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bumblecow · 10 months
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They've met before!!!
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in1-nutshell · 4 months
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What would be the lost light crew’ reaction to being told how humans create life by pregnant reader?
Someone's going to come out of this discussion scared or with new respect. Since you didn't ask for any specific characters, I will be choosing them at random.
Hope you enjoy!
Pregnant Human Buddy trying to explain Human life to Rung, Nautica, Ambulon, Cyclonus, and Skids
SFW, Platonic, mentions things in pregnancy, slight angst at beginning, Human reader
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Buddy was pregnant. One minute they were filing some reports for Magnus, the next they were in the medbay far from Earth looking at the paperwork that read that their pregnancy test was positive. Buddy immediately went to phone their significant other to tell them the news, only to find out they had left the country on unrelated things.
Now Buddy was left with the Lost Light, in space, with their future baby.
What can go wrong?
Apparently a lot. Who knew that announcing their pregnancy to the crew would lead to a Q and A. Each Bot had a number to wait for so Buddy could individually answer their questions.
Here are just some of the few...
Rung
Rung had already a grasp on the basics when it came down to human anatomy.
Blame him for being bored and curious on how his human friend's brain worked. He wanted to see how similar they were to a Cybertronian processor.
Rung does ask to touch Buddy's stomach to feel the baby. He is one of the few Bot's that feels the baby kicking.
"Oh my! What was that?"--Rung
"That's the baby kicking Rung. They wanted to say hello."--Buddy
"Does it hurt? They are kicking you after all."--Rung
"Nah, it doesn't hurt really. But it does make me want to pee."--Buddy
He becomes much more careful with Buddy as they get further into their pregnancy. Rung makes sure Buddy has a good net of friends they can call on in case they need it.
Nautica
Like Rung, has some of the basics down on human anatomy thanks to Velocity's studies.
When you have a friend studying this for years, you're Bound to get some of it stuck in your head.
Nautica is asking questions left and right.
"Do you know how many babies you'll have?"--Nautica
"Not yet Nautica, it's still too early for the ultrasound to be clear."--Buddy
"How many can you get?"--Nautica
"Well, that depends. I've heard some parents have six at once."--Buddy
"Wait... How do they get out?"--Nautica
"...It's a good thing you're sitting down."--Buddy
Buddy has to calm Nautica down after telling her about the joys of child birth.
Nautica is protective of Buddy and their little bun in the oven after that talk. She reads up on as many midwife books she can get her servos on. Just in case.
She loves placing her digits on the swollen belly. Of course she asks Buddy permission before touching the belly.
Ambulon
Ambulon is one of first in line for the questions given he is one of the only other doctors on board.
He already has a list of things to ask.
"You have cravings? Are they anything like what you usually crave?"--Ambulon
"Well now that you said that, I'm really craving some pasta with chocolate syrup and pop tarts."--Buddy
"... That doesn't sound remotely healthy at all."--Ambulon
"That's what the baby wants Ambulon."--Buddy
Ambulon is one of the first to see the ultrasound when it's time. The picture looked cute in a creepy way. He didn't know humans started out like that!
Silently crying on the inside when he feels the baby kicking. It's such a gentle little nudge!
He scans the photos of the baby for Buddy to have .
Cyclonus
Cyclonus said he was here because Tailgate wanted to be here.
That's a lie.
He was actually a bit scared of how swollen Buddy's stomach was getting. This Q and A could lead him to the answers he needs.
"There is a youngling... Growing inside you?"--Cyclonus
"Yeah, the little guys are growing in me."--Buddy
"Surely when they come out they will be a mighty warrior like their caregiver."--Cyclonus
"Aaww! Thanks Cyclonus! But it'll take some years for them to hold a blaster."--Buddy
"Yes years of training and the young one will hold it."--Cyclonus
"... Cyclonus... The baby won't be able to do much for the first few years? What do you think a toddlers just going to come out of me with basic knowledge of the universe?"--Buddy
"Are you saying that doesn't happen?"--Cyclonus
Cyclonus's Q and A were a bit longer than expected. But not the longest Buddy had to answer.
Cyclonus becomes one of Buddy's unofficial official bodyguards as the time for childbirth approaches.
Skids
He is one of the last to know about the Q and A.
Skids takes one look at Buddy's stomach and thinks they are going to explode. Thankfully Buddy managed to explain the Q and A before Skids took them to get their stomachs pumped.
"So there's a kid growing inside you?"--Skids
"Yep."--Buddy
"But did you just willed them to be there? Or do you have a Hotspot inside you?"--Skids
"What's a Hotspot?"--Buddy
There is a lot of cultural misunderstandings and learning involved in this Q and A.
Skids learn the dangers of childbirth through Rung and Ratchet. He is scared for Buddy.
He is a part of the unofficial official bodyguard group formed for Buddy.
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storm-and-starlight · 4 months
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Rodimus and ADHD
I'm gonna start this out by saying that Rodimus having ADHD is something that's been pretty fundamental to my understanding of the character since I first read MTMTE/Lost Light (seriously, I can point you to the exact panel when I went "oh okay this is Canon to me now") but also that I've almost never seen a portrayal that really vibes with how I interpret it? A lot of the fics and fanon I've come across tend to take a fairly... typical view on and portrayal of ADHD where the things that are focused on are hyperactivity and task/responsibility/boredom avoidance, and to me that's not... it's not the, like, the fundamentals of how I read Rodimus and ADHD? It's not the main issues that affect who he is and how he interacts with the world -- those would instead be the impulsivity and the... idk how to phrase it, the "ADHD trauma"? It's really distinct and I'll get to it later.
The impulsivity is fairly easy to get to, and fairly obvious -- the best representation of how it manifests in Rodimus specifically is in the initial description of the Rodpod, where someone (I can't quite tell who from the panel) says "you know what he's like: he obsesses over something, then gets bored" and then it's revealed that Rodimus presumably commissioned an entire ship built in the shape of his own head. That's really what I see as the main ADHD symptom -- the mix of obsession and impulsivity. We see it when he gets everyone to go on the quest, we see it when he tries to chop off his own arm because he thinks it might stop the future from happening, we see it in his plan to stop the sparkeater -- it's basically how he responds to every problem he's presented with, and often significantly more than that, and that kind of impulsivity is very much a noted feature of ADHD. (Being briefly but intensely obsessed with something before losing interest and dropping it is also a really big ADHD thing -- just look at the cycle of hyperfixations that's so common in fandom).
(Also, when combined with his ego, recklessness, and carelessness, you get basically the entire negative side of his personality out of this, which is why I consider it so fundamental to his character -- significantly more so than, say, task avoidance.) (though recklessness, and carelessness are also fairly common with ADHD -- it's related to impulsivity in general.)
The "ADHD trauma" thing is a little trickier to explain: it's basically how I describe the constant awareness that you have screwed the hell up in the past when it's important and you are going to screw the hell up in the future when it's important and hating the fact that it happens and yet also being completely and fundamentally aware that it's something you can never, ever change about yourself no matter how hard you try (because you have tried, in the past, and it has never worked even a little bit). Like, hello, that basically describes my entire childhood and also the lives of most of my friends who also have ADHD. The panel that convinced me that he does have ADHD is the one that basically explicitly describes this, in Lost Light where he and Drift are talking after they return from the Functionist Universe and Rodimus says "Oh, I know what I'm like. That's the trouble. I know exactly what I'm like -- I just can't stop myself," because, like. that's it. that's the experience in a nutshell.
And like, I'm not saying that this is super severe -- he definitely has more self-confidence than is often warranted, but he also does have a lot of self-esteem issues, and I think this is really the root of them: failing, over and over, until you reach the point where you start thinking that it's bound to happen someday and that everyone will hate you for it forever. That's a super common experience with the kind of disability that ADHD is, especially if you don't know you have it in the first place, and that combined with all the smaller traits (the impulsivity, the hyperfixation, and yes even the task/responsibility/boredom avoidance) is what really convinced me that he is an ADHD character.
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petitelepus · 10 months
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congrats on 1k followers! a scenario of yandere con mech reader with mtmte tarn please?
Hi ya, Anon, and a big thank you! I'm still shocked I got so many Readers here enjoying my stories! This Request sounded familiar so I went ahead and looked around my blog and I was right, I HAVE written about Yandere Con Reader loving Tarn! I'll put the links down here!
Part 1 - https://petitelepus.tumblr.com/post/664569020883795968/im-not-sure-if-its-still-alright-to-request#notes
Part 2 - https://petitelepus.tumblr.com/post/666592452946296832/hi-i-know-you-have-a-ton-of-requests-already-but#notes
But I'll try to write something small for you!
WARNING; Reader is NUTS. Death, violence, little gore, and familiar Yandere obsession.
You were a good Con, you swore loyalty to Megatron and followed his teachings like they were your instructions on how to live. You admired him to the point you could happily say that you would die for him!
So why he had to repent? Why he left all his loyal subjects? Why he had left you?! He was your sun, your reason to live! If you didn't have him then... Who were you?
He told you all to follow your ways and possibly repent, but you spiraled into darkness. He had left you and you couldn't stand it. You knew Megatron probably wasn't even aware of your existence, but it still hurt to have him betray all his followers and especially you..!
You were in a dark place when you heard rumors about Decepticon Justice Division. Mechs described them as epitomes of the Decepticon cause and how they swore that they wouldn't abandon Decepticons like Megatron had done.
