[Video] [Transmission Originating From: The Junkpile]

[herodecoded]

[Dinobot felt in a philosophic mood. So much had transpired from the moment of his death. He was certain this was not the Pit or any afterlife. What afterlife would allow fleshlings? The Maximal had so much to question. If he had already saved history...why do the task of bringing him back again? Why at this point in time?

He decided the best method would be to reach out to the others, to see just what exactly these so-called Primes had brought to this world. Maybe then he could understand their vision...]

Is history a tale told by a fool, or something more? If fate does not write our history, does it matter who does the writing? Must free will be the absence of fate or must it be its tool?

That which I decide be mine or merely the shade of another's work? Does this story's beginning simply involve our resolution?

Oh that this too too solid metal would melt...

Comments

[not_halfbaked]

...So, you're a warrior poet....?

[engrishdetective]

More like a bore-ior. Yawwwwwwn.

[not_halfbaked]

[Korra snickers, though on some level she knows she really shouldn't.]

[herodecoded]

And what would a machine like you know of battle?

[herodecoded]

Make no mistake, I am a warrior first and foremost.

[not_halfbaked]

But a warrior can be both, right? A poet too? I remember hearing about old stories on those guys, and they were fierce as hell, even if sometimes they didn't really make a lotta sense....

[voice]

[darthmalgus]

Fools sit around and question the ideals of fate, those who succeed are the ones who move forward and make their own destiny.

[voice]

[herodecoded]

And only fools believe they are not bound by their own obligation and nature, fate be damned!

[voice]

[darthmalgus]

Nature is an illusion. We become who we want to be. We do things to see if we can not out of obligation of whether or not we should.

[Video] Eee I have so looked forward to meeting Dinobot!

[sword_redemption]

((ooc: he was my favorite BW character /shameless fangirling ))

History is what we make of it, I think. Things happen, and we respond, and it's those responses that start adding up to our 'destiny'.

But we can change that. If we try hard enough.

[He really, really hopes.]

[Video] Ha, thanks

[herodecoded]

What of those who are bound to their obligations? Not even fate can offer them respite...

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

Everyone's bound by obligations. That's supposed to be what holds a society together, isn't it?

[He's still trying to figure this out himself.]

You make it sound so depressing.

[Video]

[patokichi]

History depends on who you speak to. Everyone sees their own reality.

[Video]

[herodecoded]

History is not an optical illusion! History is its own entity. What I ask is who writes history?

[Video]

[patokichi]

Well, what I mean is, depending on who it is, everyone experiences things differently. Notable 'history' that may be important to one person is not so much to someone else. They would omit it.

You could go by the proverbial answer of "History is written by the victors", but I prefer the subjective, rather than the literal.

[audio]

[megamind]

You're doing it wrong.

[How dare you massacre Hamlet. Megamind's not even human and even he'll cut you over the bard.]

[audio]

[herodecoded]

[You do not tell him he's doing Hamlet wrong, he is a WARRIOR.]

And just what is it I am doing wrong?

Re: [audio]

[megamind]

Hamlet. You are quoting Hamlet and doing it wrong.

Listen the Bard pretty much defined villainous tropes in the western world for generations. You can't screw him up, okay. You can't.. I don't care what sort of stupid robot you are or how big you are-- you can't mess up Shakespeare.

[Audio]

[my_own_trope]

[Just this:]

[Audio]

[herodecoded]

[Oh screw you Cybertonian who sounds vaguely like himself.]

And just what do you find amusing?

[Perma-Audio]

[my_own_trope]

Nothing, nothing. Ahahaha, no really, hahahaha.
Do carry on! Don't let me, ha, interrupt your stirring, ha, hah... words.

...

Ahahaha.

[/gigglesnort]

[sexyspiderlady]

History is a tale told by the victors, darling. It's a perk, you know. Rewriting it so you come out on top.

[herodecoded]

What honor lies in that?

[When did Black Arachnia get an upgrade?]

late tag is late but you ping'd his loquacious radar :P

[rotafortunae]

"... thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix't his canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world!"

Rather morbid as an opening line, don't you think? Still, one of the Bard's best, and I must appreciate a man of words as well as steel. Or machine, in your case.

As to history: it is that which inhabits us. And as to fate, it's naught but a gamble, a roll of the dice, a hand dealt to us, and our will as to how we play the cards...

his shakespeare brings all the boys to the yard

[herodecoded]

It is fitting for morbid times.

But it is a question of what inhabits us. I doubt matters of choice and what binds us to obligation is such a gamble.