Author's Note: This is an older work that I found buried and forgotten on my Notepad. I wrote it right after I had finished the G1 cartoon, some time in early 2013 and have not touched it since, so it may be a little rough. There are 3 short character studies from the perspective of some of my favorite minor characters. Interestingly these characters are all important in a major multi-chapter story I am in the process of writing, but my characterization has changed for them after all this time (especially Thundercracker). I thought I should put it up here despite all of this, just in case anyone is interested.
Enjoy!
Perspectives
Thundercracker
I know I'm going in the wrong direction, I've known it since I started. I cannot feign ignorance, because I'm not stupid. I cannot pretend that I feel no sense of wrong in shooting a defenseless bystander, watching as the unfortunate creature writhes in the agony of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I feel the twisting of agony in my own spark, screaming as a part of me dies with the limp figure before me. I hate it. I hate it all. But why am I doing this? Why am I rolling around in filthy swill of my own repulsive actions in support of a cause that I never believed in when I could simply lift myself into the sky above that I hold in such reverence?
I don't know, truthfully. The only thing I can think is that I am a fool. A damned fool. I am so lost that I know exactly where I'm going. I have already been pulled too far in the current that flows into the Pit that no amount of fancy flying can change my course. And worst of all, I could have avoided this, I wanted to avoid this, but I didn't.
I really am a damned fool.