnkillableJazz 8:24 pm potent poisons can be done with just traces. verdigrisprowl 8:25 pm *shrugs* I don't know what's poisonous to dragons. NoodlesAtNight 8:25 pm [][][]It can't look like.[][][] [[They say nothing about whether or not it really is.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 8:25 pm *big predacon comes in, being stalked by two hatchling she's ignoring, checks to see if its safe for them* Darkscream 8:25 pm *Giratina moved to settle around a door-wing. Using his tendrils to hold on while setting his head down on the pillow. Staying here. Give him puffs and he may allow pets.*

*Darkscream meanwhile chuckled and half bounced on her pedes outside.* C'mon then Swoop. See if you can catch me in the air~. UnkillableJazz 8:26 pm intentionally losing cases causes legal issues- at least currently SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:26 pm Oh, no, she got stood up by his assistant. NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm [[Seems so.]] UnkillableJazz 8:27 pm Hung out in one of those shelters for a while NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm [[Did you?]] opatoes 8:28 pm /Sighs, accepting his fate. He doesn't have many pokepuffs, but he does have some poffins that he made for his pumpkaboo- he found a recipe to make poffins!/ MedicalMurdersaurus 8:28 pm *starts off in a trot but ends up dashing straight out the door* NoodlesAtNight 8:28 pm [[Do many foreign agents re-- ha]] UnkillableJazz 8:30 pm Ratchet converted one of those bomb shelters into a emergency medbay Darkscream 8:31 pm *Well feed him something, Smokescreen. Giratina is contented there. Be good and he might move into your arms.*

*Delayed waves to V.Prowl and Soundwave.* I'll keep Swoop busy. Any trouble I'll take responsibility for, Soundwave. NoodlesAtNight 8:31 pm [[Hmm. As you like.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:32 pm I doubt he took the duty with the idea that he would escape the chair if caught. opatoes 8:32 pm /He's slowly pulling out a few poffins, and is offering them over to Giratina. See? He's being good!/ verdigrisprowl 8:32 pm *huff. approves of the spy's attitude.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:32 pm Although electrocution... Ouch. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:32 pm *has no idea he's got a sitter, just starts circling* verdigrisprowl 8:32 pm *"would it help" indeed* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:34 pm *headtilts at screen* verdigrisprowl 8:35 pm Would that all wars were fought with intelligence instead of arms. UnkillableJazz 8:35 pm ((my connection is breaking up a bit)) Darkscream 8:35 pm *Giratina eyes the puffs. Pokes at the puffin with a tendril to spear it. Pulls it close and nibbles on it. Rumbles his approval as he eats.*

*Darkscream meanwhile took to the skies. Might just try to land on his back. Assuming he's in pteradon form.* Hi. opatoes 8:36 pm /Slowly reaches to pet Giratina as he nibbles on the poffins, doorwings perking up./ verdigrisprowl 8:37 pm I like how he made a big deal about how secret their mission is, and then left without telling them what their mission is. NoodlesAtNight 8:37 pm [[Corrupt fleshling.]] verdigrisprowl 8:37 pm So secret, even they're not allowed to know what it is. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:37 pm *can't fly in robot mode but is still very capable of shrieking with laughter as a borb* UnkillableJazz 8:38 pm Uh oh NoodlesAtNight 8:38 pm *Huffs* [[He doesn't think he has ever encountered something /that/ secret before.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:38 pm And you know those sorts would lambast the other side if such was done to "their" people. verdigrisprowl 8:38 pm *leans on Soundwave.* I'm not sure he is corrupt. Only normal. UnkillableJazz 8:38 pm An' the mission's collectin' info on the soviets UnkillableJazz 8:39 pm Probably got drops with detailed plans SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:39 pm That's an odd way to chat. verdigrisprowl 8:39 pm He's behaving poorly. He's not maintaining the highest rigorous standards of absolute moral impeccability that a judge should maintain. Darkscream 8:39 pm *Puffins for pets. A good trade. Giratina does eye Smokescreen when he does. Give good pets.*

*Pets Swoop's crest.* If you can nip my wing or touch it, I'll count it as a catch, kay? Then we can keep going until one of us tires. verdigrisprowl 8:39 pm But it's not corruption. Just averageness. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:39 pm Ooooh, it's because he's breaking the law. NoodlesAtNight 8:40 pm *Leans against Prowl and nods to both him and the dragon.* [[Of course they would. And corruption and averageness are not exclusive.]] UnkillableJazz 8:40 pm good lawyer verdigrisprowl 8:40 pm No. But he's not being corrupt and average. Just average. opatoes 8:40 pm /Smokescreen's giving firm, confident pets as he continues to provide poffins./ MedicalMurdersaurus 8:40 pm Me Swoop NEVER tired! Me Swoop DINOBOT! SCProwl 8:40 pm Oh please. UnkillableJazz 8:40 pm human hero complex NoodlesAtNight 8:41 pm *Huff.* SCProwl 8:41 pm *snorts* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:41 pm *the dragon considers Prowl, and what she means to say* ...I always feel like saying that corruptness is average implies that I don't think it can or should be changed. NoodlesAtNight 8:41 pm [[A rare being, this lawyer. Would that so many were as devoted to being who they... should be...]] *Ohhhhh.* NoodlesAtNight 8:42 pm [[...It is beautiful, if old.]] opatoes 8:42 pm Soundwave, is this gonna be like Phoenix Wright? Are we gonna see them in court? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:42 pm *hopefully that didn't sound like her being an ass. she doesn't mean to upset prowl or anything. she just has feelings.* NoodlesAtNight 8:42 pm *Shakes his head slightly.* [[He does not know.]] verdigrisprowl 8:42 pm "The Article." Hm. Darkscream 8:42 pm *Giratina tilts his head. Give him scritches under the crown.*

Even Dinobots need to rest a bit. Well I will have to. You don't want to chase tired prey. *Hops off and pulls out a bag of energon sweets. Tosses one to Swoop.* Ready? NoodlesAtNight 8:42 pm *Thinks the dragon makes a good point.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:43 pm *yay* opatoes 8:43 pm Fair enough. Phoenix Wright is pretty fun, though! I hope we get to see organic courts, they're pretty wild. They might have a parrot testify. SCProwl 8:43 pm A what? opatoes 8:43 pm A parrot! They're birds. UnkillableJazz 8:43 pm Not bad, specially for the tech stage SCProwl 8:43 pm Oh. All right. verdigrisprowl 8:44 pm *barely even registered that the dragon said something, honestly. he was talking with soundwave.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:44 pm [O,o] SCProwl 8:44 pm *Buzzsaw and Laserbeak are birds. They're perfectly capable of testifying, so Prowl has no issue with an organic bird doing the same* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:44 pm *catches the goodie in his beak reflexively* YAH!*drops the goodie* WHoops kehehheh SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:45 pm *yeah that's fair she isn't as interesting as soundwave* opatoes 8:46 pm Oooh- so they are gonna show the court process NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm [[That,]] *pointing at the screen* [[is not average. That is willful, deliberate dismissal of the law he is sworn to oversee.]] verdigrisprowl 8:46 pm It most certainly is. UnkillableJazz 8:46 pm as a sentient being, hard headed judge NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm [[Is there no one with whom he can register complaints about the judge's refusal to function properly?]] Darkscream 8:46 pm *Laughs and dives to catch it. She could easily fly in her root form.* Try not to drop it this time. *Tosses the sweet again then puts the rest away.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:46 pm (*comes back* what did I miss?) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:46 pm A bigger, more important judge? NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm [[Why continue to sit at a trial he knows is wrong?]] SCProwl 8:47 pm Apparently no--what the... what are they doing? NoodlesAtNight 8:47 pm ((depends on what you saw last)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:47 pm ...That is deeply concerning. verdigrisprowl 8:47 pm If he doesn't continue to sit at it, then the defendant won't have a lawyer. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:47 pm Why are they upsetting the bitlets. SCProwl 8:47 pm Why were they all chanting like that at the flag? UnkillableJazz 8:47 pm scare tactics NoodlesAtNight 8:48 pm [[Can he not take the defendant with him? Refuse to accept a poor judge?]] *Glance at the other Prowl.* [[Indoctrination.]] SCProwl 8:48 pm Ugh. verdigrisprowl 8:48 pm *snorts* He can't take the defendant with him. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:48 pm *catches it and rolls* KEHheheh OmicronTheIceQueen 8:48 pm *Icy jumps to the side, making a pained sound- not hurt though* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:48 pm Why would they tell this to hatchlings, anyways? Just to scare them? OmicronTheIceQueen 8:49 pm Likely UnkillableJazz 8:49 pm control it seems NoodlesAtNight 8:49 pm [[A group of hatchli-- of younglings that is taught to fear and hate the enemy will grow to be adults that fear and hate the enemy.]] NoodlesAtNight 8:50 pm [[You reached the verdict before you heard anything!]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:50 pm ...Yes. Yes they will, won't they. *the dragon flattens down. it's a sad thought. poor hatchlings.* verdigrisprowl 8:50 pm They said in the newspaper that they had several days of testimony. UnkillableJazz 8:50 pm Even if there is no enemy to hate verdigrisprowl 8:51 pm We skipped over the part where they heard everything. NoodlesAtNight 8:51 pm [[No, no - he means that the human was determined to have the spy pinned down as a spy before the trial began.]] Darkscream 8:51 pm *Grins and takes off in flight.* Try and catch me, Swoop! *Keeps to her root form for better agility.* verdigrisprowl 8:51 pm Oh. Yes, that part. ... It's still not "corruption." It's something just as bad as corruption, but it doesn't meat the definition. OmicronTheIceQueen 8:52 pm *looks at her hatchlings, chewing on her tail* Swerester 8:52 pm Can they actually put him in jail if he's not even a citizen and is there illegally from another country? Don't they have to send him home? [how do human laws work???] verdigrisprowl 8:52 pm I believe that personal benefit is an integral part of the definition of corruption. OmicronTheIceQueen 8:52 pm *hopes she's been raising her broods well...* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:52 pm *dives after her with a shriek* verdigrisprowl 8:52 pm The judge's conduct was horrible, but it didn't come with a personal benefit. NoodlesAtNight 8:52 pm [[He will be seen as the judge who took down a spy. It will help his career.]] thebestdecepticonleader 8:53 pm *gasp* sparklings verdigrisprowl 8:53 pm That's not the reason he did it. Not from the evidence presented. OmicronTheIceQueen 8:53 pm Racer: *chewing on a spine, looks up* ?? NoodlesAtNight 8:54 pm [[Hm. Then he may not be corrupt, by your definition, but he still deserves to be stripped of all power.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:54 pm *oh, Icy, of course you've been doing well.* thebestdecepticonleader 8:54 pm Can I see the sparklings? NoodlesAtNight 8:54 pm *Offers dragon a scratch. What he wouldn't give to see her claw the judge.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:54 pm *accepts the scritch. she'd rip his face off, Soundy, you know she would.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:55 pm *she still worries about it* you may, but your armor might get chewed on thebestdecepticonleader 8:55 pm As long as they don't actually eat me, that's fine I need to get used to being around sparklings SCProwl 8:56 pm That sounds perfectly plausible. NoodlesAtNight 8:56 pm [[What idiot does not plan for the possibility that their spy will not return? Even he and his faced trouble from time to time.]] SCProwl 8:56 pm One of those pilots is going to be captured. Darkscream 8:56 pm *Grins behind her. Waves at Swoop, taking him on a thrillride chase above Cybertron. Making sure they didn't get too close to buildings.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:57 pm *Racer and Peddles are pony sized, not too big, nor thick in bulk yet* thebestdecepticonleader 8:57 pm Can I pet them, do they like being patted? thebestdecepticonleader 8:58 pm *sits on floor to get closer* SCProwl 8:58 pm *sits forward with interest* NoodlesAtNight 8:58 pm [[Hmph. So he has something resembling a brain somewhere in there after all.]] NoodlesAtNight 8:59 pm *Leans up against Prowl. Stories like this make him glad that his amica is who he once again is.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:59 pm *can't accelerate like a seeker but once he gets cookin' he's halling ass* verdigrisprowl 8:59 pm *dims optics against all the flashing* opatoes 8:59 pm /Smokescreen finally offers under-crown scritches./ OmicronTheIceQueen 9:00 pm Racer: *goes RIGHT over to new mech on the ground* HAI!! *he's gonna climb into your lap here as you're sitting* NoodlesAtNight 9:00 pm [[The family of a lawyer knows who that person is. If they do not wish to be associated with what they may have to do, then they should go.]] verdigrisprowl 9:00 pm They should have done the damn search right with a warrant in the first place. He's correct. There is legal grounds for an appeal. thebestdecepticonleader 9:01 pm Hello there little one. *pet pet* NoodlesAtNight 9:01 pm *Glance.* [[And you support him seeking one?]] verdigrisprowl 9:01 pm However, the man IS a spy. He is, indeed, actually guilty of the crime of which he's being accused. thebestdecepticonleader 9:01 pm Are we 100% sure he is a spy and not falsely accused? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:01 pm Spies happen. Wherever there are secrets, people want to learn them. They still deserve to be treated justly. verdigrisprowl 9:02 pm Well, yes, we saw him in the middle of spy work. They found the evidence. They found the evidence illegally, but they found the evidence. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:02 pm Goddess, who would do that? To a house with hatchlings no less? thebestdecepticonleader 9:03 pm Well yeah, but one time looking at something you shouldn't, doesn't make you a spy Not necessarily SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:03 pm ... *she's not going to blame the officer for the shooting. she's not going to do it when Prowl's here.* NoodlesAtNight 9:03 pm [[Cowards.]] UnkillableJazz 9:03 pm Well if you got a warrant in the first place he wouldn't argue the case NoodlesAtNight 9:03 pm *To the question of who would shoot at someone's hatchling.* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:03 pm Racer: *flaps his wings and closes them, little dragon happy to have some pets, giving new mech a careful sniff inspection* Darkscream 9:04 pm *Giratina is pleased with this. Eyes closing in content. Puffs and scritches.*

