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Starscream ([personal profile] vosseeker) wrote2019-03-08 07:17 pm
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[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-03-30 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Airspace authority conflicts. That's such a specific fragging thing to have in common.

...It was a little bit of a 'popularity contest' with ours, I will admit. But only in the sense that Comet wanted it to be that Winglords were held accountable by the people. He wanted it to be that if the whole of our people were unhappy with us, what we were doing-

Well, legal assassination is a light way of putting it. He was fully on board with the idea that if a Winglord had to be ripped to shreds by their own people because they were that much of an ass, they should be. Less 'election that can be bought' and more 'if you frag up enough, they are within their rights to throw you to the cyberwolves'. He did have to fend off one or two challenges, though.

Less than I did. Though most of the true contenders supported my own rise to the position when Comet died at Gier Reach. The Bleeding Sun, mostly. Novastrike probably could've beaten me, too.
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[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-03-31 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
For my own ascension, we were in the thick of wartime, our hard-won hold on the Reach tenuous at best, and most of those who wanted to contest me knew that we couldn’t split the Seekers during such a time. Those who did face me were idiots! I showed them their place.

…For Comet…

They loved him too much. We all loved him. One of our best.


[ He almost makes a note about how an aerial battle would have been beyond Comet’s capabilities that early in the war… But decides otherwise. There’d been a reason it had been kept so quiet. ]

You can buy out some people. You cannot buy out as many Seekers as there used to be. As I said, legal assassination is too light a term. We both know we run in groups. More like… Ides of March, if you know the human term. But no elites. No council. Just Comet submitting to the idea that even the least of us could tear him down if he failed.

…And yes, mostly. I will admit I have an interest beyond that; the differences are fascinating. I could write a paper on all this slag, though citations would be a nightmare.
lordmegatronhasfallen: (angy)

[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-01 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And Starscream had actually been enjoying this little cultural exchange. It was academic and almost felt like he was getting somewhere, but of course his double won't even accept this olive branch. He was trying, fraggit, and something about this gets him viscerally upset.

It was never about boredom. ]


Then fine, let all your histories end with you, if you're so keen on keeping them to yourself.

At least I'm writing these things down. At least they will survive me. At least the Seekers here will learn what my people used to be.

Don't you dare disparage my interest when all I want to do is make sure we aren't the last.
lordmegatronhasfallen: (sad)

[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-01 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't late. I've been doing this since before I was in university! I am just

[ It ends there for a moment, something sent too early as Starscream tries to calm himself back down. It's- Hard. Thundercracker would usually be here to help, to defuse him, to stroke a hand down between his wings and release some of that clawing pressure. ]

I am trying. To engage with you on neutral terms, on a neutral topic, and I happen to like archiving information on Seeker history and culture to consolidate it. Don't

[ Another too long pause. ]

This document needs to be from both of us. It has to cover everything.

I spent too fragging long trying to claw bits of my OWN HERITAGE from others who wouldn't give it to me for this.
lordmegatronhasfallen: (afraid)

[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-01 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Usually, I wouldn't. [ Starscream's voice is tight, but clearly not with anger. The thread in it is still more upset than anything else, though he tries to keep it from wavering. ]

But this is important. Even if it doesn't all end up in the final document I hand out, it's crucial to have it all in one place.

I don't want them to have just a partial picture. [ This is more than important; this is personal. Even if he hadn't intended for it to be. ]
lordmegatronhasfallen: (anyway)

[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-01 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
...Thank you.

[ Rare, from him, and rarer still towards his counterpart. But it feels needed. What a narrow save. ]

We should go over this face to face, at some point. ...Over drinks? Not at Mac's.
lordmegatronhasfallen: (smug)

audio -> action?

[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-02 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'll see you there.

[ Time to make a stop and pick up some engex, then. It's from his own stash, but thankfully nothing too intense, leaving pilfered high-octane from a past member of the Brigade at home.

He knocks on the door when he arrives, bottle and a pair of glasses in hand, assuming his double has already gotten there first. ]
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[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-03 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
It’s perfect.

