on his app to Changed!

[bodyguard]

So you went with me instead.

I'm sorta hedging (ha ha!) between grateful and lousy, I got people who'll be there and I won't remember even the guys nearest and spark dearest. I've heard about fae-ning amnesia but I'm sure you're bein' unreasonable.

And having me remember caste first, 'stead'a Knock Out? Are your sensors on the fritz? He's ... y'know. Kinda important. And so is Screamer - what, you couldn't let me remember either of them first?

I usually don't say this, but you should lemme do the thinking for us, squishy.

And stop pushing me at that Wrecker. I don't even know the guy.

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[automobile_enthusiast]

If it makes you feel any better, I don't get to remember you, either.

...Not yet, anyway, and I would so hate to have to get impatient about getting this particular aspect of my amnesia cleared up. [YOU GOT THAT, MUN?]

[bodyguard]

That makes me feel wors--[ BABY HE'S FIXING IT. Let the doctor negotiate. ] Right, yeah. I mean neither of them are gonna. Keep us apart when we're right next to each other, forever. Not after everything we've been through to get here.

Y'know.

Death. Other universes. Weird organic bits on you. Headfur.

On you.

[automobile_enthusiast]

[Heaves an overdramatic sigh.] Mm, that's true enough, I suppose. They do seem rather attached to us being, well, attached. I'm sure we can--

Oh, just because you got off light when it came to the-- [Finger-wiggle.] Changes.

[He runs a hand over the contours of his helm, perhaps just a little bit anxiously.] She's promised me it's going to be lustrous, at least. Hopefully it won't be too unpleasant. [But he shudders anyway, because let's be real here, he's getting... organicified. To an extent. There's no way it's not going to be unpleasant, even if he won't be able to remember how he's supposed to be.]

[bodyguard]

There's no talkin to mine, she's still pretty sure "life finds a way", whatever that means.

I'm losing my hammers! ...and my alt. [ Well, so is Knock Out. ] You're right, yours is-...uh, little more disadvantaging.

[ Reads that tone effortlessly. ] Hey, but don't worry. I'll still be around for you, and you're gettin a real good leg up in the power department, so maybe you won't even need to worry about having soft parts.

And you'll always be my partner.

[automobile_enthusiast]

Sounds like drivel to me, but she is only human.

That's right. [Sorry, Breakdown, he's a little huffy about all of this.] We'll find you some hammers. It's just a shame alts aren't going to be as easy to come by as that.

[He manages a smile.] Mm. They can't take that away from us, no matter how much they might want to try.

We'll figure out a way to cope. Somehow. Don't we always~?

[bodyguard]

Yeah...

Hey, you're gonna be the one with the fightboost, you might not even need me for hammers.

And. Starscream's gonna be a ..bird. [ About that. He sounds a little dubious regarding how useful it'll be, but it's not like the war continues in Arcadia. ] So I guess he'll be okay as long as he gets to fly around? And whatever birds do that isn't... that.

[ AKA the only thing he really knows birds do.

He brightens, going to sit down next to Knock Out, encouraged, enthusiastic. ] And there'll be plenty to do.

You can teach me how to brush head-fur. [ #priorities #breakdown priorities ]

[automobile_enthusiast]

Just because I won't need you for hammers doesn't mean I won't want you for hammers, you know. [Huff.]

[Give him credit, he doesn't laugh, although the temptation to snicker a little meanly is there.] Oh, I'm sure the good commander will find his own ways to cope. Certainly he's going to be better off than we are, at least in some respects. [His engine gives a little rev and the tires mounted over his shoulders spin desultorily. At least he'll still get to fly.]

Mm, think you'll even have time for it? It sounds like they're going to keep you busy doing my job~. [He scoots a little closer to Breakdown, seeking the closeness even as he's being acerbic.]

[break_the_sky]

It is not. Screamer.

[ ...with that out of the way though ] They do seem to be avoiding having us remember personal relationships first. Something about 'seeing how things develop organically'.

[bodyguard]

[ But it's still a fowl temper. ] Sorry.

