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[4_toteachus]

[So Four has gone through a lot over the past few days. She's not totally sure why she agreed to it, or why she continued to go through with it, but in the end she had done it. Tarn is far too nice and charming for her to resist. The result of that painful and extremely creepy ceremony ended with a Decepticon brand on her. Honestly though, she doesn't remember a lot about the ceremony.

It's probably for the best.

Four turns on the video and proudly shows off the Decepticon brand that has replaced the number 4 on her chest. The significance of the symbol escapes her, though she does know what it means and why some have it and others don't. To her, it just means that she's a lot closer to the Cybertronians than she was before. Isn't that cool?]

I'm a Decepticon now!

I think it looks rather nice! It was painful to get, and I don't remember a lot of the ceremony though.

It was an interesting experience for sure.

Comments

[Video]

[robotfightclub]

[There's really only one thing to say to something like this.]

Why?

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

Why what?

[Is something wrong?]

[my_own_trope]

What? We're just letting anyone into the club now?

[4_toteachus]

I'm the better part of the club.

Your colour scheme is horrible.

[Video]

[uknowuwantmebaby]

Oh bite me, they made you one so I'd look even cooler.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

I have no teeth, so therefore I cannot bite anyone.

[She knows what you meant, she just wants to be difficult.]

[deadlydoctor]

Congratulations, little lady.

[4_toteachus]

Thank you Knock Out!

[Tee hee "little lady". She likes the sound of that.]

Do you have a badge? I don't recall seeing one on you the one time we met.

[raceme]

Four, do you even know what being a Decepticon means? Or what they did?

[4_toteachus]

Tarn had a lot to say on the subject.

But I've met a lot of really nice Decepticons.

They can't be all that bad.

[songofmypeople]

While unfortunate, the pain was necessary.

But congratulations, Decepticon, you wear the badge well.

[4_toteachus]

Thank you Tarn!

I do want to know why you would bother though.

[Video]

[kingofthetvworld]

Now wait just one cotton-pickin' minute! How come you get to join a thing?! Every time I try to join a thing, everyone turns all grizzly.

I don't buy it! You're fibbing somehow!

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

I have a Decepticon badge! It means I am officially one of them!

Maybe you can get a Decepticon to give you a badge too.

[Video]

[angleofscience]

... [Somehow, Jetfire resists facepalming, but there's a static sigh weaving underneath the words.] Four, do you know what the Decepticons stand for?

[Frowning, the incredulous expression grows firmer, flatter.]

From what I know and can see, across several realities with only one exception so far where everything is reversed, Decepticons stand for foreceful subjugation and conquering, if not outright genocide, of anyone who cannot defend themselves well enough to drive them off.

[You may want to reconsider that badge, babydoll.]

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[Oh okay, Four definitely feels like she's done something wrong. Then again, didn't Tarn say that Autobots wouldn't like her badge in general?]

I have met a lot of good Decepticons though. I find it hard to believe that they would do as you say.

[Even if she did reconsider, she wouldn't be able to get rid of it. Besides, it hurt so much to get it that she's not about to take it off now.]

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[namesnotprowl]

[Barricade, for a while, simply stares. Why does he understand your movements burlap sackcloth person. After a moment he starts himself out of it, shaking his head. Aaaaanyway.]

And you carefully weighed the pros and cons of both factions before you made your choice?

[Please tell him you didn't decide spur of the moment like he did.]

text;

[4_toteachus]

[She's a gardening glove thank you very much.]

The Decepticons were the only ones who offered.

[It wasn't exactly spurr of the moment... but close enough.]

[Video]

[dirge]

Tarn sure is recruiting a lot of snac- I mean. Small things.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

I wouldn't make a very good snack.

I'm far too small for you.

[video]

[sword_redemption]

[More than anyone here, Drift knows how much it should hurt--his own Decepticon brand had been torn from his spark chamber.]

....why would you do that?

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

[That's a very good question. One that Four realizes she doesn't completely know how to answer.]

It bothers you?

[Video]

[notyourblueangel]

. . . Four . . .

[Is that . . . something almost akin to grief in his tone?]

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

Thundercracker?

[Out of everyone, Four thought that he would be happy about it. Isn't he a Decepticon too?]

[Video]

[deusexraf]

Um...

[...]

Con...gradulations?

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

Thank you?

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

You made your choice, and I won't judge. I just hope you weighed your options, considered the consequences, and went through with the branding after you've thought about making this rather important decision real hard and seriously.

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

Does it matter at this point?

I have made my choice.

[Even if she's VERY unsure of it and probably would never have gone through with it if Tarn hadn't been so persuasive.]

[video]

[rednotbluethx]

What!?

Why would Tarn let you join the Decepticons!? You're stupid an' weak an' pathetic an' you have no special skills an' ya can't even fight! He might as well have jus' branded a fraggin' wash cloth!

[Text]

[4_toteachus]

At least I'm smart enough to know how to solve a radical equation.

You probably don't even know what that is.

[Video]

[glitteratimedic]

...Oh you must be joking.

[And here Glit had been thinking there was no Decepticon less...Decepticon-y than himself.

What...just happened?]