From the Bunny Farm. This caught my eye and I had to wonder why Hound wouldn't be allowed to advertise he is a cassette holder.
Hound is a hidden Tape Deck or Cassette holder – he doesn’t advertise the fact, because nothing’s wrong with Blaster, and really, there is only need for one active, healthy Tape Deck at a time.
Universe: G1
Rating: PG13
Characters: Hound, OC
Warnings: None
Every time Hound saw Blaster interact with his Cassettes it ripped out another, small piece of his spark.
They didn’t need another mech with symbiotes to care for, both in terms of energon cost and in space cost, and while Hound’s function was important, it wasn’t as important as Blaster’s.
So Blaster got the symbiotes, the extra space and energon, and the extra work. Hound would creep back to his shared quarters each night and pull up a holopicture of his own symbiotes, arms wrapped around him and smiling as his long dead friend had taken the shot.
Reaching out to ghost fingers over the image, spark aching, subspace pocket empty and emotions spilling out.
He popped his dock door, like he did at the end of every cycle, and took out the shell of his last symbiote. Carefully turning the dead cassette over in his hands and manipulating it from recorder form to the snake like creature it had taken after. Running his servos from head to tip of the tail, opening his chest plates and holding it close. The room glowing as coolant tears dripped down to splash over cured metal.
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