Oh, you're not remembering us first, either? What've you--t-cog? Oh, come on!

So all three of us are gonna be walkin around completely oblivious? I'm so mad I'm not even gonna get to be mad!

[break_the_sky]

[ Now don't YOU start trying to ruffle his feathers. ]

Arguably, the knowledge that I... should not be what I now am. [ He folds his hands behind his back, slightly discomfited and trying not to show it. ] But you're correct-- Useful memories will come more slowly to us all. Though I assume we will all be dissatisfied with our servitude swiftly enough.

[bodyguard]

[ Are you gonna make him egret it? ]

...hmph. Guess that's more helpful than I thought, but. [ He looks Starscream up and down, trying to picture him as an avian. ] Dissatisfied? Knock Out says his organic form's gonna be cute, but I can't picture a full organic suit being...

[ Don't do it Breakdown. ]

...beakoming.

[break_the_sky]

[ Keep egging him on and you'll make him really soar. ]

Well, it-- [ Wait. Okay now he's half disbelieving and half affronted. ] Breakdown!

[bodyguard]

[ GOD he needs to learn how to peck his fights from heron out ]

Sorry! Lord. ..C..commander. What-... [ What is even the timeline ] --Sir.

Scrap.

[jackhammered]

What is it with muns and trying to get cons and bots together? I swear to primus, if you're talking about me -

[ Beat. ]

It's me, isn't it.

[bodyguard]

...yeah.

I'd lie, but we both know the only alternative is Bulkhead.

Seems like they think we should just kiss and make up after a few hundred thousand fights.

For a bot, you know how to pick an alt, though.

[ damn them wheels are fine son ]

[jackhammered]

Even they wouldn't be able to shmooze you into knocking back some energon with Bulkhead. Some feuds just aren't going away that easy.

[ he's not really one for preening but ]

Hey, if you've gotta roll, might as well roll nice.

[bodyguard]

If his was poisoned I'd think about it, you're right about that.

[ Bedroom face tho. ]

...think so? You, uh. Ever consider something with wings? [ Just to see if this convo can get more awk. For science. ]

[jackhammered]

In case you hadn't noticed, Autobots and flight modes don't jive so well. [ Then again, he is talking to a con with a vehicle mode.

He shrugs.] If I need to fly I got the Jackhammer.

[bodyguard]

Always preferred a land mode myself. [ Some simple pride going on there, since both he and Knock Out picked unpopular modes for their faction, but even so, they're bangin' as far as price-range and prestige goes. ]

...Did you name it..?

[shatterbrained]

[ NO WORDS

HE'S JUST SPENDING LIKE A FULL MINUTE CLAPPING AND GIGGLING REALLY DELIGHTEDLY AT THE PUNS ]

[bodyguard]

[ OH HEY HE'S GOTTA FAN ] Thanks. I'll ...be here all week, I guess. Or all eternity.

You gotta be a Con, Bots got no sense of humor.

[shatterbrained]

[ ok he calms down after a bit and face-swaps back to blue ]

Jour assessment is correct. On both fronts. [ seems like all autobots are severely lacking in humor. universal constant! ] Und at least jou vill haff zhose jou know - or do not know, as it turns out! Zhat is a small blessing, or so I am told. [ honestly if lugnut showed up he'd be solid but that's about it

he. he doesn't have many friends. ]

[bodyguard]

You not big into the cons-across-universes-are-family thing?

We don't get many defectors. [ They are usually murdered. ]

But we're pretty close. At least as close as Optimus and his runts.

[shatterbrained]

Vell, technically I am crazy und treated as such! At least in my own universe. [ watch him flip through faces for a lil bit ] Havink a split processor is not vezzy conductive to making friendships, jou see! But I don't mind, zhough I occasionally wish for better conversation. Zhere's only so much jou can discuss vith jourselves!

[ he swings from stoic to manic on, seemingly, a whim, though there's an emotional pattern to the change. It's not as unpredictable as it seems. ]

[bodyguard]

So are they all you, do you share the same memory cache, or do you wanna be treated like three different people? [ A curious squint. ] I don't think I ever met anybody like you before.