#fulcrum

Random, utterly unimportant thing: Deathsaurus and Fulcrum were potentially close in age* when Deathsaurus' contingent was sent out from Cybertron

"I was lucky: I was forged when the Decepticon Empire was at its peak.

We'd overthrown our oppressors, we'd torn down a system that served only those at the top, and we'd turned outwards—refining the galaxy by cleansing it of organic races to backward to recognize their inferior nature."

(he says, right before going on a hypocritical righteous spew about inflicting suffering; talk about inability to recognize smth, smh)

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"Question: When did you become a Decepticon?"

"I was built as a Decepticon."

"As I thought. You weren't there at the beginning. You weren't there to watch the Decepticons grow—from an idea to an army."

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*Obviously "close in age" can be a broad amount of time for beings that can live for millions and millions of years, but I say that in the sense that they're both constructed/forged in late 4 million BCE (?), around or after the silver harvest, in some short amount of time before the Decepticons began to really establish themselves as an empire outside of Cybertron. So obviously at most, a few thousand years apart, and at least, like maybe a week

There's also the massive gap in experience and the positions they would hold, (Dez likely being built to command, whereas Fulcrum being born would've had to climb the ladder, a sort of inversion of the forged/constructed bias of pre-war maybe? Unless warborn forged got a little special treatment or smth for, ya know, being born unique, while MTO's were planned and prepared to be,) but that kind of makes it more interesting as well