Nimbus Tsura
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jul 18, 2011 21:37:27 GMT -5
"Center of pressure is more important, in some aspects," Skyblast comments thoughtfully. "But hmm, you want to see this old thing? Oh, I don't know..."
Skyblast thinks Mirage is suitably hot and bothered to make sitting still for a few hours tortuous. In fact, while Mirage's pose looks pretty innocent, if Mirage lets the pose slip just a bit, it'll get a lot more... interesting.
He snatches up an airbrush and starts work on the little metal panel he's using as a canvas. Skyblast's not as good with it as he is in the air, but it's not bad.
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Post by Mirage on Jul 19, 2011 15:39:44 GMT -5
Skyblast is a master of slow, sweet torture.
"Darling, if I'm going to be immortalized in your lovely cockpit for the rest of your days, I would like to see how I look through your optics," Mirage drawls.
Mirage purses his lips, obviously in thought.
"Actually, would you be interested in doing a commission for me?"
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jul 22, 2011 14:37:52 GMT -5
"If you want to see through my optics, I think Perceptor could oblige us," Skyblast replies, smirking slightly. Okay, enough teasing. "But I'll show you."
He's now draped over the easel, upside-down. It's not really proper form, for painting, but Skyblast is used to radical orientation shifts when he flies, and if he doesn't make them, it feels weird.
"A commission?"
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Post by Mirage on Jul 24, 2011 0:36:40 GMT -5
Mirage snorts, "Darling, much as I love you, I don't think we're quite at the 'swapping body parts' stage just yet." He winks at Skyblast.
"But yes, a commission."
"I would like a small portrait of you, so that I might have my own keepsake."
Surely, even if they are all suddenly returned to their own reality, his subspace contents will not be altered. Even if Mirage has no memory of Skyblast, he may still have that picture to marvel out, if nothing more.
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Nimbus Tsura
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Jul 25, 2011 21:09:53 GMT -5
"Oh, I was just suggesting a wireless sensor tap. You keep your optics, but see out of mine, too," Skyblast corrects.
Why does Mirage's request bother him? Surely, it is not fear he is feeling? Skyblast's panels flick, and he agrees, "Fine. I'll do a self-portrait for you."
Hmm, needs more blue...
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Post by Mirage on Jul 29, 2011 18:28:05 GMT -5
Mirage's optics narrow a bit as he watches Skyblast, but the spy continues to hold his pose. At length he speaks again.
"It still bothers you, doesn't it? How I feel... and how open I am about how I feel."
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Aug 2, 2011 21:23:25 GMT -5
"Mirage, I... two things. One. This isn't going to last. It's not your nature. Two. I am not going to last. I'm young, and I'm good, but I know I'm not invincible. What I do, I..." Skyblast is a Z-list Bayverse character. He is doomed. "One way or the other, there's no point in getting attached. It's just a question of what comes first."
Not attached to those lovely amber optics he's painting now. Not to any of it.
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Post by Mirage on Aug 3, 2011 22:05:39 GMT -5
"None of us are invincible. Long lived as we are, we are still at war, and laser fire cares not if it separates lovers forever," he says.
"You insist that I will one day grow bored with you, that I am fickle. I think you do that to convince yourself of the fact. To save yourself."
"True, I am a casual lover, and that is why I am so upfront about my preferences for open relationships. That does not mean that I am such a cad as to drop a lover with whom I have an established relationship on whim.
"Skyblast, love- it is not a matter of not getting attached. I am already attached. I love you."
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Aug 6, 2011 21:51:55 GMT -5
Skyblast's panels flicks downwards and inwards, making him look smaller than usual and downcast. He sighs heavily and says, defeated, "Then I'm going to hurt you someday. I don't want to hurt anyone." He touches one of the Autobot symbols on his wings. "I'm made for it, you know. Hurting. Killing. I've done things..." He sighs again. "But I don't have to like it."
"I especially don't have to like knowing that I'm going to hurt someone I love."
Skyblast ducks his head and returns to the painting.
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Post by Mirage on Aug 7, 2011 14:51:40 GMT -5
Mirage wants nothing more than to rise and cuddle and love Skyblast until that wounded and saddened look leaves the skypainter. However, Mirage knows that if he drops pose, Skyblast will take great joy in putting Mirage back through the delicious torture of finding that pose again.
Frag it.
The spy is up and moving in one graceful, quick motion and tries to bundle the small jet into his arms before Skyblast can object. If successful, Mirage will try and nuzzle against Skyblast's neck.
"We are so much more than the function for which were were created, Skyblast, so much more."
"One day I will lose you, yes. To death, to another, to your home- I will lose you and I will mourn your loss. Yet despite the sadness, I will celebrate and revel in the memories we created. The memories of loving and being loved by you."
Skyblast can backpedal from his oblique admission of love if he wishes. Mirage will let him. Mirage just won't take back his own admission.
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Aug 10, 2011 21:17:16 GMT -5
If they remember anything at all. But the moment is heavy enough as it is, and Skyblast won't be a lead brick in Mirage's arms. He raises one lazy finger to try to trace the struts of Mirage's cheek, smiling slightly, sadly. He notes, "I'm going to have to pose you all over again."
"But, mmm, thank you."
Skyblast is aloof. He holds himself above other, but some still seek to climb to his level, and it's... nicer than he likes to admit.
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Post by Mirage on Aug 13, 2011 21:44:38 GMT -5
Mirage reaches up and captures that hand tracing along his jaw, presses a kiss into that palm.
"I know."
OOC: And fade
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