Could you give us some backstory on how Jazz and Prowl became best friends? I read your one shot in harmonies’ and I’m curious how they actually became friends? If not that’s fine. P.S. Your stories are literally the best fanfiction I have EVER read!
Sure! I always meant to do a sequel one-shot to that to show how they start to become best friends but forgot and all that.
So iirc the *basic* gist was that Prowl and Jazz start to get along after Jazz "helps" Prowl with that very first case, and then they keep like- bumping into each other when Jazz is there to DJ (and occasionally steal stuff as Meister shhh) until Prowl considers them good acquaintances? Even friends.
Then I yeet a serial killer frame trafficker at him.
Because Cybertronians, unlike humans, are sparks in metal frames, so I could absolutely see there being a really dark part of the underworld that pays good energon and money for other bots to *kill* their fellow Cybertronians in non-damaging ways and then sell the body on the black market to those looking to build literal new identities for themselves.
So anyway one of those kind of terrible bots starts hunting in Praxus and Prowl is on the case and naturally runs into trouble. Big trouble. And then Jazz (possibly as Meister) would get involved because that's *his* favorite detective rival thank you.
...pretty sure I had Prowl realizing Jazz was Meister at some point in that and choosing at the end of the fic to not report him. Because lowkey one of my favorite relationships in fic is the "detective and thief who will go at each other in 100% seriousness while on the job, but off the job/out of mask they're chill and friends". That and Prowl owes Jazz his spark several times over by that point and also very literally. (remember; Prowl was chasing a frame stealing murder bot).
So yeah after some life and death bonding experiences, they start to become friends who occasionally chase each other around for the sake of crime and law. XD