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[angleofscience]

... I recommend that you perhaps be gentler towards yourself, instead of bringing on the recriminations.

You say you do not feel like you've lost anyone's voice; that, I think, is the only real worry here. Your situation being what it is, I would point out that by merely observing general trends and the available facts, the conclusion would be that hitting rough patches are a statistical possibility.

And no matter your, or my, issues, Starscream is enough of a distraction for both of us...

However; I don't exactly approve of one of the situations lately... Just because you have the icons, does not mean you have to use them.

[Disapproving jet is disapproving, even if it's merely expressed with a frown and crossed arms. The mundane can't convince him it's "for science", since that has not been the reason to try those icons out at all. :|]

Comments

[nonononono]

[But he's SO good at it!

Sam's poor fragile human brain...]

Yeah, how about we forget this ever happened. How's that? And when you guys have your big wedding with your Decepticon garter belts, I'll just send you a card with some Energon coffee store credit on it.

/lols at the garter belts, though. Very pretty!

[angleofscience]

[Also very good at shrieking no.

Whiner.]

If you wish. You were the one who asked, however, and I do not see any reason to hide the fact that we were friends once.

[Or that he still considers them such, outside anything the mundanes might do between them.

Pause. Helm-tilt.]

Wedding? Ah, human bonding ceremony... Well, even if we'd do something similar to that, which I doubt considering Starscream's... personality... Thank you, I suppose?

[He can't say he completely follows what Sam is on about, but it doesn't hurt to be polite either way.]

I know right? Trying to talk my friend into using them at her wedding :D

[nonononono]

[You have no idea, bro. It's practically every movie Shia has been in. There's even videos of it on youtube!]

Yeah, there's a difference between friends and, uh...kissing buddies. [Ahhh how does the even work giant freaking robots and and auuuugh damn his overactive imagination!]

...you're welcome. All the Energon you could want.

Yess. Good luck! *I* would want them, anyway, they're pretty! :D

[angleofscience]

[That's kind of amazing. Clearly his skill isn't acting, but shrieking protestations.]

Along a measure for close relationships, I suppose so; even if one can share certain types of kisses between those who aren't... intimately? involved.

And those icons are for what our mundanes think are possible developments, not statements of absolute fact of having, or will, happened.

[Look, don't let him get into discussions about actualities, and interpretations and reality, okay? Even if it's too late for that.]

She's reads all the comics and watches all the shows, so it's bound to happen :D

[nonononono]

[Pretty much, yes.]

...I think I just threw up in the back of my mouth.

[As if being tortured by Knockout wasn't enough, and how dirty and terrible it got, there's...how does it even work?

Don't ask Sam. Don't. You don't want to. You don't.

No no no.]

How does that even work? You're all...giant robots.

Heheh, awesome! :3

[angleofscience]

[That comment will merely net Sam a confused, and slightly concerned, frown as Jetfire kneels down; he might not be as big as 40 feet, but he's well over thirty so almost at the size of the Jetfire Sam knows.]

Are you all right? Vomiting is usually a sign of illness in humans, isn't it?

[Sam, Sam, Sam.]

How does what work? [Is he just playing dumb?]

Intimate relations? It depends on what one is after. Closeness and stimulating conversation might, after all, be enough to engender bonds.

[Also, Sam, it's your own faukt if you take that "stimulating" for anything than what it literally means in the context of the conversation.]

[nonononono]

[Yeah, even the tallest robots don't generally warrant Sam's leaning back or anything, and that goes double for Autobots. Not just because he knows several of them, but also because, hey, it's Sam. He's just like that.]

Not always illness.

[LALALA DON'T GO ANY FURTHER SAM YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW DON'T

DON'T

siiigh]

...yeah, the intimate...stimulating. Thing.

[angleofscience]

[Jetfire would never hurt you, Sam. He has respect for the right to life and being free of pain that other creatures possess, after all. Anything else is unethical.]

... Oh?

[He's certainly not going to just scoop Sam up without permission, but that doesn't relieve his concern at all.

And why so confused about this thing, Sam? It's simple!]

I assure you, Starscream can be perfectly articulate and an interesting conversation partner. I may not always agree with him, but that doesn't detract from the other facts.

[He's also pretty good at smooching, but that is neither here nor there, presently, so Jetfire's a bit curious at Sam's... flailing.]

[nonononono]

Yeah, it can mean lots of things.

[It's okay, scoop away. Not like anyone else really asks permission, he's just come to accept it. As long as they don't pick him up to rip him apart, that is, then it's okay.]

