#amutedscream

(Eeeee!!! Thank you! A-muted-scream and optics-once-blue are the same mun, yes. I've been surprised at how well Starscream and Prowl work in the "not killing each other" realm myself. Starsy-mun's take on ol' Screamer is unique and has actually made him an interesting and appealing character to me, which is a real accomplishment, given how much I previously despised Starscream. (His 1984 voice turned me against him within two sentences, I think.) Thank you for your readership--and feel free to comment off of anon, now I'm curious to know who you are! :))

(I did not realize this until just now, but Prowl has decided that the best way to entertain and teach Arulili (his very unlikely daughter with Starscream--long story) is to read her the semi-mythical stories of the pre-Golden Era explorers and diplomat-adventurers. Which would be fine and a reasonable thing to do...if he wasn't doing it in the original dialects of the stories. Some intervention by more Sparkling-savvy heads has resulted in a side-by-side translation edition, with illustrations done by certain bots who may or may not want their names known as artists. In any case, Arulili shows a distinct preference for the adventures of Maroro Radix, wandering monk-of-all-trades. Prowl is trying to find out what she's responding to--the pitch, cadence, or secondary harmonics of the prosody; the shapes of the glyphs on the screen, or the content of the stories, some of which are action-packed and full of derring-do.

The fact that the heroic Maroro sports wings and a brightly-colored paint scheme, and that Prowl unconsciously "does" voices for some of the wilder alien creatures the hero meets, has a lot to do with it in the opinion of his comrades.

What is known for sure is that Wheeljack is constructing something for Arulili in the depths of his workshop, and that the Autobots have been pleading with Starscream to take some pictures of Prowl reading to and playing with his kid.)

Have a seeker popping in out of the blue and knocking on Blaster’s quarters.

The hologram comes and hugs Leah. It smiled while the seeker stared down at Leah with a light look on his face.

"Leah?" the hologram questioned as the seeker was nearby and heard her voice in a very distressed and loud octave. "Is something going on?"