Their leader was the feared Decepticon called Tarn, a Con who could simply talk mechs to their death. You heard rumors that if you heard him sing then that would be the last thing you would ever hear.
You heard how his crew members were just as feared as him, but your attention was purely on Tarn.
With Tarn, you found a new reason to live. A new object to your admiration and dedication. Tarn was everything that Megatron was if not even more...?
You started to track down his ship, Peaceful Tyranny's locations, and after following the trail of bodies that Tarn and his men left behind, you were able to figure out where they would be and who their next poor target would be.
Now it was just a race against them to the target. You won that race but you didn't expect there to be 8 Cons and you didn't know who was the target... So why not kill them all?
By the time Decepticon Justice Division had made its way to your location and to the scene of the crime, no one could have been able to tell just how many Cons you had slaughtered.
"Well..." You heard this deep voice speak, "I see we were a little late for the party."
"You must be Tarn," You dropped everything you had, mainly robo guts, and approached the huge purple Con. Once close enough, you kneeled before him to show him your humility.
"And you are?" Tarn asked and you told him your name. The huge mech glanced at the dark red mech without eyes behind him and they shook their helm, "They aren't on the List."
"I see..." Tarn nodded and looked around your handiworks. "Are you behind all this?"
"Yes! I wanted to impress you, the one who carries Megatron's will...!" You cried out and smiled, "Please, take me with you! Because of Megatron, I have nothing left!"
The huge Con looked at you long and hard. Every second felt like an eternity, but you weren't scared. Yes, you felt like your spark could jump out of your chassis, but not because of fear but excitement.
Being this close to Tarn, you realized the fear the lesser Cons have felt in his presence. It was breathtaking!
"While I don't usually approve of my kills being taken from me..." Tarn made sure to look at your handwork, "I see you have a... Knack, for this."
You almost swooned but you held your ground. Finally, Tarn nodded, "You may come with us, provided that you can keep up with us."
You jumped up on your pedes and immediately saluted your new leader, "I won't disappoint you, I swear!"
"I trust you on that because one mistake-!" Tarn pulled his servo in front of his intake, "And you are on our mercy."
"Yes!"
Even the idea of being killed by him was better than living a life without meaning.
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warriorsparked · 9 months
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// This is just my personal opinion, but innocence and Megatron don't often go together well for me. I mean this from an entirely pre-war perspective when I say innocent. I often see people portraying him as this sweet, kind, innocent person, and although we know a 4 million year war can totally change people (and Megatron dealt with a LOT), I still feel like those things stem from a deeper place of violence and trauma that he'd had to cope and deal with from the beginning of his life.
I've never seen Megatron as an innocent. Innocent in the sense that he was obviously not born/created as a killer. No one is (although there's that funny little nature vs nurture argument that we still haven't managed to put our finger on). At the end of the day, people are all shaped by what is around them and how they manage to cope with those things. Some people snap, some people don't. What makes those people snap, though? Well, we've not quite figured that out yet.
if you put two people in the same scenario, they could still turn out completely different--whether or not genetics makes a difference (as a twin, I find this stuff interesting as well, because despite that, twins can still grow up to be very different people). People perceive things differently and uniquely, and thus we all feel differently and cope differently.
Megatron grew up in one of the hardest environments on Cybertron, I just can't see him being sweet and innocent. There's always been a gruffness about him, a temper, and a broodiness.
I have big issues with how soft MTMTE made him, because it just doesn't feel entirely Megatron. And therefore, it doesn't feel genuine to me, but a way for them to just slap a "good guy" badge on him (let's be honest, it's not that black and white and it never should be). It feels like we're supposed to believe this lovely, sweet, innocent peace keeping poet just dropped everything he believed in one day to become a warlord that murdered and killed whenever he pleased, and it's just not believable to me.
Megatron Origins did a really good take on his earlier life. It showed the harsh conditions that Megatron lived under, it showed the pressure building, and it showed a reasonable young mech snapping beneath that pressure (which we also know people can do). But it being a one shot comic, it was enough to get that GLIMPSE and not have to expand too much on it, which MTMTE ended up doing as it was a much longer running comic series. It then felt... pressured? To me, I guess? That we must see this nice, peaceful mech who Megatron once was if we're to believe he's REALLY going to keep the peace post-war. Fools energon makes him weak (even if it's a placebo), because everyone is worried he doesn't snap, and I'm kind of... annoyed he doesn't? Because people CAN heal, yes, but not often without setbacks and taking one step backwards before taking another forward.
And I think that's my biggest gripe. Megatron never came from a happy place. That doesn't mean he can't be kind (people choose kindness over violence every day even though they've been brought up around it). Like I said, Megatron wasn't born a killer. But there's just something that never sits well with seeing him as some sweet, innocent mech who is cheery and kind.
I want to see that inner turmoil that was building up to the point of exhaustion. I want to see his frustration at the state of the world, and the PASSION behind the words that he wrote. I understand he was a "peace keeper" in MTMTE's flashbacks, but honestly, I wish he was the young, angry, passionate revolutionist that we missed out on seeing. Because that anger, that passion, that crazed and twisted world he ended up making came from those feelings. And I have a hard time with MTMTE's version of Megatron and seeing how he turned out to be the thing he hated most when there's no real UNF in that younger Megatron.
Another reason why my Megatron is just heavily HC based tho and I don't follow the MTMTE timeline.
Anyway, night time ramblings...
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soundwavereporting · 2 years
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Do you think that idw Rumble and Frenzy resent Megatron/Soundwave in some way because they had to be reformatted? Would love to know what you think of their relationship with SW is post-war.
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tl;dr, yes, I think they probably do (especially Soundwave) and I wish that had been explored in the comic!
The only time I can remember offhand Rumble and Frenzy ever explicitly acknowledging their relationship with Soundwave is in the OP comic, where one of them essentially tells Cosmos ‘we used to like [Soundwave] BEFORE he started hanging out with Autobots’, and weirdly, Cosmos doesn’t seem to take it that personally--they even call him ‘Cosmey’--which leads me to believe it’s Soundwave’s new alliance with Optimus that they’re bitter about (and rightfully so!), and Cosmos has picked up on that.
Of course there might be times in Phase 1 that I’m forgetting about, but most of the time, it’s the birds or Ravage who are hyping up Soundwave or actually talking to him. Rumble and Frenzy barely get a mention in Soundwave’s first flashback issue, and iirc they don’t show up in his flashbacks during the OP comic. Soundwave’s only real interaction with them during phase 1 is during that very ‘‘‘interesting’‘ time when Frenzy was ‘crazy’, but that was thankfully short lived, and a lot of Frenzy’s tendencies towards hearing too much/overstimulation were passed on to Soundwave when phase 2 started, anyway. But from that, Soundwave did care about Frenzy.
The only other indication of their relationship is during the Prowlstator arc, and even that’s up to interpretation: when everyone gets reformatted, that would’ve been the perfect time for Rumble and Frenzy to get new, non-cassette bodies if they were so inclined. Having two extra full-sized soldiers could only have helped the attempted takeover but for whatever reason, they ended up staying with Soundwave, and later in the series they pull the same ‘all the cassettes hide in Soundwave and then pull a sneak attack’ that they did in Megatron: Origin.
From the start of Phase 1 to the end of Phase 3, both Soundwave and Optimus’s close friends/officers/coworkers/support systems radically change (or in Soundwave’s change, just get whittled down); While Ratbat and Bumblebee both die and Ravage, Rodimus, and Ratchet go over to MTMTE/LL, Jazz, Prowl, Rumble, and Frenzy all end up leaving distancing themselves specifically because of decisions Optimus and Soundwave make, respectively.
And it’s the similarities between Jazz + Rumble & Frenzy that really get me! This all goes down in within a few issues! We get more insight into Jazz’s motives than Rumble and Frenzy, but I think it’s safe to assume the twins’ motives for not staying close with Soundwave are similar enough to why Jazz didn’t go back to Optimus, albeit in a far more blasè manner (”We’re trying to be good but it’s hard.”)
EDIT: having reread the issue in question, they did go back to Sanctuary, then promptly started taking weapons from the station and selling them on Earth, which almost makes it funnier because I absolutely refuse to believe Soundwave was so oblivious he didn’t know that was happening. Looking at this from the POV of Soundwave being an Optimus stan, he knew and didn’t care, because Earth was gonna become a part of the Council of Worlds. From the POV of Soundwave not being an Optimus stan......maybe he hoped it’d sabotage Earth’s acceptance into the Council somehow?
EDIT 2: having now checked the wiki, they were doing this before and after the junkion arc, but tbh my point still stands. 
Plus--finding Rumble and Frenzy on Earth--a place populated by beings Soundwave has to actually focus to hear--should’ve been easy, if Soundwave felt so inclined to go to them and stop the gunrunning. But he didn’t--aside from plot reasons, it’s likely he knew how they felt and was giving them space. I find it hard to believe that the colonists didn’t tell OP what happened between them and Jazz. Like Soundwave, Optimus leaves Jazz and doesn’t seek him out until they happen to meet up later in the series. 
