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[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.]
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.]
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So, which one are you? Or- Should I guess? [Smirk.]
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[But apparently she doesn't know him. Dirge is not sure if that is a good or bad thing.]
You really don't know me? Then you should guess, yes. That will be fun!
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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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[Part of air command indeed!]
You could have told me you were a clone, I wouldn't have held it against ya~
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[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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[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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[It has to be some, the way he "knew".]
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Two I met very briefly, the other two I'm a little more familiar with.
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I suppose you're waiting for me to offer a reward for telling me their names.
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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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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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No one has my personality. It's unique. Which means its mine and mine alone.
[Chuckle] Ambition is pretty close. And you can have one more- only because this is kind of fun. I'm keeping the rest for myself.
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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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I've missed you, you know. It feels terrible to have a sister around and then suddenly lose them. [Grimace] Especially for me.
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[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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We didn't meet back in our world. Swindle told us there were others, but we never got to see them.
I met you in Axiom Nexus. Another place that pulls people in like this one. [Those kinds of places seem to like him.]
You were trying to help me.
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I don't exactly remember doing that, yet. What was I helping you do?
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Be less like myself. [Grin]
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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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No. Ehr, maybe. Less like.... a clone.
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[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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[Dirge had always aspired to having all Starscream had- but more? Why hadn't he thought of that?]
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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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