*Darkscream laughed and kept making turns in the air to keep Swoop from catching her. Careful about her own speed so she didn't get out of his sight.* verdigrisprowl 9:04 pm He should not have been arrested like that. He should have been arrested with all the proper warrants, and his defense should have been given the adequate time to prepare the defense. NoodlesAtNight 9:04 pm [[...Thank you, Jazz.]] verdigrisprowl 9:04 pm And then he should have been convicted for his crimes. NoodlesAtNight 9:04 pm [[He was not, however. And because he was not, this lawyer is acting with honor.]] *Pause.* [[He... approves of them.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:05 pm It's good when honest, honorable people are in positions to defend justi- oooh, which poison are they using? thebestdecepticonleader 9:05 pm I'm not going to say that you shouldn't be punished if you have truly done something wrong, but... they don't seem to be in the right verdigrisprowl 9:05 pm The lawyer is doing the good thing. *is not certain it's the correct thing.* SCProwl 9:05 pm They didn't say anything except that it was fast-acting. UnkillableJazz 9:06 pm The lawyer is ethical OmicronTheIceQueen 9:06 pm seems so thebestdecepticonleader 9:06 pm And this is coming from a Decepticon with extremely questionable morals. If I think something is wrong then it really is. verdigrisprowl 9:06 pm Depends on which school of ethics you're following. opatoes 9:06 pm /Scritch, scritch, rub. He feels pretty lucky to have Giratina in his lap right about now!/ OmicronTheIceQueen 9:06 pm *chuckles* thebestdecepticonleader 9:07 pm What is a school of ethics? NoodlesAtNight 9:07 pm *Soundwave clicks the claws of his feeler together.* [[AH. He knows this story. An exhibit--]] *To the dragon:* [[It was cyanide.]] verdigrisprowl 9:07 pm ... Different people have different opinions on what's right and wrong, and thus, have different codes of ethics. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:07 pm *Racer peeks up at claw clicking* NoodlesAtNight 9:08 pm *It is hard to recognize humans by their faces when they do not match the historical record, but he knows some of the tale of the pilot and the pin. He settles in to see where this is going.* Darkscream 9:08 pm *Giratina is a happy poke-deity right now. Getting fed and the scritches were decent. Even changed back to his normal forme to lay on the pillow.* thebestdecepticonleader 9:08 pm Oh, right UnkillableJazz 9:08 pm Good speach thebestdecepticonleader 9:08 pm Is this a true story? NoodlesAtNight 9:08 pm [[It is based on true events.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:09 pm [[Some details are no doubt rearranged or modified. But the basis is there. This human, for example.]] Chaoit 9:09 pm -covers face- verdigrisprowl 9:09 pm Didn't do a very good job of keeping this mission secret, did they, if there's a movie about it. thebestdecepticonleader 9:09 pm Humans are weird Chaoit 9:09 pm -why heights?- OmicronTheIceQueen 9:09 pm Racer *looks about to jump up, has a forepaw on starscream's chest....he will climb up if aloud and be talll* UnkillableJazz 9:09 pm Ah, right. Trying to remember. did they do a trade? thebestdecepticonleader 9:09 pm *helps racer up* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:09 pm Ah. The human was exaggerating there, maybe. It's not instantaneous- at least not for my species. It's about five or ten minutes, though, which is really close enough. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:09 pm well then O,o NoodlesAtNight 9:10 pm [[Humans declassify certain files after a while. Stories also get leaked. Some things are told to educate. He does not know which case this is.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 9:10 pm ((oh my GOD)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:10 pm Racer *sitting on seeker shoulders, all proud, he's TALL...ish* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:10 pm ((I'd have pissed myself and died if this was me right now, tbh)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:10 pm (same) opatoes 9:10 pm /Smokescreen's continuing the petting, one servo gently trying to pet Giratina's wings./ thebestdecepticonleader 9:10 pm He should be dead after that verdigrisprowl 9:11 pm Well, that was nearly a lot more unfortunate. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:11 pm aren't those masks needed? Chaoit 9:11 pm -all good?- NoodlesAtNight 9:11 pm [[Typically.]] *All good, Blaster.* *Shakes his helm and rests it against Prowl's shoulder again. This Supreme Court is as horrid as the other judge.* Chaoit 9:11 pm -peers out, and sighs. Oh good- OmicronTheIceQueen 9:12 pm why did they name the defender human? again? Darkscream 9:12 pm *Giratina smacks the servo away. No. Head pets. Give him something tastier for wing pets. Is the trade.* NoodlesAtNight 9:12 pm [[Hmph. They give him the case and abandon him for taking it. Disloyal meatbags.]] thebestdecepticonleader 9:13 pm What is an East Germany? OmicronTheIceQueen 9:13 pm Racer: *little fangs noms a bit on an armor edge* opatoes 9:13 pm /Aww- fine, fine. Smokescreen continues the head scritches and poffin offerings./ SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:14 pm They gave him the case because they wanted him to treat it like the judges did. He has ethics, which means he's not malleable enough for them. thebestdecepticonleader 9:14 pm Hey there, not the wings, anywhere else is okay Darkscream 9:15 pm *Good. Giratina is going to shift on his pillow so the other side of his head gets pets.* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:15 pm Racer *realistically speaking its soft chew, on his shoulder* NoodlesAtNight 9:15 pm [[Germany is a human territory. He assumes East Germany is a subsection of it.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:16 pm [[Or a separate territory to its east.]] Darkscream 9:16 pm This message has been removed. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:17 pm You can shrug him off if he chews to much *Icy is laying down, curling up loosely around her other hatchling to watch* Chaoit 9:17 pm ((giratina god or cat? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:18 pm ((yes)) Chaoit 9:18 pm ((hehe NoodlesAtNight 9:18 pm [[...They do ask a lot of this fleshling.]] Darkscream 9:18 pm [Both and I guess I'm not watching the movie anymore. Rabbit is deciding I don't get to.] NoodlesAtNight 9:18 pm ((DDDD😧 nooooo)) opatoes 9:19 pm ((D : Chaoit 9:19 pm ((rabbit, you mean Darkscream 9:19 pm [Chat is fine, but it wont connect to the video] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:19 pm ...Goddess, what is going on here. NoodlesAtNight 9:20 pm [[Territory squabbles. What other reason to build a wall in the middle of an open, public area?]] Chaoit 9:20 pm Stupidity? NoodlesAtNight 9:21 pm *Huff* Chaoit 9:21 pm What? Darkscream 9:22 pm [*goes from spy movies to an anime about a slime befriending a tsundere dragon cause rabbit is cruel* Least DS is off playing with Swoop and Smokey made a friend with ANTOHER god.] NoodlesAtNight 9:22 pm [[Nothing. Your remark amused him.]] Chaoit 9:23 pm Oh. Yay? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:23 pm Stupidity transcends species, I suppose. verdigrisprowl 9:23 pm He just ignores her when she speaks. He's a terrible partner. MedicalMurdersaurus 9:23 pm ((Swoop and DS can just go off and wreck havock for a million hours)) ((I'm going to be ooc watching while I write)) NoodlesAtNight 9:24 pm ((kk)) verdigrisprowl 9:24 pm He brushes her aside and brushes off her concerns, and has throughout the movie, as her family is getting shot at. Darkscream 9:24 pm [\o/ goodtimes NoodlesAtNight 9:25 pm [[Yes. He does do her a disservice. At the very least, if he is determined to do the job he is given, he should make arrangements to keep them safe.]] verdigrisprowl 9:25 pm And he should respect her fears—her /very justified/ fears—even as he disagrees with them. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:25 pm you would think he had them moved verdigrisprowl 9:25 pm Rather than simply ignoring her. NoodlesAtNight 9:26 pm *Nods.* [[Indeed.]] Chaoit 9:26 pm ...wait opatoes 9:26 pm ((aszxcvbnm smokey just befriends every god Chaoit 9:26 pm he didn't move after being shot at? NoodlesAtNight 9:26 pm ((this scene amazes me. i have lived in this apartment for 4.5 months and i STILL can't memorize the damn phone #)) NoodlesAtNight 9:27 pm [[Apparently not.]] Chaoit 9:27 pm ............. verdigrisprowl 9:27 pm ((it took me years to memorize my own cell phone number)) Chaoit 9:28 pm Does he have screws loose up there? verdigrisprowl 9:28 pm ((ffs translate the subs you lazy subtitlers)) opatoes 9:28 pm ((zxcvbn im weirdly good at memorizing numbers in general for some reason i stole everyone's number memorization skills verdigrisprowl 9:28 pm ((give them back)) NoodlesAtNight 9:28 pm ((not the subtitlers, blame the people paying to have it subtitled)) verdigrisprowl 9:28 pm ((lazy subtitler hirer)) SCProwl 9:28 pm ((less lazy and more whoever--what cro said opatoes 9:28 pm ((but i like being able to memorize numbers! D : NoodlesAtNight 9:28 pm (($5 says they didn't bother paying the extra to have a fluent speaker do those parts)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:29 pm (video comped out on me) NoodlesAtNight 9:30 pm [[...It occurs to him that a government with an interest in beating a foreign enemy should /want/ to rescue a person who has written a fat thesis on said enemy's economics and trading habits.]] verdigrisprowl 9:30 pm Yes, it should. NoodlesAtNight 9:30 pm [[Idiots.]] SCProwl 9:30 pm If he can get the thesis back. verdigrisprowl 9:30 pm But trade for the student and you don't get the spy. verdigrisprowl 9:31 pm Trade a spy for a spy. You can trade an econ student for an econ student. Chaoit 9:31 pm They're not showing much sense in any area OmicronTheIceQueen 9:31 pm *snorts at that* NoodlesAtNight 9:31 pm *Huffs softly* [[They had best hope they can find a criminal economy student from the other country, then.]] UnkillableJazz 9:31 pm end justifies the means mentality has them stooping to certain lows OmicronTheIceQueen 9:31 pm there's very little sense here I would say verdigrisprowl 9:31 pm Pff. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:32 pm Racer: PFFT NoodlesAtNight 9:32 pm ((i increase my bet to $10 seeing as they would've had to pay 3x over - once for english, once for russian, once for german) verdigrisprowl 9:32 pm Fair trade for directions. UnkillableJazz 9:32 pm They took his jacket NoodlesAtNight 9:32 pm ((and they really ought have 😐 )) thebestdecepticonleader 9:33 pm ((You would think that they could have just used the script...)) Chaoit 9:33 pm *long sigh* NoodlesAtNight 9:33 pm *Soundwave twitches his helm and leans forward.* verdigrisprowl 9:33 pm ... Somehow I'm not buying their story. NoodlesAtNight 9:34 pm [[...She has the wrong accent for someone in a Moscow orchestra.]] Darkscream 9:34 pm *Girtatina decides to bite Smokescreen's servo to see how it tastes.* NoodlesAtNight 9:34 pm [[And these are terrible actors, also.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 9:34 pm yes SCProwl 9:35 pm She composed herself rather quickly. NoodlesAtNight 9:35 pm *That walk proved it. Those faces.* verdigrisprowl 9:35 pm Why did they bring in a fake family? To... tug at his heartstrings? He's already here to help with the trade. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:35 pm baaaad acting thebestdecepticonleader 9:35 pm ((One day someone should stream The Red Baron, it is awful)) NoodlesAtNight 9:36 pm [[He expects it is to get him to simply hand Abel over with no trade.]] *Sits up.* [[...He goes for both?]] *Oooh. Daring.* verdigrisprowl 9:36 pm ... Hff. He just—stuck the econ student in the deal. NoodlesAtNight 9:37 pm *Ha. He was right. They were trying to just scam Abel off him.* SCProwl 9:38 pm Ah. Clever. NoodlesAtNight 9:38 pm *Huffing to himself.* verdigrisprowl 9:40 pm ... Now why did they arrange to steal his coat? NoodlesAtNight 9:41 pm [[Put him in a miserable state. Make him more inclined to rush through things. Make his thoughts clouded with sickness.]] thebestdecepticonleader 9:41 pm Maybe it was a nice coat? verdigrisprowl 9:41 pm To make him impatient? To put him on edge? thebestdecepticonleader 9:41 pm To see if he is carrying papers that suggest he is spying verdigrisprowl 9:41 pm Can't be that nice. He said it came from sacks. NoodlesAtNight 9:41 pm [[That is why he would do it, at least, if we needed such things as coats.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:42 pm [[And what Starscream said.]] [[Perhaps they are very fashionable sacks.]] [[Ha.]] UnkillableJazz 9:42 pm caught out NoodlesAtNight 9:43 pm [[Never tell a story you cannot keep perfectly straight.]] SCProwl 9:43 pm Isn't a sax an instrument? verdigrisprowl 9:43 pm Names are hard. NoodlesAtNight 9:44 pm [[One of them, yes.]] *Nods.* [[And they are. All the more reason they should have practiced. They clearly threw together a rush job.]] verdigrisprowl 9:44 pm Don't be stupid. Get them both if you can. NoodlesAtNight 9:45 pm *The mismatched family, the poor mimicry, the bad information retention... sloppy, sloppy.* verdigrisprowl 9:45 pm Try to get both, and if it fails, then get only Powers. But first try for both if you think you can. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:45 pm did that guard just smack himself on the light? NoodlesAtNight 9:46 pm ((omg did i miss that)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:46 pm (ran right into it) thebestdecepticonleader 9:47 pm This is... I'm *turns away from the screen* NoodlesAtNight 9:47 pm *Watches Starscream curiously.* thebestdecepticonleader 9:48 pm Uh is... *peeks* Okay it's over verdigrisprowl 9:48 pm *also glances at. hm. has he been tortured?* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:48 pm Racer: -gives starscream a lick on the side of his helm- thebestdecepticonleader 9:48 pm *pats again* NoodlesAtNight 9:49 pm *Makes a note of this for future warnings. And potential use, in emergency.* Chaoit 9:49 pm -who's been through the war and hasn't been at some point?- verdigrisprowl 9:49 pm Did he just give away the secret number that he was supposed to memorize and destroy. thebestdecepticonleader 9:49 pm Hasn't been what? NoodlesAtNight 9:50 pm *Some withstood it longer than others, depending on what they were put through.*

