Late for the Date’s Optimeowth is how I originally imagined Orion to be lol. Just OP with glasses. But since then I’ve just kinda kept drawing OP with glasses anyway so I guess I should do up a proper version of Orion haha.
*loud kiwi shrieking* I really like that dynamic! I made Optimus Lord Protector and holy shit, he suits the role down to the ground ♥♥♥ Also, Ratchet as a Prime… Hoo boy :B
Imagine a storytelling type game (kinda like Tales from the Borderlands) for a pre-war Cybertron where you can switch between Optimus and Megatron’s perspectives and your overall choices as both are what determines the start of the war, if it ends up happening at all
oHMILORD LIKE WHAT IF
it’s the golden age. the beginning starts off with an introduction to orion and megatronus. the two end up meeting through diplomacy. then you get to take over and control their choices.
you go for a passive megatronus, megatronus ends up trusting someone he shouldn’t, gets stabbed in the back and that leads to the bloodthirsty megs we know. beginning of war.
you go for an aggressive megatronus. megatronus ends up plunging too fast into warfare, and now he’s leading a whole army and oh Primus, you’ve caused civil war and orion is broken by your actions.
you go for an aggressive orion. orion says something to megatronus that he really ought to have not said. megatronus distrusts orion. beginning of war.
you go for passive orion. orion willingly gets lead along a path with megatronus and then gets betrayed. cue a broken orion, and the beginning of a war.
and like, what if maybe you get to choose between the two, and when you do both characters’ playthroughs you get to do both? and getting them to react to each other – there would be so much you could do? so much would happen?
and what if, after all possible playthroughs have been exhausted you decide to try getting megs and ops to get along. the war doesn’t start. but then sentinel comes along, and it’s horrible, really, all these ways a writer could make you start the war.
that is such a good idea.
OH OH WHAT ABOUT
the game is always making you second guess yourself, regardless of if your actions were the right thing to do or not – similar to life is strange, except you can’t reverse time
and if you were to play the game all over again, for major choices you repeat in a row (for example, you chose Decision A, B, then C during your previous playthrough, and you choose them again in the same exact order on your current one) the character/s affected by it might be like “this feels like deja vu for some reason” and result in easter egg cutscenes that may or may not involve breaking the 4th wall
AND LIKE ALSO
your actions in the game as orion and megatronus affects what your friends end up doing to each other. like, if ratchet and soundwave knew each other and were friends, and you go for an aggressive ops and megs, it ends up being that you split them apart. if you go for aggressive orion it’s your fault that senator shockwave gets put under for shadowplay. if you go for passive megs you don’t speak up fast enough and terminus gets offlined in front of your optics, and if you go aggressive megs the DJD forms much quicker and lashes out against the Senate.
and then it moves into war of cybertron, but it just plays out conversations between the battlelines. show me decepticons and autobots still helping each other at the beginning of the civil war, still having the belief that the war will be over soon. show me Senators trying their hardest to keep clinging to old government beliefs, even when orion and megs rips them apart. show me different perspectives on orion’s transformation with the matrix from megatron depending on your past choices, or show me orion trying to reject the matrix for his friend and megatronus trying to agree with prime that it’s for the best.
show me these two friends, and the different ways to start the war.
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