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[A video broadcast pops up around the base. To everyone's great surprise its Optimus Prime.]
Everyone, I know that the past few days have been difficult for a great many of us. However we should not be discouraged by whatever adversity awaits. As such I am organizing a team building exercise in the hangars at Sakihama Base.
[Optimus' head inclines forward slightly in a polite nod.]
I would like to make it clear however that though this exercise is aimed to better allow us to trust one another attendance is not mandatory.
Thank you for your time.
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[As everyone gathers in the Hangars of Sakihama, the 'team building exercise' is revealed... its more or less a large makeshift theater area with enough room for many people. What is on show you ask? Well what it is may surprise you. Soap Operas. Not Cybertronian ones. EARTH MADE Soap Operas. Now this may seem silly, but the reasoning used behind this was, to bond with your comrades by trusting them to see you when your emotions are unguarded. Of course that could just be utter bull.]
[Optimus and Grimlock watch stoically, though there were the odd, occasional noises that imply that if they were human - they would be crying silent, manly tears. Bumblebee, Ironhide and Wheeljack were a little more open on their end with their inelegant blubbering, while Ratchet (still having a slight limp) and Red Alert seemed to be somewhere between those two extremes - and sometimes alternated between them depending on how immersed they are in the scenes. Blaster and his cassettes were handling the viewing equipment and were enjoying the show for everything it was worth. But what of Kup and Cliffjumper?]
"Oh for the love of Primus, why can't you just tell her how you feel Wolfe?! You know she won't get it unless you tell her face to face!"
"Can it Kup, some of us are watch-SHE'S IN LOVE WITH HER OWN BROTHER?! WHAT?!?!"
[A video broadcast pops up around the base. To everyone's great surprise its Optimus Prime.]
Everyone, I know that the past few days have been difficult for a great many of us. However we should not be discouraged by whatever adversity awaits. As such I am organizing a team building exercise in the hangars at Sakihama Base.
[Optimus' head inclines forward slightly in a polite nod.]
I would like to make it clear however that though this exercise is aimed to better allow us to trust one another attendance is not mandatory.
Thank you for your time.
[2] [HERE AND NOW] [FEEL FREE TO MINGLE]
[As everyone gathers in the Hangars of Sakihama, the 'team building exercise' is revealed... its more or less a large makeshift theater area with enough room for many people. What is on show you ask? Well what it is may surprise you. Soap Operas. Not Cybertronian ones. EARTH MADE Soap Operas. Now this may seem silly, but the reasoning used behind this was, to bond with your comrades by trusting them to see you when your emotions are unguarded. Of course that could just be utter bull.]
[Optimus and Grimlock watch stoically, though there were the odd, occasional noises that imply that if they were human - they would be crying silent, manly tears. Bumblebee, Ironhide and Wheeljack were a little more open on their end with their inelegant blubbering, while Ratchet (still having a slight limp) and Red Alert seemed to be somewhere between those two extremes - and sometimes alternated between them depending on how immersed they are in the scenes. Blaster and his cassettes were handling the viewing equipment and were enjoying the show for everything it was worth. But what of Kup and Cliffjumper?]
"Oh for the love of Primus, why can't you just tell her how you feel Wolfe?! You know she won't get it unless you tell her face to face!"
"Can it Kup, some of us are watch-SHE'S IN LOVE WITH HER OWN BROTHER?! WHAT?!?!"
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[Look who's deciding for other people.]
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I am curious as to what brought this line of questioning. Is it a traditional form of human training?
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At first sparks could only be recovered from areas of Cybertron and its moons known as 'Hot Spots'. Nascent Sparks would often flare to life in reaction to active cybertronians... live sparks if you will and would need to be extracted from where they were before being placed into bodies.
[Optimus seemed to sink a little into thought.]
A later method was crafted as less hot spots were formed... spark splicing, or cold construction as it was called. Essentially a donor would have a piece of their spark shaved off to create a new one. Humans would liken this process to cloning, though the new spark in question is almost always nothing like its donor - becoming a unique being in its own way.
Those who were constructed cold were often seen as second class citizens before the war...
[There was... disapproval? annoyance? regret? several things in his tone.]
The war proved that they were no different than the rest of us though.
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"So where does Megatron fall on the side of the Natural Spark debate?"
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He was something of a glaring hole in the argument of those who believed that cold constructed cybertronians had greater proclivity towards behavior that can be construed as... violent or otherwise criminal.
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Here eyes widen. "Sweet Lord: does Megatron use cold construction to 'make' himself more cannon fodder? Is that where beings like the Insecticons came from?"
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[Optimus goes dead silent. That would make a lot of sense wouldn't it? Especially with how frivolously he shoots his own troops.]
The process in itself is difficult, but it is something I would not put past him.
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And good for them because now he's making this face at the spectacle.]
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Amazing! Their enemies are basically giant vampires, so they just gave themselves super solar batteries! Genius!
[He's rather liking the inventive displays of weaponry.]
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...And why is there time travel in this show? Doesn't it just make things more complicated?
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These shows went a long way when I wasn't looking...
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That mad scientist is pretty funny at least!
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If this is team building, I'd like some more practice.
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Could it be, just like that one time we watched that... video, together?
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[Optimus voice was calm as always... though..]
Me....Grimlock... say... mechanic... idiot. No... think...at... all.
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[Ken seems actually somewhat gripped by the notion.]
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Interesting how they did that whole fake-out with her too... thinking she wanted to just have an abrupt death all that time and when the time finally came...
[She chuckles.]
Also, Ken? The ninja guy they have on the show?
Don't use him as a role model.
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I'm just worried what sort of ideas all the crazy scientists in this show will give Wheeljack.
[He gives a sidelong glare at the blubbering science bot.]
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Though its actually weird to look at how the whole 'Britannia' plotline went. I mean, first they looked set to be major villains, now they're like a fifth of the cast or something.
Though... suppose it works as part of a redemption theme maybe? I mean, I'm sitting right beside proof of how well that can work out.
[He says, looking to Mizuki.]
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Probably just a case where writers saw a big blank canvas of plot and region that nobody'd really touched at all. Crazier things have happened.
What's on next, anyways?
[... She looks at the listings.]
"My Other Girlfriend Is A Bioweapon".
... Well subtlety's something beyond them.
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"Speaking of lack of subtly...the mercenary and the genetically engineered space warrior that always quarrel? I think they have a thing! A special thing!"
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Because the people who write these are usually boys who like robot girls, Model A [Ashe chuckles]. Don't try to read much more into it.
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S'pose in a way you could consider Mizuki a bit like that, since she was deliberately created. If the Void hadn't been broken early, she would've been 'born' a full grown adult. I mean, even now she's only like, what, ten? If she went to school, I'd be her senior!
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... I don't get it.
They spent so long to show that the British were absolute monsters... especially that Bedford man. He puts his own nephew's soul in a frog and hands control of England over to a DEMON! A demon he KNEW was evil incarnate because he'd fought tooth and nail before to seal him in the first place! He even killed one of his friends over all of this! And yet he gets a dignified death because somehow it was all for the sake of his nephew and England!
And then there was Joan herself! She vows to fight the British, her best friend's burned at the stake in her place, she sees time and time again that the British are just wrong in attacking France... and she still goes for "understanding" them at the end?
And on top of that, everyone else from her village was alive the whole time and just never bothered to contact her?
It's like they suddenly were afraid of telling a good story and backpedaled on everything they could in the last act. And it wasn't even that good to begin with.
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But I have heard that this cannot be helped sometimes...
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