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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2023 3:33:51 GMT
Characters Appearing: @cobalt , Open Location (s): Outside GHOST HQ Timeline: February 14th Plot Summary: Cobalt decides to decorate GHOST HQ's entrance for Valentine's Day.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2023 3:35:01 GMT
While Cobalt usually avoided GHOST HQ like it was the cybonic plague, today she felt it was important. After all, it was Valentine’s Day, the celebration of love; something that she tried her best to spread with silly jokes and one-liners. Whether they worked, she didn’t know, but that didn’t matter. What did, however, was what she was about to do.
The femme waltzed out to the main entrance, humming a tune. Splotches of pink and red stood out against her blue paint- Stickers which she had carefully placed on her frame that morning. In her servos, she held several bundles of pink, red and white streamers.
With a somewhat careless speed, Cobalt began to string up the array of streamers all around the doorway.
"Oooh, this is gonna look so gentlemanly when I’m done..."
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Post by Clematis on Feb 19, 2023 1:51:15 GMT
Clematis dreaded the thought of going to GHOST HQ today..
Ever since the jailbreak, things had been a little tense between Clematis and GHOST. Naturally there was reason to believe that she had been in cahoots with Nightshroud given their relationship, and it had taken a lot of convincing to prove otherwise. She truly believed that Nightshroud just wanted to visit Starscream and nothing more. She really believed that she wasn't there to start something, and it all backfired in the end when her twin betrayed her trust. For almost a month Clematis wasn't allowed to set foot in GHOST HQ for precautionary reasons without supervision. It certainly made making medicine deliveries difficult, but there had been workarounds to make sure that could still be arranged. Now that that time had passed, she was finally allowed to freely enter the headquarters again but with limitations.
She could not go to the holding area without an escort, though why would she want to go there? Nightshroud had escaped along with Starscream, as well as other Decepticons.
Today had been another medicine drop-off day as Clematis stepped inside with a large crate in her servos. In fact, she'd just barely caught the other bot in time before nearly bumping into them with said crate. "Oops. Sorry.. Not used to seeing bots here in the entryway."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2023 8:23:57 GMT
The other’s words go in one audial receptor and out the other; Cobalt is too invested in getting the perfect positioning for a particularly stubborn streamer. It takes longer than one would expect, but she does it, eventually. Satisfied with her work, she turns on her heel struts to fetch more supplies- Only to be stunned by Clematis. “Oh! Scrap, when did you... Sorry, I’m a lil busy with these right now, so I didn’t hear you.” She gestures to the decorations above (which are fairly close to just flopping right onto the ground, she didn’t do the greatest job hanging them). She takes a few moments before responding; one to criticise herself for being so ungentlemanly, and one to try and recall what the other bot said. “Ah, it’s no worries, I get it. I don’t see many bots around here either. Except for the Big Man and Old Buckethead, but at this point they’re here so often, it’s like, whatever! I mean, not that they’re whatever, like… Slag, nevermind.” It’s at this point that Cobalt notices the crates that Clematis is carrying. Her optics seem to sparkle at the opportunity to help someone. “What’s that you’re carrying? It looks heavy. Do you need to take it somewhere? I can take you there! Or I can tell you where to go, and you can head there by yourself if you’re more of the loner type. I promise I won’t be offended. Ooh, or I can take it there for you!”
The words fall out of her intake a little faster than she’d like, but it’s not like she can take them back now. She looks at the other with a wide grin, eagerly awaiting a response.
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Post by Clematis on Feb 26, 2023 2:29:32 GMT
It seemed that the other bot was just as startled as Clematis was when they finally noticed her, the azure and lilac femme jumping back a bit while holding onto the crate just a little bit tighter at first in surprise. It was funny how they'd managed to catch each other off guard, but the femme wasn't upset about it in the least.
