#sorry op this addition is driving me nuts

[captainlordauditor]

That’s weird because in my copy Babs breaks up with him in #87 of Nightwing and he’s raped in #93

Yknow, i always thought it was genuinely insane how people laugh at the time when Cass threw Dick out a window.

Bc, like, iirc Barbara dumped Dick because she saw Dick being SA'd by Tarantula (non-consensually kissed) and went "he's cheating on me!"

So like. The whole reason Cass threw Dick out a window is bc Barbara dumped him for being SA'd, if I have my timeline correct.

And uh... how the fuck is that funny?? It's actually kinda messed up imo. Granted in-universe you can't really blame Cass bc iirc she didn't have the full picture, but still.

Its just... it's not funny to me and I don't see why people think it's hilarious

[fleetingfan77]

The Flaw in Every Crystal

Chapter 9

Retraining Arc Part 1

aka: Its downhill from here

aka: Was it worth it?

So, the result of Jazz first exploding, then trying to claw Prowl to death was....not goo to say the least... Prowl was able to get his apartment all fixed up, and first order of business on his free day is to go back to training, well, not exactly back to but going at it from a different direction. Since Jazz destroyed the last room, Prowl got to make it up all shiny and new with new features, such as straps to keep Jazz in an upright position putting him right between a rock and a hard place.

Jazz seems oddly calm on first waking up. Not being surprised at being restrained, his first thoughts are to look around and take in his situation and if/how he can escape again. Here we see the traits that will probably help keep Jazz alive longest when he becomes Spec Ops. Nice to know that he’s able to keep a cool head and hope for an escape still even after knowing the first attempt failed to get him anything really.

Prowl comes in with a kind of calm attitude towards Jazz, telling him how much work Triage was left to do because of him. This sets Jazz off even more since Prowl at this point seems probably like a raised cobra to him. Doing nothing at the moment, but ready to bit at any time.

We also learn now what the additional components were that Prowl commissioned Triage to do. Someone ring a bell cause Jazz finally got his wings! Prowl brings up that they are high quality wings as well with the sensitivity turned up so that when he helps/hurts Jazz with them, Jazz fully feels it. This new act of Prowl’s has Jazz on serious edge since it’s the waiting for pain that can drive you nuts. Prowl keeps a calm tone while Jazz falls back on insults and snark to try to get back at Prowl any way he can. I’m surprised that Jazz is so quickly fooled into thinking Prowl won’t hurt him at this point when its like, come on, you blew up his house and then attacked him. He is not going to let that go Jazz. I know that my mind would just be bringing up every possible painful scenario of what might happen. 

"Praxus can fall into a smelter for all I care." He was starting to fall for his own act of bravery, hoping that maybe things might not turn out as bad as he imagined.

"Don't be unreasonable, my mate." Prowl removed himself entirely from the other's frame and even stepped back. "Such a thing could never feasibly happen."

Jazz snapped his denta at the other as he retreated. "No, that'd be too good for this city. It deserves a much worse fate."

FORESHADOWING!!

I do wonder how Jazz will react to the fall. He, I’m sure, will have no love for the native Praxians, but will he even think of the people who like him may have been trapped there? Or would he not because he would be too annoyed at their and his own weakness in allowing the kidnapping and training to happen to them?

It actually seems if anything having the escape attempt fail gave Jazz more spirit and anger, not less. Even talking back at Prowl’s attempts to gaslight him with time. We see now Prowl trying to force anger, hoping to scare Jazz into acting better. Hint: It doesn’t work here. 

Nice to know though that Jazz is willing to revisit the play-along plan in the future. It’s always annoying when fictional characters throw out a perfectly good plan just because it didn’t work properly the first time. Though Prowl will be much more on guard for that kind of thing in the future now. 

Prowl seems to be going full on mind games and gaslighting now, acting nicely to Jazz and seemingly interested in having Jazz change his mind. This of course only angers Jazz more, causing him to lash out. 

Part of me wants to make Taming of the Shrew comparisons so badly but its not really similar enough to what I remember to do so. At this point though I can see Prowl lifting the plan of food denial while saying like “Sorry my mate, seems I brought you the wrong energon” once Jazz gets hunger and then taking it away or something like that. High school English was a long time ago. 

Jazz actually calms down and realizes that anger isn’t helping fairly fast. Probably because Prowl keeps leaving the room. If Prowl stayed there, it would probably just keep working Jazz up.

Man, hand-feeding the person you’ve captured and want to make love you comes up A LOT in transformers fanfiction. By which I mean I’ve seen this twice, one story was “The Perfect Song” which was more Jazz/Prowl consentual BDSM and far less creepy, and in “These Games We Play” which is Jazz/Soundwave and almost as creepy as this story but more thriller than horror.

ANYWAY, we get Prowl finally maiming Jazz in retaliation for Jazz’s attack earlier. And there’s a misplaced end quote here, fyi: 

With that nothing of a warning, Prowl pulled a blade from his subspace and sliced down one of Jazz's sensor panels. He only applied enough pressure to cut in, not through. He only wanted to injure for now, he would come back to do actual damage."

So yeah, Prowl apparently knows how to slice up wings correctly fairly well, which raises a whole host of creepy questions. We also see the start of a true cycle of abuse here:

Prowl hurts Jazz --> Jazz behaves due to fear --> Prowl pushes Jazz and angers him --> Jazz talks back --> see step one again.

Really creepy to see Jazz sizing up whatever Prowl is threatening to see if it is worth the rebellion.

And that’s it for now. Till next time!