[banging fists on table] MORE ROBOT DRAMA MORE ROBOT DRAMA MORE ROBOT DR

[knaval]

Who: riptide and some other dudes
When: after magnus's post
Where: riptide's room
What: sad fish boy
Warnings: cw for possible discussion of war, violence, ptsd, generally the depressing shit you get with these metal tittybabies



a. magnus

[accepting his fate, riptide allowed magnus to drag him to his room, no longer fighting.

if he had more knowledge of the situation, he would respond differently. he doesn't, though, and all he knows is he takes part in something that results in all his friends being left for the djd. after everything he's experienced in regards to tarn aboard to moira, after everything everyone has done for him, he was still stupid and selfish enough to leave them all for dead.

what the fuck did getaway say to him?

these are things that riptide will wonder about until he's physically unable to stay awake anymore, but for now he just lets whatever's going to happen to him happen.]

b. megatron

[they didn't finish the wall.

riptide eventually gets sick of laying on his bed staring at it like a useless sack of shit and gets up, sliding off the berth to carefully press at the edges still sticking out awkwardly.

he still thinks the table looked fine where it was.

sighing, riptide gets to work. missing brainstorm and nautica intensely for a moment before telling himself he doesn't deserve to.]

c. anyone else

[you want this sad fish? come yell at him in his room. he's not leaving.]

Comments

[aminerproblem]

It's why I asked. I was curious about your perspective.

[He gestures for Riptide to hold another plate in place to weld over the door mechanisms.]

You never knew the humiliation of functionism. All the fighting in Simanzi had no meaning. All it had was an enemy, and a new way to make Cybertronians disposable.

[knaval]

[he lifts the plate up carefully, pressing it to the wall.]

...I don't understand how you didn't see it. The irony.

[aminerproblem]

All I cared to see was victory on the horizon, finally within reach.

[He sighs wearily, hovering a hand over the cooling welds.]

I stopped considering the cost when the fight started.

[knaval]

Do you think it could have been changed without nuking everything from orbit?

[it's a weird thought, like what nautica had said. he wouldn't be alive if megatron had stayed true to himself. ]

[aminerproblem]

I think so. But it is always easier to make judgment calls in hindsight, try to edit what the circumstances were. I truly don't know.

[He tests the the plate before moving onto the next part of the wall.]

Getaway - he was an MTO like you, wasn't he?

[knaval]

Mm. Yeah, he is.

[riptide cocks his head, watching intently.]

[aminerproblem]

If Getaway hated me as much as I hated the Functionists, I can see why he'd do it. A few lives traded for a better universe, even if many of those lives were dear to him.

[He looks back at Riptide, pausing his work.]

It appears that he also lost sight of the cost.

[knaval]

Yeah. I can see it too I just... can't abide knowing everyone was left to the DJD and just collateral in general.

[no offense bro but riptide figures if megatron would understand.

he leans back, rubbing his face.]

I feel sick just thinking about it.

[aminerproblem]

You're not like him, and I do hope you see the difference.

[He rests the tools down.]

[knaval]

I went along with whatever he was planning without protest, apparently.

[that's a no.]