prismatica | Video: New Game+

[There's a teenage girl with tanned skin and shock white hair on the network, pressing her face into the camera. Then she backs up a little, and two things are immediately noticeable about her:

1) Peeking out from her sleeves are the hints of some extensive tattoos, the kind that probably take up the entire arm.

2) She's wearing armor - a breastplate, gauntlets, and greaves - that looks like it was harvested off the carapace of some kind of oversized monster beetle? As opposed to being made of leather or metal or some other sensible material. ]

Hey, this thing's on! Okay, first of all, WHY IS IT SO COLD HERE? I'M FREEZING MY TITS OFF, YOU MONSTERS!

[It is, in fact, fairly crisp and cool but not exactly freezing.]

Second: Okay, uh, so I've actually never had any kind of living space to myself before? It's kinda scary. And I know you've probably known me for all of two minutes but I have useful skills! I can cook. I can tell you if that spot on your genitals is just a rash or if you've got some nasty shit. I can stab things? I used to have a voice in my head telling me - I mean, I can catch bugs and put them outside!

I kinda want to get food right now, so I'll be in... Caihong? If you guys wanna meet in person.

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[Seems like it. Since she seems new, he's low-key concern for her Chroma though, considering she played that arcade game.]

It may take a while for me to arrive there. Go ahead and grab yourself food in the meantime.

[It's okay, she high fived some random strangers! So she's probably not gonna die, but she might be slightly shaky despite the food.

Whenever he finds her, she sits at a table with a bowl of noodles and some fried dumplings.]

[Good. Because he doesn't want to meet up with a crystallized person after making the effort to find her.

Anyways. Surely enough, he found the street she's at and the noodle shop after some searching. The 7'5" tall Cybertronian enters the shop and scans the place for the white haired girl. Spotting her, he approaches with heavy metal steps and clears his throat to get her attention, so to not surprise her.]

Greetings. You're that person looking for a place to stay?

Uuuuh, yeah?

[she shoves some noodles into her mouth, slurps those up, then shoves a dumpling into her mouth and talks through that. She seems somewhat fazed by the giant robot thing that's as big as two and a half Nakaris, but then again, she's from a world where the most advanced thing she found was an old timey steampunk not!Polaroid thing.

Look, she's sorry. Kinda.]

Thanks for answering, by the way. You wanna pull up a chair?

...you CAN eat, right?

[Honestly, if he was compared to a steampunk not!Polaroid thing, he'd be so confused before feeling offended by the comparison, because that'd be new.]

No, I can't.

[Well, he can technically, but he doesn't feel like materializing his human avatar right now. Plus, he's standing right here, so even less reason to. He does pull up a chair and sits on it though. How the chair doesn't break apart from under his weight? That's a mystery~

Back on topic!]

I thought I should respond seeing that you were... freezing out there. I have my place if you wish to warm up. But is there a reason why you can't live alone, however?

[ Weird, but she's just going to take this how it comes. ]

I mean, I can, it's not like I'm gonna die or anything, but...

[ She slurps up some more noodles. ]

It's just weird, yanno? There was always my dad and my stepmom, plus my grandparents and my uncle and cousin and my little sisters, and then after I had to leave home I still had my teammates...

[ She sounds...somewhat sad? Look, funny thing about human cultures, Soundwave: there's a fair number of examples where large, loud, clannish multigenerational extended family households are the norm. ]

[That's a whole lotta people, huh.]

Basically, you aren't used to living alone.

[Blunt. But, he can get behind the reasoning- he's not used to being alone, either. It's why he adopted a kitty in the first place, though the conversations he had with it were mostly one-sided.]

I have space available in my apartment, if you like to take the offer. The only occupiers there is me and a kitten. [...] You mentioned you used to have a voice in your head on the network. Care to elaborate?

[Is this something he should be concerned about???]

...yeah, thanks. I've always wanted a cat.

It's kind of a long story.

[ Look, the voice was...a Trip. ]

You can play with her if you wish. I'd imagine she gets lonely without me around in the apartment.

Would you care to share it? Though, if you do not wish to, I won't push it. [He's naturally still curious, but he knows his boundaries]

Yeah, that's cool.

It's...kind of a long story. Gotta ask, how much do you know about like, time travel stuff?

Not much. I've heard theories, but I'm not certain if that's possible to achieve.

[Except a certain Cybertronian managed to achieve time travel. But he's not part of the group of transformers who goes on space misadventures, so he doesn't know.]

It's...kind of a long story. I made a deal with this one, like, entity?

And then things just spiralled out of control.

[Sounds unfortunate. But clearly there's more to the story, so--]

Continue. I have all day.

[He kinda wish he brought some energon snacks with him while listening to her story, but alas. Can't eat anything offered in this store.]

Alright, so.

[ She slurps up some noodles and takes a deep breath. ]

My mom was murdered by a tyrannical queen so nine or ten years later I kind of made a pact with a mysterious entity to gain the power I needed to exact my vengeance.

[ Yeah, that was kinda rapid-fire. ]

[Slow down with the explanation a little! But he does catch onto some the important bits.]

First of all... I'm sorry to hear that. About your mom. [...] And this... mysterious entity. Is it the voice in your head?

...yes.

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