#i’m killing all of the decepticons idk what to say ….

[astralzeraphias]

for the first time

i look around…

and i am startled by how real everything is

(i am no longer a ghost)

#starscream #maccadam #transformers #ghost starscream #?? is that a specific tag ???? #i’m killing all of the decepticons idk what to say …. #*draws something based off of personal experience* holyg shitt…… self express ion ……

[aspacepiratesprincess]

To Be One With The AllSpark

Gazing out of the large bay window, Bumblebee beheld Cybertron. It was positively radiant. After a milennia, it glittered once again. Iacon, the place Optimus Prime's upbringing itself glimmered around them as they had begun their rebuilding. War had been all the bots knew for so long; on both sides. Autobot versus Decepticon; at each other's throats for thousands upon thousands of years, and finally, the curtain came to a close. Bumblebee had survived the conflict. With little to spare but the metal on his frame, they began the long journey of repairing what once was.

Bee's time on Earth had been only a blip in the timeline, for him. It was so short, yet so palpable that every time he thought back on them, the memories felt fresh. He'd come and gone. His genesis there had been rocky.

He'd lost his memories, he'd lost his voice, was assaulted by the Decepticon known as Blitzwing, proceeding the human military...and weary from battle, he somehow found himself hiding in the garage of a human girl's some time later, surrounded by primitive technology. He was endeared by her; they became the best of friends in what felt like the short moment he was there. He'd protected her, mused with her, they'd had a new kind of fun together. Alien to him yet right. His cherished human friend. And at the end of it all, when the Decepticon signal tower had been deactivated and Optimus himself came rolling up that big red bridge, he was gone.

Yes, his time there was fleeting. He never saw Charlie again, after what transpired. His duties were elsewhere. He had responsibilities to his cause, prior engagement to his Autobot brethren. But he'd never forget her.

"Here, try this one," said Charlie, hopping onto the step-stool to pop a tape into the slot she'd improvised to him. She closed it, and suddenly, sound was playing, which Bee couldn't help but move to. He bobbed around and took in the alien noise, until she smiled and put another tape in. The Smiths, as she'd called it. Her favorite. Not his, though. He promptly ejected it and almost hit her in the face with the thing. His bad.

The footage was from his perspective, being replayed from his memory cells from over two hundred years ago. Would he still think about her at three hundred?

Charlie was with no doubt dead. She'd certainly passed away in his time after their war on Earth, but he could only hope that she didn't die in their crossfire. The door-wings on his back drooped at the thought, as did the receptors on his head as he observed his memories. While they were ending a war and working to rebuild their home, she had been quietly living out the rest of her mundane life. Human lives were so short. Bumblebee would always lament that.

His thoughts circled back to the brave Sam Witwicky, who had taken Charlie's place in Bumblebee's life twenty years later. Who was regarded highly among the Autobots for his help, and regarded highly by Bee for his character. Frends were to be made in the humans. Even if Earth had spawned their own fleshly Decepticons.

He was engrossed rewatching these sweet memories, the outliers being the ones in which Charlie was almost killed because of him, but he focused on the ones that made him happy. Giving the slip on an officer in a high-speed chase, demolishing the car of the person who'd disrespected her. Fun times. There wouldn't be anything like it again.

Behind him, Optimus entered the room, and the old bot stopped for a second, watching Bee as he bittersweetly reminisced.

Charlie, tiny compared to Bee, hugged him for the last time. She rested her chin on his shoulder. His spark fell as he closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around her, careful to not squeeze.

Naturally, Bee had thought that their journey would continue together, because that was how it should have been, right? They were partners, now. They'd been through a lot in their short time together. What role she would come to play in their quest for the AllSpark if she had gone with him, he didn't even know. But parting from her there was akin to when he watched his homeworld become but a speck in the galaxy from his escape pod on his lonely mission. He would miss her.

"Thank you—for—giving me—my voice," chattered his radio, stitching together whatever he could scan. She shed a tear, and knowing that it was time to go, he transformed. Into a handsome yellow Camaro, which Charlie was shocked to find out. He laughed to himself when she asked in disbelief if he could have been a Camaro that whole time. Down on the bridge, he saw Optimus come into view, the bulky red and blue semi truck. That was his signal that it was farewell. His mirrors shifted to put Charlie in sight, and he pulled out over the hill, leaving her in his rearview.

Bee didn't even have the tech she had retrofitted to him then. A lot of his parts had been damaged and replaced, though his voice module not yet repaired...he didn't have anything of their friendship left but these recordings. Shaking his head, Bee shut off the footage and turned to the bot in the doorway, who he'd known had been there. Charlie was definitely gone, Bee thought. That prompted a question he hadn't yet thought of. Standing before him was none other than their leader, presumably having come to check one of the many monitors and terminals.

"Optimus," Bee started, looking up to his leader. His optics shifted to meet Optimus' who waited for him to continue. His next question took Optimus by surprise: "Do you know what happens to human beings when they die?"

Optimus stared down at his scout, unsure as to how to answer such a question. He did not know. Did humankind have sparks like they did? Was their "soul" the true equivalent to their spark? Optimus knew the fate of Cybertronians. When their life was extinguished, they would become one with the AllSpark. Perhaps even Primus was somewhere along that way. But he couldn't say with any certainty just what happened to humans when they passed. They had their version of God. Was it all the same being, wrapped in different cloaks? Or were Humans and Cybertronians fundamentally different down to the core?

Optimus stood tall as ever, yet mellowly admitted: "I do not know, Bumblebee."

There was a pause in which Bee thought. The words eventually came to him. "Does that mean there's a chance?" he asked, dubious with a glimmer of hope in his bright optics.

Though stoic, Optimus's expression indicated a questioning of what Bee was saying. "A chance she has joined the AllSpark?" he finished for him. It was almost absurd. But Optimus truly did not know. "Only Primus and The Cube know such things, I'm afraid," he said. Bee visibly deflated, drawing away slightly from him. Optimus had heard his tales of this "Charlie", who had woken Bee from stasis and inadvertently brought their plans back on course. Who knew how long he would have remained powered down in that junkyard if she hadn't? Optimus wasn't sure of the extent to which Bee had gotten attached to her, but now that the fighting was over and Bee had the time to feel sorry over things of the past, it seemed to have come back to bother him.

After all, nobody liked a question gone unanswered.

Optimus put a gentle hand on the scout's shoulder, a gesture that he'd adopted over the years. "But, it is of my personal belief that we Cybertronians and humans are not so unlike. Though we may have different vessels, on the inside, we may the same. I think her...spark has been reintegrated, as we will all be, one day."

The unknown wasn't all appealing to Bee, but Optimus's wisdom went undisputed for the humble scout. Bee could be content with that answer. If they would all end up at the same place in the end, he didn't need to worry. Death was just a part of life, and it was coming for him some day, too. Thousands, maybe millions of years...but his spark would indeed be reabsorbed, in due time.

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I know the Autobots didn't return to Cybertron at the end of Bayformers, but what if we mashed that and Transformers: Prime's story together a bit? Idk I just like the scene of Bee looking out at Cybertron lol. The setting doesn't matter to this blurb, anyway.

The original version of this is still on my page here but I added some stuff and reposted because I felt like it :)

#transformers #transformers fanfiction #bumblebee #bumblebee 2018 #transformers bumblebee #fanfic #angst #bittersweet

[woolydemon]

TFA Shocks? Or tfa Sari =3

Tfa shockwave thoughts

First impression

Would it be bad to say I was actually kinda fooled by him </3

I knew shockwave existed but somehow managed to not spoil myself abt the longarm part so im watching TFA like "wow longarm is so nice to bumblebee I like him :]]!!!" then the end of the episode i :0,,

So. I may be stupid

Impression now

Hes one of my top 3 favorite characters babyyyyyyyy!!!! I adore his design (i have a huge bias towards any design that had funky obscured/lack of facial features + its rlly cool just how monstrous he is) and i think he's got the potential to be very interesting!!

I just think he's a emo nerd (with severe gifted student problems) and that's pretty neat :]

(except the gifted student problems. thats not so neat)

I also simply don't see any interpretation of him that doesnt fit the way I see him <3

Favorite moment

I think his moments in Autoboot Camp a lot, he's genuinely nice to bee!! That's not a facade he put up (he defends bee when wasp was like "way to go numbnodes", helps him out of the locker, etc)

Idk despite whatever the Allspark Almanac or fandom interprets Shocks, hes not a cold heartless deceiver and the small details from this episode rlly show that

Also think his bumbling attempts to try to preserve his identity are funny, what a dork

Idea for a story

i would love to see a redemption arc for my man!!!! I want him to be able to move past his need for approval (especially from ppl like megatron) and find a sense of self worth for himself!!

I think he were given the chance to leave the decepticons, he would be end up being a neutral since he has personally witnessed the fucked up shit the Autobot government is up to. And then he could maybe like dedicate himself in trying to overthrow this corrupt government, not for the decepticons this time. Or maybe he can just finally do whatever he wants to do and pursue a career in the sciences

(Also it would be cool if he changed his eye color to yellow to indicate his departure from the faction)

Unpopular opinion

I HATE SADISTIC ASSHOLE SHOCKWAVE :[!!! it's just... Not fun?? At all??? Especially when a lot of that sadism is directed towards blurr

And also I think that Shockwave is not an old creepy man, I'm pretty sure there is never any mention of him in of being in the war ever in any media?? So I think he.. was not around during that

Now I'm gonna really rock the boat here and say I hc him as younger than Bumblebee (but not by much!! Hes like the equivalent of a couple months or year younger than bee). I just think it's a little funny ok?? Shockwave's like "ur just simply not mature enough to understand bumblebee" and bee is "IM OLDER THAN U >:["

Favorite relationship

Shockbee.. shockbee good. I think their interactions in Autoboot Camp are rlly sweet and their dynamic is fun!! Emo nerd and lil trouble man holding hands... very cool

Favorite headcanon

I constantly think about how Shockwave's first instinct while panicking is just. Violence

So like... What if he was conditioned as a decepticon to just to resort to violence if things go really South??? I can only imagine that while he was becoming friends with Bee he was thinking in his head "THIS IS NOT OK. THIS IS NOT OK. IM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FRIENDS WITH HIM. I HAVE TO KILL HIM"

This ... Is not healthy btw. This is a shockwave problem moment. hope he gets well soon,,,,,,,,,

Sari Sumdac thoughts

First impression

I was a little worried she was going to be an annoying human character :[ unrelated to that I recognized tara strong and was like "TWILIGHT SPAR-"

Impression now

She's definitely one of the best human characters I've seen so far in the tf franchise!! I like her and I hope good things happen for her <3

Favorite moment

I think abt how she says "if u wanna mess with my city ur gonna go through ME first" like hell yeah u go girl!!!!!

also love how the autobots take care of her when her dad went missing, like bro... They're family..

