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My end of the art trade with @moonbeam-dragon!
Thank you so much for your patience and doing the trade with me (always wanted to draw some Dani x Blades content, made me really happy)!
Their end of the trade could be found here.:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works @frosty-tian Here's my half of the trade.
"Prime, I wouldn't do this." Charlie warned, putting his hand on the holster of his tox-en knife. He had bought it from Swindle and only carried it when he thought he would use it. It was too dangerous for everyday carry.
"Where is Heatwave? He hasn't reported in." Optimus sounded angry, his plating flared and smokestacks steaming.
"He's busy sir." Chase said. "With the wedding."
"Whose wedding?" Optimus asked, a cold edge to his voice.
"My daughter and Blades." Charlie said. Optimus was shocked. "They haven't proposed yet, but it's practically set in stone.
"Literally," Chase said. "Dani's wedding rings came in yesterday, and Blades's conjunx medal has been custom ordered."
"Which means?" Charlie said, a smirk on his face.
"By Autobot code on interspecies marriage, the deployed bot must stay at a base within a visitable distance of their spouse, especially if there's additional dependents. Blades would be duty bound to stay on the nearest autobot base to Dani." Chase recited.
"We will relocate her then. Blades is needed in China." Optimus said.
"Optimus, with all due respect, that's a twelve hour one-way plane trip to and from Griffin Rock. And even if you used the ground bridge, Dani isn't fluent in Chinese or Mandarin, never mind getting a job in her field. It would require her to renounce her American passport, become fluent in both languages, pass the citizenship exam, and then the civil service exam. The process would take years, and she would have to start over in her career, retaking all the licenses exams too. She would be confined to the house, with very little access to the community before she reaches fluency." Charlie said.
Optimus sighed. "Very well. I will reassign someone else. It's been a while since I have seen my son. I still want to see a report from Heatwave by the end of the week."
Optimus transformed and drove through an open ground bridge.
"Sir, when will you tell Optimus that Heatwave is deceased?"
"When I can plan an accident to cover up the hole in his crotch. Bastard had to have the weirdest place for a subspace, didn't he. I like your new cyber matter avatar. Doc Greene worked wonders with the base design. I'm glad you added your own personal touches. Maybe later I could find out how personal?" Charlie smirked as Chase's avatar blushed.
"I would be happy to if I still feel up to it."
"If not, we will take a rain check. Your alt mode does need a bath, you know."
Chase's avatar blushed harder. "Could we keep it platonic? I really just want a quiet evening and sleep in my alt mode tonight."
"You know what? For your quick thinking, I will give you some cash and you can go to the car wash you like on main street. The one with the soft scrubbers."
Chase beamed. "Thank you, boss."
"That's alright, my siren."
Sneak-peeks with HC explanations to go along with it.
HC:
One day Blades and Boulder both learnt what makeup is, and are ecstatic about it, to say the least.
“You mean you can make paintings? On others??!”
- Boulder
While Boulder does the more flashy/artistic styles of makeup, Blades prefers to stick to the more ‘natural’ side of things (but that doesn’t mean they don’t attempt an exaggerated wing (eyeliner) here and there).
Naturally, both started out terrible (Boulder even once using a permanent marker by mistake), but eventually got the hang of it. They started out on their other bot partners, but then managed to convince their respective human partners to join in/allow them to try new styles as well. Boulder even managed to draw an impressive animal (probably a fox)’s face on Cody.
Don’t talk about them as much as I should, but I also do enjoy DaniBlades.
They’re very opposites attract NBLW to me who would gossip about the latest hot topics and be geeky about mangas/anime (even do shipping).
Dani’s also very supportive of Blade’s self-shipping (being a Yumejoshi/Yumedanshi).
Out of curiosity, other than the BoulGram charm, which human x Cybertronian pairing would you like to see as charms?
(ChCh is excluded because they had charms made before and I would like to give the rest a chance.)
Please Choose Below
Kade x Heatwave
Dani x Blades
Other (please reply below)
Someone had the wool pulled from his eyes.
The mafia au returns!
Charlie was pissed.
There was one too many near misses, and now Optimus wanted to visit.
Of course, having him ultimately foot the bill for Dani and Blades's nearly 200k wedding didn't win him any favors, but Optimus was the one who insisted on bringing some government booklickers he hadn't fully made worship him yet to what was supposed to be a small, intimate affair, but at least the other bots that crashed the wedding with Bumblebee had the sense to ditch once Dani and Blades left.
It still irked him that Dani let Bumblebee in, but she was an adult, and if she was fine with her new husband's ex railing him while she tangled herself with Blades's holoform, that's her thing.
But, at least Cody was good at making the old bot melt. Optimus treated him like his own grandson, and Cody was more than happy to play along if it kept the family business running.
But of course, despite Cody's best efforts, Optimus insisted on inspecting the Rescue Bots quarters. Of course, it was the day after he and Chase had to get rid of a problem, and Boulder forgot to clean the floor. He was lucky that Optimus assumed it was from one of his paintings.
Boulder and Graham were under strict orders to hide in the tunnels at all cost, Boulder's almost permanently foggy green optics being a dead giveaway on the science projects he was known to do on the weekends. Graham, at least, sobered up, helped by yesterday's hangover that he kicked just before last night's family dinner. At least he wouldn't sound like a total idiot if he had to play smart over the phone.
Kade was busy bashing some heads, the regular fire engine sitting in Heatwave's old spot.
Chase was on a quick patrol, and the helicopter couple were on their honeymoon in China. It was a not so subtle attempt for Optimus to poach them overseas. Charlie hated it but respected the underhandedness of it all.
It's almost something he would have come up with.
That wasn't a great sign for the future of the family business
Me, to my box of prismacolors: hey, I'm drawing Blades' Canon holoform. Can my variety of browns and grays produce a skin tone that doesn't look like trash?
Prismacolors: lol nope here's a slate gray mess.
Me: I'm going back to crayons.
I give them a solid ✨️I tried✨️
I saved him a little bit, but if anyone has some budget friendly recommendations for brands with good skin tone pencils, please reblog with them. I have so many characters I want to draw and color, but my current color range is not it.
This is supposed to be Dammit Janet! With Blades and Dani. Honestly, if I were to write the fic, I would have blades be Janet, but for the sake of the reference, I put Dani.
(If you guys want Dani as Rocky, please say so, that might be my next WIP 👀👀) @gelu-the-babosa-multiversal @kandicon
