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IG-11 ([personal profile] beskarad) wrote2035-09-26 09:41 am
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muffled: (saddle tramp)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-11 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
More than that - [ the mandalorian points to the child depicted, and the crown atop his head ] - they've made him their king.

[ a child goes to an island full of monsters, befriends them, and they make him the king. if the text as he reads it makes sense, he intimidated them enough to earn their respect. however, as the pictures depict, he does not rule with fear. the child's claw reaches out in the same direction the mandalorian's hand goes. he smirks and the amusement tints his voice. ]

You wanna be king huh? Well, monsters aren't so nice in real life. Neither are kings.

[ monsters would be more prone to eating the child than crowning it. kings rule with a closed fist, uncompromising above all. this is the way of the galaxy. ]
muffled: (yellow rose of texas)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-11 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the mandalorian turns his head, peering up at IG-11, and after a few moments looks away so that he can close the book. he walks a few steps off, and leans down so he can set both the book and the child down onto the floor. ]

Flip through that pal. IG and I gotta talk.

[ the child looks up at the mandalorian, silent in his watch, and then back to the book. after a moment he figures out how to open the large hardcover using both claws at the same time. the mandalorian makes sure he can do so before looking back to IG. ]

Ok, go ahead. Lay into me.

[ they both know what this is about, why beat around? ]
muffled: (sixteen tons)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-11 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Your grievances.

[ a strong correction, but a necessary one. IG-11 is the only one who has a problem here. the mandalorian killed a droid yesterday, delivered its ashes to its predecessor unit this morning, and now? now he's going through the rest of the day as normal. ]
muffled: (25)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-11 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ under the helmet, the corner of his lip twitches. ]

I wasn't targeting you. You came out unharmed, as intended.
muffled: (RINGO)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-11 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's more than a few moments he tries to interject, wants to very much, but the droid talks so fast and with the sort of efficiency that leaves little room for anything else. the mandalorian is seething by the time he's told his conduct wasn't acceptable. ]

I don't have to inform you of anything. What happened to Grice is private and how I decided to take care of it could not be leaked. You already compromised yourself with that slicing and you let him do it a second time in the cottage!
muffled: (mr. lonesome)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
He invaded your memory banks and you let him access you a second time! Do you have any idea how reckless that is?!

[ the mandalorian snarls, IG-11's logic sound and infuriating. the droid doesn't comprehend the concepts of trust and betrayal involved and it puts more than itself at risk. that unit saw him with the child, it could have seen his face. ]

You have no right to pass judgments on me. You're naive IG-11.
muffled: (ballad of a teenage queen)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I -

[ he pauses, the sudden frankness of the question catching him off guard. the mandalorian has learned through the years how to be aware of his anger. when he may be just about to come up to the edge of the cliff, and how to step back. it's made him a more skilled and patient man than many other bounty hunters out in the wilds of space.

the pause only lasts but a moment.
]

- I do. I wouldn't be here if I didn't.

[ the droid sacrificed himself to save him, and not only him. he knows he has a great debt to repay to this droid, no matter his frustrations. ]
muffled: (stay all night)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
No, you - [ he stops, teeth clacking together, frustration building ] - you're angry with me, remember? Stop pacifying the situation.

[ don't hit that fucking mercy button IG-11, this isn't the way. ]
muffled: (there you go)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ once again, the mandalorian is at a loss for words. they were fighting just moments ago, or maybe that's what he thought it was. there's a rush of anger in him that has nowhere to go and he knows lashing out is wrong. damn droid. ]

I wanted to do it on my own, alright? [ he breathes in strong through his nose, then lets it go. his anger is directed into his tone. ] I was given the information - not by Grice, but by another. It was my decision, and my plan. Involving you would complicate things.
muffled: (68)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ the mandalorian grows quiet, unable to properly form a coherent answer to that. he slowly turns his body half-way to check on the child. still absorbed in the colorful picture world of the wild things, the child is resting a claw over one of the depictions of monsters howling to the moon.

finally-
]

Yes. [ he gives in, seeing no use in denying. ] That droid and its predecessor unit are locked in some kind of war. It doesn't concern me, but when I was told he shot Grice in the middle of that...

...I couldn't let it go.
muffled: (the man comes around)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ he smirks a little painfully under the helmet at the logical conclusion IG-11 strings together. droids really are too smart for their own good. who ever thought to make a machine with this much intelligence, capacity for learning, and more? as cruel of a thought it is, maybe it's a good thing IG-11 was blown up. kuiil may have done too good of a job instilling the virtue of kindness in what was once an assassin.

the mandalorian turns back to the droid, looking up.
]

Did your manufacturer put in any records of galactic history? If they did, you'd know that before there was ever an Empire, there was a war. The Galactic Republic against the C.I.S. - the Separatists for short.
muffled: (chain gang)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ so he does know. that will make his story a short one. all for the better - he remembers it like it was yesterday. recounted not on every day, but recollected with the sounds of war. ]

I was a young boy back then. Knew nothing of war but that it existed. It was a concept more than a reality. Or maybe I was sheltered from it.

[ he shrugs, voice full of casual uncertainty. most of his upbringing is lost to him now, and he knows why. it has been overtaken by his worst day. ]

What they don't tell you about war is that it is waged on all fronts. No one is spared, and attacks come without warning. The day the war came to my home was normal... then Separatist droids marched through our settlement.

[ then he stops again, mouth-half opened behind his helmet. ]

Any records on B2-HA's in your banks?
muffled: (it's a sin to tell a lie)

[personal profile] muffled 2020-10-12 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the mandalorian isn't surprised. he didn't know until he asked his rescuers. ]

They're heavy weapon battle droids, integrated with rocket launchers and wrist blasters built-in. Bounty droids like you are designed to be fast and efficient with minimal targets. B2's are large and slow, and can wipe out hundreds in a minute.

...And so they did. Everyone died. Only I was saved by the Mandalorians.

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