[[He did. They did give him a minimum of guidelines, however. That is on them.]] Chaoit 9:50 pm ((that's thoughts/actions, not words verdigrisprowl 9:52 pm He really likes that line. The "one, one, one." NoodlesAtNight 9:52 pm [[He has a point. They have someone of minimal importance. He offers them the opportunity to do something impressive with them.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 9:52 pm Racer: *trying his best to groom, that makes him feel better* verdigrisprowl 9:52 pm Indeed. NoodlesAtNight 9:52 pm [[Well. "Minimal" importance. They do not seem to understand the danger his thesis puts them in.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:53 pm [[They would bargain for much, /much/ more than just Abel if they did.]] verdigrisprowl 9:54 pm He's going too fast for these streets and weather condit... Did he do it on purpose? To summon the police? NoodlesAtNight 9:54 pm *nod.* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:54 pm likely verdigrisprowl 9:54 pm Petty. I wonder what point he's trying to make. verdigrisprowl 9:55 pm Is he trying to scare into compliance or scare him into leaving? OmicronTheIceQueen 9:55 pm possibly both? NoodlesAtNight 9:56 pm *Shakes his head.* verdigrisprowl 9:57 pm *... yeah. it's like that.* NoodlesAtNight 9:58 pm [[...They are playing Unforgettable.]] [[Amusing.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 9:58 pm can I eat these humans? Or most of them SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:59 pm You'll give yourself food poisoning. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:59 pm Just more iron then expected...HAH verdigrisprowl 9:59 pm ... Grab a plate and take it with you. opatoes 9:59 pm I want a breakfast like that NoodlesAtNight 9:59 pm [[What good would it do you? It is organic.]] UnkillableJazz 10:00 pm Good back-bone he's growing verdigrisprowl 10:00 pm He never lacked for one. Darkscream 10:01 pm *Hey Smokey. Giratina is still chewing on your servo.* verdigrisprowl 10:01 pm Who needs TWO phones? OmicronTheIceQueen 10:01 pm how many comm lines can cybertroniand use at once? or nearly SCProwl 10:01 pm As many as we can process. NoodlesAtNight 10:02 pm [[That depends on the Cybertronian.]] *Folds hands..* thebestdecepticonleader 10:02 pm I have two phones, one for Megatron, so that I can ignore him and one for everyone else NoodlesAtNight 10:02 pm [[And the humans of this time did not have technology capable of letting them speak with many fleshlings at once.]] *Catches Starscream's remark and trembles.* verdigrisprowl 10:02 pm *HUFFS* verdigrisprowl 10:03 pm "Two, two, two" now. NoodlesAtNight 10:03 pm [[Repetition. Enforcing understanding and clarity.]] UnkillableJazz 10:04 pm fun OmicronTheIceQueen 10:04 pm *chuckles* verdigrisprowl 10:04 pm Oh—he's backed them in a corner. UnkillableJazz 10:04 pm grown in duplicity NoodlesAtNight 10:05 pm [[Delightful. Absolutely fantastic.]] SCProwl 10:05 pm Clever. Especially for someone suffering from an illness. I can't imagine it's helping his thinking. NoodlesAtNight 10:05 pm *Nod of agreement* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:05 pm He's damn smart. SCProwl 10:05 pm They won't. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:06 pm hah verdigrisprowl 10:06 pm ((that's the only time this whole movie he's sounded like a dad)) NoodlesAtNight 10:06 pm [[...Did it work...?]] verdigrisprowl 10:06 pm ((not a good or bad dad, just a dad at all)) NoodlesAtNight 10:07 pm ((aye)) UnkillableJazz 10:09 pm one wants attention, the other wants their spy verdigrisprowl 10:10 pm The one that wants attention went to the location where they won't get any. SCProwl 10:12 pm *huffs* NoodlesAtNight 10:12 pm [[No... no, Jazz has a point. If the Powers group is here, then the Pryor group now hold the power to either see through or spoil this trade. They must know that.]] verdigrisprowl 10:12 pm I like his philosophy. ... That's true. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:13 pm hmm NoodlesAtNight 10:13 pm [[It does not matter where they are. They still hold it.]] SCProwl 10:14 pm They're testing him. NoodlesAtNight 10:14 pm [[If he is free to go, he is free to stay.]] Chaoit 10:15 pm If they folded that would have reflected badly on them UnkillableJazz 10:15 pm Looks like a success SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:16 pm Excellent. verdigrisprowl 10:16 pm Didn't even shake with him. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:16 pm shake hands or help a traumatized youth SCProwl 10:17 pm I wouldn't have either in his place. verdigrisprowl 10:17 pm You can shake hands and then help the traumatized youth. NoodlesAtNight 10:17 pm [[A shake would legitimize them, he thinks. They still did not come out quite the victor they had hoped. Clever...]] verdigrisprowl 10:17 pm Yes, it would have legitimized them. It would have given them what they wanted out of this exchange. verdigrisprowl 10:18 pm Now they've learned, when they make deals with Americans, the Americans will not give them what they want. And so maybe they shouldn't make deals with them. UnkillableJazz 10:18 pm Ah. Abel will die then NoodlesAtNight 10:18 pm [[Ah. Poor Abel.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:18 pm To be fair, the Americans very nearly didn't get what they wanted. verdigrisprowl 10:18 pm But they did, plus a bonus. NoodlesAtNight 10:18 pm [[And yes. He does wonder what consequence that had.]] opatoes 10:18 pm RIP Abel verdigrisprowl 10:19 pm They DID get what they wanted, and snubbed the other party even the illusion of having gotten what they wanted. opatoes 10:20 pm Check the back for any notes! SCProwl 10:20 pm Why are you ripping Abel? UnkillableJazz 10:20 pm ((ah I'm sad now)) NoodlesAtNight 10:20 pm [[There wouldn't be notes. They'd never have given him the painting if there were.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:20 pm ((I forgot how much this movie bums me out)) opatoes 10:20 pm True. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:21 pm They didn't find the notes the last time, though, when they broke into his house. UnkillableJazz 10:21 pm He got no hug while being escorted to the car. They will execute him. verdigrisprowl 10:21 pm ... Did he have them stop over in England just to get— pfff. He did not. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:22 pm (pfft) verdigrisprowl 10:22 pm Hell of a way to find out your spouse lied to you. NoodlesAtNight 10:22 pm [[Indeed.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:22 pm Racer: *falls off his perch, bounces up and shakes himself* UnkillableJazz 10:23 pm Back in a safe zone standard reaction NoodlesAtNight 10:23 pm [[If that fleshling slept for any less than three days he will be surprised.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:23 pm flop in your nest and recharge? verdigrisprowl 10:23 pm *... leans more on Soundwave. He appreciates your honesty.* NoodlesAtNight 10:24 pm *Leans hard into.* *He appreciates yours.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:24 pm Flopping in the nest to recharge is excellent. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:24 pm yessss UnkillableJazz 10:24 pm Those parallels will follow him for a while verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm Oh, he wasn't executed. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:25 pm Thank the Goddess for small mercies. NoodlesAtNight 10:25 pm *Quietly relieved.* opatoes 10:25 pm Wait, what happened to Abel? I looked away for a klik OmicronTheIceQueen 10:25 pm Racer: *goes carefully sniffing around soundwave's couch before its too late* verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm Pfff. SCProwl 10:25 pm Ha. UnkillableJazz 10:25 pm good goin' dude verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm How does he keep coming back with more people. Chaoit 10:25 pm wow NoodlesAtNight 10:25 pm *Soundwave lowers a feeler to give Racer a light pat if he wants one.* [[Because he is determined to get them.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:26 pm Honesty, ethics, determination, and quite possibly spite. SCProwl 10:26 pm A decent sort of human. UnkillableJazz 10:26 pm I can dig it Swerester 10:26 pm Huh. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:26 pm Racer: *arches wings into the pat* UnkillableJazz 10:26 pm Master negotiator verdigrisprowl 10:26 pm I'm sure the other side is determined to not let them go. Determination doesn't make things happen. Chaoit 10:26 pm Very SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:26 pm *the dragon stretches. it's time for her to head off!* Thank you for having me, Soundwave! Goodnight, everyone. NoodlesAtNight 10:26 pm [[Goodnight, dragon. Thank you for your company.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:26 pm *chirps at dragon* NoodlesAtNight 10:26 pm ((time mark: 10:45)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:26 pm *she'd argue the determination point with Prowl, but Soundwave's probably got that.* *chirps at Icy!* UnkillableJazz 10:26 pm Just ignore what they're saying and do it anyway UnkillableJazz 10:27 pm read them to find out how far you can push SCProwl 10:27 pm I'll be going as well. Good night. *ends visual feed and pings the appropriate people goodbye* verdigrisprowl 10:28 pm *"read them." hahaha. ha ha. ha.* *farewell ping* NoodlesAtNight 10:28 pm *Nods to his timeline's Prowl. Goodnight.* Swerester 10:28 pm Do you want a pillow before you go? I still got a bunch left. UnkillableJazz 10:28 pm Good night OmicronTheIceQueen 10:28 pm Ooohhh??? *Swerve has Predacon attention!* SCProwl 10:28 pm ...I suppose. Swerester 10:28 pm [offers pillow] UnkillableJazz 10:29 pm They're open to keep? Swerester 10:29 pm Yeah! They'r presents I got like twenty five left at home so. NoodlesAtNight 10:29 pm [[If both sides are determined, then it is a matter of who is willing to move first, and for what price. Perhaps he found something the Cuba leader wanted more than anything.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:29 pm Racer: *chirps at Prowl this time, caaaarefuully reaching out, paw hovering over the big pede* NoodlesAtNight 10:29 pm [[More than 9,000 prisoners, at least.]] SCProwl 10:29 pm *accepts and turns it over carefully in her hands* Thank you. Swerester 10:29 pm Sure thing. verdigrisprowl 10:29 pm *looks down at Racer* Yes? OmicronTheIceQueen 10:30 pm Racer: Hai. Pbbt? verdigrisprowl 10:30 pm Pbbbt. NoodlesAtNight 10:30 pm @SCP: [[Try resting with your head on it tonight. Just a hint.]] UnkillableJazz 10:30 pm dictators often want recognition of their power NoodlesAtNight 10:31 pm *Gets more settled against his own pillows. Ahh..* *Now can comfortably watch Prowl be a charming and skilled youngling handler.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:31 pm Racer: *runs off, comes back half dragging his sibling to properly introduce the shy hatchling to them* Darkscream 10:31 pm [BWUAHAHA. SUDDENLY the stream returns with video] SCProwl 10:31 pm @SW: [[In root made I assume?]] NoodlesAtNight 10:31 pm ((what a thing to come back on)) NoodlesAtNight 10:32 pm @SCP: [[Naturally. Unless you can do some /interesting/ things in your alt mode.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:32 pm *Icy's edging closer to swerve, never did get to finish talking to him about being an energon suplier* opatoes 10:32 pm /He's giving Giratina a few more poffins, affectionately scritching the god, half considering seeing if Giratina will come home with him. He's sure Pumpkaboo will appreciate the friend!/ NoodlesAtNight 10:32 pm [[Ah. Is this the tiny mewer from before? They have grown.]] Swerester 10:32 pm [offers her a pillow too] SCProwl 10:32 pm @SW: [[Wouldn't you like to know.]] *clears throat and to the room at large* Good night. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:33 pm rest well NoodlesAtNight 10:33 pm *ATTENTION SNAP* *HOW DARE YOU IMPLY THINGS THAT HORRIBLE* opatoes 10:33 pm Goodnight, Prowl! See you later, maybe? UnkillableJazz 10:33 pm Well. I gotta go soon. *He's got an armful of pillows. like 5 of them* Darkscream 10:33 pm *Giratina did come with the Seeker, but currently she's out with the Dinobot, so... There must be lots of food for him or he'll stick around haunting this place until he gets bored. He knows there are others somewhere.* Swerester 10:33 pm Night! verdigrisprowl 10:33 pm *starts.* *soundwave moved unexpectedly* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:33 pm Peddles: *big optics up at them, has forefangs starting to grow in* NoodlesAtNight 10:34 pm [[Thank you for coming. Your company was... not intolerable.]] *A high compliment for a Jazz from him.* SCProwl 10:34 pm Certainly, Smokescreen. *holds pillow against chest and leaves* opatoes 10:34 pm /Smokescreen can offer the rest of his current poffins and more pets? He can make more if Giratina comes home with him!/ UnkillableJazz 10:34 pm Thanks. Ya were pretty cool to hang around NoodlesAtNight 10:35 pm *Settles and glances over at Prowl.* [[He apologizes. Your alternate decided to throw around some innuendo.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:35 pm racer: by? Darkscream 10:35 pm *Will there be more pillows for Giratina to nest on? He's going to hoard them.* opatoes 10:35 pm /Smokescreen's got a ton of pillows and blankets, so sure!/ Swerester 10:35 pm Did you want a pillow Prowl? UnkillableJazz 10:35 pm ((Just gonna hang around and enjoy the music Jazz is out)) NoodlesAtNight 10:36 pm *Glances down at the little one and their forefangs coming in.* [[My. You do look fearsome, little one.]] [[Soon, as many will run from your bite as your sibling's.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:36 pm Peddles *staaares up, blinks, pokes a blep out* SCProwl 10:36 pm ((same. prowl's gone home to try to remember how you sleep in root mode NoodlesAtNight 10:37 pm *Pauses a moment to think. Manages to locate an emoji with its tongue sticking out. Puts it on his visor.* *A blep for a blep.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:38 pm Peddles: plpl 😊 *loafs in spot, as much as a smiledon kitten can* verdigrisprowl 10:38 pm What? *him prowl, not her prowl? looks around. her prowl left. swerve meant him prowl.* No. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:38 pm Racer: *starts chattering, half words, there's a lot of owls and waves being said* Swerester 10:38 pm Oh. Alright. NoodlesAtNight 10:39 pm @P: [[They are good for carrying delicate items, if you have any of those to worry about.]] opatoes 10:39 pm Soundwave, Soundwave- do you wanna play DDR with me sometime? I wanna see just how good you are! Darkscream 10:39 pm *Giratina looks up at Smokescreen. Debating this. Is very tempted. Turns to look at Soundwave. Focuses to Confide in Soundwave, sending him a message telepathically.* {One they call Soundwave?} verdigrisprowl 10:39 pm @S «... No, don't think so.» OmicronTheIceQueen 10:40 pm How many pillows do you have Swerve? Swerester 10:40 pm Someone gave me fifty so I brought half. NoodlesAtNight 10:40 pm @Smokescreen: [[...Yes. But quietly. The two of us. Middle of the week. Bring the sword game as well.]] *Soundwave looks around a little, confused by the voice. There's only one extra being here, though, so... focusing on the Giratina, then? How odd.* [[...Correct.]] NoodlesAtNight 10:41 pm ((four minutes!)) opatoes 10:41 pm Sure, that sounds good to me. I can bring some music to share with you, too. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:41 pm O_o well....my crew loves them. more so the workers. they help isolate the little femmes. *is he giving all away or trading?* Swerester 10:41 pm Well, if no one else wants one then you can have whatever's left of the pile. NoodlesAtNight 10:41 pm [[Good. Prepare to be soundly trounced, Autobot.]] Chaoit 10:42 pm -up he goes, time for him to go home now- Thanks for the movie. Good night. NoodlesAtNight 10:42 pm [[...If you are giving them all away, he will have - ]] How many deployers has he got. [[14 more.]] Darkscream 10:42 pm *Giratina* {The one I came with, if she returns, tell her I left with this Smokescreen one for poffins and soft place to rest.} NoodlesAtNight 10:42 pm *Ah. Making a messenger out of him, eh?* [[So it shall be done, creature.]] [[Goodnight, Blaster.]] Swerester 10:43 pm I think that's the whole lot then for Soundwave, but if you swing by my bar, Icey I can give you some of the the half! I'd have brought more but I couldn't actually carry more opatoes 10:43 pm I hope you're not expecting it to be easy, though, Soundwave! I studied dance for WAY too long, so I'm pretty awesome at these games! Darkscream 10:43 pm *Giratina* {Good. Soundwave caretaker too.} *Bites Smokescreen's servo. Take him with you. Food and pillows.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:43 pm That's fine, perhaps we can talk business again, I know I had to run off before opatoes 10:44 pm Oh- okay, okay, let's go home, Giratina! /Smokescreen starts to get ready to head off, picking up a few drinks before starting to guide Giratina to the space bridge./ Swerester 10:44 pm Sure thing. I gotta head back there now anyway so swing by whenever! OmicronTheIceQueen 10:44 pm (aka omie mun lost the thread) Swerester 10:44 pm //lmao Swerester 10:44 pm [slides the pile of pillows at Soundwave] Night Soundwave. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:44 pm *predacon nods, then chirps for her hatchlings* NoodlesAtNight 10:44 pm [[Goodnight, Swerve. He will repay this in time.]] *Slowly piles them up on a different couch with his feelers.* Swerester 10:44 pm If you insist. [waves and heads out[ OmicronTheIceQueen 10:45 pm Racer: *sneak lick to soundwave and runs off! moment of brat* NoodlesAtNight 10:45 pm *!?!? CHILD.* *He just wipes it off with one of the pillows. Like you do.* Darkscream 10:45 pm *Giratina floats after Smokescreen. Food and rest awaits.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:45 pm Racer 😀 *shameless giggle trilling* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:46 pm Peddles: *dares to reach out, paw pats at soundwave, she has better manors and starts slinking off to Icy* Darkscream 10:47 pm [aside from rabbit butts, was fun dear noodle o/ NoodlesAtNight 10:47 pm ((glad you enjoyed!!)) (9sorry rabbit was horrible)) OmicronTheIceQueen 10:47 pm (thank you for the stream tonight, got a lot of rings wrapped for catchers. Its okay) Darkscream 10:47 pm [I usually come for the peeps than the movie. XD NoodlesAtNight 10:47 pm *Nods after them. Prowl can have his pbbt-ing, licking Predacon hatchling. Soundwave prefers the presence of the peaceful catlike one.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:48 pm *Icy gives revenge for soundwave, and licks racer, knocking him over* ([at least racer isn't full sized trying to lick XD) OmicronTheIceQueen 10:49 pm *gathers her hatchlings and leaves, flicking a wing in a good bye wave* NoodlesAtNight 10:49 pm ((god yes thank goodness)) NoodlesAtNight 10:51 pm *Ah. And now he can have his /preferred/ pillow, and not just the one behind his neck. He moves the one back there over to a couch and twists a little to rest up against Prowl's shoulder.* verdigrisprowl 10:51 pm *to be clear, prowl didn't volunteer to have a licker.* NoodlesAtNight 10:51 pm *We'll work on that next time it happens.* verdigrisprowl 10:51 pm *the licker chose him.* NoodlesAtNight 10:52 pm [[...What would you do were he caught doing something like Abel?]] *Slight sit up to turn and look.* [[He isn't. For the record.]] *And back to settle.* [[But if he had.]] verdigrisprowl 10:53 pm I suppose I'd have to arrest you, wouldn't I? NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm [[With a proper warrant, he assumes.]] verdigrisprowl 10:53 pm Of /course./ NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm [[And after that? What would you wish to see happen?]] NoodlesAtNight 10:54 pm [[And how would he be treated in prison?]] verdigrisprowl 10:54 pm ... How insulted are you going to be if I say "you in jail for your crimes"? NoodlesAtNight 10:56 pm [[He would be more insulted if you didn't. He does not expect specialized treatment from you. That you know when to put what is good before his personal connection to you is one of the things he trusts most.]] [[But he hopes you would want it done fairly. That he would be allowed a Donovan.]] [[And not a judge such as the one portrayed.]] verdigrisprowl 10:58 pm Of course I would want it done fairly. Although ideally your Donovan wouldn't have anything about the procedure to try to appeal. NoodlesAtNight 10:59 pm [[Ideally. If you were the one in charge of it, he is sure they would not. But - assuming an underling botched it. ... What then?]] NoodlesAtNight 11:00 pm *Does not wish to move from his spot; twists a feeler around to look at Prowl instead.* verdigrisprowl 11:02 pm *he's quiet a moment. and then lets out a long, hard sigh.* If I'm to remain committed to my current path—the charges... would have to be dropped. NoodlesAtNight 11:03 pm [[But you would not like it.]] *He knows that sigh. He knows it well.* verdigrisprowl 11:03 pm Do you know why Megatron is locked up in Metroplex, instead of sentenced and dealt with? NoodlesAtNight 11:03 pm [[Because neither he nor Starscream know where the mech is yet.]] verdigrisprowl 11:04 pm Do you know why Megatron /was put/ in Metroplex, instead of sentenced and dealt with? NoodlesAtNight 11:05 pm [[Ah.]] *That is a different question altogether.* [[He knows it is something to do with the Knights of Cybertron. The rest? He is still trying to understand all that went into what little he has scraped together about that trial.]] *In other words: Not quite, no.* NoodlesAtNight 11:06 pm [[Surprisingly few mechs care to discuss it with him. Something about Soundwaves being untrustworthy loyalists.]] *Rattle vent snort.* verdigrisprowl 11:07 pm Because Megatron asked for the trial to be moved to Luna Two. And, when he lost pleasure in the direction the trial was moving, revealed that he knew of an ancient Luna Two law that said crimes over a certain threshold are so severe they may be only judged by the Knights of Cybertron. He did this so that he could delay the trial indefinitely—stick himself in legal limbo where his trial cannot continue. verdigrisprowl 11:08 pm His defense attorney refused to allow the trial to be relocated to Cybertron, where the law doesn't apply, so that we could properly sentence him for all that /genocide/ he committed. His defense attorney was obeying the law. His defense attorney was doing his job. Was he promoting justice? Was he doing the RIGHT thing? The CORRECT thing? verdigrisprowl 11:09 pm Because he did the LEGAL thing—because he DID HIS JOB—Megatron has escaped sentencing for crimes that everyone, EVERYONE, knows beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt that he committed. verdigrisprowl 11:10 pm Is that /ethical/? Obedience to the law above all else? NoodlesAtNight 11:11 pm [[Ah. You throw one of his oldest questions for you back at him. He accepts it.]] *And lifts a finger to his mask, thinking.* NoodlesAtNight 11:12 pm [[There is nothing that limits the application of the Luna Two law? Nothing concerning where the crimes were committed, nothing about whether the mech is a citizen, nothing more modern overriding it? Was it proven to have been on the books at all?]] verdigrisprowl 11:14 pm Megatron followed the letter of the law. You're dodging the question by trying to find out whether what he did might have been illegal. I'm asking you whether or not it's more important to do what's legal than to continue with the sentencing of a genocidal warlord who has a habit of slipping out of prison if you give him enough time to think up how to do it. verdigrisprowl 11:15 pm Don't reframe the question. NoodlesAtNight 11:15 pm [[No, he is asking to find out whether the defense attorney WAS doing his job.]] verdigrisprowl 11:16 pm He was. You're still trying to reframe the question. NoodlesAtNight 11:18 pm [[He is not. If the mech playing defense attorney erred, then it is not a matter of strict obedience of the law. If that is so, then this is an invalid example, and it is possible to get around Megatron's scheming. Which, you can imagine, he would love to do. Since you insist it is not, then he did do the job, and he must think about the example exactly as presented. He dislikes answering things he does not have a full story for, when those answers are available. So...]] verdigrisprowl 11:19 pm There—right there! You are! I laid out the scenario and you're questioning me about loopholes! If there were a loophole to every moral quandary there wouldn't BE moral quandaries because we could just loophole our way out of them! verdigrisprowl 11:20 pm Do you have to test every angle on the structure of the example before answering it on the terms as they've been laid out? verdigrisprowl 11:21 pm What would you have done if I'd gone "oh, yeah, no, we actually DON'T know whether or not that law is real," called us idiots for not checking and then refused to answer the original question all together because it's now been made "invalid" by your standards? NoodlesAtNight 11:22 pm [[He would not have called you idiots. Putting the mech in temporary holding while you investigate is perfectly fine. And he doesn't know if he would have answered. He might have answered /both/ forms of it. As he has been thinking of doing.]] verdigrisprowl 11:22 pm DO you think we're idiots that didn't check? Do you think /I/ didn't search for every single loophole that could have possibly wiggled us out of the corner that he pushed us into? NoodlesAtNight 11:24 pm [[He doesn't /know/. He was not /here/ then. He does not know what you did in response to that revelation, or if you are still having to try to do it. Perhaps he would have offered /assistance/ if it had been necessary!]] NoodlesAtNight 11:25 pm [[For Primus' sake, he only received a full copy of the Tyrest Accord from you last week.]] verdigrisprowl 11:25 pm The Tyrest Accord is in the public domain! NoodlesAtNight 11:25 pm [[Do you think he would /trust/ the copies anyone else has?]] verdigrisprowl 11:26 pm ... /It's in the public domain/! You can—look it up in public—/everyone agrees/ to it, why the /hell/ would somebody—what good would anybody get from an /inaccurate/— verdigrisprowl 11:27 pm /Who the hell do you think would/— verdigrisprowl 11:27 pm *he's flabbergasted. he's completely gasted his flabber. he cannot, he is unable to can.* NoodlesAtNight 11:27 pm [[A scheming Megatron about to face imprisonment, exile, or death for his genocides with someone like his alternate at his side?]] verdigrisprowl 11:27 pm *at this point he's just sort of gesturing in bafflement* NoodlesAtNight 11:28 pm [[The faction was not called the Truthicons.]] [[But, as you present it--]] verdigrisprowl 11:28 pm ... There—are— *gestures vaguely toward outer space* NoodlesAtNight 11:44 pm [[If every action taken was found to be by the book, and everything Megatron claimed is true, then... then Megatron escapes his punishment, yes. But only for now. Laws written without multiversal contacts in mind cannot exclude them; the law will right itself as soon as we locate the /other/ Knights we know to exist.]]

[[...Even if that were not so, he has recently toyed with the idea that those who uphold the laws as strictly as you expect may be balanced by those who will sacrifice themselves to that law to speed what it must take a mech like you longer to correct. If Megatron lingers forever, and a mech terminates him, that mech may be given a trial of their own. Then all things are made right.]]

[[He does not /know/ if it was right, or correct. He is still struggling to find out what right and correct /is/. He thinks that there were /worse/ ways to have handled it. He thinks there are many things that could have been done that were made for mechs like him to bear, and not mechs l NoodlesAtNight 11:45 pm like you.]]

[[But he cannot say for certain. This is why he asks you these things, and speaks with you about them.... when our temperaments and our contrasting views do not get in the way.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:46 pm [[He wanted to know what /you/ thought. Whether /you/ would be displeased. Not what he thought of it. He knows what he would do, and it is not by the law.]] verdigrisprowl 11:49 pm *listens quietly; huffs at the ending.* You were quite pleased when /this/ *he nods at the screen* went by the law. And cried "corruption" at someone who was bending the law to try to make his conviction faster and easier. So why is the judge corrupt whereas somebody who martyrs himself to the law in order to execute Megatron correct? Because the spy was more sympathetic than Megatron? Because you dislike judges more than you dislike desperate assassins? verdigrisprowl 11:52 pm I don't think anything. Rather, I can think at any point of the spectrum—from "any means are justified by the end" to "the law above and beyond all else." I pick and choose where I'm going to sit on that spectrum because I have been forced, quite unhappily, to see the merits and drawbacks to every point on it. NoodlesAtNight 11:53 pm [[The judge swore to uphold his duty, not to be /him/. If the judge wants to corrupt himself, then he may announce what he has done afterward and be taken to task for it. That would, however, undo what was already decided, and a better judge would be found. Then the outcome might be whatever it could have been had the judge done his duty properly. The final result is that the correct actions by what he swore to do all lead to a fair trial, and if that is so, then denying that and not announcing himself makes him unworthy of his robes.]] verdigrisprowl 11:54 pm But I think there's something... hypocritical, in being able to look at Megatron's trial with nuance—in being able to see that it might become necessary and even correct for someone to go outside the law in order to get rid of him—while utterly decrying the judge without considering that his position may be necessary and even correct. NoodlesAtNight 11:54 pm [[And,]] *soft huff* [[you are right. He is somewhat in favor of the spy, for obvious reasons.]] verdigrisprowl 11:54 pm And I think it says more about your opinion on judges than it does about any moral position. NoodlesAtNight 11:55 pm [[But he, at least, is more honest about being dishonest.]] verdigrisprowl 11:55 pm Oh, well, that makes it alright. NoodlesAtNight 11:55 pm [[It does not.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:57 pm [[But he prefers mechs who are honest about their dishonesty over those who are dishonest about their honesty. At least with the former you know they may not always be trusted. The spy may be a spy; what damage the judge does, we may never know.]] verdigrisprowl 11:58 pm The damage he did was convicting a spy. And /not/ knowing what else he may or may not have done—I cannot fault /that/. What damage the spy does, we may never know, no matter how honest he is about being a spy. verdigrisprowl 11:59 pm The spy isn't better. NoodlesAtNight 11:59 pm [[Then both are wrong.]] Today verdigrisprowl 12:01 am ... Bold words from a spymaster. NoodlesAtNight 12:02 am [[Who has never laid claim to being a lawful, moral, wholesome mech. Merely one who is as honest as he can be about what he /is/.]]

[[He did suggest he was toying with the idea that it would be right for him to be punished if he terminated Megatron, after all.]] verdigrisprowl 12:03 am Toying with. *huff.* You sounded pretty certain earlier. verdigrisprowl 12:04 am ... For the record, don't go try to execute Megatron. NoodlesAtNight 12:05 am [[His mind can be changed, in either direction, with evidence.]] *Small shoulder shrug.* [[For now, that is the idea he is temporarily holding.]]

