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[livefastdieyoung_taao]

 

[ It's Rodimus! I'm probably off doing something awesome or saving the universe again. Leave a message and I might get back. ]

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[Action] A Devil Appears

[playfultyrant]

[ Antlers, the Megatron now with a crown and wings, has been stomping the halls. He lost sight of the brat again, shame. Its a big ship, he won't be too hard on himself for losing track of Hot Shot and with him some details on his Starscream.

Pitiful brats. He'll have to - Oh! Megatron pauses, spotting the little one down a hall after a very Rodimus looking frame. Tch. If its their Rodimus they might have a problem.

But looking over the corner its some much slimmer form. He will stay there and wait till the little one retreats after gushing to a hero. Megatron can't help but laugh silently. He leaves, but will track Rodimus out once more. ]

Busy day, you must be a fresh batch of arrivals. [ He says first chance he manages to Catch Rodimus alone. ]

Are you finding everything well enough? [ He says like he offers to be a guide. ]

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

[ Rodimus has been, what feels like, all over the ship by this point. He followed the map when he felt it necessary, avoided the staff only areas, and now was tracking down a room to stay in. Or was, anyway, until a taller mech came up to him. He blinked, looking up. ]

Yep, new arrival. Been walkin' around, getting my bearings.

[ Rodimus narrows his optics just a little, canting his helm as he looked at Antlers. This mech gave off Overlord vibes, which was not something Rodimus was very... pleased with, but he'd give him the benefit of the doubt for right now. ]

I think I've been finding everything. Hard to tell though, big ship. [ He offers him a smile, though it wasn't quite a sincere expression. In Rodimus' defense, it had been a long day. ]

Action

[forgottengod]

He knows his is here, flawed beloved Rodimus. Rung slowly rounds the corner following his data pad's map and feels a swelling of fear of an inevitable cycling of introductions.

He prepares dialogue in his head. Adjusting his goggles. Then steps to the door raising his knuckles to lightly but firmly tap the door.

Tap tap.

"Captain Rodimus, are you available? I'm sorry for the sudden intrusion..."

It wil be okay, all that is needed is a little time with him. It will all flow back.

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Rodimus hadn't been expecting any guests. No missed calls either. But hey, what the hell, he wasn't doing anything else. Why not entertain someone for a little. So he swung to the door--Captain Rodimus? Someone from the Lost Light then--and opened it with a smile. "Hey there, how can I--"

The words died in his voxcoder, blinking a few times as he stared down at the mech. Something niggled at him in his processor, memory files coming up that rang empty and missing or altered in some way. He cycled a few blinks, narrowing his optics. "I... know you."

un: boaty mcboatface

[knaval]

hey rod(imus) r u from the terrible shitty timeline we r all depressed in or the cool one

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

obvs im from the cool one
do i seem depressed to u
depressed peeps rnt fly like urs truly

text un: Megatron

[areaman]

I need to attend a party in a few weeks and will require your attendance likewise, as a Matrix bearer who would not implode at the slightest sign of a social gathering.

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

🫢😮🙀
My help? My guy what kind of party are we talking about?
I am the LIFE of every party so it doesn't matter but what are we doing? 👀👀👀

text un primetime

[emojibot]

Rodimus Prime, this is Optimus Prime. 👋🤖

[the emojis come automatically while he's texting with his brain, and he doesn't delete them. they're supposed to make messages easier, and this is definitely a message he wants to make easier. also, if he uses happy bright emojis then it's clearly not as obvious he is feeling any negative emotions. this logic checks out.]

I am sorry to request your attention in this manner, but we very suddenly have something very important to discuss.
If you could meet me in the Observation room, I would appreciate it. 👍

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

[ Is that a robot waving emoji? Is Optimus Prime texting him with emojis? What sweet world has he stumbled into while sleeping? He doesn't know this UN, which means... different Prime? Is there another new Optimus Prime? Primus they really didn't stop showing up, did they? ]

hey no probs op 👍👍👍 whats so imprt on the r2 tho? we arnt in charge here 🤔 everything good?

[Rodimus frowns down at the communicator, but makes his way from his Lounge of Relaxation (he built a pillow fort in his habsuite) towards the Observation room. OP called him Rodimus Prime. No one calls him Prime. It makes his plating crawl.]

its just rodimus btw 😎 I dont rly use the 'prime' part ✌️😎✨

Action

[playfultyrant]

[ What was the notion again? To keep friends is to invest in them? Simple in theory but harder in practice, Antlers thinks. After all who has time to invest in others outside his room when he sometimes forgets who all exists outside it.

One might think he's selfish and ego centered. He just thinks he's a survivalist.

But he's finally located Rodimus' room and with a little bit of .... something green.. he opens the lock. His body feels so much heavier from the frustrating ten minutes wasting magic to figure the code.

