#killmaster x whirl

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PLEASE TELL ME THIS IDEA ENDS WITH CYGATE HAPPINESS BUT ALSO KILLMASTER/WHIRL BECAUSE I HATE MYSELF FOR SHIPPING IT BUT I DO

YES! Cygate happiness is extremely important! Especially if combined with, okay. So when they reunite, things are going to be emotionally Complicated, because Tailgate drove him away to protect him, but also hurt him a lot in the process, and then it turns out that if he hadn’t done that thing he wouldn’t have been trapped, maybe there were other ways around this, etc. And Cyclonus has been very thoroughly rejected, down to Tailgate trying to return his innermost energon and him sitting on their corpse ship marking up his own face. As upset as he was, Cyclonus was very delicate about not demanding things from Tailgate. No ‘let me stay with you’, but ‘I don’t want to leave you.’ Statements of emotions rather than requests, which is a subtle but important distinction. Meanwhile, Tailgate is aware of just how much he fucked up Cyclonus.

So when Tailgate shows back up with a new friend.... well........ Tailgate shouldn’t really be the one approaching Cyclonus, not when he just hurt him so badly, right? Or is it that Cyclonus shouldn’t be approaching Tailgate because it would be pressuring him after Tailgate very firmly told him no? Whoops, it’s a stalemate where this is a dynamic where I am honestly T H E R E for romantic ‘oh no he found someone else I will step aside and let them be happy’ tropes. But! Cygate is an unstoppable force of love and even if they’re slow to be willing to reach out to each other again, it’s going to happen. Especially since their hearts start pulling them into orbit around each other again almost right away, never mind that each of them is trying to give the other his space.

And! From that point. We have that electric, passionate Whirl+Killmaster dynamic out there again, and oh my GOODNESS do I ship it. If Tailgate and Killmaster do bond, then there’s a little bit of a buffer in the middle there, where Whirl has been trying to take care of Cyclonus, and Killmaster would be trying to support Tailgate, but once the cygate resolves, they’re free to go for broke, baby! But! From the opposite direction, Cyclonus doesn’t want Whirl getting hurt, and Tailgate doesn’t want Killmaster (or Whirl) getting hurt, and each of them has some leverage to lean on one of the prospective combatants and get them to chill out. 

Plus, once things are calm, I am dead curious about whether Whirl remembers the things Megatron said about him never getting a real fight through the whole war, and how that plays into his interactions with Killmaster. And Killmaster might be able to fight like whoa, but he’s also crazy smart, and I want to see what he’s like when he slows down enough to have a conversation. AND!! Both of them are creative types, where they have different areas of specialty, but they both make delicate, sophisticated mechanical devices. I want bonding, I want potential collaboration for reasons of [plot], and I want whatever sloppy alien makeouts are like when one person is missing a mouth and the other one is made of spikes.

(if the scavengers are there, please, please let them try to give anybody who needs it romantic advice. i need more of the mtmte revolution type content. one issue was not enough)

[spockandawe]

Killmaster and Whirl, best nemeses 5ever. Any thoughts?

My thoughts are that they are the BEST best nemeses!!!!

Okay, consider how Megatron had a standing order that NOBODY is allowed to kill Whirl. And he rubs in Whirl’s face that Whirl never had a for-real fight in the whole war.

Now, given that killing Whirl, even by accident, was going to end….. badly, it’s extra interesting that Whirl would have a straight-up dedicated NEMESIS, who calls him nemesis, and oh my god they need to be pitch boyfriends and make out except not actually because we have one (1) mouth in the equation and it isn’t a very kiss-friendly mouth.

So Killmaster is a POWERFUL guy. He was ranked right up there with the eventual phase sixers for a while, and he’s not just a bruiser, he’s got mad science skills on top of that. Ratchet lists him off as one of the big names who’s threatened him before, and his tech was used for one of the most overpowered weapons the galactic council uses. He broke the space-time continuum, and he beat Brainstorm to it by a significant margin. He does POCKET DIMENSIONS. He’s crazy durable, if Whirl was never once able to beat him, and he’s also crazy smart. He’s a beautiful bayverse-looking baby who has EVERYTHING going for him and it’s amazing.

And fighting Whirl. Killmaster isn’t allowed to kill Whirl (unless he decides fuq da police, and he’s high enough up there that he could have plausibly decided to screw Megatron and kill the guy). Whirl isn’t able to kill Killmaster. They both survived long enough to become dedicated nemeses, and they KEPT surviving. It’s!!! Adorable!!! Letting that connection happen when it would have been easier for Killmaster to just go off wherever and ignore the guy unless you had to brush him off. And he didn’t! Nemeses! He calls Whirl nemesis directly!!!

Oh my god, it’s so cute.

And depending on the brains situation and depending how Killmaster feels about Megatron’s addition to Towards Peace, maaaaaybe maybe maybe Killmaster will decide that it is smart to not-fight the LL crew, and that it’s also smart to work WITH them. Make him and Whirl best hatefriends! Like Cyclonus! Hatefriends who accidentally trip into for-real friendship because what are friendships how do.

I am DYING that we don’t know enough about Killmaster to accurately predict where things are about to go, but there are sooo so so many adorable ways for this to play out and I want them ALL. All at once. Multiple dimensions of cute. Killmaster is my new favorite and I need lots of him for the rest of forever, k thx.