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Perhaps this is a foolish question, but, considering I've never collected any data on the subject...

[Perceptor's where he always is, typing away at his console. Though his attention appears to be on the Glyph on his arm.]

[Staring accusingly at it.]

... While we're all aware these markings possess certain effects, should we attract the attention of our "hosts"... has anyone experienced any sort of negative effect, pertaining to the changing of one's brand?

[YOU KNOW. For curiosity's sake. Totally. No ulterior motive here.]

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... Well that's awfully vague, you realize.

Yes, I know. It wasn't purposefully so.

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All right. Hrm.

Have you noticed anything that wasn't normal with you back home? Or anything that was unusual that's gone with your Glyph switching?

... What did your Glyph used to look like before, anyway?

There are... occasional fleeting moments I'm certain aren't coming from myself. I'm hardly as emotional as this.

Purple. It was the purple one.

You're sure it's not some kind of... residual stuff from the Pillar?

Oh! I know that one. Solus. She builds things and fixes people; it's why most of the medics have her symbol. So what is it now?

No one else has experienced effects lasting this long. It wouldn't make sense for myself to be the sole exception.

Green. It's gone green.

It doesn't make sense that it temporarily turned me into a champion of the people either. Maybe it's something else... but I don't think the Glyph would do that.

Green. That's. Liege. The Shockwave from my world has it. I'm not exactly sure what Liege does, though.

Temporary being the key word.

... And that's incredibly helpful.

Are you sure that what's happening now isn't temporary?

The only ones I'm really familiar with are Solus, Megatronus, and Vector sorta. It's not like I'm some... Original Thirteen scholar or something.

But. Since you are a scientist, and Shockwave is a scientist. He might have some connection to science.

I doubt it. It... it hasn't departed. Not nearly as quickly as the pillar's effects did.

I am not the sort of "scientist" any version of Shockwave is.

Well. What if it's not from the pillar? Or the Glyph, for that matter?

The type of science and the how you do it doesn't change that you are both involved in science. Wheeljack built explosive ordinance while I fixed ship engines but we're both still Solian.

Then I've contracted some mental disorder!

[He didn't mean to snap it. But. This is frustrating enough on its own, without suddenly considering that option.]

Shockwave and I are nothing alike. I refuse to be associated with his... so-called science.

[Dude. Dude.]

Now you're just being melodramatic.

[You seem a little stressed Perceptor.]

It may not be your kind of science but it still gets results.
Just because you happen to have the same Glyph doesn't mean you have to like or work with each other. It just means you happen to share a trait.
If you don't like it that much, you can always try to change it. But it might not work.

I am not being melodramatic. Far from it.

I refuse to share traits with Shockwave.

You suggested contracting a mental disorder. That's pretty melodramatic.
... also I don't think those work that way, anyway.

Then you'd have to stop being a scientist. Because that's all you have in common with him.
What's your deal with Shockwave, anyway?

Let's consider the planet we're on, for the moment. And then we can say whether or not suddenly losing one's mental faculties is off the table.

It's a personal matter.

Maybe if you've been sucking down Dark Energon that would make sense. But going crazy here tends to happen to multiple people at a time.

A personal matter that you're allowing to affect your everyday interactions.

That doesn't mean there aren't exceptions.

Only where Shockwave is concerned.

Well, then, have you upset any of the FirstForged recently? Are you under any particular stress?

You were kind of implying that you didn't want to do science because Shockwave also does it.

Of course I'm under stress. Look at this bloody place.

I don't want to be associated with Shockwave. That doesn't mean I'm going to alter my purpose.

That's what I'm saying, maybe it's stress that's making... negative whatevers for you.

You're going to be associated with him whether you like it or not. That's what happens when you're in the same field.

... Negative "whatevers". How... colorful a term.

We are not. He is in the field of brutal experimentation. I am not.

Well, since you never actually said what the problem is.

'Brutal experimentation' isn't a field, it's a method. And not all of what he does is that anyway.

For Shockwave, it may as well be a field.

If he does it at all, then there are no redeeming factors.

Yes, because no good has ever come of him discovering how to use space bridge tech again.
Except for that time that the Autobots used it to fix Optimus and try to restore Cybertron. And that other time they managed to ground bridge to Earth's moon to avert the zombie apocalypse.

You don't like him. I don't entirely get it. I'll admit that. But I'd like to point out that he has helped more people than he hasn't, including your faction, whether either of you will admit it or not.
Even if his methods are to your loathing.

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