"this doesn’t mean I like you. i still think you’re insufferable." - sunstreaker
Oh, for crying out loud-
Still running his vents at full power to cool down from the absolutely brutal fight they just wrapped up, Cliffjumper doesn't bother to say anything in response. Instead, he copies a highly useful human gesture, aiming one curled fist in Sunstreaker's direction, and then flipping a single digit upright.
Whether the other Autobot recognizes what 'the bird' is or not, hopefully his implied 'right back at you, slagger' comes across loud and clear.
He side opticed the mech, tensing at the touch, not expecting the mech to be so close. He had taken the armor off of his leg to do some small repairs, check on the graze and patch that up. Watching the servo trail over the short script.
"I took someone's legs, they didn't die. Carved into my thigh in retaliation, and somehow that fragger isn't dead." Watching the mech, knowing there were plenty of other scars around those that were questionable at best.
@aeonsolitude has caught the attention of a WARMIND,
which is not an uncomplicated achievement to have accomplished. Rasputin's network of WARSATs might be frayed but when the unusual occurred there was often more than plentiful resources to be used in aiding the aging machine mind. At this particular moment, his attention had been on a stray group of Eliksni drifting too close to a bunker entrance. They often tried to steal his hardware and though he could not always prevent their entry or theft, it was useful to track their movements thereafter.
He is about to mark them off as potentially troublesome, but their signatures vanish one by one in white hot marks of energy being dissipated at their coordinates. A curious thing, and following the trajectory his sky-eye gaze settles on the culprit. A towering, bipedal figure not a too great distance away. Curious, and he flags them as dangerous immediately.
AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//WARWATCH//BUNKER//SITE:184 ::: UNKNOWN INCURSION OBJECT, PERSON, OR ENTITY, IDENTIFY.
The garbled Russian escapes out of a partially claimed by plant growth, frame, nearby the bunker entrance.
He leaned heavily against the wall, arms wrapped tightly around his chassis as vents came in short, hard bursts. Steam billowed out with each one, frame over clocking to try and run more coolant through his systems in a panic. He wasn't really overheating like that, he knew what was wrong.
A system reset was needed, and unfortunately he hadn't been able to update the specialized coding he got to mitigate the 'passing out' part.
And in the middle of an Autobot base to, just his luck.
Tossing you a Sunstreaker for the pre-established relationship meme
/cracks knuckles
FRIENDSHIP. childhood friends / work buddies or coworkers / family friends / friends with benefits / smoking buddies / adventure buddies / fake friends / recently friends / party buddies / friendship of need / dying friendship / circumstantial friendship / partners in crime / old friendship /[your muse] is the good influence /[your muse] is the bad influence /[my muse] is the good influence /[my muse] is the bad influence / opposites attract / ride or die / frenemies / roommates or flatmates / penpals / exes to friends / enemies to friends / other
ROMANCE. childhood sweethearts /[your muse is mines] childhood crush /[my muse is yours] childhood crush / exes / exes to lovers / forbidden lovers / highschool sweethearts / secret relationship / opposites attract / long distance / unrequited [from your muses side]/ unrequited [from my muses side]/ unrequited [from both sides]/ skinny love / friends to lovers / enemies to lovers / spurious relationship / power couple / newly entered / soulmates [ metaphorical ]/ soulmates [ literal ]/ awkward / turning toxic / toxic love / cheating [on your muse]/ cheating [with your muse]/ other
FAMILIAL. siblings [half]/ siblings [step]/[my muse] is an older sibling figure to your younger sibling figure /[my muse] is a younger sibling figure to your older sibling figure muse /[my muse] is a parental figure to yours /[my muse] is a child figure to your muse / guardian figure / legal guardian / adoptive child / foster child /[your muse] is taken under mines wing /[my muse] is taken under yours wing / other
ANTAGONISTIC. dangerous to each other / dangerous to others / unpredictable / rivals / petty / developing into sexual or romantic tension / based off family matters / based of off circumstance / based of professional matters / based off misunderstanding or lies / conflict of ideology / betrayal / hero - villain dynamic / enemies / fight club / friends turned enemies / lovers turned enemies / exes turned enemies / other
Additional thoughts:
(I like these updated lists but there needs to be an option for straight up "I do not vibe with this dude") xD
Sunstreaker's prickly, no two ways about it, and while I don't feel TFP Cliff would get into a rivalry for entirely petty reasons, I do think there's plenty of room for some initial bad encounter/ misunderstanding, which never got resolved or talked through, and therefore spiraled into however many years of "Ugh. This guy." every time these two see each other.
That said, they are both Autobots, and will help one another out of a jam - just with copious amounts of complaining afterward. And maybe a sparring session or three that gets out of hand...
So. Back on Cybertron. Coming out of the early stages of the War, but not quite into the long slow grinding phase that did so much damage to the planet before the evacuation orders went out. There was- honestly, Cliffjumper doesn't remember exactly which battle, just that it was big, and nasty, and a lot of the bots who carried their badly hurt comrades to the medics were walking wounded themselves.
Except this one guy.
Cliff didn't know until later, much later, that Sunstreaker's twin was badly hurt and being operated on in the heart of their base's medbay. He only saw a big golden frontliner, barely a scratch on him, stalking up and down the halls wiping the grime off his plating, outright snarling at anyone who fell within some ridiculous boundary of personal space.
And it rubbed Cliff the wrong way. All of them were hurting, all of them were grieving, and yet this guy had the nerve to come out of that fight practically unscathed and get snappish with everyone else-
Cliffjumper's not proud of how he handled the matter.
He's extra not proud of how it colored all his interactions with Sunstreaker forever afterward, especially since they both are, at the end of the day, Autobots.
// HIII, I admit I was originally a bit intimidated by you when we first became moots but not so much anymore and I’m glad abt that. I like seeing your Pharma on my dash, he makes me laugh sometimes dgfhfhghf and I look forward to throwing Amb at him more soon!
2024 is almost over!
AWWW well I love seeing you on the dash and im absolutely excited to have Amby tossed my way!! Im glad my pharma can make u laugh >:3
