Clio
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Post by Clio on Sept 25, 2011 19:07:43 GMT -5
Month 1, Week 4, Day 6 - Rec room/Lounge, Open to 'Cons.
Clio strolls into the recreation room with her attention fixed on a data pad, Patra folded up neatly into a blockish shape and plugged into her back, asleep. She intends to spend her shift off relaxing, sorting through her notes on humans and their culture, and possibly chatting with any teammates that might actually be able to engage her in intelligent conversation.
Glancing up from her datapad to see who else is sharing the room with her, Clio's gaze stops on a certain blue Seeker. She doesn't look much different than any other G1-style Seeker, but when you're from a universe that frequently reuses builds, you learn it's the little differences that count. (Clio herself shares many build similarities to several Minibots.)
"Skytrike," Clio greets, the sight of the female Seeker reminding her of a question she'd been meaning to ask since shortly after her arrival. Pleasantries first, however. "How are you?"
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Post by Skystrike/Skylar Stringers on Sept 26, 2011 11:49:00 GMT -5
Skystrike glances away from her cube, brought out of her brooding by sound of her name. She peers at Clio in mild surprise for a moment before rumbling a slightly stilted, “Hello,” in return and sitting up.
“I am well,” she adds. “And you?” It’s a rather awkwardly mechanical greeting really, even for a mechanism.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Sept 26, 2011 20:22:53 GMT -5
Lyzack isn't used to having free time. A spare moment to herself is a bizarre concept to her. However, she can only clean her third of the room and shine her cat so many times before the cat starts to get annoyed. So lacking any better ideas, Lyzack tried to take Lionessbreast for a walk.
That doesn't work so well with cats, either.
Lionessbreast bounds into the lounge, leaps up on top of one of the monitors that has been recently used and is thereby still warm, and promptly curls up for a nap there. Lyzack runs in, hot on Lionessbreast's heels, and then, she stops dead at what she sees.
Oh no, there's Skystrike! Lyzack bows very deeply and vainly hopes that Skystrike and the Minibot there just ignore Lionessbreast.
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Post by Ravage (ROTF) on Sept 26, 2011 22:52:59 GMT -5
Ravage, curled up on the floor near a heat vent, opens his single optic and raises his head as the other cat so... enthusiastically enters the lounge. Certainly, Ravage has known that he was no longer the only feline aboard Ship; however, he has pointedly ignored that fact. So far, Ravage has felt there has been no real infringement upon his territory.
So far.
Mrrrrrrrrrrrr
Skippable
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Clio
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Post by Clio on Sept 29, 2011 23:50:23 GMT -5
"Very well," Clio answers, turning a curious eye to Lionessbreast and Lyzack's entrance. She doesn't recognize either of them and comes to the conclusion that they must be new arrivals. She makes a mental note to check over personnel files more regularly, as she hasn't gone through them since her own arrival. Earth has been terribly distracting, really.
Turning her attention back to Skystrike, she says, "If you have the time, there's a question I have been meaning to ask since shortly after my arrival."
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Post by Skystrike/Skylar Stringers on Sept 30, 2011 8:13:04 GMT -5
“We’re in the lounge, Lyzack,” Skystrike says calmly, managing to not look entirely bewildered by the bowing. “You may relax.” She’s still not entirely sure how to deal with the new jet, but hopefully she isn’t going to run off again. It’d be a good chance to try and figure it out- or at the very least, it was a chance to know her new teammate better.
“I have time,” the seeker rumbles to Clio with a slight nod. “What do you wish to know?”
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Sept 30, 2011 12:24:51 GMT -5
Straightening out of her bow, Lyzack looks around again, her gaze never exactly alighting on Skystrike, as gazing upon a superior officer would be rude. Is that a kitty she spies? More like a hellcat panther, but they're all kitties to her. When Skystrike says she can relax, she starts to creep over towards Ravage, slightly crouched and hands on her thighs, wanting to get a better look at his glorious chthonic cuteness.