I also can’t help but think about the fact that Rumble and Frenzy are probably the ones who’ve known Megatron + stuck with him the longest! Impactor went to the Autobots, Terminus...happened. The Constructicons were with him almost as long, and they explicitly wanted to go! I imagine maybe Rumble and Frenzy wanted to go as well, and like Prowl, Soundwave was like ‘no way’. Maybe that was the start of the end for them, and him joining up with Optimus was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Essentially, I think they didn’t like it at first, got used to it--enough to want to stick around with Soundwave & the other cassettes (even when they had the chance to get reformatted!), but once Soundwave changed, they decided to split.
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Definitely not me being weak for MTMTE Drift. Also nice tree houses…Anyways, this is technically a prequel to a soft Drift fic that I wrote in December. I’m planning on posting that one a bit closer to my local snowfall season, since snow is a key part of the fic.
A fair warning: I wrote this half asleep
After all that time up in space, a weekend on Earth seemed like a good idea. Of course you loved the view of the stars. You loved your giant alien robot friends. The Lost Light was simply the right place for you. 
But this was a nice break from the chaos.
At some point, without your knowledge, Rodimus had approved a trip to Earth. The rest of the crew would join you and Drift in a few days, but for now it was just you and him, driving on a long, winding road to some mystery location.
He pulled onto a dirt road and parked in a dirt lot.
This of all things, was what shook you from the trance that the trees had held you in. “Wait…why did you park here?” Then you noticed the fairy lights in the woods. 
Instead of transforming, Drift activated his holoform. He flashed you a boyish smile. “You’ll see.”
You stepped out of his alt mode and he brought you up a path to a rather luxurious tree house. The next thing you knew, you were unpacking your bags and examining the two beds in the loft. “Are you sure this is safe? The door locks properly, right?”
“Y/N, I have to admit that I am a bit offended that you think I would put you in danger and not protect you.”
You smiled at the thought. “I know, but I’ve heard stories of…things happening to people who stay in places like these…”
“You’re starting to sound like Red Alert.” 
You sigh. “You know what? You’re right. Just promise that if anything does happen, you’ll protect me.” And that was when you noticed the s'mores supplies on the counter. “Does this place have a fire pit?”
Drift took one of your hands in his, and looked into your eyes so deeply that it was as if he were staring into your very being. He probably was. “I promise. Yes, I thought you would like to have...s’mores? Is that what you call it?”
You nod, still not pulling away from him. “If that’s the case, what are we waiting for?” Now it was your turn to drag him down to the fire pit. You and Drift set up the fire together, careful to avoid burns.
With a marshmallow on the end of a long metal skewer and the setting of the sun, you curled up next to him with your head on his shoulder. The chirping of the birds died down and the croaking of frogs began. You blew out the fire on your marshmallow and stuck it between two graham crackers and a layer of chocolate. It was the first s’more. 
You handed it to him. “I think you should try it first.”
He tried to take a bite of it from your hand, but had to take hold of it as the graham cracker started to break. His almost human eyes widened. “It’s so sweet.”
“Is that a good or a bad thing?”
“I would call it an unfamiliar thing.” He took another bite and practically devoured it. “Like your gentle company.”
You pull yourself closer to him as he presses his lips onto your forehead. Not in a kiss, but something just as heartfelt. “Well, considering that you took a second bite, you like both?” 
He smiled at you, but it wasn’t the same boyish grin as before. “More than anything.” He pulled you in closer.
You drifted off not long after, and after placing you in your own loft bed and pulling the blankets over you, he slipped off as well. Content. Warm. Loved.
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popculturebuffet · 1 year
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More Than Meets the Eye Retrospective Issue 4: "Life after The Big Bang" (Patreon Review for Brotoman.exe
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Hello all you happy Autbots and welcome back to my issue by issue look at Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, as funded as always by Brotoman.Exe, we chart a course through one of my faviorite comics of all time as a bunch of autobots head up into space on a quest or something but really just to find themselves, adventure and what not.
I"m really pumped going into this one for a number of reasons. The first is a simple: Transformers Earthspark just debuted and while I haven't seen it yet (I have a giant pile of shows to get to, though I fully intend to get to this one before the year end so it can be in contentoin my best animated episodes of the year list.) it sounds really promising. The fact Danny Pudi and Zeno Robinson, both voice actors I dearly love, are in the main cast dosen't hurt.
It's also notable for the fact that from what I have learned Earthspark.. takes a few pages from this era of IDWformers book. It takes place post war, though how the war ended is still vauge, Decipticons are given restraining bolts to prevent transforming, and biggest of all and something vital to this very series in the future.. Megatron has quit as leader of the decepticons and is now on the side of good, if not neceisarily agreeing with the Autobots despite allying with them. And yes for those of you knew, that's an arc in this series and one of it's best and most important, it just dosen't come into play till season 2 so we're years off from that. But given IDW Megatron was I belivie the first version of Megs to do this and certainly the most prominent, I wouldn't be suprised if it's where Earthspark got the idea to try it in animation and it's tremendous this comic had enough impact on things to do that. Now if we could only get some of our faviorite b-listers in animatoin again eh? Still a wins a win.
And to be fair to earthspark it does diffrent things with the concept and in a lot of cases better than Robots in Disguise and it's followups did: The autobots and cons are still stranded on earth so for now Cybertron is a non-factor, the rights of the imprisoned decptiocns are questioned far more and better from the looks of it, and the main villian is a human, but given a decent backstory instead of spike fuckboy witwicky and his bullshit. What i'ms aying is it sounds great and i'm excited the cartoons are FINALLY taking some of the comics, specifically this one's, great worldbuildling and ideas to a wider audience. Not that this comic isn't great or , for now, widely avaliable, I just want more. MOREEEEEE.
Anyways, the other reason is this is my first review covering an arc I haven't before. See I first covered MTMTE as part of last year's pride, intending to make it a retrospective. This didn't pan out due to me having delay it, other retrospectives, all kinds of stuff so I shelved it intending to restart it at some point. Brotoman either saw that review and wanted more or simply loved the series and liked me covering it but either way he asked for me to cover it and for constiancy's sake, I covered issues 1-3 again. I didn't mind, those issues are great and doing it one at a time allowed me to dive in fairly deep and notice stuff I hadn't in previous readthroughs, but it is nice to get going in full.. and to not have to dig through my images for reviews to see if I had already made one for certain moments. So get on board as we go to a snow planet just in time for the icy grip of winter as things get real john carpenter real fast while Tailgate decides he wants to become a decipticon with predicable reactions from the command staff, all under the cut!
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So we open with a Journal entry like doug only about plauge doctoring
It's here we meet a new member to the cast: First Aid. He's an autobot medic who was once a doctor.. but got bumped down to nurse thanks to Rung reporting on his ocd and erratic tendencies
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Yeah this bothers me for a number of reasons. For one, registered Nursing is an important, noble and often thankless perfection. You dont get "demoted" to nurse. I get this is a battlefield situation, but it's two diffrent if very important skillsets, not something you get as a punishment for OCD and collecting WAY too many autobot badges, as shown behind first aid. Even Optimus would have actually trained battlefield nurses. I've become a tad more touchy about the subject since I now have one in the family whose an absolutely lovely person but even before that i'd seen enough works of fiction with nurses, MASH in paticular which ALSO took part during combat, to know you show them respect. I get it this is cyberton, it can be handwaved but it's not a great bit of writing. Say he was bumped down to residency or to a lower position.
At any rate we soon find out why he's writing his journal like an apocalypse log: He works at Delphi, a wintery hothlike outpost on the edge of Decepticon Justice Divison Territory. Which again kinda frames that yeah this was a bad reassignement for them.
This also marks our first mention of SAID Decepticon Justice Division, one of the series biggest antagonists, and it's once again a nice bit of setup I didn't notice my first go round and didn't think of my second. We also don't learn much, just the basics but it's enough to make it both understandable why Delphi is such a remote outpost, why it' sonly on the FRINGE of said territory and why two cons come running banging at the gates for sanctuary.
The DJD are a specialized unit made by Megatron to hunt down deserters or defectors. This being Megatron they don't so much throw a goodbye party as horribly mutilate the bot in question as slowly and painfully as possible as a warning to anyone who would try. And all we see in the panel descrbing tha tis the remains of one bot, cowering in terror, his robot guts ripped out in a pool of his own energon.
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While we'll see them hands on later, like I said their some of the books main villians, it's a nice setup that instantly shows why you should fear them and why the mere idea our heroes will face them later is horrifying. And you haven't even seen what those encounters are like yet.
So naturally it's understandable two cons, with no alt mode who were clearly amde as canon fodder want anyone to protect them. The head of the facility, Pharma, wants them gone, thinking it's just two more dead enemies. It's part of a theme we've already seen a bit but I don't think i've gotten into but's important to this arc: the divide between the deceipticons and the autobots and the shades of grey in the conflict. Don't get me wrong, the autobots are still the good guys: Megatron wanted to conquer everything and as seen with the DJD, he and his men did some truly AWFUL things. But as we've seen in countless other wars just because you put a gun in someone's hand.. dosen't mean their evil. They may just be sketchy or in the case of these guys seemingly just pushed into the war. Not everyone who saw the universe with a gun in their hand joined the deceipticons because they wanted to break things or dominate other life. Some likely joined because of the intital social disparity that lead to the uprising.. and then may of gotten trapped, or as we learn later were MADE for this and had no choice in if they wanted to fight for the purple or the red. You can't blame Pharma for being a tad hesitant but you cant blame Ambulon and First Aid for showing these guys compassion. And as we'll see throughout this series just because you put on the red dosen't make you a good person, and as we've seen already with Prowl and will again not letting go of the war, TRYING to move on and make something new.. will only damage YOU and cause harm to others. You don't have to forgive the deceiptcons, it's understandable.. but you don't have to hold on like it's still an endless war to destroy their evil forces either.
