#slavedev

IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED

THE KREMLIN IS GAY

RUSPOL IS REAL

Continued... stupid asks are so short...

So... I am thinking that even if the scene with WJ and Ratchet isn’t played out, that there’s at least rp flashbacks of it? I mostly want to see what they’d have done with Dev and how they’d handle his issues/insecurities? If they’d have said/done anything to further traumatize him in favor of NOT dealing with medics (he’s already not keen on them for the most part) or if they handle him well and with gentility and kindness and respect... So that’s my main reason I would like to play that scene out but it could be via flashbacks or reflection or dreams... 

Kind of wanted to have Dev encounter the creatures again too... but it could be another visit at a latter date.

Maybe Arkaani could be brought in but Jazz keeps him at home, as for his attempt at killing Jazz, I think if Jazz takes a nap like how Dev was able to take his visor... might be the way to go? I don’t see him being able to do so as Jazz slept, since Jazz never even gave Dev the chance to share his berth. So why would an even more openly hostile little Seeker get that chance?

I think that Dev would seek to earn a living post-slavery by selling himself to save up enough to buy a ship and maybe, if he’s having no luck with that, he’d go as far as to attempt to steal a ship himself. He would be all in favor of and Dev would push for a mass exodus of the ‘Cons once the slaves are free. Especially if the situation between him and Jazz and Rico is still uncertain and they haven’t yet given him reason to stay. If they don’t seem to have feelings for him, or at least are not open about such... or he’s not convinced. But even if he was convinced, he’d want to get his people to safety and safety means away from Autobots, in his mind. He would try to convince them to leave Cybertron. To find those Autobots who have ships who would help the mass-exodus of Decepticons. And who would continue to aid that goal. Of course, those that wanted to stay, Dev could not really do much against... but he’s going to try to convince them that there’s little chance of them getting along with Autobots. Probably because he mostly feels that’s true, mostly feels he cannot trust Autobots, and mostly to keep them safe and unable to ever be slaves again. 

At least that’s what he would think. But deep down he wants to believe it’s not true and that the two can co-exist. But he’s not so sold on that as he used to be. Very very conflicted on weather Autobots can be trusted and ex-slave Decepticons can be trusted and if the two can co-exist in harmony. Or not. Mostly favoring not even trying because “they (the Autobots) hurt us so badly and damaged us to the core that how can we ever forgive and forget that and live in peace with them?”

This is all just theory/ideations Dev would likely have... 

I had the thought that  when Dev’s kids from the Colony show up, that there’s the chance they might later get involved... maybe their population rivals that of the Autobots or greater....since they’ve had seven million years with no major strife... and then they DO return, despite Dev’s warnings to not... and openly declare war on the Autobots for enslaving Seekers (and by default/after-thaught-the other Decepticons)

I headcanon that the Seekers of Planet Vos (and Seekers in general) tend to be very group-focused or xenophobic or the like. If you’re not a Seeker, your an “outsider” or an “other” and sort of tend to view others/outsiders as ‘lesser beings’ and that attitude may somewhat persist even in The Colony. Especially among the eldest of Seekers in the clan. 

Anyway, they are mostly concerned with the massive number of Seekers held in captivity/enslavement and are seeking to declare war on Cybertron to set free the slaves. If the Autobots won’t let them go. (Even though it’s their fellow Seekers they’re after, they won’t stand for the non-Seeker Decepticons to remain in slavery).

While I perceive Seekers are a closed-knit group  who tend to view non-Seekers as outsiders and sometimes even lower class/not as equals... However, that’s not how the vast majority of Colony Seekers are. They are the products of those pre-war era Vosnian Seekers that did NOT like how things on Cybertron were going nor how Vos itself was run and wanted a caste-free society where anyone could be anything... based on their interests, desires, determination, skills, and the right to try and prove themselves in any field. Regardless of what Caste they had been born into or were sorted into based on whatever criteria was used to compare and classify them...

So as such, they also discarded a lot of their xenophobia of the non-Seekers and fought to combat the notion that non-Seekers were lesser beings than themselves. Sure, some are more “racist” than others, and some of these ideas persist, so thus they are the most concerned with freeing the “Seekers” in the slave-owning society of Cybertron, and that’s the reason that they might engage and draw-up a contract or create open-warfare to free their kin... but once started, they would not leave behind the other Decepticon types.

As it is, they have Planet Kaon and Planet Tarn that has been home to non-Seeker Decepticons who they have found. 

