hashtaggayrobots | [IC] Inbox for cyberformed

Good morning, Hashtag. Look what I've found!

[his delight is almost literally palpable through the text.]

SO CUTE.

u have to show these to megs if he shows up
#4 is so u

They're in disguise! I do enjoy rainbows. It's a phenomenon unique to Earth! We had nothing similar that formed naturally on Cybertron.

SEND THEM ALL TO ME
they are the cutest
i need them
u need all the rainbows
rainbow prime

we should paint u in a rainbow

[instead of sending them individually, optimus sends her a link to the program he used to mix them together. she is welcome to imagine him happily tapping away and trying all the combinations because she would not be wrong! elita has managed to inspire some good habits in him over the millenia; taking a break from work when he gets to the point of reading the same sentence over and over instead of forcing himself forward is one of them.]

Changing my paint to renew my image after a decade or two was floated a few times, but I'm happy with the colours I have. However, I will not reject any rainbow-related paraphernalia you find.

[clearly all 3 terrans should purchase paintball guns and... well, the rest is pretty clear from there.]

Hashtag? This is Airazor. I wished to reach out to you to thank you for creating your movie night. It was very thoughtful of you to make something that brings people together. A good quality to have, in those I would like to get to know.

[there is a brief space filled with a soft shift of metal against metal as an unseen airazor fluffs her feathers as she considers how best to continue this conversation]

The movie selections you made, were they personal favorites of yours? I would be intrigued to hear the reasonings why, if so.

loving yourself is always IMPORTANT
be proud of who u are always right
but changing it up for a while isnt bad
think of temporary paints
they'd wash off!
like mom dressing up for a night out with dad

[She is wondering if he's misunderstanding her or if this is how adults talk about Pride. Rainbows and celebrating yourself and who you love no matter what people think is generally the vibe she's gotten about it so of course Optimus fits that to a T! Considering how he and Megatron touch each other all the time and Megatron asks about him when he's not around...

Maybe Cybertronians do it differently? But then why the robot with the rainbow???

Maybe it's just strange for him when Megatron isn't around. He did admit to missing him (and Elita, but of course he would, she's his best friend) and maybe thinking about things like this isn't the same when your husband isn't around. Dad gets like that sometimes when he misses mom and she's still at work, but usually it leads to him cooking something she likes or writing her love notes he hides around the farm...]

i'm gonna get you all the rainbow decals if you let me
all that free real estate

[Airazor? The cool bird-bot whose chirpy laughter filled the room when playing teeter tower? Who sounds like the most smooth and elegant mech she's ever met? Who looks like she could eat you or cover you in her massive wings depending on her mood? THAT Airazor?

Hashtag has been peeking looks at her all night during the movie marathon. She hadn't had the courage to just go talk to her, she stumbled over the idea every time. And now she is calling her! Her. Excuse her while she screams into a pillow on her pillow. For a long time. It's fine, it's great, no problem.

She finally gets herself together. Eventually.]

Hi! This is Hashtag--as you probably know. [Awkward laugh] Um, thank you, I'm so happy everyone loved the movie marathon, I want it to be a regular thing! Movies are amazing and I love all of them, and picking just four was so hard. We could have done a whole marathon just of Godzilla or Kung Fu Panda.

[Airazor, for her part, has been deliberating over how best to repay Hashtag for one of the most enjoyable evenings she'd had since the destruction of her home planet. She's glad she decided to, Hashtag's enthusiasm was very welcome.]

[She vents out a warm, rolling chuckle, her optics dimming in a smile.]

I hadn't seen the one with singing. It was quite good!

[A pause, as Airazor tips her head with a quiet little trilling noise that was a Maximal interrogative noise]

A question, if I may, Hashtag? I have spent enough time on Earth to witness the dawn of humanity's technology around me. I recall that your name is one of the newer words. Did you change it at any point, or are you younger than myself? I only ask because... [Another laugh] I might have additional movie recommendations. Do not ask me what the dialogue actually entails for most of them, however, I saw them from a distance.

Okay, but MS3King movies is amazing and everyone should do it at least once. A lot of movies are vastly improved by it. We can even make new movies out of it. I have seen like...thousands of movies already and have a lot of them in my tablet. We should have a MS3K marathon night...

[Is she slightly distracted by the idea and how to plan it out? Maybe. But she remembers that Airazor asked her about her name. Which was so cool of her. Everything is cool about her.]

But no, I didn't even know my name at first! When I was born, Mo and Robby helped us figure our names out--except Nightshade, they knew their name immediately. I only had the vibe of my name, but Robby knew what it meant!

[Is she implying she's actually very, very young...maybe.]

[Airazor shifts again, pleased that she's not coming across in a bad way. Sometimes she forgot how to talk to people and could get terse, she did not want that this time]

So movies are important to you, then? Not surprising, they communicate many things. What the creators want to say, and what the audience receiving it takes away from it. That is why I found your choices interesting, they say different things about what you enjoy, or thought that others would. [a wordless hum] Thank you, once again. I know that it can be stressful, being vulnerable in that way.

[Airaxir is not at all surprised about Hashtag's age. It had seemed much more polite to allow Hashtag to confirm or deny]

That is a wonderful way to discover your name. Optimus Primal and I discovered each other's names when we were new, as well, though I was, mm. Overruled by others about my choice. They wished for him to be named after Optimus Prime. What called to you about your own name?

[optimus isn't even remotely on the same page as hashtag is with her meaning-- while he isn't unaware of the human pride celebrations, it's never something he's really applied to himself. on top of that, he wouldn't think to mentally apply it to his very platonic relationship with megatron!]

