Collet’s shoulder wing-plates wiggle a little at Valma’s chatter, her helm tilting slightly. She giggles a bit at the nonsensical comments. This femme is about as nutty as she is~ She motions to pick Valma up, though does not try to touch Valma just yet. She’s mostly just trying to gauge if the other will object to the action.
“Come now let me just carry you home.”
Her visor clicks down, her shoulder wing-plates rotating to point downwards as she tries to determine where she is. She hums a little reviewing the information that lights up the visor, it clicks back up after a moment. Her face plates twisted in confusing as she looks around again without the visor.
“How did I... Oh I suppose it doesn’t matter. I feel signals that way so I’m going to guess other bots are there”
She smiles turning to Valma again gesturing in the direction, focusing first on the bot that looks about ready to shut down any moment rather than the fact she had somehow crossed realities.
orpheus: what’s your favorite song or type of music? [Collet]
Collet hums a little tune swaying as she thinks of all the nice music she has heard in her long live.
“I don’t have one favorite! There is just too many songs and types of music to pick just one!!” She dances around humming happily, bleeding one song into the next from various genres.
Part of you is gripped by the fear that you’ll launch into something and completely mess it up. The upside of this is wise caution: people are indeed often too rash, whereas you know, by instinct, that holding back can save you. Probably, you feel shame and self-disgust a bit too much. But when you do feel in your element, you act with a wisdom and sensitivity never found in people with thicker skins.
PLAYFULNESS
You are good at seeing what’s funny, at relaxing and finding the pleasure of the moment. Play is random, whimsical, fantasy-driven behaviour which releases internal tension. Because it is detached from some pressures it allows you to act on weirder, perhaps neglected, parts of yourself. The downside is that it is no help in sticking with things that are not much fun but which need to be addressed. So it is well complemented by its opposite, Stoicism.
RESILIENCE
You have a tendency, after a setback, to turn your emotions towards restriving. What attracts you is the idea of wiping out a humiliation by resumed action – overcoming weakness, repressing your fear. Because part of your motive is pride, you can sometimes be unwilling to admit weakness or to receive aid. But at heart, tour insistence on coming back and never folding has taught you a valuable pessimism: you know that important journeys are never easy.
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❝Mayonnaise can be a powerful force in the universe.❞ [Guess whooooo wish wiiiish-]
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Collet nods sagely in agreement with the strange squishy seedling human. She glancing to the human’s companion, not sure who or what he is, before replying. She had been wandering around shifted down to human size, she liked to explore around at this scale from time to time.
“Oh yes definitely. While I might not gain sustenance from human foods they are so fun to play around with. Alexis used to let me help her in the kitchen with her lunches before she got to be a too busy adult. Mayo could make or break the entire meal!”
She laughs a little clapping her servos a bit. She loved spending quality time with each child once her plating was restored. It’s a shame they are all adults now. They really need to get together again.
N : NOBLE. would your muse sweep their partner off their feet? [Collet- All I can imagine is her just- picking up a small Unicron and going 'WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'-]
Collet pauses giggling a bit at the question, wondering if the strange little voice over commlink knows who her partner is before responding.
“Oh yes, I love doing that. Though he sweeps me off my peds much more frequently. We like to shake things up and annoy Primus~”
She giggles up a storm remembering the look in the Creation God’s face the last time she swept in at a larger size than Unicron and swept him up and away. She knew it was mostly because of the size difference, it annoyed the plates off the mech, but a part of it was she had decided to reclaim her husband for cuddles when the brothers were getting along for a change.
Collet’s optics flicker over the screen of her visor...
“A lot of chatter about parents again. I wonder if I would have been raised by parents instead of general caretakers if my systems would be less glitchy.”
She chuckles a little, shaking her helm
“On the bright side I had a lot of people I called ‘Mum’ much to some of the caretakers frustration~ Everyone even vaguely shaped like an adult was ‘Mum’, up to and including sparklings who happened to be tall”
“Collet you have to get off the ship it needs to jump soon.” Optimus voice is gentle but firm over the commlink.
Collet smiles softly at the noble leader of the Autobots, she quite likes the young leader and does not mind following his orders but...
“I understand that, one of the Minicons just needs a little reassurance to go into stasis then I will warp off.” Collet’s voice is almost melodious over the link, full of love for the tiny bots she cared for.
"Understood, be safe. You don't want to be on the ship when it jumps, over and out." Came the quick reply from the Autobots Leader, focus returned to the battle at servo with the reassurance the femme would be warping off the ship soon.
Collet turns her attention to the minicon in her servo, she was gently hugging the larger bot’s digis beeping soft declarations of wanting to stay by her mother’s side. Collet smiles softly at the sweet comments from her little one, her little Agarose. They had been working together for 5 million years now hoping to free the rest of the children from this war...
"Come now little, Agarose. Mother needs to rejoin the Autobots. You will be much safer far from here..."
Collet tries to put Agarose in the stasis device. Agarose wriggles free beeping indignantly, insisting she loves Collet to much to go off to some distant world as she climbs up to Collet's shoulder.
"Yes I love you too my child... it's not like we will never see each other right? Once we win the war I'll come find you." She looks to the rest of the Minicons, many of whom also looked sad at the prospect of leaving their Mother behind but understood this trip was the only way to ensure their future.
"All of you. And we will live in peace with the Autobots." Collet smiles to her children trying to reassure them this would not be the last they saw each other. Though she believed this truly would be the last she saw of her children, the Decepticons had been at war with the Autobots before the Minicons had arrived... their departure won’t be the end of the war... Perhaps nothing would--
Collet stumbles as something hits the ship, several of the Minicon crew beeping and messing with the controls. They were yelling something about the Decepticons, Collet had trouble keeping up with them until..
".... they are trying to destroy the... I should get off the ship. You all need to Jump, Now."
Collet tries to put Agarose down but she beeps angrily clinging to Collet's hand, demanding the Minicon’s Mother stay with them. Join them on the journey to whatever far off world they eventually found. Collet’s spark ached with the demands...
"Child I hav-"
The ship rocks nearly sending Collet to the ground as the Decepticons hit it again, determined to destroy the engines and prevent the Minicons from exiting this war. She makes a snap decision.
"... Slag. There's no time. Start the Jump! I'll figure a way back to Cybertron when you are all safe!"
The crew beep in agreement to their Mother’s new plan, putting all the ship’s energy into jumping. They launch through the first gate easily, if a little bumpy. The more gates they pass through the rougher the travel gets. Collet is kneeling, holding Agarose close as the Minicon freaks out at how rough the trip is. Around her the rest of the children rush to finish being put in stasis. Leaving only the Skeleton Crew, Agarose and Collet out of the protective form.
~*~*~
As they exit the final gate, Collet accidentally activates a link back to the Autobots, voice uncharacteristically loud and trembling as she shouts to her children.
"The ship's taken damage from the jum-... Pull up! Pull up! We are going to hi-"
The link goes dead as the Minicon ship hits the Earth’s moon, 1 million years of travel ending with a crash. Collet screams as the ship snaps in half, falling towards Earth. The children’s stasis forms scattering around her, as she is flung with Agarose out of the ship. All she can do is curl around the tiny minicon as they fall hard down to Earth. Her only thoughts of protecting the minicon from being damaged by the crash.
