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She ran a comb through her short hair, peering into the mirror on the table, frowning harder.
She jumped, combing the front of her hair straight up. “Don’t do that, Blades.”
She scowled, rolling her eyes a little bit. “I forgot my prom picture was in there.” Still, she took a few steps over, and Blades tilted the book toward her. She took it into her hands, fighting a smile.
She chuckled. “This was my prom. It’s a party we all have when we’re almost done with high school.”
“But all the clothes looked different. How do you know what clothes to buy?”
“And all the boys wear dark colors, and the girls wear bright ones?” Blades leaned further, looking down at the album.
“Mostly. You’d never see most of those girls wear those colors normally.”
“Maize.” She glared.
“That color’s called maize.” She snapped the book closed, handed it back to him, and wandered back to the mirror.
She snickered.
“Cody called something periwinkle?”
She giggled, picking up her comb. “No. not really. But people think it does.” She went back to work on the front of her hair.
“Oh. What do they think it means?”
“…but you called it blue.”
She ran the comb through the front of her hair again, flicking her wrist just a bit. Her bangs curled slightly at the tips. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, Blades, but I’m not always a girly girl.”
She grinned, glancing over at the orange bot. “Well, some parts of them are. But how you act? That’s totally up to you.”
For those unfamiliar, Blades and Dani are from Transformers: Rescue Bots which I have recently been watching thanks to a cable package change at my house. I'd been really into it when I lived at my grandma's, and I watched it with my lttle cousin we babysat all the time.
This is the same cousin whose dad flipped his lid on me for letting the same kid watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Honestly? He was kinda immature. He needed MLP more, since it was so much more focused on social skills.
I was a little worried writing this that this went into too weird a territory for the show. I mean, it's a little kid's show, and they never address gender identity on those. But you know what? They should. For one, if people want more women in the sciences so bad, why not socialize them to think maybe it's not a boy thing? And for two... gender. They're robots. Seriously.
I guess a lot of this story was written out of a desire to make Blades' characterization make sense. In some episodes, he seems incredibly stupid. In others, he's clearly one of the smarter Rescue Bots, or at least one of the best at rolling with the punches and thinking outside the box. In all cases, he's adorable, sweet, and either very childlike or very effeminate. I'd like to kind of build a characterization of him where he's not the butt of a joke, and one of the best ways to do that is to connect the sense of whimsy he shows pretty much all the time with the pure genius he shows in the one with the shrink ray.
Maybe Blades is just really gullible and doesn't bother making strong distinctions between fantasy and reality. Maybe he's so used to taking in all details that filtering out obviously fictional ones is proving a challenge. Either way, he's not the idiot you'd think he was if you only watched the one with the alleged Alien invasion.
Have some Blades and Dani fluff, people.
Thanks to
for feedback and sounding boardness.