The BEST family moment though was when she finally broke down from the stress and grief of losing her dad and not having any record of her identity and then bumblebee picks her up and is like "it's ok!! cry as much as u need to, we'll always be there for you" and GOD THATS SO SWEET IT GENUINELY MAKES ME TEAR UP

Idea for a story

Ok I know I kinda already did this with the seinfeld fic comic but I would love to see a much more genuine look into about how she realizes that she's a lesbian by being around the autobots, since they're from a homonormative society, and then they're like "HELL YEAH!! CONGRATS ON UR LESBIAN"

and maybe they all go together to a pride event or smth

Unpopular opinion

I don't think I have any unpopular opinions?? Wish ppl respected her skin tone more maybe

Favorite relationship

Still haven't finished tfp but I love seeing Sari x Miko... Very cute <3

Favorite headcanon

I once joked with my friends about how she has a inhuman tolerance to spicy foods as a result of being Indian and also part robot.

She carries those mini siracha bottles And also makes lesbian earrings out of those bottles!!

On the completely opposite side of the spectrum, Bee has little to none spice tolerance so he's bawling his eyes out while Sari is pouring more hot sauce on her food

#transformers #tfa shockwave #tfa #sari sumdac #transformers animated #shockwave #// long post #thoughts moments

[sparklingpax]

idk where to put this but ok hear me out for a sec. sorry for the many typos you will probably find in this. and how incoherent some of it probably sounds since I’m literally dumping out all my thoughts onto this text post here idk lfglkjfs anyway so. 

TFP Optimus, Cerebros from Headmasters, SGM Metalhawk, Star Saber (Victory), and G1 Optimus need to start the Nice Dads Club where they just hang out and discuss their daily adventures and how their group of "kids" are doing, as well as various other activities because why not lol ^^  

askfdlkgs pls dont start with canon stuff and how its impossible for G1 Optimus to be with them bc he’s dead in that universe techincally sdkjfsj this is for fun let me live aaaa q///q

TFP Optimus would have probably come up with the idea, so he’s their founder and consultant if they ever need one,  Star Saber is Club President, Hawk handles organizing and planning their meetings/outings/etc, Cerebros provides their meeting spot (his ship), and G1 Optimus brings food. 

They meet every so often, when there’s no Decepticon activity happening; someone suggests they have a meeting so they contact Hawk, who will then look at calendars and stuff and call everyone up to see who can make it and when, how long they can stay, what they might want to do so he can draft an activity plan, etc. 

They meet up at wherever Cerebros and his Transtector are; he previously sent everyone out on their own patrol missions across the globe and told them not to return to the ship for at least 4 hours. That way, it’s empty and the bots can do whatever they plan on doing. 

Naturally, Cerebros  is there first, along with TFP Optimus. Shortly after, Hawk will arrive with Star Saber and G1 Op; Star Saber lets OP ride in his V-Star while he flies alongside Hawk. They meet up and go inside, already remarking to one another how stressful the past few weeks have been wherever they happened to be stationed. 

Sitting down in the main piloting room of the ship, the club members happily dig into whatever energon-based food G1 Op decided to make, which is without fail, always incredibly tasty. Sometimes it’s muffins, cookies, or sweetened energon squares. Whatever it is, it’s always a real treat. 

The second or third time they’d met up like this, Hawk commented on how human food tasted in comparison, since in his human body he can/has to eat that stuff. This prompted a crazy discussion that lasted nearly the whole time they were there! And somehow, it ended with a brief, calm debate about the hunting laws on some random planet they all remember being on but only briefly. 

After starting with snacks, maybe they play a game of cards, a board game, go for some kind of “field trip,” or simply continue talking. It’s whatever they feel like doing. 

Discussions about their “kids” would go something like G1 Optimus saying, “Bumblebee almost got himself killed again! I had to go save him..took on Megatron and all his goons msyelf! Everyone’s ok, save for a few scratches here and there!” 

“Oh boy,” Star Saber remarks, patting G1 Op on the shoulder. “You did well, Optimus. You know, the other day, the Decepticons kidnapped Jan and Stakeout and almost had them killed?” 

Everyone gasps until he tells them the rescue mission was successful :) 

“Ok, so I sent the kids out to buy groceries yesterday and guess what they told me when they returned, covered in dirt and without those groceries?” Hawk says, grinning. 

“Hawk, tell us!” Cerebros prompts, leaning in and taking a sip from his cup of Energon. 

Hawk rolls his eyes, pretending to be disappointed. “They went out and fought Decepticons by themselves in the desert.”

“Oh wow.” 

“And we were starting to think about giving Jan a ship with guns of his own..” Star Saber sighs heavily and grabs a leftover energon brownie from the plate, staring at it. 

“Thank goodness they made it out,” TFP Optimus says quietly, smiling warmly. “They seem to be a brave group of young warriors.”

Hawk nods affirmatively, feeling proud. 

“Irresponsible, but at least they beat them!” G1 Optimus flashes Hawk a thumbs-up. 

They ask Cerebros what his team’s been up to. He shrugs. “I advised Chromedome and Hardhead to wait for my command to raid an enemy base, but they went ahead and burst in alone, guns blazing!” Cerebros chuckles, swishing the liquid in his glass from left to right. “Of course the mission went well, Highbrow and Brainstorm came to help, but they did more to help with the cleanup rather than the fighting! I know, Chromedome and Hardhead are capable to handle this kind of thing alone, but...don’t they know we worry about them?” 

They share a quiet laugh. He turns to TFP Optimus, sitting and watching them with the most content expression on his face. 

“Anything new happen to you, Prime?” 

Optimus looks to the ceiling for a moment, then nods. 

“The kids, Miko, Jack, and Raf...” he pauses, trying to figure out how to best word this-- “....helped us remove an artifact from the museum, and Miko was captured in the process.” 

Hawk sits forward, concerned. “Decepticons?!”

“No, by humans.” Optimus pauses, embarrassed he’d let this happen. “More specifically, the law.” 

Star Saber and G1 Optimus exchange looks, smirking. “Ooo~ so the quiet Optimus Prime has in fact, broken human laws and stolen from a museum!” The Galaxy Defense Force Commander jokes. 

G1 Prime folds his arms. “The plot thickens!”

“Come on,” Hawk scolds them, chuckling lightly, “they had a reason!” 

“That’s true,” Cerebros chimes in to add. “I remember you emailed me about the artifact--the Energon Harvester, right? It’s a good thing it was destroyed.” 

The room quiets a bit and Star Saber nods, as well as Optimus and his G1 counterpart. 

“Fortunately, however, another human on our team--Agent Fowler--was able to rescue her from her...predicament. All is well otherwise at our base.....actually, now that I think about it, Rafael--our resident computer genius--just earned high honors at his school! We are immensely proud of him--especially Ratchet, who helped him study.”

“Oh, that’s very cool, Optimus!” Star Saber remarks applauding along with the others. He then nudges Hawk. “Hey, didn’t you mention on the way here that Minerva got some kind of award, too?”

“Ah--yes, a perfect test score on an important exam,” Hawk elaborates, smiling. “Waverider and Ginrai took the kids out to a restaurant outing this afternoon, actually.” The applause starts up again. 

“Well, no matter what, we’re proud of our teams, right? And the most important thing is that everyone’s safe. I, for one, am thankful for all the bots and humans who call themselves Autobots on my ship!” G1 Optimus prompts brightly after the noise dies down. Cerebros lifts his glass, eyes sparkling.

“I’ll drink to that!” 

And they cheer, lifting their own glasses and clinking them together.   

.....and so they talk like that about lots of other things, play another round of cards, perhaps, and then Cerebros will check the time and notify them Brainstorm will arrive first in 20 minutes. 

Frantically, the bots put everything back in order and collect their things. They make their way out of the ship, still laughing about something TFP Optimus had said, and all of them happy with how good of a time they’d had. 

“See you soon, everyone! Good luck with your teams!” Cerebros calls, standing in the doorway of the ship’s entrance tunnel. 

“Right back at you, Commander!” G1 Optimus calls with a friendly wave before boarding the V-star. 

Hawk smiles at him, nodding firmly. “Thank you for a good time, Commander Cerebros.” Then transforms and launches gracefully into the sky. 

“See you around!” Star Saber calls before transforming and leading his ship away from them. Cerebros turns to Optimus, still standing next to him. 

“You have a ride, Optimus?” 

“Yes,” Optimus smiles fondly. “Ratchet will activate the groundbridge momentarily.” 

“Alright then, so I’ll see you soon, I hope?”

“Of course,” Optimus shakes hands with the Headmasters commander. “And I’ll be emailing you those shielding plans, right?” 

“If you still want to!” 

Then the bridge opens up. Cerebros waves. Optimus nods one final goodbye, regarding the sight of Cerebros and the ship behind him with warmth. Then, steps through the groundbridge. 

///

GJDFLKJDSKFS IF YOU READ THIS ILY THANK YOU & ALSO IM SO SORRY AAA Q///Q

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[whatudottu]

Because I've held this off for too long, once again it seems that @nukeli has beaten me to the punch with colour schemes. Damn my procrastination or whatever, but I only just realised that I didn't put any mention of the 'fodder' classes (Vehicons, Insecticons and I suppose Autotroopers since I'm including them) and wanted to put down my thoughts before writing this up.

An added bonus here is that certain character have different alts (based on character changes and even the heavier focus of 'robots in disguise' that these Decepticons are after) so it's not just me ranting about colour schemes.

Yes, this was why I was complaining about the wiki altmodes, so deal with the vehicles I found instead. May or may not be due to me using images as references haha.

The Autobots (you are here)

The Decepticons Part 1

The Decepticons Part 2

Going in order of my notes, we begin with Cliffjumper. He’s obviously a 1970 Dodge Challenger and what colours I’ve given him are on the image below. Nothing much to say about a definitely dead character other than I didn’t just wanna make him blue.

Next on the list is good old Doctor Ratchet. I’ve had it in my mind ever since Nuke’s one post that SG!Ratchet was like Medic from TF2, so I guess I took it and ran.

To play an opposite to regular Ratchet, he comes across as affable and friendly but is really just doing the things he loves to people he hates. Autobots, Decepticons, hates everyone. He despises Optimus Prime too, but he can’t do anything unless he wants to be cooped up in his berthroom reattaching his limbs for it. Believe him, he tried.

As for altmode and colours, I spent way too long finding that he resembles a Mercedes Benz G-Class ambulance that I was ticked to find out he wasn’t at all. I special looked for the green coloured ambulance because Synth-En, duh!

Breaking in after the Doctor comes our local wrecker Bulkhead. I don’t have much of a read on this guy, other than the fact that I thought it’d be a cool idea for him to lose a lot of his memories after ‘TMI’, ya know, from the Synth-En recipe? Certainly not set in stone, but it could very well contribute to my accidental theme of memory (which only has some small links in the posts I actually created).

