re_alignment | [Video - Transmission from Alpha Trion's Temple]

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✘ soul eater | death the kid

[Video - Transmission from Alpha Trion's Temple]

[The feed flicks on to reveal a rather furious looking boy with three white stripes on the left side of his hair, his unnatural gold eyes glowering at the camera. His chest is heaving as he struggles to restrain himself; if looks could kill, then the device would be dead five times over.]

Is this someone's sick idea of a joke?! How could anyone possibly think of doing something so twisted?!

[Of course, he must be referring to his appearance on Cybertron. Not hours earlier, he had been in Death City, speaking to his fellow classmates... It would only make sense for him to be so incensed, having been whisked away to a foreign planet!]

This marking on my shoulder! Why is there only one?! It's completely asymmetrical!

[... Or not. Even without the glyph directly visible, the very idea that he could be marked in such an unbalanced, terrible way... His skin should have rejected the ink to begin with!]

I demand to speak to the ones responsible for this atrocity!

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[Well, he does come from a city where the sun has a face and laughs at regular intervals. And his father is a shadow with a mask. So... robots are not a huuuge stretch.

But that explanation definitely gets his attention - it's enough to even momentarily distract him from the hideous asymmetry of the tattoos.]

I am no one's property.

I believe I recall the one who greeted me earlier speaking about something similar. If there are magical properties of the mark, it would explain why I have not been able to remove it.

[Though the glyph wasn't as problematic as what it stood for. He would have to try again to contact his father.]

Is the glow significant?

[Sorry, Whirl. He is not jelly. However, he would be if you had a matching one on the other side.]

Eh, you try to tell them that and you'll get some slag about la lah tryin' to protect you from Unicrons and stuff.

[Can you tell it made a huge impression on Whirl?]

Yeah. The more badaft I am, the glowier it gets. Like a measure of awesome.

[He will pause to admire it some more.]

If their motives are as pure as they claim, then their personal satisfaction should not affect those they choose to defend. Ownership and protection do not go hand in hand.

[He didn't know what a Unicron was, but then, it seemed there was quite a bit in this world he did not recognize.]

Hn. If it were a measure of 'awesome', then it would require a second, symmetrical mark.

[You are making words that sound like some deep and existential statement about identity, property and ownership.]

[Whirl's head bangs down on the desk. Sorry. You ...sorta knocked him out with boredoms there for a klik.]

Or maybe, symmetrical is too predictable to be awesome.