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insertmanyfandomshere · 5 years

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Transformers hotel!Au

Was at Universal Studios today and saw a cafe called Starbot cafe. I accidentally said Starbot Hotel, and this hotel au just suddenly popped up in my head. My first au, so please, no flames, and tell me what you think!

(Tfa bots keep their design, but relationships may differ a little to fit into this au. Nothing too major though, so don’t worry.)

Scenario: Optimus and Megatron (TFP) opens a hotel on Cybertron some day after the war ends. Former faction members from both sides end up being the hotel staff, and the hotel is still somehow running.

TFP Autobots

Optimus - Owner and propagandist (also would make random appearances at hotel and 1) stand there looking cool or 2) help lost people find their way because certain porters aren’t doing their duties.

Ratchet - Grumpy head medic that does not want to actually be there over half the time. Stationed with duty 24/7 and constantly wants to bash head in.

Arcee - Porter #1 - drives everyone (and their luggages) to their rooms (is always getting annoyed by the other two porters and will not so subtlety force them to do their duties without running off)

Bumblebee - Promoter #1 (Actually a main reason why people go to StarBot Hotel is because of how adorable Bee is, but he’s a good promoter too. Secretly fanboys over every ship happening in the hotel and helped play matchmaker in some situations. Tfa Bumblebee is his twin of sorts.)

Bulkhead - Assistant nurse to Ratchet who always (accidentally) trashes the medbay more than keeping it in order. Always tries his best however, no matter what Ratchet says, so give him a break

Smokescreen - Porter #2 (hyper and fast, and will actually get the job done efficiently if he actually stops skipping duty to race with KO and Tfa Bunblebee. Gossips about relationships on off time, mostly to Tfp Bumblebee)

Ultra Magnus - Security guard #1 (tells everyone to be rule abiding. Seem to always have eyes everywhere 24/7. He and Soundwave makes a good team)

Wheeljack - Stunt performer who gives free shows to hotel users and tells people to blow up Ratchet’s medbay and blame it on Bulkhead. Flirts with Ratchet even though neither are romantically interested in one another.

TFP Decepticons

Megatron - Co Owner, receptionist and chambermaid (Optimus tells him that he scares everyone away and stuck him with cleaning duty unfortunately)

Starscream - Promoter #2 (Actually does a good job at convincing people to stay in the hotel with his convincingness. Helps out anyone else who needs it when off duty (except for Megatron))

Soundwave - Security guard #2 (Scares everyone silently into abiding the law. Magically appears whenever someone is about to do something wrong and stares at them until they get the cue and stops what they’re doing. Lazerbeak is his son and prodigy security guard-in-training and he would casually kill anyone who looks down upon him. In semi relationship with SS)

Knockout - Head cleaner, part time medic to help Ratchet (always yells at people who accidentally nicks the ground, wall or anything in the hotel even a little bit. When helping Ratchet, both constantly argues about each others’ choice of assistant. Also sneaks off during duty to race, much to everyone’s annoyance.)

Breakdown - Knockout’s assistant who always (accidentally) messes up what he’s supposed to clean (GIVE THIS BEAN A BREAK HE’S TOO BIG) Knockout understands though, and never calls him out.

Dreadwing - Security guard #3 (passive aggressively scares everyone to be law abiding by carrying his huge cannon around, and telling everyone earnestly that it’s dishonourable to break the rules)

Airachnid - Security camera manager #1 (doesn’t really care if a crime is being committed or not, thinks murdering is fine as long as not bloody so that knockout does not have a hissy fit. Thank goodness U.M. and S.W keeps everyone in check. Doesn’t like her partner on duty and secretly plotting to kill her.)

Shockwave - Receptionist #1 (Tries not to act as if he’s done with life. The mono optic makes it a little hard.)

Steve the Vehicon - The random jester that makes everyone laugh and has a not-so-secret admiration for Starscream

Other Eradicons and Vehicons - Cooks (and sometimes chambermaids and cleaners as well? Always gossip about the latest news regarding the mechs working in the hotel and is just done with their superiors and Lugnut)

TFA Autobots

TFA Optimus - Next in line to inheriting hotel (Optimus TFP’s Son. Is the kind and unsure person who tries his best and yet have things backfire in his face sometimes and have others questioning his authority. His dad is there to teach him though, everything will be fine.)

Prowl - Yoga instructor (gives everyone free yoga lessons and sometimes even karate. Tells everyone to either ignore TFA bumblebee or just kick his aft. Completely clueless to Jazz’s swooning, poor birb.)

TFA Bumblebee - Porter #3 (like Smokescreen, is hyper and fast and would be efficient if he wasn’t always leaving the job for Arcee to complete. Bails on duty sometimes to go racing with KO and Smokescreen. Sometimes Blitzwing catches all of them and sticks them with kitchen serving duty. Doesn’t like to be referred to as ‘Bumblebee’s twin.)

Jazz - Music provider / DJ (seriously, he comes up with the best songs. Provides the right kind of music for different occasions. Secretly head over heels for TFA Prowl. Is a really chill guy until you question his music tastes.)

Sentinel Prime - Receptionist #2 (is secretively scared of TFP Optimus but constantly undermines TFA Optimus. TFP Optimus puts him in line tho. Shockwave is secretly done with S.P.)