With the help of my car enthused cousin I have given our not so loveable mech a Terradyne Gurkha, a little more military than the wiki’s off-roader Lamborghini that I’m too annoyed to bother to look at. I thought that the military origins and the black colour scheme sorta allude to something something mindless military man. yada yada.

Following him is our ever wonderful Optimus Prime, or maybe Lord Prime? Haven’t thought too much about that. What I have thought of is this master manipulator who mayhaps also be a little bit delusional idk we’ll decide in the car.

I always loved the idea of a smiling SG!Prime, as if there’s still hints of this benevolent leader that the original has, but it’s warped and meant to add fodder to the war, encouraging mechs to fight to their deaths all in the name of not only the Autobots, but their Prime. Also as a warped version of the original, I wanted Shattered Glass Optimus to be deluded in the fact that Megatron will change, change at least, to submit to the real leader. Ain’t happening. That’s sorta there with Ratchet too, but well, you read Ratchet’s piece didn’t you?

SG!Prime is consistently purple and black, and whilst I have found a Peterbilt Semi Truck with that wonderful colour, it comes with white instead. Think about it, this typically evil colour paired with often innocent white, that’s like perfect for what I’m going for.

Fitting that he’s next, it’s time for Prime’s Second In Command Ultra Magnus. I’ve... really got nothing for him. Maybe he’s still by-the-books but like he finds loopholes just to commit atrocities? I don’t know.

I’ve given this boy a Mack Trident alt instead of Prime’s Peterbilt, just for differences sake.

After Magnus, we got our little bug Bumblebee... or is it. Because I wanted to change his colours a bit without going into Beast Hunter territory, I wondered if bees come in different colours and, low and behold, they do!

As for the boy himself, I think he was one of the bots manipulated by Prime himself to join the cause and, given his almost rewritten personality, has only lived through to this point in the war by sheer luck. This mech is an absolute menace, feral and powered by the need for Prime’s approval, tearing others with denta and servo more often than with stingers and blasters.

Now you’ve noticed I haven’t been using his name? That’s because he’s now Blue Band (I just realised he’s still bb haha)! He gets his name from the Blue Banded bee, and I found a Chevrolet Camaro to match.

In line with BB’s younger status, feast your eyes on Shattered Glass Smokescreen! Oh boy isn’t he a delight. His hero worship has essentially turned him to a prime (pardon the pun) candidate for Optimus to form into his perfect super soldier, who already would die for this deranged mech even before laying optics on this grand Prime.

So, he’s an absolute suck up, a straight up spoiled brat that has it harder than Blue Band for Prime’s acknowledgement, and is actively showing off and bragging that he’s Optimus’ favourite (he’s not, he just encourages it because that’s the easiest way to get Smokey to do what he wants).

Almost to reflect that (perhaps another pun) I found this gaudy Chameleon Chevy Corvette that absolutely SCREAMS show off.

Regrettably partnered up with him after the passing of Cliffjumper, Arcee has run out of patience. Not everything she does is motivated by Airachnid (what kind of character would that be? not a fun one) but she does often enjoy killing those connected with her. After Tailgate, she’s gotten a little mad, but her effectiveness otherwise increased so others never bothered to ‘fix’ her.

Having lost both of her partners, when she absolutely hates another (read; Airachnid and Starscream because he still kills Cliff) the best kind of revenge is putting her opponents in her own pedes. Oh, that mech’s growing attached to one of his comrades? Slice and dice them before their optics. Oh, that femme is finally coming out of her shell and making friends? Gore out their spark and hope that humans don’t decide this would be the perfect time to practice what they preach and save the life of that same mech with a hard to perform surgery that may or may not have been lost to time.

Okay so she’s obviously a Kawasaki Ninja (haha that’s kind of fitting) and I was tempted to make her pink like other Arcee iterations, but look at this fancy stuff right here. He hoo glowy look pretty!

Almost in leu of an Airachnid archetype, Wheeljack comes in. Though still quite the wrecker and ever the bomb enthusiast, instead of actively celebrating his impacts and going solo to stop the rust settling in, he’d rather be offed whilst mechs are distracted by his pretty explosion and lay forgotten in the dirt.

I may have accidentally rooted the unintentional memory theme deeply with the wreckers (Breakdown included) and maybe just took it and ran, giving everyone else a little connection, but Wheeljack is probably the most explicit in this idea. He hates nicknames (which i super Ratchet uses to mock him here in Shattered Glass) because that’s like... naming something you’re going to keep to quote that specific fic which, honestly, I can’t remember. Wheeljack split from others to stop them from remembering him and put himself closer to a situation where he can die alone, as morbid as that sounds. No grand death, no stupid death and no straight up suicide (generally that’s a VERY impactful kind of death) so just a mediocre end is what he’s been looking for for a little bit too long.

As for his colours, I apparently have no taste and should not have a car because I really like what this image has going for it. This C3 Corvette is probably one of the few cars that fits the straight up box of a sports car that Jackie’s got, so I’m sticking to it, so no, don’t show me the wiki I’m ignoring it this was too painful to give up dang it!

Okay, finishing off the bots, I have the Autotroopers. Sure, I’m not using a reference of a car to show off the colours, mainly because there’s also going to be flier troopers too, maybe... surely... definitely. Most depictions of them are white, you know, goodie goodie, and I’m tempted to just laze around and do just that. Instead, I think a goldish colour would be fun.

Aside from sharing a key colour with Ultra Magnus, essentially a war lawyer, which is perfect for subjects made to obey, a nice glimmering finish almost feels like they’re all manipulated by Prime to believe in the Autobot cause. I suppose the special devision, if there is one, would be a nice Prime purple, sorta like if it’s Optimus’ personal guard if he actually had any belief they would do their jobs.

Oh boy this is so long...

#shattered glass #tfp shattered glass #cliffjumper #tfp cliffjumper #ratchet #tfp ratchet #bulkhead #tfp bulkhead #optimus prime #tfp optimus prime #ultra magnus #tfp ultra magnus #bumblebee #tfp bumblebee #smokescreen #tfp smokescreen #arcee #tfp arcee #wheeljack #tfp wheeljack #autotroopers #tfp autotroopers #okay wow that was a lot #when i was typing this my ‘L’ key gave out #real fun #transformers #tfp #headcanon #ramblings

[libermachinae]

An Abundance of Prowls

I remembered the first time I read IDW, feeling like I couldn’t get a hold on Prowl’s character, like he existed as a general concept but I was never really sure what his goals were or why he did... anything he did. I mentioned it to my girlfriend, who was delighted to introduce me to the discourse of our local cop car/war criminal.

Months later, in anticipation of Prowl Week, I said to myself, “Well, I could read through all of Prowl’s appearances, in the order they were published in, and see how the writers developed him over time. That could help make sense of his character.”

Friends. It did not. Here’s a summary, plus my thoughts. [Spoilers ahead!]

Infiltration: Prowl’s first appearance in IDW is him yelling at Ratchet for exposing the Autobots to the humans. We’ll call this guy Rule-Abiding Prowl, and he’s very steady/boring throughout the rest of the -ation series. His main function is to try to stop kids from being involved in the plot. Thanks Furman.

Spotlight: Kup: Our first glance of Spec Ops Prowl. Though he’s not physically present for most of the issue, Nick Roche still delivers a Prowl who is behind the scenes, pulling the strings. I was honestly surprised by how early on this was set up, considering everything we’re about to trudge through.

Megatron Origin: More Rule-Abiding Prowl, this time by Eric Holmes. He has a job, he does as he’s told, he clings to the chain of command like a padlock.

All Hail Megatron: Seven instances in which we’re victorious! It’s number-cruncher Prowl time; also anxious, war-weary, slightly hopeless Prowl. Maybe Shane McCarthy was trying to do a combination Roche and Furman? It’s all for naught, in the end, because Roche got brought back in to follow up on Kup’s story and he dove all the way in with Prowl being a sneaky bastard.

Spotlight Prowl: Can’t get too far ahead of ourselves, though! Mike Costa wanted Prowl to be a hardboiled detective with a a spark of gold SO BAD. Also the point at which Prowl falls into his terrible cycle of learning a lesson only to learn the opposite thing in the next issue. In this case, it’s between doing what’s right regardless of the rules, and sticking to the rules because order is paramount. Is this unresolved internal conflict going to haunt our boy for the rest of the continuity? Mmmm. Transformers V1 is more of the same, except now Prowl has a little buddy. Can’t lie, Streetwise delights me and I wish he’d stuck around.

Death of Optimus Prime: Co-written by Barber and JRo, so it’s tricky to say who exactly was responsible for what, although I have a feeling JRo was all over that Peaceful Resolution backstory. This does provide a perfect bed in which to sew the seeds of who Prowl will be in the coming arc.

MTMTE: Okay, full disclosure? I jotted this guy down as Warm Prowl in my notes. Through flashback, JRo gives us a gentler version of the character whose blunt nature and vow to regulation are underscored by a hidden concern and appreciation for his partner, Tumbler. Don’t look at me, I think about the conversation about the coming war and them leaving together all the goddamn time. Also, JRo waves at his buddy Roche’s Spec Ops Prowl from afar.

RID: War’s over, everyone can (literally!) go home! Prowl? Hey, bud, did you hear the news? No, ofc not, because this is Endless War Prowl, the guy who is convinced the Neutrals are out to murder everyone and also that Bumblebee sucks at his job. This is also the arc where Bombshell happens :(

Dark Cybertron: Prowl Buries His Trauma

Spotlight Bumblebee: Rude boy. Doesn’t like Bumblebee? Doesn’t respect the chain of command?

Autocracy/Monstrosity/Primacy: Prowl wants to follow rules! He trusts Optimus’ judgement! Babey Prowl.

RID Pt 2: It’s hard to classify this Prowl because so much of what he does in this arc is in response to things that have been done to him. The Decepticons mind controlled him, so he has to keep them from getting the Engima. He’s been saddled with gestalt coding, so now he needs to have the Constructicons along wherever he goes. Spike Witwicky betrayed him years ago, so dammit, now he’s gotta spend a Saturday trying and failing to squish one tiny human. He’s Renegade Prowl in my notes, because this is definitely the point where he stops giving a shit about rules. (Get a teeny bit of Warm Prowl, tho, when he calls Bumblebee his best friend. Kinda comes out of nowhere, the guy could have used your support like, any time over the last few years, but it’s a nice moment.)

Combiner Wars: Absolutely loses his goddamn shit. It’s like Spec Ops Prowl, going behind everybody’s backs, making the “hard choices” (he’s literally deciding to kill off the Cybertronian species; please keep this detail in mind), but he does it all as a giant combiner who solves problems by smashing them, so we’re gonna stick with Renegade Prowl. Barber wants to blame this on gestalt coding. I shrug and say sure, though I do raise a hand to question it when Optimus proceeds to beat him up for it.