Besides, investigating Ravage keeps her out of Skystrike's conversation with the Minibot, which is a good thing. The Minibot must be one of some standing to address Skystrike so casually, and if the Minibot is one of some standing, it's better if Lyzack doesn't deal with her.
Lionessbreast just ignores Ravage entirely.
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Clio
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Post by Clio on Oct 6, 2011 18:39:03 GMT -5
OOC: Skipping Ravage due to time out.
"Thank you very much," Clio says, settling down on a nearby chair, facing Skystrike. "I apologize if this seems too personal-" She's really not sure if it is or not! She's never really had to deal with asking any Transformer about their gender. They all tended to be the same thing! "-But you are female, yes?"
It hasn't quite clicked with Clio that Lyzack is also female. She's not used to drawing parallels between the secondary sexual characteristics of many humanoid organic females and Transformer body forms. Were Patra awake, the Nebulan would likely have started thinking of Lyzack as 'she' solely based on appearance. However, it's perhaps a good idea for Clio not to pick up on Patra's tendency to assign gender based on appearance alone. After all, there are bots like Farlane floating around.
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Post by Skystrike/Skylar Stringers on Oct 8, 2011 21:59:17 GMT -5
Skystrike arches a distinctly puzzled brow when Lyzack just... doesn’t attempt any sort of verbal communication at all. Or even visual communication for that matter and then she just wanders off to go... bother Ravage? What?
“... Female?” she questions Clio, although she sounds a bit distracted. Regathering her attention to focus it on the small car, she cycles her optics in a blink. This day just keeps getting more and more peculiar. "I am a seeker."
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Oct 8, 2011 22:37:30 GMT -5
Lyzack's helm has a mane. Not so large and glorious a mane as her brother's, but it's a mane. Robot sexual dimorphism gets weird.
She rather quietly watches Ravage, It would not do to pester him, oh no, but she thinks she ought to bake him some energon goodies and then leave them anonymously in front of his room or something. Such a beautiful kitty!
Lyzack is not practised at concealing her reactions. Her head obviously tilts when Clio asks about women, and her swing-wings twitch. It is not a topic Lyzack would have ever considered discussing, and isn't it a bit rude to go quizzing people about their BIOS settings? Lyzack would never ask someone if she uses RGB or CMKY!
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Knock Out
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Relax! He's a doctor.
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Post by Knock Out on Oct 10, 2011 5:40:55 GMT -5
Since he currently is the only one present from his reality, he is more or less obliged to be here! But that's not the actual reason why he walks in, since he doesn't have spy cameras set up throughout the ship. No, this is just one of those rare occasions where he's actually on Ship to do medical work, and now that is over with, he wants to refuel before going back down to terrorize the highways of Earth. Who needs sleep when you can push cars into ravines?
And look who's here! Why it's his roommate, posing an awkward question that he barely catches, but still barks out a short laugh at. "Oh, she is, but if she had wheels she'd be exactly my type!" Breakdown isn't here to drive the point home, but hopefully Wreckage told Skystrike just what Knock Out thought of him in the med-bay that one time. That should do it!
After that he gives his roommate a wave with his spindly claws and Skystrike a delightfully smug smile, before grabbing an Energon dispenser and walking to a monitor to pick out his next vacation spot. Only to see a robo-kitty laying on it. That is rather peculiar! He would simply bat it off, but he thinks he spotted Ravage on the way in, and he's not quite sure whether or not hell kitties are friends with regular robot cats. And he'd really rather not tango with something that will ruin his plans for the evening, since he can hardly be seen with a paintjob that's been ruined by clawmarks.
He whirls around, sees Lyzack, notices how similar the features are between them, and jerks a thumb at the cat behind him. "Say, could you tell your friend to scram?" And then, because he isn't entirely biased against jets: "Oh, I like what you did with that teal and white. Daring, but dashing combination!"
