[ drift post: backtag edition ]

[auramatic]

Who| Drift and you!
What| Various shenanigans before shit goes down.
Where| All around Legion World
Warnings/Notes| drinking and embarrassing conversations, probably

a. a change of scenery
Driving is the perfect way to blow off a little steam, and Drift has that in spades lately. He's trying to find the equanimity in Megatron's presence here, but he's struggling, especially with Megatron always finding ways to antagonize him, trying to get a rise out of him. It's made it hard to relax even in his biome, connected as it is to Megatron's, and so he thinks maybe it's time for a change of scenery.

So he takes to other biomes instead. It's about time he got around to exploring some of the others, anyway, and a variety of them make for pretty good driving. He finds himself enjoying the streets of the New York City sections in particular -- it almost reminds him of his drift racing days in Japan.

b. holomatter time
Drift has, admittedly, been avoiding the shopping area where he'd encountered Megatron for the first time, and with good reason -- there's been plenty of chatter online about the encounter because Primus had there ever been witnesses. And so much of the speculation is about his debatably intimate history with Megatron, and Drift would love to not ever have to deal with that in public.

But he would like to explore the shops some more, mostly out of curiosity, and the fountain he'd been spending time at before had been so soothing. So he sends his holomatter avatar out instead -- a solid hologram he can receive sensory feedback from, more or less an extension of himself, and a normal-sized human, at that. But while his avatar might look human, Drift's mannerisms are still more or less the same, and he'll be perusing shops full of unfamiliar items with unmasked curiosity and, most likely, confusion.

c. get your drink on
Sometimes you just really need a drink.

All the meditation and robot sword katas in the world only go so far, even if Drift's loath to admit it, and though he's done plenty of other things to blow off steam and recenter himself, sometimes a good drink is what you really need to relax. And he could stand to have a little fun, too. So Drift can be found someplace where they serve refined fuel or something like it, drinking alone unless someone decides to join him.

d. wildcard

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Comments

[auramatic]

Oh, boy. This little organic is very much into questions and a little intense. She reminds him of Swerve, a little, except she's infinitely cuter than Swerve. No contest. He figures there's a pretty quick way to answer some of her questions, so instead of responding right away, he transforms back to root mode with a pretty neat shifting of plating and a slightly only unnecessary backflip. He lands in a crouch on the street where he'd just been idling, and he is also now wearing three swords? Where were they when he was a car? Where indeed.

"Actually, we're robots who turn into cars," he says with a bright smile. "Or jets, or boats -- there's a long list. There are humans like you where I'm from, just not on my home planet."