[[And he couldn't even if he'd planned to try. He has no idea where the mech is.]] verdigrisprowl 12:06 am Mm, well. Somebody does. NoodlesAtNight 12:06 am [[...But if it came to the two of us, he would prefer you weren't the one who did it.]] [[For what that is worth.]] [[And yes. Somebody does.]] verdigrisprowl 12:07 am ... When I made the decision that I wasn't going to be law-abiding, the statement I was making was /not/ "I think other people should be the ones to do the dirty work." NoodlesAtNight 12:07 am [[He knows. You do not want to be Optimus.]]

verdigrisprowl 7:44 pm *they look like fabric, stuffed with something squishy that might be more fabric. fabric stuffed in fabric is like, a hella status symbol.* Swerester 7:44 pm They're decorative, as far as I can tell? Or maybe they're meant for sleeping on, but they're all patterned! Want one? NoodlesAtNight 7:45 pm [[For being soft and somewhat comfortable against sore plates.]] Darkscream 7:45 pm *Wandering in with a debatable ball of hate/observation in her arms. Best not to question the small Giratina her arms.* Pillows? UnkillableJazz 7:45 pm If they're here for everyone- *Jazz snags three to make his corner of the couch into a nest* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:45 pm *here comes a dragon, with SNACKS! delicious snacks. you know you want some.* Hello, Soundwave, Prowl, everyone! *she's cheery. and that's a /lot/ of food, good lord.* verdigrisprowl 7:45 pm ... That sounds like a contradiction. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:45 pm *scampers inside* Bird? NoodlesAtNight 7:46 pm *Soundwave bobs his head at everyone as they approach. Darkscream, the dragon, Prowl - that one gets an affection ping with the greeting one - and others.* Chaoit 7:46 pm -and he's making his way into the room now, finally looking more like normal- Swerester 7:46 pm That's five taken so I have twenty more to give away here. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:46 pm Bird! NoodlesAtNight 7:47 pm [[No, no bird. She should be here next week. A musical about revolutions, you know.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 7:47 pm No Bird? AGAIN? : < verdigrisprowl 7:47 pm *returns the affection ping and sits with Soundwave* ((brb heating up dinner)) Darkscream 7:47 pm I'll take some pillows. Give this guy something to chew on. *Shall take one, Swerve. Giving it to the Giratina, which grabbed it with his wing-tendril things* MedicalMurdersaurus 7:48 pm *bends and unbends his knees in an upset toddler dance* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:48 pm *the dragon puts all the snacks on the bar where they belong. there's gummis, and mercury rolls, and rust sticks, and all sorts of snacks! someone was busy.* Darkscream 7:49 pm [No Unicron, but how about antimatter God Pokemon? Let me be dumb. I now have Mondays off. \o/ NoodlesAtNight 7:49 pm [[She's a busy bot, you know.]] *Stuffs one of the pillows just behind his neck and the other behind his lower back. Ahh.* SCProwl 7:49 pm *arrives, pings Soundwave and alternate while heading toward usual table* NoodlesAtNight 7:49 pm ((no restriction against giratina 😃 )) Swerester 7:49 pm [settles in with a pillow of his own since they *are* pretty comfy] UnkillableJazz 7:49 pm *Curious Jazz is curious* What are they? *looking at giratina* Swerester 7:49 pm Ooh, is that a pokemon? MedicalMurdersaurus 7:49 pm *upset baby dancing speeds up* Me Swoop don't WANT her to. Busy. Bot. Chaoit 7:50 pm -flops onto a seat, kinda sinking into it- NoodlesAtNight 7:50 pm [[That is your problem. Her work comes first.]] UnkillableJazz 7:50 pm ((need to hook my laptop up)) Darkscream 7:51 pm *Giratina eyed the group.* It is. He's a Giratina, a, well... Part of the Creation God trio of Pokemon. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:51 pm *drops down to sit in his butt in a show of just HOW much he doesn't like this* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:52 pm *aaaaaaand done. hopefully the tower of snacks isn't blocking anyone's line of sight. it's probably stable. she's gonna try and get a pillow and drag it over to Soundwave's couch.* NoodlesAtNight 7:52 pm [[Would you like help, dragon?]] opatoes 7:52 pm /Smokescreen's coming in again, immediately stopping to stare at the Giratina. He knew he should've brought his pumpkaboo!/ Hey! Hey, hey, I see we've got a new friend here! SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:53 pm ...Yes, please. Thank you. Swerester 7:53 pm [tosse a pillow at Smokey] NoodlesAtNight 7:53 pm *He'll stretch a feeler out to pick up the pillow - and, if the dragon wants, them as well?* opatoes 7:53 pm /Catches the pillow and tosses it back at Swerve!/ MedicalMurdersaurus 7:53 pm *breathes exaggeratedly hard to make his irritation known* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:54 pm ((nugget: tries to walk in front of my laptop me: kisses her soft lil head mercilessly nugget: gets all huffy and goes away)) NoodlesAtNight 7:54 pm [[Vent all you like, Swoop. It does not change our work schedule.]] Swerester 7:54 pm I was giving you the pillow, nerd. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:54 pm *free ride! she's the princess tonight! at least, she can pretend she is, right? no one will mind?* SCProwl 7:54 pm *greeting ping to Smokescreen* NoodlesAtNight 7:54 pm ((defeated with affection!)) opatoes 7:54 pm ... Oh! Ohh, I thought you wanted a pillow fight or something. Can I have it back? MedicalMurdersaurus 7:54 pm *throws himself back to flop back against the ground like a DIno-skin rug* Swerester 7:54 pm [snorts and tosses it back] opatoes 7:54 pm /Pingpings Round Prowl!/ SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:55 pm ((she's grabbed onto my left elbow to stare at me. she just wants to Do Whatever I Do but she is very unhelpful when on the lappytop)) Darkscream 7:55 pm *Giratina eyes Smokesceen with a baleful look. It's normal.* Swoop, you're acting less like a fierce Dinobot and more like a toddler. opatoes 7:56 pm /tries to imitate that baleful look. Doesn't work very well./ MedicalMurdersaurus 7:56 pm Nuh UH UnkillableJazz 7:56 pm (🔙) MedicalMurdersaurus 7:56 pm Me Swoop not a BAAAAABY Darkscream 7:58 pm *Giratina wiggled a tendril at Smokescreen. It was in it's altered forme to be more of a noodle dragon.* Well you are acting a bit like one. Fine to be unhappy not seeing your friend, just don't throw a tantrum. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:59 pm *pops up into a seated position and huffs dramatically* Me Swoop not tantrum NoodlesAtNight 8:00 pm ((we'll start in ten minutes, get all your snacks and stuff)) opatoes 8:00 pm /Smokescreen's sticking his glossa out at the tendril. Come on, Giratina, don't do what Soundwave does and stop wiggling your tendrils around!/ UnkillableJazz 8:00 pm *Jazz is bobbing along to the song* Darkscream 8:02 pm *Careful Smokescreen, Giratina might poke it and who knows what'd happen then.* That's good then. Cause I don't tell jokes to Dinbots that throw them. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:02 pm *Giratina's tentacle wiggling is Valid, just like Soundwave* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:02 pm *tilt his feet back and forth, grumbling* Me Swoop want jokes. Jokes AND Her Bird! opatoes 8:03 pm /If Giratina pokes his glossa, he's probably going to bite a feeler, so watch out!/ SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:03 pm ((pls don't laugh at me, but I thought the lorde version was original until just now)) verdigrisprowl 8:03 pm (🔙) ((i said BACK, i didn't make an emoji)) NoodlesAtNight 8:03 pm ((why laugh? if that's the one you knew, that's the one you knew)) verdigrisprowl 8:03 pm ((rabbit stop that NoodlesAtNight 8:04 pm ((five minutes to start!)) opatoes 8:04 pm ((rabbit why ((wait... wait it actually does that now? verdigrisprowl 8:04 pm ((lord version of what? did lorde cover blowing in the wind or was it last song?)) opatoes 8:04 pm ((welcome BACK Darkscream 8:04 pm *Giratina is debating doing so. Noodle-ghosts his way out of Darkscream's grasp to coil around a wing. Holding his pillow close. Still eyeing Smokescreen.* Can't you talk to her other times, Swoop? Not just movie nights? UnkillableJazz 8:04 pm ((everybody wants to rule the world) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:04 pm ((the lorde version of everybody wants to rule the world)) MedicalMurdersaurus 8:05 pm YAH! But. Me Swoop want Her Bird NOW. Cause Bob : < NoodlesAtNight 8:05 pm [[What about Bob?]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:05 pm Him back NoodlesAtNight 8:05 pm ((*cackles to self*)) SCProwl 8:05 pm ((there's songs I know and like the cover of better verdigrisprowl 8:06 pm ((OH. yes, i've heard lorde's cover of that. i just did not remember it existed.)) ((yeah there are a few songs that i like the cover version of better)) Darkscream 8:06 pm Oh. *Hadn't been there when he went missing.* Isn't that a good thing that he's back? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:07 pm ((I listen to a /lot/ of vocaloid so covers are half my playlist >->)) Swerester 8:07 pm //i have some songs i dont like but i enjoy the nightcore versions of lmaop opatoes 8:07 pm /Giratina, please. Smokescreen's going to set his pillow down near Round Prowl, before moving to grab a couple drinks. ... He wonders if Giratina can drink this stuff/ opatoes 8:07 pm ((YEAH there's a few songs that are just better in nightcore form MedicalMurdersaurus 8:07 pm *huffs and glances away* SCProwl 8:08 pm Bob... the insecticon? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:08 pm Yah Bob NoodlesAtNight 8:08 pm ((WARNINGS: Bridge of Spies // Foul language, imprisonment and torture, violence and death, typical cold war sentiments)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:08 pm ((the funniest/worst part is that given the fact that english subs are the rule rather than the exception on any song that's been out long enough, I understand the lyrics of vocaloid songs better than most popular english songs. gotta love auditory processing bullshit)) SCProwl 8:08 pm Where is he back from? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:08 pm Dead NoodlesAtNight 8:08 pm *Sits up.* [[Bob is a TERRORCON?]] Darkscream 8:09 pm *Giratina doesn't like anyone, Smokescreen.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:09 pm Bob is a zombie? SCProwl 8:09 pm *digests that for a very long awkward moment* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:09 pm *cocks head* What that? SCProwl 8:09 pm What? UnkillableJazz 8:09 pm ((Yeah. I've got an auditory delay)) SCProwl 8:09 pm They're undead Cybertronian. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:09 pm Undead mean zombie Nah opatoes 8:09 pm /Well, Smokescreen likes Giratina! And he's going to go over to Giratina and offer a cube of high grade, mostly out of curiosity./ MedicalMurdersaurus 8:09 pm Him Bob normal Bob NoodlesAtNight 8:10 pm [[Oh. Good. It pleases him to hear that he has been found at last.]] *Poor naive bug.* Swerester 8:10 pm I thought Bob was just missing? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:10 pm ...So does that mean he was dead dead or just presumed dead? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm *looks at the floor, scratched at it and scrunching his nose up* SCProwl 8:10 pm Oh, he was missing. Was he kidnapped? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm *hears a lot of questions, answers none of them but takes it out on the floor instead, enjoy your new small groove, Soundwave* Darkscream 8:11 pm *While Darkscream is listening in on this conversation, Giratina was staring at Smokescreen. Eyeing the drink. Pokes at with a tendril. Dipping the red tip in to watch the liquid swirl around.* NoodlesAtNight 8:11 pm [[SWOOP. Do you want to go home already?]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:11 pm *sticks his tongue out* NoodlesAtNight 8:11 pm [[Outside. Now.]] SCProwl 8:11 pm Soundwave. NoodlesAtNight 8:12 pm [[Prowl.]] Chaoit 8:12 pm -isn't getting involved. Last time nearly ended up with Dinobot to face- opatoes 8:12 pm /Smokescreen's laughing a bit, enjoying Giratina's reaction, and sets the drink down in front of him, holding his servo out, trying to ask before petting him./ SCProwl 8:13 pm It's good that your friend is back. Will he start coming to movie nights again? Darkscream 8:13 pm Swoop?

*Giratina shifted around Darkscream's wing to eye the drink then Smokescreen. Pokes at the servo.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:14 pm *HUFFS* FINE *stands up from the floor in the most dramatic of fashions* whAT? Darkscream 8:16 pm *Shakes her helm. Nudges Giratina off from her wing, the Pokemon hovering there, to go over to him. Motions outside with her helm.* Company? NoodlesAtNight 8:16 pm *Leeeean of interest.* NoodlesAtNight 8:17 pm *Now what's in that little drop, he wonders.* SCProwl 8:17 pm *oh right, the movie's started* Could I have a visual please? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:17 pm Whatever. *pronounced with every bit of drama his scrawny body is capable of producing* verdigrisprowl 8:17 pm Oh. I've got it. *ping, visuals.* SCProwl 8:18 pm Thank you. *accepts, oh, this is about spies* NoodlesAtNight 8:18 pm [[Ah, clever. Clever.]] Swerester 8:18 pm Did anyone ever do something like this with a shanix during the war? NoodlesAtNight 8:19 pm [[Naturally. He's surprised the humans thought of it.]] UnkillableJazz 8:19 pm Interestin' way to pass a note. NoodlesAtNight 8:19 pm [[We passed messages in all manner of things.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:19 pm ...The teeth might be poisoned. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:20 pm They probably should not give them to him Darkscream 8:20 pm *Giratina was going to coil around Smokescreen's arm. Still holding his pillow.*

*Darkscream pat Swoop's wing to head outside with him.* Feel better chasing a Seeker through the skies? NoodlesAtNight 8:20 pm [[Fools.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:20 pm ((I'm getting a crazy lag. Is that just me?)) UnkillableJazz 8:21 pm should of cleaned the pallete for him verdigrisprowl 8:21 pm We had to give up shanix pretty early in the war. NoodlesAtNight 8:21 pm ((it's not laggin here)) opatoes 8:21 pm /Wait, wait, frag. Smokescreen's squirming a bit, surprised at the sudden tendril on him./ Hey, hey-! Good to see you, too. NoodlesAtNight 8:21 pm [[Indeed they should have. And a good point about his teeth.]] Darkscream 8:22 pm *There is a whole mini Giratina on your arm, Smokescreen. Have fun with the ghost noodle and the tingling feeling as he prods.* UnkillableJazz 8:22 pm ((I'm getting lag occasionally from poor internet connection)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:22 pm I don't know how often human teeth fall out, but surely they've thought of a hollow "tooth" filled with poison. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:22 pm .... Me Swoop like to chasing NoodlesAtNight 8:23 pm [[Hm. He argues well.]] opatoes 8:23 pm /He's squirming as Giratina starts to prod, laughing./ Come on- phfhaha- am I that interesting? UnkillableJazz 8:23 pm None of them need to be hollowed verdigrisprowl 8:23 pm Cyanide pills. That's what humans use. Darkscream 8:23 pm Then outside then. No angry Soundwaves out there. We'll be high enough that even your flamethrower wont hit anything. *Smiles. Wiggles her wings.* verdigrisprowl 8:23 pm Cyanide is poisonous to humans. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:24 pm Well, yes, it's poisonous to dragons too. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:24 pm *starts to have a spring in his step despite himself, just can't stay angry like his brothers can* Yah! SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:24 pm ...I'm sorry, I shouldn't be like that. Methanol is poisonous to humans, and most of the other cousins, but not to my species. UnkillableJazz 8:24 pm potent poisons can be done with just traces. verdigrisprowl 8:25 pm *shrugs* I don't know what's poisonous to dragons. NoodlesAtNight 8:25 pm [][][]It can't look like.[][][] [[They say nothing about whether or not it really is.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 8:25 pm *big predacon comes in, being stalked by two hatchling she's ignoring, checks to see if its safe for them* Darkscream 8:25 pm *Giratina moved to settle around a door-wing. Using his tendrils to hold on while setting his head down on the pillow. Staying here. Give him puffs and he may allow pets.*

*Darkscream meanwhile chuckled and half bounced on her pedes outside.* C'mon then Swoop. See if you can catch me in the air~. UnkillableJazz 8:26 pm intentionally losing cases causes legal issues- at least currently SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:26 pm Oh, no, she got stood up by his assistant. NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm [[Seems so.]] UnkillableJazz 8:27 pm Hung out in one of those shelters for a while NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm [[Did you?]] opatoes 8:28 pm /Sighs, accepting his fate. He doesn't have many pokepuffs, but he does have some poffins that he made for his pumpkaboo- he found a recipe to make poffins!/ MedicalMurdersaurus 8:28 pm *starts off in a trot but ends up dashing straight out the door* NoodlesAtNight 8:28 pm [[Do many foreign agents re-- ha]] UnkillableJazz 8:30 pm Ratchet converted one of those bomb shelters into a emergency medbay Darkscream 8:31 pm *Well feed him something, Smokescreen. Giratina is contented there. Be good and he might move into your arms.*

*Delayed waves to V.Prowl and Soundwave.* I'll keep Swoop busy. Any trouble I'll take responsibility for, Soundwave. NoodlesAtNight 8:31 pm [[Hmm. As you like.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:32 pm I doubt he took the duty with the idea that he would escape the chair if caught. opatoes 8:32 pm /He's slowly pulling out a few poffins, and is offering them over to Giratina. See? He's being good!/ verdigrisprowl 8:32 pm *huff. approves of the spy's attitude.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:32 pm Although electrocution... Ouch. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:32 pm *has no idea he's got a sitter, just starts circling* verdigrisprowl 8:32 pm *"would it help" indeed* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:34 pm *headtilts at screen* verdigrisprowl 8:35 pm Would that all wars were fought with intelligence instead of arms. UnkillableJazz 8:35 pm ((my connection is breaking up a bit)) Darkscream 8:35 pm *Giratina eyes the puffs. Pokes at the puffin with a tendril to spear it. Pulls it close and nibbles on it. Rumbles his approval as he eats.*

*Darkscream meanwhile took to the skies. Might just try to land on his back. Assuming he's in pteradon form.* Hi. opatoes 8:36 pm /Slowly reaches to pet Giratina as he nibbles on the poffins, doorwings perking up./ verdigrisprowl 8:37 pm I like how he made a big deal about how secret their mission is, and then left without telling them what their mission is. NoodlesAtNight 8:37 pm [[Corrupt fleshling.]] verdigrisprowl 8:37 pm So secret, even they're not allowed to know what it is. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:37 pm *can't fly in robot mode but is still very capable of shrieking with laughter as a borb* UnkillableJazz 8:38 pm Uh oh NoodlesAtNight 8:38 pm *Huffs* [[He doesn't think he has ever encountered something /that/ secret before.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:38 pm And you know those sorts would lambast the other side if such was done to "their" people. verdigrisprowl 8:38 pm *leans on Soundwave.* I'm not sure he is corrupt. Only normal. UnkillableJazz 8:38 pm An' the mission's collectin' info on the soviets UnkillableJazz 8:39 pm Probably got drops with detailed plans SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:39 pm That's an odd way to chat. verdigrisprowl 8:39 pm He's behaving poorly. He's not maintaining the highest rigorous standards of absolute moral impeccability that a judge should maintain. Darkscream 8:39 pm *Puffins for pets. A good trade. Giratina does eye Smokescreen when he does. Give good pets.*

*Pets Swoop's crest.* If you can nip my wing or touch it, I'll count it as a catch, kay? Then we can keep going until one of us tires. verdigrisprowl 8:39 pm But it's not corruption. Just averageness. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:39 pm Ooooh, it's because he's breaking the law. NoodlesAtNight 8:40 pm *Leans against Prowl and nods to both him and the dragon.* [[Of course they would. And corruption and averageness are not exclusive.]] UnkillableJazz 8:40 pm good lawyer verdigrisprowl 8:40 pm No. But he's not being corrupt and average. Just average. opatoes 8:40 pm /Smokescreen's giving firm, confident pets as he continues to provide poffins./ MedicalMurdersaurus 8:40 pm Me Swoop NEVER tired! Me Swoop DINOBOT! SCProwl 8:40 pm Oh please. UnkillableJazz 8:40 pm human hero complex NoodlesAtNight 8:41 pm *Huff.* SCProwl 8:41 pm *snorts* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:41 pm *the dragon considers Prowl, and what she means to say* ...I always feel like saying that corruptness is average implies that I don't think it can or should be changed. NoodlesAtNight 8:41 pm [[A rare being, this lawyer. Would that so many were as devoted to being who they... should be...]] *Ohhhhh.* NoodlesAtNight 8:42 pm [[...It is beautiful, if old.]] opatoes 8:42 pm Soundwave, is this gonna be like Phoenix Wright? Are we gonna see them in court? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:42 pm *hopefully that didn't sound like her being an ass. she doesn't mean to upset prowl or anything. she just has feelings.* NoodlesAtNight 8:42 pm *Shakes his head slightly.* [[He does not know.]] verdigrisprowl 8:42 pm "The Article." Hm. Darkscream 8:42 pm *Giratina tilts his head. Give him scritches under the crown.*

