Unfinished Fics: The Banner of the Landwaster - Lost In Transmission v.2

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Unfinished Fics: The Banner of the Landwaster - Lost In Transmission v.2
Lost In Transmission
Temporal weirdness begins on Cybertron, Starscream goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle and Skyfire has an ethical crisis.

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[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

Yes, pretty much.

[Decepticons run on conflict. Aggressive debate is much more their style than being all accepting of the status quo.]

As Wheeljack said in LiT, the Decepticons are a bunch of xenocidal psychopaths. Your freedom to choose stops when you choose to start killing, as far as he's concerned. He's lived with 'cons, he's had that moment when reality hit him in the face and he realised what all the in-jokes he didn't get were about, and unlike a lot of Autobots he's damned sure that the 'cons will always be what they are. There isn't going to be a peace, not in his mind.

Skyfire, being a non-Autobot, had a different set-up to begin with. Being a trained xenologist and explorer, he had his moral hardwires removed and took extensive courses in ethics and moral logic so that he could interact with xenos whilst being flexible about their morals.

Possibly because the Autobot parts were about morality, and have already been thought through, whilst the Decepticon bits are more action/mystery based, and highly incomplete?

I'd not take him for someone without emotional dampers, but certainly someone who's life experience has surpassed what his moral and emotional hardwires originally gave him.