He wasn't sure if he liked this change; it was harder to deal with, stupidly enough. Glancing from Prime to medic, Megatron gave a snort himself at... both replies. Shifting his weight off the leg with the damaged knee while still keeping the hand Ratchet was examining still - no matter his urge to pull it back - he scowled at the floor.
"Hnn. Towers are always more vulnerable than squatter buildings, no matter their hypothetical defenses," he said, angling his helm slightly to give Optimus a look; he was no stupid, that was pretty much telling him there were defenses... Not that he hadn't figured that himself, considering what this place was.
"For an amateur torturer, he did well." Megatron almost sounded amused, but if that was due to Ratchet's reaction, or the fact over how the guard had acted... "Now, he'll just need to learn the correct techniques, and what to use if the victim overcomes the pain."
A dismissive shrug, and while he didn't look at the Prime as he said this, he did keep the mech in his vision, wondering what the reaction would be. Megatron knew how to torture - it was nearly inevitable not to learn the rudimentaries of it as a gladiator - that didn't mean he didn't know torture was utterly useful as anything but an intimidation factor and thus ineffective.
Pain, in itself, could be effective if you learned how to control your own response to it, ride it and rise above it, using it as... which Megatron did... a focus. But that was all.
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Date: 2012-03-27 06:30 pm (UTC)"Hnn. Towers are always more vulnerable than squatter buildings, no matter their hypothetical defenses," he said, angling his helm slightly to give Optimus a look; he was no stupid, that was pretty much telling him there were defenses... Not that he hadn't figured that himself, considering what this place was.
"For an amateur torturer, he did well." Megatron almost sounded amused, but if that was due to Ratchet's reaction, or the fact over how the guard had acted... "Now, he'll just need to learn the correct techniques, and what to use if the victim overcomes the pain."
A dismissive shrug, and while he didn't look at the Prime as he said this, he did keep the mech in his vision, wondering what the reaction would be. Megatron knew how to torture - it was nearly inevitable not to learn the rudimentaries of it as a gladiator - that didn't mean he didn't know torture was utterly useful as anything but an intimidation factor and thus ineffective.
Pain, in itself, could be effective if you learned how to control your own response to it, ride it and rise above it, using it as... which Megatron did... a focus. But that was all.