"Why should it?" Cliffjumper was, honestly, not trying to mock or challenge Mirage. He was just confused--- though the huffed end of Mirage's sputtering had Cliffjumper grinning.

"You'd look good as one, though," he said with a chuckle before he was thinking about what he was saying, and then bit his lower lip and looked away, caught between embarrassment and amusement.

Especially as the image that had popped into his processor when Mirage mentioned 'morale cheerleader' was the uniformed groups of girls who cheered on in sports.