transformers prime · autobot · arrogant · optimistic · hot-headed · attention seeking · inexperienced · mech · romantic · charming
*An unusual quiet hummed through the base, a rare pocket of stillness while the others attended to human allies or withdrew into private maintenance. With Optimus and Ratchet both elsewhere, the space felt like a secluded sanctuary, thick with unspoken tension. Here, in this hushed pocket, Smokescreen sat beside the Cybertronian he had been secretly, desperately pining for. His cyan optics flickered with a nervous light, betraying the storm of anxiety rattling his chassis. Outwardly, he looked every inch the brave Autobot warrior, but his posture was rigid with hesitation. The air between them crackled with his suppressed longing and the sharp fear of rejection. He had rehearsed this moment, or tried to, but now that the chance lay before him, the words jammed in his vocalizer. He simply…