#sightseertrespasser

It was fun to see how all the thoughts were represented and how Ricochet influenced the headspace. Both toddler Bluestreak and young Jazz were adorable!!

I’m a huge fan of this Prowl using his People Skills™️ to interact with small humans. Prowl has one (1) set of People Skills™️, but why would he develop more if they work in every situation????

I’m still in awe of all the metaphors/similes/media references/callbacks to previous chapters. It makes rereads even more exciting! I also loved how the references and flashbacks to a lot of the Portal AU things that were outside White Out’s scope.

Also. DRYER JAZZ MY BELOVED. He’s so cute he’s just a little guy!!! He’s just a little stuck! Jazz get your butt out of there! It’s dangerous!

But aghhhhhh the details of memories repeating are amazing, especially the memory Jazz is hiding in. It’s simultaneously wholesome and sad when you think about it. His family and friends are frozen in a cozy game of hide and seek where the seeker never truly finishes the countdown. Schrödinger’s happy family. But no, that Schrödinger’s Cat thought has LAYERS— If no one ever opens Jazz’s box (dryer) then:

Jazz (the real grown Jazz) is both alive and functionally dead to his friends and enemies

He can temporarily live in a headspace where his family in the memory are alive

It’s possible that one of his old friends wasn’t confirmed dead and may have also hidden like they unintentionally practiced here (but we’ll never know)

A previous chapter described Jazz as a “fat happy leopard” (that’s way too far back to make a Schrödinger’s cat connection but I want to bring it up because it was great)

Prowl helping Jazz out of the box brings him back to reality (I’m so normal about that btw) and establishes the facts so they can move on (aaaaa)

none of this matters but I like saying things

White Out is well over 20,000 words of “time to vibe check the spy man again” and it’s a phenomenal experience. I’m very glad he and Prowl get cuddles at the end, they deserve it.