If it's temporary paint then maybe you can. Just not on the face, please.

[he says this only because he's foolishly and naively certain the terrans could not get any temporary paint. completely unaware of nightshade's scientific abilities combined with the many people on the ship who would probably pay for the paint themselves just so he could get a faceful of it. clown robot emoji.]

of course not
the mask needs a special touch
u cant just put anything on it!
face tattoos arent that in right now anyway.

[She is already plotting for how she can get all of the paint she needs. Do not doubt her skills, Hashtag has all the time in the work and a too much motivation.]

[Hashtag is trying so hard to keep sounding cool but it's so hard when someone you admire shows genuine interest in the things you like. About things about you.]

My name just...was a feeling. Like saying Mood. When someone says something and it hits you because that's exactly how you feel. And you know it might be something someone else gets, too. So...like sharing your thoughts and mood and seeing who feels it too. But not just saying mood, it has to like...symbolize it without saying it. Kind of? If that makes any sense.

[She chuckles just a bit there, more awkward by the end than she was at the beginning as she realized her rambling maybe didn't explain anything at all.]

[Airazor tilts her head with a quick twitch, first one way and then the other. Her optics dim in her equivalent of a smile, which lingers in her voice when she speaks]

That is a beautiful way of putting it, Hashtag. Poetic, you could easily say. It makes me wonder at what other ways you choose to express yourself. Do you tend towards poetry, or... ah.

[A soft trill, a laugh of her kind] I see, now. Film. You make your own, don't you? If so, that is good. Wonderful. A way of distilling joy and heartbreak and connection into moments you can relive again and again, mmm? What a thing to treasure about you.

Edited 2023-10-03 03:27 (UTC)

You may have one inch of space on my mask.

[he is willing to acquiesce that much.]

By the way, I didn't get a chance to tell you my thoughts on the movies. I have written them up, because I felt inspired.

[optimus pings the file over-- judging by the edit time, some demon possessed him to write a 120k word analysis of kung fu panda at three in the space morning. it is very thorough. it's pretty good? optimus clearly felt quite impassioned about it.]

You...You really think so?

[She is trying so hard not to lose what little composure she has left in front of someone as cool and amazing as Airazor. She tries laughing to deflect, hoping she sounds more confident than she feels.]

But you're absolutely right! Film has a way of pulling at your soul--or spark-- over and over again. There's so much meaning that you can condense into any length with the right skills. I want to be able to do that. I'm still learning, but I'm gonna create a documentary about the bots on this ship and it's going to be timeless.

Get it, because time is so weird around here, hah.

[Give an inch, she's gonna take a whole mile on that thing. But she is way more focused on the massive film analysis dissertation he just dropped into her lap. It's huge, overwhelming, and also the most amazing thing she's ever seen.]

OMG

THIS IS SO COOL I KNEW ONE OF THESE MOVIES WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT
I CANT BELIEVE U DID THIS
I HAVE TO READ IT ALL RIGHT NOW

Edited 2023-10-07 03:17 (UTC)

[it's a tragedy she isn't in the room with him right now, because when he sees her use the octopus emoji his finials shift up and down a few times happily. it will take a miracle for her to see this phenomenon in person.]

I hope you enjoy. I did a lot of research on the topic of critically analysing movies. I can share that with you, too.

I do think so. [Her voice is soft as ever, but fervent. Deliberate. When she chooses to speak, it is with intent, all the more so when it comes to encouraging someone so much younger than herself] The arts have admittedly always been rather far outside of my skillset, something to be seen and appreciated from afar like any beautiful phenomena. I consider it no small part of my oath to encourage pursuing them when possible.

[This last part earned another tilt of her head and a trill that might have been a laugh at the joke, or perhaps merely a thoughtful noise, it was difficult to tell with Airazor if you weren't accustomed to her various noises] What will be the theme of your documentary, do you think? Or are you discovering it through the act of creation?

op u are going to become my go-to movie critique
best be ready for my next movie night
its gonna be a monster movie night
for fun
everyone can laugh
or cry
scary movies ya know

The arts are how we express ourselves and our thoughts and feelings and how we relate to the world! Everything should take part, because it's all we'll learn to understand one another.

[Yes, Hashtag's personal philosophy is very focused on hos art--specifically cinema--brings people together, because it's what she wants most.]

I've had a lot of ideas for documentaries, but here I want to make one about how all of us, from all these different versions of the same worlds, can relate to each other. How we feel about being on the R2 and what it means to us that we're here instead of home.

Getting round-table talks from all the multiples is going to be hard but they'll be so important.

I'm more than happy to attend any movie night with you and Twitch. A monster movie night! Is that much different from Pacific Rim and Godzilla?

[Hashtag receives a series of texts one after the another, each separated by a series of ellipses and several minutes' worth of thought that many would find worrying, especially given recent events in Hashtag's life]

Hashtag. It is Megatron... If you were planning on paying a visit to my hydroponics lab, don't... There has been an incident... I am fine. But the structural integrity of the lab is in question. Do not approach there until it is repaired.

"Experiencing life on my home planet and then my found home of Earth was my art, I think. Every day, good or bad, was a brush stroke that added to a complex whole. I wonder what the end result has turned out to be."

[Airazor hums to provide time for herself to think before moving on]

"I do not have other versions of myself flitting about the hallways here that I know of, but if you need assistance either before or behind the camera, well." [Unseen, Airazor tilts her head with another quick flick, along with a low, warm chirrup that is another wordless smile] "It would be an honor."

Edited 2023-10-21 16:48 (UTC)

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