Challenge Fic: For the Beauty of the Earth (G1 Hound/Earth)

[femme4jack]

Title: For the Beauty of the Earth
Author:  femme4jack 
Beta:  fierceawakening (I have so much fun chatting about Autobot and Decepticon culture with you.  Thanks so much for the awesome feedback!)
Pairing: Hound/Earth
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU, OOC (Dark Hound), Dark Fic
Continuity: G1 AU (‘cause my Prowl doesn’t die in no stinkin’ attack on a shuttle, that’s why)

Comments

[evvj]

Wow. This was so very, very Hound. The saddest thing, probably, is that we are destroying our planet, but there's no giant alien robot with a biology major coming to save the Earth from us.

... maybe that's kind of morbid, but I really feel that Hound did the right thing in this fic.

[femme4jack]

Thanks for reading!

On one level, I really agree. I think that agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to us or this planet, and it has just gotten worse since. But, I wonder what Hound could have accomplished through education? One thing that is probably rather unrealistic in this story is that the Autobots would not have helped humans improve how they found and used energy. Though perhaps they did, and it still was too little too late.

On a planetary level, it is easy to say that the Earth would be better off without us, and I can imagine even "good" aliens with the power to do so making the choice that Hound did. However, it robs an entire species of an opportunity to redeem itself or suffer the natural consequences of their actions. Question is, can genocide every be justified? Even against a species that is committing it themselves just by the way they live? Hmmmmmmmmm

[gatekat]

My take on the above was with Hound's programming so out of balance, he couldn't stand to wait until education, technology and political pressure did the job of controlling the humans. And/or he saw that humanity would never leave the world clean enough for his programming to accept.

[femme4jack]

*nods* Totally. That was where I was trying to go with the frightening side of core coding when it is not balanced by those around you.

[gatekat]

It's very much where I go with Jazz and Mirage. They're both very frightening when not kept in check by others.