Even Dinobots need to rest a bit. Well I will have to. You don't want to chase tired prey. *Hops off and pulls out a bag of energon sweets. Tosses one to Swoop.* Ready? NoodlesAtNight 8:42 pm *Thinks the dragon makes a good point.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:43 pm *yay* opatoes 8:43 pm Fair enough. Phoenix Wright is pretty fun, though! I hope we get to see organic courts, they're pretty wild. They might have a parrot testify. SCProwl 8:43 pm A what? opatoes 8:43 pm A parrot! They're birds. UnkillableJazz 8:43 pm Not bad, specially for the tech stage SCProwl 8:43 pm Oh. All right. verdigrisprowl 8:44 pm *barely even registered that the dragon said something, honestly. he was talking with soundwave.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:44 pm [O,o] SCProwl 8:44 pm *Buzzsaw and Laserbeak are birds. They're perfectly capable of testifying, so Prowl has no issue with an organic bird doing the same* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:44 pm *catches the goodie in his beak reflexively* YAH!*drops the goodie* WHoops kehehheh SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:45 pm *yeah that's fair she isn't as interesting as soundwave* opatoes 8:46 pm Oooh- so they are gonna show the court process NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm [[That,]] *pointing at the screen* [[is not average. That is willful, deliberate dismissal of the law he is sworn to oversee.]] verdigrisprowl 8:46 pm It most certainly is. UnkillableJazz 8:46 pm as a sentient being, hard headed judge NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm [[Is there no one with whom he can register complaints about the judge's refusal to function properly?]] Darkscream 8:46 pm *Laughs and dives to catch it. She could easily fly in her root form.* Try not to drop it this time. *Tosses the sweet again then puts the rest away.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:46 pm (*comes back* what did I miss?) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:46 pm A bigger, more important judge? NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm [[Why continue to sit at a trial he knows is wrong?]] SCProwl 8:47 pm Apparently no--what the... what are they doing? NoodlesAtNight 8:47 pm ((depends on what you saw last)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:47 pm ...That is deeply concerning. verdigrisprowl 8:47 pm If he doesn't continue to sit at it, then the defendant won't have a lawyer. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:47 pm Why are they upsetting the bitlets. SCProwl 8:47 pm Why were they all chanting like that at the flag? UnkillableJazz 8:47 pm scare tactics NoodlesAtNight 8:48 pm [[Can he not take the defendant with him? Refuse to accept a poor judge?]] *Glance at the other Prowl.* [[Indoctrination.]] SCProwl 8:48 pm Ugh. verdigrisprowl 8:48 pm *snorts* He can't take the defendant with him. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:48 pm *catches it and rolls* KEHheheh OmicronTheIceQueen 8:48 pm *Icy jumps to the side, making a pained sound- not hurt though* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:48 pm Why would they tell this to hatchlings, anyways? Just to scare them? OmicronTheIceQueen 8:49 pm Likely UnkillableJazz 8:49 pm control it seems NoodlesAtNight 8:49 pm [[A group of hatchli-- of younglings that is taught to fear and hate the enemy will grow to be adults that fear and hate the enemy.]] NoodlesAtNight 8:50 pm [[You reached the verdict before you heard anything!]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:50 pm ...Yes. Yes they will, won't they. *the dragon flattens down. it's a sad thought. poor hatchlings.* verdigrisprowl 8:50 pm They said in the newspaper that they had several days of testimony. UnkillableJazz 8:50 pm Even if there is no enemy to hate verdigrisprowl 8:51 pm We skipped over the part where they heard everything. NoodlesAtNight 8:51 pm [[No, no - he means that the human was determined to have the spy pinned down as a spy before the trial began.]] Darkscream 8:51 pm *Grins and takes off in flight.* Try and catch me, Swoop! *Keeps to her root form for better agility.* verdigrisprowl 8:51 pm Oh. Yes, that part. ... It's still not "corruption." It's something just as bad as corruption, but it doesn't meat the definition. OmicronTheIceQueen 8:52 pm *looks at her hatchlings, chewing on her tail* Swerester 8:52 pm Can they actually put him in jail if he's not even a citizen and is there illegally from another country? Don't they have to send him home? [how do human laws work???] verdigrisprowl 8:52 pm I believe that personal benefit is an integral part of the definition of corruption. OmicronTheIceQueen 8:52 pm *hopes she's been raising her broods well...* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:52 pm *dives after her with a shriek* verdigrisprowl 8:52 pm The judge's conduct was horrible, but it didn't come with a personal benefit. NoodlesAtNight 8:52 pm [[He will be seen as the judge who took down a spy. It will help his career.]] thebestdecepticonleader 8:53 pm *gasp* sparklings verdigrisprowl 8:53 pm That's not the reason he did it. Not from the evidence presented. OmicronTheIceQueen 8:53 pm Racer: *chewing on a spine, looks up* ?? NoodlesAtNight 8:54 pm [[Hm. Then he may not be corrupt, by your definition, but he still deserves to be stripped of all power.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:54 pm *oh, Icy, of course you've been doing well.* thebestdecepticonleader 8:54 pm Can I see the sparklings? NoodlesAtNight 8:54 pm *Offers dragon a scratch. What he wouldn't give to see her claw the judge.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:54 pm *accepts the scritch. she'd rip his face off, Soundy, you know she would.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:55 pm *she still worries about it* you may, but your armor might get chewed on thebestdecepticonleader 8:55 pm As long as they don't actually eat me, that's fine I need to get used to being around sparklings SCProwl 8:56 pm That sounds perfectly plausible. NoodlesAtNight 8:56 pm [[What idiot does not plan for the possibility that their spy will not return? Even he and his faced trouble from time to time.]] SCProwl 8:56 pm One of those pilots is going to be captured. Darkscream 8:56 pm *Grins behind her. Waves at Swoop, taking him on a thrillride chase above Cybertron. Making sure they didn't get too close to buildings.* OmicronTheIceQueen 8:57 pm *Racer and Peddles are pony sized, not too big, nor thick in bulk yet* thebestdecepticonleader 8:57 pm Can I pet them, do they like being patted? thebestdecepticonleader 8:58 pm *sits on floor to get closer* SCProwl 8:58 pm *sits forward with interest* NoodlesAtNight 8:58 pm [[Hmph. So he has something resembling a brain somewhere in there after all.]] NoodlesAtNight 8:59 pm *Leans up against Prowl. Stories like this make him glad that his amica is who he once again is.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:59 pm *can't accelerate like a seeker but once he gets cookin' he's halling ass* verdigrisprowl 8:59 pm *dims optics against all the flashing* opatoes 8:59 pm /Smokescreen finally offers under-crown scritches./ OmicronTheIceQueen 9:00 pm Racer: *goes RIGHT over to new mech on the ground* HAI!! *he's gonna climb into your lap here as you're sitting* NoodlesAtNight 9:00 pm [[The family of a lawyer knows who that person is. If they do not wish to be associated with what they may have to do, then they should go.]] verdigrisprowl 9:00 pm They should have done the damn search right with a warrant in the first place. He's correct. There is legal grounds for an appeal. thebestdecepticonleader 9:01 pm Hello there little one. *pet pet* NoodlesAtNight 9:01 pm *Glance.* [[And you support him seeking one?]] verdigrisprowl 9:01 pm However, the man IS a spy. He is, indeed, actually guilty of the crime of which he's being accused. thebestdecepticonleader 9:01 pm Are we 100% sure he is a spy and not falsely accused? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:01 pm Spies happen. Wherever there are secrets, people want to learn them. They still deserve to be treated justly. verdigrisprowl 9:02 pm Well, yes, we saw him in the middle of spy work. They found the evidence. They found the evidence illegally, but they found the evidence. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:02 pm Goddess, who would do that? To a house with hatchlings no less? thebestdecepticonleader 9:03 pm Well yeah, but one time looking at something you shouldn't, doesn't make you a spy Not necessarily SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:03 pm ... *she's not going to blame the officer for the shooting. she's not going to do it when Prowl's here.* NoodlesAtNight 9:03 pm [[Cowards.]] UnkillableJazz 9:03 pm Well if you got a warrant in the first place he wouldn't argue the case NoodlesAtNight 9:03 pm *To the question of who would shoot at someone's hatchling.* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:03 pm Racer: *flaps his wings and closes them, little dragon happy to have some pets, giving new mech a careful sniff inspection* Darkscream 9:04 pm *Giratina is pleased with this. Eyes closing in content. Puffs and scritches.*

*Darkscream laughed and kept making turns in the air to keep Swoop from catching her. Careful about her own speed so she didn't get out of his sight.* verdigrisprowl 9:04 pm He should not have been arrested like that. He should have been arrested with all the proper warrants, and his defense should have been given the adequate time to prepare the defense. NoodlesAtNight 9:04 pm [[...Thank you, Jazz.]] verdigrisprowl 9:04 pm And then he should have been convicted for his crimes. NoodlesAtNight 9:04 pm [[He was not, however. And because he was not, this lawyer is acting with honor.]] *Pause.* [[He... approves of them.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:05 pm It's good when honest, honorable people are in positions to defend justi- oooh, which poison are they using? thebestdecepticonleader 9:05 pm I'm not going to say that you shouldn't be punished if you have truly done something wrong, but... they don't seem to be in the right verdigrisprowl 9:05 pm The lawyer is doing the good thing. *is not certain it's the correct thing.* SCProwl 9:05 pm They didn't say anything except that it was fast-acting. UnkillableJazz 9:06 pm The lawyer is ethical OmicronTheIceQueen 9:06 pm seems so thebestdecepticonleader 9:06 pm And this is coming from a Decepticon with extremely questionable morals. If I think something is wrong then it really is. verdigrisprowl 9:06 pm Depends on which school of ethics you're following. opatoes 9:06 pm /Scritch, scritch, rub. He feels pretty lucky to have Giratina in his lap right about now!/ OmicronTheIceQueen 9:06 pm *chuckles* thebestdecepticonleader 9:07 pm What is a school of ethics? NoodlesAtNight 9:07 pm *Soundwave clicks the claws of his feeler together.* [[AH. He knows this story. An exhibit--]] *To the dragon:* [[It was cyanide.]] verdigrisprowl 9:07 pm ... Different people have different opinions on what's right and wrong, and thus, have different codes of ethics. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:07 pm *Racer peeks up at claw clicking* NoodlesAtNight 9:08 pm *It is hard to recognize humans by their faces when they do not match the historical record, but he knows some of the tale of the pilot and the pin. He settles in to see where this is going.* Darkscream 9:08 pm *Giratina is a happy poke-deity right now. Getting fed and the scritches were decent. Even changed back to his normal forme to lay on the pillow.* thebestdecepticonleader 9:08 pm Oh, right UnkillableJazz 9:08 pm Good speach thebestdecepticonleader 9:08 pm Is this a true story? NoodlesAtNight 9:08 pm [[It is based on true events.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:09 pm [[Some details are no doubt rearranged or modified. But the basis is there. This human, for example.]] Chaoit 9:09 pm -covers face- verdigrisprowl 9:09 pm Didn't do a very good job of keeping this mission secret, did they, if there's a movie about it. thebestdecepticonleader 9:09 pm Humans are weird Chaoit 9:09 pm -why heights?- OmicronTheIceQueen 9:09 pm Racer *looks about to jump up, has a forepaw on starscream's chest....he will climb up if aloud and be talll* UnkillableJazz 9:09 pm Ah, right. Trying to remember. did they do a trade? thebestdecepticonleader 9:09 pm *helps racer up* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:09 pm Ah. The human was exaggerating there, maybe. It's not instantaneous- at least not for my species. It's about five or ten minutes, though, which is really close enough. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:09 pm well then O,o NoodlesAtNight 9:10 pm [[Humans declassify certain files after a while. Stories also get leaked. Some things are told to educate. He does not know which case this is.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 9:10 pm ((oh my GOD)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:10 pm Racer *sitting on seeker shoulders, all proud, he's TALL...ish* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:10 pm ((I'd have pissed myself and died if this was me right now, tbh)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:10 pm (same) opatoes 9:10 pm /Smokescreen's continuing the petting, one servo gently trying to pet Giratina's wings./ thebestdecepticonleader 9:10 pm He should be dead after that verdigrisprowl 9:11 pm Well, that was nearly a lot more unfortunate. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:11 pm aren't those masks needed? Chaoit 9:11 pm -all good?- NoodlesAtNight 9:11 pm [[Typically.]] *All good, Blaster.* *Shakes his helm and rests it against Prowl's shoulder again. This Supreme Court is as horrid as the other judge.* Chaoit 9:11 pm -peers out, and sighs. Oh good- OmicronTheIceQueen 9:12 pm why did they name the defender human? again? Darkscream 9:12 pm *Giratina smacks the servo away. No. Head pets. Give him something tastier for wing pets. Is the trade.* NoodlesAtNight 9:12 pm [[Hmph. They give him the case and abandon him for taking it. Disloyal meatbags.]] thebestdecepticonleader 9:13 pm What is an East Germany? OmicronTheIceQueen 9:13 pm Racer: *little fangs noms a bit on an armor edge* opatoes 9:13 pm /Aww- fine, fine. Smokescreen continues the head scritches and poffin offerings./ SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:14 pm They gave him the case because they wanted him to treat it like the judges did. He has ethics, which means he's not malleable enough for them. thebestdecepticonleader 9:14 pm Hey there, not the wings, anywhere else is okay Darkscream 9:15 pm *Good. Giratina is going to shift on his pillow so the other side of his head gets pets.* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:15 pm Racer *realistically speaking its soft chew, on his shoulder* NoodlesAtNight 9:15 pm [[Germany is a human territory. He assumes East Germany is a subsection of it.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:16 pm [[Or a separate territory to its east.]] Darkscream 9:16 pm This message has been removed. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:17 pm You can shrug him off if he chews to much *Icy is laying down, curling up loosely around her other hatchling to watch* Chaoit 9:17 pm ((giratina god or cat? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:18 pm ((yes)) Chaoit 9:18 pm ((hehe NoodlesAtNight 9:18 pm [[...They do ask a lot of this fleshling.]] Darkscream 9:18 pm [Both and I guess I'm not watching the movie anymore. Rabbit is deciding I don't get to.] NoodlesAtNight 9:18 pm ((DDDD😧 nooooo)) opatoes 9:19 pm ((D : Chaoit 9:19 pm ((rabbit, you mean Darkscream 9:19 pm [Chat is fine, but it wont connect to the video] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:19 pm ...Goddess, what is going on here. NoodlesAtNight 9:20 pm [[Territory squabbles. What other reason to build a wall in the middle of an open, public area?]] Chaoit 9:20 pm Stupidity? NoodlesAtNight 9:21 pm *Huff* Chaoit 9:21 pm What? Darkscream 9:22 pm [*goes from spy movies to an anime about a slime befriending a tsundere dragon cause rabbit is cruel* Least DS is off playing with Swoop and Smokey made a friend with ANTOHER god.] NoodlesAtNight 9:22 pm [[Nothing. Your remark amused him.]] Chaoit 9:23 pm Oh. Yay? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:23 pm Stupidity transcends species, I suppose. verdigrisprowl 9:23 pm He just ignores her when she speaks. He's a terrible partner. MedicalMurdersaurus 9:23 pm ((Swoop and DS can just go off and wreck havock for a million hours)) ((I'm going to be ooc watching while I write)) NoodlesAtNight 9:24 pm ((kk)) verdigrisprowl 9:24 pm He brushes her aside and brushes off her concerns, and has throughout the movie, as her family is getting shot at. Darkscream 9:24 pm [\o/ goodtimes NoodlesAtNight 9:25 pm [[Yes. He does do her a disservice. At the very least, if he is determined to do the job he is given, he should make arrangements to keep them safe.]] verdigrisprowl 9:25 pm And he should respect her fears—her /very justified/ fears—even as he disagrees with them. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:25 pm you would think he had them moved verdigrisprowl 9:25 pm Rather than simply ignoring her. NoodlesAtNight 9:26 pm *Nods.* [[Indeed.]] Chaoit 9:26 pm ...wait opatoes 9:26 pm ((aszxcvbnm smokey just befriends every god Chaoit 9:26 pm he didn't move after being shot at? NoodlesAtNight 9:26 pm ((this scene amazes me. i have lived in this apartment for 4.5 months and i STILL can't memorize the damn phone #)) NoodlesAtNight 9:27 pm [[Apparently not.]] Chaoit 9:27 pm ............. verdigrisprowl 9:27 pm ((it took me years to memorize my own cell phone number)) Chaoit 9:28 pm Does he have screws loose up there? verdigrisprowl 9:28 pm ((ffs translate the subs you lazy subtitlers)) opatoes 9:28 pm ((zxcvbn im weirdly good at memorizing numbers in general for some reason i stole everyone's number memorization skills verdigrisprowl 9:28 pm ((give them back)) NoodlesAtNight 9:28 pm ((not the subtitlers, blame the people paying to have it subtitled)) verdigrisprowl 9:28 pm ((lazy subtitler hirer)) SCProwl 9:28 pm ((less lazy and more whoever--what cro said opatoes 9:28 pm ((but i like being able to memorize numbers! D : NoodlesAtNight 9:28 pm (($5 says they didn't bother paying the extra to have a fluent speaker do those parts)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:29 pm (video comped out on me) NoodlesAtNight 9:30 pm [[...It occurs to him that a government with an interest in beating a foreign enemy should /want/ to rescue a person who has written a fat thesis on said enemy's economics and trading habits.]] verdigrisprowl 9:30 pm Yes, it should. NoodlesAtNight 9:30 pm [[Idiots.]] SCProwl 9:30 pm If he can get the thesis back. verdigrisprowl 9:30 pm But trade for the student and you don't get the spy. verdigrisprowl 9:31 pm Trade a spy for a spy. You can trade an econ student for an econ student. Chaoit 9:31 pm They're not showing much sense in any area OmicronTheIceQueen 9:31 pm *snorts at that* NoodlesAtNight 9:31 pm *Huffs softly* [[They had best hope they can find a criminal economy student from the other country, then.]] UnkillableJazz 9:31 pm end justifies the means mentality has them stooping to certain lows OmicronTheIceQueen 9:31 pm there's very little sense here I would say verdigrisprowl 9:31 pm Pff. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:32 pm Racer: PFFT NoodlesAtNight 9:32 pm ((i increase my bet to $10 seeing as they would've had to pay 3x over - once for english, once for russian, once for german) verdigrisprowl 9:32 pm Fair trade for directions. UnkillableJazz 9:32 pm They took his jacket NoodlesAtNight 9:32 pm ((and they really ought have 😐 )) thebestdecepticonleader 9:33 pm ((You would think that they could have just used the script...)) Chaoit 9:33 pm *long sigh* NoodlesAtNight 9:33 pm *Soundwave twitches his helm and leans forward.* verdigrisprowl 9:33 pm ... Somehow I'm not buying their story. NoodlesAtNight 9:34 pm [[...She has the wrong accent for someone in a Moscow orchestra.]] Darkscream 9:34 pm *Girtatina decides to bite Smokescreen's servo to see how it tastes.* NoodlesAtNight 9:34 pm [[And these are terrible actors, also.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 9:34 pm yes SCProwl 9:35 pm She composed herself rather quickly. NoodlesAtNight 9:35 pm *That walk proved it. Those faces.* verdigrisprowl 9:35 pm Why did they bring in a fake family? To... tug at his heartstrings? He's already here to help with the trade. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:35 pm baaaad acting thebestdecepticonleader 9:35 pm ((One day someone should stream The Red Baron, it is awful)) NoodlesAtNight 9:36 pm [[He expects it is to get him to simply hand Abel over with no trade.]] *Sits up.* [[...He goes for both?]] *Oooh. Daring.* verdigrisprowl 9:36 pm ... Hff. He just—stuck the econ student in the deal. NoodlesAtNight 9:37 pm *Ha. He was right. They were trying to just scam Abel off him.* SCProwl 9:38 pm Ah. Clever. NoodlesAtNight 9:38 pm *Huffing to himself.* verdigrisprowl 9:40 pm ... Now why did they arrange to steal his coat? NoodlesAtNight 9:41 pm [[Put him in a miserable state. Make him more inclined to rush through things. Make his thoughts clouded with sickness.]] thebestdecepticonleader 9:41 pm Maybe it was a nice coat? verdigrisprowl 9:41 pm To make him impatient? To put him on edge? thebestdecepticonleader 9:41 pm To see if he is carrying papers that suggest he is spying verdigrisprowl 9:41 pm Can't be that nice. He said it came from sacks. NoodlesAtNight 9:41 pm [[That is why he would do it, at least, if we needed such things as coats.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:42 pm [[And what Starscream said.]] [[Perhaps they are very fashionable sacks.]] [[Ha.]] UnkillableJazz 9:42 pm caught out NoodlesAtNight 9:43 pm [[Never tell a story you cannot keep perfectly straight.]] SCProwl 9:43 pm Isn't a sax an instrument? verdigrisprowl 9:43 pm Names are hard. NoodlesAtNight 9:44 pm [[One of them, yes.]] *Nods.* [[And they are. All the more reason they should have practiced. They clearly threw together a rush job.]] verdigrisprowl 9:44 pm Don't be stupid. Get them both if you can. NoodlesAtNight 9:45 pm *The mismatched family, the poor mimicry, the bad information retention... sloppy, sloppy.* verdigrisprowl 9:45 pm Try to get both, and if it fails, then get only Powers. But first try for both if you think you can. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:45 pm did that guard just smack himself on the light? NoodlesAtNight 9:46 pm ((omg did i miss that)) OmicronTheIceQueen 9:46 pm (ran right into it) thebestdecepticonleader 9:47 pm This is... I'm *turns away from the screen* NoodlesAtNight 9:47 pm *Watches Starscream curiously.* thebestdecepticonleader 9:48 pm Uh is... *peeks* Okay it's over verdigrisprowl 9:48 pm *also glances at. hm. has he been tortured?* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:48 pm Racer: -gives starscream a lick on the side of his helm- thebestdecepticonleader 9:48 pm *pats again* NoodlesAtNight 9:49 pm *Makes a note of this for future warnings. And potential use, in emergency.* Chaoit 9:49 pm -who's been through the war and hasn't been at some point?- verdigrisprowl 9:49 pm Did he just give away the secret number that he was supposed to memorize and destroy. thebestdecepticonleader 9:49 pm Hasn't been what? NoodlesAtNight 9:50 pm *Some withstood it longer than others, depending on what they were put through.*

