#this guy is so closed off and anti confrontational that he can’t even kill megatron to end the war

[macadam]

Was explaining to a friend how socially inept optimus is in tfp which devolved into a 20 minute long tedtalk where I just kept providing examples of megatron trying to engage in any semblance of banter while battling optimus and optimus’ only response is to frown bigger. He just keeps looking more and more intense until someone else comes in to relieve the social tension. Some may call it romantic/sexual tension between exes but in actuality optimus —“do you want to see something funny” “no”— prime is just incapable of holding any conversation and leaves megatron to flounder in this conversational void, turning every sentence said into an increasingly pathetic monologue. Megatron seems obsessed with optimus because he’ll say something insulting or set bait to goad optimus into a response but instead optimus just stares and frowns. And if there’s one thing megatron refuses to do it’s backtrack so he’ll just keep digging. The only time megatron is freed from this prison is when ratchet is there to insult him back but because megatron’s focus starts on optimus it just ends up turning into megatron and ratchet arguing over optimus’ honour while he’s off to the side pummelling whatever vehicon/corpse/seeker megatron has set on him, or is falling off a cliff because his legs are too long and in however many millennia it’s been he still can’t get used to the robot puberty the matrix put him through

#fun side note this brought both of us to tears from laughing #they’ve only seen the first season of tfp but honestly that’s enough #god optimus is #So Bad at holding conversations #Mac mumbles #I say all of this out of love #but man #this guy is so closed off and anti confrontational that he can’t even kill megatron to end the war #I am loosing my mind what is Wrong with him #transformers prime #tfp #optimus #tfp optimus #optimus prime #megatron #tfp megatron #maccadam