bad rap

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bad rap

The things we become known for aren’t always what we’d like to be known for. Reputations are hard to run from. Sometimes they’re not even deserved. So here’s your chance to set the record straight. Clear up some misplaced assumptions, debunk any rumours about yourself and defy your stereotypes.

how to play:

Top level with something(s) your character is tired of people assuming about them, blaming them for, or pigeonholing them about, etc. Say it in person or over text.

Comment on any surprising, or not so surprising declarations.

Comments

[iluzija]

"I was, when I was a kid. Back when the war hadn't started and I lived on a ranch with my parents, I wonder if I was different? It's too far back for me to remember it without bias." Memory was easily modified by time and circumstance, things warped by perspective. "I have a very real disdain for people who harm children. I might have done it had I not known he hurt Tadija. It's a line I don't think people ever have a real reason to cross."

She listens intently. The lack of judgment is refreshing, but so to is the lack of dismissal. He's reflecting on his own life to give her the best advice he can, and she appreciates how hard that is to do. Honesty is both valuable and hard.

And it hits hard, too. Something in her broke when her parents died. It was then that things ceased to mean as much as she was fairly sure they should. Was that the start of it? Had she been born minus a conscience, or had she had something prior to the dual losses that shook her to the core? She can't say. She's not sure anyone can.

"Thank you, for sharing your perspective. A lot of that makes sense, and you've given me a lot to think about. But I have one question, and I think it's worth asking since peace isn't in our sights yet, for my people: what happens if I lose them? What happens if Tadija and Atansa die, and I'm left to my own devices?"

Would that be the thing that makes her into the monster the world thinks she is? Would that extinguish whatever tiny spark of morality dwells within her?

[adpacempertyrannidem]

"I don't know, and I'm not sure we can know."

Megatron closes his optics for a moment.

"I can tell you that one of the things that has given me pause is this thought, though: what would Terminus say about this? That was his name."

His voice is almost airless.

"Closest thing I ever had to what you might call a father, but because we don't reproduce like humans do, not exactly like that. Perhaps, if that happened, you could ask yourself what Tadija or Atansa would want. I think if I had asked myself that more often, things might have gone differently.

"But I also know that if Ravage ever died, I'd be gutted, and if the only way I could get the person who did it was to blow up the planet they were hiding on...I might."