He would not give in and laugh at all the minute shifts of armour bristling or the telling aborted flare outwards of Orion's field. Or the scrunch to Orion's nasal ridge, either.
Properly, any one of these things would be grounds for some sort of punishment, but it was better not to. That was, frankly, deeper than they needed to go with Orion on this end of things.
He also wouldn't give in to the urge to actually go through with any punishment, or give in to the whispers that said the mech was willfully challenging him and needed to be put in his place.
Megatron straightened and shifted his shoulders, slowly shaking his helm. He was experienced, self-aware and... reluctantly self-critical enough to now not just be able to see where he very quickly went wrong in this position, but also accept it.
He would handle it for this short time.
Because, Megatron thought with a faint smile creeping over his faceplates, Orion did look very charming with his helm angled slightly down and hands behind his back, at least affecting a proper stance.
But he knew perfectly well what Orion would probably be capable of in the position he had currently taken, and that weighed more heavily than the current display or even the thought of making him liking it.
And that was over a klik gone to just staring, poor Orion was probably getting antsy... Megatron kept his chuckle firmly squashed.
"Good. I want you to go over to the vid screen and turn it off manually, then come over here and kneel." He paused briefly, eyeing the gleaming red armour for a moment. "Remember where to keep your hands, unless you're using them."
Megatron was, actually, not just pulling this out of a thought of creating a simple, mundane scenario of typical instructions to let Orion get a feel of things and probably be able to compare to some of the things he'd read and seen in his... ah, research, but he was, also, pulling from his own first experience of where Orion was now.
It was simple, limited and straightforward.
Orion would probably still not like it by the end, but hopefully it'd help crystallise not just that even if he didn't like it, others might, but that things didn't necessarily need to be more complicated than this.
It might also give him a better idea for questions after they were done.
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Properly, any one of these things would be grounds for some sort of punishment, but it was better not to. That was, frankly, deeper than they needed to go with Orion on this end of things.
He also wouldn't give in to the urge to actually go through with any punishment, or give in to the whispers that said the mech was willfully challenging him and needed to be put in his place.
Megatron straightened and shifted his shoulders, slowly shaking his helm. He was experienced, self-aware and... reluctantly self-critical enough to now not just be able to see where he very quickly went wrong in this position, but also accept it.
He would handle it for this short time.
Because, Megatron thought with a faint smile creeping over his faceplates, Orion did look very charming with his helm angled slightly down and hands behind his back, at least affecting a proper stance.
But he knew perfectly well what Orion would probably be capable of in the position he had currently taken, and that weighed more heavily than the current display or even the thought of making him liking it.
And that was over a klik gone to just staring, poor Orion was probably getting antsy... Megatron kept his chuckle firmly squashed.
"Good. I want you to go over to the vid screen and turn it off manually, then come over here and kneel." He paused briefly, eyeing the gleaming red armour for a moment. "Remember where to keep your hands, unless you're using them."
Megatron was, actually, not just pulling this out of a thought of creating a simple, mundane scenario of typical instructions to let Orion get a feel of things and probably be able to compare to some of the things he'd read and seen in his... ah, research, but he was, also, pulling from his own first experience of where Orion was now.
It was simple, limited and straightforward.
Orion would probably still not like it by the end, but hopefully it'd help crystallise not just that even if he didn't like it, others might, but that things didn't necessarily need to be more complicated than this.
It might also give him a better idea for questions after they were done.