[[He did. They did give him a minimum of guidelines, however. That is on them.]] Chaoit 9:50 pm ((that's thoughts/actions, not words verdigrisprowl 9:52 pm He really likes that line. The "one, one, one." NoodlesAtNight 9:52 pm [[He has a point. They have someone of minimal importance. He offers them the opportunity to do something impressive with them.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 9:52 pm Racer: *trying his best to groom, that makes him feel better* verdigrisprowl 9:52 pm Indeed. NoodlesAtNight 9:52 pm [[Well. "Minimal" importance. They do not seem to understand the danger his thesis puts them in.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:53 pm [[They would bargain for much, /much/ more than just Abel if they did.]] verdigrisprowl 9:54 pm He's going too fast for these streets and weather condit... Did he do it on purpose? To summon the police? NoodlesAtNight 9:54 pm *nod.* OmicronTheIceQueen 9:54 pm likely verdigrisprowl 9:54 pm Petty. I wonder what point he's trying to make. verdigrisprowl 9:55 pm Is he trying to scare into compliance or scare him into leaving? OmicronTheIceQueen 9:55 pm possibly both? NoodlesAtNight 9:56 pm *Shakes his head.* verdigrisprowl 9:57 pm *... yeah. it's like that.* NoodlesAtNight 9:58 pm [[...They are playing Unforgettable.]] [[Amusing.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 9:58 pm can I eat these humans? Or most of them SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:59 pm You'll give yourself food poisoning. OmicronTheIceQueen 9:59 pm Just more iron then expected...HAH verdigrisprowl 9:59 pm ... Grab a plate and take it with you. opatoes 9:59 pm I want a breakfast like that NoodlesAtNight 9:59 pm [[What good would it do you? It is organic.]] UnkillableJazz 10:00 pm Good back-bone he's growing verdigrisprowl 10:00 pm He never lacked for one. Darkscream 10:01 pm *Hey Smokey. Giratina is still chewing on your servo.* verdigrisprowl 10:01 pm Who needs TWO phones? OmicronTheIceQueen 10:01 pm how many comm lines can cybertroniand use at once? or nearly SCProwl 10:01 pm As many as we can process. NoodlesAtNight 10:02 pm [[That depends on the Cybertronian.]] *Folds hands..* thebestdecepticonleader 10:02 pm I have two phones, one for Megatron, so that I can ignore him and one for everyone else NoodlesAtNight 10:02 pm [[And the humans of this time did not have technology capable of letting them speak with many fleshlings at once.]] *Catches Starscream's remark and trembles.* verdigrisprowl 10:02 pm *HUFFS* verdigrisprowl 10:03 pm "Two, two, two" now. NoodlesAtNight 10:03 pm [[Repetition. Enforcing understanding and clarity.]] UnkillableJazz 10:04 pm fun OmicronTheIceQueen 10:04 pm *chuckles* verdigrisprowl 10:04 pm Oh—he's backed them in a corner. UnkillableJazz 10:04 pm grown in duplicity NoodlesAtNight 10:05 pm [[Delightful. Absolutely fantastic.]] SCProwl 10:05 pm Clever. Especially for someone suffering from an illness. I can't imagine it's helping his thinking. NoodlesAtNight 10:05 pm *Nod of agreement* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:05 pm He's damn smart. SCProwl 10:05 pm They won't. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:06 pm hah verdigrisprowl 10:06 pm ((that's the only time this whole movie he's sounded like a dad)) NoodlesAtNight 10:06 pm [[...Did it work...?]] verdigrisprowl 10:06 pm ((not a good or bad dad, just a dad at all)) NoodlesAtNight 10:07 pm ((aye)) UnkillableJazz 10:09 pm one wants attention, the other wants their spy verdigrisprowl 10:10 pm The one that wants attention went to the location where they won't get any. SCProwl 10:12 pm *huffs* NoodlesAtNight 10:12 pm [[No... no, Jazz has a point. If the Powers group is here, then the Pryor group now hold the power to either see through or spoil this trade. They must know that.]] verdigrisprowl 10:12 pm I like his philosophy. ... That's true. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:13 pm hmm NoodlesAtNight 10:13 pm [[It does not matter where they are. They still hold it.]] SCProwl 10:14 pm They're testing him. NoodlesAtNight 10:14 pm [[If he is free to go, he is free to stay.]] Chaoit 10:15 pm If they folded that would have reflected badly on them UnkillableJazz 10:15 pm Looks like a success SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:16 pm Excellent. verdigrisprowl 10:16 pm Didn't even shake with him. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:16 pm shake hands or help a traumatized youth SCProwl 10:17 pm I wouldn't have either in his place. verdigrisprowl 10:17 pm You can shake hands and then help the traumatized youth. NoodlesAtNight 10:17 pm [[A shake would legitimize them, he thinks. They still did not come out quite the victor they had hoped. Clever...]] verdigrisprowl 10:17 pm Yes, it would have legitimized them. It would have given them what they wanted out of this exchange. verdigrisprowl 10:18 pm Now they've learned, when they make deals with Americans, the Americans will not give them what they want. And so maybe they shouldn't make deals with them. UnkillableJazz 10:18 pm Ah. Abel will die then NoodlesAtNight 10:18 pm [[Ah. Poor Abel.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:18 pm To be fair, the Americans very nearly didn't get what they wanted. verdigrisprowl 10:18 pm But they did, plus a bonus. NoodlesAtNight 10:18 pm [[And yes. He does wonder what consequence that had.]] opatoes 10:18 pm RIP Abel verdigrisprowl 10:19 pm They DID get what they wanted, and snubbed the other party even the illusion of having gotten what they wanted. opatoes 10:20 pm Check the back for any notes! SCProwl 10:20 pm Why are you ripping Abel? UnkillableJazz 10:20 pm ((ah I'm sad now)) NoodlesAtNight 10:20 pm [[There wouldn't be notes. They'd never have given him the painting if there were.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:20 pm ((I forgot how much this movie bums me out)) opatoes 10:20 pm True. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:21 pm They didn't find the notes the last time, though, when they broke into his house. UnkillableJazz 10:21 pm He got no hug while being escorted to the car. They will execute him. verdigrisprowl 10:21 pm ... Did he have them stop over in England just to get— pfff. He did not. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:22 pm (pfft) verdigrisprowl 10:22 pm Hell of a way to find out your spouse lied to you. NoodlesAtNight 10:22 pm [[Indeed.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:22 pm Racer: *falls off his perch, bounces up and shakes himself* UnkillableJazz 10:23 pm Back in a safe zone standard reaction NoodlesAtNight 10:23 pm [[If that fleshling slept for any less than three days he will be surprised.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:23 pm flop in your nest and recharge? verdigrisprowl 10:23 pm *... leans more on Soundwave. He appreciates your honesty.* NoodlesAtNight 10:24 pm *Leans hard into.* *He appreciates yours.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:24 pm Flopping in the nest to recharge is excellent. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:24 pm yessss UnkillableJazz 10:24 pm Those parallels will follow him for a while verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm Oh, he wasn't executed. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:25 pm Thank the Goddess for small mercies. NoodlesAtNight 10:25 pm *Quietly relieved.* opatoes 10:25 pm Wait, what happened to Abel? I looked away for a klik OmicronTheIceQueen 10:25 pm Racer: *goes carefully sniffing around soundwave's couch before its too late* verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm Pfff. SCProwl 10:25 pm Ha. UnkillableJazz 10:25 pm good goin' dude verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm How does he keep coming back with more people. Chaoit 10:25 pm wow NoodlesAtNight 10:25 pm *Soundwave lowers a feeler to give Racer a light pat if he wants one.* [[Because he is determined to get them.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:26 pm Honesty, ethics, determination, and quite possibly spite. SCProwl 10:26 pm A decent sort of human. UnkillableJazz 10:26 pm I can dig it Swerester 10:26 pm Huh. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:26 pm Racer: *arches wings into the pat* UnkillableJazz 10:26 pm Master negotiator verdigrisprowl 10:26 pm I'm sure the other side is determined to not let them go. Determination doesn't make things happen. Chaoit 10:26 pm Very SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:26 pm *the dragon stretches. it's time for her to head off!* Thank you for having me, Soundwave! Goodnight, everyone. NoodlesAtNight 10:26 pm [[Goodnight, dragon. Thank you for your company.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:26 pm *chirps at dragon* NoodlesAtNight 10:26 pm ((time mark: 10:45)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 10:26 pm *she'd argue the determination point with Prowl, but Soundwave's probably got that.* *chirps at Icy!* UnkillableJazz 10:26 pm Just ignore what they're saying and do it anyway UnkillableJazz 10:27 pm read them to find out how far you can push SCProwl 10:27 pm I'll be going as well. Good night. *ends visual feed and pings the appropriate people goodbye* verdigrisprowl 10:28 pm *"read them." hahaha. ha ha. ha.* *farewell ping* NoodlesAtNight 10:28 pm *Nods to his timeline's Prowl. Goodnight.* Swerester 10:28 pm Do you want a pillow before you go? I still got a bunch left. UnkillableJazz 10:28 pm Good night OmicronTheIceQueen 10:28 pm Ooohhh??? *Swerve has Predacon attention!* SCProwl 10:28 pm ...I suppose. Swerester 10:28 pm [offers pillow] UnkillableJazz 10:29 pm They're open to keep? Swerester 10:29 pm Yeah! They'r presents I got like twenty five left at home so. NoodlesAtNight 10:29 pm [[If both sides are determined, then it is a matter of who is willing to move first, and for what price. Perhaps he found something the Cuba leader wanted more than anything.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:29 pm Racer: *chirps at Prowl this time, caaaarefuully reaching out, paw hovering over the big pede* NoodlesAtNight 10:29 pm [[More than 9,000 prisoners, at least.]] SCProwl 10:29 pm *accepts and turns it over carefully in her hands* Thank you. Swerester 10:29 pm Sure thing. verdigrisprowl 10:29 pm *looks down at Racer* Yes? OmicronTheIceQueen 10:30 pm Racer: Hai. Pbbt? verdigrisprowl 10:30 pm Pbbbt. NoodlesAtNight 10:30 pm @SCP: [[Try resting with your head on it tonight. Just a hint.]] UnkillableJazz 10:30 pm dictators often want recognition of their power NoodlesAtNight 10:31 pm *Gets more settled against his own pillows. Ahh..* *Now can comfortably watch Prowl be a charming and skilled youngling handler.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:31 pm Racer: *runs off, comes back half dragging his sibling to properly introduce the shy hatchling to them* Darkscream 10:31 pm [BWUAHAHA. SUDDENLY the stream returns with video] SCProwl 10:31 pm @SW: [[In root made I assume?]] NoodlesAtNight 10:31 pm ((what a thing to come back on)) NoodlesAtNight 10:32 pm @SCP: [[Naturally. Unless you can do some /interesting/ things in your alt mode.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:32 pm *Icy's edging closer to swerve, never did get to finish talking to him about being an energon suplier* opatoes 10:32 pm /He's giving Giratina a few more poffins, affectionately scritching the god, half considering seeing if Giratina will come home with him. He's sure Pumpkaboo will appreciate the friend!/ NoodlesAtNight 10:32 pm [[Ah. Is this the tiny mewer from before? They have grown.]] Swerester 10:32 pm [offers her a pillow too] SCProwl 10:32 pm @SW: [[Wouldn't you like to know.]] *clears throat and to the room at large* Good night. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:33 pm rest well NoodlesAtNight 10:33 pm *ATTENTION SNAP* *HOW DARE YOU IMPLY THINGS THAT HORRIBLE* opatoes 10:33 pm Goodnight, Prowl! See you later, maybe? UnkillableJazz 10:33 pm Well. I gotta go soon. *He's got an armful of pillows. like 5 of them* Darkscream 10:33 pm *Giratina did come with the Seeker, but currently she's out with the Dinobot, so... There must be lots of food for him or he'll stick around haunting this place until he gets bored. He knows there are others somewhere.* Swerester 10:33 pm Night! verdigrisprowl 10:33 pm *starts.* *soundwave moved unexpectedly* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:33 pm Peddles: *big optics up at them, has forefangs starting to grow in* NoodlesAtNight 10:34 pm [[Thank you for coming. Your company was... not intolerable.]] *A high compliment for a Jazz from him.* SCProwl 10:34 pm Certainly, Smokescreen. *holds pillow against chest and leaves* opatoes 10:34 pm /Smokescreen can offer the rest of his current poffins and more pets? He can make more if Giratina comes home with him!/ UnkillableJazz 10:34 pm Thanks. Ya were pretty cool to hang around NoodlesAtNight 10:35 pm *Settles and glances over at Prowl.* [[He apologizes. Your alternate decided to throw around some innuendo.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:35 pm racer: by? Darkscream 10:35 pm *Will there be more pillows for Giratina to nest on? He's going to hoard them.* opatoes 10:35 pm /Smokescreen's got a ton of pillows and blankets, so sure!/ Swerester 10:35 pm Did you want a pillow Prowl? UnkillableJazz 10:35 pm ((Just gonna hang around and enjoy the music Jazz is out)) NoodlesAtNight 10:36 pm *Glances down at the little one and their forefangs coming in.* [[My. You do look fearsome, little one.]] [[Soon, as many will run from your bite as your sibling's.]] OmicronTheIceQueen 10:36 pm Peddles *staaares up, blinks, pokes a blep out* SCProwl 10:36 pm ((same. prowl's gone home to try to remember how you sleep in root mode NoodlesAtNight 10:37 pm *Pauses a moment to think. Manages to locate an emoji with its tongue sticking out. Puts it on his visor.* *A blep for a blep.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:38 pm Peddles: plpl 😊 *loafs in spot, as much as a smiledon kitten can* verdigrisprowl 10:38 pm What? *him prowl, not her prowl? looks around. her prowl left. swerve meant him prowl.* No. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:38 pm Racer: *starts chattering, half words, there's a lot of owls and waves being said* Swerester 10:38 pm Oh. Alright. NoodlesAtNight 10:39 pm @P: [[They are good for carrying delicate items, if you have any of those to worry about.]] opatoes 10:39 pm Soundwave, Soundwave- do you wanna play DDR with me sometime? I wanna see just how good you are! Darkscream 10:39 pm *Giratina looks up at Smokescreen. Debating this. Is very tempted. Turns to look at Soundwave. Focuses to Confide in Soundwave, sending him a message telepathically.* {One they call Soundwave?} verdigrisprowl 10:39 pm @S «... No, don't think so.» OmicronTheIceQueen 10:40 pm How many pillows do you have Swerve? Swerester 10:40 pm Someone gave me fifty so I brought half. NoodlesAtNight 10:40 pm @Smokescreen: [[...Yes. But quietly. The two of us. Middle of the week. Bring the sword game as well.]] *Soundwave looks around a little, confused by the voice. There's only one extra being here, though, so... focusing on the Giratina, then? How odd.* [[...Correct.]] NoodlesAtNight 10:41 pm ((four minutes!)) opatoes 10:41 pm Sure, that sounds good to me. I can bring some music to share with you, too. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:41 pm O_o well....my crew loves them. more so the workers. they help isolate the little femmes. *is he giving all away or trading?* Swerester 10:41 pm Well, if no one else wants one then you can have whatever's left of the pile. NoodlesAtNight 10:41 pm [[Good. Prepare to be soundly trounced, Autobot.]] Chaoit 10:42 pm -up he goes, time for him to go home now- Thanks for the movie. Good night. NoodlesAtNight 10:42 pm [[...If you are giving them all away, he will have - ]] How many deployers has he got. [[14 more.]] Darkscream 10:42 pm *Giratina* {The one I came with, if she returns, tell her I left with this Smokescreen one for poffins and soft place to rest.} NoodlesAtNight 10:42 pm *Ah. Making a messenger out of him, eh?* [[So it shall be done, creature.]] [[Goodnight, Blaster.]] Swerester 10:43 pm I think that's the whole lot then for Soundwave, but if you swing by my bar, Icey I can give you some of the the half! I'd have brought more but I couldn't actually carry more opatoes 10:43 pm I hope you're not expecting it to be easy, though, Soundwave! I studied dance for WAY too long, so I'm pretty awesome at these games! Darkscream 10:43 pm *Giratina* {Good. Soundwave caretaker too.} *Bites Smokescreen's servo. Take him with you. Food and pillows.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:43 pm That's fine, perhaps we can talk business again, I know I had to run off before opatoes 10:44 pm Oh- okay, okay, let's go home, Giratina! /Smokescreen starts to get ready to head off, picking up a few drinks before starting to guide Giratina to the space bridge./ Swerester 10:44 pm Sure thing. I gotta head back there now anyway so swing by whenever! OmicronTheIceQueen 10:44 pm (aka omie mun lost the thread) Swerester 10:44 pm //lmao Swerester 10:44 pm [slides the pile of pillows at Soundwave] Night Soundwave. OmicronTheIceQueen 10:44 pm *predacon nods, then chirps for her hatchlings* NoodlesAtNight 10:44 pm [[Goodnight, Swerve. He will repay this in time.]] *Slowly piles them up on a different couch with his feelers.* Swerester 10:44 pm If you insist. [waves and heads out[ OmicronTheIceQueen 10:45 pm Racer: *sneak lick to soundwave and runs off! moment of brat* NoodlesAtNight 10:45 pm *!?!? CHILD.* *He just wipes it off with one of the pillows. Like you do.* Darkscream 10:45 pm *Giratina floats after Smokescreen. Food and rest awaits.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:45 pm Racer 😀 *shameless giggle trilling* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:46 pm Peddles: *dares to reach out, paw pats at soundwave, she has better manors and starts slinking off to Icy* Darkscream 10:47 pm [aside from rabbit butts, was fun dear noodle o/ NoodlesAtNight 10:47 pm ((glad you enjoyed!!)) (9sorry rabbit was horrible)) OmicronTheIceQueen 10:47 pm (thank you for the stream tonight, got a lot of rings wrapped for catchers. Its okay) Darkscream 10:47 pm [I usually come for the peeps than the movie. XD NoodlesAtNight 10:47 pm *Nods after them. Prowl can have his pbbt-ing, licking Predacon hatchling. Soundwave prefers the presence of the peaceful catlike one.* OmicronTheIceQueen 10:48 pm *Icy gives revenge for soundwave, and licks racer, knocking him over* ([at least racer isn't full sized trying to lick XD) OmicronTheIceQueen 10:49 pm *gathers her hatchlings and leaves, flicking a wing in a good bye wave* NoodlesAtNight 10:49 pm ((god yes thank goodness)) NoodlesAtNight 10:51 pm *Ah. And now he can have his /preferred/ pillow, and not just the one behind his neck. He moves the one back there over to a couch and twists a little to rest up against Prowl's shoulder.* verdigrisprowl 10:51 pm *to be clear, prowl didn't volunteer to have a licker.* NoodlesAtNight 10:51 pm *We'll work on that next time it happens.* verdigrisprowl 10:51 pm *the licker chose him.* NoodlesAtNight 10:52 pm [[...What would you do were he caught doing something like Abel?]] *Slight sit up to turn and look.* [[He isn't. For the record.]] *And back to settle.* [[But if he had.]] verdigrisprowl 10:53 pm I suppose I'd have to arrest you, wouldn't I? NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm [[With a proper warrant, he assumes.]] verdigrisprowl 10:53 pm Of /course./ NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm [[And after that? What would you wish to see happen?]] NoodlesAtNight 10:54 pm [[And how would he be treated in prison?]] verdigrisprowl 10:54 pm ... How insulted are you going to be if I say "you in jail for your crimes"? NoodlesAtNight 10:56 pm [[He would be more insulted if you didn't. He does not expect specialized treatment from you. That you know when to put what is good before his personal connection to you is one of the things he trusts most.]] [[But he hopes you would want it done fairly. That he would be allowed a Donovan.]] [[And not a judge such as the one portrayed.]] verdigrisprowl 10:58 pm Of course I would want it done fairly. Although ideally your Donovan wouldn't have anything about the procedure to try to appeal. NoodlesAtNight 10:59 pm [[Ideally. If you were the one in charge of it, he is sure they would not. But - assuming an underling botched it. ... What then?]] NoodlesAtNight 11:00 pm *Does not wish to move from his spot; twists a feeler around to look at Prowl instead.* verdigrisprowl 11:02 pm *he's quiet a moment. and then lets out a long, hard sigh.* If I'm to remain committed to my current path—the charges... would have to be dropped. NoodlesAtNight 11:03 pm [[But you would not like it.]] *He knows that sigh. He knows it well.* verdigrisprowl 11:03 pm Do you know why Megatron is locked up in Metroplex, instead of sentenced and dealt with? NoodlesAtNight 11:03 pm [[Because neither he nor Starscream know where the mech is yet.]] verdigrisprowl 11:04 pm Do you know why Megatron /was put/ in Metroplex, instead of sentenced and dealt with? NoodlesAtNight 11:05 pm [[Ah.]] *That is a different question altogether.* [[He knows it is something to do with the Knights of Cybertron. The rest? He is still trying to understand all that went into what little he has scraped together about that trial.]] *In other words: Not quite, no.* NoodlesAtNight 11:06 pm [[Surprisingly few mechs care to discuss it with him. Something about Soundwaves being untrustworthy loyalists.]] *Rattle vent snort.* verdigrisprowl 11:07 pm Because Megatron asked for the trial to be moved to Luna Two. And, when he lost pleasure in the direction the trial was moving, revealed that he knew of an ancient Luna Two law that said crimes over a certain threshold are so severe they may be only judged by the Knights of Cybertron. He did this so that he could delay the trial indefinitely—stick himself in legal limbo where his trial cannot continue. verdigrisprowl 11:08 pm His defense attorney refused to allow the trial to be relocated to Cybertron, where the law doesn't apply, so that we could properly sentence him for all that /genocide/ he committed. His defense attorney was obeying the law. His defense attorney was doing his job. Was he promoting justice? Was he doing the RIGHT thing? The CORRECT thing? verdigrisprowl 11:09 pm Because he did the LEGAL thing—because he DID HIS JOB—Megatron has escaped sentencing for crimes that everyone, EVERYONE, knows beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt that he committed. verdigrisprowl 11:10 pm Is that /ethical/? Obedience to the law above all else? NoodlesAtNight 11:11 pm [[Ah. You throw one of his oldest questions for you back at him. He accepts it.]] *And lifts a finger to his mask, thinking.* NoodlesAtNight 11:12 pm [[There is nothing that limits the application of the Luna Two law? Nothing concerning where the crimes were committed, nothing about whether the mech is a citizen, nothing more modern overriding it? Was it proven to have been on the books at all?]] verdigrisprowl 11:14 pm Megatron followed the letter of the law. You're dodging the question by trying to find out whether what he did might have been illegal. I'm asking you whether or not it's more important to do what's legal than to continue with the sentencing of a genocidal warlord who has a habit of slipping out of prison if you give him enough time to think up how to do it. verdigrisprowl 11:15 pm Don't reframe the question. NoodlesAtNight 11:15 pm [[No, he is asking to find out whether the defense attorney WAS doing his job.]] verdigrisprowl 11:16 pm He was. You're still trying to reframe the question. NoodlesAtNight 11:18 pm [[He is not. If the mech playing defense attorney erred, then it is not a matter of strict obedience of the law. If that is so, then this is an invalid example, and it is possible to get around Megatron's scheming. Which, you can imagine, he would love to do. Since you insist it is not, then he did do the job, and he must think about the example exactly as presented. He dislikes answering things he does not have a full story for, when those answers are available. So...]] verdigrisprowl 11:19 pm There—right there! You are! I laid out the scenario and you're questioning me about loopholes! If there were a loophole to every moral quandary there wouldn't BE moral quandaries because we could just loophole our way out of them! verdigrisprowl 11:20 pm Do you have to test every angle on the structure of the example before answering it on the terms as they've been laid out? verdigrisprowl 11:21 pm What would you have done if I'd gone "oh, yeah, no, we actually DON'T know whether or not that law is real," called us idiots for not checking and then refused to answer the original question all together because it's now been made "invalid" by your standards? NoodlesAtNight 11:22 pm [[He would not have called you idiots. Putting the mech in temporary holding while you investigate is perfectly fine. And he doesn't know if he would have answered. He might have answered /both/ forms of it. As he has been thinking of doing.]] verdigrisprowl 11:22 pm DO you think we're idiots that didn't check? Do you think /I/ didn't search for every single loophole that could have possibly wiggled us out of the corner that he pushed us into? NoodlesAtNight 11:24 pm [[He doesn't /know/. He was not /here/ then. He does not know what you did in response to that revelation, or if you are still having to try to do it. Perhaps he would have offered /assistance/ if it had been necessary!]] NoodlesAtNight 11:25 pm [[For Primus' sake, he only received a full copy of the Tyrest Accord from you last week.]] verdigrisprowl 11:25 pm The Tyrest Accord is in the public domain! NoodlesAtNight 11:25 pm [[Do you think he would /trust/ the copies anyone else has?]] verdigrisprowl 11:26 pm ... /It's in the public domain/! You can—look it up in public—/everyone agrees/ to it, why the /hell/ would somebody—what good would anybody get from an /inaccurate/— verdigrisprowl 11:27 pm /Who the hell do you think would/— verdigrisprowl 11:27 pm *he's flabbergasted. he's completely gasted his flabber. he cannot, he is unable to can.* NoodlesAtNight 11:27 pm [[A scheming Megatron about to face imprisonment, exile, or death for his genocides with someone like his alternate at his side?]] verdigrisprowl 11:27 pm *at this point he's just sort of gesturing in bafflement* NoodlesAtNight 11:28 pm [[The faction was not called the Truthicons.]] [[But, as you present it--]] verdigrisprowl 11:28 pm ... There—are— *gestures vaguely toward outer space* NoodlesAtNight 11:44 pm [[If every action taken was found to be by the book, and everything Megatron claimed is true, then... then Megatron escapes his punishment, yes. But only for now. Laws written without multiversal contacts in mind cannot exclude them; the law will right itself as soon as we locate the /other/ Knights we know to exist.]]

