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melishade · 1 year

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so question for attack on prime I wanted to ask how do you think the characters would react to other transformers from like bumblebee or soundwave

See, Bumblebee is actually the easier one. I'd think it'd be easier for him to buy the fact that Optimus came back to life. Megatron came back to life. Hell, he came back to life. So if Bumblebee were to find Optimus, it would be the most tearful reunion. Bumblebee was raised by the Autobots; he was raised by Optimus. So to see his father figure alive and all, Bumblebee would just hug Optimus and say he's glad to have him back (once everything is sorted however). Tears might even be shed from both parties.

The Survey Corps is watching this and half of them are fucking ballin' their eyes out.

However, Bumblebee is very distrusting of Megatron for very obvious reasons, and Bumblebee nearly pulls out his blasters on reflex, but Optimus kind of has to explain what's going on in that department. After that and Bumblebee calms down, it's very awkward between him and Megatron, and the Survey Corps can just see how uncomfortable they are around each other. Megatron because he fucking tortured this kid and Bumblebee because he killed Megatron.

Speaking of kids, Bumblebee gets along really well with the 104th. Even though Bumblebee is millions of years old, by Cybertronian standards, I'm fairly certain he's just becoming an adult by the end of TFP. Bumblebee is still a kid, he's been around Jack, Miko, and Raf, so of course he gets along with the 104th. He takes them out driving it's fun. Hanji and Levi do notice just how young Bumblebee is acting and they do ask Optimus about it. Optimus explains Bumblebee's origins and how he was born into war and they both give Megatron a nasty glare every time he comes in now. Megatron refuses to comment about anything.

Levi would add this to the list of reasons why they shouldn't trust Megatron.

Eren would be jealous of Bumblebee at first. He sees how close Bumblebee is to Optimus and how they talk and it just makes him feel...left out in a sense. He shouldn't feel this way. They've known each other longer than Eren's known Optimus so it would make sense. But Optimus invites Bumblebee to assist with training Eren. Bumblebee uses his own holoform and the two spar. And Eren's holding his own. It's actually a fair fight and not one-sided like it usually is with Optimus. Eren still loses due to Bumblebee's own battle experience, but Bumblebee praises Eren.

"How long have you been training for?" Bumblebee asked.

"Maybe a year at least," Eren answered.

"Really?!" Bumblebee exclaimed, "Wow, you're a pretty fast learner!"

Bumblebee offers to train Eren whenever Optimus is busy and Eren immediately jumps at the idea. Optimus is delighted see his two students sons bonding. And Eren and Bumblebee end up becoming a lot closer and Eren sees Bumblebee as an older brother.

Bumblebee and Megatron, I think would argue at one point, and it just gets messy, because it's literally just.

"You know, it wasn't fun talking in binary code after you ripped my slagging voice out!" Bumblebee shouted.

"You already got your revenge when you rammed the Star Saber through my spark!" Megatron retorted.

"No! It was not even because you killed me first by blowing a hole through my chest!" Bumblebee reminded.

"What it is with you fuckers and cheating death?!" Levi demanded.

Oh, it'd be so messy.

Other notes for Bumblebee: Bumblebee would definitely teach the Survey Corps the basics of Cybertronian Sign Language for combat. Even though RID2015 was terrible, they did confirm Bumblebee knew sign language and I thought that was pretty cool. They'd use it for combat so they don't have to scream out their plans across the field.

Additionally: Zeke would be so fucking jealous of Bumblebee because Eren sees him as an older brother. No! Zeke wants that! And here's the thing:

Bumblebee would know Zeke is jealous of him and just milk it for all it's worth. The reason Bumblebee would know is because of Rafael. Raf no doubt would talk about his family problems with Bumblebee. He's in a big family with multiple siblings. He'd probably be jealous of one of his older siblings. And Zeke has a similar face to Raf, and Bumblebee just messes with him.

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As for Soundwave, well it's just chaos. Soundwave would be a 3rd party that would ultimately force Marley and Paradis to work together.

Let's say Soundwave does get out of the Shadowzone and gets informed by the Autobots that Megatron gave up on the Decepticon cause and just dipped. Soundwave would not believe it and goes to look for him. The Autobots don't stop him because Soundwave is off-world. That's probably the better option for the moment. But they do prepare an contigency if he ever returns.

So Soundwave searches and manages to find the AOT world, and he spies on the humans. And he sees Optimus alive, he sees Megatron alive, he sees two working together willingly, he sees Megatron willingly help out humans,

And Soundwave just sees red!

Sasha can only manage to yell out a 'Duck' before Soundwave fucking rams into Megatron and the two start fighting. Megatron has to be on the defensive because he doesn't want to hurt Soundwave. Optimus does his best to help out, but Soundwave is there to kill right now. He doesn't want to be reasoned with. The Survey Corps try to fly in and help with their 3D gear, but Soundwave deploys Laserbeak to deal with them, and none of them are prepared for that!

Eren tries to help Optimus and Megatron, but Soundwave is fluid. The TIC quickly learns how Eren fights and is able to find a way to burn through Eren's energy and slow his regeneration process. He almost kills Eren, which actually forces Megatron to go on the offensive and smack Soundwave in the face, sending him back and breaking his visor. Mikasa and Levi have to tag team and the two manage to fire an energon spear to clip Laserbeak's wing. The minicon crashes and flaps his broken wings to Soundwave. And Soundwave's mask is broken, and everyone can see a glimpse of Soundwave's red optic. He is mortified and angry. Megatron orders Soundwave to stand down, but Soundwave plays back an audio calling him a traitor. Megatron tries to explain; use old methods he used with other Decepticons, but-!

"You are no longer my master."

Optimus and Megatron are both horrified, and before the Survey Corps could do anything else, Soundwave grabs Laserbeak and flies off. Hanji's about to order Megatron to go after him, but she can only see the horror in Megatron's optics, muttering something about breaking a vow.

"Hey! Who the hell was that?!" Jean demanded.

Optimus has to explain who Soundwave is because Megatron is still reeling. The Survey Corps still see the visible concern in Megatron's eyes, and that's causing them to be scared, including Levi. That was Megatron's Third in Command?! And what the hell's a minicon?!

"He was the only one I trusted as Leader of the Decepticons," Megatron finally explained, "We fought together in the Pits of Kaon. He was the only one who had ever come close to besting me in combat. He took a vow of silence, and had not spoken a word during the war. He just broke his vow today."

"...oh fuck," Levi swore.

Meanwhile, Soundwave manages to find another Cybertronian ship on their world and enacts his plan for revenge and to restart the Decepticons. How is he going to do that: by recreating that plan he was trying to do in RID2015, where he was trying to bring Megatron to Earth with a powerful device that would've expelled a shit ton of radiation across the planet killing all the humans. Yeah, this world was going to be ground zero for the rebirth of the Decpeticons.

He is aware of Marley and the power of their titans. What he does is make a cage, and then goes to the next battle and fucking captures one of them before leaving. He needs to know in detail on how the power of the titans works before he makes any other additional moves. After observing them in combat, he decides to go after Pieck. She is the weakest titan on the field compared to Zeke and Reiner, and all it requires is disabling the canons on her back.

Now, Marley's in a panic because they just lost another titan shifter and a new titan just showed up. Calvi's trying to talk to Willy about the mess, and Megatron switches back to his regular dialect, revealing himself to everyone. Reiner's having a fucking panic attack at that, the remaining Warriors are mortified that their mentor is the Flying Titan, Zeke is thinking 'oh shit, is he going to sell me out too?', and Willy is just betrayed. Magath feels vindicated and aims a gun at Megatron, saying 'I knew there was something off about you.' Magath is taking control at this point and threatens Megatron and Paradis. But Megatron's calm about this, and says that he's the most valuable person in the room because he's the only one who knows anything about Soundwave. Megatron proposes that Marley and Paradis work together for the survival of the planet.

"Work with you?!" Magath was mortified, "Why the hell would Marley work with the island of devils?! The source of the world's hatred and suffering?! The place where the Rumbling could be activated at any moment?! Why would Marley work with the likes of you?!"

"Because Soundwave is a much bigger threat than the Rumbling," Megatron answered.

Everyone gives Megatron skeptical looks.

"You didn't even know his name," Megatron continued, "I do, which already puts me in a much more favorable position. Do you think he just happened to take Pieck Finger by chance? No. Soundwave observes. He lies in wait before striking, gathering any and all information about an opponent before going on the offensive. He's been watching your battles and your victories. And Soundwave, just as I, knew how arrogant Marley had become with the power of the titans. With a little more time and resources, he could've kidnapped all the titan shifters and dismantled Marley's military without a second thought."

Megatron moves forward, ignoring the gun Magath was pointing at him. "Soundwave will not show mercy, and sees humans as nothing more than insects. He will kill every single human on this planet. If we do not combine our forces, this world is doomed."

Megatron gives them an offer: any interested parties come to Paradis for further discussion of the alliance. They will not be harmed, and they will be allowed to return safely to Marley once discussions are over, and then deactivate the holoform in front of all of them. The Marleyans are ready to deny him that chance and even invade Paradis, but then a few days later, they get word that the Middle Eastern Nation’s recent technological advancements, specifically the Armored Tank was destroyed, and the parts were stolen. Soundwave is actively disabling the world’s governments and military as they scramble to figure out what the hell’s going on. And Marley has no choice.

So, The Warriors, Warrior Cadets, Magath, Calvi, and Willy all go to Paradis. And there is... a lot of tension in the air. It’s not a fun first meeting, but they do discuss on how to proceed with Soundwave. Optimus does his best to explain the threat, but Megatron is the one that’s shining here. Megatron does his best to lay out strengths, weaknesses, and techniques that Soundwave would use, and he straight up says that the Warriors need to be trained to figure out how to counteract him. Calvi refuses because that would require leaving the Warriors on an island of devils, and the arguing fucking starts. And as that’s happening, Optimus has to take a back seat because this was not what he was expecting at all. And as he kind of calming down in the corner, Willy approaches him.

“Everything that you have been saying is true, correct?” Willy asked him, “You are not lying?”

Optimus looks at him and sees disappointment in his eyes before turning his attention to Megatron involved with the arguing. “Megatron only followed my orders. I asked him to infiltrate Marley for our survival, but it would seem that has become mute.”

“...What do you want?” Willy asked him.

“I only desire peace,” Optimus answered with confidence, “I believe in a world where Marley and Eldia can coexist in peace, and I pray that this endeavor we have taken will not end once Soundwave has been detained.”

Magath is actually the first to notice that Optimus and Willy are talking with each other, and it actually seems productive. Magath does pull Willy to the side and warn him about getting involved, but Willy proclaims that he sees something and thinks that they should proceed.

So the Marley-Paradis Tentative Alliance is formed! Which includes:

-Megatron and Optimus being actively involved in training all the Warriors, which includes Megatron ramping up the pain factor.

-Optimus and Willy’s continued talks and their growing diplomatic relationship.

-Warriors and 104th having extremely uneasy tension that boils over during training.

-Eren and Reiner end up fighting out their feelings, which Optimus and Megatron let happen because this cannot be happening on the battlefield.

-Everyone roasting Megatron because this is technically all his fucking fault.

-Calvi trying to betray the Alliance that they have, which causes Willy to go behind his back, appoint Magath as General of Marley, and have Calvi eliminated. Having Willy see how Paradis operates and having peace talks with Optimus and seeing his genuine nature causes him to have a change of heart.

Zeke does corner Megatron and ask him why he hasn’t sold him out for his own dealings. Megatron tells him that he needs someone to remain on the inside and feed him information about Marley and how they would be growing during this alliance. In case the alliance falls flat after Soundwave is eliminated, the island needs to be prepared.

Optimus does get angry at one point, with the way that the Warriors and Warrior Cadets are being treated and starts calling Marley out on their bullshit because he’s fed up. And if Optimus is mad, then all bets are off.

“What have the current Eldians done to warrant such treatment?” Optimus demanded.

“Their ancestors-,”

“I am not talking about their ancestors!” Optimus cuts someone off before pointing to the Warrior Cadets, “Them! Those children! What exactly have they done to warrant such hatred and discrimination?!”

“They are devils!” Magath reminded.

