"Haha funney" *months pass* "actually I would kill for you"

[yvannairie]

God, I've been having the stupidest, most dramatic Rotorstorm feeling since Saturday and they show no signs of dying down.

He's a rotary with a bit part in LSotW (my very own crazy helicopter, Snocks would be so proud) and he's, like... okay, you know how I'm always complaining about how people write Prime Wheeljack insecure about the wrong things? Like, they give him a very obvious superiority complex and have him do stupid show-offy shit for the sake of attention instead of having him simply be confident and competent at the same time?

Rotorstorm actually is like that. Like, he talks himself up all the fucking time and has also flier Spidey Sense so he is lowkey one of the airgods of the war, but he actually is putting up a front and is deeply insecure deep down and doesn't believe that anyone would genuinely like him if he wasn't funny and charming and an ace all the time.

Like, I actually really like characters like that! I find them charming, I think they're pathetic in a really relatable way, I love it when characters are desperate to be loved and haven't given up yet. My main frustration when people give that characterisation to Wheeljack is literally just that he isn't like that, he could give a shit what anyone thinks about him and has completely given up on ever having good things in his life.

But Rotorstorm, precious broken little bird, really is trying to puff himself up to be twice as big as he is because he's terrified that people will realise he's pathetic. And I fucking love that, that makes for such good character drama. Whirl/Rotorstorm grabbed me by the fucking nuts because Whirl has such a hard time showing that he loves people and pushes people away with his asshole behaviour because he doesn't believe he could ever be loved back. Even besides the shared history, their dysfunctions clash in an amazing way, and it sucks that Storm is the bittest of bit parts :(