Alright i have been debating on whether or not to make this post about the great Bumblebee age debate. And i would like to preface this with saying this is not an attack on either side, this is simply something I've thought about in relation to the topic and i would like to present this point to the fandom.
How come no other character in the shown is treated like this?
First and most obvious is Bulkhead. Even if he is older than Bumblebee they still have to be in the same age bracket since they were in bootcamp together. But nobody gives him the same treatment.
And better yet: the bots created on earth. The dinobots, the constructivons, Wreck-Gar. They are all at the very most maybe like a year and a half old by the end of the show depending on your timeline of events. Nobody ever bats an eye at any content with those characters even though they are absolutely the youngest characters in the entire show.
Wreck-Gar especially has a lot of the same personality traits as Bumblebee, and he's arguably more childish but i have never seen anyone get mad over content involving him.
still working on making a digital copy of the complete allspark almanac
More of those episode recaps, the mock up newpaper articles are some of my faves among these, they're super creative & full of little world building details :3 Sorry they're a little wonky- the program I'm using to flatten out the text into a readable format from the curvature of the book pages- does just that, but struggles with images/background details
Nemesis, formerly known as Optimus and the Black Spider, has been living on the strangest of islands out in the middle of Lake Erie with three transforming robot dinosaurs brought to life with Sari's All Spark key, one of which supposedly their leader seemed like he has a bit of crush on the beastformer. Ever since Megatron was killed by Elita-1 and her crew with the help from that explosion, Nemesis has taken it as an opportunity to leave the Decepticons and become a neutral party so a name change was in order seeing as the Black Spider name was given to him by Shockwave and he wanted to distance himself from his past as a 'con as much as possible. The Dinobots were the ones who had given him his new name since he told them he didn't have a name so they gave him one.
Nemesis had decided to go to the mainland in order to lurk around to see what Elita and her crew really had to offer to see if he really should join them.It's not that he doesn't like the Dinobots he liked them well enough, it's just that they could get a little too much at times. He would also like to reconnect a little more with his past as an Autobot.
Nemesis made his way from his hideout, which had apparently once been home to a criminal called Meltdown who had abused the Dinobots during his stay which meant that Nemesis would be beating the living Pit out of him if they ever meet, to tell the Dinobots that he would be leaving for a bit. Nemesis found the three Dinobots roaming around the clearing in the middle of the island which was being covered by one of the Autobot Prowl's hologram devices. Nemesis knew that he already liked Prowl on the count of him keeping the Dinobots safe.
"Dinobots, I'm heading out to the mainland for a bit, I'll be back around midday!" he called out to them, "Grimlock you're in charge while I'm gone."
Before he could leave Swoop swooped down in front of him.
"Me, Swoop, would like to offer you, Nemesis, a ride to the mainland," said Swoop whilst pointing at Nemesis.
Before Nemesis could respond to Swoop's offer Grimlock in robot mode pushed Swoop to the ground.
"No, me Grimlock you take spider bot to the mainland!" declared Grimlock while pushing out his chest in pride and pointing to himself.
Snarl looked up at what his brothers were doing and simply shook his head and went back to sleep. It would take Nemesis a while to get used to the Dinobots treating him like this since back on the Decepticon warship he was treated as just a runt and science experiment, mostly the former since Shockwave was given a long term assignment by Megatron there was nobody to experiment on him. The Dinobots' hospitality was another point in Nemesis' book to trust and make him want to hurt anyone who dares hurt them.
In the end Swoop ended up dropping Nemesis off near the port. Nemesis decided that he would travel via underground passageways in order not to be spotted. He knew that Elita and Sari wouldn't freak out upon seeing him and attack him but he couldn't count on the natives not fainting upon seeing how grotesque he was and the other Autobots not attacking him on sight thinking that he was still a Decepticon. He only wanted to observe them not interact with them.
After a while of traveling in his altmode, if you could even call it an altmode, Nemesis came across what looked to be the ruins a battle. There were broken down machines that the organics used to complete everyday tasks littered all over the floor. Most of them didn't even looked destroyed just not powered on which confused him on why they were even down there in the first place.
After a while of looking around Nemesis began to hear faint noises of machary coming from underneath some rubble. The noises sounded like those that a newspark, the Cybertronian equivalent of a newborn baby, would make while in distress. Upon realizing that those were the sounds of a newspark Nemesis' parental instincts kicked in and took over while beginning to search the area for where the newspark might be.
