[ Knock Out has spent a good deal of this Swear-In in vehicular mode, between the necessity of it for the travel portion of the trip and traversing a site intended for only human visitors. He did get a chance to stretch for a while during the paparazzi flurry outside the center itself; his Cybertronian form certainly had drawn plenty of interest and interview questions. For the memorial ceremony itself however, he's resumed his alt mode and parked at the edge of the paved area. He can still hear everything, but at least he's not obtrusive this way.
He has no strong reaction to the memorial itself, nor the displays of the lost victims of the island's past. There's acknowledgement of lives being cut unfairly short, of course; he's not entirely sparkless, but it's tempered in a way that only someone who's been at war for literally millions of years can have.
He isn't expecting to see Rogue breaking away from the crowd, and certainly not showing signs of only barely holding back tears or worse. His headlights blink once to get her attention. ]
memorial
He has no strong reaction to the memorial itself, nor the displays of the lost victims of the island's past. There's acknowledgement of lives being cut unfairly short, of course; he's not entirely sparkless, but it's tempered in a way that only someone who's been at war for literally millions of years can have.
He isn't expecting to see Rogue breaking away from the crowd, and certainly not showing signs of only barely holding back tears or worse. His headlights blink once to get her attention. ]
Rogue.