Then he moves to the berth and recharge slabs placing a variety of gifts and welcome back presents. He figures the foolish not Prime would use a pick him up.

Even placing a little note. Which Reads: ]

I never got to properly thank you for your kindness while I was Bewitched. Ending me twice in one day's time must of taken a toll upon your psych.

In which I have decided much late in time that you must be exhausted on your return. So please, accept this bottle of aged Energon.

I would of given you a Star but those are in low supply and hard to come by here.

But still it is only fair I give you something to ease your wary gears.

Its quite good and while its no Energon Star, it still doubles as a light elixer for the aches and pains.

In the cloth I have furnished a knife for you, nothing fancy. But we all could use a knife on hand in troubling times. It's good for an electrical shock too. Be careful of the charge, dear Rodimus.

Sincerly Megatron "Antlers"

Action | Post Party Heist --> Text | $hotbodimus

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

[ He's tired, and he's sore, and he's still fuckin' pissed about whats-his-face getting away. Sure they got the matrix back but at what cost? He's been in and out of the medbay since he got back, just double checking that nothing was seriously wrong with him, and now is his first chance to make it back to his room in what feels like ages.

Some cruise that turned out to be.

But despite his tiredness, Rodimus is not so sloppy as to not notice that something is different about his room. Well, it's hard to miss a gift basket but still. He didn't exactly give anyone else the access code to his room (other than Percy and Brainstorm but they were both off having a grand old time being nerds somewhere) which meant someone had snuck into his room while he was gone and left him something.

Logic says he should be concerned by this. And he is. But, as previously mentioned, he's tired. And sore. And it's a gift basket. If it's gonna blow him up at least it'll be fast about it.

But, as he approaches the berth, he finds quickly that it's not a bomb. No. It's... actually a really thoughtful set of gifts from... Antlers. Oh.

... oh.

Huh.

That sure does... hm.

He blinks a few times as he picks up the aged energon, turning it over in his hands. He doesn't know what would qualify as a "good vintage" really, but he's... actually pretty willing to take Antlers at his word for it. And he's never heard of an "Energon Star"...

He reaches next for the knife, inspecting it. He'd lost his last one, and this one was... oh it was nice. Nothing fancy his aft. A knife that could channel electricity--could it channel his fire?--and sharp like this? Something like this would have made all the difference to someone from his background. Even just on the Lost Light. ]

Ah, hell, I'm gonna have to send a thank you note back.

[ Thank you notes are not his forte. Writing isn't his forte. Maybe he'll just swing through Antlers' "throne room" and talk to him in person. That seems like a better call. Rodimus can do in person. But first... he couldn't just not say thanks and let Antlers think he was ungrateful... Ugh. _Ugh. Fine. He'd send a text. ]

hey antlers! i just got back. saw the gifts. I'm not gonna ask how you got in my room but thanks I appreciate them. the knife is really nice. you'll have to show me how the electricity part works later. :)

[Audio]

[thepurpleone]

Heeeey, Rodimus? It's Donnie.

I just wanted to ask... Um. Have you noticed anything weird going on with you since the whole...Ampri thing?

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Donnie!! Hey bro. Anything weird since Ampri... You'll probably have to be more specific than that, we are on a spaceship that actively pulls from the multiverse. Weird is just a Tuesday.

But in more specific terms. Yeah. Ampri's whole thing was transformations and I've had some, uh, incidents with my t-cog. I wasn't built for mass shifting but that seems to be happening anyway.

text un Megatron

[areaman]

[a day or so after they're back:] I hope you are recovering well, Rodimus.
I know spark chamber and spark damage is very unpleasant.

[he's messaging out of a slight sense of guilt, maybe, and doesn't really know how to say what he wants to.]

I have cleaned up the skulls if you want one.
A reminder of victory and what you survived despite its best efforts.

un: $hotbodimus

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

hey megs thnks for sayin so
you'd never believe it but it's def not the first time i've been snagged thru the spark
just glad this 1 didnt actually offline me u kno??
i do want 1 of those skulls tho. im still shocked those didnt melt with that slag heap

Text - Shortly after the Rat King Fight

[ceruleon]

Yo Flame-bro! If anyone asks, do me a solid and don't tell them Anemone or I were on that last planet, k?
Appreciate it, amigo

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

👍👍👍👍 u got it lil dude

u do realize we had an op w us tho right like they r the worst 4 tattling

Text, UN: Reflected_Lights

[tenthtimeisthecharm]

[Oh wow, 69 incoming and outgoing messages, Rodinus must be so popular, Velocity thought absently as she immediately started texting him and ruined the number]

Rodimus? Are you all right? I just realized that I haven't checked in on you since our, um. The thing, but wjen I tried to audio call you it just said that your signal was out of range.

