Megatron grins when she kisses his nose, and then kisses her, but lightly.
"I joined the Autobots in a moment of crisis, because I couldn't think of a better way to express the pain I was in over the death of someone I initially disliked and came to consider a friend, and the pain I was in over what I knew people had done in my name and my cause," he admits.
"It was in no way a philosophical decision, and I am also unsure that my feelings for Orion had nothing to do with it. I don't know if I regret it or not. It ended the war, but I completely betrayed my people. My ideals have not really changed much at all. I had come to believe that the Autobots had adopted some of our ideals and were living them better than we were. I don't think that's true anymore. I think that they were influenced by our ideals, because Orion was once a Decepticon, but Orion became a Prime. I thought I'd done the right thing for a very long time. But Ravage came to live with me and was treated badly, and Minimus has spent his entire life hiding something that no one should ever have to hide, and he is the most devoted Autobot I know, and the better I come to know him, the more unimpressed with their Code I become."
He considers the procession and the Hunt. "I don't know if we have that concept, or not, either. But I wonder. I do have fire in my head, sometimes, and it might not cause me so much trouble if I knew what to do with it. And I'm not just talking about mania. It's related to the mania. If I can't figure out what the fire in my head is telling me what to do, it builds up and becomes the mania. But sometimes, I've come out of the fire, and done things that had to be done, with a certainty that I couldn't explain. We are a materialistic culture, with the exception of the Camiens and a few other lost colonies, in which priesthood and spirituality and anything that could rightly be called magical is the provenance of the elites and is used for their benefit alone. I used to think magic and religion were only tools to manipulate people--like Soundwave does. I'm not so sure any more."
He grins at her. "I think if I learned to do magic, there is no telling what we would be able to do, together. As for the procession. It depends. If you just want it to be fun for the children, that's fine. If you want to share the story and the ideals with other people, that's fine, too. But the Decepticons would want to know why you were knocking on their doors to prank them, and some of them might join in, if we told them."
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"I joined the Autobots in a moment of crisis, because I couldn't think of a better way to express the pain I was in over the death of someone I initially disliked and came to consider a friend, and the pain I was in over what I knew people had done in my name and my cause," he admits.
"It was in no way a philosophical decision, and I am also unsure that my feelings for Orion had nothing to do with it. I don't know if I regret it or not. It ended the war, but I completely betrayed my people. My ideals have not really changed much at all. I had come to believe that the Autobots had adopted some of our ideals and were living them better than we were. I don't think that's true anymore. I think that they were influenced by our ideals, because Orion was once a Decepticon, but Orion became a Prime. I thought I'd done the right thing for a very long time. But Ravage came to live with me and was treated badly, and Minimus has spent his entire life hiding something that no one should ever have to hide, and he is the most devoted Autobot I know, and the better I come to know him, the more unimpressed with their Code I become."
He considers the procession and the Hunt. "I don't know if we have that concept, or not, either. But I wonder. I do have fire in my head, sometimes, and it might not cause me so much trouble if I knew what to do with it. And I'm not just talking about mania. It's related to the mania. If I can't figure out what the fire in my head is telling me what to do, it builds up and becomes the mania. But sometimes, I've come out of the fire, and done things that had to be done, with a certainty that I couldn't explain. We are a materialistic culture, with the exception of the Camiens and a few other lost colonies, in which priesthood and spirituality and anything that could rightly be called magical is the provenance of the elites and is used for their benefit alone. I used to think magic and religion were only tools to manipulate people--like Soundwave does. I'm not so sure any more."
He grins at her. "I think if I learned to do magic, there is no telling what we would be able to do, together. As for the procession. It depends. If you just want it to be fun for the children, that's fine. If you want to share the story and the ideals with other people, that's fine, too. But the Decepticons would want to know why you were knocking on their doors to prank them, and some of them might join in, if we told them."