“They are children that have been forced into war!” Optimus yells at him, “For something that they weren’t even alive for! This is not something that they deserve! Even if they have the ability to turn into titans, you have viciously abused that power and their safety for your own selfish means! You have extended that same hatred to my comrades, who have done nothing but provide you with hospitality! Say what you will about Megatron and I, but we have done nothing but do our duty to protect the island and the innocent people! Karl Fritz chose peace over violence! He chose to end the Eldian Empire, not Helos, and you’ve responded with carnage instead!”

“W-what?” Willy stuttered, “How could you-?”

“I have done enough research and investigations on my own to come up with that conclusion,” Optimus declared, “If I continue to see this continued treatment of any Eldian, Warrior or not, then you can consider our alliance done.”

Willy grew mortified while Magath tried to keep his composure,

“Your friend stated that this alliance needed to happen,” Magath reminded.

“Megatron and I have won battles with far less resources and our own ingenuity,” Optimus declared, “You need us more than we need you because of your crippling reliance on the power of the titans. And I doubt the rest of the world would be willing to work with the nation that has abused the power of the titans.”

The Warriors and the Warrior Caders are quite stunned that Optimus is willing to come to their defense like this. The Cadets start following Optimus around and spy on him when they get the chance and Colt straight up asks why he even bothered to defend them.

“We’re de-,”

“You are human,” Optimus emphasized, “No more. No less.”

Optimus’ sincerity ends up winning the Warrior Cadets over, and Optimus makes a secret plan with Hanji to grant the Cadets immunity so they don’t get forced to turn into titans. Optimus also makes it a priority to find a way to contact Cybertron in order to end the titan curse.

Meanwhile, Soundwave is keeping Pieck alive and having Laserbeak get food and water for her. He does torture her for information, and he does manage to get it out of her because Pieck is not used to this level of torture and pain. Pieck can’t escape because Soundwave is making sure that Pieck doesn’t have enough energy to regenerate and transform. Soundwave is gaining more resources from the more advanced countries to make his weapon. Pieck doesn’t know Soundwave well, and tries to appeal to his morality.

“I may be a devil, but there are innocent people,” Pieck pleaded, “Men, women, and children that have done nothing wrong. Do they really deserve to die?”

“Soundwave: Superior. Humans: Inferior.” Soundwave merely replied.

Yeah you can see how well that works out. Well if people are interested in the Soundwave storyline, I’ll continue it. But we’ll see.

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warriorsparked · 1 year

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SLEEP HEADCANONS.

NAME: Megatron of Kaon.

RESIDENCE: Kaon, Cybertron

TYPE OF BED: A pretty standard metal recharge slab with a built in mattress made from synthetic leather type material. It provides a soft surface to sleep on vs the hard surface he's used to in both the Institute and mines. He doesn't require anything fancy, but he does prefer a mattress than none (think the feeling of a leather couch padding). It would be fit for two of his size (so a king sized bed).

NUMBER OF BLANKETS: I don't really consider all Cybertronians using things like sheets, just because clothes and fabrics in general are difficult to get (until trade is more available), but Megatron isn't overly USED to blankets, and they do make him feel constricted. If he's going to sleep with one, it's going to be something very thin that he can kick off with ease, but they do make him feel trapped and restrained, and he prefers not getting tangled in them. That sensation is definitely traumatic for him, so he sleeps with none, and if there is one, he will likely sleep on top of it.

NUMBER OF PILLOWS: Minimum of two, they're especially good for sitting back on as well.

TYPE OF CLOTHING: Megatron was late in getting his alt'mode due to his incarceration at a young age and being restricted to no visits with a Blacksmith. This made him comfortable in his protoform. However, once he gained his kibble and armour (and his alt'mode), it rarely came off. It's armour to him, and that armour protects many things, including his physical and mental safety. It means he's at the ready if he needs to be, and he became exceptionally used to wearing his armour at ALL times. However, after the war, he does eventually become comfortable with a partner, and will remove parts of his armour to expose his whole frame to them as a show of comfort around them. But this is definitely a rare thing, and most will never see him out of his armour.

DO THEY SLEEP WITH COMPANY?: Only if he's sharing a berth with them for sex. That doesn't always mean he'll stay though (or they will stay). However, if he's romantically involved with someone, then yes, he will be sharing the berth with them.

DO THEY SLEEP BETTER WITH COMPANY?: Yes. Having a presence beside him is actually a big comfort and keeps his mind from wandering to bad thoughts. He enjoys hearing the sounds of a partner sleeping, and it's soothing, and something to focus on.

DOES IT MATTER WHERE THEY SLEEP?: Yes and no. If Megatron is to get a GOOD sleep (and that's hardly ever lol), then it will likely be in the comfort of a lover or a friend. But he's spent so many vorns with nightmares and being on edge, and having to be awake because of who he was as a leader, that he also understands that he needs to get sleep when and where he can. While in the Institute, he had no choice where he slept (and they sedated him if he caused trouble), in the mines, he had no choice, and while he did have privilege as a leader, those comforts did not make him sleep any easier. He slept only because he knew he HAD to, lest he begin to lose his sanity and strength.

WHAT DO THEY DO IF THEY CANNOT FALL ASLEEP?: Mostly, he stares at the ceiling and contemplates his entire life's choices... But otherwise, he will go for a walk, smoke a cygarette, play piano, write, masturbate... anything to make him comfortable.

FREQUENT DREAMS, NIGHTMARES: Nightmares, and frequently. Most nights are made of nightmares if he manages to fall asleep. Reoccurring ones are the abuses of his creators, their hands upon him, touching him, molesting him, screaming at him, beating him. Of being locked in small rooms, where his therapist tortured him, and long needles of mnemosurgeons as they try and pry themselves into his head. His nightmares are also filled with arousing thoughts, but dark ones, mostly blood and violence of the things he's done in his past, of the things that he regrets. There are not many nights where Megatron is at peace unfortunately. They are vivid and real.

DEEP SLUMBER OR NAPS: He would greatly prefer to be able to slumber, but the most he gets is naps, and maybe a longer nap, before he is awake and can't fight it anymore.

WHEN DO THEY SLEEP: He tries to keep a proper sleep schedule, despite the insomnia and bad nightmares. He sleeps at night time, when appropriate, and doesn't like to nap in the day. There's too much work to be done, and it's not a luxury he's ever had. He also does shift work, so some nights he's up anyway at work, which is fine by him. The less sleep can consume him, the less nightmares he has to face.

WHAT COULD WAKE THEM UP: Anything. He's an incredibly light sleeper--and that's IF he's actually in a deep sleep at all. He's so used to being on edge as a Decepticon, having to watch his back non stop, that he's very used to sleeping lightly anyway, and that's without the torture. From a childhood, Megatron would listen to the violence in his household, which woke him, or the rough sounds of interfacing. He would panic at the sound of footsteps coming close to his door.

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bots-and-cons · 2 years

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Hope you have god afternoon and know that your account is lovely <3

A request: Bot reader that who is somewhat young by Cybertronian standards is found in a statis capsule that crashed on Earth. They have been out for a long time by now...

How would team prime find them and what do you think would be the general mood towards the bot?

I wrote it so the reader is like in their teens, maybe 14-15 years old by human standards, so quite a lot younger than everyone else on the team. Most of the bots, but not all this time. Also thank you very much💜

•The decepticons actually found you first but the autobots kinda saved you from them and brought the whole stasis pod to their base

•They woke you up after Ratchet made sure you’re stable, and you were pretty confused as to where you were and who you were with

•You’re not a part of either faction, because you’re so young, but you do recognize the insignia to be that of the autobots

•You have a lot of questions as to where you are and what happened, because you were sent away from Cybertron at the very start of the war, in hopes that you’d be safe

•You know the war happened/was happening, but you had no idea about what had happened to your home planet

•There’s a bit of a silence when you ask about where you are because you know you’re not on Cybertron

•Arcee takes it onto herself to be the one to explain what has happened and where you are now

•You actually take it surprisingly well, but you’re still obviously upset

•Bumblebee and Smokescreen are the ones that probably relate to you the most, even they’re not quite as young as you

•Optimus is worried because he knows the adjusting period can be pretty hard, and especially because you’re so young

•Ratchet is in charge of looking after you most, because you obviously won’t be allowed to go fighting or anything and have to spend your time at the base

•In general I think they’d all be worried but welcoming, because you’re just a kid and they’re all responsible for you now

•The family grows

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factual-fantasy · 4 years

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Answering 14 Asks. Ranging from advice, to my characters, to the rules for drawing fanart. (I’m allowing it now btw)

..You know? Since the last time this has ben mentioned I started thinking.

I would love to see fan art of my characters, and now I know you guys want to draw them. Originally I didn’t want anyone to draw my OCs for my own safety. This post goes into detail on that. But I’ve been thinking.. and I think I might’ve found a way to let people draw fan art of my ocs without exposing anything. With rules. If what you plan to draw “breaks the rules” that means that its one of those “exposing things” I talked about.

Man I am such a sissy. I just don’t want to be bashed for anything. But okay look, here are the “rules” for my fan art.

You absolutely are allowed to draw my characters in one of these categories.

Draw a character that you like posing or smiling to show them off.

Cool action scenes! Most of them are soldiers after all.

Interacting with some of the real team prime members is 100% okay. Especially Volvo and Ratchet because they're supposed to be friends.

Drawing Brown Suburban and Bash Buggy hanging out with the other Wreckers!

Drawing two or more established friends goofing around and having innocent fun.

Drawing a character with an established sad backstory being sad or crying it out. With or without someone that has been established as their friend.

Redrawing scenes that I have already drawn to see it in your style.

If I have mentioned a character likes something, you could draw them with it. An example would be Ranger looking out over a river because she loves water.

You’re allowed to draw me with the characters, although I am kiiiinda a fourth wall break? I’m not really supposed to exist in their world.. So, if you really wanna, you can draw me, but I wouldn't encourage it.

Ones I would not be okay with though..

Drawing my characters getting drunk/drinking. <:/ Not on board with that..

Drawing any of my characters, wearing, talking about or supporting anything political or controversial.. Whether it be over the top or subtle.

No uh.. no ships please, Red Van and Suburban are okay but nothing overly sexual please. :}

No fourth wall breaks please. I know I have had my slip ups but I would like to keep a wall up in between their world and ours. I.E no drawing yourself with them..

Well uh.. that’s about it I suppose. You can basically draw anything, Just no ships, nothing overly sexual or political and keep the fourth wall breaks to a minimum. I myself need to work on not breaking the fourth wall.

I guess that’s it. So if you want to draw fanart for me, and it “follows the rules”? I am bouncing off the walls excited to see what you make for me! Link to their character sheets is here, keep in mind it may be edited now and then.

I am officially giving my fans permission to draw my OCs as long as it “follows the rules”, Have fun drawing!!

Escort would be like,

When it comes to digital, I use a small Intuos pro Wacom tablet. The model is PHT-451. I’m just reading things off the back of it here. It looks like this.

When it comes to traditional drawing, I use nothing but the finest Walmart mechanical pencils and sketch books. I also usually have a standard pink school eraser on hand as well. :}

Hmm.. If they could use a bouncy castle.. Well,

Brown Suburban and Suburban wouldn’t use it for the same reasons. They’re both too big and it would just make them tired. However, if the the kiddos wanted him to, Suburban would just shrug and hop on.

Miata would be on it before its even fully blown up. She’d love bounce houses.

Escort wouldn’t use it because he’s old and weak. Trying to jump up and down like that would tire him out super fast and would just make him ache probably. Poor baby, he’d probably want to though.🥺

U.M.Dragster would be hopping on it before it was fully blown up along side Miata.

A.T.Dragster would like it but would pretend not to.

Green Truck and Vega wouldn’t do it because they’re old and that would really tire them out. But Vega would want to even though he really shouldn’t.

Red Van would like to jump with the kids, but she cant. After what those cons did to her knees.. she can barley walk, let alone jump. repeatedly.

White Truck would love to jump on a bounce house and would have a ton of fun with it. Although due to his size and strength he would probably get tired faster than Miata and U.M. would.

Beluga and Jeepy would love to, and they would. But just like White Truck, they’re big and would get tired pretty quickly I feel.

With enough coaxing, Honda would like to jump on the bounce house too. And she would have a decent amount of energy left over.

Ranger would say she doesn’t want to and wouldn’t go on it. But she lowkey actually wants to join, she just doesn’t want to seem silly.

Volvo: No.

Bash Buggy would probably want to, but would shy away. He cant see people all that well and parts tend to fall off of him. He imagines he’s not all that clean either so he wouldn’t want to get the bounce house dirty and covered in bolts and screws.