[[...Even if that were not so, he has recently toyed with the idea that those who uphold the laws as strictly as you expect may be balanced by those who will sacrifice themselves to that law to speed what it must take a mech like you longer to correct. If Megatron lingers forever, and a mech terminates him, that mech may be given a trial of their own. Then all things are made right.]]

[[He does not /know/ if it was right, or correct. He is still struggling to find out what right and correct /is/. He thinks that there were /worse/ ways to have handled it. He thinks there are many things that could have been done that were made for mechs like him to bear, and not mechs l NoodlesAtNight 11:45 pm like you.]]

[[But he cannot say for certain. This is why he asks you these things, and speaks with you about them.... when our temperaments and our contrasting views do not get in the way.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:46 pm [[He wanted to know what /you/ thought. Whether /you/ would be displeased. Not what he thought of it. He knows what he would do, and it is not by the law.]] verdigrisprowl 11:49 pm *listens quietly; huffs at the ending.* You were quite pleased when /this/ *he nods at the screen* went by the law. And cried "corruption" at someone who was bending the law to try to make his conviction faster and easier. So why is the judge corrupt whereas somebody who martyrs himself to the law in order to execute Megatron correct? Because the spy was more sympathetic than Megatron? Because you dislike judges more than you dislike desperate assassins? verdigrisprowl 11:52 pm I don't think anything. Rather, I can think at any point of the spectrum—from "any means are justified by the end" to "the law above and beyond all else." I pick and choose where I'm going to sit on that spectrum because I have been forced, quite unhappily, to see the merits and drawbacks to every point on it. NoodlesAtNight 11:53 pm [[The judge swore to uphold his duty, not to be /him/. If the judge wants to corrupt himself, then he may announce what he has done afterward and be taken to task for it. That would, however, undo what was already decided, and a better judge would be found. Then the outcome might be whatever it could have been had the judge done his duty properly. The final result is that the correct actions by what he swore to do all lead to a fair trial, and if that is so, then denying that and not announcing himself makes him unworthy of his robes.]] verdigrisprowl 11:54 pm But I think there's something... hypocritical, in being able to look at Megatron's trial with nuance—in being able to see that it might become necessary and even correct for someone to go outside the law in order to get rid of him—while utterly decrying the judge without considering that his position may be necessary and even correct. NoodlesAtNight 11:54 pm [[And,]] *soft huff* [[you are right. He is somewhat in favor of the spy, for obvious reasons.]] verdigrisprowl 11:54 pm And I think it says more about your opinion on judges than it does about any moral position. NoodlesAtNight 11:55 pm [[But he, at least, is more honest about being dishonest.]] verdigrisprowl 11:55 pm Oh, well, that makes it alright. NoodlesAtNight 11:55 pm [[It does not.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:57 pm [[But he prefers mechs who are honest about their dishonesty over those who are dishonest about their honesty. At least with the former you know they may not always be trusted. The spy may be a spy; what damage the judge does, we may never know.]] verdigrisprowl 11:58 pm The damage he did was convicting a spy. And /not/ knowing what else he may or may not have done—I cannot fault /that/. What damage the spy does, we may never know, no matter how honest he is about being a spy. verdigrisprowl 11:59 pm The spy isn't better. NoodlesAtNight 11:59 pm [[Then both are wrong.]] Today verdigrisprowl 12:01 am ... Bold words from a spymaster. NoodlesAtNight 12:02 am [[Who has never laid claim to being a lawful, moral, wholesome mech. Merely one who is as honest as he can be about what he /is/.]]

[[He did suggest he was toying with the idea that it would be right for him to be punished if he terminated Megatron, after all.]] verdigrisprowl 12:03 am Toying with. *huff.* You sounded pretty certain earlier. verdigrisprowl 12:04 am ... For the record, don't go try to execute Megatron. NoodlesAtNight 12:05 am [[His mind can be changed, in either direction, with evidence.]] *Small shoulder shrug.* [[For now, that is the idea he is temporarily holding.]]

[[And he couldn't even if he'd planned to try. He has no idea where the mech is.]] verdigrisprowl 12:06 am Mm, well. Somebody does. NoodlesAtNight 12:06 am [[...But if it came to the two of us, he would prefer you weren't the one who did it.]] [[For what that is worth.]] [[And yes. Somebody does.]] verdigrisprowl 12:07 am ... When I made the decision that I wasn't going to be law-abiding, the statement I was making was /not/ "I think other people should be the ones to do the dirty work." NoodlesAtNight 12:07 am [[He knows. You do not want to be Optimus.]] verdigrisprowl 12:07 am It was "I am making the decision to believe that if I work hard enough—if we all work hard enough—dirty work won't be necessary." verdigrisprowl 12:08 am Anyway—that was NOT the point of my question, so it didn't come into it—yes, you're right, the law didn't account for the multiverse and it would be easy to make a case for bringing in a foreign Knight of Cybertron to judge Megatron. verdigrisprowl 12:09 am And I /eagerly/ look forward to the day that Megatron is hauled out of stasis, dropped into the defendant's stand, and has to look up at Judge Grimlock ready to decide his fate. NoodlesAtNight 12:09 am *Huffing.* NoodlesAtNight 12:10 am [[There is only ever one sentence with the Dinobots, you know.]] verdigrisprowl 12:10 am *his lips press together in a hateful thing that's only vaguely shaped like a smile.* I know. NoodlesAtNight 12:11 am *He turns to look. Then snaps a shot of it and mirrors it on his visor before settling back down.* [[He knows, too.]]

And /not/ knowing what else he may or may not have done—I cannot fault /that/. What damage the spy does, we may never know, no matter how honest he is about being a spy. verdigrisprowl 11:59 pm The spy isn't better. NoodlesAtNight 11:59 pm [[Then both are wrong.]] Today verdigrisprowl 12:01 am ... Bold words from a spymaster. NoodlesAtNight 12:02 am [[Who has never laid claim to being a lawful, moral, wholesome mech. Merely one who is as honest as he can be about what he /is/.]]

[[He did suggest he was toying with the idea that it would be right for him to be punished if he terminated Megatron, after all.]] verdigrisprowl 12:03 am Toying with. *huff.* You sounded pretty certain earlier. verdigrisprowl 12:04 am ... For the record, don't go try to execute Megatron. NoodlesAtNight 12:05 am [[His mind can be changed, in either direction, with evidence.]] *Small shoulder shrug.* [[For now, that is the idea he is temporarily holding.]]

[[And he couldn't even if he'd planned to try. He has no idea where the mech is.]] verdigrisprowl 12:06 am Mm, well. Somebody does. NoodlesAtNight 12:06 am [[...But if it came to the two of us, he would prefer you weren't the one who did it.]] [[For what that is worth.]] [[And yes. Somebody does.]] verdigrisprowl 12:07 am ... When I made the decision that I wasn't going to be law-abiding, the statement I was making was /not/ "I think other people should be the ones to do the dirty work." NoodlesAtNight 12:07 am [[He knows. You do not want to be Optimus.]] verdigrisprowl 12:07 am It was "I am making the decision to believe that if I work hard enough—if we all work hard enough—dirty work won't be necessary." verdigrisprowl 12:08 am Anyway—that was NOT the point of my question, so it didn't come into it—yes, you're right, the law didn't account for the multiverse and it would be easy to make a case for bringing in a foreign Knight of Cybertron to judge Megatron. verdigrisprowl 12:09 am And I /eagerly/ look forward to the day that Megatron is hauled out of stasis, dropped into the defendant's stand, and has to look up at Judge Grimlock ready to decide his fate. NoodlesAtNight 12:09 am *Huffing.* NoodlesAtNight 12:10 am [[There is only ever one sentence with the Dinobots, you know.]] verdigrisprowl 12:10 am *his lips press together in a hateful thing that's only vaguely shaped like a smile.* I know. NoodlesAtNight 12:11 am *He turns to look. Then snaps a shot of it and mirrors it on his visor before settling back down.* [[He knows, too.]] verdigrisprowl 12:11 am ((less than a minute)) NoodlesAtNight 12:12 am [[Let's look at what he has of that timeline.]] *Pulls up the map. Time to bury themselves in it?* verdigrisprowl 12:12 am *sounds like a lovely time to Prowl.* NoodlesAtNight 12:12 am *And so it was.*

[ellygoesnyooom]

RFA + Minor Trio having to 'save' MC from a cockroach? I saw one earlier today and died inside ;~;

I am blessed to have never seen a cockroach in my home. Of course, now I’m going to be jinxed, but whatever lol. I hope you killed it, or someone did! Those creatures are gross >~i really need to set an alarm to post heck anyways, I hope you enjoy this!

Yoosung

It ambushed you in the kitchen

You were grabbing a snack and went to leave but the thing was chilling out in front of the exit

“YOOSUNG! HELP ME!”

You gave the poor boy a heart attack

He dropped everything and ran, heart in his mouth

“MC? What happened?!” You were standing on a chair as it crawled towards you

Mutely, you pointed to the little bug

Oh no

Honestly, he wanted to do the same thing;;;

But, he has to be a man for you!

He grabs a wad of paper towel and gingerly approaches the bug, eyeing it up before dropping the paper towel on top of it and using his shoe to smoosh it

No way he was using his hand nuh uh

He was very proud of himself and helped you down from the chair, hugging you tight

“Don’t worry, MC! LOLOL warrior Superman Yoosung will save you from the bugs!”

Zen

The bug found you in the bedroom

You were folding laundry and straightening up when you moved the laundry basket and a little bug zipped out

At first, you didn’t know what it was, and thought it was just a normal bug

NOPE YOU WERE W R O N G

You have never ran quicker in your life to stand up on the bed

Zen wasn’t home, but there it was, eyeing you up with those beady little eyes as you stood atop the bed, low key terrified

You weren’t sure how long you sat there, but it seemed like forever

When you heard the door open and Zen called out his usual greeting, you yelled for him, relieved

“Zen, please help me!” You heard a thump and a curse before he zipped through to the bedroom

“What’s wrong, MC? Why are you up on the bed? Are you okay?”

You just shook your head, and tried to tell him the cockroach was in front of him

But he took a step forward and successfully squished the bug before you were finished

Welp

“Well… never mind.” You just got off the bed and gave him a peck on the lips before leaving the room

But then you popped back in. “Zen? What was that thump from before?” “Oh, I accidentally ran into the coffee table, haha.”

“You dork.”

