Whoa, I wasn’t expecting so many people to like that AU post! I’ll admit I mostly thought it up for the fluff/humor, but I also got to thinking about how drastically the events in the show would change if it were to happen. For starters, I think I was wrong when I assumed Megatron would get his body back sooner; in fact, without Sari or the ‘Cons coming into contact with the AllSpark, he’d actually wake up a lot later than he did! With all that extra time on their hands, the other Decepticons would likely have way more time to grow close to Sari (which is a good thing, since they’d probably take a lot longer to warm up to her)- and establish Decepticon presence on Earth, to boot.
I’ve attempted to sort out how things would fall into place in this AU’s timeline, mostly based around Sari’s age. Without the key, she’d have the chance to grow up a little more naturally. I’ll put it under the cut, since it gets kinda long.
A TFA AU that starts at the end of season 3 where Optimus’ team goes back to Cybertron for good to help with the reconstruction of their government and leave Sari on Earth where she then gets the Autobot B-Team back together to protect Detroit.
They suck majorly at first, and no one respects or even likes them because they’ll “Never Be Optimus’ Team”..but over time they go through actual training and character development and eventually they bond together to become a real team, learning to care about one another as they slowly but surely turn into an intelligent, formidable, and capable band of heroes and finally gain enough respect to go from B-Team to A-Team
I’m going to be doing Transformers Animated Optimus and Prowl since those two are the OP and Prowl I ship together.
Who’s more dominant: Personality-wise, I think it’d be Prowl. Optimus may be the leader, but it’s a professional position that doesn’t extend into their relationship. I’d imagine he’d be much more dorkier (though far more responible, this is gonna be awkward between the two due to their position and personality clashes at first.) Prowl’s no-nonsense attitude and former life as a no-goodnik means he’d likely be the “dominant” one.
Who’s the cuddler: Dude, Optimus. Within reason, but dude, Optimus.
Who’s the big spoon/little spoon: Goes without saying due to their sizes.
What’s their favorite non-sexual activity: For Prowl, it’s taking Optimus to all the beautiful and varied locations of Earth. Temples in remote locations, the northern lights in the artics, the neverending deserts, the crystal clear lakes where your reflections look like doubles, etc.
For Optimus, he prefers something a little simpler: a nice drive around Detroit, or a picnic, or staying home to just talk. Sometimes the mundane, simple things are often the best.
Who cooks: Prowl. He’d be the type to learn how to make organic food just because (though Sari sure appreciates it.)
Who comes home drunk at 3am: Optimus is responible enough not to pull that kind of stunt, even back in his training days. Prowl might have done this before he became an ninja when he was loose and irresponible, but he has great composure and would never let down his guard over something as ridiculous as getting hammered.
Who kills the spiders: Neither. Optimus would rather RUN from the spiders and Prowl would consider them a precious lifeform.
Who falls asleep first: Optimus. Prowl would take some time before he can safely let down his guard long enough to take a stasis break before Optimus did.
A head canon: Optimus often watched when Prowl whistled. He had scanned and studied the birds, you see, and replayed the records repeatedly until he matched their pitch perfectly. Prowl often left nature to its own accord, so it was an interesting sight to see him actively making bird calls. The tiny little fluffs would flutter over and land on the black-chassised bot where the two would seemingly communicate. It was quite a sight to see bird and bot tweet at each other. Sari likened Prowl to a “princess” from some cartoon neither Prowl or Optimus have heard of.
Whenever Prowl was upset (from whatever it might have been, they weren’t quite deep into the relationship that he was ready to drop everything and tell Prime the whys), Optimus would watch with a concerned frown as Prowl sat under his tree. He looked like he was mediating, but really, he was sulking. So Optimus followed in his footsteps and took to bird calling. Whenever Prowl was upset, he could call upon them to fly into Prowl’s room through the open roof. Maybe that would cheer him up…
@radio-cybertron TFA BOTS WITH NON-STANDARD EYE ARRANGEMENTS but Autobots especially are super strict about ensuring that there’s conformation, especially physically, so any… “non-standard” features shall we say are either done away with or disguised. Optics are simply easier to hide than they are to replace.
Jazz’s eyes are based off Lugnut’s. I assume that’s Sentinel, who didn’t know Jazz didn’t have the basic “two optics” arrangement and then Sentinel proceeds to make an ass out of himself over it by getting weirded out, and invasive, and then not making eye contact with Jazz for a while. Jazz pretends he’s used to it, but it really pisses him off deep down.
Perceptor’s big shiny head-thing? Actually a third eye, although it sees in a wider spectrum and can’t focus on near objects (his main eyes are nearsighted, however- it’s likely that he’s supposed to “naturally” compensate tho he just wears glasses instead). I also dug up my pre-empurata Shockwave designs because Shockwave being used to not two optics, but three!
Also Cycloptic First Aid I dont’ have a reason or excuse for this one just
very cute.
…Now I’m wondering if one of the Decepticon Sympathizers might have not been Perceptor all along. But, dude, those arrangements are awesome. Shockwave is strangely hot. Like, in a way he should not be. And now it makes me wonder if he doesn’t still have the three-eyes, but only uses them for night vision now. Imagine he could shut the third big one down and go incognito with the other two. They don’t give him as good vision, but they get him around.