A Decepticon.. that one ugly one.? And I know which one??

I actually don’t know which one. I know its not one of mine, because I’ve never drawn them before.

I know its not Knock Out, because he was designed to look attractive. Its not Break Down because he’s not ugly and he’s..... uh, dead..... Its not Soundwave because you cant see his face. Its not Shockwave because.. well, I don't think he’s ugly. Is it Megatron? Starscream?

Who are you talking about???

Its weird how Bash is the idiot when Bulkhead was the one who asked, “Were you killed??” and ALL FOUR OF THEM were relieved when he said he lived.

Isaac sounds so cool! I really like how you structured his character, he sounds like a really fun guy, and yeah, I bet they would really get along swell XD

Well here’s the thing, I can only really tell you the age of the real cars and how old I imagined them being in Transformer years. The reason why is because I don't know how long Cybertronians live and cant use any of the other characters as a reference.

Bumblebee is seen as the youngest, and Ratchet I think is seen as the oldest. Like Teenager vs elder kind'a thing. If I knew how old they were, I could compare them to my OCs and give you a proper age.. but I cant find any info, so this’ll just have to do for now. <:{

Now, normally I have a rule of thumb that I follow. The characters Cybertronian age should at least match up a little with their car age. 40 years is really old for a car, so the character should be really old in robot years. 40 years would translate to like 50 or 60 in Cybertronian years if you get what I’m saying. So, Here’s the age of the real life cars and how old I imagined them to be in Cybertronian years. From oldest to youngest.

Green Truck was made in 1972, he is 48 years old. I pictured him being in his late 50s, coming on 60 years old in Cybertronian years.

Vega was made in 1974, he is 46 years old. I pictured him being in his mid 50s somewhere, in Cybertronian years of course.

Brown Suburban was made in 1978, he is 42 years old. Despite him not being that old in real life, I thought of him being ancient in Cybertronian years. Like, he’s closing up on 90 or something and yet he’s still super strong and in fighting condition. The idea was that Bulkhead and Wheeljack were surprised to see him on Earth, they both kind’a though he had died of age by then.

Escort was made in 1986, he is 34 years old. Not too old, but I portray him as if he’s reaching his 50s in Cybertronian years.

Suburban was made in 1988, he is 32 years old. I always pictured him being somewhere in his mid forty's in Cybertronian years.

Bash Buggy was made in 1990, he is 30 years old. I kind’a pictured him being somewhere in his 30s actually, so that works out.

Red Van was made in 1993, she is 27 years old. I thought she could be in her very early 40s. Like 41 or maybe 42 years old.

Miata was made in 1994, she is 26 years old. I always pictured her being like in her early twenties. Think 22 to 23.

I haven’t talked about him yet, but Duck Truck was made in 1996, and is 24 years old. He’s one of the Decepticons, his year was written down so I figured I’d add him in too. I always pictured him as a younger Cybertronian, like in his 20s somewhere.

Jeepy was made in 1996, he is 24 years old. Which is actually how old I always pictured him being. Young and full of spirit, probably about 24 years old in Cybertronian years.

Ranger was also made in 1996, she is also 24 years old. But I pictured her being somewhere in her late 30s, closing in in 40.

White Truck was also made in 1996, he also is 24 years old. But I pictured him being rather young, maybe just getting to 20 or a tiny bit older. Not quite at 24 I feel.

Volvo was made in 1998, he is 22 years old. But I feel this old crank pot would fit being around 30 to 35 years old better.

Honda was made in 2000, she is 20 years old. That’s just about how old I imagined her being, maybe a little older though? Maybe 23 to 24 or something.

Beluga was made in 2004, she is 16 years old. I always pictured her being closer to her big sisters age though, so maybe about 20 to 22 years old.

Then... there’s the Dragsters.. and here’s the thing.. U.M.Dragster was made in 2006, so he is 14 years old.. he is our youngest car. Then there’s A.T.Dragster, she was made in 1969, which makes her a whopping 51 years old and our oldest car to date.

This is where I broke that age rule.. I wanted these two to be twins for a multitude of reasons. But how could they be? One is 14 and one is 51, how can they be twins? So I thought okay, they cant be twins, period. ...but they at least need to be siblings, their history demands it. But how would that work?

There are 37 years of age in between them. If they were siblings they couldn’t have grown up together because of the age difference, so there wouldn't be that sibling bond.. But that’s what I want for them at least, is for them to be siblings that grew up together.

So I figured I had two options. I could either follow the age rule that I had structured for everyone else, and just either make them related in some other way other than siblings, or make them not related at all..

Or.. I could completely break the rule so that these two could be siblings.

I’m sure you know which one I went with. I couldn't justify them being twins though because the age difference still bugged me, so they’re just siblings.

A.T is supposed to be in her late 20s, and her little brother U.M is in his early 20s.

When it comes to the real team prime?

I imagined Optimus was like.. in his 40s or something?

I imagined Ratchet is in his 50s somewhere, maybe closing in on 60?

Bulkhead might be somewhere in his 30s.

Wheeljack could be in his 30s too, but I always saw him being a little older than the others.. maybe closing in on 40?

Bumblebee always came off as like a teen, but realistically he might just be early 20s.

Arcee seems like she might be in her late 20s somewhere.

Smokescreen seems to be early 20s, not sure if he’s older or younger than Bumblebee though.

I felt like Ultra Magnus could be in his 40s, but he’d be younger than Optimus I’d guess.

Ohh! That’s a clever one! :DD Well lets see, let me go through the list. XD

Suburban would probably tell you about the war itself, not really about his past specifically. Like, he’d tell you how the war started and what his job was as a medic. But he wouldn't tell you any of the gruesome stuff or much else, for his own sake and yours.

As far as Miata’s story has developed, she hasn’t experienced anything particularly traumatic. So she’d probably fill you in on all that she can remember.

Escort would tell you some stuff, but he wouldn’t tell you anything about what happened after the war on Cybertron. If you asked him he’d get pretty fidgety and would probably get upset.

Brown Suburban would tell you all the wrecker stories in the book, but would try and avoid the stories he thought you couldn’t handle. When it comes to his story specifically though.. he doesn’t want to talk about it.

Both Dragsters wouldn’t want to share their pasts, but might talk about their childhoods if you were nice enough.

Green Truck would probably tell you his whole life story, but would sugar coat it and gloss over the gruesome and traumatic details.

Vega would tell you everything he remembers. He would tell you about his life story, his family and his friends.. but then the story would abruptly cut, and Vega would kind’a get this.. strange look on his face. You’d ask, “What happens next?” And he would just quietly go, “..I.. I don’t know. Everything just.. goes black there. It was dark for a long time.. and then I just.. woke up.. thousands of years older than I was when I went to sleep.”

Red Van and Beluga would tell you the happy parts of their pasts and gloss over or sugar coat the gruesome parts.

If you coaxed him enough, White Truck would tell you everything, good and bad. But he’d be nervous or uncomfortable through most of it and it would put him in a weird mood for the rest of the day.

Honda would tell you in great detail about everything she remembers. But she would clam up when she got to the part of the story that talks about her first mission.

Ranger would tell you everything, good and bad, but would lighten it up a little bit as to not freak you out too much.

It would take some convincing, but Volvo would probably share a few interesting stories here and there. His past is not a pretty one, and he feels no reason to share it with anyone, unless its for educational reasons.

Jeepy wouldn’t tell you much. He doesn’t like to think about his past. But he would boast all day to anyone about that one time he saved someone's life or that time he got away from a dangerous situation unscathed.

Bash Buggy doesn’t like to talk about it much, but he would give you a general timeline of sorts. Like, “This happened, and then this, and then this guy came and this happened, and then this big thing happened, and a couple thousand years later I’m here.” kind’a thing.

It was redraw of that one meme from Ice age XD

But in all honesty, he probably has suffered enough damage at several points in his life that shut him down or at least should’ve, but he somehow got back up and kept moving.

The first thing he did when he woke up and really processed it, was he went to go wake up Suburban and show him.

I.. think you’re talking about this one? Haven’t seen the movie but it seems fun XD. My taste in movies is 𝒟𝒾𝓈𝓃𝑒𝓎.

You think what you’ve seen is cute? Boi you haven’t seen what he’s like when he’s trying to comfort someone. XD

First off, how dare you make me cry with your sickly sweet and heart felt words. Second off, thank you so much! And third, I can go over the process of how the 16 of them came to be if it’ll help. Don’t worry I’ll try and sum it up.

So, with other types of characters all this unique personality stuff would be pretty hard.. but with these real life cars turned into Transformers stuff? It was kind’a easy for me to do this.

For one, I based the cars personalities off of the vibe that the cars always gave off to me, and their drivers personalities. The best example being Honda. I always saw the car having this sweet and gentle vibe, and her driver is the same way. So as a character, I just gave her what felt most familiar when looking at that car.

Brown Suburban has always gave off the vibe that I designed him with. The strong and silent type, but with a big heart for kids and family. *cough cough* the wreckers *cough cough*.

With Volvo I didn’t really have either things to base him off of, so I just basically copied Ratchet and shifted his personality around a bit.

With Bash Buggy though, he’s a new edition to the family. We got him this year I believe. So I just designed a bot that could match how his car looks, and a personality came with it. He could have an adventurous personality, which is why he’d be in dangerous situations and always get hurt. And then I think, “Hey! He could be a Wrecker! A really tiny one!”. The personality stuff was just kind’a there already or was easy to imagine.

Now.. their bodies.. uh.. well, I started with the same thing every time If I remember right. I would take the front of the car, take it apart or split it and rearrange it on the chest of the transformer.

With Red Van, I took the face of the car, split it down the center and spread them apart to make the breast plates.

I basically did this with everyone else too. Just cut up the face of the car and rearranged them and put them on the chest of the transformers. Here’s Green Truck, Volvo and Vega as some more examples.

Well, I notice now my mistake now.. You see Optimus, Ratchet, Bumblebee and Arcee have windows on their bodies. The glass parts of their forms don't just shatter and disappear, the glass windows either rest on their chests or back wings. I should have put windows on some of their chests, and not put the tires or their back so much. But eh, you live and you learn. I’ll do better with the cons.

Now, when it comes to the arms and legs of the transformers, I just drew what felt right.. I don’t know what to tell you.. I can try to show you my thought process maybe?

Red Van is square, but round, not sharp like Suburban. She is more hollow than she is dense and she is not very complicated. In looks, and in functionality. I also wanted key features of hers to be present on her body to help identify her. Such as her silver trim, her hood ornament, etc.

So, with all these things in mind, I drew a character that matched the car and had all the mentioned features.

The face is more complicated.. but here’s what I remember thinking.

Its complicated.. uhg, I don’t even know if this is helping.

But basically, I based the characters off of the cars they are, the history they have, and the people who drive them. For personality and looks.

By taking the car, deconstructing some parts of it and rearranging them on the body of the character, it makes things a little easier. And if the character is modelled after someone that already exists, it makes constructing their personality a lot easier.

Overall, this is all I can really tell you. Most of their designing was just stuff I pulled out of my aft and slapped on the paper. I have no idea how I thought of these things but I did, and now they’re here.

I hope this was somewhat informative, I know I probably didn’t explain it well or even answer your question.. If I didn’t, please. ask me again so I can actually try to help you.

Anyway, thank you for the ask. I took it as a huge compliment and it got me all giddy, XD I hope I was at least a little help in your artistic adventures. :} ♡

#my response #transformer ocs #my advice #my tutorials #transformers #transformers prime

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transformersmr-hq · 5 years

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TFMR Worldbuilding: How Cybertronian Armorplate Works

Warning: this post is written by someone who has an amoeba for brain.

Short version: Armorplates are not like clothes but more like skin that can be taken off

Long version:

((There are two more drawings under here! :D))

In a way, it can be said that Cybertronians have both exoskeleton and endoskeleton. They have bone struts for holding things in place, and at the same time their frame is covered with hard metal shells. These shells are armorplates because well it's an armor???

Armorplates are divided into two types according to hardness, thickness, and flexibility.

Armorplates

Outer armorplate is hardest and thickest. This part has most pigments so it appears extra colorful compared to the rest of the body parts. Primary outer armor is the thickest and hardest, as this is the part that forms the shell of one's vehicle form. Secondary armor contributes more to the protection of root form. It is still pretty tough, but it's usually thinner and sometimes segmented to enable movements.

