#trickscans

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canon transformers stuff keeps making me sad lately, and the real world is too sad already for that to be very fun at all for me, so I'm thinking I'm going to dust off my tf OCs and just write some self-indulgent happy garbage maybe the fighting only just finally stopped and the husbands are going on a vacation together. they're celebrating the end of the war even though their faction lost, because if the Autobots aren't going to cart them all off to be executed or anything then they're going to get right to work building the rest of their lives together. If peace is really happening they're going to make the most of it maybe that one really cheerful friendly guy isn't really gone. surprise surprise he may be a coward but he's got a strong spark and a will to survive, he pulled through after the supposedly fatal crash and got patched up by one of those 'I don't care who you are i'm just trying to save everyone I can' types. defected immediately once he realized nobody would be chasing him down for it if they thought he was already dead. Finally opened up that bar he wanted out in a well-defended neutral system with an organic majority, lots of people there don't trust cybertronians but he's on his best behavior and even they can see that he's really not going to be a threat. He doesn't leave when the message comes that the fighting is stopped and everyone can go back to Cybertron. Yeah he misses his trinemates and worries how they're doing all the time, he misses Cybertron too. But this is the kind of life he wanted, meeting all sorts of interesting people and not having to kill any of them, doing something he actually enjoys. he's happy now, and frankly a little terrified that the war being over is too good to be true. But suddenly cybertronians of all sorts are a little more common around here, passing through on their trips back home. he owns one of the only bars that serves them in this system so he gets a lot of business, and a couple very familiar faces just walked through the door. there's some disbelief and confusion and maybe a flash of anger or two, but it ends in a lot of smiles and a long group hug that feels more like coming home than going back to cybertron ever could listen I just want cybertronians to be happy and safe ok. and I want decepticons who maybe aren't thrilled to have lost, but are still glad to take the chance to do something else with their lives. decepticons who aren't complete monsters, or who at least don't want to be ever again

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Scanner: I've been dropping subtle hints that I like him.

*walks over to Trickshot*

Scanner: I can't stand you.

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Scans: get fucked

Trick: is that an offer???

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I need to write something with human Scanner and mer Trickshot because it’s great and i love it so much

Imagine Scanner doesn’t know how to swim so he gets a little tiny row boat (so he can’t accidentally hurt Trick with a motor) and is always in a bright orange life jacket once he starts visiting more regularly. And Trickshot doesn’t understand what the life jacket is (he’s spending more time near the shore now because of Scans, and doesn’t have much prior experience with humans) so he’s like “Is the human putting on a bright display to woo me? Is that what humans do? He keeps bringing the thing but never does anything with it, so maybe I’m supposed to respond? I’ll go get one of my own!” And then Trickshot just starts causing trouble for the other people living there because he keeps trying to steal life jackets and arm floaties and other brightly colored things from people. So everyone’s freaked out because there’s this terrifying feral mer attacking people at the beach, trying to claw at them and stuff! But really Trickshot is just trying to be the Best Fish Boyfriend.

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Look at where you are. Look at where you started. The fact that you’re alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.

Trickshot, to Scanner

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Imagine Trickshot fawning over Scanner’s tiny hands. Always holding them and playing with his little fingers and giving him little kisses on his palms.

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Scanner is like… A super-portable telecoms system. He’s extra small, you know why? Because he has clamps so he can be worn like a pack and can be carried around and attached to things. Some of his functions would still work even if he was dead (as long as you can hook his body up to some electricity), so even if the tiny guy got himself killed, he’d just revert to his alt mode and people could still use him as a portable communicator.

Which is part of why he hates his alt mode so much, because he’s worth more to everyone as a communication’s terminal than he is as a soldier or a person. So once he’s no longer going out on the battlefield at all (which btw was his Act of Devotion in he and Trickshot’s Conjunx Ritus, giving up the opportunity to prove himself as a worthy Decepticon on the battlefield so that Trickshot wouldn’t have to worry himself sick every time Scans went to fight), he becomes a monoformer. Gets rid of his T-cog, most of his kibble, all that.

He really worries that changing his appearance and loosing the ability to transform might upset Trickshot, so it takes I’m a while to bring it up. Trick’s a little surprised at first, but he’s 100% supportive of Scanner being whoever it is he wants to be and making choices that let him be comfortable in his own frame.

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Things about when Trick and Scans argue:

Scanner throws things. Anything that’s on hand, he’ll probably throw it. What with Trickshot always wearing his visor, aiming for the face is fair game.

Trickshot’s the most likely to get tired of a face-to-face argument and walk out. He doesn’t like to take responsibility, and isn’t nearly as direct in his problem-solving as Scans is, so he just leaves and refuses to participate sometimes.

Scanner regularly wishes injury/death upon Trickshot in their arguments, but he doesn’t really mean it. He’ll say he hopes Trickshot drives off a cliff or gets shot in the face or blows himself up, but he’d be absolutely devastated if something actually happened to Trick after he said those sorts of things.

Trickshot will snap at other people more than he actually snaps at Scanner when they’re having a spat. He gets very sarcastic and spiteful, even with his friends. It makes him feel a bit horrible inside, which only makes him more likely to be rude to other people for the duration of the argument.