Team Hypocratabot Oath wins out and the two are put in cells but still kept in observation and taken care of… until they activate their wonder twin powers, something happens and we cut to two days later.
Ratchet is doing grizzled old timer things, in this case sitting at a bar morosely, having a drink and wondering how the hell this place exists. … Ed Asner would've made a great Ratchet and if he never played him, that's transformers loss.
At any rate the bar is the one Swerve talked about setting up last time, with the now iconic locale of Swerves fully up and running. Seriously I didn't talk about it last time but the circual design, nice diner type booths and cool giant rainbow vat of various bits of robot booze.. it catches the eye and really stands out. The Lost Light itself is decently designed but I admit the hallways and hab suites kind of run together. I get why, ti's a star ship packed with people, but they feel kinda generic even for generic locations compared to say the halls of both enterprises. I may not have WATCHED a ton of star trek but man those hallways…. and I may of reached a new low in my career, speaking whistfully about hallways. I don't care. Those hallways were dope and I stand by that.
But the actual locatoins? All fairly memorable while fitting the vibe the ship is just a standard ship our heroes bought that happens to have really sweet unique engines: Rodimus' office, Swerves, the med bay, rungs office: most important locations are memorable, and well designed so you know exactly where everything is. I was amazed thinking back to the first few issues and realizing just how .. every room is well mapped out. IT's a small thing , sure, but a good spatial sense of where things are in a location helps it feel that much more real.
This being Swerve he hasn't OFFICALLY opened the bar yet.. which is to say most characters we know are hre, I paticuarlly like Chromedome with a swirly straw in the background. May make that an avatar for the blog at some point.
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He just hasn't told command since Ultra Magnus hates fun. Why he hasn't told Rodimus I don't know, I can't image he dosen't like free booze and good time.. well free for him. He is captain after all.
It turns out Ratchet is here for a reason and not to see this gem of a backgroudn guy who looks so confused
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He got a datalog, basically a blog but beamed into your skull
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Okay for ROBOTS it's probably healthy. This is very much a me thing: see in high school they had us read the Cyberpunk Novel Feed, about a future where kids are lethargic, relaint on tech and said tech is put in their brains via feeds. While it could come off a LITTLE
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It did predict how widespread computer tech would become ahnd how isolating it can be.. via brain computers that slowly rotted you away. I don't remember much else. The fact Be More Chill did a similar thing with computer pills that slowly gaslight you into their world domination plans, does not help. Nothing good comes from putting a computer in your brain unless your a cyborg (and even then it' sa coin flip between dc's cyborg and A borg), or that's just how you were born.
It was a blog done on the old frequency for Wreckers: Declassified, done by Fistitron an optimus and wreckers fanboy we met in Last Stand of the Wreckers. And that brings us to yet another thing to talk about. This issue is kinda.. packed with way mor eof those than intended.
So in short: Last Stand of the Wreckers was done by the same team of this comic, only artist James Roche was more in the creatvie lead. In short i'ts the story of a rag tag bunch of autobots known as the wereckers, baiscally the Autobots verison of X-Force who go in and take on the most dangerous missions with every expectation they may not come back. Black Ops stuff. Last Stand followed a small group, including Mags himself, as they inflitrated a terrifying penal colony to rescue Fortress Maximus, giant city sized autobot and badass from Overlord, a terrifyingly powerful and amoral decepticon who was trying to cause as much of a ruckus as possible… essentially his version of doing THIS to megatron
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It's a great work, plenty dark but in a well done way with really likeable characters your sad to see go. It's VASTLY important to this work as we'll not only see Overlord again, I won't spoil how, but Fort Max as well and the events of said book naturally come up given both played a part in it. We'll table both for now, but it's something I had to adress eventually and even considered covering. Ultimately I decided it just made more sense to jump into the setory itself, but i'd be up to covering it if anyone's interested.
Anyways a new datalouge was beamed int ot he brain last night and Ratchet noticed something: it was medical stats, specifically patient stats and he recognized Delphi's number.. and something in the last few days has caused the patients to be cut by half. Worried about it Ratchet decides to check it out since their close> This isn't his only reason thougH: if Pharama is there.. he's going to give over his roll as cheif medical officer to him. Ratchet's hands are still malfunctioning and as we established in the first issue, his main goal here is to pass on his legacy.
We get a brief scene with Rodders and Mags. Naturally Tailgate's request to be a decepticon has royally horked off Ultra Mags who wants to DO something about it. Maybe beat it out of him. He doesn't now day's young. Rodders is more worried about Magnus than Tailgate, pointing out even if he wanted to Tailgate can't become a con anyway as naturally for the guy who set up a group to hunt down anyone who leaves and tourture them to death, Megs also had to make the decitipbrand ritual as metal and edgelord as possible, with part of your spark casing being used.
Magnus on the other hand seems off and the why is quickly explained: With the war gone, everyone seems a lot more individual and naturally captain stuck up his tail pipe dosen't like this… and feels lost. He also points out when Rodimus tries to use the quest as a uniter that most of the crew.. really isn't here for that. And thus he dosen't know WHY he's even here. It's likelyt he crew's chaotic energy and relaxed manner was already a lot for sam the eagle here, and Rodimus advises him to loosen up budddy.. okay he dosen't say it that way but her certainly thought it that way. And shockingly he DOES have a plan to deal with Tailgate.
Back on MEssatine, where Delphie is, Ratchet has dispatched a team of himself, Drift and Ensign Ricky er Pipes. You remember Pipes right? He was alwasy there. Good old pipes. Strangely he's the only autobot here WITHOUT any red in his paintjob.
Pipes is loveable though, having been stationed on Cybertron or Space Stations his whole life he joind the lost light since unlike others he never got to see the universe even with a gun in his hand. So far he feels it's wet and kinda brillant. He is cautious about this being so close to the DJD as we get more foreshadowing: Swerve saw them in actoin once and coudln't talk. Swerve. Swerve coudln't talk.
We also get our first mention of forging, with Ratchet mentoning most of the best medics were. I'll get more into THAT later, as it's more mentoning it now to pique the audiences intrest for later. Like the DJD this will be important later. Honestly i'm thrown by how much Oda-Level setup Roberts tucked away in throw away lines.
Ratchet being a crotchety old goat who dosen't like his new agey collegeu's stuff decides ot needle him a bit, pointing out how Drift SHOULD be worried: this is DJD territory.. and as i've mentioned before Drift is an Ex-Con. And one of the most high profile ones at that. It's why Ratchet dosen't buy it: a small but brutal and near unstoppable band of killers versus an old man, a rookie and drift himself who while badass is someone they'd likely fully prepared for… and he's not worried
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Their shouting gets interrupted as Pipes finds a giant red X on the wall.. adn given this isn't the x-men that cannot be anything good. So naturally he decideds to ram into it..
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This.. gets him covered in corpses and railed out by Ratchet for being a dumbass
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… honestly now i'm hearing more Kurtwood Smith. Who is still around and would make a perfect Ratchet. Just saying Earthspark crew. Don't think he's shown up yet and even with That 90's Show he's got time for it. Do it. Hav ehim put his foot up decipticon ass. He's even red. How I never thought of this before I don't know.
Drift.. decides to be smart and cuts up a zombie…. who was shambling and barely a threat. So a guy. He cut up a guy. A guy Zombie. With a melee weapon
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So before ratchet decides to say screw the infection and put a foot up botht heir asses Red Alert shows up. He marks Pipes with a stay the hell away x and explains all of this is a plauge: some sort of virus has gotten loose (hence the casualties), confirming what the x said.
Back on the Lost LIght Tailgate is nervous as Ultra Magnus grabbed him out of his habsuite and told him he was going to teach him a lesson. Keep in mind Taigate is only about as tall as one of Magnus' legs. Turns out Hot Rod is he just wasn't going to phrase it that way because you know, that's terrifying coming from the guy in CHARGE. His solution is ellgant if mildly messed up.
Hot Rod brought in Rewind, who being an archivest has tons of footage of the big events of the war, and uploads the mdirectly into Tailgates head in teh span of a few seconds… basically filling him in on what went on in the war in seconds. (everything that matters)
Notably it includes Megatrons rise. He dosen't edit out the fact that Megatron was doing a good thing at first.. but it's mostly there to show that no, the deciptcons still weren't great and did a LOT of war crimes. And while I get why this was done, worse people coudl take advantage of Tailgates naivite.. it's still far from the best way to do it. Showing him the worst of the war thrown at him… was not the way to show him how bad the war was. Showing him the footage i'll admit was great: Rewind has both made and collected plenty and it's a way to show it without doctoring it for bias, evne edited together: this is just.. things people saw at ht eend of the day, thigns rewind saw. It's a godo way to hav eit sink in.. I just feel maybe speed running it was a bit much for the poor guy and not the thing heroes shoudl do. But it does help the ambigiuity WITHOUT making our heroes total monsters: what they did wasn't great.. but like I said there are worse people out there who coudl recurit tailgate for far worse. There's no telling WHEN they'll met a deciptcion whose decided the war is over when theys ay it is who could use poor gate as a spy or as a living bomb or something. And as we'll see next season, Tailgate is VERY susceptable to this sort of manipuation, as someone will play the same thing on him.. just not wearing the badge they were worried about.
