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SO APPARENTLY I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THIS...SOMEHOW? I'm so, so sorry. If I could get backdating to work without glitching on me horribly I would definitely be doing that, but I can't, it hates me. It hates formatting. It hates everything. I'm sorry.
( The dangers of manga and anime, illustrated. )
( The dangers of manga and anime, illustrated. )
Anime things! :D I hear about them all the time, but I am woefully ignorant. Someday I will watch All The Things *nods*
Hm, how about some Slingshot?
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IT WILL NEVER LET YOU GO.
And Slingshot it is!
Slingshot
(a) three facts about them from my personal canon
1. He names every single gun that passes through his hands, even just one he picks up off the ground during an emergency. The only people who know this are the other Aerialbots (for obvious reasons) but even they don't quite know what the names are. He never actually says them out loud. These names are pretty much the only way to reliably chronicle Slingshot's growth in maturity and experience, as he tends to change them with every upgrade and occasionally he gets a new one or swaps one out. They tend to reflect his mindset at the time and have grown more subdued the older he's gotten ( ... )
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*happy sigh* I do love your character...whatsits. Character studies? Anyway, always so many fun amazing insights and details. <3
Slingshot names his guns! Hee! And the jerk part, yeah, even if you know where and why the behavior comes from, there's only so much you can take. I think I have trouble writing Slingshot as obnoxiously as he should be, because it makes me sad - the best I can do is allude to previous jerkish behavior that he's overcome since. *pins Slingshot down and snuggles him thoroughly*
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I like to think he matures out of it, too. I don't think I could write him as obnoxious as his bio says he can be, either. I'd be getting second-hand mortification all over the place.
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1. There's not enough lift beneath his wings, which throws him for a few precious moments when he leaves the cold, dead metal ground for the first time in his life before he adjusts to conditions the form he mimics hadn't expected.
Flying is easy, automatic, even with the four others flitting close beside him, but the world outside that room, the first room, is filled with light, fire, sound all around him, and it's (beautiful? frightening? exciting? worrying?) confusing.
They don't know what to do, so they plunge ahead because it's all they can do. Slingshot doesn't know who gets hit first, where the pain comes from. Maybe it's him. All he hears is ("I think I'm...Silverbolt?" "Climb on!") shout in terror, a responding cry from his left ("Who are you?" "Oh, right, I'm Fireflight!") and-
"Let them think for themselves-" ("And I'm Air Raid!") "To grow in knowledge and wisdom-" ("I'm Skydive.") "to always value life-" ("Used to be a speed shuttle!") "freedom-" ("Somebody say ( ... )
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Heh, Slingshot the leader though, hmmm. It never happened, but it maybe sure could've.
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There is still a chance Silverbolt coaxes them back to the Autobots! Just...not the way it happened in the show. Or that Silverbolt takes over anyway if only because he gets Skydive on his side eventually (when he stops trying to manipulate them (read: Slingshot) with talk about going back and taking over an army with significantly more experience than all of them because that is not strategically sound thinking, Silverbolt).
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Slingshot feels his face make the same expression he'd pulled seeing that human television program and he turns away without saying a word. "You guys comin'," he calls over his shoulder to the other Aerialbots, ignoring Silverbolt's stiff look of stunned disapproval. He hadn't seen anyone else out there saving Silverbolt's rear. Definitely none of these guys on the ground.
He can deal with protecting these Autobots if he's gotta, but he's not one of them. He's an Aerialbot. He doesn't have to make nice.
5. The Aerialbots are a blend of two of the most effective weapons at Decepticon disposal. The strength to rend cities to rubble in minutes, enough of a threat to warrant a large response from Optimus and his lackies, pulling them from their tunnels and their hideaways among the nooks and crannies like vermin, and a skill in the air gleaned from learning under the most ( ... )
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Yikes, Aerials on the Decepticon side O_O
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