...You haven't gone back through the bridge, have you?

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

hey lottie! 😎✨

im doin okay u kno how it is. got chewed on by some rats. had my spark casing ripped into. the usual shenanigans.

went on a short mission w megatron
the short one from last time
and a few others and got my aft handed to me

its okay i got better

Action, There and Gone

[thelordofmisrule]

[ While you were away someone has been in your room.

It doesn't look like this someone has really rifled that much through your possessions. Or stolen anything.

How do you know someone was here? There is a tiny plastic human toy baby taped to your ceiling. Several of them actually. Scattered like stars in the night sky. Breath taking... ]

AUDIO, UN: Reflected_Light

[tenthtimeisthecharm]

Hey, Di? Are you okay? I saw on the network that you've gone on your own to confront Megatron, and you haven't checked back in since. Are you hurt? Are you safe? I can still be a first responder even if I'm not on call as a doctor anymore...

ACTION: A small box outside your door contains a handful of...

[thelordofmisrule]

Action (you are under no obligation to respond to this your character can be 'out')

[betterthanmegaman]

[ Recently Bass requested some important information. Who... is the strongest Cybertronian on this ship. He received a hot tip that it was 'Shockwave' but also 'not the Senator one'. There were a few thoughts that went through his processor. One... it was really dumb that there were two people here with the SAME NAME. It must get confusing! Two, while he does (surprisingly) know what a Senator is, he has no idea what a Senator looks like. Do they wear signs? Bass guesses probably not.

This leads him to one conclusion: He has to fight BOTH of them to make sure he's actually fighting the strong one.

This leads him to a second conclusion: He has no idea where Shockwave lives. He could ask for direction, ask if anyone knows... but that begs the question... If they know how strong Bass is will they even tell the truth?

There is now one solution: He has to canvas the ship himself and check every inhabited room he comes across.

So there's the backstory. And that's why Bass, armored up in his winged Treble armor (being able to fly covers ground quicker!) is pounding aggressively at your door.

Sorry. ]

Re: Action (you are under no obligation to respond to this your character can be 'out')

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Rodimus grumbles at the pounding of his door, mutters quite a few choice swears on his way over, and opens it. He cocks out a hip and arches a brow as he looks down and down.

Ah. It's one of them robot masters.

"Sup, kid. Can I help you?"

ACTION || After the Slaverlord's Prize

[shootyourshots]

Rodimus' door opened without any one knocking and Shotlock saunters in with a bottle in hand, leaning against the door frame as he lets the door slide shut behind him.

"Heard you went on a mission. Heard it didn't go well. Heard you were having a breakdown about it. So here's what we're going to do."

He steps over and very firmly puts the bottle on the table. "I have 3 bottles of this thing that I can't pronounce but it's supposed to be some nasty stuff. We're going to drink until we can't see straight and then we're going to go to the shooting range and blow shit up until we end up shooting each other or someone tells us it's a bad idea."

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Rodimus looked up as his door slid open--it was locked, why was it opening--and did a double take at Shotlock standing there. "How the hell did you get in here?" He didn't think he gave Shotlock the code.

He was also definitely midway through painting over some of the battle scars from the most recent fight with Writhe, twisted into a weird position to get at them. Basically, he's not looking his best.

Not that Shotlock hasn't seen him in more compromising positions but. You know. It's the principle of the thing.

He does put the paintbrush down so he can squint at the bottle Shotlock put down. "Where'd you get that? I'm pretty certain that's outlawed in like three different galaxy clusters."

Audio, UN: Guest

[disastertron]

[The sounds of the medibay are heard first, then Megatron's slurred brogue]

Prime, jus' saw your title on the thing. Network. Do you even ken how many feckin security issues there are with openly puttin your user name oit there when we're at war? Are you oot your nut? Are you having a chug instead of a thought?

If I go'n win because you're too busy bein polite to be smart...

sorry cedar

[emojibot]

[let's not wonder why optimus is currently with rodimus. it's been a difficult few days, and maybe he actually takes some degree of comfort in the other prime's (even if rodimus does not consider himself one, optimus still privately does, as he was chosen by the matrix and it isn't as easy as just dropping the title) presence, with his indomitable aura of, as thrash would say, chill.

either way, when rodimus takes his comm out to play this new message, optimus takes a few seconds to realise who it is and what he's saying. why does megatron think it's...? did the space bridge happen again? he knows megatron is heavily sedated, but the line of questioning surprises him too greatly.

on a very rational and primely reflex, he grabs the comm out of rodimus's hands and pitches it down the hallway, where it clatters sadly to the floor at the end.]