"It's alright. It looks like you were busy for sure." Clematis looked to the decorations that were hanging around the entrance of the base, some of which looked just about ready to fall at a moment's notice. Streams of red, pink and white where hung around for all to see and it was a quick reminder for the femme that today was a human holiday once more: Valentine's Day. While she didn't have a romantic partner or anything, she knew that today was a day humans exchanged lots of candy and roses; the latter of which being the femme's favorite part of the holiday. It seemed like a lot of Earth holidays had traditions involving flowers now that she thought about it. Valentine's Day had the roses and Christmas had the poinsettias, and there was something called an Easter Lily as well. Strange, but nice.
Either way it didn't seem like this other bot minded her presence and was curious as to just what the femme was carrying with her. With as smile, Clematis shook her helm. "It's alright. It's not terribly heavy, but I just have to take it down to the infirmary. I make a lot of medicine, armor wax and such. I bring some of my wares here under contract so it can be used to heal Autobots here." And Decepticons, but she didn't want to get into that subject at the moment. "I'd love to walk and talk, but only if you don't mind of course. I understand if you're busy with your work here but then again.. you did offer to take it for me."
Now she was the one rambling. "Oh! I never introduced myself. My name's Clematis. What's yours?"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2023 2:02:43 GMT
“Oh, cool! I heard about someone bringin’ over medical stuff, but I never got to say hi. They always put me on patrols, so I’m out doing those all the time- It’s super not gentlemanly, but I kinda have to do it or they take my hammers away...”
Walking and talking? Cobalt loved doing those! And she was good at them, too (she hoped).
“Sounds good to me! I’m pretty much done with my stuff here, so I can bring it all along and decorate the infirmary. I was plannin’ to- Well, I wasn’t really planning, I sorta just had the image in my processor, but I wanted to deck out pretty much everywhere around H.Q. There’s not really anythin’ colourful around except for those pamphlet things the humans like to make, and those are like, super poorly designed in their colour palettes, ya know? So, obviously, I had to give it the ol’ gentleman’s touch.” She states this last part with a gesture to herself, the ultimate (and most likely only?) gentlemanly bot around.
She scrambles all of her streamers in a big ball of paper, gripping it tightly so as to not let it fall to the ground. ”Clematis, huh? That’s a pretty name. Mine’s Cobalt! It’s a pleasure to meet you, Docbot.”
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Post by Clematis on Mar 15, 2023 10:50:52 GMT
It seemed this other bot was up for the walking and talking deal, and they had just finished up decorating the entrance. It amused Clematis somewhat to hear that the infirmary was next on their agenda and mental image of Ratchet or another medic walking in to be pelted by Valentines Day decorations brought out a small giggle. Of course it wouldn't be overly decorated to that degree, or at least she hoped it would be, but it was a funny thought nonetheless. Though she had to stop and think about those pamphlets that she'd been talking about. Had she meant the little cards that said cheesy pick-up lines and the like?
Cobalt then introduced herself, and Clematis looked to her in surprise. "W-what? Oh no no no I'm not a doctor. I mean I'm a medic yeah but I primarily just help make medicine and help develop new kinds of medicine as well. I'm learning all about first aid and care though, but I help run a pharmacy in Autobot City." The azure and lilac femme chuckled nervously, smiling as she started walking toward the infirmary. "And thanks. It derives from 'clemency', but if I'd known there was a flower on this planet called clematis I would've said that was my namesake this whole time." It was weird yet funny when things worked out that way.
"Either way it's nice to meet you too, Cobalt. So what all do you do aside from decorations?" The femme hoped she wasn't being too rude with her question, but she figured it was fair to ask since Cobalt already knew she was a medic of sorts. Still there was nothing wrong with idle chit chat as they made their way through GHOST HQ.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2023 0:55:18 GMT
Cobalt nodded along to the other femme’s words without a second thought. She didn’t actually know what “clemency” or “clematis” was… But they sounded cool, and this bot appeared very cool, so she felt that it wouldn’t be wrong go along with it.
Her grin briefly fell at Clematis’ question. It wasn’t a bad question, per se- In fact, it was probably in her top 15 conversation starters, now that she thought about it… It was just the answer was ever so boring. GHOST always assigned the exciting things, (capturing Decepticons and talking to the new recruits) to her superiors, leaving her stuck with the scraps (routine patrols and prisoner checkups).
