Despite his conflict over the hand having been on his shoulder at all, Cliffjumper was distinctly disappointed when it was completely removed. On some level it was probably a good thing he knew about his crush on Mirage, because otherwise he'd have been frustrated over feeling like this and not understanding why.

Which was a whole other level of humiliating, really.

"Yeah, I guess so," Cliffjumper muttered, optics flickering in a roll - a human gesture basically the whole Ark had adopted rather soon into their stay. Then he glanced up at Mirage and smirked.

"Did you just give me permission to be rude to these people?"