Sins of the Wreckers: NAUGHTY SPIDER TIME. Roche takes all of Barber’s Bitch Prowl energy and embellishes it with those sweet spec ops tactics we’ve been missing so dearly. Gone are giant combiners smashing shit: now it’s just Prowl having ideas, making deals, and twisting morality to suit his own needs while desperately trying to avoid the fact that he has a conscience. Roche also makes the fascinating move of highlighting Prowl’s shittiness while subjecting him to Tarantulas’ arguable shittierness. There’s a nice moment at the end when he decides he wants to do better going forward, though Roche leaves it open for other authors’ interpretations via violent interruption by Impactor. Nick Roche never writes Prowl again, and an infinitesimal part of the internet grieves.

MTMTE Pt 2: AKA the misadventures of Luna I, AKA the one scene where Prowl’s helping with the dishes and actually seems comfortable for the first time in centuries. JRo takes a comedic approach to the character which is evocative of his Warm Prowl invention. Just one thing. Remember that detail I told you to remember earlier? About how he was entirely ready to bring Cybertronians to extinction? Here to Sentinel, Prowl says, and I quote, “And unlike you, I don’t feel the urge to kill the rest of my species.” I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this, so rather than risk turning this into an actual literary essay, I’m going to leave it at that.

Optimus Prime: Two versions of Prowl in here: one from the past, where he describes himself as “unpopular” and beats up Jetfire, and present-day, where he somehow ends up in a ship with Stardrive, Garnak, Wheelie, and a vamparc gun from Autocracy. No one bothers to explain how this came about, the same way no one explains how by the books, rule-driven Prowl started battering prisoners before the war ever started.

Unicron: The most bizarre. Prowl does his whole logic thing, gotta sacrifice Devisiun so we can save everyone else, y’know. But then, in the showdown with Shockwave, he gives a whole speech about how the real battle is within the self, to make sure goodness prevails or something like that. It comes out of nowhere and I guess is a follow up from the Wreckers, but honestly idk?

Lost Light epilogue: Rule-Abiding Prowl! Hey dude, how you been? Work for Windblade now? Have an official job reviewing Functionist Cybertron and establishing ties with the Galactic Council? Neat!

Optimus Prime epilogue: Giving this one its own thing because it’s one of Prowl’s most memorable moments for me, personally. He begins by acknowledging his own multifaceted nature through an argument with Shockwave, arguing that every one of an individual’s identities are “real” and rendering this entire exercise moot. After I dragged myself off the floor from that realization, I went straight into the line that has always stuck with me, “We are our actions... not our hopes.” Barber wraps up Prowl’s character by having him acquiesce to the criticism he’s been facing since the beginning of the continuity. It places a heavy emphasis on Spec Ops Prowl, the one who made “hard choices” in hope of possibilities that rarely came to pass, but is not entirely bound to that identity. Every aspect of Prowl I’ve described here performed actions that influenced the overall plot of the comic, though his motivations throughout are rarely transparent. What do we make of it, now that the character himself is now saying they didn’t matter? Is Prowl the sum total of the crimes he committed, friends he betrayed, and lives he sacrificed? In our calculations of Prowl, is there any variable that represents an unclaimed seat on the Peaceful Resolution?

Answering that question isn’t what I set out to do here, though, and I’ve already had to stop myself from writing an English essay once. I hope someone finds this useful, because putting it together was like building a puzzle of pieces that don’t quite fit together. You could even argue that not all of them are important, and that some bring down the integrity of the whole. They’re all in the box together, though, so we’ve gotta make something out of them.

#maccadam #idw tf #prowl #my writing

[hellafa]

finished siege. full thots below

so like not gonna lie, i was a bit skeptical of how this was going to turn out, considering it’s produced by rooster teeth. i used to be a fan, and i do still sometimes watch new rvb stuff, but honestly they’ve lost a Lot of what made them good. plus several shows that theyve made - camp camp and rwby for example - have made quite... questionable decisions when it came to certain aspects.

all in all though, it went how i expected: mediocre.

there was regularly shoed in elita/optimus, rushed redemption arcs, randomly killing off main characters for nothing but shock value, the animation was meh - the models were quite ugly and it could get choppy at times - and the voice acting for quite a few characters was Not good.

good bits: the music fit at some points. i enjoyed ratchet having a clinic that treated both autobots and decepticons, it really fit his character. having soundblaster being a failed clone of soundwave is a really neat idea, and i hope they come back to it in the future.

bad bits: there was quite a lot of this unfortunately. making elita one just the “concerned girlfriend” character, practically just every scene with her in her saying ‘this isnt what i wanted for us :(’ to optimus - like elita one in several continuities is a fucking badass who can stand independant of op. hopefully she’ll get more time to shine next part.     the designs. some of them were GOD awful. i’ve already mentioned my distate for megatrons lips but by gods they were bad. they seemed to try to be too-toy accurate, to the points where the kibble just seemed ridiculous on an actual moving character. and with female characters like arcee and elita, having basically all of their alt mode be on their back was just bad     the allspark macguffin. i don’t think that the idea of a life-giving source is bad, but idk the fact that it’s never been developed or explored more than “cybertron cube” is annoying. hell the cyberverse allspark was probably the most interesting, if only because it spawned cheetor to look after it.     a lot of the voice acting was bad. i liked soundwaves voice, but ops was not really good, and a lot of the characters ended up sounding bored or out of place.     jetfire being a decepticon who defects to the autobots is a good idea, like thats literally what his introduction was in g1, but it seems really rushed. he didn’t have a problem with basically kiling unarmed autobots at the beginning of the series, whats his problem now? and we didn’t get to see ANYTHING like that for impactor. he simped to death instead 😔😔😔     the story was rather confusing. i get theyre starting in media res, and want to do show not tell, but i was legit scratching my head at points, and i doubt it was in any way the writers intended me to.

one of my main issues though is the kind of classist undertone to it all though. like several times throughout the series decepticons talk about how they were lower class citizens, made to work till they die, just so cushy bots could live up the high life. and then most of those cushy bots joined the “good guy” team, and the exploited wage slaves joined the “bad guy” team. it’s really not a good look. especially a) in these circumstances and b) like in a sense that you can go too far - you can be too not racist, too not classist, or that your revolt against your oppressors can lead you to becoming one yourself. i’m not saying that that isn’t possible, it’s just that i dont think rt has proven themselves to handle this kind of message very well, and also that given the current political climate ittttt kinda sucks.

anyway. tldr. 2/10. maybe i might like it if i rewatch it. prolly not though

#shut up dave #transformers #wfc siege #maccadam #i will not add more points on the score unless rodimus shows up then it will get a perfect ten

[transformersmr-hq]

Who’s Tarn in this AU, and what was he doing before the you-know-what happened?

(I'm not even sure if he exists in TFMR or not, but let's say he does for the sake of this question)

TFMR Tarn, also known as "a pompous [CENSORED]" by his colleague Overlord, is, well, a Tarn. Leader of something called Decepticon justice division, huge Megatron fanatic, ability to kill someone with his voice, 'Con insignia mask, all the basics are there. I wish I could say he's a vicious and formidable villain, but then the very fabric of TFMR universe is made of shitty jokes and bullscraps so...

Tarn may be a hulking scale-6 assault tank, but his spark bears a sophisticated mind with great passion towards art. From classical music to contemporary theatres, he knows how to appreciate and enjoy a masterpiece when he sees one. In fact, he likes to indulge in practicing a certain type of performance art himself: the art of murdertorturing.

Not being ironic here. This nutcase legitimately believes that pulling someone's brain module out through their optic socket is a "way to express his creativity". He claims himself to be a maestro, because do you have any idea how hard it is to keep the victim alive untill all the torture techniques are performed? There's no way he'd just stab stab bang bang and be done with it like other mediocre murderes out there! He's got so many screws loose that it's hard to find ones that are still in place, and he's perfectly aware of it himself; but whatever, all the great artists are quirky like that.

 ​As for his backstory, I could say "idk probably something similar to IDW Tarn" and stay at that (like I said, idk if he's even relevant to the story), but then I'd also like to imagine him as some poor dude who really wanted to become a musical actor or something. After long years of excruciating study-practice and dealing with every "TaNkS sHoUlD b In Da ArMy LOOOOOOOL" bullscrap people threw at him, he finally gets his own debut stage (which was some kind of talent show). His dream came true at very long last... but then his outlier ability suddenly decided to develop at that exact moment. Yeah, the "snuffing sparks with voice" thing. Many deaths happened, and then he got Institute'd and had his sanity screwed up.

He's one of the very few bots Megatron sincerely regrets taking under his wing, because even the Lord Clown himself doesn't know what to do with THIS brand of nutjob. He really should've thought twice before telling Tarn to "go and kick some traitors in the aft? Idk", because I'm pretty sure Tarn has killed more 'Cons than 'Bots at this point.

Also he's got hots for Pharma. Why? Idk he's crazy so why wouldn't he?

#ask #transformers mirror mirror #answer #Tarn #Tarn is a baritone #his favorite repertoire is Enpyrea Hymm no.42 - Arie: Come Unto Your Maker #and is a huuuuge romantic #would have been a decent renaissance mech if he wasn't a murderthirsty manbaby #maccadam #transformers: mobius run

[tfw-no-tennis]

mtmte liveblog issue 22

oooh man, its time to feel some EMOTIONS!