Here’s what I think happened: 

The Vosnia Seekers left Vosnia for some unknown threat... and sought out somewhere else to live, and discovered a world that had been left in ruins... or  the alien race had died out? (Either they left because their world was no longer habitable and so much of their stuff and technology was left behind in taking what they needed most... and ditching the rest due to time constraint... or that the issue killed them off before they could deal with it and leave)...

So then the Seekers come along and start living on the world and as they live there, they start exploring/uncovering the history and technology left behind and when they have studied and gathered enough of it together, they discover how to create a Cybertron-like world of their own. Creating the planet, and being Seekers, the dub it Planet Vos. Then as they send out search parties for Energon/fuel sources/other resources and any wayward Seekers/others from Cybertron... they take them in and before long, they have enough refugees from Tarn and Kaon and so they use the technology to build Planet Tarn and Planet Kaon as well. These planets are heavily influenced by the beliefs of Planet Vos’s Seekers, since they rescued and helped establish them, but also by much of the ways Tarn and Kaon were before. Becoming more equality-based versions of Tarn and Kaon. With most of the Bots being refugees that were Neutrals during the war-era but maybe a few ‘Cons or Autobots who had been part of the war but became tired of it and were deserters...

The vast majority of the three planets populace initially were (or now had been born from) refugees fleeing Cybertron.

So we are probably talking potentially three times the population of Cybertron. If each planet has roughly the same number of people. I think there’s still probably a Seeker majority, however. Largely because a few thousand Seekers started off and had seven million years to reproduce without significant losses or warfare or in-fighting or dealing with the war, or skirmishes between factions after the war... or anything of that nature. Plus they actively sent fleets out to find wayward Cybertronians (some might even be Autobots who did not participate in the wars) and they co-existed seeing all Cybertronians as one people.

That’s basically how I see them. Dev, himself, because of how he was raised, does not see Autobots and Decepticons. He sees Cybertronians. However, his time in the war and now as a slave, he’s been forced into the mindset more and more that the divide between Autobots and Decepticons is there. And so now, more than ever, he’s been tainted with that view. So he hates Autobots and Decepticons alike in many ways. He thinks slave-’Cons (except for the exceptionally meek ones) are every bit as dangerous as war-’Cons and Autobots. Thus all this conflict within him. His early upbringing tells him: we’re all equal, and equally deserving of respect, of fuel, of validity and autonomy, etc. 

And his time in the war told him he’s useless, too little to be of much use, too weak, too pathetic, worthless... etc. And he can serve the Decepticons as morale by allowing himself to be used sexually, and to Carry for the Decepticon war machine by offering himself to create the next generation of true Decepticons that will be capable of fighting and achieving the goals of the Decepticons, he just needs to pair with a worthy Decepticon and his kid will take after the Sire and be a valuable addition.

And his time as a slave: repeats a lot of what he was told amongst the Decepticons, that as long as he can Carry, he has value and as long as he can satisfy some Autobot’s sex-drive he has value. Though he has little value in much else. Unless he’s just a basic house-servant or body-slave. However, his greatest value, is in his being a berth-toy and breeder. That he’s so meek and weak, and pathetic that he would never last on his own... That he needs a strong, guiding firm hand from an Autobot Master in order to know what direction to take from his life. What to do, where to go, how to live... all needs to be directed by a Master. He’s too small and pathetic to handle himself otherwise.

Nevermind anything else from his past. He’s long forgotten how to be in charge of himself and in all honesty, he fears he would fall apart from all the abuse he’s taken over the war and enslavement. He fears that he would be useless and unable to stand up for himself and stand on his own. Were he to be cut loose. 

I”m sure there’s a lot more, since Dev’s riddled with contradictions and so lost and confused inside that he doesn’t even know what to believe anymore. But deep down, he’s a very fair and just and innocent little Seeker with a strong sense of what’s right and wrong and just doesn’t fit how things should be. He wants to view everyone as good and reasonable and to be able to trust all Cybertronians, regardless of who they are or where they’re from or what sort of Bot they are-and he hates being called a Decepticon because he does not see himself as one because he does not follow what Megatron stands for or Starscream did, he doesn’t like loss of life, he does not like war and destruction...  He considers himself a Seeker and a Cybertronian. That’s about all. 

He hates dividing Bots into Autobot or Decepticon because he thinks of it as a means to label and separate Cybertronians. That it creates problems and promotes hate. That it only makes an “Us verses them” dynamic.