First Aid’s Mono-optic is perfecto for microsurgery, as he’s studying under Ratchet after all, maybe it has scanning abilities to allow him to see micro-tears and metallo-dermal abrasions that he can fix. 😀
I like to think Perceptor was/is a Decepticon Sympathizer at some point, or at least more aware of how things went so incredibly wrong for both sides in the great war. After all, why dampen down your emotions for a better reason than to stop thinking about what you’re doing? (This comes up in the TFA Lost Light AU, too, because it’s part of why he winds up so close to Drift and is basically Decepticon bait tee hee)
First Aid’s adorable single optic is great for a narrow focus, but he also has no peripheral vision so occasionally he’ll round a corner, underestimate, and walk right into a wall. Oops.
Also I love drawing my headcanon Shockwave-with-a-face in no small part because I also like to imagine him as the bright eager Senator Shockwave at some point, back when warbuilds and civilian builds were equal, because what’s the point of making a beautiful Shockwave if you can’t traumatize him by removing his faaaaaaace
REMOVE THE FACE *cackles*
I swear by all that is holy and half my transformer collection if you start pulling a Vos on Shockwave, I’m going to run screaming. *strokes chin.* Though, it brings a whole wealth of stuff to mind. Like what if they knew Shockwave was Longarm Prime. What if they were just waiting for him to fuck up all these years. What if Blurr was just the cat’s paw the entire time?
Because Senator Shockwave had a thing for pretty, intelligent groundframes.
What if the entire war was an elaborate Autobot set up from the getgo just to get the more dangerous Decepticons (Megatron, Shockwave, Strika, Lugnut) back under control/dead/”rehabilitated.”
What if the Autobots were playing a “Wag the Dog” the entire time to the populace, but in the background, they were systematically hunting down all Decepticon and decepticon sympathizers at the same time.
All Hail Magnus.
I know that my personal headcanon is that Shockwave was a Senator who was working very hard on integration pre-war, and he had a thing for everybody like look at that mech. He’s so tall and handsome as hell, he’s so bad but he does it so well. But he pushed too hard, at some point, and Ultra Magnus made sure he disappeared, or got pushed over the edge- which makes him attacking Ultra Magnus with the hammer all the more intense.
Shockwave doesn’t strike me as the kind to leave something half-finished, or to murder someone in such a messy way (although, it could be argued that an incapacitated Magnus is much more useful, since it destabalizes the power by splitting the population between those that want Ultra back and those that are following Sentinel) but to smash someone apart with a hammer…that feels intensely personal, to me. Deliciously personal. >:3
ggggod dont’ even get me started on rehabilitated Decepticons I just
*lays down on ground*
*stares at ceiling*
*KEENS LOUDLY ABOUT AUTOBOTS FORCING DECEPTICON SPARKS INTO AUTOBOT FRAMES TO MAKE THEM EASIER TO CONTROL AND KEEP IMPRISONED*
*slides blanket around you, rocks with you.* Is okay, you can tell me all your headcanons, and I’ll go back to spark eater mating dances.
Segueing back into the previous conversation, though. The Autobots seriously had the power imbalance on their side from the beginning of this entire travesty. It makes you wonder why did the war really happen and DID the war really happen, or was the entire fucking thing a set up?
There are times I read that in IDW and wonder there as well. If everything was an elaborate ploy to keep the population under control, and distracted.
How do you boost economy: war.
How do you control population: war (and disease.)
How do you control politics: war (and patriotism)
It’s really eerie when you think about it, even going back and watching the Decepticons in other shows. Kind of makes them a little less cartoony, and maybe a little more… desperate?
It really does feel super desperate and spooky. I’m actualy in the process of transcribing “The Great War Board Game” from the allspark almanac because it has some really fascinating bits that imply a LOT about TFA history without saying much, and I feel like it makes for great fic fuel.
I mean, literaly five spaces into the board game, is an Autobot square
simply labled
“Decepticon Registration Act, 2,000 VP”
This is the first Autobot square on the entire board, and it’s worth 2,000 points. Brr.
(The first Decepticon Squares, depending upon which way you go at the first fork, are either “Megatron’s Manifesto Draws New Recruits” or “Cybertron Under Attack!”)
…the fuck.
I need a copy of this, or I need to a scan of it. That’s some serious fucked up.
aerasfsafweralfjsa. You know, during WWII. The guys that made the European version of Monopoly would send certain boards to POW’s that contained tools to get them out of prison. What if in a way to “entertain” their prisoners in Trypticon.
They gave the Decepticon games like that… with a reminder. There’s no Decepticon squares left except “Go to Prison.” or “Executed.”
Except, someone gets wind of this- and mirrors what the British gamemakers did, and begins to put a tiny dot on the board to tell them what to look for, and puts little tools and things to make the their lives a little less miserable.
Because where you have oppression, someone’s going to start thinking that maybe, this is wrong.
“An stonishment and terror ovation … The beast precipitated on gladiator. He was doomed!!! An rejoice ovation run across bleachers. The glorious wattior of Aiacon’s arena escaped from beast!”
Sorry but I live for epic moments ❤
PS Is english correct? If it’s not, I’m so sorry (again) …
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