I'm BACK after a hiatus, which was due in part to me getting my 1st dose of the covid vaccine! woohoo!

anyways, starting here w/issue 22....we have a great cover w/thunderclash, the legend himself

oof. the covers made me forget how much I don't like the art this issue...I hate to be mean to the artists but this art style just isn't doin it for me chief

god I love this issue though. the framing device of rewind’s movie is so so fantastic

tailgate listing off all his fake awards/accomplishments....ily 

rodimus my boy, you're a prime in my heart

the ‘not a decepticon’ label for cyclonus is so much hvbhkjfbskjf

I literally wanna comment on every single panel bc I love all the characters so much but then id be here forever...that being said whirl ily sm 

hvbjdfbhsfjhdfshja BRAINSTORM ‘according to perceptor - ships genius’ hvhdkjhbfhjs ily dumb gay idiot

and then the cut to perceptor after brainstorm like, blew up his lab vjbkdsfnbksjf dude

GODDDDDD drift ‘your name...defines you. it’s your soul expressed in syllables. hm? oh, yes, sorry. it’s drift.’ GOD he’s so fucking funny. I love early story hippy drift

god I cant stop thinking about how good this whole issue would be as an animated show...like, specifically rewinds film, it would be SO FUCKING GOOOOOOD mtmte show WHEN

rewiiiiind ;_; I fuckgin love rewind god. fellow video editing enthusiast....

ohhhh rodimus being embarrassed about his big speech at the beginning of mtmte....my boy I love u so much

gjhnbgehjsrkfbjksf magnus being suspicious of rewind oh my god. magnus ily but please, look at the lil guy, he’s a good boy, most of the time

the fuckgin footage that magnus removed hbvhakjbfhskf god. wasn't that intended to be footage of magnus dancing? I love him

minibot squad.....

and here it begins, the mystery stick rung question...

poor rung oh my god he’s just trying to polish his lil spaceship and people r throwing shit at him. taking Ls as per usual it seems

hand grenade tag hvbfjksdnfbkjdf love that callback

noooo rungs ship :( 

magnus’s censorship vhbhadkjfhdbhjsakjhfn

oh man I forgot about how they met that race of Transformers But More 

the one-upsmanship hbvkajsbehfjks

whirrrrrl lmao I love whirl sm

goddddd whirl just killing that other alien and ending the 16 million yr long civil war bvkjsdbfhjjkafs so fucking much

oh god oh god the ‘are you happy’ page, I'm not emotionally equipped to handle this like, ever

but I will say I feel like it would be EVEN MORE oof if it were milne or someone drawing it bc I feel like this art style takes away from some of the impact bc the expressions aren't really that...expressive? idk how to put it

anyways. every single answer destroys me!!! like even the happy ones, like chromedome and rewind and tailgate - well, in present time, none of those three are doing so hot, so that makes this just hurt 

and rung....that is so fucking depressing. jesus. this guy is so fuckng sad, somebody get him a friend stat

and swerve...ouch. this readthru I've really noticed how much early-mtmte swerve is not-so-subtly like, crying out for help bc he’s so alone and shit. jesus 

also brainstorms response is just plain ole sad w/context, but at this point in the story without context, it just seems very foreboding lmao. I'm realizing this readthru that brainstorm is very sketchy and ominous in a particular ‘is he evil?’ mad scientist sorta way in early mtmte

and then everyone else is also just so OOF in their own unique sad ways, but I think the worst out of everyone is drift....GODDDDDD. especially considering that at this point in the story, drift is this kinda goofy hippy guy, so seeing him just sit there with his face in his hand, not even answering the question...AND knowing that shortly after this he’ll end up banished...IT FUCKING HURTS M8!

meanwhile, the more upbeat ‘quest to see rungs alt mode’ continues...with an ‘alt mode party’ vhbadkjsdfnabskjf it looks so silly with a bunch of cars just sitting around a table lmao

I cant even tell who everyone is bc they so rarely turn into cars n shit lmaoooooo 

rodimus with the bucket on his head hbvhakjbfskjf I CANT

everyone’s reactions to thunderclash...i fucking love it

the fact that TAILGATE doesn't hate him, even though we’ve seen that tailgate tends to dislike people who are universally liked/who have achieved a lot of impressive things

rodimus you petty thot vbdkjbfdjhsakjdf ily

RODIMUS IS SO FUNNYYYYYY ‘I'm not making all these sacrifices and leading these guys into battle and being inspirational - I'm not doing that because it makes me look good’ RODIMUS VBHSKJDFNBKSJF

thunderclash talking about magnus’s article on typefaces....hdbksjfsdbkjgfb bro

AND THEN MAGNUS HUGS HIM....HGBSKJFDSHFKD I CANT

POOR DRIFT bvhajkdfbhjkjsfd rodimus saying he ‘rehabilitated him’ oh my god

the whole spectralism thing...im sorry I cant get over how funny all this is vbakdjfbksjf thunderclash rlly b out here charming rodimus’s entire crew

and then ratchet comes in, calling tc ‘thunders,’ and tc immediately notices ratchets new hands (somehow) hvbkjfhbskjf truly amazing

it cracks me up that rodimus is all 😒😒 at thunderclash, even though as we come to find out, tc really IS That Perfect, and him complimenting rodimus isn't sarcasm at all lmao

AND THEYRE LOOKING FOR THE KNIGHTS OF CYBERTRON TOO HVSDHFJBSHKHDFJS OF COURSE

the vis vitalis being a life support machine spaceship is a really cool concept tho

‘rescuing some orphans from an exploding sun’ I fucking cant

evil guy: [holds a gun to thunderclash’s head] 

rodimus: :D finally something doesn't go his way!

he’s so petty I’m..........dkdjhfdabhduifadijgl

and its the aliens from earlier! oooh

GODDD I forgot that swerve used rung in mystery stick mode to SCHWACK the guy

rung casually dropping the fact that the functionists like, experimented on him...there's a lot of implications there, and that'll certainly be explored more later...

the fact that his ID card says ‘rong’ hvbhjakhdsbfakhsjfn 

oughufadkfujbsfk the circle of light throwing wrenches n shit at skids...guys cmon vbhsdjkfnslfd

the circle of light is like ‘wtf you all have trauma and a bunch of weird unhealthy coping mechanisms this is wack byeeeee’ lmao

skids calling the lost light his home is rlly sweet tho

cant believe the religious space hippy cult is being so rude about a film made by a guy who died like a week ago. unreal 

cd finally figured out how to make the pffft sound, good for him

AUGHHHHH the fact that rewind used ‘little victories’ as the title of the film and that's something that chromedome said in the video ;_; I'm fucking inconsolable 

rodimus, despite his obvious posturing for the camera during the whole issue, comes off as surprisingly genuine when he says that he hasn't thought about his own future much, but wants the crew to have a happy ending....im gonna cry

‘who knows what's around the corner?’ tailgate, PLEASE don't say that, oh my god, 

OUGHHHH GROUP SHOT 

OHHH mannnnNNNNN i love this issue SO MUCH. what a good fun emotional rollercoaster wrap-up to mtmte s1. god. 

like, this issue has it all - humor, drama, crippling sadness, intrigue, worldbuilding...it’s so excellent 

and getting to see rewind again hurts so bad but also I love him

ok quick mtmte s1 retrospective...god s1 is so fucking good. I'm gonna have to read more to say which chunk of mtmte I liked best but s1 is so fucking excellent that it might be my favorite. though its hard to pick bc there's so much good stuff later on too...whatever, the point is s1 is so so good

the plotlines and characters are fucking stellar. like I cant even believe how well Everything works, its very impressive. I cant really think of anything major that made me go ‘yeah could've done without that plotline/character’

I love how dedicated jro is to connecting everything. I've mentioned it before but basically every single moment in the series has payoff - what you initially think is just a funny moment, or a fluffy character establishment bit, ends up ALSO being an important plot point later, in some way

an example would be here w/rung and his alt mode - it just seems like a fun little B-plot for this issue, and seems to pretty neatly conclude with the reveal that rung was eventually classified as an ‘ornament’ (lmao)...but we later on get to see a lot more about this, both here and in the functionist universe 

and like, stuff like tailgate’s autobot lessons w/magnus - at first that can be seen as purely character establishment stuff, showing that magnus is a strict rule-lover and tg is a loveable try-hard good boy - but that becomes plot relevant in remain in light, with tailgate saving the day due to his knowledge of the autobot code (and its also character relevant, with magnus’s arc in remain in light). 

and I know this is like. a normal regular thing in writing, but I'm just very impressed about how cleanly jro pulls it off, and how many things he’s juggling at once, especially in early mtmte - it’s very ambitious!

and we gotta remember, this is a comic book. I've read a lot of comic books, and the quality is all over the place. a lot of writers bite off more than they can chew, and the story ends up kinda scattered as a result. 

another thing I see a lot in franchise writing like this is a lack of strong early character establishing due to the author assuming the readers are at least somewhat familiar with the characters already - which can be totally fair depending on where it is in the continuity, but other times it can come off as lazy

in mtmte, the cast is extremely well fleshed out, and not only that, the cast itself is unique in that there are a lot of relative unknowns (franchise-wise) - which I think was an absolutely brilliant move, because then jro was able to essentially create The Definitive Version of these characters - characters like swerve, brainstorm, chromedome, rewind, tailgate...mtmte is their baseline characterization, because they haven't really appeared in much else

this also allows for deviation from the franchise norms - again, a comic book classic is good writing being stifled by a need to stick to a certain status quo regard the characters, the world, the powers, relationships, etc

(I've mostly read DC comics, and some marvel, so I'm thinking superheroes w/all these comic comparisons)

so mtmte had a good recipe for genuine creativity in that the characters were relative unknowns, the plot was basically ‘space road trip,’ the status quo of ‘autobot vs decepticon war’ had been demolished throughout the entire franchise...so jro was able to take all that and run, and it turned out so fantastic

and luckily it isn't over yet! so many comics suffer from premature cancellation...and sadly mtmte/ll isn't exempt from this, as we’ll see later, but I've seen some awful ones, where comics are forced to wrap up in like 2 issues while in the middle of an arc. yikes. 

but another comic staple...one of my least favorite things about comics books in general...something that was basically responsible for driving me away from comics after reading a bunch...the dreaded crossover event

yep, even mtmte isn't immune to this unfortunate plague on the comic industry. crossover events are the absolute worst, and I'm saying this as somebody who adores crossovers (in concept more than execution usually). they SHOULD be my favorite, but unfortunately they p much always completely suck

they're essentially a ploy to get you to read the other ongoing titles, but they usually only serve to bog down whatever story you're reading to the point where you don't even wanna read that one anymore, let alone read all the other ongoings. at least, that’s been my experience 

it doesn't help that reading orders tend to be hard to find/keep track of, and that you need to go read the other series to know what's going on. I just hate it, like, I came here to read THIS series, I don't want a bunch of other series showing up too - even if I was reading two series, I wouldn't want them crossed over, because they're separate stories! augh!

I'm totally losing my focus here but my point is...crossover events suck, and mtmte unfortunately is involved in one. I have not read dark cybertron, and I'm not about to. I've heard nothing but bad things so I have no desire to inflict that upon myself 

soooo ill be reading through the tfwiki articles for those issues to give myself a better understanding of what went on - which is more than I've ever done in the past - and maybe ill even make a single post summarizing my thoughts on what I read in the wiki, lmao

but yea ill be skipping to the mtmte s2 stuff next 

phew ok I'm super tired, my vision keeps blurring out and stuff lmao. its time for bed, I probably have more thoughts but ill save them for later. for now...peace out!

#lj rereads mtmte

[bots-and-cons]

Oh! How about a scenario where Megatron has a massive argument with is Cybertronian S/O because they don’t agree with his agenda against earth and humans. Bonus if the argument ends badly. Give me that angst!

Seeker s/o, Idk if this is super angsty but I like how it turned out.

You had stood by him through everything. Through his days as a gladiator, his rise to a warlord and through the fall of your planet. You had waited for him as he searched through the galaxy for an answer to what he should do next, and now he was finally back.

You were laying on his chest in his habsuite and tracing the seams of his helm with your finger. Megatron was running his hand along your back and stopping at every transformation seam to pay them special attention.

“I missed you” you sighed deeply.

