#aeonsolitude

Oh, for crying out loud-

Still running his vents at full power to cool down from the absolutely brutal fight they just wrapped up, Cliffjumper doesn't bother to say anything in response. Instead, he copies a highly useful human gesture, aiming one curled fist in Sunstreaker's direction, and then flipping a single digit upright.

Meme/Open

He side opticed the mech, tensing at the touch, not expecting the mech to be so close. He had taken the armor off of his leg to do some small repairs, check on the graze and patch that up. Watching the servo trail over the short script.

"I took someone's legs, they didn't die. Carved into my thigh in retaliation, and somehow that fragger isn't dead." Watching the mech, knowing there were plenty of other scars around those that were questionable at best.

@aeonsolitude : “i don't like how fast you answered that.” - ambulon | transformers one sentence starters

which is not an uncomplicated achievement to have accomplished. Rasputin's network of WARSATs might be frayed but when the unusual occurred there was often more than plentiful resources to be used in aiding the aging machine mind. At this particular moment, his attention had been on a stray group of Eliksni drifting too close to a bunker entrance. They often tried to steal his hardware and though he could not always prevent their entry or theft, it was useful to track their movements thereafter.

He is about to mark them off as potentially troublesome, but their signatures vanish one by one in white hot marks of energy being dissipated at their coordinates. A curious thing, and following the trajectory his sky-eye gaze settles on the culprit. A towering, bipedal figure not a too great distance away. Curious, and he flags them as dangerous immediately.

AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//WARWATCH//BUNKER//SITE:184 ::: UNKNOWN INCURSION OBJECT, PERSON, OR ENTITY, IDENTIFY.

He leaned heavily against the wall, arms wrapped tightly around his chassis as vents came in short, hard bursts. Steam billowed out with each one, frame over clocking to try and run more coolant through his systems in a panic. He wasn't really overheating like that, he knew what was wrong.

A system reset was needed, and unfortunately he hadn't been able to update the specialized coding he got to mitigate the 'passing out' part.

/cracks knuckles

FRIENDSHIP.     childhood friends  /  work buddies or coworkers  /  family friends  /  friends with benefits  /  smoking buddies  /  adventure buddies  /  fake friends  /  recently friends  /  party buddies  /  friendship of need  /  dying friendship  /  circumstantial friendship  /  partners in crime  /  old friendship  /[your muse] is the good influence  /[your muse] is the bad influence  /[my muse] is the good influence  /[my muse] is the bad influence  /  opposites attract  /  ride or die  /  frenemies  /  roommates or flatmates  /  penpals  /  exes to friends  /  enemies to friends  /  other

ROMANCE.     childhood sweethearts  /[your muse is mines] childhood crush  /[my muse is yours] childhood crush  /  exes  /  exes to lovers  /  forbidden lovers  /  highschool sweethearts  /  secret relationship  /  opposites attract  /  long distance  /  unrequited [from your muses side]/  unrequited [from my muses side]/  unrequited [from both sides]/  skinny love  /  friends to lovers  /  enemies to lovers  /  spurious relationship  /  power couple  /  newly entered  /  soulmates [ metaphorical ]/  soulmates  [ literal ]/  awkward  /  turning toxic  /  toxic love  /  cheating [on your muse]/  cheating [with your muse]/  other 

FAMILIAL.     siblings [half]/  siblings [step]/[my muse] is an older sibling figure to your younger sibling figure  /[my muse] is a younger sibling figure to your older sibling figure muse  /[my muse] is a parental figure to yours  /[my muse] is a child figure to your muse  /  guardian figure  /  legal guardian  /  adoptive child  /  foster child  /[your muse] is taken under mines wing  /[my muse] is taken under yours wing  /  other

ANTAGONISTIC.     dangerous to each other  /  dangerous to others  /  unpredictable  /  rivals  /  petty  /  developing into sexual or romantic tension  /  based off family matters  /  based of off circumstance  /  based of professional matters  /  based off misunderstanding or lies  /  conflict of ideology  /  betrayal  /  hero - villain dynamic  /  enemies  /  fight club  /  friends turned enemies  /  lovers turned enemies  /  exes turned enemies  /  other 

Additional thoughts:

Sunstreaker.

So. Back on Cybertron. Coming out of the early stages of the War, but not quite into the long slow grinding phase that did so much damage to the planet before the evacuation orders went out. There was- honestly, Cliffjumper doesn't remember exactly which battle, just that it was big, and nasty, and a lot of the bots who carried their badly hurt comrades to the medics were walking wounded themselves.

Except this one guy.

Cliff didn't know until later, much later, that Sunstreaker's twin was badly hurt and being operated on in the heart of their base's medbay. He only saw a big golden frontliner, barely a scratch on him, stalking up and down the halls wiping the grime off his plating, outright snarling at anyone who fell within some ridiculous boundary of personal space.

And it rubbed Cliff the wrong way. All of them were hurting, all of them were grieving, and yet this guy had the nerve to come out of that fight practically unscathed and get snappish with everyone else-

Cliffjumper's not proud of how he handled the matter.

He's extra not proud of how it colored all his interactions with Sunstreaker forever afterward, especially since they both are, at the end of the day, Autobots.

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