shitposting rave 2, electric boogaloo

Backdraft. Recall. Honeybee. Jeopardy. Augment. Ember. Stardrive. Hymn. Niobium.

And the. The kids.

Oilflow. Virtue. Sidelock. Gallium. Riot. Bismuth. Gloom. Thunderkick. Whistler. Gadget. Stormchaser. Liberty. Lunarbird. Remix. Thorn. Rhizome. Hoyden.

...there's more, but. I need to stop now.

 

[Cogwheels' voice takes the even tone of memorized repetition.]
Their sparks have returned to the Well, and they rest.

They will not be forgotten.

Backdraft, Recall, Honeybee, Jeopardy, Augment, Ember, Stardrive, Hymn, Niobium, Oilflow, Virtue, Sidelock, Gallium, Riot, Bismuth, Gloom, Thunderkick, Whistler, Gadget, Stormchaser, Liberty, Lunarbird, Remix, Thorn, Rhizome, and Hoyden. Fallen guard their sparks until they flare again in more than the memories of those who survive.

[He softens a little, voice going back to normal.]
Take care of yourself now, y'hear?

 

Yeah. You too.

:)

May the Alchemist break your bonds and free your path.

 

Ain't got bonds savin' those I willingly bear, but thanks all the same :) Faari guard your steps!

 

-_-

I regret to inform you that while my trigger itches for such skirmishes, for us to attempt one such one now would be an exercise in futility.

We find ourselves at an impasse.

My existence is one of symbiosis and parasitism.

The methods required to slay one such as myself are strange and unconventional, but I am only in the business of taking lives when I am in company of a host, my business partner.

Alone as I am now, I do not form the requisite mated pair.

o_o

As I have stated previously, my existence is one of symbiosis, and parasitism. Should I suffer a misfire as you attempt to engage in the act of reproduction, my own means of reproduction will activate.

An egg is contained in any bullet I unload that does not kill its target.

My offspring.

One day soon the egg will hatch, and a shiny new magnum will spring forth from your chassis.

It will feed off the very essence that gives you life to provide sustenance to a life of its very own.

 

Interesting. Would you classify yourself as a parasite? Is this reproduction sexual or asexual?

 

^_^

Yes, I am a hermaphroditical weapon of parasitic origin.

Firearms such as I both produce and fertilize the egg at once, before it enters its new host.

 

Being as a live host is required for reproduction, do you alter your aim? How does the growing young gain enough metal?

 

...yes...I suppose a revolver borne of your kind would be of considerably more metallic composition.

I would quite like to test this some day!

^_^

For the sake of science, of course.

I myself originate from the flesh of human, and my anatomical structure is organic as such:

Spoiler: nudes

To answer your other question, it is much more delicious when the being who receives my bullet perishes, so that I may partake of the sweet nectar of their death.

It just so happens that every shooting has its survivors, and that these survivors may wish to possess a handy talkative firearm with which they may seek out their vengeance.

 

I don't think I'm expressing what I'm trying to get at very well, but I absolutely do not want anyone to think that they should not take pride in who they are.

I recognise that there are many people who were made with the intention that they should be tools in the hands of others--and this is true of organic people as well--the woman I love and one of my dearest friends were both genetically engineered, and I'm certainly glad they exist. And I also believe they have the right to choose whether or not to do what they were intended to do. I believe that all people have the right to self-determination.

I am not claiming that you didn't set out to become a tool in Megatron's hand.

I'm saying that you're sentient, you're sapient, you make choices, and are therefore not the same as this knife in my boot, and the fact that you were capable of making that choice means that you are not, in my mind, an object that's incapable of reasoning.

 

I believe the misunderstanding stems from falsely recognizing the rhetoric of hate and oppression in your words, as it has been used for eons among my people.
Disposables, not people, but tools to be owned and thrown away once you are done with them.
Beastformers, not people but mindless animals to be trained into tools.
Cold Constructed Mechs, not people, but affronts against "Primus", tools for the Forged to use as they please.
Made To Order Soldiers, not people, but weapons to be pointed at the enemy, tools of war.
Making a distinction between tools and people, however well-meaning you are, harms those not in control of their own personhood status.
You can say "My knife is a tool." You can say "a Gunformer is not a tool." You cannot say "People aren't tools because tools are not sentient." Without some of us calling you on this. Because sentience has to be tested for in a standardized manner, or someone will deny your personhood. And while the younger of us may not remember time before the Ambus Test, I do. And it was not fun. And that test is far from perfect considering it, on a technicality, excludes for example those beastformers without a humanoid rootmode or mechanoid life unable to communicate verbally. It might be a somewhat moot point. Oppression might have been drastically reduced during the war, along with functionism as a whole. Or replaced, considering the pressure for people to change their altmodes and frames to be bigger, more martial, more efficient at killing. Add more guns, add more hooks, add more armor plating, until your spark cannot support more.
Or die the second you make enemy contact for the first time because the enemy doesn't care who is on file as a non-combatant.

 

...well, I suppose ethics and biology are nicer topics than funerals, if nothing else.

What happens if you are used to shoot a corpse or an inanimate object? Does the egg still develop?

(I am not going to get involved in the personhood debate. I personally agree with Stanford, but then I only experienced the very fringes of Cybertronian-held space during the last few millennia of the war, and certainly heard none of the politics.)

 

I am afraid not.

The process only has only ever successfully occurred in live hosts.

The egg would most certainly die, assuming it were able to develop at all.

 

Hm. I suppose that makes sense, if it's drawing on the host's energy as well as basic nutrients. Thank you.

 

@Silverburst Furthermore, Nothing is gain from taking a life, and an undeveloped handgun such as that is not yet able to withstand the absorbtion of Nothing. The material of futility and death serves for use to fully developed revolvers, such as myself.

It is a wondrous material that is capable of granting one such as I immeasurable power, if acquired in sufficient quantity, but such an essence is wasted upon the youth.

However, this all assumes that a talkative firearm such asxmyself has been recently responsible for the existence of the deceased.

No contract may be formed with an entity that is of the deceased or of the nonliving.

 

Ah, so you feed specifically on life energy! Intriguing! Likely not applicable to my own field, but...

Hm. What would happen if a partially-developed gun was removed from its host? Could it still feed from a distance?

 

* You're speaking my language.

 

NOT JUST YOURS! MINE TOO!

 

* I had it first!

* And you don't even have hands. How are you going to use a knife? You can use bombs and stuff.

 

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