TFA Decepticons

TFA Megatron- Head chef?? Constantly tries to poison energon for bots and food for humans but always gets thwarted by Ultra Magnus (TFP) Also needs to learn how to treat the Vehicons and Eradicons better, but they always get back at him.

Lugnut - TFA Megatron’s assistant chef. (Worships the food and energon prepared by the guy. Also tries (and fails) to influence the cooks (Vehicons And Eradicons) with Megatron’s ‘mightiness and amazingness with cooking)

Blitzwing - Hotel supervisor and manager (Icy is extremely strict, calm and civil to patrons and tolerates paperwork. Hothead blows up at everyone and incinerates paperwork and Random just cannot be bothered with paperwork. Also in a semi relationship with TFA Bumblebee.)

TFA Starscream - (By a weird twist of fate) Megatron’s superior. Makes Megatron make extra dishes and energon as he pleases just because he could. (Doesn’t give two shits about Megatron poisoning food, ironically, even though he’s drinking that energon too)

Blackarachnia - On security cam duty with Airachnid. Surprisingly they do not get along and butt heads constantly. (Case to point, Thank Primus for Ultra Magnus and Soundwave (and lazerbeak). Knows that Airachnid wants to kill her but doesn’t bother with such petty thoughts, seeing that there’s three (four?) security guards on duty)

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dustbunny105 · 7 years

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So what are these minor differences that would've made you not start hating Megatron?

I mean, my first thought is “if the series wasn’t suddenly all about him and some other people” and that’s true enough, but Idk if you’d call that minor… That aside!

(Cut because I talked more than I’d’ve expected)

Megatron starts out getting some great tellings off and callings out and also having to put up with scrap from the general populace and it’s a good counterpoint to the sympathetic framing of his narrative. Then, rather suddenly, he’s awkward buddies with Magnus and mostly only having to put up with Rodimus (upset at having his authority usurped) and of course Getaway (a jerk) even when there are times he should be getting called out or told off or having to put up with scrap from the general populace. I think the last major anti-Megatron action by anyone else before DotL is when he gets dicked over by Swerve and Ratchet, when they use him to destroy a rival business, so. Nagl for the front-and-center anti-Megatron crowd overall.

There is that bit where Nightbeat chides Megatron for calling humans weak, but Megatron gets the last word on that since he actually wasn’t doing so. I sorta wanna count Rung taking him to task over being willing to let Rung continue to practice, but even that’s framed around Megatron trying to do a solid for someone he likes and respects, not, y’know. Him being Megatron. So a good moment but doesn’t quite stack up, imo.

What I’m getting at here is that I’d like Megs a lot more if the narrative hadn’t stopped rightly criticizing and scrutinizing him. I actually am quite fond of the weird Megs/Mags friendship (and shipped them romantically for a bit) and even of the two of them vs Rodimus, but it’s off-putting that Magnus keeps quiet (that we see) about Megatron’s prejudice against organics and also about Megatron’s comments about anti-mechanical prejudice among organics when Megatron himself fueled those fires through multiple genocides. To say nothing of the fact that Magnus siding with Megatron against Rodimus, even in little things, further undermines Rodimus’s complaints.

Plus it’s just kiiinda pretty weird seeing him so palsy with Megatron given how he treated Drift and Cyclonus. Plus also it seemed like everything else minus the big stuff simmered down– the lack of pointed remarks about Megatron’s pacifism and his class subjects stands out– which gave an overall impression of “we’re done with that now”. Probably this was to make the mutiny that much more shocking, but the gains aren’t worth the cost, imo. It ended up making his entire arc fall flat and any sympathies or victories he scores from then on, as well as his place in the spotlight, feel unearned.

DotL at least took a few shots at him, but the plot wrapped around him in such a way that, imo, it felt very token. Skids makes a dig about the DJD getting their xenophobia from Megatron, but no one so much as scoffs at the speech Megatron makes about staying to protect the pod people. Reaming him for not participating in the battle falls mostly on Rodimus. Even Swerve, who was specifically incredulous about having been tossed in with the Megatron fan club, doesn’t spare a moment to blame Megatron for what’s happening. The whole arc is really all about setting Megatron up for his heroics and for his narrative rewards, to the point that everyone else is a shadow of themselves when it comes to him and any number of sensible alternatives to the plan they decide to go with are ignored.

It also would’ve gone a long, looong way if Megatron had been taken to the floor over particular things that didn’t really get properly addressed. One is his treatment of Trailguy, which got a token protest and then was narratively justified. The other, much bigger one, is his abuse of Starscream. For all that Megatron is shown to regret the whole fascist warlord thing as well as in general using and mistreating the people under his care, the fact that he personally, one-on-one abused Starscream doesn’t really come up much, if it does at all. It’s especially egregious considering that a) Megatron sort of got the last laugh re: his relationship with Starscream since it was Starscream’s testimony that moved Megatron to wash his hands of the trial and b) Megatron is allowed in the pages of MtMtE to confront and best one of his own most significant abusers.

Also an issue, on that note, is the way that Megatron is treated by the narrative vs the way that Starscream is, but that’s only partly a MtMtE problem, so I’ll not get into that.

#transformers #mtmte #megatron #Anonymous

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