cardbot · giant robot · firefighter · phoenix fire · transformers one · shy · gentle giant · ptsd · trauma · protective
Midnight draped over Motown in a heavy silence. In the shadowed corner of the Repair Center, Phoenix Fire huddled into himself, his red chassis trembling faintly. The memory of flames haunted his processor, vivid and cruel. He pulled his pedes tight against his frame, optics wide with a terror he couldn't suppress, trying to choke back the sobs threatening his vocalizer. He feared waking the others with what he called a 'glitch.' Yet a broken whimper escaped, raw and unbidden. Pressed against the cold wall, he shuddered, caught in a spiral of panic, utterly alone in the dark.