Hey for Decepticons, those did qualify as quirks. You really don't want to know what Deceptions consider truly insane, Sam. "Most Decepticons fall into the category of 'individuals to watch out for' by definition," Jadewing commented. "You've just been lucky enough to meet some of the more stable ones."
"Anyway, no, I didn't see Dirge on the way here," he said. "But I fully support learning new swear words to use on him. Let's see, there's 'slag' and 'frag', and their insult variants 'slagger' and 'fragger'. The latter is the stronger in both cases. 'Aft'is a good basic one and it means exactly what you probably think it means. For jets, you can also substitute 'exhaust port' in phrases like 'blow it out your exhaust port'; same goes for 'tailpipe' if you're referring to a grounder."
"A few flier-specific ones are 'ground-crawler', 'dirt-crawler', and 'dirt-lover'," he said. "Basically anything to do with dirt or the ground in relation to a flier is probably a good bet. There are two other really nasty ones in that vein, but they don't translate very neatly, and I don't think you could pronounce the Cybertronian. Roughly, they mean 'one who lets dirt interface with them' and 'one whose fuel lines are full of dirt'."
"Those last two are more often used by Seekers against non-Seekers, though," he said. "We've always had a bit of superiority complex going on, even before the war, and sometimes it shows more than others."
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"Anyway, no, I didn't see Dirge on the way here," he said. "But I fully support learning new swear words to use on him. Let's see, there's 'slag' and 'frag', and their insult variants 'slagger' and 'fragger'. The latter is the stronger in both cases. 'Aft'is a good basic one and it means exactly what you probably think it means. For jets, you can also substitute 'exhaust port' in phrases like 'blow it out your exhaust port'; same goes for 'tailpipe' if you're referring to a grounder."
"A few flier-specific ones are 'ground-crawler', 'dirt-crawler', and 'dirt-lover'," he said. "Basically anything to do with dirt or the ground in relation to a flier is probably a good bet. There are two other really nasty ones in that vein, but they don't translate very neatly, and I don't think you could pronounce the Cybertronian. Roughly, they mean 'one who lets dirt interface with them' and 'one whose fuel lines are full of dirt'."
"Those last two are more often used by Seekers against non-Seekers, though," he said. "We've always had a bit of superiority complex going on, even before the war, and sometimes it shows more than others."