Jaehee

She was visiting you in your apartment and you two were sitting in the living room chatting

You went to get up and turn the tv on when you saw something move out of the corner of your eye

It wasn’t Jaehee, and you weren’t quite sure what it was, but you shrugged it off and grabbed the remote before sitting back down

“Um, MC? There’s a cockroach on the coffee table.”

Jaehee noticed before you, and when you finally saw, you screeched, scrambling to get as far away as you could without leaving the room

“MC? What are you doing? Go get a paper towel to kill it!” You were frozen in fear and didn’t respond

Momma Baehee to the rescue

She sighed, getting up and disappearing into the kitchen as you squealed about it moving

She got back and walked right up to the disgusting little creature and squashed it

You finally relaxed when she threw the paper towel away and wrapped your arms around her

“Thanks, Jaehee~ you saved me!” cue her face getting all blushy bc she is embarrassed aWE

She just goes back to the couch and turns on the tv, trying to hide her blush sdkjsheis

Jumin

When you screamed, he came running

You were pressed to the wall as a cockroach chilled out on the floor in front of you

It was slowly crawling towards you and you were whimpering, cornered

Oh, just a bug? Simple fix

He just gave you a little grin before walking away

You were going to yell at him for doing that, and started to

But he returned with a roll of paper towel

Oops

You watched as he wadded a few of the pieces up and squashed the bug, folding the newly dead insect into the wad and leaving to throw it away

When he returned without the paper towels, you were shaking, so he came over to you

“Would you like a hug, MC?” You just nodded, and he engulfed you in his arms

“Please don’t worry, my dear. I’ll save you from all of the bugs in the world if I need to. Don’t be scared.”

707/Saeyoung

He was with Saeran when you found the bug in his office while cleaning

You used to find them a lot when you first moved in with him and became more or less desensitized to them, but since you started to keep it clean on a daily basis, the bugs disappeared, along with that desensitization

Until then

You let out a screech when you moved a pile of garbage and the bug crawled out

“Seven! Cockroach! Help!”

You sometimes called out cockroach when you saw Vanderwood because seven told you to lol so he didn’t really worry too much, yelling out to tell him hi

“No, Seven! Please! Help me!” Saeran practically shoved Saeyoung towards his office

When he saw the bug, a shrill scream left the boy’s lips and he ran out

Welp there goes your hero

Saeran didn’t quite care, so he had to come in and kill it for the two of you

He has never hated the both of you more than in that moment, when neither of you could kill a bug

V

He was working on a painting when you called for him to help you

You sounded desperate, which scared the poor man

He ran to you, finding you sitting on the counter of the bathroom, staring down at the little moving bug on the tile below

“Oh, a cockroach? How on earth did this get in here? Hold on, MC, I’ll take care of it! Please don’t move from there, okay?” What a little cinnamon roll aH

He reached over to the toilet paper and unrolled a bit, wadding the paper up and hovering it over the unsuspecting critter

He gave you a little grin before pressing down, successfully killing the bug

You let out a sigh of relief and smiled at him

“Thank you, V!”

He flushed the toilet paper down the toilet and helped you down from the counter, giving you a tight hug

“I will always save you, MC. Don’t forget that.” He gave you a little kiss on the tip of your nose before returning back to his work

Saeran

When you yelled out, his mind immediately went to worst-case scenarios

Kidnappers? Murder? Were the Believers finally coming to get him for abandoning Mint Eye?

He ran to you, and stopped dead in his tracks

You were in the corner with tears streaming down your face

“MC? What the hell?”

You just pointed to the bug, and he rolled his eyes. “Oh come on, it’s just a bug. Not a big deal.”

“S-save me, Saeran, please?” Your lip quivered, and he stared you down before heaving a sigh and going for the paper towel

He bent down by the bug, dramatically lowering the towel while his eyes were locked with yours until he smashed it

“All gone. Want to see?” “Ew, no thank you.”

You were still sniffling, and he didn’t quite know what to do, so he offered the one thing he knew comforted him

“Ah.. well, do you want ice cream? That makes me feel better.” “Yeah, thank you, Saeran.”

Vanderwood

He was terrified when you let out a cry of his name

Given his past with the agency, he was always a bit nervous, especially when someone screamed

So, he went to find you

And when he did, he rolled his eyes and nearly turned right back around

You were standing on a chair in the middle of the kitchen as a bug skittered around below

“Vanderwood! Kill it kill it kill it!”

“It’s just a bug it isn’t going to kill you.” “Yes it is! Kill it, please?”

He didn’t like the fact that there was a bug in here, but it was just that: a bug. He didn’t think you should have been that scared

But, if you weren’t going to kill it, he had to

He acted like it was a big chore to wad up the paper and smash the bug, dragging his feet to the garbage can before getting out cleaner and a sponge and handing it to you

“Make sure there isn’t any bug guts on the ground, please. I’m going to get back to what I was doing, if you don’t mind.”

He turned on his heel and stalked out of the room, barely responding to your thank you

secretly he had a smile on his face because you looked so cute and loved the feeling of saving you lol what a softie

[kilnkin]

@pear-otter proposing an Experiment

pear-otter Hello Aud. I know we aren’t on the best of terms, but I want to propose an experiment. I don’t remember if I told you this when you were in my body, but I can possess people. I want to see if I can do it with more ease now that I’ve actually already been you. Obviously it would be a quick in and out, no tomfoolery whatsoever. We can even ask someone to oversee, like Damian. Anyway, let me know. I’m just curious so feel free to say no, haha

kilnkin you didnt tell me but ive heard it around aka that time you told everyone lol why exactly should i agree to this

pear-otter Scientific curiosity?

kilnkin weak have you pulled it off before or is it all theoretical

pear-otter I’ve possessed a bunch of humans before, but trying it on other non-humans is kind of risky. I feel like it should be easy because I’ve been in your body before and I want to confirm my theory.

pear-otter Plus you could see what it’s like to be possessed without anything bad happening or having to do stuff you don’t want to.

pear-otter I might not even be able to do it.

kilnkin you probably will

pear-otter Probably.

kilnkin idk why do you even wanna know if you can if its just in and out that doesnt sound fun

pear-otter I don’t want to make you uncomfortable Aud. I’m just curious if the body swap had that effect. Since now I can pull off a pretty convincing Aud, I was wondering if there were other ways the body swap affected things.

kilnkin lmao it did plenty. im like scarred for life over here youve earned a recurring role in my nightmares im not uncomfortable though >:(

pear-otter Oh, same.

kilnkin same what. i didnt think you were uncomfortable

pear-otter No, the dreams

kilnkin LOL thats so sweet that youre thinking of me (:

pear-otter You literally just admitted the same thing.

kilnkin no i said nightmares and maybe i was joking

pear-otter Maybe I was joking too Stop changing the subject.

kilnkin were you joking?

pear-otter No. You’re always...there, in the background. My dreams are never about You, but you’re always sort of a background character.

pear-otter It’s weird because I always remember that you were there, even though I don’t remember my dreams very well usually. And it certainly wasn’t happening before!!

kilnkin ooh maybe a little part of me got stuck in your psyche after grand theft audo wont blame you! im very easy to get attached to (:

pear-otter Oh that doesn’t sound good Sometimes I don’t understand the dreams I’m in either, they’re not things I’m familiar with. Anyway. About my proposal.

kilnkin well thats just a dream thing. the nothuman mind is a kooky place you know oh! do you want to get in my head as like a revenge thing for me getting in yours? :p

pear-otter My dreams were fairly straightforward before.

kilnkin eye for an eye blah blah. how archaic

pear-otter No! I won’t be able to see your thoughts or anything Aud. Is that what you’re worried about?

kilnkin no maybe are you sure

pear-otter Yes. Trust me, I don’t want to see your thoughts. Nothing personal, that goes for pretty much everyone. Invading someone’s privacy to that degree is something you can’t take back.

kilnkin yeah so. just in and out right

pear-otter Yes. If you like, we can have a third party there to witness.

pear-otter I suggested Damian because I feel like most people would be weirded out. But as long as you’re okay with it.

kilnkin no reason i shouldnt be right

pear-otter Aud, you can say no. I don’t want to do this if you’re just trying to prove a point and are actually not okay with this.

kilnkin should i say no? is it a big deal or not make up your mind lol

pear-otter Look. I’m just curious. There should be no down side for you, but people here seem to think possession is a Big Deal. I can understand if you don’t trust me enough to give up bodily autonomy, even for a half minute. I promise nothing bad will happen to you. But it’s a big enough thing that I don’t want to force this one you.

kilnkin ugh

kilnkin yeah ok

pear-otter I won’t think you’re scared if you say no, just that you don’t trust me, which is reasonable given our past.

kilnkin i wanna know if it works

pear-otter Okay.

kilnkin i wouldnt be scared. and i dont especially trust you. but i also doubt your ability to actually pull off anything nasty havent proven yourself that creative lol when do you wanna go

pear-otter I also won’t take this permission as permission to ever do it again, just so you know. The thing is, possessing you isn’t super exciting for me because I can already become you now, through shifting. Whenever.

kilnkin have you? been me again much?

kilnkin you seemed pretty happy to not lol have you asked damian or should i

pear-otter No I haven’t asked Damian. He’ll probably want to check if you’re okay with it anyway, so you should message him.

pear-otter I was stuck in the library, so I haven’t had many Aud Opportunities. It is cool to have a form so perfected. I could probably fool anyone you know.

kilnkin unlikely again. you lack the creativity

pear-otter I mean acting wise, probably not. But just standing there? Absolutely.

kilnkin no way i have a very specific way of just standing there

kilnkin not just anyone can pull it off

pear-otter Fine then, a photograph.

kilnkin bzz

pear-otter I’ll just have to pay more attention to the way you convey yourself, since I haven’t had reason to look before.

kilnkin dont let anyone get a photo

pear-otter I could totally pull off a picture Aud

kilnkin consumed with thoughts of me in your waking hours too! m flattered nuh uh

pear-otter Your reading comprehension skills are terrible.

kilnkin soon to be, then

pear-otter Aud if you’re trying to goad me into taking pictures of myself as you, you’ll just have to wait, I’m in bed

kilnkin not really but yeah thanks for the info we done?

pear-otter Let me know what Damian says.

kilnkin sure anything at all for scientific curiosity!

pear-otter Okay! If you still want to back out, you can always blame Damian. Anyway, good night.

kilnkin good tip. night.

[ts-nightingaleislands]

Episode #10- “Is Cheatham actually high regularly or is it just a figment of his imagination?”- Sara

that was such a HARD tribal for me. i loved having noah on my side and stuff but also i know he would be one of the ppl to make a big move on me if he stayed . its getting harder and harder for each vote . i just gotta stay focused and hope my alliance stays strong another round or two . tumblr survivor gods i hope your pulling for me!

Austin and Vincent have to be testing me. I dont get why Austin is playing dumb with me or why he act like he didn't know. According to Vincent Austin was in on it. I mean regardless I know who Im just wanting to stick with but yeah, the weird jumped out. Cheatham is also saying this was a week or so then went MIA so thats cool

(LATER)

Austin and Vincent are coming off super sketchy. I mean it is nothing new with Austin, but Vincent oof. I dont mind it all that much because of who I prefer to go with, but it is interesting. If these guys are coordinated then, well, seems uncoordinated

(LATER)

So right now Austin, Cheatham, and Vincent have added me to a chat I guess to work together. I actually worry I am not Natalie Anderson, but Sierra Dawn Thomas Worlds Apart. Nonetheless, I think its smart for me to wait til F7 or so to make the move against Austin/Cheatham. I can't allow enough time to pass for the idol to bite me in my butt!

(LATER)

I now see that Austin probably thinks he can manipulate me, so I have to time when I vote him perfectly. Him feigning ignorance on the Noah vote tells me he likely feels I'm naive enough to believe him and hey people do prefer to keep the ones around they feel are lesser than themselves!

(LATER)

Ive had a change of heart- I think now Kyle is going to get dragged by people, however, I strongly believe he would choose me over anyone so its just a matter of navigating 6 tribals

Inane ramblings from Vincent's cf, dated 3 AM on December 26, formatted terribly bc this cf is dated 3:06 AM on December 26: >i'm looking ahead to the future >austin is likely going to want liam out >bc when he said he wanted to make a move he'd have to mean one of them >them being liam/am/sara >and as far as i can tell liam is being perceived as the glue >so if he goes then am/sara become lone wolves who are easier to manipulate >however if liam stays then the other one, maybe am, is linked with them and they will be mad at austin for doing this >so those are numbers on our side >my previous boot order (EDITOR'S NOTE: never discussed in a cf, but will be discussed at length later) changed due to the unexpected development that austin is willing to flip on his group >however i'll note now that there is a very good chance he's faking >although if he is i can't imagine why he'd put his true allies in such blatant danger when kyle is literally right there as a vote >*person to vote >so let's say 5-3 vote up next >me/cheatham/austin/chris/kyle all against liam's trio >ideally voting out sara >bc she is the messiest and the one i trust least >my goal will be to convince the others that this is the best vote >liam and i are good and he is my decoy f2 >too early for goat stuff but am is a better goat than sara imo >just keeping my options open >liam/cheatham/annmarie could easily each be in my f2 >but not in a "ideal f4" way >so if austin is with me for this vote then he should at least appear to establish further connections with me >he can't do anything without one of chris and cheatham >or kyle i guess >kyle is easily the most expendable of those 3 >so to limit austin's options we need to vote kyle >we >my old boot order is more or less the same >just kyle vote goes from getting austin's trust back to weakening him >then at f6 cheatham chris and i stick together >vote out am unless liam becomes dark horse threat >f5 austin goes >f4 chris >f3 liam >then maybe i win >wow this seems so real >like usually in orgs when i'm at the merge im like'well maybe it's still possible that i could maybe end up at the ftc but lmao imagine getting votes' >oh no i'm becoming overconfident >wow meeting noah in jury again is going to be awkward huh No matter how I place this is honestly one of my better confessionals. Either full of dramatic irony and I look stupid or I win and I look good. One outcome is significantly more likely than the other, of course. But neither isn't so bad, is it?

God I feel this challenge is gonna stir up so much shit! I just hope my target dont get bigger because of it.

Where I stand now is that Austin is very willing to have Kyle go this round quote unquote, but what is to say he may not actually want somebody else? It is interesting seeing him discuss his perception and everything. I guess he cannot help but try to downplay himself, but I feel the ship has sailed for him and now it is only a matter of time. Watch him pull a W

(LATER)

I can't wait for someone to get offended by this Touchy Subjects challenge. I know I won't. If anything, I'll just adapt with it! I also feel like now, it's important to see how AnnMarie and Sara handle things from here on out- either they're willing to try and go for Austin/Cheatham/Vincent, or they'll settle for Kyle. If this happens to go the way I think, I may end up as a potential swing in F7, but I sure as heck am not about to be like Miss Sarah Lacina Cop-Turned-Criminal in Cagayan. No Ma'am! I'm not ever feeling safe until I'm sitting in the Final 2

(LATER)

So Austin asks me for a name and I am like ok I dont mind if it is Kyle unless you guys are up to do someone else. Austin proceeds to say he wants to have options and just wants a name and I'm. It really feels like a bit of a bait just to go to X to say I said their name. I could be wrong but its just weird becaise I haven't heard him say a name yet

(LATER)

Austin! Do not think that Ive forgotten your leaky faucet ways! Like that's the odd thing about it- Austin has shown what he is capable of and it is just weird of him to press about this when I know he has lied to me before. Like right now I literally told him I am fine with anyone going and his response was to know who I actually want out. I really don't know what he wants me to say other than a name to implicate myself but nuh uh! Not I!

(LATER)

The way it looks, I can make the move to get Liam out but I highly doubt I will last much longer. All it will take after that is to say Chris did X lets do him  and so I want to try and wait at least to chat to Kyle. I also want to see how willing AnnMarie and Sara are willing to talk about this vote instead of waiting. I definitely do not want Cheatham/Austin/Vincent all in F6 or at worse F5 however that is easier said than done for this lot

Wowza, Cheatham is playing hard now. SO, basically the votes are supposed to go 6-2, Chris being voted out. Now I do not wanna go any further with Sara, AM, and Liam bc they will take out me and Austin first. So I talked with Chris and now there is a 4 person alliance with Austin, Me, Chris, and Vincent. Im going to use my idol on Chris and then Chris and Kyle will vote out one of the others. Kyle is a wild card and we don't wanna tell him EXACTLY what's going on because he is kinda crazy. So we are thinking about having Vincent vote with Chris to ensure that one of the others go home. This is yet again ANOTHER big move on my part. Im getting worried that people will think that I'm the biggest threat with MORE idols in my hand and doing all the big moves. All I can do is wait. If I keep winning individual immunity like this week then I'm golden.

I think I've had an epiphany and it took talking to Cheatham to figure it out. Apparently I am the vote for tonight, though he wants to do something I've been wanting Cheatham to do in this merge and that is take advantage of the idol system- in doing so he gains a lot of leverage and I felt disppointed that he wasn't optimizing it. Having that said, I think I got a little sad because he told me people feel like I never give a name and truth be told I don't and it is a mistake on my end. I feel like I'm so scared to say a name because it failed miserably for me in the first half of this game and now that I don't do it anymore, people use it as a reason to vote me out. I do feel like its like I can't win with these people, but I want to change as much as I can to give myself a chance

(LATER)

HI am seeing that Austin, Cheatham, and even Vincent legitimately want to work with me and so perhaps I should consider going with them. The question with this vote is how I do I go about it. I've already named Sara because I have the most reason to do her AND I know Austin/Cheatham lowkey wanted her so its a win win for all of us, but it would be interesting to split it if the idol were used on me. Regardless, I just want this to end greatly for me, be that new start to a Chris that has what it will take to make it to the end and win.

I have...lots of questions right now... Am I being voted out tonight? Wouldn't surprise me. Does AnnMarie have a f2 w/ Austin? Cuz I accidentally caught her in something the other day where she told me she knew Austin was asking others for finals. But it might have been an accident because I mentioned that Austin asked for us 2 in a f3 with him....never said f2. Is Cheatham actually high regularly or is it just a figment of his imagination? Why do people get weird and quiet when they're planning a blindside or change loyalties? I literally brought this up to Liam last night a while after results. Gwen/Rizo/Chris did this exact same thing. It's Survivor. Lie and make a move if you have to. I'd respect that a whole lot more. Ignoring people is just shit jury management and I'll totally call Cheatham out at tribal now if I go! At least Vincent gave me an ANSWER! *Giggle* And also...is Austin actually that nice or is it game? Cuz I lit dunno if I'll ever be able to write his name down if that's really his personality. x)

Cheatham wants to invent a situation in which he would play his idol and gain full access to two others. This really feels like a resume padding thing more than a legitimate move out of necessity, because we have the numbers to vote out our target now, and there's no reason that would change any time soon. To me, this solidifies that Cheatham really can't make it to the end, just like Austin. Ideally I want to be able to choose between Liam and Chris because I think I have an ok shot against them both, and it's reasonable for both of them to make it very far. Of course it's the final 8 so it's still way too early to think about the end, but I definitely can't take Austin or Cheatham with me bc they both have a good shot at winning against me.

Sara me and Liam are apparently a strong group so there are plans to usurp our place on the throne! I'm watching a documentary about Queen Elizabeth while writing this. Cheatham apparently wants us gone as well, which hurts. I thought he was with me. I guess not. That is all.

So this round is insane, originally it was gonna be Chris but apparently Cheatham is gonna idol him so we’re having to take out the biggest goat in this game, which is so annoying, but if it must be done to save Sara so I have a shot at making it to the end then so be it. There’s still so much game to play so I need to make the most outta it.

5 votes Kyle (w/ self-vote), 2 votes Sara, 1 vote Chris (negated by idol.)