Let Your Body Go with the Flow [prompt response - virtual - comm]
TFA Slipstream
[Slipstream is going stir crazy in the Autobot Medbay and thus is so bored she doesn't care whether or not it is appropriate to spam community subspace comm channels with personal ramblings. Her vocalizer, to those who have heard her before, is rasping more than usual, and occasionally glitching into a series of wordless clicks.]
//As some of you know, I had a - let's say I made an important scientific discovery at some personal cost. Weapons systems are functional as of now, but I am having a joyous little vacation in Autobot Medbay. So, ya know the consumables are quite satisfactory, I can watch all the soaps, and I get lots of artificial light. I have to say, though, the Autobots do seem to have the only medi-bot who is a flier working at their Medbay.\\
[There is even greater strain when she mentions her weapons systems, and she doesn't sounds as bitter or sarcastic about the medic, as she does about Medbay in general.]
//I was in bad shape for a while, and not in any state of consciousness that I care to explain in detail, but it gave me opportunity to think and to witness things I might not have otherwise. Sometimes, the path to wellbeing is opposite what you assumed. I know that sounds all fortune cookie - Don't say "...in the berth" - like in that Farscape episode, where they learned that to escape being trapped between dimensions they had to push forward, instead of reversing the way they had come. I'm just going to say it was like that. You don't want to push forward, because you think you'll get further stuck, or hurt more, but sometimes, I guess, it's the only way out, even if you leave a little piece behind. Little pieces grow back over time, or maybe, sometimes, we just learn to live without them.\\
//I guess that kinda applies to past relationships. Sometimes there's no "going back", or if there is, it's not going to make things better. Others are destroyed, or leave, or just "go in another direction", and you have to just move forward from there.\\
[Silence, possibly of the awkward variety.]
//But! I discovered - with some help - that the Autobot Medbay, being also previously a medbay sometimes before the present management arrived, had some old downloads in the reception area. I found a data pad with a download of what looks like a Cybertronian fashion magazine - or "lifestyle" magazine, if you like. It's called alt.Mode and it's got pictures of armor and custom deco and mods, and has a lot of reviews and articles about self-maintenance, protective coatings and restorative polishing compounds. I had no idea there were so many uses for powdered graphite!\\
//This is the kind of thing that we don't think about when we're "just weapons". When there's fighting, or sparkache, this kind of thing is all an afterthought. I know my creator wasn't thinking about teaching me how to achieve the healthiest sheen on my faceplate.\\
[Brief silence.]
//One of my tattoos isn't coming back. I don't know how self repair systems are programmed to deal with finish treatments and pigments. It was a little one someone did for me, and I don't see it coming back. It's like an afterthought, some little addition that doesn't affect function, but I liked it. Starscream, I need you to bring me my tattoo pen!\\
[She knows she is on an open comm, but she is making public demands of her tenant all the same.]
//When I'm repaired, I'm going to try all these cosmetic treatments I am reading about, and then I am going to go dancing! Maybe I'll even have a party! Because, when you move to the music is its own kind of wellbeing, it's like it can give you new life.\\
[ooc: The classic MTV performance of the music for the post.]
[Slipstream is going stir crazy in the Autobot Medbay and thus is so bored she doesn't care whether or not it is appropriate to spam community subspace comm channels with personal ramblings. Her vocalizer, to those who have heard her before, is rasping more than usual, and occasionally glitching into a series of wordless clicks.]
//As some of you know, I had a - let's say I made an important scientific discovery at some personal cost. Weapons systems are functional as of now, but I am having a joyous little vacation in Autobot Medbay. So, ya know the consumables are quite satisfactory, I can watch all the soaps, and I get lots of artificial light. I have to say, though, the Autobots do seem to have the only medi-bot who is a flier working at their Medbay.\\
[There is even greater strain when she mentions her weapons systems, and she doesn't sounds as bitter or sarcastic about the medic, as she does about Medbay in general.]
//I was in bad shape for a while, and not in any state of consciousness that I care to explain in detail, but it gave me opportunity to think and to witness things I might not have otherwise. Sometimes, the path to wellbeing is opposite what you assumed. I know that sounds all fortune cookie - Don't say "...in the berth" - like in that Farscape episode, where they learned that to escape being trapped between dimensions they had to push forward, instead of reversing the way they had come. I'm just going to say it was like that. You don't want to push forward, because you think you'll get further stuck, or hurt more, but sometimes, I guess, it's the only way out, even if you leave a little piece behind. Little pieces grow back over time, or maybe, sometimes, we just learn to live without them.\\
//I guess that kinda applies to past relationships. Sometimes there's no "going back", or if there is, it's not going to make things better. Others are destroyed, or leave, or just "go in another direction", and you have to just move forward from there.\\
[Silence, possibly of the awkward variety.]
//But! I discovered - with some help - that the Autobot Medbay, being also previously a medbay sometimes before the present management arrived, had some old downloads in the reception area. I found a data pad with a download of what looks like a Cybertronian fashion magazine - or "lifestyle" magazine, if you like. It's called alt.Mode and it's got pictures of armor and custom deco and mods, and has a lot of reviews and articles about self-maintenance, protective coatings and restorative polishing compounds. I had no idea there were so many uses for powdered graphite!\\
//This is the kind of thing that we don't think about when we're "just weapons". When there's fighting, or sparkache, this kind of thing is all an afterthought. I know my creator wasn't thinking about teaching me how to achieve the healthiest sheen on my faceplate.\\
[Brief silence.]
//One of my tattoos isn't coming back. I don't know how self repair systems are programmed to deal with finish treatments and pigments. It was a little one someone did for me, and I don't see it coming back. It's like an afterthought, some little addition that doesn't affect function, but I liked it. Starscream, I need you to bring me my tattoo pen!\\
[She knows she is on an open comm, but she is making public demands of her tenant all the same.]
//When I'm repaired, I'm going to try all these cosmetic treatments I am reading about, and then I am going to go dancing! Maybe I'll even have a party! Because, when you move to the music is its own kind of wellbeing, it's like it can give you new life.\\
[ooc: The classic MTV performance of the music for the post.]