#ler!grimlock

Ler:

-Grimlock loooves tickling his teammates

-He’s a very playful, affectionate guy

-He’s generally pretty aware of his own strength, so he usually never takes it too far. He can get carried away from time to time tho

-Big fan of just scooping his teammates up and tickling them. None of them know how to react in that situation, so he gets the upper hand

-He’s a nibbler. He’s very careful not to bite too hard

-He’ll tickle people in either alt mode. In protoform/root mode, they’re easier to hold on to, but he can chase them down a lot easier in alt mode

-Honestly, he really doesn’t have a style for it, or any usual moves. He’s just down to make his friends laugh

-He’s tickled everyone on the team, and is in general the tickle monster of the Bee Team

-He likes getting Drift in particular because he’s so serious all the time

-But he also likes getting Bee whenever he’s stressing and Sideswipe and Strongarm if they’re fighting too much

-He also really likes playing around with Jetstorm and Slipstream

Lee:

-Canonically ticklish

-Unsurprisingly, Grim also likes getting tickled!

-He hasn’t had tons of physical affection so he loves it. He’s also not shy about asking for it

-He kicks and flails, but tries to keep it to a minimum so he doesn’t fling anyone into the sun

-Mostly though, he likes initiating tickle fights. Bonding time for the whole team :]

-His belly is super ticklish, but I think he’s also ticklish under the arms and maybe neck? I know there’s a scene where he gets wrecked

-He has a very goofy laugh that usually makes whoever’s tickling him laugh too

-Sometimes he’ll try to get revenge, but other times he just wants to chill out afterwards

Training Day

It’s a slow day on base and so Drift is taking the opportunity to do some more formal training with Jetstorm and Slipstream. Grimlock, easily bored, decides he wants to join in. Drift is slightly irritated by this, but he agrees. They move into some self defense, mainly how to throw off someone bigger than you. So to demonstrate, he has Grimlock trap him in one of his infamous bear hugs, and then works on breaking his grip in record time and escaping.

Grimlock is being a very good self defense partner. He’s focused for the most part and does what Drift tells him to do so he can show the minicons how to escape. But as time goes on, he starts to get a little bored and deviate ever so slightly. It’s good for the minicons to see alternate ways out, right? But his hand slips and he squeezes to try and keep Drift from escaping, and the warrior flinches. Of course, Grimlock gets very concerned that he hurt him. He’s strong and doesn’t exactly know his own strength sometimes. But Drift keeps insisting he’s fine and trying to go on with the lesson, so Grimlock squeezes again to try and see if he’s hurt or dented or anything, and Drift flinches again. But this time, Grimlock thinks he sees a ghost of a smile.

So he wraps Drift up in another bear hug and is doing his absolute best to contain him, and starts telling the minicons about this one time where he was possessed by a really tiny minicon and how the others got said minicon out. And in said process, starts tickling Drift. It’s easiest to target his sides and stomach, because they’re less plated and if he lets go even a little Drift will 100% escape. Now, Drift is a hardened warrior, so it’s not too easy to crack him. He kicks and fights and is hardly even smiling, but the longer Grimlock tickles him for the weaker he gets and the more his tough façade starts to crack.

Finally, Grim manages to really get his claws into a ticklish seam and Drift bursts into laughter. Jetstorm and Slipstream are thrilled! They’ve never seen their teacher laugh before, or at least not like this. Grimlock is happy that Drift is happy, and naturally starts being more playful and teasing him about how ticklish he is. Drift tries to enlist his students’ help, but they’re too busy enjoying his happiness to save him. Grimlock manages to get them both on the ground without Drift escaping, where he can use his size and weight to pin him down and tickle him everywhere. Through guessing, he figures out that Drift’s stomach and sides are really bad, so he focuses there and insists Drift “call him uncle” to make it stop (he saw it on human TV!)