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Dirge ([personal profile] dirge) wrote in [community profile] re_alignment2012-09-28 01:17 pm

[Video] In the Junk Pile

[When the camera clicks on, all that's visible above a mound of junk is a pair of yellow wings. They twitch, wiggle, and then suddenly go straight as someone murmurs something that sounds like Oh, yes. That's lovely~.

The junk shudders and then explodes outward as Dirge climbs his way out of it, shaking off random scraps.]

Another day, another new world! And this one is so full of things just lying around...

[He's holding something that looks like it could be a mangled old gas mask, pinching experimentally at the long tube hanging from it.]

This place is mine now, understand? I've marked it. [He gestures and the camera swings to the word 'DIRGE' spelled out in old cans.]

So stay away. [The screen is obscured by a pointing claw, then narrow red optics, and then....just junk. It seems he's gone back into the pile.]
dontasktrix: (trix eh?)

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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[She's not sure.] Possibly?
dontasktrix: (trix don't ask)

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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
That's my designation. [And since he so closely resembles the brothers she knows, from her own universe, it's likely Dirge is yet another clone of Starscream.]

So, which one are you? Or- Should I guess? [Smirk.]
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[It does seem like Dirge knows her, even if she doesn't remember him.]

Well, you're not an older brother; they got blown up! So, I guess you're younger.

And you probably don't have the same personality as the others, unless one of them was destroyed first. [She doesn't think that likely, with the AllSpark fragments, and her tone says as much.] You can't have much 'ego' in any case; digging around like that.

[What else does Starscream have? He doesn't particularly collect junk, though he will use what he finds to advantage, like protoforms. Army building?] Maybe ambition?

[But, even as she says it, she doubts that. Starscream does have ambition, but as much as it fits with the claiming and naming, Dirge hasn't once drawn attention to having rank or given her orders.]

How many guesses do I get?
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[personal profile] youhavebeenswindled 2012-09-29 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
I knew it!

[Part of air command indeed!]

You could have told me you were a clone, I wouldn't have held it against ya~
dontasktrix: (trix don't ask)

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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
You must be quite the genius! As fast as Blurr talks, one might expect word had traveled to the badlands and back by now!

[It's not so much that she hides the fact that she's a clone, more she just doesn't mention it.]

Please mention how we all compare to Starscream, that's sure to make a good impression!
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[personal profile] youhavebeenswindled 2012-09-29 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Now now, don't be like that!

[Yes, she didn't try to hide it at all. She just made up a story about how she's a part of air command and tried to explain away her similarities to Starscream. All of this amuses him more than anything.]

I merely find it interesting, that's all.
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She makes an effort to change the direction of the conversation.] So, how many of my brothers are you acquainted with.

[It has to be some, the way he "knew".]
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[personal profile] youhavebeenswindled 2012-09-29 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, four.

Two I met very briefly, the other two I'm a little more familiar with.
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
They do seem to travel in pairs. [Probably coincidence, but Thundercracker and Skywarp had both gotten sucked through a Spacebridge to who knows where, and then Ramjet and Sunstorm had been picked-up by E.G., well, with help from that bounty hunter.]

I suppose you're waiting for me to offer a reward for telling me their names.
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[personal profile] youhavebeenswindled 2012-09-29 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[For a moment it's almost as if Swindle is vaguely sympathetic.]

Seems to me that you're the odd one out.

[But that moment passes as he grins cheerfully at her.]

Well I don't know the names of the first two... But if I had to guess, I'd say one was a suck up and the other was a liar.
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-09-29 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
You might think so. [Before getting sucked to young Cybertron, she'd been with Starscream. Granted it was his gray, deactivated shell, but it seemed they were at an even number.]

That would have been Sunstorm and Ramjet. [but he knew Dirge and just one other fairly well, and had counted the clones as an odd number, so...] It doesn't seem Dirge was alone, was he?
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-10-05 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Slipstream studies the comm images for a visual clue, as she thinks on every word. Some of her brother clones had been glaringly one-dimensional. Being the eldest living, she had witnessed four of them come online; heard their first words.

Dirge doesn't seem quite as narrow in personality, though Slipstream has difficulty consciously naming any particular evidence of this. He just seems more confident and accepting of his trait than she might have expected.

But, that trait itself can be traced to specific clues: marking objects as his, 'keeping' even the intangible and potential, repeatedly using "mine".]


You're kinda a hog; wanting things, marking them as your property, keeping them. Can't say Starscream doesn't have his greedy side. The loser does want rank, but he also likes his army building and collecting.
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-10-08 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Slipstream grimaces in anticipation of what she's about to ask, because it already seems ridiculous.] So, how did we meet?

[She's got the idea people can fall out of the Lambda from different points in their timestream, but it's still hard to process. Temporal mechanics hasn't really been her thing.]
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-10-08 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
So slagging falling into other universes happens often? [That sounds like what he's saying.]

I don't exactly remember doing that, yet. What was I helping you do?
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-10-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly. [There is a little tone of 'depending how you define special' there, but it isn't really malicious. It is more an automatic irritable response to anyone Starscream-like.]

You mean more like yourself, and less like a Starscream? [Maybe not what Dirge meant, but it's how she thinks of it.]
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-10-10 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

[So, they are able to think somewhat alike.]

A person entirely your own. Not Starscream. Better than him!

[But this might be her own drive more than it is truly Dirge's. She's not sure of his motivations, yet.]
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[personal profile] dontasktrix 2012-10-10 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Nod. Nod. Nod.]

It's not like it'll be hard. We have all the same skills and abilities! It's just a matter of not making the same mistakes.

And...having more things...allies...more variety of weapons...more knowledge...especially useful things.

[How it will pain her to help Dirge become resistant to manipulation of his greediness!]

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