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re_alignment_logs2012-10-29 05:52 pm
percept) wrote in re_alignment_logs2012-10-29 05:52 pm
[ OPEN ]
WHO: SniPerceptor & whoever wanders by
WHERE: Medbay
WHEN Post-rescue
WHAT: Guess who's waking up on the wrong side of the limbless bed.
WARNINGS: Severe physical trauma including dismemberment, eye and face trauma. Potential mentions of torture.
Opticless, limbless, numb. What a fine state he'd found himself in.
Perceptor recalled very little of the rescue. After his second arm had been crudely shorn off, he had blacked out. Everything after that came in snippets of sound and sensation, flashes of excruciating consciousness snuffed out as quickly as they arose. At some point there were more voices, comfortingly familiar, sounds of conflict, the details of it beyond his ability to decipher in his current state.
He had lost his tenuous grip on consciousness again when he felt himself being moved, the jarring shocking his systems into shut down. Waking up had been less than pleasant. For a brief, panicked moment he had thought himself still with Overlord, had struggled only to find himself blind and immobile, his vocalizer rasping as he tried to call out. Hands had still him then, hands that were almost shockingly careful, helping where there had only been hurt. It was only then that he could register the berth beneath him, the pain dulled, voices soothing him.
Sensor blocks in place, Perceptor drifted in a warm, dark sea of nothingness. It should have been blissful, compared to Overlord's treatment, a welcome reprieve from the pain. Instead it left Perceptor alone with his thoughts.
He was an idiot. A weak, foolish mech. Overlord had dispatched him so easily, used him as bait, left him this... this useless lump of metal. History had repeated itself in the worst of ways, right down to the identity of his rescuer. He could recall Drift's voice clearest, and it made his fuel reserves churn to think of how pathetically relieved he had been to hear the other mech. Drift. His savior. Again. He felt furious. Sick. Pathetic. Frustrated. And the longer he lay along the longer he had to stew, playing it back, recalling the last time he'd been so seriously damaged and left an invalid.
[ ooc; prose or action as you see fit, i'm cool with either whoop ]
WHERE: Medbay
WHEN Post-rescue
WHAT: Guess who's waking up on the wrong side of the limbless bed.
WARNINGS: Severe physical trauma including dismemberment, eye and face trauma. Potential mentions of torture.
Opticless, limbless, numb. What a fine state he'd found himself in.
Perceptor recalled very little of the rescue. After his second arm had been crudely shorn off, he had blacked out. Everything after that came in snippets of sound and sensation, flashes of excruciating consciousness snuffed out as quickly as they arose. At some point there were more voices, comfortingly familiar, sounds of conflict, the details of it beyond his ability to decipher in his current state.
He had lost his tenuous grip on consciousness again when he felt himself being moved, the jarring shocking his systems into shut down. Waking up had been less than pleasant. For a brief, panicked moment he had thought himself still with Overlord, had struggled only to find himself blind and immobile, his vocalizer rasping as he tried to call out. Hands had still him then, hands that were almost shockingly careful, helping where there had only been hurt. It was only then that he could register the berth beneath him, the pain dulled, voices soothing him.
Sensor blocks in place, Perceptor drifted in a warm, dark sea of nothingness. It should have been blissful, compared to Overlord's treatment, a welcome reprieve from the pain. Instead it left Perceptor alone with his thoughts.
He was an idiot. A weak, foolish mech. Overlord had dispatched him so easily, used him as bait, left him this... this useless lump of metal. History had repeated itself in the worst of ways, right down to the identity of his rescuer. He could recall Drift's voice clearest, and it made his fuel reserves churn to think of how pathetically relieved he had been to hear the other mech. Drift. His savior. Again. He felt furious. Sick. Pathetic. Frustrated. And the longer he lay along the longer he had to stew, playing it back, recalling the last time he'd been so seriously damaged and left an invalid.
[ ooc; prose or action as you see fit, i'm cool with either whoop ]
And this is where I shotgun you with headcanon.
The knight smiles and its warmth can be heard in his voice. "I'd be happy to. It's not something I speak of much, mostly because I know it may not be a comfortable subject for some." It was like flaunting good fortune while also asking for recrimination for abandoning the war. But Perceptor seems honestly curious and Wing will never cease being proud of the Circle's accomplishments.
"When it became clear how far the war could stretch, we sought a remote world on which to seek refuge. Theophany was new, just an alpha-numeric on a star chart then. The planet is not terribly hospitable to organics and was unoccupied at the time, making it suitable for our needs. It seemed to beckon us though. Even from space the blonde sandy dunes when lit by a trio of suns made the world look like it was gilded with light, earning the planet its name." It's a pleasant memory for Wing, seeing golden Theophany from the cruiser's bridge after searching for a suitable home for so long. "We took it as a sign, and settled in the planet's embrace, deep underground where it was cool and easy to avoid detection."
Delicious headcanon.
"It sounds beautiful. What was life there like?"
He can't quite keep an edge of eagerness out of his voice, almost desperate to hear more.
:D
"The city was designed akin to what were used to on Cybertron, but light and bright to make up for the lack of open space. However society had to be different, not just because we knew the former system had failed, but out of sheer necessity." It's still interesting to him, that their efforts went into preserving Cybertronian culture, yet they had to leave behind the one thing that defined so much of contemporary life.
"You see, during the early war, the Circle focused on rescuing non-combatants and other neutrals, and when we left among the refugees were many scientists, scholars, historians and artisans. Most of the manual classes had taken up arms. When it came time to build on Theophany, that meant all of us had to work, knight, intellectual or other, regardless of class. Survival became the great equalizer."