re_alignment | [video] I see a black glyph and I want to paint it blacker....

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[video] I see a black glyph and I want to paint it blacker....

[How do you make black more 'vivid'? Frag you and your rules of color theory. This is Whirl.]

[And Whirl is showing off his SWEET TAT, his Megatronus glyph, to the camera. It is now so black it is faintly glowing. Yeah, you read that right. Glowing. Black. Deal with it. ]

Cool.

Guess this means I'm even more badaft than I thought.

[Is that even possible?!]

Wonder when Splat's gonna get his.

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Right. So things just turn purple--Decepticon purple--for no reason.

[Shifty side to side look.] Hey, listen. You can tell me.

Seriously. Nobody listens to anything I say, anyway.

[Sad? True? Both?]

Rung. Little fragger lied to me.

No, really! I haven't done anything. [ Except maybe raise suspicion about Pharma. But well, he's not gonna tell you that. ] At least, nothing I don't usually do...?

Did he? Rung doesn't seem the type to... [ Eurgh. Well, Rung did ruin his career. It wasn't Rung's fault though... ] Why would he do that?

Hey look. We've all done something . [Creepy conspiratorial wink.]

Because he's a lying liar that got his head blown off? And lies.

[ You are making him all unsure. ] ...Nothing that would make me more like a Decepticon.

B-Blown... [ What are you even saying, Whirl. ] I'm not sure what you're talking about.

You suuuuuuure? [Whirl cares! Actually, in a weird way, he does.]

Right. Not sure how to break this down any, you know, clearer.

He got.

His head.

Shot off.

Because of Fort Max. [You know, your boy?]

I'm sure.

[ Because at the very least, First Aid isn't the type to betray Autobots or anything. ]

I don't remember any of that.

[ He's... close with Max. This is disturbing. ]

What did he do?

[Frag. Well, Whirl thought he was onto something there.]

Right. So I'm just making it all up. [Almost a tired sigh. It's kinda sad that he's not really lied to anyone here--okay except to Ambulon about humans but that totally doesn't count and no one listens to him. You want a formula for going insane? Try speaking the truth and getting blown off.]

You mean other than hold us hostage? Eh, pinned me to the floor with an old steampipe. [But who cares about that.]

I didn't accuse you of making anything up. I know there are things that I don't remember.

[ First Aid folds his hands and shrugs helplessly. ]

Why did he do that?

Hnph. [Whatever.]

What? Fortress Unstablemus? He wanted to go back to Cybertron.

[He leans in, conspiratorially.] I think he has conflict resolution problems!

[ Whirl, you just don't know how to deal with a genuinely nice bot. ]

I... can understand wanting to go home. He's been through a lot.

[ Except that doesn't explain the whole hostage and impaling and shooting thing since what the frag. ]

I think I need to talk to him.

[Because you have to admit it's not the company he runs with.]

Heh. He wants to go home that badly he can suck on a combat pistol. Let us know if that works.

[Old grudge? No, actually, this grudge still has the New Grudge smell.]

Not without an armed guard you're not.

[ First Aid's frowning a bit. Not that Whirl can see it. ]

He's been through a lot.

[ Just repeating himself, like it will sink in. ]

Why? I'm his friend. I think. He wouldn't hurt me.

Yeah? Who hasn't?

[Snort.] And Rung was his therapist. He seemed pretty ready to grease him.

That's a point, but it doesn't trivialize another's suffering.

[ Oh Whirl. Why do you make good points? First Aid is... incredibly set on this though. He just shakes his head. ]

It's a risk I'm willing to take.

Guess it depends whose fraggin' suffering.

[Because no one seemed to care much about Whirl's. Including Whirl. ]

[He makes points because he's been through the mill himself. A few hundred times. And he's crazy, but not stupid.]

Your choice. You need back up, though, you know. [Shrug.]

That's not right.

[ To be fair, First Aid's view of Whirl is pretty much the glorious, dramatized depiction of him in Wrecker: Unclassified. ]

...Are you offering to escort me?

Is anything 'right'? You know, four million years of 'killing for peace'?

If you want. [SQUINT.] Just saying, you know, precautions.

There's a lot wrong with the world, but we don't have to just accept it. Even if some things are necessary...

[ He's pretty torn about this. ]

I can't-- I mean... I have to-- I have no altmode. Just so you know...

So, some bad things are necessary.

[Right. This all makes perfect sense. ]

So? I have no fraggin' face.

It doesn't mean you have to indulge in it.

[ Man, you make him regret ever mentioning it. ]

What that means is that I get around very slowly.

Doesn't mean I have to not. Way of the fraggin' world, First Aid.

[He's regretting offering.]

You know, if you just don't want me to, or something, say so.

I... guess so.

[ He's going to sit and process that for a while. It's not an unreasonable thought. ]

I didn't say that! I just wasn't sure if you'd mind the company for a long time. I've never really spent much time with a Wrecker before, off duty...

[Occasionally Whirl ventures into 'reasonable'. He likes to stretch his comfort zone, push his envelope, and other metaphors.]

I can walk, you know. Kinda had to when my tail rotor got shot off, remember?

[Bleh. He does not want to remember that himself.]

So, I dunno, consider it payback for that or something.

[ A+ Whirl. Seems you like to live on the wild side. ]

You don't owe me anything. I mean, it's my job, and I just... like to help.

[ YOUR INJURY CONCERNED HIM. ]

Thank you.

[Touche.]

[Like to help? Are you crazy?]

You just wanted to get close to my aft.

[Well, who doesn't, really?]

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