[Video] - transmission from Liege Maximo's temple

[angleofscience]

Hm... [Jetfire looks... somewhat like he feels out of his depth when the feed pops on, an expression somewhere between thoughtful and awkward.]

If you were going to give a gift to mark an occasion, would you match it to the other individual involved, or the event itself? [He shakes his helm, pausing and intending to rephrase but can't quite come up with something... This just isn't his particular area really.]

[A while after this question was asked, a second message, locked this time, gets tagged on.]
[Locked to DW!Starscream]
Come meet me on that cliff a bit outside Solus Prime's quadrant? The one that overlooks the forest.

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[raceme]

Ohthatnice. Autobots or Decepticons, if you don't mind me asking? [You are big, strong and good looking, Jetfire. Blurr is small, slim and average.

Blurr smiles shyly.] I'm glad I helped in some way.

How very...mature of him. [Blurr is trying not to smile.]

Is it some sort of energon?

[angleofscience]

[Chuckling a little, Jetfire shook his helm.]

No, it's just a rock, though it does have some minute traces of energon content. Not enough to be worth of note or be capable of doing more than warm the stone if it was shot at and the energon disturbed.

And he's only as mature as he has to be.

[Which could be a lot when he, well, had to. Other times it meant being very, very annoying.]

As for the... er, mechs I've been with... Neither. All of those were long before the war, and I can't say I know what faction they chose... or if they still live.

[None of them had been serious or long-lasting, more like mutual exploration out of curiosity.]

[raceme]

At least we can be sure that it's not going to explode. [That is always as good thing.]

I noticed that. He's pretty irritating most of the time, no offense, but he's been a respectable member of the Law Committee so far too.

That's a long time. [In Blurr's world, that's it.] But I'm glad that you are happy with your partner.

[angleofscience]

Precisely, so that was what I checked for first, given the violability of energon. [He hadn't, after all, wanted the risk of something exploding in the room.]

And yes, I'm quite aware of how, ah... aggravating he can be. [At that, Jetfire smiled, optics bright and helm tilted. He wasn't one to minimise Starscream's faults.]

I suppose it's been a while yes, but I've never thought about it. After I met Starscream at the academy it never came up.

[Jetfire shrugged, and whether he was aware of the possible... reasons as to why said thing might never had come up again after he met Starscream was hard to tell.]

[raceme]

I know I can always trust you to do the safest thing first. [Scientist, so reliable. Blurr likes that.]

I guess that also makes him never boring. [As long as those faults can be accepted there shouldn't be a problem.]

The academy? What sort of academy, if I can ask?

[Blurr won't question it further.]

[angleofscience]

Whenever possible, I try for that, yes. [Sometimes risks had to be taken though.]

Indeed it doesn't. [Jetfire snorts, the smile turing dry.] And, ah... the academy for science we both went to for our education and later research. [Let's just pretend it actually has a name.] It may not look like it now but Starscream was - among other things - a scientist.

[raceme]

So reliable. [He likes reliable.]

Wait, really? The one in my universe is nothing like that. It's hard to imagine Starscream doing science.

[angleofscience]

.. I admit it's strange to think he wouldn't, but with different realities that might be inevitable... And while it might not look at it now, he certainly did in the past.

[Pausing, Jetfire's expression turns slightly arch.] And now as well, as long as it'll directly help him in his endeavours.

[It wasn't everybody who could alter their own weapons to affect natural abilities like the null ray was, after all.]

[raceme]

I guess that's the point with different universes. Do you know the Megatron here? The one who used to be a teacher? Is strange as it sounds to us but in his universe the Autobots were the ones who started to kill others.

Human say that a 'tiger a tiger cannot change its stripes'.

However, it can still be tamed a bit.

[Smart Con.]

[angleofscience]

Hmm, yes. I haven't talked to him myself, or the Soundwave that was here before, but it's... interesting. And in the sense that any given reality might not only have closely connected ones due to differing actions or causes, but also one where everything is completely mirrored does make some sense on a greater scale, as even atoms and particles have their "mirrors" so to speak.

[He's thought a little about it, and really, somehow that isn't so hard to accept on a theoretical angle, though it'd probably feel more unsettling if he ended up in such a reality.]

... I think I understand the spirit of the saying. [He chuckles, shaking his helm.] And it does make sense, though he didn't start out as murderously vicious as he's ended up... [Pausing, Jetfire's optics narrow a little.] To add to that, he's also somewhat... mellowed, compared to earlier in the war.

Not to say he's anywhere near to a gentle spark, and of course harsher than before the war but it was worse.

[Starscream would probably feel very happy his name wasn't techically attached to this discussion.]

[raceme]

Soundwave was a good bot. [And this is a sore subject for Blurr. His optics dim and he slump his shoulders.]Yes, I agree. The bot form the mirrored reality act worse than the sort of Decepticons I used to fight in my world, though.

Life can make us change in a drastic way but there's probably always part of us that's immutable. Mellowed is definitely not bad. War made us all more sour, I was really glad when it was over. [Such a dark age for them.]

I understand.

[Ah, the art of subtlety.]

[angleofscience]

I can see that happen... Since, for all that I've heard, in some regular realities the war and the factions seem to act or become... hard, for lack of a better word, to a differing degree.

[He shrugs slightly, optics dimming a little as well at the thought of the things any one of them might be capable of... especially if the normal course of things was flipped.]

War is never a pleasant thing, no. Some adjust more easily and even revel in it... [Another shake of his helm. That got a bit more depressing than he'd thought.]

Thank you for the suggestions, though.

[raceme]

You are telling m. In mostly all of the realities Autobots and Decepticons are still at war. [It's a really upsetting reality for Blurr, even if he rarely mentions it.]

Yeah. [It did, Blurr's sorry for bringing it up.]You are welcome. I hope some of those help you. I guess I should get back to work.

[angleofscience]

Unfortunately, it does seem that the war being over is a very rare occurrence, no matter the other variables.

[Oh, no, Blurr shouldn't be. It's a huge thing to not discuss every now and then.] They should, if not now then surely later.

[raceme]

It almost started again in my world. Out kid always seems to be connected to fighting.

[It is but he doesn't want to make people feel sad.] I'm glad then. See you, Jetfire.

[angleofscience]

It does seem that way, doesn't it?

[With a shake of his helm, Jetfire smiles anyway.]<7small>

You as well.