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Right, so. I hear we have a dance comin' up, and everybody needs formal wear for it. I also know that fabrics don't stand up well to all of us, f'r various reasons.

[Such as being too pointy, like him!]

So, figured I could I could assist with formal wear in some capacity. Been working on a few designs for hats, and if you'd prefer walking canes, just have t'tell me what design you'd like f'r the handle. Or, let me surprise you~

[He shifts the camera to show a pair of hats - one made of dull grey iron with leather cording, run through brushed steel grommets, the other made of copper, with accents made of bronze and thin iron 'feathers'.]

If you've got some other accessory you're in the mood for, or a different hat, let me know, and I'll see what I c'n do to help you out. These're just a sample, after all. Though if you're looking f'r a hat, I'll uh. Need your head size, since we ain't all exactly the same sizes here.

[One size does not fit all on robots.]

[Encrypted to Solus Prime]

Offer extends to you, too. If you'd like something that is.
[Since he doesn't exactly extend offers like this to every demigod he knows.]

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Risky yes, but it wasn't exactly our idea. The Cube was kinda what made all of us, from the first Primes down to... well, mechs like me.

[Other places have Primus. He, on the other hand, never even heard that name until he ended up in Axiom.]

... Optimus Primes have a habit of dying, do they? Here I thought it was just mind that ended up resurrected. [That is possibly more bizarre than anything else he's run across.]

... Really? [There's no way to hide her surprise, but then she quickly shakes her helm and chuckles.]

Sorry. I shouldn't be so surprised. It wasn't until the whole Unicron business happened that we found out about our origin by Primus' hand. And that, really, was only about two decivorns ago.

[Another shake of her helm. It's sort of interesting how quickly the idea of a divine creator, having made them to stand against the utter end of their universe in the form of Unicron seems so very... obvious by now.]

Before that, most would have agreed about some form of spontaneous reaction, probably between energon and various natyurally occuring mechanical structures to have created us.

[Elita snorts at that, at buzzy burst of amused static as she tries to sober up.]

He doesn't at all, no. And apparently it seems to be something... they share, then.

Really. 'In the beginning there was the Cube' and that's how it was. Didn't hear about Unicron and Primus 'til I started gettin' pulled to places like this.

[If either of them had been there, they left shortly after. Of course, them having the choice of what they did, instead of destiny, didn't exactly help.]

That ain't outta the realm of possibility, in other timestreams.

[He chuckles, shaking his head.]

What a strange thing t'have in common.

[Shaking her helm at that, Elita grins at the phrasing.]

Might still be, then, just unaware of it like we were. I mean, there were even some stories about the first ones, but we didn't know about that, either. Not until all of... that. [A very telling and at the same time non-descript hand-wave to include the whole Unicron/Primus debacle.]

You think? It might be... presumptuous, because it might be just that and the real common thing is the energon, but it seems more likely... more simple, it's all about that we might not know our actual origins.

[Shrugging at the whole thought of where they do, or don't, come from, Elita grins slightly, if faintly guilty, because it's not very nice to make fun of the fact that Optimus Prime seems to die a lot and then come back, now is it?]

Definitely. But perhaps the Matrix likes him too much?

T'be frank I hope they came and left; we ain't got any right to either of 'em. [Well. Not Primus, at least. They were all a bit too brutal and cruel for Barricade to accept their potential presence.] Better if they missed out on our timestream.

[He's a 'Con, and the kind to poke fun at anything he gets within reach of to boot. He grins a little bit.]

Perhaps. Though, they tend to find artifacts an awful lot of the time, too. And they have natural leadership qualities; ain't all bad for them.

[Sometimes.]

Maybe.

[She's not going to argue the point, but she shakes her helm a little. Deserving or not, that wasn't exactly the point, was it?]

Certainly impressive enough, yes. [She might be a bit biased, but with the track record in general of the Prime from her reality...]

Artifacts, though? Sounds like a story.

Some of 'em can be, I'll admit. [A grudging respect for one or two of them, maybe, but that's all he can manage.]

Artifacts, yes. Far as my timestream, it was things left by the Primes. The Cube, f'r one, and the Matrix. Other things, though I ain't seen one myself since the All Spark. Optimus Prime always seems to be the one that stumbles across them, though.

[Elita is obviously amused, because it's hard not to be, especially as it's obvious Barricade would rather not agree. She doesn't bother hiding her smile.]

Ah, I see. Well, maybe that tendency is similar to why he seems to be the current Prime in other realities as well?

[Something about suitability, maybe.]

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