Inner armorplate focuses more on mobility, so it is thinner and more flexible than outer armorplate. Primary inner armor is usually covering upper arm and thighs. Secondary inner armor is protecting midsection, and it is almost always segmented because that part moves a lot.

Protoflesh

With no armorplates, a Cybertronian looks like a creepy ball joint doll made of nanite muscles. There are three types of protoflesh: Squishy bit, Stretchy bit, and Stiff bit.

Squishy bits are the softest, as they are mostly made of inactive nanites and very tiny metal bits. Together they form a structure that is very similar to muscle fibers found in human body. Squishy bits are also squishy because they are surrounding delicate inner structures like pistons and gears, so that they wouldn't dislocate easily from outside impact. Also, it is squishes into vehicle shape when Cyberteonian transforms to vehicle mode.

Squishy bits are also the most sensitive. In case of fingers, the squishy bit exists directly below the thin armorplate to sense things better.

Stretchy bits are like tendons made of really tough alien rubber, but not exactly matches 1:1 to human tendons. They exist to keep the squishy bits in place, especially during transformation. They stretch when a Cybertronian transforms into a vehicle, and they snap back to place when transformed back to root form.

Faceplates are considered as part of stretchy bit because well they stretch a lot to make various expressions, but they are more like inner secondary armorplate in terms of texture and toughness, as they are the only exposed protoflesh part.

Stiff bit is stiff. That's why it acts as secondary support structure (primary support structure is bone struts). They are like super hard alien plastic. They cover the places that needs extra extra protection, such as chest (right above spark chamber), front arm (this is where Cybertronians usually install their tools and guns, so the squishy and stretchy bits need to be protected from those), wherever the wheels are (in order to absorb the shock when driving), feet (in case of fliers, to absorb the shock of landing) and so on.

The stiff bit that protects processor is extra thick for obvious reasons.

So.... does that mean armorplates are essentially robot clothes?

No, they are their skin. They can take it off without pain, but why would they unless there's medical emergency?

Cybertronians come to the world with full set of armor. They take shower in their armor. They sleep in their armor. They even [EXPUNGED] in their armor. The armored form is their complete form. They don't need to cover themselves with fabrics or wear shoes like humans do, because they are already fully protected from birth. Though Mirage would like to say otherwise regarding footwear, because he'd been stepping on some unspeakably nasty stuff

Yes, "nude" is inappropriate in Cybertronian standards too, but not because it's 'sexy' or anything. In fact, nude is classified under 'mild gore' category in Cybertronian culture. Not wanting to see other person's exposed muscle fiber is a lot different from not wanting to see other person's "business down there".

Also, protoflesh is very vulnerable to outside hazards. A simple skin disease like rust can send a bot into operation chamber if it infects the entire chunk of ferrofluidal muscle. Stiff bits can be broken if a bot suffers direct impact to it. Everything will feel either too painfully hot or too painfully cold, because the protoflesh is not used to sensing things directly. A warm afternoon sunlight might feel like hyperthermal death ray.

Cybertronians, despite concerns from most doctors, often take off parts of their armor for regular maintenance. It is especially important to do so when they need new paint job.

Walking in on them in the middle of maintenance is far worse than walking in on someone changing their underwear, because Cybertronian processor is programmed to feel instant vulnerability when a piece of their armor is not on their frame.

Young Cybertronians often make mistakes of taking off part of their armorplate without thinking much. If the said armorplate is something tricky to put back on, they run to nearest reliable adult in panic. Unless they have broken something in the process, the adult will put the armorplate back in place and give them a lecture about how to properly take care of one's frame.

#Transformers: Mobius Run #worldbuilding #drawing #writing #protoflesh #armorplate #cybertronian biology?#Knock Out #Mirage #Alan #Bumblebee #Ratchet #maccadam

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x-de-con-struct-ed-x--arch · 4 years

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Shipping Preferences

Multi, single, or fewship? Selectively multiship! I say, having literally over 20 ships with Ironhide. Honestly if there’s chemistry I’m willing to try and give it a ship ajhkjfhgjf

What are you willing to RP when it comes to shipping? Maybe I’m just dumb but I don’t really understand this question. XD

Just about anything, I suppose? Fluff, smut, angst, etc. etc. I’m even willing to play with some unhealthy stuff, I suppose, although I am really careful about that kind of stuff.

How large does the age gap have to be to make it uncomfortable? See this is. A bit tricky. Because my muse is like. Somewhere between 15 and 18 million years old. By Cybertronian standards, he’s old. Not old, but old. And it doesn’t help that timelines are so fucky that there are 2000yr-olds that are considered old or one million-year-olds that are considered babies and it’s just--

Good lord. XD

If we’re taking my timeline into account, he wouldn’t go lower than four or five million. Two, two and a half, is a legal adult, by my standards, but he wouldn’t go lower than four. And with humans, no lower than 20.

What a mess.

Are you selective when shipping? Hnnnn I like to say I am. At the very least, I have become more selective over time, I really have. I will almost never just jump into a ship (there are special cases, sometimes it just Feels Right and Ironhide can’t be stopped from falling helm over aft for someone ajkhhfds) and really prefer things to happen naturally through interactions. So!

How far do steamy moments have to go before they’re considered NSFW? Hah, this is another tricky one, considering the logistics of TF sex. Pretty much when everyone’s getting handsy I start to consider it nsfw.

Does one have to ask to ship with you? Not necessarily, but it’s nice to be asked! Mostly because if I want to ship it I am never sure if you will and I’m to shy to ask so I’ll just sit here trying to restrain Ironhide from doing anything too overly-flirty and it’s miserable for both of us. XD

How often do you like to ship? ...whenever? I like shipping ahbkhgf

What is your favorite ship in your current fandom? Hnn I don’t like playing favorites buuuuut Wild and Ironhide is definitely up there right now. It’s my newest ship but it’s probably my most well-developed one, despite how young it is. Angel and I pretty much have their entire lives together planned out and it’s sweet and angsty and sexy and just ajfkhgjkfgf

But god, I sincerely love all of my ships. Ratchet and Ironhide will always be a favorite; the Constructicons have been around since the beginning and Ironhide seems to have a small collection of them going; Starscream has also been around since the early days and holy shit somehow they had a kid, no one knows how and neither of them are willing to admit they’re definitely at least a little bit in love...

...and so many more. I genuinely love all of my ships. They all bring something new to the table and to Ironhide and I love it.

Whew.

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Here (Evac x Reader)

Summary: |REQUEST| You’ve been working at NEST in hopes to meet aliens and maybe befriend them! Your attempts though are dashed until one blue Autobot shows up at the base one day. Warnings: N/A Word Count: 1455

Tags: @ the one anon who sent me the request!

One afternoon though, a new Autobot had rolled into the base with Optimus and Ironhide, having taken on the shape of a blue Nissan GTR. He was someone who had apparently been on Earth for quite a while now compared to Optimus and you immediately were curious. Perhaps this new Autobot could be your friend. You were determined to at least have one Autobot be your friend, everything else be damned.

When the blue Autobot got out of their altmode, they stood about the same height as Bumblebee. Alright. Good start. At least they weren’t 32 feet tall like Optimus.

“Autobots,” Optimus said, the Autobot’s attention turning towards him as he introduced the new recruit. “This is Evac. He is here to help us protect the remaining Allspark shard.”

“It’s good to be around comrades again, Optimus,” Evac said. You approached Evac meekly, gripping your clipboard as nervousness wracked your body. You had to be used to this by now, it was standard procedure after all. All NEST scientists had to essentially do a checkup on all Autobots, especially new ones before they were sent out on missions. It was a deal that the NEST operatives and Optimus had allowed, as long as no experimentation was being done on them. After all, they were intelligent beings. Giant ones with intellectual prowess higher than any human.

“H-Hello!“ you called out to Evac.

“Ah, (y/n),“ Optimus said, noticing your small form. “I believe you’re the one conducting the check up on our friend?“

“Yes,“ you replied, “Evac, if you could follow me, to the decontamination chamber…” You then turned around and started leading him to the decontamination chamber, something Ratchet had created for Cybertronians, using the knowledge he had from previous years before Cybertron had fallen.

“Is this standard procedure?” Evac asked, being careful not to kick anyone as he followed you.

“Yup, don’t worry, we’re just making sure everything is healthy, after we’re done on our part, we’ll send you to Ratchet,” you replied. When Evac entered the decontamination chamber, you pressed a button that cleaned him of whatever needed to be cleaned and he got out of the chamber feeling refreshed, you then pointed him to a lowered berth essentially and he laid down on it as you climbed onto it and walked around him, using various tools to see how his health was. During the entire time, you struck up a friendly conversation with him, asking him every question that came into your mind, knowing that you wouldn’t have any other chance of becoming friends with this new person. “Ah- sorry,” you then said, cutting yourself off.

“Hm?” Evac hummed.

“I just realised I’m asking too many questions, sorry,” you said shuffling a little bit in embarrassment. He gives a light laugh and a pink tint rises to your cheeks.

“No, it’s fine! Honestly, I’m enjoying the conversation, nice to get to know the people on this planet,“ Evac smiled. You paused for a moment, looking at his expression to see if he was being genuine and you cleared your throat as you set aside the last tool.

“Well, I’m done with everything for you,” you huffed. “Now you gotta deal with Ratchet, you seem fine in everything so I don’t think he’ll give you too much trouble,” you smiled. He got up from the berth and gave you a smile before approaching Ratchet for the rest of his check up. You stood there for a moment before one thought ran through your mind. Oh, he’s kinda cute.

A few months passed since you first met Evac, often glancing at him every now and then to see what he was up to. Little did you know that whenever Evac was back at base from missions, his optics would be searching for you every now and then. Ever since he met you, he found you pretty endearing. The conversations you had through those months were short, usually cut off with you having to work and Evac being gone during missions.

It was rare that he had time off, but when he did he’d find ways to seek you out and spend as much time as possible with you. After all, he enjoyed your presence and your friendliness towards him was a breath of fresh air. And you enjoyed being around him, learning more about his world, him as an individual. So the day when you realised you fell in love with him hit you like a bus. Maybe you were just looking at him for too long or just acting on something else. But his laugh! His smile! It made your heart race whenever he gave you that smile, something that he seemed to only give to you when you passed by on your way to do a task that had been assigned to you. So when Evac finally had enough time to himself to go out for a drive he immediately approached you after you had finished with your work for today.

“Hey!” Evac greeted. “So um,” he rubbed his servos on the back of his neck, suddenly growing nervous. “I was wondering if you wanted to go out for a ride. Together. Just the two of us.” A smile immediately grew on your face and you accepted the offer. Evac wasn’t expecting you to say yes so quickly and stood there with his dermas slightly open for a moment, processing before giving a light chuckle and changing into his altmode. He opened the driver’s door for you and you got in, Evac leaving the hangar a little bit faster than he should have, mainly because he couldn’t contain his excitement. The Autobots watched as he sped off and Ratchet muttered to himself as he went back to his work.

“Young Cybertronians, always unable to control their sparks,” Ratchet grumbled.

“So, where to?” you asked Evac as he drove off the base.

“I dunno, any ideas on where you wanna go?“ Evac replied through the stereo. You thought about it for a moment before a location came to mind.

“There’s a mountain pass nearby that overlooks the ocean,” you said. “We can park at a spot up there and just watch the sunset.”

“Watching the sunset? Sounds romantic to me,” Evac teased. You gave an awkward yeah and cleared your throat, trying to will away the blush that was growing on your face.

“Yeah, so?” you said defensively. Evac’s fans started going full blast for a moment before calming down and you quirked a brow.

“I, just uh,” Evac tried to find the words but couldn’t, so instead he just kept driving, leaving you both flustered. You gave him directions as he went, your voice cautious and gentle, beginning to feel more and more nervous as you drew near the spot. When you arrived, you got out of Evac and placed your hand on his hood as a sign of affection before looking towards the sun, which had begun to set.

“Nobody’s here-” you were cut off as soon as you spoke by the sound of Evac shifting out of his altmode, your hand now in his servos as he sat down on the edge. You kept your hand in his servos for a moment before your face flushed red and you withdrew it, muttering a sorry. Evac only gives a light laugh, motioning you closer. You think about it for a moment before drawing closer to him, sitting on the ground and leaning against his large frame. He wraps his arm around you and the two of you watch the sun set, saying nothing the entire time, simply taking in his body heat as the air began to cool as it settled into night. It was nice. Just the two of you sitting here all alone, with no responsibilities to worry about. You kinda wished it’d last forever. Just being here. With him.