“I missed you as well my love, I apologize for being gone for so long”

“Do you have any plans on how we are going to continue? Those pesky autobots have stumbled on us again, and even though Starscream took care of one, they aren’t going to give up on trying to stop you”

“Ah yes Optimus Prime and his team of desperate autobots. They pose no threat to us my love, I found something on my travels which is going to give me an edge against them”

You sat up on top of him, your hands on his chest and looked at him questioningly.

“No need to keep me in suspense here, you always tell me what’s going on” you huffed.

Megatron grinned and placed his servos on your hips, before saying: “I have found blood of Unicron, the dark energon, it will allow me to bring hordes of undead from Cybertron to conquer this planet.”

You blinked a few times in surprise.

“Are you serious? You’ll kill all the native life forms of this planet if you do that” you crossed your arms in front of you.

“Do not fret my love, they will perish so we can build a new home here, it’s an honor for those puny organics” he spat out the last word like it tasted bad, but his disgust quickly formed into a smile, like he wasn’t just talking about killing of an entire planet’s population.

You shook his servos off your waist and hopped to the floor. As you stood up, Megatron sat up on the berth.

“Is something wrong my love?” he asked.

“Is something wrong? You’re going to kill off an entire planet full of organisms, they have just as much a right to a home as we do. You can’t just take that away from them”

You’re back was to Megatron as you spoke, but he stood up and placed his servos on your shoulder plating.

“I’m doing this for us, for all the cybertronians who have been refugees for so long, so we can have a home again”

“I don’t want a home, not like this” you said and turned to him, holding your servo over you decepticon badge.

“It is not for you to decide” Megatron growled and started stomping towards the habsuite door.

“Nor is it for you. You can’t doom an entire planet on one of your whims” you yelled at him.

“This is not on a whim” he yelled back.

“I won’t stand by you for this” you hissed and ripped your decepticon badge off.

You marched past Megatron and threw your badge over your shoulder, there wasn’t a noise so you assumed he caught it. He didn’t stop you, he didn’t chase you or tell you that there could be a different solution to this. You ran the whole way to the deck of the Nemesis. You doubted for a moment, you looked at the door to the deck, hoping it would open, hoping he would come to stop you, but he didn’t, so you jumped and took flight as you transformed.

Megatron was left standing at the door of his habsuite with your badge in his hand. He didn’t crush or scrunch it in his servo, like he would’ve undoubtedly done if it was anyone else’s. He placed it on his table, his fingers lingering on the purple badge. You would come back, he was sure of it, so why did he feel so empty?

#transformers #tfp #maccadam #transformers prime #decepticons #megatron #tfp scenarios #transformers angst #reader insert #tfp x reader #transformers x reader

[lovemesomerobobois]

Do you write for kup from idw?!? If so do you think we could have him introducing his s/o, whose like, REALLY CLASSY AND POSH but not snobbish, to the wreckers,? And if you want more maybe s/o is a beast in battle when kups hurt?? Or just basic headcanons on him XDD

Ok, so I got a soft spot for all the old wrecks, Kup definitely included, but I’m not that familiar with the other Wreckers, so yeah. ANYWAY idk if I got the classy right but i hope you like it, anon! ❤

Rated m for language and canon-typical violence. ~

Of course their transmission had been intercepted. Why wouldn’t it be? Not as if Springer and Kup had taken precautions when setting up the rendezvous. Kup cursed as he steered the ship, avoiding shots from the ground and air. You manned the guns while Kup circled overhead the other Wreckers fighting on the ground. Everyone seemed to be holding their ground, but the rogue Decepticons were heartier than the usual run-of-the-mill crew. A challenge, but certainly not an impossible one.

From the gunner seat, you called to Kup, “I am running out of ammunition fast, darling!”

“Yeah, ‘m workin’ on landin’.”

You loved watching him work, so focused, brow furrowed and a cigar pinched between scowling lips. For as long as you’d known and loved Kup, it was moments like these when he was most invigorating, dangerously intoxicating. You soaked it up, even as you took fire on the enemy.

“Fuck it,” Kup snapped, landing atop a cluster of Cons. 

The second you were touched down, he shot up and out the door. You were tight on his heels, blaster at the ready. Outside, you were immediately flocked by enemies and separated. You thrashed, blocking fists and grubby servos on all sides while taking shots to the back. In all the chaos, you refused to be knocked down. Never again would you fall to your knees before a Decepticon. There was no pride in that. 

Roughly a mile away, Springer and the rest of the Wreckers were surging through the mass of Cons, calling for Kup. You swiveled to try and find your partner, but caught a right hook to the jaw instead and staggered backwards into another Con. The mech’s breath was acid in your nose, but when he grabbed you by the shoulders and lifted, you could just make out Kup. He was a couple hundred yards away, pinned to the engine of his own ship. His face was bloody and a mech was sinking a dagger into his midsection while others held his arms and legs.

The Decepticon crushing you whispered something filthy into your audial, but you’d already clocked out. Nothing and no one but Kup had your focus. You kicked back against whoever confined you and burst into a sprint the second your pede found sufficient footing. Shoulder down, running at full force, you cleared your own path to Kup. You lunged just as the mechs holding him opened their mouths, perhaps to warn their comrade, perhaps to mock you, but you never did hear them. Maybe there was nothing to be heard. 

The Con with the knife whirled, but your servos were already closing on his throat, your blaster under his chin. A single bullet at such close, inescapable range did exactly what you’d intended. It blew the mech’s brain module out. Not your cleanest kill, but awfully satisfying. The mech was dead before he hit the ground. 

The other Wreckers pulled up and made quick work of the straggling Cons. You knelt before Kup, holding a rag to his stomach. He glowered and started to protest, but you shushed him with a chaste kiss. 

“I know, I know,” you said, “you didn’t need my help.” You never believed that when you said it. 

Kup scoffed and looked away, avoiding your piercing gaze. He used to be thrown off by those keen optics of yours. They caught everything on the surface and in his spark and he pretended like that sort of vulnerability didn’t terrify him. Maybe it was thrilling too, he still couldn’t tell. All the centuries Kup had been alive and he still couldn’t figure himself out. You helped him to his feet and kept an unassuming arm around his waist so he could lean on you without being too obvious about it. Not like he’d been stabbed or anything. 

They were surrounded by mangled corpses, but this wasn’t anyone’s first battlefield. Impactor, oddly enough, was the first Wrecker to formally introduce himself. That had been the whole point of this meet-up. He extended a servo to Kup and then to you. 

“Impressive work,” he said. 

Perceptor mumbled a distracted greeting as he forced Kup to sit back down so he could fix the older mech up. Springer, Twintwist, Pyro and Topspin introduced themselves in that order. 

“Nice to finally make your acquaintances,” you said. That earned you a round of strange looks. You couldn’t imagine how you appeared; ragged, to say the least, covered in energon that wasn’t yours, with no shine left to your polish. But you figured the most foolhardy group of die-hard Autobots would be used to that. 

In the back of the group, Topspin muttered something inaudible. Springer, ever alert, snapped at him to speak up. Topspin grumbled something else and then asked the dreaded question. 

“Aren’t you kinda young for ole Kup?”

Kup swatted Percy’s servos away from his wounds. “Fuck age,” he snarled. 

You smiled at his curtness and added, “Age is as irrelevant now as it has ever been.”

“Pfft, like function?” Twintwist muttered. 

You stood a bit straighter, as if that were possible, and neatly folded your servos before you. “And what will you do about this. . . unseemly gap —although it wasn’t such a dramatic difference— in years?” It was a challenge, naturally, although you hoped no one accepted it. You just met these mechs, but you would defend yours and Kups’ relationship to your death. Even if it was from the Wreckers. 

Springer snorted. “No one’s going to get in between you two.” He came up and clapped you on the back as if you were old pals. “Not after seeing you fight.”

“Damn straight, no one gonna do shit,” Kup snarled. “I’ll fight all o’ Cybertron ‘fore anyone takes my conjunx away from me.”

You smiled, warmed by his declaration. You knew all too well that this stubborn old mech would go to the ends of the universe for you, and you wouldn’t hesitate in doing the same.

[autobot-ratchet]

war for cybertron siege episode two!!

oh whAT LAME I CAN’T TAKE SCREENCAPS ON NETFLIX THIS SUCKS oh well I was just gonna make fun of Magnus again for his cloak that doesn’t disguise him at all

Megatron at Jetfire and Starscream: CHILDREN, PLEASE

I keep forgetting that Prowl-recolor Barricade exists lmAO he does have a totally different, unique design that can be used but no, purple Prowl it is

I was gonna nitpick at this show for the way they animate Elita’s hip swivel as she walks but Megatron does it too so lmAO

aw Mango no

Megatron just has giant, wall-sized portraits of himself because of course he does

wh. you gotta tell me more about this battle, they were working together??? who were they fighting if not each other?????

poor Magnus. not sure what you thought was gonna happen but I appreciate your optimism

I like how “til all are one” has been a thing since G1 but I so strongly associate it with Rodimus now because of MTMTE that when Optimus said it I was just like “wait that’s Roddy’s thing”

eeeyyyyy it’s the allspark

so he’s gonna use the allspark to mind control all autobots into being decepticons?

bro why are you calling Optimus while you’re in jail they can probably track your signal or something and trace it back

“stellar cycles” huh. please just use real time measurements lmAO it’s like in fics when the author fuckin puts a time table of how many minutes are in a joor and how many joors are in a breem like dude I don’t fuckin care lmAO just say years

what the fuck squads you got everyone’s right here in this room, there’s like ten people

EEEYYYYYY SOUNDWAVE and he’s got his vocoder voice from G1 lmAO

what the fUCK DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRACKING OF THE SIGNALS

on the one hand, I’m rolling my eyes a little at the compulsive heterosexuality between Optimus and Elita, but on the other hand, that tiny smile from Optimus was cute lmAO all this show’s gotta do is give me a reason to care about their relationship, just put any personality at all into it and we’ll be fine but. I don’t have my hopes up honestly lmAO they’ll probably be some kind of thing because he’s The Guy and she’s The Girl and that’s so sad, this ship has the potential to be good

yeah I had a feeling Soundwave was faking Magnus’s voice

oH IMPACTOR’S HERE????