Nemesis found the pieces of rubble that the newspark was underneath and began to dig them out. After a short while of digging Nemesis finally found the newspark. The newspark was mostly blue with gold highlights and red optics. Nemesis held the newspark closely to his chest and began rocking him from side to side in an attempt to calm them down, which seemed to have worked. The newspark immediately calmed down whilst being held by Nemesis. Soon the newspark fell asleep in his servos.
Nemesis looked down on the now sleeping newspark with a soft smile on his face. That was when it hit him, what was a newspark doing on Earth much else a former battleground. Elita was going to have some explaining to do. If the newspark was anyone of her crewmates' creation that they had abandoned he would 1) beat the everliving pit out of them and 2) he would most definitely not be joining Elita's team. But, for now he should head back to Dinobot island and prepare a place for the newspark to stay. He's sure that the Dinobots wouldn't mind having a baby sibling around.
TFP Ratchet: Yes, it may not be in, say, his top three, but it is definitely there.
BW Inferno: Absolutely, this antbot is itching to repopulate the colony. Hold him down by his tiny ant wings and make his dreams come true (this was a terrible meme reference, I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist)
TFA Swoop: Also a hard yes. I feel like it's just a huge thing with dinobots, though...
“From the outside it would seem we're not alike
But if you're like me, and I mean you surely could be
Then you might be afraid you're gonna have to join the fight
You've probably known this life of war
For so long you've forgotten what it's for
And your armour can't protect you from the fear you feel inside
And the war is coming now, you see, there's nowhere left to hide
But
You're okay, you're alright
I'll never, ever, leave your side
TFA Earthbot AU, where the Main Autobots fall in love with the Bots created on Earth by the Allspark Key… Bumblebee + Soundwave 🐝🎵 Optimus + Grimlock🚒🦖 Prowl + Swoop🏍️🦕 Bulkhead + Snarl🚙🦕 Ratchet + Wreck-Gar 🚑🚚
Oh HELL YEAH
Bumblebee x soundwave:
1- cat x yappy dog energy you can't change my mind.
2- neither of them know how to mind their own business and have no shame about it all.
3- they also have no shame in being affectionate with eachother in front of everyone they don't care at all when they're holding eachother.
4- almost always holding eachother because soundwave likes having his love in his arms and bee likes feeling wanted by his love so it works for them.
5- they are eachothers top priority no matter what.
Optimus x grimlock
1- grim is incredibly protective and has a major jealous streak meanwhile op is just as protective but knows grim only has optics for him.
2- spar as bonding time winner gets kisses from the lower.
3- op playfully calls grim "my king" on occasion and grimlock gets insanely flustered about it every single time.
4- grim likes carrying op around at every approtunity and loves showing off for him.
5- optimus prefers to keep things mostly private. Grimlock on the other hand has absolutely zero shame.
Prowl x swoop
1- medidate together cause prowl got him into it.
2- swoop likes to show off his flying to prowl and won't hesitate to break out the mace on anyone who interrupts his displays.
3- prowl is usually reserved with affection but likes kissing swoop on the cheek just to see him smile.
4- bird watch together. Well prowl is watching the birds swoop is watching prowl.
5- every so often swoop will scoop prowl up and smother him in kisses and nuzzles until he feels prowl is sufficiently cheered up.
Bulkhead x snarl
1- BIG cuddlers.
2- bulky takes to painting portraits of snarl to show him how handsome he is.
3- snarl prefers the much more direct method of tackling bulk to the ground and covering his face in kisses to express his love.
4- wrestle with eachother alot usually on the island so they don't break anything important.
5- they are shamelessly doting with eachother.
Ratchet x wreckgar
1- wreckgar gives ratchet anything he finds in the dump he thinks ratchet might like and ratchet keeps every single thing.
2- ratchet is throwing a hammer at anyone who insults wreckgar primus help you if you make him sad.
3- wrecks likes to serenade ratchet with his accordion, ratchet happily listens and uses the wrench on any who dare interrupt.
4- at random points wreckgar will just decide to carry ratchet around while kissing him a bunch. Ratchet acts like it's perfectly normal.
5- ratty likes to flustered his garbage boy any chance he can and he is very good at it. One little kiss and wrecky is clinging to him with a dopey smile on his face the rest of the day.
BONUS- grimlock and snarl wag their tails in beast mode whenever their around there partners.