An Altar of Our Own Design
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“For how could He that did not raise a servo condemn the saboteur for using his own? How could He that never offered up solutions condemn the tactician for deriving his own?
What could Primus provide that they had not already found in the other? What punishment could be worse than the war they had survived? Hand in hand, what could ever stand in their way?”
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Or, believing in Primus after vorns at war is hard. A saboteur and a tactician, both crumbling under the stresses of war, manage to find glimpses of salvation in the other.
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Or, I give Jazz and Prowl Catholic guilt.
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- Part 1 of An Altar of Our Own Design
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“ ‘I am a cold-construct.’ And Prowl immediately chastised himself because what a stupid thing to say. It was a fact that everybody knew. If there was anything mechs knew about Prowl, it is that he was a brilliant strategist, a ruthless enemy to have, and that he was a cold construct. It was redundant to bring up. It was simply a fact.
And yet, he had no clue why he felt a visceral urge to explain his status to the Prime of all mechs. That was not correct either. He knew why. The Senate was currently rusting away yet the ideas they had implanted in his helm vorns ago were still hardwired into his processor.”
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Or, being the Chief Tactical Officer and the Second-in-Command of the entire Autobot army is not an enviable position. After a command meeting goes awry, Prowl struggles to understand his responsibilities while grappling with doubts he had believed to be long-buried.
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Or, Prowl and the terrible realization that he may not believe in Primus, but Primus still believes in him…sorta
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- Part 2 of An Altar of Our Own Design