The war had ended some time ago, and while the Autobots called themselves benevolent, they still hunted down and erased the Decepticons that would not conform to their society or were deemed to be too big of a threat to let live.
Thundercracker, though, was lucky--if you could call it that. He’d never made himself well known to the enemy, he’d hidden and done his work as ordered without much resistance, even if he did question some of the things he was doing in his own mind. Better to get things over with and survive than be killed off for something as small as asking questions.
With the war over, though, he’d stripped himself of his branding at the soonest possibility and slipped into the society the winning faction had built as best he could. He just wanted to live the life the Gladiator Arena and War had tried so hard to deny him time and time again.
He’d found himself work, shelter, and a niche in the system. What time he had to himself, he used it to explore the things he’d never before experienced. That’s how Thundercracker found himself in a club of all places.
It wasn’t his normal scene, not a place he was inherently comfortable in, but he’d been curious about some voices on the street he’d heard talking about how...inviting some of the dancers appeared to them. And though he tried to deny it time and time again, he was a mech of instinct and curiosity, so he’d come here purely on a whim.