...uh huh. If he's articulate and fun to talk to and stuff, why's he always getting beat by Megatron? Are they family or something?

[angleofscience]

Indeed? I'm open to hearing the variable ways it's used.

[He's honest and sincere about it, too; it's interesting after all! And would help understanding the language better.

Also, whoo, implicit permission to scoop; he'll just do so, then, but very carefully. He hasn't actually ever lifted a human.]

Because Starscream has opinions on everything, especially on whatever Megatron might decide to do.

And whether or not those opinions, critisism and actions are legitimate or not... Megatron is not one for being critizised in regards to his actions.

He also has a short temper.

[He doesn't approve, but there's not much to do about it.]

[nonononono]

[WHOO PICKED UP BY GIANT ROBOT HANDS! Sam is like the freaking Bear Grylls of Cybertronian hands. Instead of climbing Everest like some amazing wild man, he is the best at making himself comfortable and also moving about it without have any problem.

He's just that good. (In that one area, that is.)]

Yeah, sometimes people throw up at bad smells or thoughts or something they just find, uh...not really pleasant. It doesn't necessarily mean they have a stomach virus or anything.

...yeah, Megatron doesn't seem like the sort to really approve of anyone else's opinion.

[angleofscience]

I see. Thank you.

[Well, yes, when you're dealing with Cybertronians as often as Sam is, getting used to their hands is probably a good idea.]

Truly, no. And Starscream was never the most... careful, about expressing his, which inevitably means retaliation from Megatron.

[nonononono]

You're welcome?

[Oh, you guys, always with your bizarre curiosities. It's kind of endearing, really, as long as it's not a Decepticon inquiring about, oh, taking out his brain or his E-Bay user name.]

Huh. Did he have circuits cut or does he just never learn?

[angleofscience]

[Oh, Jetfire certainly wouldn't do anything like that.]

... Starscream's stubborn. And when someone's convinced they're right and has the right of it, sometimes they simply will not back down.

No matter how logical it would be to do so, or better for personal health to stop; I suppose it depends on what one deems most important.

[Shrug. Starscream's stubbornness, arrogance and desires all conspire against him, and also drives him on. Jetfire may not understand why, but he knows the factors and has accepted them.]

[nonononono]

[Sam's just going to sit down in that robot hand, tempted to recline like it's a damn Lazy Boy. Why? Because he's gotten good at this being in a robot hand thing.

It's one of very few things he has going for him.

At the explanation, he rubs his jaw with a hand, looking thoughtful. It's a strange look on him, truly.]

So...he's a dick?

[angleofscience]

[Have an utterly bewildered look, Sam. Jetfire really hasn't been on Earth enough to understand all of English's little slang meanings.]

... Considering that he's not a human male, and thus not in possession of said appendage, and even you can't be considered to be what you merely poessess as a limb and as part of your body...

[That is, he doesn't understand what you're saying, Sam. :D]

[nonononono]

[...
...

God damn you, giant robots!]

It's a saying. He's, uh. A jerk, how's that?

[angleofscience]

[Jetfire would be sorry, but his mundane isn't!]

... Ah, I see.

[And he's totally. not smiling a little.]

Starscream was never the most agreeable mech, no. It's part of what makes him interesting.

[Yes, Jetfire just said that.]

[nonononono]

[Mundanes should never be sorry. Sam's is shameless.]

Interesting. Yeah, I guess. When you're on the receiving end of Megatron's wrath, though, he goes from "interesting" to "totally freaking terrifying oh my God" in less than two seconds.

I hate when i hit the wrong icon

[aerospace]

Why are you two even discussing this sort of thing?!

I would never kiss that over grown science-drone.

[lol]

[angleofscience]

[Have a look, Starscream. He's not going to deign to answer that, because you know you have.]

Sam asked. I merely explained things.

At least you have an edit button!

[nonononono]

[AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]

I blame the icons.

And my mun.

She's kind of loopy. Not as loopy as Megatron, but still. She's pretty out there.

[aerospace]

Shooting something would make me feel a great deal better right now.

[angleofscience]

There'll be no shooting going on here. It's not as if I called you a worthless, ineffective drone, Starscream; I don't see what's so terrible with this discussion, though I apologize for having it in public with someone who it doesn't really pertain to.

[He will, however, carefully lift up Sam again and shield him.]

[nonononono]

[Oh, hey, Sam is in good hands.]

You could do me a favor and shoot my mun.

[Not that Decepticons do the Witwickys any favors BUT OH WELL]