Also I REALLY love the detail of getting to see Tailgate's optics up close> I always wondered how the visored transformers saw, even in this very series but simply just.. neve rnoticed those before in this scene. Beautiful haunting stuff.
Anyways back on Delphi we find out causes your optics to break down and leak rust, then everything does before you collapse. And while the medics themsevles have x's, their fine. It's only the patients who are in danger as well as the various staff other who all quickly died off, leaving it down to our three doctors. As for why they didnt send out an SOS commuincations been down since the "big bang" that caused it. They also find a patient that catches Ratchet's intrest, who will be revealed at the end, one whose been comotose.. but First Aid has a suggestion: spark jumping. Basically attaching fancy jumper cables to two sparks, using a healthy one to help a weaker one. See this is one of the many reasons I love james roberts: he'll ask deep questoins about war and what have you.. but he's also not afraid to introduce new stuff to the mythos that answers dumb questions he likely had as a kid like "can you jump a transformer" And it's awesome.
Back on the Lost Light… Tailgate dosen't take things well yelling at Cyclonus.. who tries to say "Did you think it was as simple as good and bad guys"… forgetting he actively asked Tailgate "I wonder which side would you choose". Then when tailgate hits him to no avail, understandably upset he had him askingm to be decpticon on a ship full of former autobots who might not take him asking to be part of them so well as the command staff did.. he BACKHANDS the guy and literally kicks him while he's down
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Yeah… while I do think Cyclonus is an intresting character this moment soured him for me a bit. He knokws tailgate is out of it, out of time like he is.. and yet brutally if only mildly attacks him and leave shi ma sobbing mess.. for being mad at something HE DIRECTLY SET UP. I.. dont' get what James was trying to acomplish here and given where the two's relationship goes it's deeply uncomfortable. There were better ways to show how emotinallys tutned cyclonus is. Why.. why is it always slapping.
Back on Dephi we wrap up. Ratchet tries to talk to Pharma whose in the isolation cell.. only for things to go pear shapes. Pipe has explosive goopy rust happen, and Drift has to nonlethally incapa ciate him so they can get him on an iv. Then drift starts leaking out of his eyes.
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As Pharma comes back.. thrown in by the cons, who have gotten weapons and escaped. Things seem bleak, even Ratchet's ready to surrender.. when we find out JUST who the vip was.. and that First Aid succeded in giving him a jump.
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We'll get to this inevitble asskicking next month. Before we go soundtrack corner. Our first song is the Next Life by Suede. It's VERY good, nciely tying into the feeling of dread at hte start of the issue and the senes of hopelessness at delphi. IT just ended up on a movie soundtrack so THIS is the image I got when I looked it up on youtube
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That may be one of the most 90s things i've ever seen. Still not as weird as the plesantville album cover.. nor the actual album art.
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Why does this man have a manquein of taylor swift? Still really good emotoinal song. The next one, Smokers Outside the Hosptial Doors, by Editors.. is eh. It's very much just your standard morose ballad tm. Good guitar work nothing else. It fits the tone of the issue, but it's one of those clear signs me and james roberts just don't have the same mustic taste. I prefer peppy often poppy synths or rock music with some energy. He likes far slower more methodical stuff. I'm not agains tslow stuff, as I covered last time I friggin love the mountain goats.. I just like some stuff with energy to it more often than not, so i'm picker with the slower ballads. Suede worked, Editors diddn't. That's all it is really
Thanks for reading and have a happy holiday.
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kuradoberijam · 9 months
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Jin Kisaragi, Saruhiko Fushimi, Drift
For Jin:
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Oh Jinny Jinny Jinny… I could absolutely write an entire thesis paper on him starting from his childhood. He makes me insane, I want to hit him. I wanna fix him, I also wanna make him worse.  He is the most disagreeable blorbo I’ve ever had and I’ve gotten in more than enough Internet fights about him. He has so much wasted potential but he is absolutely an acquired taste. He is a complex look about what happens when you take away someone’s autonomy and force them into the role of hero but also his first ever voiced line in the entirety of his calamity trigger story is calling Ronin-gai disgusting. I want to send him to therapy.
For Fushimi:
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There is 1000 things I could say about Fushimi but they have all already been said hundreds of times before so all I’ll say is think he needs a two month long nap.
For Drift:
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Discourse about Drift has led me to places I wouldn’t even go with a gun. I have lots of popular opinions on him but also lots of unpopular opinions on him all of which would put me in witness protection. That being said I do think that MTMTE definitely should have utilized him more instead of just losing the original purpose for him and then delegating him to being Rodimus’s yes man.
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pleasantspark · 1 year
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i will survive by Brxkxn_Fxxth
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)  
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
F/M
Tags:
Pharma (Transformers)/You
Pharma (Transformers)/Original Character(s)
Pharma (Transformers)
You
Reader
Implied/Referenced Abortion
Discussion of Abortion
Abortion
Based on that one 'Zootopia' comic
Name and all
This was a plot I had in my head for awhile now
I Stayed Up At 4AM To Write This
Summary:
a transformers rendition of the most infamous zootopia comic. you find out you were pregnant, you tell pharma, but it leads to a conflict to brew.
Series:
Part 38 of Transformers 
Part 26 of Transformers MTMTE
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"But it's important." You say. 
"Is it important enough for me to get pulled away from my job?" Pharma asked. 
"Yes." You replied. 
Pharma sighs, "Can I atleast take a decontamination shower, before you decide to ruin my day?" Pharma asked. 
"Fine, go ahead." You said, Pharma drops the datapad and you waited at the living room for Pharma to return back. 
"Ah, nothing beats a brisk shower." Pharma says, plopping down on the sofa, "So what is it you want to tell me?" 
"I'm pregnant." You said, simple and straight to the point. Pharma laughs. 
"Oh, nice one (N/N). You're really pulling my tailpipe it's impossible for this to happ–" Pharma began before he noticed your eye twitching. 
"Your eye's twitching... That means you're serious..." Pharma said, you nod slipping the test over to Pharma who looked over it. 
"Oh! (Y/N)! You made me the happiest cybertronian alive!" Pharma said, picking you up and hugging you. 
"Pharma– Put me down–!" You said. Pharma places you down, and wiped his tears away. 
"Oh, sorry. I didn't hurt you did I?" Pharma asked. 
"No, look. I decided I don't want the baby." You say, Pharma frowns. 
"Why would you say that?" Pharma asked. 
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in1-nutshell · 3 months
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Can you do one where mtmte bot buddy is perceptor easily scared younger sibling that has a crush on rodimus? Thanks for the help with how to inbox my request.
I've been noticing a trend with request for Rodimus lately. Our Co-Captain is getting some loving hours.
Hope you enjoy!
Perceptor's younger sibling who is scared easily with a crush on Rodimus
SFW, Romantic, Platonic, Familial, Cybertronian reader
MTMTE
Buddy had always been a jumpy bot.
Whether it be in the heat of the moment or in times of peace, something always had Buddy on edge about something.
“YYEEEP!”--Buddy
“What was it this time?”--Perceptor
“I thought I felt something on my pedes.”--Buddy
“Hmm.”--Perceptor
“Don’t ‘hmm’ me! I’m telling you I felt something on my pede and now its not there!”--Buddy
“Careful, you’re starting to sound like Red Alert.”--Perceptor
“Hey leave Red out of this!”—Buddy
“Yeah leave—”—Red Alert
“AHH!”--Buddy
“AHH!”—Red Alert
That being said, Perceptor is protective of his younger sibling.
He loves them, scaredy bot, and all.
He does try and help Buddy in his own ways by trying to rationalize everything, which helps them a bit, but too much.
Is willing to put a bot in their place if they try to make fun of Buddy for their jumpiness.
Primus forbid that someone does scare them with malicious intent.
He wasn’t a Wrecker for nothing.
Buddy had tried going to Ratchet or any other doctor or nurse to see if it was a medical problem.
“I don’t see anything bout of the ordinary here kid.”--Ratchet
“Nothing?”--Buddy
“Perfectly normal frame inside and outside. I think you just get jumpy too often. You can always go see Rung if it gets any worse.”--Ratchet
“Thank—”--Buddy
Whirl barging into the medbay.
“HAS ANYONE SEEN CYCLONUS OR PANIC BUTTON?”--Whirl
“Whirl! Please, you’re—”—Ratchet
THUNK!
Buddy passing out on the med slab with their spark beat going wild.
“Ohhh… Jumpy’s here.”--Whirl
“Yes…”--Ratchet
In the lab.
Perceptor looking up from his work.
“Is your Buddy sense tingling?”--Brianstorm
“Stop calling it that.”--Perceptor
“But it is!”--Brainstorm
“Brainstorm.”--Perceptor
“Perceptor.”--Brainstorm
Brainstorm saw this problem as a challenge and had asked Buddy if they were willing to be tested to see if he could solve the problem.
Buddy had never been raced out of the lab faster than at that moment.
“Brainstorm?”--Buddy
“Yes?”--Brainstorm
“Is this safe?”--Buddy
Buddy sitting on the lab table with several jumper cables clipped into their frame with a series of wires on their helm.
