This is the end of the prologue- yep! Why is there an angry mob out of my window? Wait! You think this is over?! Hahaha! You silly! This is far from over, but before continuing the story we’ll have to take a step back, and take a look at the past. After all, this is supposed to be a love story, right? Right??? Let me know what you think in the comments aaaaaand stay tuned for new updates.
To understand where I’m going, you needs to know I’m currently buying an electric car. 100% electric, not an hybrid. And you would be surprised by the amount of “what??” I used while learning about EV (electric vehicle).
And to bring hear differences to Cybertronians wasn’t hard, because they certainly don’t use fossil fuel!
Are you aware EV don’t have a radiator? They don’t overheat! They produce so little heat, in fact, a heat pump or a resistor (like a toaster) is required to heat the passengers!
Which to bring to the second difference: no grill! No need of a radiator means no need for air to reach the inside of the hood.
The third one, they’re soooooo silent. All you hear is the small rocks being moved around by the tires. It’s a bit scary when they drive right by you and you don’t realize a car is coming before its right next to you. So silent, in fact, the car comes with a chime gently telling you the motor is on. Because there’s no starting noise, no “vroooom”, nothing. Noise-wise, there’s no difference between off and on.
I wouldn’t be surprised they don’t have breaks. No, that’s not a typo. It’s quite technical, but some EV have such efficient system, people had breaks problem… Because they never use them.
Oh, and if you’re a fan of the stick shift, well, sorry… There’s no transmission in an EV. From 0 km/h to cruising on the highway, no need to change a gear. EV comes only with D R N P.
As for the torque and the power, I tried the Hyundai Ionic. Oh my! There’s power in that one, something I wasn’t expecting at all! I’ve always think they were sluggish. They’re definitively not!
Knowing Cybertronians uses a fuel thousand times more efficient than gasoline, it it’s not hard to imagine they share a lot of those differences I just mentioned. In my mind, it makes them more aliens. Can you imagine Optimus moving around almost perfectly silent?
Doesn’t that mean that it’s possible that those who took Earth vehicle modes might only be REPLICATING the car noises? Not only that, those sorts of noises that come with a gas-fueled engine/transmission may in fact mean something entirely different to a mechanical species that does not generate them as a part of natural movement? For example, fanfiction talked about “engine reving” all the time in different contexts, but if your engine doesn’t need to make that sound in alt mode, what does it MEAN when you DO make that sound? O.o
@warlordenfilade, @cavalierconvoy, and whoever else knows more about cars and has thought more about Cybertronian anatomy: THOUGHTS? I don’t regularly put enough thought or research in to give really educated input.
Clearly the engine rev “raring to go” sound at the start of a race means something incredibly suggestive on Cybertron.
So what you’re telling me is that Cybertronians probably say “vroom vroom” out loud whenever they want to drive around undercover
What if: Optimus Animated got transport into Prime Universe before the war even begin, where Optimus is still an archivist at the hall of Iacon and Megatron as a gladiator at Kaon (and now there’re 2 OP)
I remember reading G1/Animated crossover and also Prime/Animated in AO3 or fanfiction, i don’t really remember, but i can’t find the one where OP Animated was on Cybertron before the war so here we go.
breaking news: old man megs with long hair, increases attractiveness??? more on this at 11
Prowl: Imagine if someone gave you a box of all the things you lost throughout your life.
Bumblebee: It would be nice to get my sense of purpose back.
Sari: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this.
Ratchet: My will to live! I haven’t seen this in 150 stellar cycles!
Optimus: Mental stability, my old friend!
Bulkhead: Guys, could we lighten up a little?
*shaky finger guns* AU where Jazz dies instead of Prowl. After a gruesome battle with the cons, Jazz was left injured badly, left to fade out. Prowl was able to find him via com link, but he was already too late.
Prowl had lost his sensei a similar way, loosing his friend only damaged him more, but gave him a greater purpose to bring down the decepticons who were responsible. Prowl however, got a bit too endorsed in wanting to avenge his friend, in which his motives later on questioned his autobot allies. He did it in honor of his sensei, in honor of Jazz.
Want to read an almost 500-page pdf analyzing the (first three) bayverse Transformers movies, about the creeping fascism of the autobots, bizarre symbolism, and Megatron being the secret hero of the piece? OKAY HERE YOU GO
(Full disclosure, most of the length is pictures mixed with short paragraphs. It’s not 500 pages of text.)
The “bayverse is actually good” analysis is a firmly tongue-in-cheek bit of fun that came out of Something Awful’s Cinema Discusso forum circa 2012. I’d heard it referenced but never bothered to read the thing until now. A lot of it is “wtf, Michael Bay?”, but there’s weird stuff going on in the background, from Megatron’s design and role becoming gradually more feminine as the movies progress until he’s letting his children eat his own body, Starscream the last loyal decepticon, Optimus’ deliberately-misleading narration, Shockwave-as-the-red-scare, and the decepticons’ working-class coding before IDW Megatron came along. If you enjoy reading too much into media as much as I do, it’s worth a look.
Cybertronian Database 