Tag: au

12drakon:

metalloprotease:

Riffing on that “Prowl was really a stripper cop” reblog earlier, I kind of want the AU where the surviving Cybertronians are explicitly just that, whoever happens to be left alive. Which is mostly not any kind of prewar elite, because most of everyone is dead, and being really good at one specialized thing isn’t particularly a survival skill, and anyway by definition there weren’t all that many elites to start with.

Ratchet is the CMO, sure, but he’s a jumped up field medic; he’s got no formal training for three-quarters of what he does, he’s just the closest thing to a physician left, because the Decepticons aren’t exactly party to the Geneva Convention and think hospitals make great targets. Prowl was the Cybertronian equivalent of a meter maid. Wheeljack never finished his PhD and was an adjunct professor teaching non-majors engineering courses at a bunch of different community colleges. Orion Pax was just an office intern when the war started, but the whole dying all the time thing really does come with being Prime, so after five or six of them were taken out the Matrix of Leadership eventually worked its way down to him (and boy is it getting pissy about having to move so often).

I love this. I love this so much.

It’s like a better story of the Murphy’s Law. A ragtag bunch who have to make it work. And they do. Not by being cartoonish-awesome, either.

Shattered Glass Ceiling AU.

notxahero:

ooc: copying from discord because i’m just so taken with this idea?? aAAH???

i just thought of an au where, instead of staying on and being captain of a repair bot team after his dismissal from the academy, optimus becomes a school teacher

teaching youngsters, telling stories, watching them grow into fine young botsand beating the shit out of megatron with a yard stick or something when he crashes a field trip

“MY NAME IS OPTIMUS” he bellows, and megatron has never been more intimidated by a bot with a yard stick in his life. it’s kind’ve embarassing

20. Specify: an AU of your choice! I choose “Ancient Civilization” AU!

bossbotfiretruck:

Megatron had to admit it: Iacon was beautiful.  

He stood in the main courtyard of the citadel and admired
the view. The walls of the citadel had been painted with bright, proud colors
which boasted the wealth brought in to her ports by foreign ships. Frescos
danced on the inner rooms, showing scenes of bots dancing, servants bringing
forth large feasts, and fantastic beasts hunting their vicious prey. Outside
the citadel, the surrounding town glittered with the best paint each occupant
could afford. Even the market place, filled with beggars and cheaters of all
sorts, had a sense of luxury and decadence.

To the North was the Sea, where Megatron himself claimed a
citadel and a home. All other sides were surrounded by tall mountains, unclimbable
to all except determined pilgrims and cyber-goats. The only path through the
range was a wide river that the town had grown over long ago.

Iacon was beautiful, even while it burned. From the
courtyard, Megatron could still see the glows of several large fires as they
burned through the wood and clay. He turned away from the burning landscape to
look at the people behind him.

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taiyari:

There’s no update this week of the tf au comic because I want to revise my old idea about it, sorry 😦

But Patreons get this 4 pages mini comic I just post over at patreon. I… I’m sorry xD I would like to say this is the last time I do a comic a silly as this but I have a file full of silly ideas and… I’m weak.

So, see you with a new update… next week! Take care!

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autobotclique:

Am I the only one that would be super interested in seeing a tf continuation that had humans be in space with the cybertronians rather than stuck on earth? I just feel like the interactions could be super interesting if done right
And by done right I mean none of that cappy “woe is me I’m a human in space make the whole story line revolve around me” and more “I’M STUCK IN SPACE WITH THESE GIANT IDIOTS AND I NEED TO TAKE THE BIGGEST DUMP EVER BUT THEY DON’T HAVE ANY FUCKING TOILETS SO I HAVE TO ASK THEIR FUCKING MEDIC TO HELP ME F U C K” and there’s culture shock on both sides and maybe go into why a lot of cybertronians were(are?) anti-organic
Plus for once it would be the humans adjusting rather than the autobots. I could see some of the bots are super confused on how the humans are able to adapt so quickly until they’re pointed out to the fact that cybertronians have had a very slow inclination for evolution because of their life spans while humans perish rather fast so they evolved and adapted in a couple million years to where they are now
There’s a capability for some really cool and potentially hilarious interactions and I just!!!! Want to see this explored!!!!

I’m just all about that human/robot interaction when it’s done in an interesting manner

What if…

dwobbit-under-the-mountain:

I know we all love the usual story of TF. It’s a great story, and it holds up through the test of time because it’s something we’ve seen in our own history time and time again. The slow decline of the Golden Age into a period of terrible fascism and oppression, the political climate becoming a breeding ground for rebellion and the subsequent rise of Megatron and Orion Pax as the next great speakers representing the people, then the sharp turn into war and the destruction of the world they all fought so damn hard for. Then of course, the seemingly endless wandering until finally, they come to Earth for whatever reason the continuity gives them.

But, I’ve been thinking. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see things flipped? What if we get to that period after the fateful meeting with the High Council, and the buildup to war is a lot slower? What if during that time, humans found their way into space and established themselves in the universe? I know, shush, hear me out. Usually in tf canon, the universe is a collection of well-established societies with the people in charge being descended from old Cybertronian colonies. It’s also usually canon that the universe has long, long since lost contact with Cybertron, when the Great Decline began and all the space bridges got shut off because Cybertronian society began turning inward.

So like, what if humans turn up and suddenly start shaking up the status quo. We know in a lot of tf canon, organic life is treated as second-class by non-organic life. Organics are generally viewed as slow, messy, stupid creatures. Now, I’d imagine if we got to space and people were racist arseholes to us, we’d have something to say about that. We’d probably have a lot to say about that, now that I think about it. So lets imagine we get ourselves a reputation much like Megatron and Orion did back on Cybertron (I’ll get to that in a sec). We’re these strange people who just showed up out of nowhere, flipped the bird to the established rules, and fucked shit up because we said what needed to be said. We argue and argue against what we view as unfair and oppressive rule, and all that arguing ends up putting us in good stead with all the other organic races and more open-minded of non-organics. We get noticed for other reasons too, like all the stuff you see in those awesome ‘humans are space orcs’ or ‘earth is space australia’ posts. I love those, and I want to see more self-love in scifi. Humans are pretty amazing when we put our minds to something. Because of this combination, we’re rapidly gaining power in a system with no place for us, and it’s tipping the balance. Lets then imagine we start asking questions too, because that’s what we do. Argue and question.

Lets imagine all that questioning leads to us finding out about the great, long lost planet that all these non-organics are descended from. A planet of crystal cities and everlasting light, a planet so ancient it can’t be dated, a planet that’s also an actual living person at its core. Don’t pretend we wouldn’t immediately decide that’s our new adventure, because fuck me that’s just awesome. 

What if back on Cybertron, the same thing is happening. Megatron and Orion are still fighting the good fight, just trying to fix a stupidly broken system while also keeping their tenuous friendship intact by the end of it. What if suddenly these ridiculously tiny organic creatures turn up, having somehow tracked the planet down, and join in with said good fight when they realise they’ve seen this shit all before and they’re not having any of it. Because you see, Cybertron might be an old myth to some, but if we can find it and make friends with the locals, then the rest of the universe will follow suit. 

Idk, it’s just an idea swimming about in my head. I think it’d be cool to see how things changed, how the war either still happened or didn’t happen, how the cultures would clash and mingle, how friendships and relationships would develop. That sort of thing.

I’m rambling, but I know what I’m trying to say. I just really love those rare occasions when tf fics and canon go into the similarities and differences between our species and re-imagine stuff.