Nice allusion to Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a Dream" speech.
This background of yours makes me wonder how many of the mechs had a choice? Becoming a Decepticon or dying is not a choice in my book. 'Course, it's not a decision in Jazz's book either - but like he said, Kaonites are barely surviving, if that, and few of them are able to make a descent living without compromising their dreams or their morals.
Glad to see that first impressions aren't the lasting impressions.
*blinks* I love the speech, but I didn't think about it while writing it, but I can definitely see the parallel. Dreams have power.
I think that most mechs didn't have a true choice. Neither in going Decepticon and later also in becoming Autobots. If you're an Enforcer in Kaon you are a Decepticon, in Praxus you're an Autobot. As long as one didn't actively decide against, one just joined.
Kaonites lifes are hell here. I think without Prowl Jazz would've joined up very soon too.
Poor Softkey... His fate provides this story with a more gritty feeling, in the sense that the suffering, and what is plain wrong in Kaon, gets a face, instead of being facts...
No wonder so many mech's join up with the Decepticon's... And Optimus really doesn't know about all this? Hm...
Softkey... I admit I loved the little mech. He was always inside the story and turned out somehow even better than imagined. And yes, he is supposed to show all that is wrong in Kaon and why mechs choose to go to the Decepticons. Mmh. Yes and no. Prime knows parts of it. He knows like: The situation in Kaon is bad. People are nearly starving. They're not yet really starving. Just nearly. And well, sometimes a mech really starves, but he's unlucky. Not like they're all dieing... I guess, that's the picture most mechs on Cybertron have. It's not exactly wrong, really. But it's missing so many details and facts, that's just wrong.
I think it was a really good choice, to give all that is wrong with Kaon a face with Softkey. It makes it even more gut wrenching to read about it all and he is not there just for the drama, but really enriches the story and moves the plot forward.
Huh. Even if Optimus has now sent Prowl to investigate, I'm still very much disappointed that he - and the Prime before him - allowed for it to go this far without intervening. In a sense, they seem to only get what they deserved, in the war...
*nods* I kind of wish to show more of Softkey, but I think his power lies in the brief interlude. It's a glimpse of his life.
That's a core question I have always asked myself even when I read the normal comics. There was so much obvious corruption, how could they just let it go on? There are some comics that hint that entire kinds of Transformers nearly went instinct over millenia. TFwiki: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Functionism Not to mentoion the corruption that seems to be everywhere. (I admit that my answer is kind of: Optimus Prime came after the Decepticons, he's different. Poor answer as it might be.)
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Nice allusion to Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a Dream" speech.
This background of yours makes me wonder how many of the mechs had a choice?
Becoming a Decepticon or dying is not a choice in my book.
'Course, it's not a decision in Jazz's book either - but like he said, Kaonites are barely surviving, if that, and few of them are able to make a descent living without compromising their dreams or their morals.
Glad to see that first impressions aren't the lasting impressions.
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I think that most mechs didn't have a true choice. Neither in going Decepticon and later also in becoming Autobots. If you're an Enforcer in Kaon you are a Decepticon, in Praxus you're an Autobot. As long as one didn't actively decide against, one just joined.
Kaonites lifes are hell here. I think without Prowl Jazz would've joined up very soon too.
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No wonder so many mech's join up with the Decepticon's... And Optimus really doesn't know about all this? Hm...
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Mmh. Yes and no. Prime knows parts of it. He knows like: The situation in Kaon is bad. People are nearly starving.
They're not yet really starving. Just nearly. And well, sometimes a mech really starves, but he's unlucky. Not like they're all dieing...
I guess, that's the picture most mechs on Cybertron have. It's not exactly wrong, really. But it's missing so many details and facts, that's just wrong.
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Huh. Even if Optimus has now sent Prowl to investigate, I'm still very much disappointed that he - and the Prime before him - allowed for it to go this far without intervening. In a sense, they seem to only get what they deserved, in the war...
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That's a core question I have always asked myself even when I read the normal comics. There was so much obvious corruption, how could they just let it go on? There are some comics that hint that entire kinds of Transformers nearly went instinct over millenia.
TFwiki: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Functionism
Not to mentoion the corruption that seems to be everywhere.
(I admit that my answer is kind of: Optimus Prime came after the Decepticons, he's different. Poor answer as it might be.)
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