On the preview for MTMTE #17

[notsostraightforward]

...You don't need to try and understand. Don't read too deeply into things.

[The words don't hide the tone in his voice. Prematurely mourning. And despite how stern he sounds about his next words, he almost sounds like he's trying to convince himself of something.]

Everyone dies, mundane. This is no different.

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[flashdrive]

You know they're going to anyway.

Besides, I doubt they're really that far off the mark.

[notsostraightforward]

Yes. I've noticed they're irrational like that.

They're not even on the same board that the mark is on.

[flashdrive]

Aw c'mon, give em a little more credit than that! It's not like you share a habitation room out of some weird kind of punishment.

...Is it? Does Rodimus even do that?

[notsostraightforward]

Of all the things to actually plan, that would be a stretch. They couldn't possibly understand something like this, not when they see me being more... soft. Than I actually am.

[flashdrive]

I'm no expert on Cyclonuses--Cycloni?

But you've got a bigger spark than bots give you credit for. I remember you shielding me when that bomb went off.

[Not that it did any good.]

[notsostraightforward]

[A small blink of surprise. He didn't think you'd remember that, Rewind.]

Hn. A nearly futile gesture, in the end.

You can believe what you want about me.

[flashdrive]

Does it really matter? It's your actions that define you, you know.

[notsostraightforward]

There are quite a few who say that about me. Usually, it's for the exact opposite reason you say it.

[flashdrive]

What can I say? I think outside the box.

[notsostraightforward]

One could either commend you for that, or call you a fool.

[flashdrive]

Let's go with the first one!

[notsostraightforward]

You can do whatever you wish.

[Meanwhile, he'll be over here, thinking a little bit of both.

...Cyclonus stops, then finally lets out a sigh.]

For what it's worth, it was a shame to lose you, as well.

[lyingliarwholies]

...

[Dying sucks you know.

It really does.]

[notsostraightforward]

[He actually does. Not that he likes to dwell on those six million years where he was undead, but he does.

Grieving sucks, too, if the new, giant claw marks on his face are any indication.]

[lyingliarwholies]

You didn't have to do that for me.

[Tailgate points at Cyclonus' face.]

Unless you just did that for fun.

[notsostraightforward]

It wasn't entirely for you.

[Only partly.]

It's no addition to my appearance that anyone will take much notice to -- if they're wise, that is.

[lyingliarwholies]

I notice.

[notsostraightforward]

...So you do.

muse is ignorant on muns insistance

[6000000yearslate]

What is the matter Cyclonus.

[He cocks his head and looks up to the much taller mech.]

D-did we lose someone else? My mun doesn't want me to know what the previews show...

why would you even

[notsostraightforward]

... Not yet. But we will, soon.

You'll see, eventually.

Because I'm having trouble with it /hides

[6000000yearslate]

Oh... Is there nothing we can do? Can't Ratchet or First Aid fix it? They are so good at fixing people.

we all are ;A;

[notsostraightforward]

No, Tailgate. I don't know all of the details, but it's... a terminal illness.

He won't know till we know the outcome...

[6000000yearslate]

Oh... I would think even with something like that, they would be able to do something.

I'm sorry.

[notsostraightforward]

Yes... so would I.

You have nothing to be sorry for.

[6000000yearslate]

Maybe it's not too late to hope they will figure it out.

[notsostraightforward]

Yes. It is. "Hope" is fictitious, something to cling to when you don't want to see that it's the end.

[Whoaaaaa Cyclonus. Getting a bit too "goth poetry" there.]

[6000000yearslate]

O-oh...

[He looks upset for a moment.]

W-why not hope then? Is it okay to not want it to be the end?

[notsostraightforward]

...It's better to see things for what they are.

[6000000yearslate]

I... don't think having hope means you don't see things for what they are... just that... you don't give up on the chance they could change.