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• The Energon curdled because storage measures failed so Megs went hungry that cycle.

• Megs rations got thrown into his face face during a food fight in the canteen by Whirl.

• Meg tripped over Swerve after he Deadlock got shoved into him by whomever he was fighting for, again got a face full of energon and went back to his cell hungry.

• Energon rations got switched around and he got Megatrons rations but he threw them out. Funnily enough, Megs got Getaways rations and did get somewhat poisoned after all but the effects were terrible Transformers equivilant of diarrhea (it was Whirl or Deadlock)

Ambush attempts where Getaway was waiting for Megs to come by when he gets his hands on a weapon (before its taken away):

• Megatron walked by, he got jumped by scraplets before Getaway got to him

• Megatron ran past him cause Swerve wanted to really tell him something and was willing to risk peoples health over it but Megatron DOES NOT want to risk his own health, thus fleeing.

• Megatron gets tackled by Tailgate and is dragged to the medbay for maintenance while yowling like a cat.

• Megatron got cornered by an aggressively flirting Minimus who really likes his poetry. Megatron looks like he's going to combust on the spot.

• Megatron is running for his life cause one of Brainstorm's investions is trying to kill him.

• Medbay Adventures 2: Electric Boogaloo; Megatron is desperately crawling to his cell while Ratchet leisurely walks after him, freaking him out with the creepy feelers amd telling him to stop his futile escape attempts from him and to just go to the medbay. He already de-activated his legs after all, he can't even walk.

Absolute horror and misfortune for Megatron, pure exasperation for Getaway. Oh well, at least Megs is suffering in a way.

Yes to everything however I am SO stuck on the Ratchet casually chasing Megatron slowly because he’s already deactivate his legs, its too much of a good imagery akjdhdj

They could dance!! They both have flowy dresses on!!!

Anyways cue a big misunderstanding and now SQQ thinks that LQG might be in love with him because all LQG does is cry and get mad at him when he goes to brothels and LQG is so confused on why SQQ is getting a little shy around him.

He was Dirk, in the way that I was who I was at thirteen and am who I am now. He is Dirk in the way that I was who I was at thirteen, and am who I am now. If the positions were swapped, Hal would be Dirk and Dirk would be Hal, because they started at the same point that eventually diverged. I still think Hal’s his own person, because I think nurture plays a huge role in identity and I don’t think identity is concrete, but I think there’s conflict within him about that, and I think it affects his view of himself and others.

We are fine with all the changes we endure to become who we are because we don’t have a mirror version growing alongside us in a different way, but I feel like seeing a version of you that lived and had different experiences isn’t something we’d identify as ‘us,’ because it’s not built on the continued experiences we have. I think Hal is Hal and Dirk is Dirk, but I think Hal is also Dirk a little, but Dirk isn’t Hal a little because he isn’t part of the experiences Hal had. If that makes sense.

All this to say, I think Hal’s burdened by the fact he is forced to fully disconnect from Dirk’s identity, even if he still is in some capacity Dirk. I don’t think it’s consciously labelled that way, but I think he recalls his childhood and can’t connect to it because doing so would be, on some level, accepting that he is Dirk, because he was Dirk. Or understanding that he will like and admire many of the things Dirk likes and admires because his formative years were similar, if not identical. Hal doesn’t have a reason to not like puppets or horses or Batman or any of that stuff, beyond maybe the way we look at our childhood favorites and kinda cringe, or how tastes may evolve. He likes those things, and he knows he likes those things Dirk likes because he was/is/holds within himself a large piece of Dirk.

He remembers a time when the alpha kids were his friends, Dave is his Bro, he misses his Cal. But that’s only because he was/is/contains Dirk, and Dirk has those things. Brotherhood isn’t remotely close to the word to describe the relationship, because brothers can share a father and friends, and sure Hal could make those same friends anew with his current existence, but the way they exist in the past tense is in the frame of Dirk’s Identity. Dirk’s Bro, Dirk’s Friends, Dirk’s Cal, Dirk’s Hobbies, Dirk’s Favorites. And there is evolution, obviously! He likes new things, makes new friends, has new hobbies because he is also an independent person existing in the world. But there are parts of him that are unable to be untied from Dirk because you can’t detangled yourself from the experiences you had in your life, and especially not your first thirteen years.