#evac x reader #evac #transformers x reader #transformers request #evac transformers #uhh i hope this is alright!#little difficult cus i remember going on the ride but its fuzzy #anyway #kagebros.writing

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majingojira · 4 years

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Crossover Universe Musings -- Aliens

One of the things about working in a mixed Crossover Universe, linking to other series not because “it's cool” but from in story crossovers, meetings, and homages and the occasional pseudo-scholarly article, is that a lot of “Blending” happens. And it really is rather fun. Or, rather, it’s a time-saving measure because having X number of species all being basically the same is just annoying as hell. But remember, working in the “Crossover Universe” is like trying to piece together what happened at Pearl Harbor using only the movies made about it. Here are some results, let’s see what you recognize.

The Elder Things - One of the oldest sapient species in the universe, and also the ugliest. The Barel bodied, flam-footed, branching-tentacle armed, winged, starfish-headed horrors of Lovecraft. They made many ancient technologies later species would claim as their own. Also known as The Quintessons.

The Ascended - A collective of various species that have shed biological form to exist as energy, thought, and smug. Many species achieve this, and each group holds itself to different standards. They are all obscenely powerful, and when they act, it is rarely small. Also known as Any Number of God-Like Beings in Star Trek, The Ancients, Ultraman and other Ultras, The Mu (RahXephon and others), and Preservers. The later of which is partly responsible for why there are so many transported human cultures out in the galaxy. The Time Lords - Ya know these goons. That one meddling Doctor pops his head up everywhere. The Celestials - GIANT SPACE GODS! They silently judge for their own reasons. And tinker. Because they are bored. The Xothians - Better known as The Star Spawn of Cthulhu, or just the Star Spawn. Powerful beings in mind, soul, and body. They have squid-heads, dragon bodies, and roughly humanoid shape. Usually standing between 3 and 23 meters tall. The “Great Race” of Yith - They mentally transfer themselves into different species to learn, but generally have a habit of stranding their ‘preferred’ host body’s original mind in their last body. So, yeah, they’re dicks. But they LOVE learning. The Mi-Go - Aliens from Outside our reality, true Outsiders. Horrific to view in their true form and masters of biomechanics, they sometimes like to show up on earth as Yeti rather than their true insect/fungal forms. Their aims in our universe are not nice. The Neural Parasites - These are beings that either dominate a host humanoid or ‘blend’ with them to share knowledge and experience. The former is best represented by the “Let me play god!” Goa’uld. The latter is best represented by the Trill. They have only recently diverged into separate species. They have also been presented as the “Bluegill.” Though for the record, it was the constructions at Egypt and other locations that brought the Goa’uld to earth, they had no hand in it at all. The Colonists - The most commonly known “Grey” type. They made first contact with Earth in 1947 and started setting up for colonization of the planet. They weren’t the only aliens to visit that year, but they were the only intentional ones. The species infects through a “Black Oil” virus that infects a sapient species and converts it into one of them. Immature forms are more savage than the adult ones. They use technology to take human form, but the technology didn’t always work well at first. In the 50s and 60s, their human forms were basically shells of flesh with no blood, and no heartbeat -- and they could never quite get the pinky right. Plus, their bodies vaporized on death. Today, they just are better at changing shape but after 60 some years of preparation, they lost interest in the earth due to climate destabilization. Examples are seen in The X-Files and The Invaders. The Asgard - The other type of Grey, smaller, smarter, and less dickish. Examples include Stargate SG-1 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Xenomorphs - a.k.a. The Brood. A Genetically engineered bioweapon of a species that got out of hand. Who made them? Some jerks. The Predators - a.k.a. The Yau’tja, The Hirogen. They have a hunter-based culture. Expatriated Humans - They are people who were transported elsewhere by other species and have since become their own cultures. Some become different species, such as the Thoans, Jaffa, etc.

The Kree/Kherubim/Capellans/Eridaneans/Sontarans - Between the Ancient and Expatriated Humans lie this species and its offshoot cultures. They look human, but thanks to differences, they tend to be more physically fit, more durable, heal faster, and extremely long-lived. This is in part due to nanotechnology, and in part due to genetic engineering on their part. Some of them crash-landed on earth (or rather, several different ships of theirs crash-landed on earth at several different times) and they tweaked history every now and again. Some are more ‘enhanced’ than others, and their society did assimilate a few other sapient species into their midst, but they are few in number. The way to tell the cultures apart is to see if they have an elected “King”, or a ruling council. Or if they obey a biocomputer. The societies have been at war with themselves and others for a long time and have a long history of using clone troopers as needed. Most look human, but some are not. Some are blue, and some have true ‘dome heads’. Kryptonians and Viltrumites/Daxamaites - They started as a mining colony for the above species. They altered themselves to face the harsh environment: Both had high gravity, but one was a cold world with low light, so they used nanites to store extra energy, enhanced their senses genetically and nanotechnologically, and also could use their nanites to make a heat-based energy weapon in case of emergencies. The latter had to fend off savage beasts so regularly, tweaking themselves to better survive combat was more useful than just having bigger guns to fend them off. When the Kree/Capellan civilization was in one of its downturns, the two were left to themselves and decided to act on their own initiative. They had their experiences of trying to be a galactic power in their own right, but the Kryptonians mostly turned in on themselves, while the Dazamites/Viltrumites cut such a swath through space, biological warfare and decimated the species. Then Krypton blew up, leaving few survivors of that planet too. Though, thanks to humanity’s special ability to crossbreed with damn near any non-Terran sapient species, members of each group view Earth with special importance. The Rutan Host/Changelings/Founders/Skrulls/Daemonites/Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua - Shapeshifters whose natural state is liquid. They are intelligent, but their young, sent out to explore the universe then find their way back home, can be very dangerous as they can be ... infectious. Not as bad as another species from their home planet that got out in the universe -- no. Not as bad as that... Thing. Or the horrifying Blob that originates on their homeworld but also barrels through space. But, a juvenile member can dive onto another being, “Blend” with it, and then take its form. However, this process is always a battle of wills, and people of strong minds and hearts can overcome the being and gain elastic abilities from the encounter. Often referring to themselves as “Plastic” or “Elongated” men. It’s pretty Fantastic. BTW: Skrull is a slur against them.

The Borg/Cybermen - Humanoids who, in order to survive, replace their weaker organic parts with mechanical ones. They share their ‘gift’ with as many species as they can. Also, they are dicks. The Klingons/Draconians - Honorable Warriors with forehead-ridges and a dark complexion. The Sarmaks/Kaldanes - a species from an other-dimensional version of Mars (I call it “Nevernever Mars” because crossovers) who tried to invade earth in 1898. The War of the Worlds and the Barsoom series demonstrates this species.

The Dholes/Space Monsters/Uchuu Kaiju - Massive, planet boring worms that fly through space and crawl through dreamlands. They are the most terrifying species known that isn’t an out-and-out god. The Myceneans - Gigantic beings, 3 to 30m in height (depending on how you allow things in your crossover universe), they alter themselves genetically and mechanically to become living weapons. They are really only distinguishable by one feature: Having a secondary head usually in the enter of their chest. The Cybertronians - Lastly, I’ll mention the most infamous Elder Thing creation (other than Shoggoths). They’ve been locked in a war that drags other species down with them for hundreds of thousands of years. They are also insidious invaders, disguising themselves as different native machines to get one over on their foes. While some do try to help, most of them view organic life with revulsion. There are biomechanical Cybertronians that can disguise themselves as other living beings. These are ostracized in their society but still employed as spies on other worlds. One possible timeline has this species locked in combat with another creation of the Elder The Zentradi and Meltrandi. 4m tall giants who live for war. This would lead to a 1999 crash landing of a Cybertronian city-ship, and it’s recovery/refit by humans who made jets based on the corpses of dead Cybertronians. This technology was sometimes called “Robotech.” Other species of note that don’t have crossover representation, but are important to other degrees and are better known include Vulcans, Romulans, Daleks, Ogrons, Unas, Replicators, Klyntar, Color Out of Space, Majesdenians, Flying Polyps, Star Vampires, Xiclotlian, and Zarr.

#Crossovers #Crossover #Wold Newton #Crossover Universe #Star Trek #stargogh #marvel #dcu rp #Lovecraft #Transformers #Doctor Who #H.P. Lovecraft #Cthulhu Mythos

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spockandawe · 5 years

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Windblade!

WINDBLADE! My girl!!!

First impression: Well, it was Dark Cybertron, so mostly I was confused and trying to slog on through the uneven art and writing without losing my momentum. My first impression was probably something like noooOOOoooOOO not MORE characters :c

Impression now: Oh my god, I love her. She kind of breaks type in terms of my faves, where a lot of times I gravitate to the characters who are carrying massive damage and/or anger, and she’s… pretty well adjusted! I love how determined she is, how smart she is, how compassionate she is, how good-natured and friendly she is. I love that she’s one of the characters who was calculating enough to be like ‘starscream’s a hazard, but i don’t want to overthrow him, i’d rather support him and stabilize the planet as much as i can’. I love how well she shoulders new and heavier responsibilities, and that she doesn’t really want power, but when she has the ability to help people by leading, she wants to help as much as she can. And despite all that good nature, she’s got a temper and an attitude, and she’s totally unwilling to let people walk all over her.

Favorite moment: Ooooh. I know I picked this as one of my favorite moments for Starscream, but seriously, when she’s trapped in her own head with Vigilem and Starscream comes to visit and gets trapped too, and she protects him and kicks Vigilem out of the driver’s seat. She’s just so fucking determined, and not just that, but determined to do the right thing. There’s something that’s really hard to articulate about this, but… she knows what Starscream is like, but still doesn’t hesitate to protect him. Even when Starscream is blackmailing her, she’s really bad at being blackmailed. Even without Chromia making her move, I don’t think that would have stuck long. Windblade really has a strong grasp of her own personal standards of right and wrong, and I think that moment where she jumps in and grabs Starscream’s spark and forges him a new body really embodies all the best things about her.

Idea for a story: Well, the easy answer would be the same vigilem mind meld fic I talked about for Starscream :P But let’s have a little variety! I am dying to get to the starbladejack fic where Megatron comes to visit Cybertron. It won’t just be Megatron, it’ll be the LL officers all at once, and they’ll have genuinely innocent intentions. But I still want to put Windblade in a room with Megatron and Starscream. I want it so badly I’m going to scream. I want Windblade to (not literally) stand up and say that yes, Starscream is a jackass, but he’s my jackass, and I’m not comfortable with what’s happening here. I want her willing to throw down with Megatron, even though he’s old, experienced, and ruthless, and has unimaginable amounts of blood on his hands, and where by Cybertronian standards, she’s an untried baby. I need this fic, if only I could get unstuck on the last few things I need to write before beginning it XD

Unpopular opinion: Starblade? I’m sticking with that one :B It’s so baffling to me that people are getting all purity culture over this ship when this canon is full of characters who have tried to kill each other loads of times, and have frequently mutilated each other in all sorts of interesting ways, but this is the ship that people get stuck on. I mean, Megatron came this close to killing Rodimus in phase one, but that’s still popular. He came that close to killing OP too, but megop is stlil a standard. I think starblade is a tricky balance, but it has so much potential to bring out the best in both of them. If they’re written together to a stable place, it has the potential to be a Starscream with all his abrasiveness and sharp edges intact, but where he’s better at pulling up before trying to hurt (/kill) people he cares about. And it showcases the part of her I love where she’s tenacious as hell and takes no shit, and she doesn’t dissolve into bland shapeless personality-what-personality characterization that sometimes happens to women in a cast of majority men.

Favorite relationship: Man, you’d think that at this point I’d be better about remembering what the next question in this list is :P Anyways, yeah. Starscream. For him I picked starbladejack because choosing starblade vs starjack was impossible, but for her, it’s more directly starscream. With an optional side serving of other ships, like starbladejack and starbladebee, or even adding vigilem to the mix. I’m very open to all the possibilities. But the starblade dynamic is what keeps me most invested in all those things. Pitchrom is just a delight when it’s done nicely, and they’re such a perfect matched pitch pair that I can ship them around as a unit without having to think too hard about it.