SPINISTEEEEERRRRRR

the only guy who I can’t tell who it is is this blue autobot dude, he looks like Beachcomber but idk, nobody’s addressed him by name yet

oh and he just got got, rip

Cog??? Is Cog his name? whomst????

hjsgkfl that was a very cartoony way to tie Impactor up for how seriously this show it taking itself

oh okay suddenly Optimus is just tossing this dude like pizza dough, where was this when you fought Megatron earlier

come on man don’t just brush Elita off like that, I get what you’re trying to do but you gotta communicate, compromise a little

oh hEY RAVAGE!!!

hjdsfgk gIANT PORTRAIT OF HIM KILLING A DUDE MEGATRON PLEASE

eeyyyy nice get, Bee

interesting that they’re going the brother route with Magnus and Megatron as opposed to Optimus and Megatron

#WFC watch #WFC siege spoilers #siege spoilers

[ifthearmorfitsarchived]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE: MUN & MUSE

Fill out & Repost ♥ This meme definitely favors Canons more, but I hope OC's still can make it somehow work with their own lore and Lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multimuses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

Tagged by: @sweet-talkin-gladiator (thank you :> ) Tagging: @forgedcold, @fortwarden, @abuzzingofbumblebees, @incendiius, @sparkmender, @panickedforcefield, @polyhexianchicken, @blubrownrpblog and er.. anyone else that wants to? You can say I tagged you or whatever.

MY MUSE IS.   canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless

is your character popular in the fandom?  YES (???) / NO.

is your character considered hot™ in the fandom?  WELL… / NO / IDK. (I think he’s hot...)

is your character considered strong in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK. (I think he’s strong as well considering he’s a load-bearer and whatnot)

are they underrated?  YES (???) / NO.

were they relevant to the main story?  YES (...???) / NO.

were they relevant to the main character?  YES (???) / NO

are they widely known in their world?  YES (As Ultra Magnus yes but as Minimus Ambus... No) / NO.

how’s their reputation?  GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL.

HOW STRICTLY DO YOU FOLLOW CANON?

I mean.. I try to follow the canon as close as I can. I’ve read the comics, anayalzed him to hell and back and just.. yeah. I follow canon, but I also add in my own twists here and there so that he’s still following canon, but still... different? If that makes sense.

SELL YOUR MUSE! (aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutual.)

In my eyes, he is the ideal enforcer.. in that he isn’t biassed towards who he brings to justice. You can be an Autobot, Decepticon, Neutral, Alien, or hell even human and he’d still make sure you are given a fair trial with the proper lawyer because you still broke the law.

He is very sassy when he needs to be as in, he isn’t afraid to put you in your place, especially when he’s protecting someone. If you’re going to make assumptions about someone, 10/10 he’s going to shove facts into your face about how WRONG you are and then proceed to ripe you a new one all without so much as twitching once. I love this.

Despite being stern and seemingly emotionless, he’s not really. He just keeps all those emotions inside for the most part and rarely shows them. He is essentially selfless, caring and willing to protect anyone who needs protecting. He has issues of his own, but he’s willing to put said issue to the side to take care of your issues and your wellbeing because those matter to him more. The moments he allows himself to open up and be vulenable for just a second it.. it truly is heartwrenching, but in a good way.

NOW THE OPPOSITE! (list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?)

He’s a work-a-holic, in that he will put his work before anything else. Even at the expense of his heath. He’s stubborn like that.

He doesn’t know how to relax or have fun, at least in the ways others do. While others want to get rip-roaring drunk and party, he avoids those sorts of scenes at all costs and may even start to issue citations because there are rules being broken.

Oh yeah.. he’s a stickler for rules. Will never break one no matter what, so that can make him a kill-joy. He’s also prone to cleaning obsessively because of his OCD and anxiety and just doesn’t know how to strike up a proper converstation.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO RP YOUR MUSE?

I’ve been wanting to RP as Ultra Magnus / Minimus Ambus for like the longest of times since I came across him in the comics the first time he came out, but I was so shy and had anxiety about tackling such a big role. I kept putting it off because I didn’t think I could portray him correctly or others wouldn’t like how I wrote him. I finally gave in though because someone I admired wanted me to try after I mention wanting to try my hand at him and since I gave up so many others I wanted to RP as, I thought this time.. I’m going to do it and so I did. While I do still have some anxiety regarding my portrayal among other things, I’m enjoying myself and I’m glad others are actually enjoying my portrayal as well. You have no idea how much that means to me really. Besides I just.. find him so interesting really. He’s a gentleman, intelligent, resourceful, handsome (in my eyes), loves the arts and needs to be loved honestly.

WHAT KEEPS YOUR INSPIRATION GOING?  

I guess the fact that I’m enjoying writing this muse and that others are enjoying him as well? Really, if it wasn’t for some of you I probably wouldn’t have taken on Minimus and just wondered about it like I did with other muses I wanted to try my hand at.

SOME MORE PERSONAL QUESTIONS FOR THE MUN.

do you think you give your character justice?  YES / NO. (I mean I feel like I do yet don’t???)

do you frequently write headcanons?  YES / NO.

do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO.  

do you think a lot about your muse during the day? YES (I do that with all my muses honestly...) / NO.

are you confident in your portrayal?   YES / NO. (This is rather laughable really)

are you confident in your writing?  YES / NO. (HAH!)

are you a sensitive person?  YES / NO. (...It depends I guess?? Sometimes I can be and sometimes you have to try harder than that bucko)

DO YOU ACCEPT CRITICISM WELL ABOUT YOUR PORTRAYAL?

I wouldn’t mind it yes? As long as it’s CRITICISM and not just flat out hate like I have recieved before. Telling me the way I’m writing the muse sucks isn’t going to help me get better. You’re just insulting me. Tell me how to improve. Give me tidbits and or hints. Provide helpful criticism. Some of you don’t know how to do that and it shows.

DO YOU LIKE QUESTIONS, WHICH HELP YOU EXPLORE YOUR CHARACTER?  

I think everyone does really. It helps not only you but your muse as well. It helps you get a better feeling on your muse and expand their background and whatnot, so yeah. I do.

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES TO A HEADCANON OF YOURS, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY?  

Not.. really? Considering it’s my headcanon and it’s my interepation of the muse, not theirs. I mean I’m open to new headcanons and if I like it, I may addapt it to my own but I also can refuse it if I feel like it doesn’t fit with my portrayal. If you don’t like my portrayal, you’re welcome to unfollow. Not that hard really.

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOUR PORTRAYAL, HOW WOULD YOU TAKE IT?

...Unfollow? I feel like I’m doing a decent enough job on my portral. If you don’t like it, unfollow and move on. Simple.

IF SOMEONE REALLY HATES YOUR CHARACTER, HOW DO YOU TAKE IT?

Everyone has their likes and dislikes. It’s how the world is. How people are. If you don’t like my muse, that’s fine. I don’t care. Just don’t send me messages about it or whatever. I don’t care for that shit.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH PEOPLE POINTING OUT YOUR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS?  

I don’t mind as long as they’re not an ass about it... Like calling me stupid or an idiot. Not everyone can write perfectly or even speaks / writes English. Remember that. Some of us also have issues with speaking and or typing. Remember that.

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE EASY GOING AS A MUN?  

I mean.. I like to think I am? Besides my horrible social anxiety and other problems, I try to be nice and friendly. If someone sends me something, I try my best to reply to it in a timely manner. I try my best not to bother people too much but at the same time, I try to be supportive and caring if I see someone is down or needs help with something. I don’t ever rush others for replies since I know real life always comes first. I also don’t force interactions or shipping or what-have-you. I’m just here to have fun and write, which I’m sure a great majority of us are. Having said that, if you ever want to message me or get to know me, please don’t be afraid to do so. I’m not a mean person by any degree really. The only time I’m rude if is someone is rude to me first, but that’s really the only instance. I don’t like to start conflict or drama. That sort of stuff causes me anxiety anyways, so yeah.. Enjoy yourselves, okay?

#﹙ Mᴇᴍᴇ ﹚ Yᴏᴜ ᴜsᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴀs ᴀ ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴ Aɴᴅ ɪᴛ ʜᴜʀᴛs ʟɪᴋᴇ ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ #﹙ OOC ﹚ Oᴘᴏ sᴘᴇᴀᴋs

[sparklingpax]

Rambles about TFP Megatron

This is opinionated, based on speculation (is that the right word??) and memories of episodes and moments in books. Please don’t be offended and get angry at me. I’m literally writing whatever comes to mind about this. Also sorry if none of it makes any real sesnes; again, these are my thoughts as they come so those tend to be incoherent and,,,,,unconnected?? Idk um

So scroll along if you’re not interested but here I go :’D 

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I feel like I might get bashed for this (or not) but I really feel like Megatron in TFP is a tortured, misunderstood, haunted soul and I’m on his side as much as I am on the Autobots’ side. 

Idk some people think he’s evil just because and has no redeeming factors but I really really beg to differ,,,, (no im not inviting debate because I get too scared of arguing with people I respect everyone’s opinions so I’m not trying to impose this one!) 

He isn’t justified in the things he’s done, the many he has made to die, nor is he justified in any way for the physical and/or mental abuse of others, the top example being Starscream. However, I think we should point fingers at the initial corruption back on Cybertron, right after the whole “golden age.” 

There’s really no one else to blame except the corrupt leaders who put the caste system into being. If it had not been so, Megatron would have never been born as D-16, an unknown and unimportant energon miner with no real future other than eventual, imminent death. He has a right to be as angry as he was, and as ready and willing to kill and overthrow that governmennt. 

He took it too far, is all I have to say. 

That’s also the difference that led to Orion and Megatronus falling out of friendship and “brotherhood,” as well as the whole ‘not being named a Prime but Orion was’ thing. Optimus felt the same way--though you have to acknowledge that even he could not understand fully and truly the anger Megatron had felt. Orion Pax had never known being worth absolutely nothing, and having no prospects or future. He was a scholar, gifted with knowledge and a job. He was not a higher-up, of course, so he was not exempt from feeling frustration at the limitations of his particular caste. But I think that’s also what gave Orion the ability to see the whole thing through a more level-headed gaze. 

And that’s where it also isn’t fair to Megatron. How can you blame him for only having rage? He didn’t have a middlle-ground place like Orion did. He only had the “short end of the stick” his whole life. 

So....um......I rambled and I’m not really sure where any of this was meant to go. I actually only inteded to write maybe one or two sentences but um now it’s all this. ^^’’’ 

Again, I’m not inviting debate because debating and arguing makes me really,,,,really nervous. I’m just having some thoughts..and I can totally understand the valid reasons people have to not feel that Megatron is a good character at all, and that he doesn’t have a real motive and is simply just “evil.” I respect that. I disagree, but I see your points ^//^ 

Just been thinking about this stuff lately, been watching episodes of TFP, reading the novels again....I really do feel bad for him, even though I am aware that what he did was wrong. I can’t help but feel like I should defend him, at least laying out the reasoning he had--though flawed in the end--and how he felt to give a little perspective. 