Uh. [his mouth stays open for a moment like he's trying to will an excuse or explanation for that. none comes. he looks appropriately mortified.] I'll... go deal with that.

Voice- Distorted and Scrambling

[playfultyrant]

Hello, Rodimus.

Despite everything... Despite the path I've chosen. I wanted to thank you, for keeping the option open...

It is more than a lot have given me here.

I wonder if some way I regret it. In some way I felt I had to be this monster out of obligation or pressure.

Does it warrant excuse, no...

but... you have been so kind to me, Rodimus. And I miss the touch of your hands.

I know I can not be forgiven but it changes nothing of my feelings for you.

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Megatron!

[ This is not what he expected from today. Of course, it can't be said that he expected anything. He's been mostly just coasting through after All Of That but this... hearing from Megatron certainly wasn't in the cards. ]

How are you--? You're not--!

[ Megatron shouldn't be able to contact the ship if he had followed the reports right. Not that he isn't glad to hear from Megatron--a vast part of him feels relief for the familiarity even if he knows, he knows, that he shouldn't be relieved at all--but he's just surprised. ]

Why did you do it, Megs?

[ Why did Megatron do any of it? The experiments, the lies, the psychological torture; the list could go on and on but Rodimus forced himself to stop. To not think that far past the surface. Things were already bad enough, he could feel it itching under his plating; there was no need to poke the sleeping bear as the humans would say. ]

Text, backdated to right after the brawl with Skywarp

[incendiarism3]

Rodmus? think I

i don't want to be alone here I don't you helped before you were honest please help me please

Everything hurtes and Im scared

SEVERAL MINUTES AFTER THAT FIRST ONE

[incendiarism3]

i messed up really messed up you wont tell my lord will you? he helped me and i TOLD, he'll be really disappointed

Duckstribution

[thelordofmisrule]

[ There is a gift waiting for Rodimus in his hab. The gift of a Duck of Rubber. When squeezed it gives unprompted relationship advice! ]

[Audio]

[thepurpleone]

Heeeey Rodimus? It's Donnie. I know we don't talk a whole lot but um. Something's come up and... Well, you remember that awful mission we had to magic-girl world?

Anyway, we are trying to figure out something about Ursimp... [He stifles a snicker, he is never going to not be able to say that without laughing] -ahem, sorry- and if there was any connection with her and the Optimus who was there with us.

Re: [Audio]

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Oh, sup lil dude. Ursimp and OP, huh? Yeah, there might be a connection between them. Primes and all that tend to be connected. What information do you need from me? I'll try to help how I can.

[Does Rodimus sound horribly distracted? Absolutely. But hey, at least he answered his phone.]

Audio, UN: Wheeljack, slightly backdated

[incendiarism3]

[Wheeljack huddled on the floor next to his berth after Starscream left. He ought to message Ratchet. Starscream had said to, and he would, just...]

[He found himself looking up Rodimus' contact and hitting the button to call him, then huddling beneath his doorwings again]

My l- Rodimus? Are you available? I... I talked with Starscream about- about him, but I think I want to talk to you, too. Everything is a mess, but... You'll understand. You've always understood.

Action- Post Desolation of Rainbow Keep

[playfultyrant]

When Rodimus returns, after all is said and done. He will find a very special guest waiting in his room. How did he get in, does it matter? It is after all the Antlered King, the exiled Megatron.

The one who was told how dearly he's missed and ...some how found his way back to the ship?

"There... must be some questions." He says sitting on Rodimus' berth. "But before you do,"- he holds his hand up to say one more thing.- "I was wrong to run as I did, to leave you to watch another copy of me fade..."

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

Rodimus freezes upon seeing who is in his room. He'd half expected it to be Shotlock since the mech often came in and tried to get Rodimus into doing something ill advised (and often succeeded too). But no, it was Megatron, Antlers, in front of him.

He only half pays attention to what Antlers says, he's already crossing the room just so he can hug him.

"You shouldn't have made me watch a version of you die. That was exceptionally fucked up of you." He's too tired to be truly upset. He's experienced too much in the last however many hours to dredge up old hurts from Antlers' actions. Right now he just wants a hug. Questions and anger can come later.

audio un primetime

[emojibot]

Rodimus, I've just spent the night with Shotlock.

[optimus says this confidently, either missing how this could sound like an odd announcement to drop into someone's comm or just not caring.]

He seemed quite distressed and intent on hiding his true feelings from those he cares about. I felt it wouldn't serve him to enable this self-destructive behaviour by neglecting to let you know.

Re: audio un primetime

[livefastdieyoung_taao]

[If Rodimus chokes on the other side of the line, he doesn't acknowledge it.]

Spent the night with Shots how exactly?

And what's this about not telling people? Spill the deets, OP.