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tiamatschild) wrote2015-10-22 10:20 pm
tiamatschild) wrote2015-10-22 10:20 pm
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OC October: Moraine
Moraine, Transformers G1
Okay, let's talk Moraine.
...I honestly didn't intend Moraine to turn up so often in my fic. She was initially just a walk on to move the plot (such as it was) along. She walked on. She walked off. She went backstage and metaphorically made cocoa and refused to leave.
So! Moraine. Moraine's a geologist who eventually joins up (somewhat peripherally, she's bad in large groups for extended periods of time) with the Autobots. She's by nature a pretty solitary mech, which is unusual for Cybertonians – she's even more inclined to be alone for long periods than Beachcomber, whose need for time without other people is already striking. Despite not being built for deep space recon and exploration, she's actually probably at about a Cosmos and Skyfire level of Can Go Thousands Of Years Without Speaking To Anyone And Be Fine, which is a bit uncomfortable for other mechanisms, when mixed not with their general gregariousness when in company, but a constant quiet and sometimes rather prickly preserve. She's not generally rude, but she doesn't do a very good job of disguising the fact that she rarely actually needs and usually doesn't even really want the social interaction, except with a small and highly specific circle of people, and that makes people uncomfortable. (It weirds out Decepticons as much as Autobots. Decepticons generally think Shockwave's weird, and he at least talks to himself.)
She's very close to Beachcomber, who is her mentor and academic sponsor and teacher although by midway through the war they were about on a level with everything except experience and mostly shifted to a relationship of colleagues learning from each other – on a professional level. He's a lot better with people and complicated and unstable situations than she is, so she tends to go to him for advice or at least a listening ear while she complains about how other people make no sense. He's very protective of her, in his hands off, passive, pretty far to the Preserving Autonomy end of the ethical scale Beachcomber way.
Moraine lives in my standard Most Cybertonians Practice Ancestor Worship To Some Degree set up, and is very devout in her particular idiom. She... may or may not have been in love once, with an astronomer named Azimuth. It's kind of hard to tell what was going on there. She had really strong feelings for him, but whether they were romantic or not? She never really tried to figure it out. He's dead. She's very very very smart and very very very ambitious (academically – her interest in power, worldly glory, or much of anything else short of species survival is pretty low, but Advancing Knowledge is a big deal) and tends to get terse with people who she thinks aren't making a good faith effort to understand her, or to be sensible, or who have in some way or form insulted her intelligence. She will SCORN you.
...she won't actually do anything else. But she will scorn you. (Many people have been SCORNED by Moraine and completely failed to notice. She's not very good at it.)
Okay, let's talk Moraine.
...I honestly didn't intend Moraine to turn up so often in my fic. She was initially just a walk on to move the plot (such as it was) along. She walked on. She walked off. She went backstage and metaphorically made cocoa and refused to leave.
So! Moraine. Moraine's a geologist who eventually joins up (somewhat peripherally, she's bad in large groups for extended periods of time) with the Autobots. She's by nature a pretty solitary mech, which is unusual for Cybertonians – she's even more inclined to be alone for long periods than Beachcomber, whose need for time without other people is already striking. Despite not being built for deep space recon and exploration, she's actually probably at about a Cosmos and Skyfire level of Can Go Thousands Of Years Without Speaking To Anyone And Be Fine, which is a bit uncomfortable for other mechanisms, when mixed not with their general gregariousness when in company, but a constant quiet and sometimes rather prickly preserve. She's not generally rude, but she doesn't do a very good job of disguising the fact that she rarely actually needs and usually doesn't even really want the social interaction, except with a small and highly specific circle of people, and that makes people uncomfortable. (It weirds out Decepticons as much as Autobots. Decepticons generally think Shockwave's weird, and he at least talks to himself.)
She's very close to Beachcomber, who is her mentor and academic sponsor and teacher although by midway through the war they were about on a level with everything except experience and mostly shifted to a relationship of colleagues learning from each other – on a professional level. He's a lot better with people and complicated and unstable situations than she is, so she tends to go to him for advice or at least a listening ear while she complains about how other people make no sense. He's very protective of her, in his hands off, passive, pretty far to the Preserving Autonomy end of the ethical scale Beachcomber way.
Moraine lives in my standard Most Cybertonians Practice Ancestor Worship To Some Degree set up, and is very devout in her particular idiom. She... may or may not have been in love once, with an astronomer named Azimuth. It's kind of hard to tell what was going on there. She had really strong feelings for him, but whether they were romantic or not? She never really tried to figure it out. He's dead. She's very very very smart and very very very ambitious (academically – her interest in power, worldly glory, or much of anything else short of species survival is pretty low, but Advancing Knowledge is a big deal) and tends to get terse with people who she thinks aren't making a good faith effort to understand her, or to be sensible, or who have in some way or form insulted her intelligence. She will SCORN you.
...she won't actually do anything else. But she will scorn you. (Many people have been SCORNED by Moraine and completely failed to notice. She's not very good at it.)
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