And one final thing, if you wish to make a claim that his anger about being a slave is not real, and that he uses it as some sort of twisted “card to play” as a justification, just wanna bring this up. You’ve see the movie right? Regardless of whether you think it was a good or bad movie (I really enjoyed it but thats just me ^^’’) there’s a part at the end where Megatron says the Decepticon cause is finished, and that because he now knows the “true meaning of oppression” he no longer wants to inflict it on others. There are probably other ways to interpret this, but the way I see it is that he really may have lost himself a little when fighting the war. But being possessed and commanded by Unicron woke that up again. He’d been in command for so long, he himself forgot how much a leader could hurt their own troops, or what it felt like to be stepped over--to be hurt and insulted because you cannot do anything about it. When he tries to fight back against Unicron, it’s not because of the petty reasons of simply “wanting the power” or hating not being in charge, but I think he was enraged at being seen as a slave again. Something he’d fought a war for millenia to ensure never happened again--to him or anyone else. 

And I think he also finally re-understood the last part of that statement. 

That’s why when he was freed, he ended the war right then and there, and left--never to be heard from again. 

I have no proof for these statements really, but I think it was purely guilt at having forgotten this war was not just about his own anger at injustice, but also to fight for the others who also felt as he did--his other, fellow Decepticons. 

This is not really to say he is sorry for how he treated some of them, since he is a problematic dude and has his own reasons he’ll stick to if confronted about what he did to, say,  Starscream or Starscream’s seekers when he tried to get Starscream to fear him. Or the many vehicons he didn’t care a single bit about. But I think the key is that he did change as a character--because he finally understood. 

He now has more perspective, and I think that’s why he isn’t really “just an evil character” who “has no real cause,” but someone who suffered so much and then had nowhere to go or anyone to really look to for help or guidance when his rage was handed a sword and hundreds of followers. Given his background, what else could he have done but lead them all forward in a fight? 

He really didn’t start the physical war himself, either. But he took it on as his responsibility and obligation to fight. 

Even Optimus--or Orion, at the time--his first and only friend that he pushed away, could never understand. No one but his fellow decpticons, especially the ones from the lower ranks, would ever understand the true essance of the cause of being “Decepticons.” 

Though he was bullshitting Optimus when he gave the reason for the name, I feel like at the same time, that was what he genuinely believed--that the cause of Decepticons and his fighting this war was branded as wrong and their beliefs were all lies. Megatron probably, deep in his spark, felt that if such things were branded as “lies” when they are really the truth, then he was proud to wear such a badge. 

And when he ended the cause, I think what he meant was that he was ending his involvement in it, for he himself had failed to uphold what Decepticons really stood for through all the murder and oppression he caused, blinded by his emotions. Therefore, the only sensible, just thing to do was to leave. To go somewhere else. Whether he hoped someone else would lead them or not, we will truly never know and I have no intention to make any guess to that. Only Megatron himself could tell us that. 

Both Megatron and the decepticons were not justifiied in the things they did, but if you can at least take in why they did those things, maybe you won’t dismiss them as simply “bad guys for the sake of being bad” and understand that they had a story too...

#aaaand end of rant #im really sorry if you read that #I'll delete this later #I probably contradicted myself a couple times #im honestly not sure anymore #this was one long-ass ramble #im soryy #i love Megs and I wanna defend him #sfjfhsdjgfh #dont be annoyed with me I promise I'll stop doing these #hh #anyway #decepticons are also cool #:'D #transformers #transformers prime #prime #tf #tfp #megatron #tfp megatron #transformers prime megatron #rant #ramble #thoughts #mini-essay #defending megatron #but not justifying his actions #that contradicts itself doesnt it #hhhhhhhhhhh

[whatudottu]

Okay, so I’ve at least dealt with the death of Breakdown and the disappearance of Airachnid, so I might as well work on the other Decepticon casualties. I was gonna work on Airachnid’s backstory, but when I took a step back I remember that there was only one Autobot death in comparison to the five we got in canon (Obviously Breakdown but I’ve saved him, Skyquake, Dreadwing, Hardshell and the mysterious Makeshift, remember him?). I’ve taken the time to go ahead and... even things out before I go killing Autobots.

Because, coming right out of the gate, Cliffjumper is immediately out for the count, one of the earlier Decepticon deaths should still happen. My first thought would have been Skyquake, because he’s got his own partner in Dreadwing and may be a decent replacement for Cliffjumper as the first death in the series (as if the first episode played out in reverse roles) and serve as emotional motivation for Dreadwing.

But the problem with that is now I either continue this trail of fatalities or leave me with ‘less significant’ characters to work with.

Makeshift is brought to mind. Not to stamp on any of his fans, but Makeshift doesn’t have much that I can work with and not exactly known for his character interactions... but what if he pulls a ‘Longarm/Shockwave’ situation and is thusly executed when caught. Sneaking information out of the Autobots and into the Decepticons would garner a good relationship with Soundwave, surveillance partner in crime, and perhaps a good player in death related motivation?

In that case, I think giving the Autobots their Autotroopers would help Makeshift hide in plain sight without me bringing in another Autobot or false character that doesn’t already appear in TFP, nor have him already appear as Wheeljack before he makes it onto earth.

As for Skyquake, perhaps his first fight isn’t made his last, now that Starscream isn’t trying to make a point to the Vehicons (which I think they’d still have, just sorta halved? idk, I’m winging this) and Soundwave isn’t playing family camera. Might even be the time that Cliffjumper’s killed, it can even still be from Starscream if Cliff’s attempt to ground Skyquake sets him into a self-defensive panic that essentially trades one character for another. Probably more meaningful than Skyquake’s canon death, but I suppose you can feel the way to want to feel.

Honestly? All I want now from Skyquake and Dreadwing is some cute twin moments (don’t mind me).

So... Hardshell... Do I want you to live or kill off one of the Autobots? Sure, the Insecticons are quite the cannon fodder and Hardshell’s essentially one of the ‘steves’ of them, but it could also be a defining moment where the perceived minions downs an Autobot. It’s either Bulkhead or Wheeljack that’ll get it so I’m not too sure about Hardshell’s survival but I’ll get to that when I thought about it some more.

Dreadwing’s chances of living are far more significant than in canon, seeing as though he still has his brother, but that doesn’t mean he’s out of the deep end. I’m thinking instead of giving the Autobots the Forge of Solus Prime, Dreadwing sorta attempts to take it from them? Unlike Smokescreen’s risky stunt, he’s not actually successful and instead becomes a prisoner for ransom. Emotional drama here, need to restore Cybertron there, Dreadwing is almost traded for the keys, but reckless brotherly affection drives the twins to risk each other’s lives and the restoration of Cybertron.

Let’s just say that there’s still a hole to fix in Dreadwing’s chest after the rushed plan fueled by brotherly emotions. He’s fine don’t worry, he just got shot in the ‘rib’ area. Doesn’t mean he can’t be reprimanded for his practically idiotic behaviour but at least the keys are still in their possession...

Right?

(The events may change as I rough in these ideas, especially if there are Autobot deaths throughout).

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From your point of view, why did Tarn take Nickel as a medic when he already had Pharma ?

// Actually I was talking about this with Red what like two or three weeks ago? Its only MY speculation of why I think he took Nickel over Pharma. So bear with me <3 

So between the end of MTMTE 5 and when the DJD actually came back to Messatine (they were on Clemency in MTMTE 7 and 8), they didn’t come back to Messatine until right before they attack the LL. I know this because they were buzzing off of Nuke per what Tarn said in MTMTE 39. Their Nuke chambers are ONLY on Messatine, which means Pharma had already been gone if you look at the time line of the happenings on the Lost Light. When we see the DJD annihilate the parallel LL, Tarn says seeing who else was on the ship was a bit of a trigger. Ratchet already had Pharma’s hands at this point in time. They show both Drift and Ratchet in that one panel. Seems like a bit of a coincidence? Idk

I’m sure when Tarn had come back to Delphi, he noticed it was all abandoned with no sign of anyone, there’s the universal plague symbol, not even Pharma is there. I’m sure Tarn had assumed he’d died. Pipes drove right through the door of Delphi which looks like force of entry. He’s not idiotic so he would’ve connected the dots in some fashion.  So I’m sure he connected of who might’ve attacked Delphi. Surely no Decepticon would trespass on Messatine because it is well known to be the stomping grounds of the DJD and if you’re already afraid of them, you’re not going to go there. Let alone fuck with an Autobot facility in KNOWN DJD territory. Come back to Messatine, your one source of getting tcogs is gone, there’s force of entry, you’re most likely super angry at this point, you supposed lover is gone (per how Milne described Tarn and Pharma’s relationship) and you assume its Autobots like hm. He gets buzzed hard on Nuke, sees the two Autobots (one whos on the List, the other I’m sure Pharma blabbed to him about (Milne mentions Tarn specifically told Pharma how Ratchet was never appreciate of anything he gave to him)). You tick one great mech off the List, full of all these emotions and BOOM see them. Seems like a big enough trigger to want to kill everyone

You know in MTMTE 5, Pharma states “Dramatic escapes are worthless without witnesses.” Where the hell was he supposedly going? Seems like a bit of a stretch here. But JRo mentioned that Pharma had no intention of harming the DJD with his plague. He’d be on the run from both the Autobots and the DJD if he was stupid enough (which he’s not) to try and hide because the DJD always finds you. Perhaps he meant to detonate the virus, get locked up for god knows how long (because his medics were too dumb to know they (AHEM Ambulon) could unlock the damn quarantine room he was in). He most likely assumed they’d end up leaving and then the DJD would come busting in and he could swiftly escape with no questions asked. Go totally off grid and be with the DJD. I’m sure Tarn had mentioned bringing him aboard because he gave him tcogs and look at the wall of his secret lab. There’s so many of them! So he was in it for the long run with Tarn. You don’t just have that many and just up and leave. Oh no no. Pharma may be portrayed as this quick to react mech but he’s not a moron, he’s very calculated as an individual and to ploy a plague and have it all planned out to the T and the one mech you know who could figure it all out just so happens to come. He would’ve gotten away with it

Plus look at how much Pharma mentions ANYTHING about Tarn. He blabs to Ratchet specifically to Ratchet about him TWICE. Telling your ex about this big boi >B)  I smacked Red hard with this one quote Pharma says to Ratchet in MTMTE 19, “Ah but its not just the instruments--it’s the way they’re played. A skilled musician can make sounds no one’s ever heard before.” That’s Tarn right there. That is TARN RIGHT THERE. He talked about Tarn right there because he connected his medical expertise to musical instruments

Let me end this before I write like six more paragraphs on why i think this and that. Summarize it all up. I think Tarn took Nickel over Pharma was because Pharma had gone MIA or in his pov had died. He never knew even till the day he offlined. He never knew what happened to Pharma. If things had happened differently, I’m sure he would’ve taken Pharma along with him, especially if Pharma’s plan had gone as planned (WITHOUT Ratchet coming along). The next medic who comes along who can satisfy his addictions was Nickel and by the time he finds her, Pharma had been gone for a while. That’s just my interpretation! :3c I hope you enjoyed by endless blabbing on this. I could go way deeper BUT I DONT WANNA LIKE SMACK YA TOO HARD. I’ve already done that once to a friend im so sorry Red i love you <3 

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