Your Feelings Were Sacrificed for a Greater Cause [prompt response]
UT Starscream
[Starscream is seated on a grassy riverbank, contemplating some of the rounded, naturally polished stones beneath the clear, swift-running water. He takes out his journal to record his thoughts.]
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Dear Journal,
There is a move in a strategy game, sometimes played by warriors in their downtime between battles, called sacrifice. This move involves "allowing a group to die in order to carry out a play, or plan, in a more important area". In this sense, I was sacrificed by my former Leader, long before I was driven to sacrifice myself for the cause of uniting the factions against Unicron.
We were in a race to collect the Mini-Cons, and more specifically, those Mini-Cons that made up the Legendary weapons: The Star Saber, The Sky Boom Shield and the Requiem Blaster. Megatron was in possession of the Star Saber, but of course he wanted the others, particularly the offensive power of the Blaster.
I was selected for the mission to draw out the Autobots, who according to our intel had all three Mini-Cons of the Requiem Blaster. For this mission, I was entrusted with the Star Saber, composed of the Mini-Cons Runway, Jetstorm and Sonar. At the time, I felt this was a great honor. Megatron had maintained the Saber as his personal weapon until then. I felt I would be invincible. I would go face the Autobots in battle and Destroy Optimus Prime! I would take the Requiem Blaster and the Decepticons would be victorious.
I did not understand, then, how the Mini-Cons felt, or how Optius Prime treated his men, including those Mini-cons in his service. I charged in, expecting to win. Eventually, I did confront Optimus Prime - in his Jet Optimus mode achieved by linxing with Jetfire - but he did not have the Blaster! And...all he wished to do was talk!
Optimus Prime claimed that the Mini-Cons did not want to fight...to cause or enable war. I insisted then, the Mini-Cons were mere pawns...and in retrospect, I may as well have been talking about myself. I know now that Optimus Prime was the only leader who respected the mini-Cons, and who would even show respect to me, but then, I was too enraged to see the truth.
It was the Mini-Cons who began to show me. Runway, Jetstorm, Sonar: they refused to function as the Star Saber for me, so long as I was denying their wishes and rejecting Optimus Prime's words. I would learn, also, to respect them; that I could not be their Master if they did not wish it, but by showing respect would have their support...and we would be more powerful working with each other.
I realized there, arguing with Optimus Prime, that I had no one supporting me in battle. I had been sacrificed! As soon as Megatron and the others had realized the Autobots had not carried the Blaster to the field, and that it must be at their base, they abandoned me to go after the Blaster!
And to my greater dishonor, Optimus Prime would not even remain to face me in combat, or finish me, but took his men back to their base once they realized the threat.
I was left alone. Abandoned. Not even given the courtesy of honorable defeat in combat.
And I could not understand why Megatron had abandoned me, maybe because I did not want to see, that after all the battles I fought and everything I did for him, Megatron still only viewed me as a pawn to be sacrificed.
He probably did not even care when I did die. Though he showed plenty of interest when Optimus Prime died, and then returned....
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[Starscream puts away his journal and begins collecting some darker and lighter river stones.]
[ooc: Apparently Starscream does not credit sources, but the direct quote regarding "sacrifice" is from a wikipedia article on Go. The events he is writing about mainly took place in the Transformers Armada episode not-coincidentally titled Sacrifice, and the title comes from the music selected for the post. Again, the journal entry itself is not know to characters unless they physically obtain the journal and can read Starscream's Cybertronian/Japanese/English gibberish. However, he is physically out in the open, if characters wish to approach, and he can be asked about the journal writing in general.]
[Starscream is seated on a grassy riverbank, contemplating some of the rounded, naturally polished stones beneath the clear, swift-running water. He takes out his journal to record his thoughts.]
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Dear Journal,
There is a move in a strategy game, sometimes played by warriors in their downtime between battles, called sacrifice. This move involves "allowing a group to die in order to carry out a play, or plan, in a more important area". In this sense, I was sacrificed by my former Leader, long before I was driven to sacrifice myself for the cause of uniting the factions against Unicron.
We were in a race to collect the Mini-Cons, and more specifically, those Mini-Cons that made up the Legendary weapons: The Star Saber, The Sky Boom Shield and the Requiem Blaster. Megatron was in possession of the Star Saber, but of course he wanted the others, particularly the offensive power of the Blaster.
I was selected for the mission to draw out the Autobots, who according to our intel had all three Mini-Cons of the Requiem Blaster. For this mission, I was entrusted with the Star Saber, composed of the Mini-Cons Runway, Jetstorm and Sonar. At the time, I felt this was a great honor. Megatron had maintained the Saber as his personal weapon until then. I felt I would be invincible. I would go face the Autobots in battle and Destroy Optimus Prime! I would take the Requiem Blaster and the Decepticons would be victorious.
I did not understand, then, how the Mini-Cons felt, or how Optius Prime treated his men, including those Mini-cons in his service. I charged in, expecting to win. Eventually, I did confront Optimus Prime - in his Jet Optimus mode achieved by linxing with Jetfire - but he did not have the Blaster! And...all he wished to do was talk!
Optimus Prime claimed that the Mini-Cons did not want to fight...to cause or enable war. I insisted then, the Mini-Cons were mere pawns...and in retrospect, I may as well have been talking about myself. I know now that Optimus Prime was the only leader who respected the mini-Cons, and who would even show respect to me, but then, I was too enraged to see the truth.
It was the Mini-Cons who began to show me. Runway, Jetstorm, Sonar: they refused to function as the Star Saber for me, so long as I was denying their wishes and rejecting Optimus Prime's words. I would learn, also, to respect them; that I could not be their Master if they did not wish it, but by showing respect would have their support...and we would be more powerful working with each other.
I realized there, arguing with Optimus Prime, that I had no one supporting me in battle. I had been sacrificed! As soon as Megatron and the others had realized the Autobots had not carried the Blaster to the field, and that it must be at their base, they abandoned me to go after the Blaster!
And to my greater dishonor, Optimus Prime would not even remain to face me in combat, or finish me, but took his men back to their base once they realized the threat.
I was left alone. Abandoned. Not even given the courtesy of honorable defeat in combat.
And I could not understand why Megatron had abandoned me, maybe because I did not want to see, that after all the battles I fought and everything I did for him, Megatron still only viewed me as a pawn to be sacrificed.
He probably did not even care when I did die. Though he showed plenty of interest when Optimus Prime died, and then returned....
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[Starscream puts away his journal and begins collecting some darker and lighter river stones.]
[ooc: Apparently Starscream does not credit sources, but the direct quote regarding "sacrifice" is from a wikipedia article on Go. The events he is writing about mainly took place in the Transformers Armada episode not-coincidentally titled Sacrifice, and the title comes from the music selected for the post. Again, the journal entry itself is not know to characters unless they physically obtain the journal and can read Starscream's Cybertronian/Japanese/English gibberish. However, he is physically out in the open, if characters wish to approach, and he can be asked about the journal writing in general.]