BotCast Open Discussion Post

[loltraitorlol]

Okay, botcast. Hi.

Basically, we've been having some communication issues lately, which is... 99% on my end and my fault. orz. I'm having trouble keeping this plot straight, I don't remember what I do and don't know, and recently it led to me godmoding Soundwave a little. x_X;

Thus, this post; basically I think we need to have a discussion about our current 30 Xanatos Pileup and where we're going with it. I'm having it on this journal as that will keep it off the main comm and thus it won't get buried under 40 million other posts about other things, and we can keep this as a discussion.

That said, things I want known:

- What is your character planning/doing right now?
- What can other characters know about what this character is planning/doing?
- What does your character know about what other people are doing/planning?
- What would you like to do in the future, possibly with other characters?
- Any particular goals / things you want to have happen short term?
- Same question, but for the long-term?
- Other... stuff?

And then we are organized! Yay. This also goes for people involved with significant CR around Botcast *looks at Bitsy and Grimm*

Yaaaay?

Comments

[theprimerprime.livejournal.com]

What is your character planning/doing right now?
- Running the police force (like a boss).
- Running the prison (like a boss).
- Running the Autobots...like a boss? No seriously, what's there to run? WHAT HAPPENED TO US, GAIZ? And more importantly, how did Optimus put up with this stuff?
- Spending inordinate amounts of time with his new tank.
- Being a jerk.
- Creepering on everything Thundercracker does as long as he's in the superjail.
- Trying to lure in those Autobots who are kind of hanging out on the fringe of things. I'm looking at you, Blurr. And Skydive. And Perceptor. /fails at recruitment
- Suppressing the complete emotional clusterfuck he's having regarding Blackarachnia

What can other characters know about what this character is planning/doing?
You know, for once in life, I don't think Sentinel has anything to hide. CLEARLY THIS NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED. His alliance with GLaDOS has already blown up in his face, though in a rather different way than originally planned, and at this point I'm not sure how much, if anything, anyone knows about it having happened. I'm not sure how much, if anything, people know about his history with BA either. Other than Thundercracker, he seems to have been pretty well clued in.

What does your character know about what other people are doing/planning?
My ignorance and Sentinel's are one in the same. No, seriously. He has no fucking idea what's going on with the 'Cons right now. Outside of being obsessive over BA, he doesn't particularly care, either. He probably should, but...yeah. He doesn't.

Future business
I refuse to use categories because I don't have things planned well enough to divide into short-term and long-term goals.

Anyway, yeah. I know Arei and I have discussed some BA creepering on Sentinel action to occur in the near future. Being pushy with Blurr in the hopes of getting him over his Prime-phobia. And since I've failed completely at getting involved in plot things for the past...oh...two months, I should. Maybe. Get involved in more things. Yeah.

Other stuff...well, the stuff above regarding BA and GLaDOS is more than up for grabs for people to use against him in some way. I'd like to see him backed into some corner and completely screwing himself in the attempt to get out. More "come to the dark side" business with Starscream is always welcome. And I would really, REALLY like to kill him at some point. Heroically. The kind of death that says to people "wow, he's more than just some jackass who runs his mouth all the time", since I feel he was utterly deprived of his redemption (or any arc closure whatsoever, actually) in canon.

Longer term? Escalating hostility between him and Starscream. Possibly the end of the truce if the 'Cons are slowly becoming a legit threat. More complete and total leadership fail that he might actually LEARN from. And speaking of learning, I'd love for him to get a good thorough education on the other TF universes sometime, to learn about his alternate self and the Optimus Prime who is actually competant and awe-inspiring and stuff. He's heard bits and pieces. He doesn't believe half of it, and thinks the other half proves that everyone else's universes are backwards compared to his. He needs to be beaten over the head with this stuff.

[loltraitorlol.livejournal.com]

I'd love to help with death... ing, but maybe it'd be better for someone not in Botcast to do it... hmmm.

[pockythoughts.livejournal.com]

Good point. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what comes up.

/is bad at being patient

[old-skies.livejournal.com]

For recruiting Skydive, dangle a history book over the door of the base and then nab him when he goes to rescue it. :|

Skydive would also be willing to fill Sentinel in on the history/workings of his universe as far as he knows..except he only has three weeks and who-knows-how-many hours of studying and experience to draw from. So, yeah.

[theprimerprime.livejournal.com]

That would first require Sentinel actually having a history book. XD

And yeah, that would be helpful. He's still not all that used to having G1-ers around, and he'd sooner trust an inexperienced Autobot over anything the 'Cons have told him.

[old-skies.livejournal.com]

Skydive would be appalled at the lack of history in his life.

Yay~ And Skydive actually likes Sentinel, so he'll be fairly easy to convince. He just has to ask Skydive a question about his universe's history and he'll be off. No prepping required. 8D

[theprimerprime.livejournal.com]

My headcanon states that he used to cheat off Optimus in history.

Yay! I'll hop on that next time they interact.