#swinblurr

[drekkydrimm]

Happy Anniversary to my wife, @ninterbit <3

[keferon]

🤌them🤌

[soulsteel]

[writinginkpen]

Heavily inspired by this post from death loop au by @keferon :

Blurr should be worrying about what happens next.  What could be looming around the corner.  The unknown.  Chaos.  Destruction.  Death.

It should worry him that Swindle is here now too.  In the middle of it all.  Because of him.

But for this one moment, Blurr can’t seem to find it in himself to care.  Because Swindle had come across universes.  To get back to him.

Blurr hadn’t quite believed it – when Swindle had first approached him, started talking.  He had expected another scam, another con – another swindle.  Not familiarity.  Familiarity that set Blurr on edge, even as he couldn’t quite place where the sensation was coming from.  The idea that this Swindle was different.  And the longer Swindle spoke, the more the sensation grew.  Blurr had found his mind going blank with the shock of realizing that things felt different, felt familiar because this Swindle was his Swindle.

And then not only was Swindle here (because how could Swindle be here), but he was reciting all the little details of their lives – of their bar.  Details hidden in memories Blurr had thought were gone.  Memories Blurr had tried to bury.  Because he thought they were forever out of reach.

Swindle should have been forever out of reach.  And yet here he was, re-immersing Blurr in the details of where their lives had for a brief moment overlapped together.  It had been enough to make Blurr smile as his past sharpened from a faded dull grey to full color.

The black polishing cloth.  Purple tablecloths.  Blue vortexes.  And golden sharks.

Golden sharks.  Blurr had needed to stifle a laugh at their mention.  Of all the little details Swindle listed, it hadn’t surprised him that Swindle remembered them.  The one point of running the bar they had constantly quibbled over.

A 3 shanix price difference and golden sharks.

To Swindle, it was a sign of how Blurr was too soft for the world of business – charging less for the more complex drink just because he liked making it.  It was a sign of why the bar – why Blurr – needed Swindle.  (Blurr wondered if Swindle had known how right he was, even if it had been for different reasons than what was stated.  Blurr needed Swindle.)

And yet despite the controversy, the price of the blue vortex had remained – complete with its golden sharks.  And Blurr had known why.  Because Swindle liked the little golden sharks too.

Swindle had liked them so much that he had been the first to add one to a blue tornado.  Grabbing one from where they sat in the stock being unpacked for the bar and dropping it into the glass of the drink Blurr had been mixing for him.  Blurr can’t believe he ever forgot the smile that had lit up Swindle’s face when Blurr had mixed one for himself next.  That smile was blinding in his newly awakened memory.

Admittedly Swindle would have liked the golden sharks even more if they added more shanix to his pockets.  But to Blurr, those golden sharks had become worth more than the loss of shanix.  Because the blue Sharknado and the purple tablecloths were what made the bar not just his, but theirs.  And they made Swindle smile.  And that was something worth more than all the shanix in all the banks on Cybertron.   To be able to share a smile, a laugh, a drink around the counter of a bar…. To have a life.  It had been more than Blurr ever thought he’d get.

Blurr had wondered it the price remaining the same meant the same to Swindle.  Had hoped that maybe, just maybe, there were some things in Swindle’s life more valuable than money.  Had wanted to believe that maybe he was one of them.  And now….now maybe this was the proof.  Because finding Swindle here really should have been impossible.  Starscream, sure.  Swindle, no way.  It should be impossible – was impossible.  To make Swindle’s presence across universes un-impossible…Blurr can’t begin to imagine what the cost would have been, but he is certain there would have been – possibly still is – a cost.  That Swindle paid that cost…for him….

Blurr hadn’t realized when he ended up in Swindle’s arms.  Had barely recognized the sound of his own voice as the words poured from his mouth at light speed.  Because when had he last been able to talk like this?  As though with an old friend.  With an old friend who was quite likely more than a friend.  Certainly closer than Blurr and Starscream had ever been or could ever be, even tied together by their doom as they were. 

Talking about everything and nothing at all.  Catching up.  About Swindle.  About Blurr.  About the universe.

But never discussing the truly serious matters.  The deaths.  The scars.  The never ending cycles.

Because for just a moment, none of that matters.

Blurr is no longer alone.

He had walked beside Swindle, wandering through this universe.  Showing Swindle the places he knew, places he’d been.  Even as they felt brand new to Blurr himself – as though he were only truly taking them in now, for the first time.

