[challenge] Backstory Challenge
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ajremixSo it's JUST slow enough for me to put this up. It'll be the first of my (hopefully) monthly 24-hour challenges. If I can recall to do this on a monthly basis it'll be (idealy) on the first or within the first week of the month.
So this month's challenge is going to be backstory. Pick a character- whatever character you know (or think) I'm familiar with and I'll write a short drabble depicting their past however I see it. Because I probably won't be able to get to these as quickly as my previous challenges, you're free to pick three characters at a time. After I've finished all three of your challenges, you may pick another three. If someone else has picked a character you wanted to see a story of, you can still ask for them and I'll just do a different scene.
CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED BECAUSE GOOD GOD I HAVE SO MANY PROMPTS I SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH MORE^^;;
So this month's challenge is going to be backstory. Pick a character- whatever character you know (or think) I'm familiar with and I'll write a short drabble depicting their past however I see it. Because I probably won't be able to get to these as quickly as my previous challenges, you're free to pick three characters at a time. After I've finished all three of your challenges, you may pick another three. If someone else has picked a character you wanted to see a story of, you can still ask for them and I'll just do a different scene.
CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED BECAUSE GOOD GOD I HAVE SO MANY PROMPTS I SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH MORE^^;;
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Date: 2008-09-08 01:27 am (UTC)Optimus Prime, Soundwave, and Starscream :D
*shot*
Soundwave
Date: 2008-09-08 07:39 am (UTC)It made him perfect for being Senator Ratbat's liaison to the world he couldn't risk being associated with. For all but the meager amount of information, he didn't exist. He moved through the life and world like a ghost, making connections and finding out information and secrets and leaving chills behind.
He watched the universe go on around the tightly controlled and carefully constructed one that contained only himself and his ambitions. He worked for Ratbat no more than he worked for Swindle or the Constructicons. He merely passed information on to whoever could pay with credits or what he wanted to know.
In his universe he was untouched and utterly alone. He sat, invisible, undisturbed, and listened to everything and knew he could find ways to bend everyone to his wants.
Starscream
Date: 2008-09-08 05:31 pm (UTC)"That's enough, Starscream." The silver mech growled, stemming the energon flow his internal repairs had yet to cinch off. "You've done more than enough for one day."
Starscream shrank back, more afraid of the sharp growls than the shouting and berating Megatron had given him and the rest of the Decepticons earlier. His hands clenched at his sides, flexing, and Starscream couldn't at all blame him for his anger.
They'd failed. All of them. And Starscream had allowed Megatron to have gotten seriously injured. "Sir," he said softly, "it won't happen again. I swear it."
"No." He snapped. "It won't. I have no more need for you as my guard, Starscream."
He might as well have stabbed the jet in the spark. "But... but Lord Megatron-"
"I will give you a new assignment at a later date, Starscream. Now leave."
He bowed his head, vocalizer tight. "Yes, Lord Megatron." As he left, doors mocking him as they slide between him and his leader and steps echoing judgmentally through the empty hall, Starscream vowed he'd never fail again.
Optimus Prime
Date: 2008-09-09 04:11 am (UTC)"It is. You have been chosen."
"But I can't- I-I don't know how to lead a military! I've only done basic officer training, I've never attempted an actual position on the field!"
The elder mechs looked down from their high seats, unimpressed with the reluctance displayed before him. "The choice has been made. You are to be the new Prime."
"I can't!"
"You will. There is nothing for you to do but accept this. You must accept this. Our race needs a leader to combat these rioters and you are the one that must do it."
His hands clenched into pulsing fists, too scared to look up at them, to look at the responsibility shinning patiently before him.
"Take it. You must take it. Our survival depends on someone to lead our forces and you are chosen to do so."
He didn't want to, he didn't believe that he could, but what other choice was there?
Slowly, fearfully, he reached out and touched the Matrix.
Re: Optimus Prime
Date: 2008-09-09 04:43 am (UTC)