#Thundercracker | risenwings

[risenwings]

(for TC) So... when would you like to get together today?

--Glit

(Also, you don't need to feel guilty about me. Yes, there was an incredible power imbalance between us, but we were very young, and you didn't own me. Your family broke us apart. You weren't responsible for that. But I don't think Starscream is going to be jealous, he isn't of Warp and my sister.)

@doctor-glitterbomb

I'm free this afternoon, after the luncheon Starscream has planned. I'd love to see you. Would you like me to come get you?

--Thundercracker of Iacon

[doctor-glitterbomb]

It's Thundercracker that slinks in, post battle; far enough later that all the casualties are patched and resting, or sent along their way. He still keeps his wings tipped down, avoids eye contact with most of the medics and makes his way along the wall until he spots Glit.

When he does, he gives a soft chirr. ... Is Glit free?

Glit looks into his optics and blinks, slowly, then washes his hands and gives orders to Scalpel and Medika. He looks up at TC and cocks his head to one side. "KO and Hook are here to watch the newsparks, so--but first, were you injured? At all? I know you hide it sometimes."

[risenwings]

:: ... So was Skywarp.:: Thundercracker counters. ::You're still Seekers. Still meant for the air as much as any of the rest of us.:: He dips, slightly, spinning in a lazy barrel roll before angling upward again, twisting skyward and wiggling a wingflap invitingly. Follow him?

If the invitation wasn't taken, he'd settle for an upward banking spiral, simply to avoid clipping any buildings too closely.

::And I know you can handle yourself. You've always made that clear.::

Starscream will admit, his current frame is more stylish than it is suited for war; they're supposed to be done with that dreadful affair, after all.

He scoffs at the blue mech's words. « Nothing that I can't handle. Why? Are you concerned about little old me? »

He finds himself drifting back and forth in the air, a curving zigzag of contrails left in his wake, before he says, « I was made in a factory, Thundercracker. What about that screams 'uncommon' to you? »

[sunoflegend]

@risenwings liked for a small starter ! for thundercracker .

"So, uh.. what exactly is it you wanted to do again? I think I was more than half-way passed out when I replied to your comm. You know how it is."

[risenwings]

They are small and the world is large.

Send help.

Starscream is STILL shrieking, Skywarp has started trying to eat the light fixture, and Thundercracker is doing his best to cram himself under and behind a console.

[risenwings]

@soindefensible

thunderwings: Once you're out of your meetings for the day, I'm up on the sunning platform. Comm me and I can come and get you. If you like.

[risenwings]

Muse: Thundercracker

😶

With all the love in the world, everyone already knows you're a slut, Soundwave.

(I nominated TC, of course.)

[risenwings]

Of the former Command Trine, Thundercracker has the best voice, a pleasant baritone.

Skywarp is second, with a tenor range-- or it would be, if he had any idea how to stay in tune. He prefers enthusiasm over getting the song right though.

And Starscream doesn't sing. At all. Never. Not for a very long time.

[risenwings]

M!A Guess What!! All three Command Trine members get to experience being sparklings again! For the next 24 hours, they are Baby!

Well.

It's a good thing none of them are in flight when it happens.

Three young Seekerlets tumble to the ground where once the Command Trine had been.

Starscream, naturally, begins to shriek.

[risenwings]

"Skywarp, if you lick one more Primus-damned pole, I don't care how much it hurts, I will trip you into the nearest pile of filth." Starscream growls. "You could try to be a little more discreet."

"Why?" Skywarp responds. "No one comes down here but stupid mechs, bullies, and mechs trying to hide. You said."

Thundercracker's wings tipped further down. "We're Seekers. We'll stick out wherever we go. It'll be even more suspicious if we act like we're hiding. Or trying to hide."

"Whose side are you on?" Starscream complained, but with no real heat. "Besides, this is the last place your flock, or any stuck up Iaconians, would think to find us." He reaches out, touches Thundercracker's wing gently. "It's just until we're sure they aren't after us."

[risenwings]

Thundercracker: I wish I could bake sometimes.

[risenwings]

“I can tell that you’re tired.” for whoever you prefer.

@tarllych

Thundercracker stills, helm tipping back to regard the larger mech warily. "... I am." He rumbles. "... But I'll still fight or fly if I must. What is your name, stranger?"

[risenwings]

Thundercracker wonders, briefly, if either Starscream or Skywarp will contact him-- and then he dismisses it.

They have his new comm. They know where he is.

[risenwings]

Skywarp gave Rock'n'Roll a taser. Ravage, however, gets a bunch of earth flower seeds.

Thundercracker gives Marissa a turquoise and silver necklace. It's the same shade as his plating.

[risenwings]

✘

Starscream: Would you really have clanged Soundwave that night when the two of you were drunk off your afts and you had been taking his prescription-strength doctor-ordered circuit boosters? Skywarp: I'm still trying to picture how you could even do anything with a human and then it occurred to me--when you were fooling around with Ravage and she was still a cassette, did you get modded for mass shifting?

Thundercracker in the universe where they killed Megatron 2 million years before they ever went to Earth: Why do you think you can't or shouldn't get back together with Glit? Yes, he's not a seeker, but he wasn't a seeker when you were together then either.

1. Starscream scowls. "Oh please. I have more self control than that." He hisses, then adds, "... Soundwave stopped me so it's a moot point."

2. Skywarp blinks. "... Um... I don't think so? Star said my outlier ability takes up all the available codespace."

3. Thundercracker sighs. ".... I don't... I don't know anymore. I don't... I don't want to hurt Glit again. Not like that. Starscream doesn't like split loyalties in partners very much."

[risenwings]

What Herb Are You? | Thundercracker

Thyme

Anxiety is your middle name. You need to check in with other people or beliefs when you take a step because the world is dark and you are so small, so fragile, and you've been hurt so many times before. You were bullied or hurt before, by people you trusted or people you loved, and despite all that you find yourself stumbling into other people, into bandaged trust because all you want is to be secure, loved, safe, supported. But maybe instead you long to be loved, long to find solace in the arms of someone else but can't bare to draw near enough to anyone long enough to feel safe and ache, ache, ache for company. The world is dark and you're so lonely it hurts sharper than any wound. How can you trust when it's all be shattered so many times before? How do you trust yourself when you've let so many in? You are a thousand contradictions, a thousand bits and pieces picked up along the way and maybe even this doesn't sound right, maybe nothing sounds right. You are so lonely and so afraid and you just want to be safe. Secure. Loved. You're so tired of being afraid.

(borrowed from @cyberglyphed )