[ He sets down the engex and the glasses on the table first, all Winglord poise and posture… And then promptly spills no less than three different datapads next to it all from his subspace, just like the academia years that this project has called to mind. Having someone to chat it over with, no matter how hostile, doesn’t help dispel it.

He snatches his own datapad from the table - identifiable by the scrawled etchings of tetrajets on the back courtesy of Skywarp - and leaves the rest. ]


That one, [ He indicates, ] Has everything relevant from my personal 'pad on it, plus everything you’ve told me so far, but it’s not organized yet. I’ve been using that one over there for organization- And it all gets backed up in no less than three different places. Including my own tablet.
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[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-05 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Starscream snorts. ] As if I'd trust anyone else to be so thorough.

...Perhaps your position held a council, perhaps it's even meant to, but Comet ruled alone and so have I. [ The tone is nothing but thoughtful, the younger Winglord staring off into space a moment as he turns an idea or two over in his head. The war isn't here. The Brigade would be too small to enact such a thing, but... Something for the future, perhaps. ] I'm not even sure if Comet had a trine. Intensely private mech.

[ He shakes his head. ] Regardless. In my experience a lot of Vosnian Seekers were only concerned with Vos. I have details on Kalisian practices, Tarnish, a little smattering of other variants in the culture... Comet was from Tarn, after all. A fair few important Seekers were from Kalis. We can't afford to leave out anything.
lordmegatronhasfallen: (grumpy)

[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-05 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say that wasn't sharing. I just don't trust anyone else in the writing. Too much fragging censorship and leaving important things out, even from other Seekers... [ Defensive: ] I'm more than happy to teach anyone interested!

...Mmh. There were a fair amount of cold-constructed in other city-states, but you're right that the majority were created in Vos. The majority of Seekers period came from Vos. Nobody ever could come up with a reasonable explanation as to why the hot spots produced the most there.

You aren't wrong about that. [ Starscream puts his stylus in his mouth as he scrolls through his own datapad, worrying at it a little as he reviews. ] A lot did go to Vos- But Vos had its own restrictions, and frag you if you fell outside them! No wonder mechs went elsewhere. I would have too.

The most significant community of Seekers outside of Vos was in Kalis, as I'm sure I've mentioned, and they tended to take a fair amount of runoff from those who couldn't or wouldn't handle Vos' expected social norms. They had a lot of their own culture, often compensating for the restriction of airspace, but also didn't put nearly as much emphasis on things like trines. ...Skywarp was created in Kalis. He had his enclave's striping on his back even once he'd been acclimated to the army, though he switched the paint so it was only visible with ultraviolet.
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[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-05 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Interesting. [ He pulls the stylus out of his mouth. Cue furious scribbling. ] I don't know if that's the same where I'm from... But I never did get that that degree in geology I wanted. [ Skyfire may have known... But Starscream can't remember him ever mentioning it. Maybe it's just because thoughts of him are so tainted by frost. He just doesn't know.

Of course, one Starscream's silver wrists are unlike the other's sapphire blue. Except... Except, that one's forgotten to hide something. Forgot to keep that one wrist turned just so. The underside of his right wrist, silver in a Vosnian mark, declaring to himself and whoever saw it exactly what sacred rules he violated. Knock Out may have given him the salve, but he still hadn't used it there.

Trinebreaker. ]


I visited both before the war. Kalis and Vos, that is. They both had their positives, and their negatives.
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[personal profile] lordmegatronhasfallen 2022-04-11 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanted to complete a lot of degrees.

But my primary intention was to either teach, or continue... Continue exploring other planets. If I could. It's the reason my engines can break atmosphere; I was doing it to fund my studies. [ His voice morphs into something subdued, and for a moment he doesn't look at much of anything. Too many thoughts, and all of them soaked in ice.

He doesn't even notice that his counterpart has seen his wrist.

Instead, he stands, a spark of bright curiosity in his optics, at the sight of Vos. ]
That's not like the Vos I know- Well, not quite. A Royal District? Interesting. The Senate's seat of power in Vos was... Here. Not quite in the same place, but rather close I think.

[ His hand drifts, coasting over two places on the map. Skyfire had lived there. Thundercracker had trained in swordplay here. It was... A sliver of old memories that he only got secondhand. ]

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