Walking and talking.  Shoulder to shoulder.  Close enough that Blurr could feel Swindle’s field brushing against his own.  Close enough that if Blurr timed his steps just right, the plating of his shoulder would brush ever so faintly against Swindle’s arm.

They had walked and talked until the places and words had run out.  Ending up back at Blurr’s.

Blurr still isn’t sure he believes it.  That Swindle is really actually here.  From where he is seated, he leans closer to Swindle so that his head rests completely against Swindle’s arm.  Warm gold against cool blue.  Blurr can feel the warmth.  Can feel the cabling in his neck loosening, tension bleeding out of his frame, spark slowing to a steady hum.

There are no words really.  Things like this – good things – don’t happen to Blurr, in his experience.  Or when they do, they are short-lived and far outweighed by the suffering the universe doles out on him as repayment. And Blurr has had a lot of experience.  Blurr knows the predictable unpredictability of how every universe will play out.  But there has never been anything like this.  Swindle does not belong here.  Impossible.  Impossible any longer though to imagine any possibility that Swindle is not here, is not real.  Not when Blurr can feel the weight of him pressing close – has been feeling that weigh for some time now.

Swindle does not belong here.

That no longer matters though.

Because Swindle is here.

Blurr can let down his guard.  Can relax.  Can finally rest, even if just for a brief moment.

And in this moment, so long as they have each other, nothing else matters at all.

[finefett]

sorry but I can't think of swindle/blurr without picturing their dynamic like the parents from Matilda

[pinetreevillain]

And then they kiss??

Some People really liked green blurr

[pater-no2ter]

there's no specific translation, only blurr hyping about swindle like "UHHHHH I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOUUUUU"

(woah looks like blurr really loves him hm)

[coyotemaximum]

swindle time now <3

swindle is OFFICIALLY a decepticon, but if the autobots have something to exchange, then he's not gonna back away from a deal.

he's definitely closer to unaffiliated and both sides know that, but the cons aren't about to say he's NOT one of them because it fluffs up their ranks a little bit and swindle is VERY valuable for gathering information when soundwave is otherwise busy or indisposed. besides, it gives him a place to stay, free energon, access to a medic, and peers who either turn a blind eye to or encourage his hobbies (swindling), so he's not about to actually go unaffiliated.

but these days, with megatron getting as impatient and unstable as he is, swindle knows his position is on the rocks and, though he'll never admit it, he's kinda. scared about that. he's getting a bit desperate, but he's hiding it well.

the thing though. is that you can't hide much from blurr.

see, during his wrecker days, blurr was often the negotiator because he used to be a celebrity. he's got a silver tongue and he's not a pushover, so he's very skilled at turning a deal towards their favor. so he's dealt with swindle before. he KNOWS swindle. he knew that swindle wasn't very attached to the decepticons, knew that swindle plays for both sides, knew swindle's tricks and plays like the back of his hand, because he's dealt with people like swindle before the war even started.

and frankly, swindle was kinda fascinated by this. he'd pegged blurr as just a pretty face, and was surprised (and a little annoyed) that he was far smarter than he let on.

so it was kind of inevitable that swindle would want to try and figure out what made blurr tick, and that blurr would be deeply amused by this, and that they'd end up meeting and talking off the record.

those few days that blurr disappeared after leaving the wreckers? he was talking to swindle. he was driving and he was talking to swindle. swindle was the one who gave him the idea to become a spy, because "you're fast, you're agile, and you're nosy as all hell. that's a dangerous combination."

so when swindle starts acting just a bit off and blurr immediately sniffs it out, it's kind of his own fault.

where things go from here? i have yet to decide. but maybe they kiss a little about it or somethin who knows. who said that.

[cabo-se]

I like them but I'm too lazy to draw.

[reader-from-nowhere]

Thought about time loops again and…I miss them :(

Time loop au by @keferon btw!

Bonus art piece:

No-one’s gonna come running to save you.

[cakeboppop]

Very quick warm up Doodle of @coyotemaximal designs for swindle x blurr (based on @madamadamiu cat au) . Big fan of all the transformers kitties but I’m so out of practice drawing cats lol so I will be drawing them as strange creature shapes next time I get the chance

[random-cockroach]

New ship acquired *sound of successful purchase* Quick random doodles based on/inspired by a few wonderful fics with these goobers

[keferon]

I. Uh.

I thought it’d be fun of Swindle’s eyes were glasses ‘,:)

[ghostingcrows]

Idk why I felt the need to use Swinblurr for this first but I wanted to draw them

[0wldn0]

Some Transformers rarepairs that I like 👉👈

[ninterbit]

Old swinblurr sketch that I've never posted here <3