ROOOOOBOT PROOOOM

[rodders]

Who: ALL ROBOTS.
Where: THE FORUM
When: RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
What: ROBOT PROM
Warnings: teenagers making out, galvatron doing his thing, a throwdown between first aid and tarn over sixshot. usual prom shit.


ROBOT PROM

the punch has been spiked, the music is whatever they could scrape together, and there’s bleachers to make out behind. takes place OUTSIDE in the forum so there's plenty of space and people can easily crash it.

prom king is optimus prime, prom queen is pipes.

please behave as irresponsibly as you would at real prom.

comment around, mingle, you all know the drill.

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[fuckinstoplights]

He shakes his head, and stays put right behind the smaller bot.

"I can fly. I don't need things off shelves."

[planate]

"Really?"

Fliers are too cool, he puts aside anything else for this. It's very important.

"I didn't realise you were a flier!"

[fuckinstoplights]

"Yes."

Psh, Pipes, no. He's not important. He's like the opposite of important. All the same, he lifts his wings, flicking them a bit.

"See?"

[planate]

"Ooh! Do you have a flying alt-mode or just the wings?"

He's never seen anyone fly with just wings before.

[fuckinstoplights]

"I have a bird mode. And a car mode. The bird is the one that flies."

That last part he adds, in an effort to be helpful.

[planate]

"I have no idea what a bird is."

Some type of jet??

[fuckinstoplights]

"Ah..."

He muses for a moment. If Pipes ends up being dangerous at all, he could fly just as easily in his bird mode as he can now. In the end, he transforms, staring mildly up at the minibot.

[planate]

"Oh!" he practically squeals. "That's so cool!"

[fuckinstoplights]

"I... it what?"

He does not understand this, Pipes.

[planate]

"I've never seen anything like it!"

He cautiously reaches out to... tap the edge of that beak.

[fuckinstoplights]

His head pulls back a bit, mostly in surprise.

"You don't have an animal mode?"

[planate]

"Nope!"

He transforms into his weird little truck altmode, seeing as it's not much of a deal for him.

"Just this one."

[fuckinstoplights]

"... What are you?"

Curiosity overcomes fear, apparently, and the bird hops over a few paces, tilting his head at the space alien truck.

[planate]

"Just a basic truck!" he sounds awfully excited about the fact. "Nothing fancy, I was just a maintenance bot."

[fuckinstoplights]

He looks skeptical, despite Pipes' enthusiasm, reaching out to prod the truck with a foot in curiosity.

"A maintenance bot... you were allowed to do that?"

[planate]

"I was built for it."

Ahh, functionism.

[fuckinstoplights]

"Built for it...?" His head tilts back and forth, body shifting. "That's your purpose?"

No, Kagerou, it's different.

[planate]

"It was."

Kinda. He still did maintenance during the war. Wow that's depressing.

[fuckinstoplights]

"Was..."

Another head tilt. His feet shuffle. "What is it now?"

[planate]

"Right now? I'm not all sure. I have to figure that out."

He shrugs. End of war and all that.

"What about you?"

[fuckinstoplights]

"I... I don't know either."

His shoulders hunch, and he seems to pull in further on himself.

"... I don't have a purpose anymore."

[planate]

"That's not a bad thing! That means you can do whatever you want!"

He claps his hands together.

"No more fixing broken water pipes for me!"

[fuckinstoplights]

"No, I can't."

He shrugs, folding his arms again. What he wants isn't here. So how can he?

"... Is that why you're called Pipes?"

[planate]

"There's nothing stopping you, right?"

He shrugs. There's no way for him to know about Shadowmaru.

"That's right!" Pipes laughs, "That and the pipes on my arms!"

[fuckinstoplights]

"He isn't here. My purpose."

Wellp. There it is. The big purple dog in the room.

"Oh." And he reaches over, with zero concept of personal space to... touch those pipes, curious.