Favorite headcanon: This one is so tricky :P I’d say that vigilem didn’t die in taao, because the spark ‘burns away things that are false’, but I’m also saving that for the vigilem ask in my inbox. How about that Windblade is very young, even by Camien standards, and especially by Cybertronian standards. She’s still an adult, and is well-trained, well-educated, and very intelligent, but when a Cybertronian learns how young she is it’s super disconcerting because they’re not used to young people and oh god who let this baby out without supervision she’s going to be killed– It’s frustrating to her in some ways and hilarious in others, and also distresses her on a deeper level because the lack of Cybertronian babies is a whole other problem and people from their homeworld shouldn’t be in a position where they see her as alarmingly young.

#spock replies #windblade #starblade #ask memes/#transformers #auro-bot

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localrobosexual · 5 years

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hewwo my fwiends it's currently real Loving Seaside Hours™ again as spurred by talking to a blessed pal of mine earlier today about our comfort characters, so as I'm tryina ride out this thunderstorm going on outside so I can actually go to sleep I'm just gonna take a moment and gush about this robot and how and why he means so much to me, that alright w y'all lmao

putting a breaker on this bc I already know it's gonna get long and ramble-y lmao. Not gonna mind if u skip this over and don't bother reading it, I just wanna kinda shout into the void about my ocs a bit, don't mind me!

HEY SO YEE I JUST RLLY RLLY LOVE MY BIG DUMB ROBOT SO SO MUCH AAAAAA HE MEANS THE WORLD TO ME AND I COULD NEVER SELL OR TRADE HIM EVER AND I JUST WISH I HAD MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME TO USE TO JUST BUY MORE COMMISSIONS OF HIM BECAUSE GOD EVERY TIME I DRAW HIM AND EVERY TIME SOMEONE ELSE DOES TOO MY HEART JUST FUCKIN SWELLS W LOVE AND HAPPINESS!!!!! THIS ONE LITTLE TRANSFORMERS OC DOES THAT MUCH!!!!!!!! AND ITS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAA

ok but. For real now, besides my initial screams that I had to get out hksjdks. Y'all wanna hear some insight into what all went into making him and why he means so much to me and all. Strap in bc it's gonna get Real

let's start with something pretty well known. Maybe not coming from me but a well known fact regardless lmao. Truth be told I wrote out from the paragraph below this one to the bottom without writing an introduction first and I'm too tired to try to come up with anything good now so uh. Hopefully this isn't too jarring hkshdksk my bad y'all my bad.

Anyways. Mental health! Fucked mental health! that's so much fun right!!

Haha yeah. Nah. We all know this. Being depressed is rlly wack y'all. It fuckin messes up ur head big time. I still don't know if I have downright depression, because I still haven't been properly diagnosed, and I never rlly associated my symptoms and the way I was feeling with depression bc it didn't line up with the stereotypical symptoms of depression, so I was (and still am) just calling it my "existential crisis". That was rlly the only word I could use to describe it. And it was dark and it was lonely and crushing and so, so awful. Despite the fact that I had an extremely loving and supportive friend group, I was always, ALWAYS afraid of speaking up about it. Despite them and all, I still felt super SUPER alone in the way I was feeling about life, my future, and my general purpose. This was all just reinforced by my parents and other adults in my life who I tried to come to in the past who would brush me off by saying I was overreacting, or that I'll "figure it out, because everybody does", or just generally not really understanding or showing any empathy at all. It took my entire life up until SENIOR YEAR ENGLISH CLASS when I went to my teacher about how I was feeling about a certain project that was triggering my symptoms, and that was the first time in my life when any adult had actually shown any sort of understanding or sympathy towards me and my feelings. That was the first time in my life where my mental struggles were validated by someone I respected and held to high regard.

But I still felt so very very alone, with no one to really talk to or who I knew was going through the same thing as me. So I ended up just,, , making someone who did.

Fun fact, before I really went ham on his development, Seaside was just gonna be a one-off oc with a happy go-lucky attitude and not much else about him. It was only until I heard the song What We Will Never Know (which later ended up becoming one of his theme songs bc of this) for the first time that I decided "WAIT,,. ,, BUT,, , WHAT IF,,. , ,,, , I MADE HIM SAD TOO" pretty much hkHKDJDJSK and that's what kick started his development!!

here I was, this sad, depressed, deeply lonely bitch with a love for making characters who played on extensions of myself, finally able to make something to cope with how awful I was feeling all the time. And that's what Seaside kinda was to me at first, he was my coping mechanism for working through hard bouts of my existenial crisis. I crafted his backstory to fit EXACTLY what I was going through at the time. He was content but never truly happy with how his life had been for as long as he could remember, then something exciting and new happens and he's suddenly thrust into a brand new world with so many new possibilities, but as he starts to settle in he realizes just how lost and alone he truly is in this new environment and he doesn't know where to go or what to do with himself. This is literally, EXACTLY a point-to-point retelling of my experience going through high school, graduating, and trying to figure out what to do with my life all with my mental health rapidly deteriorating around me. And having someone like that in my life, even fictional, even one I literally made up myself, made me feel better. I'd daydream scenarios of of us going on little adventures at the beach at night where no one else would see him in robot mode (gotta keep up the disguise aspect and all), but mostly it was just us hanging out, usually cuddled up to each other bc it gets cold on the beach at night, looking up at the stars, chillin and talking and just taking comfort in each other's presences and knowing that we weren't alone in our struggles. And I KNOW that sounds super stupid and cringey and dumb but like, that's genuinely what made, and still does, make me happy and it's what I used to help me hold on just a little longer to get through some of the really rough periods of my existenial crisis. When it got super bad, when I still even couldn't tell my closest friends about how low I was feeling, I still at least had Seaside with me to help me cope.

it wasn't until it got to the point where I was pretty much (lovingly) forced to wake up to the reality that I was rapidly becoming genuinely suicidal that things finally started to change, even just a little bit. I only very recently finally started to get my mind right, I finally told my parents the whole truth about how I was feeling, I got put on some meds that are honestly doing WONDERS for me rn, and I'm definitely in a much better place mentally then I was just a few months ago. I certainly still have a long way to go, but for now I'm just trying to enjoy the ride and just soak up and relish in the fact that I'm, for the first time in years, genuinely going about my days just happy to be out here living life without constantly being weighed down by the soul crushingly empty sorrow that hung over me 24/7. (and to said close group of friends, if you're indeed reading this, this may be the first time you're hearing about what I've been going through all the time, and if that's the case, I'm gonna have to kindly ask that you not come to me about it. I'll know when I'm ready to talk about this openly, but now I don't think I am. I'm really sorry to have kept it from y'all for so long, it really was just eating me up inside, but I think I explained myself well enough)

so now that I'm doing much better mentally, Seaside's outlook has kinda changed, but at the same time, not really?? he's still my comfort character for sure, always will be, but now he's not so much a coping mechanism as he is just a solid source of happiness and peace to turn to every now and again. This one little transformers oc just genuinely makes me really really happy, and I love to just soak it all in and feel every little thing!! We still share the not knowing what we're doing with our lives aspect of ourselves, but now it's a little less completely lost and anguished and hopeless and a little more hopeful and reassuring. Things are gonna be ok. We'll figure this out at our own pace. And we'll still have each other to turn to at every step of the way.

there's a lot of different kinds of comfort energies that many different kinds of comfort characters give off, and different ones resonate more with different people. The most common one I'll see at least is a kind of is parental comfort, someone you can come to for guidance in life because they have the experience to advise you on what to do and can be almost a better pseudo-parental figure. Mom friend types, loving dad energy, that kind of thing. Someone to protect you and give you big strong hugs and stuff. Seaside gives off a similar yet very different kind of comfort energy to me. It's not parental in any way because he's far too young (relatively, even in Cybertronian standards. He'd be like, mid to late 20s in human years) and inexperienced, and, frankly, still a little too naive and unknowing about a lot of things to really be someone to turn to for guidance or just generally be a pseudo-parental figure, but instead, he's just a good friend. He's a perfect kind of friend that'd stand by your side and will always be there for you through the ups and downs of life, someone who knows how to cheer you up when you're sad, someone you can share a solidarity in where you know you're experiencing the exact same struggles. He's just a good shoulder to lean on and a constant reminder that I'm never alone. And I couldn't ask for anything better tbh

so yeah. There's my ramble I guess lmao. To sum it up rlly I just love this big dumb robot w all my heart and soul and I'm so so glad I made him 💕💕💕

#words of meg #meg's ocs #seaside #ramble #tw: suicidal thoughts #existenial crisis #i debated writing this at all but i really need to just go and make myself Actually Do the things i Want To Do w my ocs so #yee #even if i get little to no feedback thats ok #i still made something #so this is kinda my attempt at trying to start that lmAO #rlly poured my heart out here huh #oof lmao

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twitchesandstitches · 5 years

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A Beginning of Sorts

It was a bit of a history lesson of sorts, though from a peer and not a teacher.

“My ancestors are from Iacon, which was once called Caminus,” Orion Pax said, a long time before the Fleet was ever an actual Fleet; this was in the old days, when the great heroes of the Fleet-to-be were still growing up. This was before the beginning of the Cobalt Stingers, before the passing of the Matriatrix, before the full realization of the alchemizers.

In those days, their people were nomads, a convoy traveling from planet to planet in interstellar bus-shuttles and using ancient stargates to find new worlds to evade the enemies that constantly pursued them, and the destructive beasts they hunted to stay alive.

Their particular friend group was a chaotic one; trolls, humans, Transformers, a few Gems that had declared themselves honorary sisters, and even magical monsters were all part of it. Against the side of a parked convoy-scraper, there was a campfire, and against it, some of the kids were telling tales about the history of their people.

Not the humans, much as they would want it; they knew precious little of their homeland. They knew it had been called Earth, or Terra, in the old days. They knew that humanity was come from there, and almost died there. And they knew that Earth was, at best, a bitter memory. There was no human homeworld these days.

Just about everyone in the convoy was in the same boat; they stuck together, all their disparate peoples and families and proto-clans, because there was no one else but each other.

A small, heavily built human raised his head through a wild mane of hair. “Um,” said Greg Universe, an up and coming bard who so openly idolized the convoy heroine Rose Quartz that he had even grown his hair out to look like her’s. A larger girl, her hair violet and her build heavy, smiled romantically at the young man’s obvious crush on the heroine. “That’s from your home planet, right?”

Orion beamed, nodding brightly. He was by Transformer standards, pitifully small… even frail. Not even twenty feet high, he was slim, and most of that was made up by his transforming kibble; some vague experimenting with an ancient relic, the supposed organ of one of their people’s founders, had allowed Transformers like him to reshape their bodies more fluidly, and today he was sporting the wings and claws of a robotic bat.

It suited him, considered the girl who had smiled at Greg’s crush; she’d been provisionally identified as possibly coming from an indigenous nation of ancient Earth. Her name was a private matter, but she asked people to call her Sierra.

Orion continued. “It is said that in the oldest days, before the coming of the Decepticon tyrants, Cybertron was not one world, but many. The Functionalists who preceded the Decepticons,” and here his expression curdled. The mentors had sternly taught him about the horrors of THEIR reign; if there was any bright side to Functionalist dominion, it was that they feared organic life so much they became strictly isolationist, and did no harm to alien life… according to what they uncovered. “Well, they uncovered several worlds of our ancestors, and forced them to merge into a single planet.”

A stocky, chubby and undersized Amethyst, only about forty feet tall, raised a broad hand tipped with claws. She was older than them by thousands of years, but somehow she fit in well as one of the kids. “Uh, I ain’t too learn-inated on our people not liking each other much but I’m pretty sure you can’t just mash up a planet.”

Orion shrugged. “Legends claim the planets were pieces of the forms our goddess Primus took during her periodic adventures into the mortal planes; I think that’s just a legend attributed to great works. In theory, we carried out what we believed to be her will, so it comes out to the sense thing in a cultural sense. I think ancient Cybertronians, in a golden age, created entire planets for us to live on. They were, in a sense, giant living Transformers, down to the ability to fuse.”

Amethyst’s violet eyes glamed. “Ahhh, I get it!”

Greg raised a hand. “I don’t!” he said, rather cheerfully.

