Prompt 5 Response
Title: Inertia
Characters/Pairings: Megatron, Optimus Prime mentioned
'Verse: G1
Rating: G
Warnings: Um, repetition? None, really.
Disclaimer: Transformers - not owned by me, not profited from by me.
Prompt: 'Tradition'
Tradition: a very old custom, belief, or story; to be steeped in tradition; to break with tradition; an activity that happens regularly and has become the usual or typical thing.
Ha. Megatron knew all about tradition. Tradition was what had ruled the Golden Age, with every mechanism in their allotted role, dictated by a body of social and cultural behaviour built up over vorns. Tradition said that military hardware could not enter any public office, tradition said they couldn’t become scientists, researchers, students or teachers. Tradition said that one should not aspire to a station beyond that which one was created into.
Tradition was what he broke with when he organised the military into a united faction and began to wage war against the institutionalised oppression of the consumer goods. When he took certain Cybertronians and gave them the ability to fly outside of alt mode, he broke with tradition. When he killed the Prime, he broke with tradition. When he took control of Cybertron and forced the Autobots into hiding as refugees on their own world, he broke with tradition.
Megatron hated tradition. But what he hated even more was the fact that he and Prime had established various traditions as they carried their war over onto Earth. The tradition of an exciting new device guaranteed to win them the war, foiled only by luck or circumstance; the tradition of a disgraceful and disorganised retreat; these Megatron hated. The tradition of betrayal between him and his troops, the tradition of needing to raid for energon instead of merely taking it like they deserved; he hated these also.
But any way he looked at it, Megatron was trapped. Trapped in a cycle of tradition he had striven so desperately to break back on Cybertron. He had been so close to establishing a new order, with new, acceptable traditions, and then they had crashed on Earth. He hated Earth too, just on principle; but there was a tradition there too, of scorn and disregard for those who were lesser than they. Which was exactly as it should be, but even so, it did not contribute to changing his view of the concept of tradition.
Megatron hated tradition; he really did. It was almost traditional, how much he hated it.
Characters/Pairings: Megatron, Optimus Prime mentioned
'Verse: G1
Rating: G
Warnings: Um, repetition? None, really.
Disclaimer: Transformers - not owned by me, not profited from by me.
Prompt: 'Tradition'
Tradition: a very old custom, belief, or story; to be steeped in tradition; to break with tradition; an activity that happens regularly and has become the usual or typical thing.
Ha. Megatron knew all about tradition. Tradition was what had ruled the Golden Age, with every mechanism in their allotted role, dictated by a body of social and cultural behaviour built up over vorns. Tradition said that military hardware could not enter any public office, tradition said they couldn’t become scientists, researchers, students or teachers. Tradition said that one should not aspire to a station beyond that which one was created into.
Tradition was what he broke with when he organised the military into a united faction and began to wage war against the institutionalised oppression of the consumer goods. When he took certain Cybertronians and gave them the ability to fly outside of alt mode, he broke with tradition. When he killed the Prime, he broke with tradition. When he took control of Cybertron and forced the Autobots into hiding as refugees on their own world, he broke with tradition.
Megatron hated tradition. But what he hated even more was the fact that he and Prime had established various traditions as they carried their war over onto Earth. The tradition of an exciting new device guaranteed to win them the war, foiled only by luck or circumstance; the tradition of a disgraceful and disorganised retreat; these Megatron hated. The tradition of betrayal between him and his troops, the tradition of needing to raid for energon instead of merely taking it like they deserved; he hated these also.
But any way he looked at it, Megatron was trapped. Trapped in a cycle of tradition he had striven so desperately to break back on Cybertron. He had been so close to establishing a new order, with new, acceptable traditions, and then they had crashed on Earth. He hated Earth too, just on principle; but there was a tradition there too, of scorn and disregard for those who were lesser than they. Which was exactly as it should be, but even so, it did not contribute to changing his view of the concept of tradition.
Megatron hated tradition; he really did. It was almost traditional, how much he hated it.