“They give all the cool stuff to Buckethead and the Big Man and the other important bots, so… Not that much. It’s pretty ungentlemanly of them, really, but they are the bosses, so I guess it makes sense.” She said with a soft sigh.
It’s at this point Cobalt realises something, and she straightens her posture a little.
“You know, they get me to do prisoner checkups sometimes, but they haven’t asked me to do that for a while. They probably explained why, but I think I was zoning out because it was a lot of words and stuff at once, and my processor just isn't built for all that, ya know?” She chuckled before turning to the other. “You got any ideas why?”
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Post by Clematis on Jun 6, 2023 0:27:44 GMT
Truthfully she should have seen the question coming a mile away, and yet it still caught Clematis off guard.
The femme's optics widened at Cobalt's question, nearly dropping her box of medical supplies out of surprise. That one lone question sent her right back to when she'd been here just over a month ago when the whole breakout had transpired; the one that happened because of her. Clematis reasoned with herself that it would have happened one way or another regardless now that time had passed. If Cobalt wanted to know what had transpired, then she had certainly asked the right femme.
"I.. do." Clematis' expression shifted to nervousness, glancing aside for a moment before sighing. "That's because.. they escaped. It happened about a month ago, and.. I was there when it happened."
The best she could hope for was that Cobalt didn't ask too many questions, but she wouldn't have faulted the other if she did. Even though time had passed, it was still a somewhat traumatic experience from many different perspectives. Her twin had taken advantage of her trusting nature, and then she was used as a hostage by Starscream when Skyfire showed up. "It's.. why I couldn't come back here for awhile, but it's all in the past now I suppose." Her voice remained somber, void of the cheerfulness that had been there moments prior.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2023 7:18:01 GMT
Various expressions flashed across Cobalt’s face. Confusion, shock, anger, disappointment, perhaps a million more at once. Her lips formed a small ‘o’, and for a moment the only sound that could be heard was the gears turning in her processor.
Eventually, she found her voice, matching the other femme’s solemn tones.
“Huh.” Her optic ridges furrowed, and she hastily added on, “That’s- Ugh, really bad. I’m sorry you had to see all that. Musta been scary.” Her voice, as small as it had become, still held that warm feel to it as she gave Clematis what she hoped came across as a sympathetic nod.
“If you don’t mind me asking,” She resumed hesitantly, suddenly not able to meet the other’s gaze. “Didja see a little- Eh, maybe not little, but- A dark greyish jet running about? Two sets of audial fins, yellow optics… Tablet looking thing on their forearm?” Cobalt left up her left forearm for reference. “Course, you don’t have to answer that if you don't remember or don't want to, but…”
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Post by Clematis on Oct 7, 2023 13:24:20 GMT
Scary was certainly one way of putting it, but it had also been an equally confusing time as well. The Decepticons escaping hadn't been what scared Clematis, but more so the confrontation between Skyfire and Starscream that had. She had a little faith that Starscream would keep his word about getting her out safely because certainly Nightshroud had told him about their split spark bond, but Skyfire.. He was so poised to terminate Starscream in that moment. It almost felt like he saw straight through her and his attention was solely focused on the seeker, determined to strike him down even if it meant harming himself to do it. It wasn't just the fear of her tall seeker friend hurting the one mech that made Nightshroud happy, but part of Clematis had been scared that he'd hurt her just to take down Starscream.
Certainly that wasn't the case.. right? It would crush her if she ever found out Skyfire had for even a moment considered killing her just to kill Starscream.
As Cobalt spoke, Clematis looked to the femme. It seemed that she was curious if a specific individual had been there at the time, and Clematis tilted her helm in recollection. A little, dark grayish jet.. "It's okay. I don't remember seeing anyone like that. There were a lot of Decepticons running around so it's possible maybe they were with them, but I only remember distinctly seeing Starscream, Soundwave, and a couple others I didn't know the names of." Kind of odd that Cobalt had wanted to know about this specific bot, though. Were they important to her? Someone who's caused her trouble in the past. "If you don't mind me asking, are they someone important to you?"
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