re_alignment | A public service announcement re: Airachnid.

Don't let her sweet talk you. She may have a nice set of eight legs, but Airachnid lives only for #1. She is disloyal, self-obsessed, power hungry, sadistic, evil, without empathy or morals ; and more importantly deadly. If you're a bot or a con or especially a human, stay the scrap away from her. Scrap she's done :

1. Betrayed Lord Megatron on multiple occasions
2. Betrayed the Autobots
3. Stolen energon and spare parts
4. Tortured mechs for the fun of it
5. Taken out an entire unit of Autobots on her own
6. Hunted entire species to extinction, causing planetary collapse
7. Stolen ships
8. I'm pretty sure she had something to do with the Barrun Far disaster
9. Disrespected her teammates and superior officers
10. Fostered mutiny
11. Dismembered and killed teammates

If you're thinking "Oh, but I can take care of her, and make a deal, and we can both come out on top." : NOPE. No, she'll doublecross you before the deal's even done, and leave you under a junk heap missing your t-cog. She also enjoys torturing squishies. Also, she can drill through the ground so be careful. I'm serious, don't help her, she'll just repay you by killing you and stealing all your stuff.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Who do we most need to protect from her?

[He frowns.] Sounds like you're saying we should let her have the run of the place.

[Breakdown racks his processor trying to think of who this is. The voice sounded a bit familiar ; someone maybe he'd talked to once?]

I'd like it a hell of a lot better if we could all get together and put her in a cage, but she's the cagey one. Just protect whoever you care about most.

[Drift recognizes that hesitation: the 'who the hell are you?' pause.]

Drift. We spoke once before the attack when you were opening up Solus's temple.

Why can't we do that, though?

Ahhh, yeah! Drift. Thanks. [He always felt like scrap when he forgot people.]

Well I can't do it alone. Last time I tried to take her down, she won. It'd take an entire strike team to bottle her up. And I'm getting the feeling most folks will wanna give her the benefit of the doubt. That's how it always works for her. Plus, I'd have to find her, first.

[Drift shrugs. It's no big deal. It's actually a change to be 'who?' instead of 'that ex-Decepticon'.]

You were busy, it's fine.

We should give her the benefit of the doubt. Somewhat. Because whatever our motivations were in our world...they're not here.

Mechs can change. I'm proof. But I wouldn't expect people to trust my word for it. [Same here. If she wants to change, he'll forget the past. But better to be cautious.]

That's what's great about being Airachnid : her motivations don't have to change wherever she goes. Motivation number one's always been to screw everyone else over. She's been offered fourth chances. Then she's squished them under her heel.

That...doesn't sound very great. (?) [It sounds like the opposite of great.]

Well. You know her better. Besides 'screwing everyone over' could you be a bit more specific? SO we know what to look out for? [Because that's pretty vague.]

She'll try to talk people into being her "partner" which means her slave. She'll go out and steal what she needs. If she can't find it in the junkpile, expect it her to come calling at one of the temples. I dunno what she wants out of this place right now, but if she can get herself in control of something, that's her style. SHe's pretty selfish. Just wants all the things and all the servants.

But...'pretty selfish' isn't a crime.

[Unfortunately.]

Neither is using people. [Though Drift's been used.]

You made it sound like she was going to destroy the place.

I wouldn't put that past her either. Look, she just leaves broken mechs behind her. I wanted to let people know about that before anyone fell for her con. Pun not intended. [amazingly.]

All right. We'll be on guard. Thank you for the warning.

But, Breakdown, if all she's doing is trying to live? She has that right.

If you say so. The sharkticons we fought were also trying t'live. Get philosophical, and war doesn't make any sense.

Technically, the sharkticons were trying to kill everything in their path.

[Sliiiiightly different.]

But point taken.

[[ooc: I'm very sorry, but I'm dropping. If you want, we can finish this convo.]]

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