“Oh Buddy! Of course, it is relatively safe, in theory.”--Brainstorm
“In theory?”--Buddy
“Yes. Everything comes from a theory. Now whether this is a good theory is what we are about to answer now!”--Brainstorm
“Does Percy know?”--Buddy
“What he don’t, know wont hurt Buddy. Now let’s flip this—”--Brainstorm
“BRAINSTORM!”--Perceptor
“He sounds mad! What did you do!?”--Buddy
“Nothing!”--Brainstorm
“Brainstorm.”--Buddy
“Buddy.”--Brainstorm
“…”--Buddy
“… I may have locked him in the closet before I grabbed you from Swerve’s…”--Brainstorm
“…You know, for one of the smartest bots on the ship, you sure can make a dumb decision.”--Buddy
“What--”--Brainstorm
BANG!
Perceptor kicking down the lab doors with his snipper rifle in his servos.
“AAHHHHH!”—Brainstorm and Buddy
No mercy from Percy.
Their friend group had gotten used to Buddy’s jump scares after the first few times.
Sometimes they were the cause of it.
Buddy would always laugh it up in the end.
They would never take it too far so it was all fun and games.
But there was one thing on board that made their spark run faster than the scares.
Rodimus Prime.
The captain was going to be the death of them, they were sure of it.
The two got along great, which wasn’t the problem.
The problem was that Buddy liked the reckless captain.
“Has anyone seen Rodimus? He should have been here by now.”--Buddy
“Nope.”--Chromedome
“No.”--Rewind
“Haven’t seen you’re Conjux since this morning.”--Brainstorm
“Conjux?! Brainstorm!”--Buddy
“Don’t lie to me Buddy I’ve seen how you two look at each other. Everyone on the ship practically knows about it.”--Brainstorm
“Oh don’t tease them Brainstorm.”--Chromedome
“thank you—”--Buddy
“Its not their fault that they are both oblivious to each others feelings.”--Rewind
“You too Rewind?”--Buddy
“I’m getting sick and tired of watch you two pine over each other.”--Rewind
“Who’s pining?”--Rodimus
“GAH! Roddy, don’t do that!”--Buddy
“Hahaha! You know you can’t be mad at me.”--Rodimus
“…One of these days I’m going to get a spark attack because of you.”--Buddy
With their friendship the amount of reckless stunts had gone down.
Something Ultra Magnus was grateful for.
Buddy the ever worry wart always tried to talk their captain from doing many reckless activities.
Most times they would work, but that would usually mean that he would try to do another activity that was less of a threat without Buddy looking.
Rodimus trying to get off the ship to go meteor surfing.
“Rodimus!”--Buddy
“Shh! Megs will hear you!”--Rodimus
“And? You are in no condition to go meteor surfing! You just got out of the medbay from last expedition.”--Buddy
“And I’m fine!”--Rodimus
“Please…”--Buddy
“…Fine. But you have to help me with some of the reports.”--Rodimus
“Deal.”--Buddy
“After I go and flip over the captains chair!”--Rodimus
Rodimus jumping and failing to do a flip landing on his faceplate.
“Roddy!”--Buddy
“Hmmm?”--Rodimus
“Hang on I’m bringing you to Ratchet.”--Buddy
“Nooo… I don’t wanna.”--Rodimus
Buddy throwing him over their shoulder like a sack of potatotes.
“Too bad Captain.”--Buddy
Key word try.
Buddy watched him sometimes like a hawk.
The other times that Buddy wouldn’t be able to talk him out of the activity ended up with Buddy joining.
Those time Rodimus would smile that smile of his that could literally light up a room.
“How did I end up here?”--Buddy
“What do you mean?”--Rodimus
“Here!”--Buddy
Buddy latched on a cord dangling from the ceiling by their chassis.
Rodimus on the ground with his arms wide open.
“I must have my circuits fired to even say yes to this!”--Buddy
“Nope, I just asked, and you said ‘yes’.”--Rodimus
“I know!”--Buddy
“Relax Buddy its just a trust fall!”--Rodimus
“Yeah! But I didn’t think it was going to be from this height!”--Buddy
“It’ll be okay! Just let go!”--Rodimus
“Let go?!”--Buddy
“Trust me Buddy! You’ll be all right! Just trust me!”--Rodimus
Buddy saying one more pray to Primus before detaching from the chord, screaming on the way down.
Rodimus catching them nearly falling on the floor too.
“See! I gotcha—Buddy?”--Rodimus
Buddy passing out.
Perceptor knew about Buddy’s little crush on the Captain.
While he would have wish it be on another crew member, he supposed that Rodimus wasn’t the worst of them all.
After talking it over with Drift, Perceptor decided that it would be a good idea to actually talk to Buddy about it.
“Percy?”--Buddy
“Buddy.”--Perceptor
“What’s going on? We don’t usually have private talks like these. Wait! Did something bad happen to you?”--Buddy
“No, no, I asked you to meet me here to talk.”--Perceptor
“To… talk?”--Buddy
“Yes.”--Perceptor
“Okay, I’ll bite what did you want to talk to me about?”--Buddy
“Its about Rodimus.”--Perceptor
“What about him? Did some—”--Buddy
“Nothing happened to him…yet.”--Perceptor
“What?”--Buddy
“I noticed you and the Captain have been spending more and more time with each other. And if my theory proves me correst, you like him.”--Perceptor
“Umm… where did you—I mean, me and Roddy—I mean—”--Buddy
“Its okay.”--Perceptor
“What?”--Buddy
“I’m fine with you dating Rodimus.”--Perceptor
“Really! But doesn’t he annoy you? Especcially two days ago when he said ‘science is magic’. You nearly grabbed your riffle and made him into Swiss cheese.”--Buddy
“… Yes. I have taken that into account, but you are mainly going to be spending time with him. He wont be my Conjux, he’ll be yours.”--Perceptor
“Conjux!”--Buddy
“That was a joke.”--Perceptor
“It didn’t sound like it!”--Buddy
“How do you intend on telling him?”--Perceptor
“You’re just filled with questions aren’t you?”--Buddy
“I’m a scientist Buddy.”--Perceptor
“Yeah, but its not that simple Percy.”--Buddy
“How so?”--Perceptor
“I can’t just go up to him and say ‘Hey Roddy, I like you a lot. You want to go out with me? We can go to Swerve’s for our first date. We can drink, dance, and watch movies all night long’.”--Buddy
“What?”--Rodimus
“Don’t sound like that Percy—”--Buddy
“That wasn’t me.”--Perceptor
“Then who—”--Buddy
Rodimus standing in front of the door way.
Buddy’s fans kicking in before passing out.
“How long where you there?”--Perceptor
“Long enough to know Buddy already beat me to the chase and already had a date night planned.”--Rodimus
“…If you ever think or try to hurt them in anyway, I know how to shoot in between your seams and make you go through the worse pain imaginable before any medic comes to help you. Do I make myself clear?”--Perceptor
“Clear. And the thought of hurting them is the last thing I would want to do.”--Rodimus
“Good.”--Perceptor
“Yeah.”--Rodimus
“…”--Perceptor
“…”--Rodimus
“We should probably get Buddy to Ratchet.”--Rodimus
“Agreed.”--Perceptor
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signedaiko · 2 years
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Hello! I wanted to ask, do you write for Necrobot/Censere? If so I'd like to make a request about cybertronian S/O crash-landing on Necroworld and staying there with him when he fall in love with her.
But if you don't write for him, feel free to ignore this.
