friendly outing!

[forcowardice]

WHO: Fulcrum & Tailgate
WHERE: Starts at Fulcrum's apartment, continues from there!
WHEN: 9/10/14
WHAT: Tailgate shows Fulcrum around town in a date in a friendly outing.
WARNINGS: N/A



This whole situation could be a lot worse, Fulcrum admits. He could have zero assistance from anyone, for example. He could be stuck in this lame organic body and everyone could be a jerk. Instead, for the most part, everyone's been fairly helpful.

Well. Okay. Most everyone. But he's had so, so much worse! And one of the nicest of them so far has been Tailgate. An interesting Autobot who seems to have been fairly accomplished before the war, and now decided to join up with the Autobots despite missing all of the war. Kind of a strange option to take, but Fulcrum isn't really about to judge.

For now, he's just kind of looking forward to spending the day with the friendly guy.

After he hears the knock, Fulcrum slips out of his fairly empty apartment -- funny, as soon as he had roommates, they all disappeared -- and locks the door behind himself, grinning at Tailgate a bit shyly.

"Ready! Do you mind leading the way?"

Comments

[daintylegs]

Tailgate has been looking forward to this more than he realized. Even though he didn't know anything about human beauty, he did spent an enormous amount of time making sure his hair was clean and shiny. Just the act of spending time with someone is so exciting! Despite his own cheery personality, he's been alone a lot lately. Maybe he should talk to more humans? Take part in more activities? Yeah. He should.

A now-human Tailgate knocks on Fulcrum's door and bounces on his heels while he waits. During the ten seconds it takes for Fulcrum to answer Tailgate has been secretly worrying that he had the wrong house, and that the person who answers will be mad at him for disturbing them. Turns out that he didn't have to worry.

"Not at all!"

He takes a few steps and bounces on his heels some more.

"It's nice to meet you in person! You're a lot more... you... than I expected!" He meant something by that, he really did. "Here, come this way, we'll go to the ice cream store first!"

[forcowardice]

So far, all of their body types have been different from each other in human bodies. Which probably is meant to function as a similarity somehow to their Cybertronian bodies? It's a possibility. Fulcrum is still lanky and awkward, Metalhawk looked stuffy and like someone plugged up his exhaust port with a stick, and Tailgate looks kind of small and adorable.

He kind of wonders what his Cybertronian form looks like.

The comment makes Fulcrum snort and laugh. "Thanks, I think!" The technician approaches close and follows.

"Sounds good. What's ice cream like?"

[daintylegs]

"It's not something any mere mortal can describe with words!"

Tailgate responds dramatically, taking it upon himself to grab Fulcrum's hand and impatiently drag him along. He's not sure how, but he already feels completely at ease with this complete stranger. That's a good sign! It meant that friendship things will be easy to do. If only everyone was this easy to be friendly to.

"I'm going to make you try chocolate first! Vanilla afterwards! But we can't have too much or we'll get sick. I learned that the hard way."

[forcowardice]

"That's pretty impressive! Okay, well, I'm in."

As soon as Tailgate is grabbing his hand and leading him off, Fulcrum stumbles into sync and follows the smaller Autobot's lead. Falling into a follower role is honestly how he prefers to go anyway, and Tailgate seems plenty nice enough!

"I have no idea what either of those things are, but I'm looking forward to it." Fulcrum chuckles. "These bodies are very particular about how much it can have of certain things, aren't they?"

[daintylegs]

"Yeah, our bodies are really delicate! And you can never tell if you've eaten or drank too much because you don't have any body readouts or anything like that. It's really bothersome."

He doesn't hate being an organic though. It's fun to walk around town looking like everyone else! But there's no question that food is the best part of being a little squishy. Luckily for there, there was an ice-cream place just on the corner! So Tailgate didn't have to drag Fulcrum far.

DING!

Tailgate throws open the door and marches inside.

"And this is where the magic happens!"