The heavy bulk of Grimlock, apparently sleeping the history debate though quite clearly paying attention, cracked a yellow optic open. In his beast mode, he was an absolute giant, big enough for everyone else to sleep against, especially the tiny humans. He adjusted himself carefully around their miniscule bodies, particularly Sierra. He watched her carefully, almost fussing over her, before clearing his synthesizer. “Some Transformers can combine,” he said roughly. “Bit like Gems, but we can’t ALL do it. We used to, I hear.” He gave Orion a questioning look; Orion nodded. Grimlock continued, “So our planets can probably mash it up too.”

Terezi Pyrope, possibly one of the largest in the group, almost as big as Grimlock and shy of a mid-teens molt, rolled her blind eyes. “Dunno why this kinda thing bothers you guys so much. Cybertron’s a long time ago.”

Trolls had learned to be pragmatic the hard way. Beforus, the troll homeworld, had been gone for a very long time, and they had endured as the multiverse’s most looked-down upon denizens ever since.

It didn’t much make it easy to deal with Terezi’s tendency to be nasty when she was uncomfortable.

Grimlock turned to look at her, as Orion and Ariel (the largely silent and imposingly broad pink mech looming behind orion), all three robots glaring at her. Terezi didn’t notice much. “We want our homeland back,” Grimlock said sullenly.

Ariel scowled. “Our ancestors were fighting for thousands of years to take back our home before the ‘Con scum ever showed up,” she said bitterly. “And we were fighting ever since, even when we fled. And still they hunted us, all the way to us being born. We’re still in that fight, Terezi, and you’re part of it now too, I guess.”

Terezi sighed. “Sorry. I just don’t see the point…”

Orion looked up to the sky and spoke softly. It was with some intensity, as though he was reciting something dark and painful, and it sounded like a quotation. “We turned to face as the spires of our ancestors burned down; as our home fled before us, we hold the tears of all who died to let us live to this day. Let us turn skyward; remember our ancestors. Remember the home that was stolen from us as we run. Even if all worlds scorn us and despise us, remember: once there was a place we could call home. Let us remember Cybertron.”

“Let us remember,” Grimlock echoed, and softly he began to sing. It was in a far older language; a deep and booming one, suited for snapping jaws and bestial clamps, and they recognized this song. It was a mourning song, a longing for a home where a Transformer would not be judged for walking on legs in their true form instead of wheels or wings. A memory of the homeland of Eukaris, of Simfur.

Once they had a home where they were free from persecution and torment. But oh, that time was so long ago.

Sierra laid a hand against the big robotic dinosaur’s side. It felt warmer at her touch.

“One day,” Orion said quietly. “Cybertron will be free from the Decepticons. We can finally come back home. And all of you would have a home there too.” His optics gleamed. “And everyone would finally be free.”

#my writing #fics #crossthicc au #queued #twitchy!sierra #twitchy!greg universe #twitchy!optimus #twitchy!grimlock #twitchy!amethyst

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aranea-mechanica · 5 years

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While we know, as all Watchers do, that you were indeed only thinking of helping Swoop, ignoring Wheeljack's points just because you don't like his parenting style doesn't make them less true. Speaking as both a Teacher of Young and a Parent myself.

(( aaaaa i REALLY wish i could have tara respond to this but, just. weird things are going on with the m!a, and as a fellow Teacher&Caretaker of Young, i have a few things to say myself!

tl;dr - wheeljack is right and tarantulas shouldn’t have done what he did, but also the dinobots aren’t human children, so it’s fraught to apply human parenting standards to them in the first place, sssso ???

to begin, though - i ABSOLUTELY agree with you, anon. i’ll not pick apart their entire tiff, but just in general, wheeljack’s points are pretty valid. in an ideal world tarantulas should have toted swoop back to the ark and let wheeljack and ratchet take care of him, maybe offer assistance and let them know what happened, that kind of stuff. and of course he absolutely shouldn’t be advocating violence as a way to control children, and he absolutely shouldn’t be administering questionable medical care without adult consent, and he absolutely shouldn’t have thrust the upgrades on swoop without adult consent either. a lot of why tarantulas chose to do these things is because he’s a selfish, manipulative, amoral mech with a soft spot for a silly pteranodon who got into some bad trouble - otherwise i wouldn’t have written him doing what he did.

now, my only beef with thinking about this is that there are some asymmetries. it’s not exactly apples and oranges, it’s more like... bananas and plantains. while they act like children, dinobots patently aren’t human children, and that puts a weird twist on the situation, in a way that i don’t feel comfortable declaring what Moral Parenting Rules there ought to be. for example, the dinobots can be very intelligent and resourceful at times, moreso than many human children, but when it comes to socioemotional intelligence, they’re hugely lacking. also they’re much more independent, considering the whole premise of this is that swoop is permitted free rein to go wherever he likes whenever he likes without warning. oh, and the MOST important difference - they’re also massively more capable of violence than humans. exponentially so. fire-breathing babies, anyone?

THAT SAID. considering the way the dinobots were constructed & their past and current roles in cybertronian society, it really fucks with trying to apply human child-rearing norms, dunnit? they’re children who were forced to mature too quickly, honestly. in that way, i wouldn’t even call what wheeljack and ratchet do “parenting” - it’s far looser, more of a nominal guardianship with less legal/educational/caregiving implications and much more emphasis on emotional attachment. but ofc that’s just semantics, really - we all know what we’re referring to when we call it parenting, heh.

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ganymedesclock · 5 years

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do you think that Sari is somewhat Megatron's daughter? like her protoform was very different than the usual design and it all of a sudden appeared in Sumdac's lab right near Megatron's head, bit weird to be a coincidence. It would also be pretty neat of setting up an angle between the two of how Megatron was planning an heir or something like that but circumstance landed Sari in the care of autobots. maybe even show how Megatron may even "care in some way for his progeny if he found out.

To break your claim down into a couple of parts here, you’re suggesting:

1. Sari is biologically related to Megatron, and 2. this may awaken some parental sentiment in Megatron on her behalf.

Which I will say, I am deeply skeptical of both those claims.

Regarding the first: While Transformers Animated can be a bit inconsistent with what is and isn’t a cybertronian thing (see Bulkhead being confused what a girl is in Transform And Roll Out part 2 vs. Blackarachnia casually calling herself a female bot in Along Came A Spider) one thing that has not been challenged is the implications of Optimus asking about where baby humans come from in Home Is Where The Spark Is.

The fact that Optimus is first confused about babies and second, mortified at the implications of copulation would pretty clearly imply to us cybertronians are actively separate from their own process of biological reproduction. The implication here is that cybertronians are much like, say, bees or other hive/colony insects, where the majority of, if not all sapient cybertronians, are sexless- they do not reproduce and do not have organs for reproduction.

If anything, this is doubled down upon, once in Garbage In, Garbage Out when Ratchet, a medic, is very obviously wrongfooted in dealing with the pregnant woman- this is not a situation that cybertronians have any easy equivalent for.

Whatever the reproducing “queen” of the cybertronian “hive” is, whether there’s a single one or many, and if it reproduces with any consorts is an unknown- but fair to assume that queen or queens are very few and far between. As I noted, in Transwarped, while Ratchet has been calling Sari a “protoform” dismissively for most of the series, he, nor Optimus, Bulkhead, or Bumblebee seem to know what a protoform looks like. Again, this is another implication that for cybertronians, childbirth and child-rearing are not the everyday person’s job. And in Autoboot Camp, Bee excitedly talks to Wasp about being made from the same mold.

That would tell us childbirth isn’t just not handled by the public- it’s centralized and standardized. That’s not something biological structures like ours, where pairs of people with compatible biology are responsible for the child-rearing- could pull off without a LOT of artificial parameters on it.

In short, this would tell us that cybertronians don’t have biological parents at all. The closest they would come is interactions that seem culturally parental- the very protective and gruff, mentoring attitude Ratchet takes to the rest of the Bridge Crew is something that many viewers would point to as fatherly behavior.

Because cybertronians biologically do not have parents, this affects how they view rare situations where there is an obvious biological donor. Starscream’s clones are all physically derived from him- but none of them view him as a father and he obviously doesn’t view them as his children.

As a result, even if Megatron somehow was a physiological donor to Sari... first, this would be an abnormal situation. Second, he wouldn’t even have the cultural framework to suggest he should feel particularly parental about it.

Regarding the second point: one has to consider that Megatron has very actively given life to several entities throughout the course of Transformers Animated, and taken a guiding / leading position to several other young, new beings. This is, again, given the “there really isn’t the concept of parenthood on Cybertron”, the closest we’re gonna see to cybertronian parent-child relationships without some Earth influence (Sari, for example, does actively view Isaac as her father, but this is because she was raised in human culture which has these connections).

Megatron’s relationship with Soundwave, the Dinobots- even the Constructicons- is actively abusive in nature.

While he talks up the idea that he agrees with Soundwave, and similarly voices encouragements to Grimlock, Megatron in practice treats them as disposable experiments who he never even intended to be people, and once they do become people, he does not take responsibility for them.

With the Constructicons, Megatron lies to them, bribes them, orders them around, and, then, ultimately, indoctrinates them into the Decepticons with a process that involves physically branding them, causing them pain, and changing things about their bodies without their consent. He also doesn’t inform or warn them at all ahead of time.

We can broaden this out to look at pretty much every other onscreen relationship Megatron has, and it’s fair to say no matter how personally connected to someone he is, we have literally never seen Megatron actually engage with someone in a way that is not abusive and exploitative. If anything, the younger, more impressionable, or more personally connected to Megatron himself a particular individual is, the more Megatron’s inclined to try and manipulate them.

So Megatron is in effect kind of a father figure to a lot of his subordinates- specifically an abusive patriarch.

I think it’s also worth noting in Lost And Found, when the Allspark is trying to warn Sari off her path of sabotaging Omega’s body, what it conjures to scare her is a looming, nightmare silhouette of Megatron which Sari is noticeably completely terrified by. I say “noticeably” because Sari is rarely scared of opponents immediately- the closest she gets is being stressed out by the Constructicons in Sari, No One’s Home, but, even then, several times in that episode she stubbornly confronts them.

And, yet, the silhouette of Megatron has her cowering, running away, nearly throwing herself out into the ocean and needing to be rescued she’s so afraid.

If that’s an implication Sari has some faint, distant baby memories of Megatron... he’s a figure from her nightmares, not her dreams of warmth and safety. And Sari’s, again, someone pretty notably not scared of a lot of the giant robots in her setting before she has any idea she’s related to them- if she’s terrified of Megatron, there’s a reason for that, and not just because he’s big and has a gun on his arm.

Now, given Megatron’s very prone to experimentation and very prone to creating new beings- and also fascinated by the Allspark, which Sari is obviously connected to- I would say it is possible- but thus far, near-totally unforeshadowed- that Megatron had some hand in Sari’s creation. However, if that is the theory you’re going for... that as a theory would point more towards Megatron being abusive and exploitative towards Sari- or simply just writing her off as a tainted experiment and seeking to dispose of her.

#Transformers Animated #Sari Sumdac #Megatron #maccadam #readmore #conrad6136

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the-energon-hole · 6 years

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how TFP!Ratchet, Smokescreen, Knockout and RiD! Sideswipe (last bot your choice) react to their s/o standing up before immediately collapsing because their leg is asleep. Their s/o is laughing hard because it's hilarious to them that they can't walk.

Transformers Prime

Ratchet

-You were glad Ratchet was comfortable enough with you to let you sit here with him near his work station- it was nice to just sit and talk while you got to watch him work on his various projects. You weren’t much help most of the time, you weren’t a genius like Raf was, but it was the best quality time you got to spend with him despite you being a little unhelpful most of the time. You took note of how he always mumbled to himself incoherently when he is hyper focused on any give task, it was a cute quirk the grumpy old bot possessed that you wouldn’t dare tell him about out of fear he might stop doing it.

-Sitting here was nice, but you usually ended up getting bad cramps in your legs from always having to be in a scrunched up sitting position. There wasn’t exactly a nice place for you to settle down near Ratchet’s work table, it wasn’t exactly built with a human sitting place in mind. True you can sit like that for hours on end, but sometimes your knees just needed to stretch- and that tingly numbness you felt in your lower legs was an indication that it was about time you stood up to get the blood flowing around your body again. Maybe you will go get some lunch, it was about lunchtime after all.