Bye. (sorry for english)
My Stars [Necrobot x Reader]
The reader is Autobot Femme | MTMTE based | Romantic
Recommended Song - Levitating by Dua Lipa
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Your fall from the very skies caused the entire world to shudder, shaking the ground Censere stood upon and scaring the poor bot half to death. " You are fortunate you lived, hm? " All you remembered from that day was the pounding ache in every corner of your body and thousands of blue flowers. But he remembered a lot more, like when you asked him if he was here to take you to the All Spark. Well, you weren't far off when it came to what he considered his job, but no, you were going to live. You spent weeks hooked up to energon lines, tubes and left to the tender care of such a mysterious bot. He had such a kind smile, one he would flash while he so suspiciously dragged a half-unconscious body into another room. He did that a lot. Eventually, you were healed enough to introduce yourself, a name he would not forget, and soon you were helping him drag along the time-sick individuals. You were y/n, from Cybertron, and your past was all but blurry. As far as Necrobot had documented, you were a star mapper, and that was it. "Censere, the new batch is complete! " Your voice called out through the base, holding what looked like a tray of pink flowers that slowly faded in their own pace to a calm blue. You were helping him imprint the flowers with spark signatures; he found you were much better with the delicate petals than he. " Magnificent, " He paused, leaning down to observe the trey you held up, one of his arms snaking around your waist, " Once again, it is perfect! We may plant them once I complete my work. " His digits lingered before pulling away, optics watching you move with hesitation place the tray down. You were still so worried about breaking the poor things. Censere thought it was funny, considering how many you had crushed when you landed. The moment your helm so much as flinched in his direction, he turned to his work, not wanting to seem distracted or out of it. The bot was rushed in his task. If he could finish sooner, he would be able to see the way you looked out at the skies of Necroworld in its sunset again. As he etched down an engraving for a statue, his mind continued to wander aimlessly. You had so many mysteries about you, the way you looked at the universe as though it was entirely new to you despite having lived millions of years. He wondered what life you lived before you came here or how you got here, to begin with. What happened to the sweet, innocent y/n for her to forget it all just like that? All of the inconclusive deaths he had found, and you were still his greatest mystery- even if you were right in front of him. In his more troubling thoughts, he seemed to have pushed the etching tool through the plate, barely stopping it from cracking in two due to two servos. Yours held his own shaky servos carefully as to redirect the tool and save his etching from needing to be remade. " Be careful, Censere. " Your voice was right behind him. " Yes... Allow me to reconsider my decision. I could use a breath of fresh air now, it seems. " He still kept composed, ushering you forwards and out the door while picking up the tray in his own hands. Both of you walked delicately along the carefully laid paths framing the flowers, moving on towards the most common of statues that you visited. An apparent warlord. His cape framed the both of you as you walked close enough to his side for the wind to carry it behind you, too. It seemed you had missed the sunset, but in the sky shone trillions of stars of all ages. You had to be careful not to trip as your eyes stared at the beyond. The taller bot did not bother you, helping an arm close behind you in case he needed to redirect or catch you. He tried not to look down, as you would undoubtfully notice his longing gaze. You were everything he desired, yet you seemed to only desire what was so out of reach. Soon fields grazed at the ankles of each of you, flowing delicately in the wind the world provided. You kneeled in a cleared spot, poking small holes that Censere gently dropped a flower into, securing it with a careful
pinch. No matter how many you planted, it was still hard to think of the dead soul that created such a flower. Each pattern on every petal was unique; you wondered what yours might look like. " Y/n, dear. " You realized you had been still and silent, and he still had one last flower to place. You poked a small hole once more, watching as an astonishingly bright ping one was placed. Unlike every other flower, it was pulsing, and it seemed patterns were still slowly forming on it. It had many petals, new ones growing every time it ran out of space. " What... What is this? " You were pulled up by the other, each servo in one of his own. " Y/N, I always felt my garden was missing something, and the last thing I want to do is place you here when it is far too late, " He paused, leaning to leave a kiss on the back of your hand carefully, " I want you to grow in this garden of ours, and join me in life and death. " It was as though the wind itself had stopped, leaving only th sound of his clicks and your whirring. He was caught off guard as you pushed him into a kiss, clutching onto you as though it was his last night alive. You still had the personality of a star.
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Author Note - Your English is fine! Anon forgot to mention the post type, so I went for one-shot as I felt it made the most sense with his plot!
Word Count - 1, 035
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jazz-miester · 3 years
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Bliss
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Pairing: Mtmte Megatron x Reader
Reader type: Gender Neutral Bot reader
Song: R U Mine- Artic Monkeys
Warnings: Heh. Smut. Not quite describing doing Megatron on the captains chair but by god I hope I did well enough.
An: Do I have four other fic ideas? Yes. Am I going to do then? Maybe.
Tags: @rawmeknockout (I hope it's ok that I tagged you in this.)
They are that of rapture. Helm tilted towards the heavens above as they overload once again. His name on their lips chanting it again and again.
Their body tires and falls forward. Optics over bright as they roll their hips. Pleasure surges through him like the waves on the ocean.
One after the other.
His vents hitch and his servos find their hips. Follows up their waist and to their heaving chest. Bursts of light filter though thier seems. Spark calling out to his.
"Like moonlight in the water." Megatron mutters before pulling them closer to himself. Lips upon their throat. Running up and down the cabling. Nibbling on the main energon line. This, to him, was the most intimate one could get.
Oh Primus the amount of trust you had in him.
In the warlord that brought ruin to Cybertron.
To you.
You trusted him with his mouth so close to one of the most vulnerable parts of you. Trust in that he wouldn't take his dentea and bite down until your energon flowed through him instead.
It was an intoxicating sense of trust.
One he intended to never break.
He pulls back and rests one servo upon your hip the other splaying across your stomach. Megatron slowly pulled you down on his spike, feeling rather than seeing the rounding of your stomach plating.
He growled low and deep in his throat. Engine rumbling as you took more and more of his spike. A moan left his throat as your valve fluttered around him. Squeezing in the most addicting way.
Primus you drive him insane.
Your voice honey sweet as you cry out into the room.
He had hardly needed the invitation to ruin you in the most blissful way.
The others had left the room almost to slow. Your dimmed optics trained upon him the entire time from your spot in front of the main console.
Surely all this was your fault.
You drove him into madness without even truly trying.
Hips swaying as you moved up and down the room. Thick thighs catching in the lowlight Magnus insisted upon in after work hours.
Your lips wrapped around the energon goodie his undoing. It took mere moments for his thoughts to wonder elsewhere.
And when you bent over on hands and knees to reach for the data pen you oh so clumsily dropped.
He broke.
He melted at the wide optic look you gave him when you came back up on your feet. The top of your helm just brushing the bottom of his jaw.
He practically growled your name as he lent forward. Pinning you in place as he slammed on hand in the console screen behind you. The other resting at the curve of your waist.
His lips on your audial.
"If you wish for me to stop. Say it now." He felt you shudder. Fans flicking on.
"And if I don't?" His answer was to capture your lips with his own.
Soft and sweet. His glossa tracing your lips before oh so slowly slipping in. Tracing the lines of your mouth. His dentea on your lip. A kiss to the corner of your mouth and then back again.
His lips along your jaw. Along your audial. One servo tracing where his lips once were. Traveling down your neck and along your chest plating. Pulling up just above your hips.
His lips on your neck. Before sharp dentea but down just enough to have you jump and stutter.
He asked before lifting you up to his face. Heated aray just before those lips.
"May I?" He had breathed out.
He had overloaded you there.
Then on the console.
Feasted like a starved mech upon the captains chair.
Then he himself sat upon that chair. Every inch of him the imposing Warlord he used to be.
His finger crooked as he motioned you to come to him. Spike emerging from his array.
You came to him eagerly.
That left you here. Overloading upon him for what seemed the hundredth time as he to finally came to his high. Charge sparking in the air as he roared his engines. Shaking your already trembling thighs from the force if it.
It filled you. Thick and hot and heavy with it all.
His lips found yours. Hips rolling one last time as he held you through it all.
Words spilled from his lips one after the other. Nothing but praise upon his breath.
You fell in him. Body limp as your buried your helm into the crook of his neck. His servos trading down your back. Lips pressed to every inch of your helm he could reach.
"You are stunning." He muttered. "Like starlight in the sky." He brought your hand to his lips. Kissing the tips of your fingers. To the palm of your hard and to the delicate wires in your wrist. "You are sweeter than any energon that has passed my lips." A smirk fell on his face. "I wonder if it will be sweeter a second time." You snort.
"Flattery is going to get you nowhere but my berth mech." Megatron pressed a kiss to your hand once more.
"And. I hope. Your spark. I know I cannot take it. But I hope I have left my mark. Bliss and all." You roll your optics.
"Yadda yadda ya old sap. We still need to clean the captains chair or Rodimus will kill us. I-E you." Megatron grinned. Fanged teeth catching on his bottom lip.
"I am Captain as well. And I quite like the decoration you have left behind, my spark."
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cloudraker · 2 years
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Hello!! So happy to find another astounding writing account, figured id leave a request of my own :) MTMTE Spinister with a femme s/o one-shot if possible. Something that's just about your average morning with Spinister and the Scavengers or if you want to go for something more outstanding involving the DJD scene and angst go right ahead! I am happy with either :) Thank you for considering my request <3 Love the Nickel pfp
Hello! Thank you so much for requesting, so sorry for the wait <3 I did this as a romantic piece, but if that’s not what you had in mind please feel free to send in another request!
And thank you sm!! Writing is under the cut :)
word count - 586
The Day Ahead (Spinster x reader)
Time worked differently in space. There wasn’t necessarily a morning or a night, no daylight cycles to run your days by, just whatever the clocks and your own chronometer told you. So when you onlined your optics to the sound of a, frankly rather obnoxious, alarm, you had to wonder if it really was morning at all in whatever corner of the galaxy you were in. Taking a moment to gather your bearings, you sat up with a soft vent. A groan from beside you made you turn your head, optics landing on your Conjux Endura.
Spinster was already looking back, red eyes staring back, unblinking. Even with the covering, you could tell by the way the corners of his face crinkled that he was sending you a lazy smile, one you easily reciprocated. With a quiet hum, he grabbed your servo with his own, intertwining your fingers and squeezing softly. 
“Good morning,” he mumbled, voicebox crackling with I-just-woke-up-static. Hand still on your own, he sat up beside you, joints creaking softly in protest after the hours of misuse from recharge. With the ‘con sitting up, you came up to about his shoulder, something he sometimes used against you.
This was, it would seem, one of those times. Craning his neck down, he placed his faceplate to the top of your head in his version of a kiss. He held his face there, bringing up an arm to pull you into his shoulder. You followed his guidance wordlessly, before feeling him stiffen and raise his head.
Pulling away gently, you looked up to see him fixated on something behind you. Turning your head yourself, nothing was there besides the other half of your habsuit, and everything seemed to be in its place. Turning your attention back to him, you raised a brow. “What is it?” You asked, a smidge of amusement trickling into your tone.
“The light,” came his quick reply, optics never moving.
“What about the light?”
“It’s flickering!” He hissed quietly, hand tightening around your own.