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Clio
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Post by Clio on Oct 13, 2011 17:17:28 GMT -5
"Such is clear," Clio replies to Skystrike. It's hard to mistake a Seeker for anything other than a Seeker. "However, I'm more int-" She cuts off as Knock Out walks in and interrupts, keeping her face blank of annoyance. She's not particularly fond of Knock Out, though she respects his medical knowledge, but she sees no reason not to be civil with the people you share a room with, and so she greets, "Good day, Knock Out."
She turns her attention back to Skystrike and attempts to clarify her question. "While I have yet to be made aware of a variation of our race that reproduces sexually and thus possesses true sexes, it has become clear that in many universes we possess gender. You are gendered 'female', no? If I am mistaken, I apologize." But Knock Out did just refer to Skystrike as 'she'!
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Post by Skystrike/Skylar Stringers on Oct 14, 2011 9:31:03 GMT -5
Technically, they all use RGB since none of them really needed to worry too much about printing colored pictures. Something for their more artistic members to worry and fuss about!
“Knock Out.” Skystrike inclines her helm in greeting before turning her attention back to Clio, not bothering to comment on what he’d said. Technically, she did have wheels, but the flier had a feeling she didn’t particularly want to be Knock Out’s ‘type’- if only to avoid having to be around more obnoxious people. Duskwing and Slugslinger are more than enough.
Back to the little car in front of her though; until she had landed in this universe, Skystrike had not really given thought about why she was a female- or even entirely understood how she was associated with it. The Autobot fembots tended to be referred to as such, or as female robots. Seekers tended to be referred to as seekers (Or not. ‘Seeker’ wasn’t actually used to refer to them in canon until 2002?). Skystrike herself at least had never heard herself referred to as a female seeker until here and even that seemed to happen after some confusion.
“... I suppose I am,” Skystrike rumbles after a moment, sounding rather befuddled. If being called a ‘she’ fit Clio’s definition of female, she was probably female in this instance then. “Why?”
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Oct 14, 2011 22:25:37 GMT -5
Lyzack is taken aback by Knock Out's direct and somewhat rude address and the baffling compliment. She starts to move to numbly comply with his demand.
But it's quiet here, for all that people are speaking. There's no screaming. That's close enough to quiet. It's quiet enough, and Lyzack can think, and she does, having thoughts. He's not in her division, is he? And he is a not a... 'ranker', as they say here. Certainly, he is more dangerous and experienced than she is, if only because everyone is.
So, Lyzack thinks, she should yield but not too easily. She is Leozack's sister, after all. She should not do something for nothing simply because it has been asked of her. Lyzack pauses at Lionessbreast and idly pets the Breast Animal for a moment before looking back at Knock Out. He looks a little like Gaihawk, doesn't he? And that cocky air sounds like what she has heard of Gaihawk.
She's also heard that Gaihawk will kill a man just to watch him die.
Her wings flick once, at the thought, and Lyzack asks softly, "What is it to you, where Lionessbreast rests? The colours are of Leozack."
As far as reproduction goes, Lyzack just wishes that the Dinoforce wouldn't do it! If there was a Robot Pill that would stop robots from scratch-building more robots, Lyzack might just be passive-aggressive enough to sneak it into the Dinoforce's energon. Clio's line of questioning continues to be strange, Lyzack thinks, but still, she does not speak up.
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Post by Ravage (ROTF) on Oct 15, 2011 10:33:49 GMT -5
Ravage keeps his one optic fixed warily on Lyzack until it is clear that she is not approaching closer. As the other cat in the room does not seem intent on challenging the hierarchy, Ravage crosses one of his front paws over the other and slowly settles his head down upon them. He continues to watch the new kittens, lest they determine again that he is a subject of interest. Interesting, the way the new kitten chooses not give ground at the last moment.
Ravage yawns, his optic closes to a mere slit, and he continues to watch. One earspike flicks periodically as he listens to the conversation.
Still skippable
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