The Real Steel Battle Couple being Soft
I love these two so much; they are so underrated. They had less then 10 minutes together in G1 but every second of it was great.
The two met when the some of the younger members of Cybertron Intelligence went out for drinks, being introduced by their mutual acquaintance, Longarm, who promptly left afterwords, saying he had a “matter of grave importance” to discuss with Highbrow (Because Shockwave playing cupid and arranging a "meetcute" for them to keep Chromia distracted so he can turnaround and offline Highbrow Prime is honestly the funniest thing to me)
Ironhide fell first, instantly smitten with the well-spoken but sharp-tongued fem who has no tolerance for other’s shitty behavior, but Chromia fell harder, endeared by his polite “southern charm” and his readiness to lend a servo or an audial
Despite only officially courting eachother for a few centuries, they are engaged and living together. It’s all very scandalous
Neither particularly care
Ironhide is a cuddlebug and will take any chance to hold Chromia he can get
Chromia pretends to hate it while very clearly thriving on the physical affection
Extremely professional with one another until they are off the clock as a rule of thumb, though there are some notable exceptions
They were caught one time being intimate at the work place where they really shouldn’t have been, but Blurr owed Chromia a favor (and genuinely liked her as one of his few competent coworkers) so he let it slide
while Ironhide has a dozen and one pet names for her (sweetspark, Bluebell, Baby Blue,Chromy, Mia-my-love (said as one word), etc), Chromia calls him exclusively by his full name or Heidi when they are alone