Once again looking behind you, it became apparent that a light was, indeed, flickering. “Yes, they do that. This ship isn’t exactly in the best shape,” came your easy reply. “It’s no reason to worry.”
The quick and simple reassurance seemed to do the trick, Spinter’s hand coming up to turn your head back towards him. There was a certain tenderness in his optics, something that certainly did not scream “Decepticon!” He didn’t need to say it, and neither did you, sometimes simple moments like this said more than words ever could.
The two of you were interrupted by a voice coming over the ship’s comms. Krok, ever the professional, was quickly identified as the culprit. “All crew, we are approaching Clemency, prepare for landing. I repeat, all crew prepare f- Misfire what are y-!” The broadcast cut off as a crash was heard elsewhere on the ship.
Spinster gave an exasperated groan, you a fond chuckle at your crewmates antics. “Guess we gotta get going then, huh?” Hoisting himself up, your spouse swung his legs over the side of the berth and slid down, offering you a hand to drag you up with him. Taking his with your own, you let yourself be led out of the berth.
Yes, time worked differently in space, but if this is how ‘mornings’ worked, then you wouldn’t spend them any other way.
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itsgrayblue · 3 years
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Just felt like writing a long post on why I just
don’t like Driftrod
And before people start coming at me saying I’m one of those Dratchet shippers who blames Rodimus for too much and sidelines him, you’re absolutely 100% correct. Enjoy.
Let’s start with Drift and Rodimus’s friendship. It’s strong and endearing, but rooted in a sense of obligation that Drift feels towards Rodimus. It’s something we’ve seen a lot throughout Drift’s arc; he latches onto people. Gasket, Wing, even Megatron for a time.
And I think it comes from that sense of belonging that he’s just never had. As soon as someone gives him the time of day, he throws himself into the relationship with everything.
Then along comes Rodimus with promises of friendship, adventure, salvation; something that Drift can’t say no to, not when Rodimus the only one willing to vouch for him as a former Decepticon.
But even from the start that friendship has this sort of subtextual conditionality, a sort of “look at everything I’ve done for you” dynamic that I can’t stand. Drift writes his speeches, takes his side, takes the fall, and in an early script draft of MTMTE issue 5, we even see that it had been Rodimus who volunteered Drift to go to Delphi.
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And we catch a glimpse of the way Rodimus defaults to that line of thinking in the Dark Cybertron prelude.
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Now you could certainly make the argument that Rodimus says this for the sake of, well… saying it in front of Thunderclash. But regardless, it’s a pretty inconsiderate way to refer to someone who considers you a friend and ally, not some sort of chaperone (And someone standing right next to you).
It’s a hint of the utilitarian attitude he has toward Drift. Of course we only get to see this interaction after Drift has been banished.
I know people tend to get annoyed when the exile arc comes up, but that’s a HUGE contention point for me. Drift, a former addict, former Decepticon, and all around former loner, after finally finding someone he thinks will be on his side, loses everything.
All the work he’s put into being accepted, changing his ways, into simply finding a place in the universe is taken away. Rodimus finds him guilty of a crime they both know he didn’t commit in front of the entire Lost Light, and exiles him.
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All because Rodimus convinced Drift that he needed to be on that ship more than he did.
I’m awfully tired of that entire situation being ignored, I really am. Yes, Rodimus admits his mistakes, yes he learns, and yes he has his own issues.
Having issues is okay. Making other people, people who TRUST you, pay for it is so incredibly not.
Oh yeah, and Rodimus never goes looking for him
And while Drift and Rodimus seem to have a sort of reconciliation once the latter apologizes for his wrongdoings, Drift never says “I forgive you.” And while he probably does forgive Rodimus at least on some level, I don’t think he felt that it was something he could stomach saying out loud. Which is good.
Rodimus has not earned forgiveness. Nor has he earned any of the trust Drift placed on him in the first place.
Now I’m sure by now a lot of you have labeled me as some sort of sociopathic Rodimus-hater, and I’m sure a lot of you won’t believe me when I say I’m not. But the fact is: I'm not.
I think he is absurdly fun and alarmingly relatable at times, and he’s certainly earned his place as the poster child for MTMTE. But there comes a point when you just can’t excuse the amount of hurt that has been bestowed upon a person, especially not to the point where you could somehow assert that they could possibly have a healthy romantic relationship.
While his chronic bad decisions may be at the forefront of his relatableness as a character, he makes an awful lot of them at the expense of others. Making decisions that benefit you but harm others is a toxic trait. It’s harmful. And he does it constantly. Just ask Drift, Chromedome, Ultra Magnus, Megatron…
Now here comes the part about Ratchet, brace yourselves.
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Ratchet never poses his relationship with Drift as anything other than what it really is. At first, they’re amicably disagreeing but equally intelligent occupants of the ship, with a shared memory that seems lifetimes ago yet lingers in the space between them constantly.
They have beef with each other, they’re even angry at first. But they’re both trying to come to terms with a universe without war and their role in it.
Ratchet struggles with his diminishing significance, Drift struggles to atone.
There’s this beautiful mixture of very grown-up, very complex emotions and interactions mixed in with the undeniably juvenile tendency to simply bother each other.
And Ratchet is the one who finally takes the initiative to seek him out.
Now I’ve seen it thrown around that people don’t like Dratchet because it was never integrated into the story until later on. I wholeheartedly disagree. You cannot tell me that there is no merit to the “avoiding your feelings by being rude” trope I mean come on, just look at the trend.
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They’re two adults who have no false pretense to each other, who have a beautiful dichotomy and a habit of emotionally charged rescues.
So the basis of what I’m trying to get at is that I happen to find Driftrod upsetting from a psychological standpoint. I’m upset that Drift spent so much energy trying to maintain loyalty to a friend who tossed him to the lions so quickly. I love the dynamic they have at times, but sometimes I can’t even reconcile them having a friendship.
I think Ratchet is someone who would actually allow Drift to become who he is, not some sort of tangentially bound sidekick.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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petitelepus · 2 years
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Hello! Could you do MTMTE Megatron and 1 for the number requests? Have a good day/night.
Autobots left and right were admiring you now that you had come clean to them and revealed that there was a human controlling this giant robot called AirLock and that human was you.
When you were selected to join Lost Light's crew, you, your superiors, and Autobot superiors all agreed that the huge spaceship would be a dangerous place to someone as small as you.
So with help from the Autobots scientists Perceptor and Brainstorm, you were able to join the crew as a AirLock, Autobot Femme from planet Earth.
You had been keeping your human nature hidden since it was no secret that Megatron didn't really fancy organics of any kind and to keep an eye on him you would have to get close to him.
But you never expected to get so close to him as in dating him. He started it, he wanted to learn from Earth and as a resident of the Earth, you had tons of things to educate him about.
One thing lead to another, and he confessed having feelings towards you... And you foolishly held feelings for him also so the two of you started dating.
Everything was going fine, but you knew you would have to tell him one day what you actually were.
That day came faster than you would have liked when the Lost Light ended up in one of its weekly adventures. You were all fighting against some hostile aliens when you were shot, your robot body's head coming cleanly off from your body.
Megatron had been devastated but that's when your robot body's chest clicked open and you jumped out from there. Bots couldn't almost believe it, one bot, Whirl, even thought you were one of those organic aliens that burst from its host's body.
Nope, you were a human and a novelty apparently. Autobots couldn't get enough of you. But as much as you enjoyed the attention... You wanted to see Megatron.
So you sought him out and found him in his habsuite at the lower level.
"Megs?"
Megatron's helm snapped up out of instinct. He looked confused before he remembered that you weren't who you had said you were and he looked down to see little old you.
You smiled, but your smile was wobbly thanks to worry. "Hi, Megs. How... How are you?"
"What do you expect? First I saw your helm being blown up and then I learned that you weren't an Autobot from Earth but a human."
Ouch, he had a point. You frowned sadly, "I wanted to tell you, but I couldn't. People back in Earth, my bosses would have skinned me alive."
"So all the things you told me about Earth? About yourself? Were they true?" He asked and you nodded, "Everything."
"It..." Megatron sighed and averted his gaze from you like he couldn't stand looking at you. "This is messed up. I feel like I don't even know you."
"Megs, I'm sorry I lied, I really am, please...!" You said, but your voice started to quiver as you feared for the worst. "I am still me. AirLock is me! I- I don't know what I can do to-!"
"I think we should break up." Megatron suddenly said and the world around you seemed to freeze. You blinked and tears started to roll down your face.
You wanted to cry and beg him, but you knew better. If that was what Megatron wanted, you had to honor his decision. It didn't mean that you weren't in pain.
"I see..." You nodded and turned to leave and run all the way to your habsuite when suddenly you were picked up. You yelped, a fresh set of tears running down your face.
The next thing you knew, you were standing on Megatron's work desk, and he was right there looking down at you.
"I started dating AirLock, not you. Now, I want to start over with you as a human..." Megatron cleared his intake, "It's going to take time to trust but... I am willing to try. If that is okay to you then would you like to-?"
"Yes!" You nodded and your tears of sadness turned into joy. You rubbed your face furiously with your shirt's sleeves until your face was dry.
"Yes, I would love to start over!"
Megatron smiled and took himself a comfortable sitting position by his desk. "So... Tell me about your pupa age?"
You snorted, "You mean my childhood?"
"That."
"Well, I was born in..."
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