-You stood up a little too fast, however, and you were unable to correct yourself as you felt your legs give way from underneath you. You met with the ground pretty quick, quicker than Ratchet could react- he jumped when he heard a loud thud from where you were supposed to be sitting. Before he could begin panicking you began to laugh- he was confused and a little angry, you just took a big spill how can you be laughing?! You responded with how can you not laugh- you stood up to dang fast and you just fell over your own feet! You have to laugh at yourself every once in awhile, especially when something funny like this happens.

Arcee

-You were a very patient kind of person, you knew Arcee was a very busy bot- between her duties as a Cybertronian warrior and her caring for young Jack a lot of the time, you two really didn’t get to spend a whole lot of daytime hours together. It was at night time when the busy hustle and bustle lifestyle you both lived that you two were able to spend the most time together. Being able to wind down and relax at the end of the day was actually very therapeutic- but sometimes you just missed her so much you wished there were more hours in a day to spend with each other.

-You had such respect and adoration for what she did on a daily basis, but sometimes you just absolutely missed her. It got boring at night while you sat there on your shared berth just browsing through the internet, mindlessly waiting for that clock to strike a certain time and Arcee would pop through that door with a loving smile and stories about how her day was while you two were apart. You loved hearing everything she had to say, and you know she felt the same way about you- it as a special bond between the two of you, as there were never any secrets or lies.

-When that door slid open early, you could feel yourself beaming as you looked up from your laptop screen, Arcee was home early! It was rare when it happened, but it was always a happy moment that sometimes you act before you think. You gently placed the laptop next to you on the ground as you stood up a little too quickly. You must have been using that device longer than you though, as not only did you get a head rush- your legs just stopped working all together. You met with the ground in a flash, and you felt devastated- how can you be so clumsy in front of Arcee?! That went away pretty quick, as the both of you began to laugh with each other, “I knew you would be happy to see me, but I didn’t think you would be falling all over yourself!” you smiled from your spot on the ground as you have yet to stand up, you were so lucky to have her.

Knockout

-When riding with Knockout in his vehicle mode- he doesn’t allow you to put your feet on the seat, when in reality you find sitting scrunched up to be a little more comfortable than the standard sitting position. Knockout hated that little quirk about you, but it didn’t bother you that he felt that way- no matter what he says it won’t change! You two loved to tease each other over small flaws you have, it was all in good fun, you both were secure in who you were enough to tease in that way.

-He often liked to take you to nice places like this, you both sat next to one another as you star gazed at the beautifully lit sky. Being from a big city you were never able to see the sky so beautifully like this, so you spent hours staring as Knockout pointed out both Earth and Cybertronian constellations. It was times like this that you really enjoyed being in his company, even though he can be a pain in the rear end sometimes. He could be downright romantic when he actually stops polishing his frame long enough to think about other people, and you laugh as he got all huffy with you for saying something like that.

-He stood up and began to stretch as he claimed it was time to head home and get ready to go to sleep, as he bragged about how hard he works and that he deserves every break that he can get. You rolled your eyes as you watched him transform, but as soon as you stood you felt that tingly numbness that happens when your legs stay scrunched up for far too long. Before you could even thing, you felt yourself hit the dirty ground rather hard. You hear Knockout begin to laugh, saying that is what you get for saying he was vain and unromantic, you just laughed along with him- bad karma strikes again.

Smokescreen

-You and Smokescreen’s favorite pastime was going out into the middle of the desert to see how fast he could push the limits of his alt-mode. It was something that you both did almost every single weekend, and it was something that never got old. You always packed one of those folding chairs with you when he wanted to really push his limits, he wouldn’t want you to get hurt on the off chance he ever lost control. You didn’t mind just sitting on the sidelines watching him race himself, it was like having your very own personal nascar to cheer for, one you could smooch later once he was finished trainning. You could watch him for hours and hours on end, he was so elegant as a car, and even more so when he was a bot.

-That old folding chair wasn’t exactly the most comfortable thing in the world, and you have been meaning to replace it, you just always forget until you are actually sitting in the dang thing. You always sat with your legs tucked up under you, as that was much more comfortable than sitting on the cushion less folding chair. It was a position you were used to being in at this point, so you never complained about it out loud to anyone- what was the point of complaining about it anyway, you could fix it if you could just remember to get new chair.

-You were so caught up in watching Smokey racing that you didn’t notice the numb feeling in your thighs, it wasn’t until he was done racing and slid to a stop in front of you with open doors did you notice it a little too late. You jumped out of your chair, only to effectively landon your front when your legs couldn’t handle the pressure you were putting on them. You laughed as you heard Smokescreen transform and give off a noise of concern- he couldn’t understand why you were laughing, and you simply said that it was fine and that is what you get for not buying a new chair. He didn’t get it, and muttered something about humans being a weird species that didn’t make sense.

Transformers Robots in DIsguise (2015)

Sideswipe

-If there was one thing you knew about sweet Sideswipe, and you boasted that you knew the standoffish bot pretty well, it’s that he can’t get enough of showing off in front of you. Well, showing off and garnering all the attention and compliments he can get in one conversation. You didn’t mind it one bit, you thought it was kind of endearing that he tries so hard to keep your interest and attention- true that it has bad roots stemming from the fact he is insecure with himself, but if your attention helps alleviate those negative feelings than you were more than happy to keep your eyes on him all day and all night.

-In these moments, when he insisted that you watch him train even though you have some work to do, you wished you had a better laptop to do your work on while you sat on the ground a few feet from Sides as he portrayed all his new moves for you. You also wish you had a soft cushion to sit on or something, because the dirty ground was starting to make your thighs and bum numb- especially when you could be sitting her for hours on end. Sides always wants to make sure he gets his moves right, and gets a little upset if you call off his little show off session early. It was a good thing he was cute, otherwise you wouldn’t put up with all this tomfoolery- he, of course knew all of this already. Sometimes you suspected he was testing your patience, and you made sure you weren’t ever going to fail that test.

-Once he was done with this training session he began to stretch out his limbs so he wouldn’t be sore later, and you wanted to join in on that too, as your aching thighs would thank you for it later when you can sit down and not feel how much your bum actually hurt. You went to stand, but your legs buckled under your weight and you felt yourself fall backwards right onto the hard ground, thankfully you didn’t land to hard. You heard Sideswipe stop his movements and you could hear him move towards you, he probably wasn’t sure if he should feel worried or concerned. Once you started laughing though, you could hear him chuckle and say “you’re lucky you are cute, otherwise I wouldn’t put up with these things you do”.

#Transformers Prime #Transformers Robots in DIsguise #Maccadam #Ratchet #Arcee #Knockout #Smokescreen #Sideswipe #Cute #Headcanon #Long Post

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xivu-arath · 6 years

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okay hm some options: a sara/rkorya christmas/gift exchange fic, your take on some post-denny au stuff with kara and ravage, ooor maybe some superfriends meta? whichever appeals to you most!

alright I went with best au kara and ravage stuff! meeks, you’re one of my closest friends and as always I am so, so glad to share as much with you as I do. merry christmas and man I cannot wait for seasonal depression to leave us both alone

I’ve got my heart, it’s full of love

sure took a while to say it’s enough

There’s few things Ravage likes as much about being on this Earthas being able to contact Kara. He gets to see someone who has grownto be as much kindred as the cassettes in some ways, but italso means he gets to rout his request through the DEO.

Often when they really would rather he didn’t.

He doesn’t go there personally, of course. Their technology mightbe lacking by Cybertronian standards, but they do have enough sensorsto make him uneasy about sneaking in. That and the Martian can alwaystell where he is – just like Soundwave, except worse in everyconceivable way. So he finds one of the many little corners in thefacility they’ve handed over to the Cybertronians, and curls upbefore slicing his way into their channels. As usual, it’s Winn onthe comms, though he doesn’t seem to be paying them as muchattention as he is whoever he’s speaking to, or he’d noticesomeone eavesdropping.

“So I was thinking, what’s something nice and relaxing we can allbinge now that that cyborg mercenary group’s out of the way, and ithit me – the Great British Bake-Off! You can’t tell me anyonewouldn’t have fun watching that –”

Well, clearly he’s not interrupting anything important. “Eitherthis is a slow day, or you’re worse at your job than I thought.”There’s a strangled shriek, and he flicks his tail back and forth,smug in having crept up on him.

“Ravage! You can’t – could you stop doing that already?!It was cool the first few times, but now you’re really just rubbingit in. I get it, I’m not a million year old robot –”

“I’m six million years old,” he puts in. He’d nevertell him, but Winn is good at his work for a human, if also far tooeasy to distract. It makes these exchanges much more entertainingthan they probably should be.

“You know there’s a point where a number is so big it’s prettymuch meaningless? That is definitely past that point. Anyways,we don’t all have hacking programmed into our heads, even thoughthat would be really cool, and also make my life a lot easier –”

“Who’s on that channel, Agent Schott?” That stern voice isJ’onn, which means he should probably get to the point.

“It’s Ravage, sir –”

“And I’m here to tell you that Soundwave should have the list ofwho wants to transfer here by next week,” he cuts in smoothly. “IsKara there?”

“She’s out on work right now,” J’onn says, and his tonesoftens, just a little. “But we can pass along a message.”

As expected. Between her civilian job – which he can’t help butrespect, given it’s all about hunting down the truth – and herheroics, she’s busy enough without factoring in all the people sheknows and checks on. Not that she’d ever be capable of not doingany of that, knowing her. “Just let her know I can meet with hertonight, at the usual spot.”

“Alright. If that’s all, will you stop bothering my agent?”

“Oh, very well.”

The usual spot is a hill that overlooks the facility, far enough awaythat they can watch the ongoing construction without being in thethick of it. It also happens to give an excellent view of Karasoaring overhead, and he twitches his tail in silent admiration asshe lands.

“Hey, Ravage,” she says as he curves around her, bumping hershoulder with his own. His purr rumbles through his whole body as shehugs him briefly and then steps back so he can sit down. “I heardyou hacked into the DEO today.”

“They should thank me. I’m showing them the flaws in theirsystems.”

She tries to look stern, but her amusement bubbles up through it, asmuch in her expression as her scent. She’s always been sopassionate, so open – it’s one of the things that makes her seemyoung, but also brave. “That’s the excuse you used lastmonth. No one would be able to make anything Cybertronian-proof inthat amount of time, and you know it.”

“Yes, well... I have to have some fun, don’t I?” Shehuffs at him, and he purrs again. “But I did have a reason forwanting to meet. Since I’m going back soon, I thought... well, Igot you something.”

“You got me a gift?” Kara asks and he shifts, not quite wantingto admit to it.

“It’s a useful gift, so there’s no need to get toosentimental about it. Here.” He presses what is undeniably aDecepticon brand into her hands, hastening to add, “It’s not just– it’s a communicator. Making everything look like our symbol wasthe trend, a million years in, but it’s rewired, and I hadBrainstorm and Perceptor quantum it.”

“Quantum it,” she repeats, voice warm despite the wayshe’s raising her eyebrows at him.

“Or something. I asked them to make it work and they did – Itested it out with Soundwave and Megatron. It works betweendimensions. Between universes.”

“Oh... that’s perfect, Ravage. Thank you.”

“I did pick it for a reason, though. You would have worn the badgewith us, if you had been there. I know it.”

She reaches out to hug him again and he leans into the embrace,unable to quell the happy curl of his tail. “I’m... I’m sure ofthat, too,” she murmurs. “Thank you so much, Ravage.”

“As if I shouldn’t be the one thanking you. For Megatron,and for... well, all of this. The universe wasn’t going to givesome of us any more chances, and maybe we’d deserved that, but youfought to give us one anyways. That’s how I know you would alwayshave been a Decepticon.

“So thank you, for this chance. For all of us.”

It takes them a little while before they untangle from the hugcompletely, and Kara’s beaming all the while. Maybe everything,even being stuck on Earth again for years, has been worth it to standhere now, and breathe in someone else’s love and thrilledhappiness. How strange, to have warred and lost and ended up with somany homes to return to.

“But you know... if we use this, that means you won’t have anexcuse to pick on Winn anymore.”

He lashes his tail, pretending to mull it over. “I suppose hedeserves a break. But don’t tell him I said that, of course.”

“Of course,” Kara agrees, laughing as she leans against hisshoulder.

#my words #gift fics #best au #not the ghost denny #congrats meeks u get the dubious honour of having me wreck winn a lot in this #sorry winn!#also this was three pages bc I couldn't stop myself from banter #rorykillmore

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