[Video - Transmission from Alpha Trion's Temple]

[symmetriphiliac]

[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!

Comments

[video]

[doctordon]

So his hair just grows like that....?

[He clears his throat and raises his voice again.]

Thanks... I don't get a lot of compliments on my clothes, ha ha. So yeah, thanks a lot.

[He straightens his lapels]

And don't be so hard on yourself, okay? I'm not disgusted or anything. And your hair has... horizontal symmetry, see? Not everything has to be vertical symmetry.

[video]

[symmetriphiliac]

You mean... you don't think it's hideous?

Even if you don't realize that bilateral symmetry is true perfection.

[video]

[doctordon]

No, no way! It's... you know. Quirky, or whatever. Artistic? Draws attention to your face. Which is super symmetrical, so it all balances out?

[Don is not really confident in his ability to deal with actual crazy... but he thinks he's doing okay, at least.]

[video]

[symmetriphiliac]

Thank you.

[And... he's back to normal.]

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, can you tell me anything more about this place? The acolyte's explanation left a lot to be desired.

[video]

[doctordon]

Oh, sure! Uh... I don't know a whole lot more than what they told you, except that it's kind of a young planet and we're supposed to help it along!

[He shrugs]

I'm not exactly sure what we're supposed to do, but I'm making do. I guess I would ask for something to do at my temple if I was really bored!

[video]

[symmetriphiliac]

[It's finally starting to click with him that this is a whole other planet. How they managed to take him without his father noticing was beyond him, but definitely unsettling.]

They must have some purpose in bringing us here. It would be a lot of trouble to go to for no reason.