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they tolerate each other for skyfire's sake lol. teamed up once or twice when someone was being mean to skyfire to scare the scrap out of them lmaooooo.

when starscream came back after skyfire's crash jetfire was the only one who believed that he didn't cause skyfire's crash/disappearance because of the twin bond. jetfire defended starscream when the latter was charged with attempted murder, and jetfire may have had an attempt on his life made by Senator-hired hitmen. . . or two. . . or three. . .

then the revolution happens and jetfire busts starscream out of jail. jetfire joins the ascenticon movement while starscream goes back home. and when the newly named autobots split off from the ascenticons jetfire follows optimus. starscream joins the decepticons along with his trine, his siblings, and their trines.

and during the war when skyfire is missing they are in a very interesting dynamic of both being Air Commanders for their respective faction, both not getting along, both kinda wanting to kill to other but not doing so because if jetfire kills starscream skyfire will get really upset, and if starscream kills jetfire that will kill skyfire as well.

and they get to earth and realize hey this is where skyfire crashed and team up to find him. when they find him jetfire takes skyfire back to the ark and starscream goes back to the decepticon base to figure out where to go from here. does he stay with the cons? does he leave and go to the twins? could he convince his family to come with him if he leaves?

Silverbolt

Tired Dad vibes

Second most introverted after Skydive

He can carry his brothers on his wings while flying. Not all of them at the same time, though

Doesn't get acrophobic in space

Worrier by nature

Has a lightning outlier ability

Air Raid

Closest equivalent to Team Medic

He's very ADHD

Definitely the most extroverted

Can, has, and will play mid-air chicken with Ramjet

Gets mistaken for a Seeker (usually Skywarp) in fights a lot. Has lots more faction badges on his alt mode than the rest of his brothers to try and avoid him being shot down by friendlies

Skydive

Plays strategy games with Prowl

Nerd for military aviation history. And just. . . aviation history in general

Quietest of them all, and soft spoken

Definitely the guy you hang out with if you just want to read something or do some other quiet activity with company

Birdwatcher

Really into RC planes

Knowledge Sponge

Fireflight

Very perceptive - often acts as a spotter for snipers

Loves and collects shiny things, usually rocks. Has a sizable collection of agates and geodes in particular

Picks up on others' emotions very easily, and is a good judge of character

Also very ADHD

Goes birdwatching with Skydive a lot

Slingshot

Silverbolt's most common passenger, due to his alt mode being the slowest and having the shortest range

Team Sniper

Uses the agility of his alt mode to access vantage points like the roofs of skyscrapers

First one to defend his brothers (Air Raid is the second)

Holds grudges

Superion

Very protective of Optimus

Since he doesn't combine a whole lot outside of active combat the Autobots don't know him very well. But the Aerialbots usually say he's short-tempered, and protective if someone asks

Y'know how Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are described as front liners in fanfics a lot of times? Superion is that

Once picked up Starscream and threw him like a baseball

oh hell yeah! first one is more g1 'toon-based/compliant, but the rest are more for my custom continuity, spectrum.

let's see. . .

superion is the oldest of the three autobot combiners, and the most combat orientated. as such, he's protective of both defensor and computron (especially computron, the youngest of the three!). also was the one to teach both of them combat - gunmanship, hand to hand, etc. ironhide helped a lot, but superion did the hands on stuff since he's their size lol

onslaught is the middle "kid" of the combaticons (age order goes brawl > swindle > onslaught > vortex > blast off). he was cold constructed as part of an artillery/AA unit in the midst of the war of the threefold spark, and the only survivor of said unit. brawl (for whom this is his second war) found this week-old-tops truck alone on the battlefield, went "is anybody gonna look after him?" and didn't wait for an answer. onslaught is a pretty reserved guy emotionally, so while it doesn't seem like it, he's very thankful for brawl finding him and then later encouraging him to apply for officer training all those years ago.

hrm. who next.

for hot spot, i genuinely can't decide whether he'd sleep like a log or toss and turn like crazy. both are funny. regardless, he's so full of energy all the time that the only times he's tired are when he's seriously sick or extremely worn out by something.

constructicons are a forged gestalt - which means they were born together with the bond - and were given to a close knit construction crew for mentorship/guardianship. mixmaster trained as a chemist under quickmix, and though he learned a lot, the two of them didn't really get along at all - quickmix didn't tolerate mixmaster's stutter, which in turn made it worse in his presence. mixmaster treasured each and every one of the rare compliments that quickmix would give him.

of all of the stunticons, breakdown and dead end get along the best. while the others will encourage breakdown's paranoia, dead end doesn't and will calmly disprove whatever breakdown's mind has cooked up. breakdown trusts dead end and considers him the closest he has to a friend in the decepticons as a whole. (stunticons, in my continuity, were a very dysfunctional unit before the enigma was used on them and they were all suddenly stuck together with the bond. breakdown would like to be anywhere else than with them, thank you very much)

ooh hello! admittedly i only have a little for both of these guys

devastator is by far the oldest of all the combiners, with superion as the next oldest. this is because they're both forged combiners, while the rest are enigma-born and those combined forms are younger than their teams. (brawl is older than basically every other person in a gestalt lol. he was middle aged by the time onslaught was born)

computron is The Baby. superion and defensor adore him. computron wants hugs from his dad (grimlock. i am a Firm Supporter of technobot dad grimlock), but that's hard when his dad fits in the palm of his hand. his fellow older combiners will gladly give him hugs but sometimes you just want Parent Hugs and nothing else will suffice, you know?

11 and 14 for Blast Off, 7 and 15 for Vortex

man, what's with all the combaticon asks recently lmao

blast off

11. i might go on a date with him, but would not have a relationship. not my type, sorry blast off.

14. oh. hmm. spectrum answer: emo/goth "it's not a phase mom", uhhhhhh for g1. . . he's snooty but not flashy or extravagant, so perhaps quiet luxury in his colours?

vortex

7. the reputation they give him as an interrogator. like i think overlord and shockwave are the only ones with scarier reputations.

15. none! i enjoy reading texaid, but only for the dynamic and first aid content rather than the actual texaid.

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