Tag: overlord

agatharights:

Overlord is old, old as Megatron, old as Megazarak, old as well before the war, when Megazarak was just staring to gather malcontents together and Megatron was stuck as his second, writing his speeches for him.

Overlord is something of a showman, always has been- he’s flashy, passionate, driven, constantly seeking validation and entertainment in equal parts. On top of that, he’s cruel. Deeply and intensely cruel, with a desperate need to control and overpower others.

Add in the fact that he’s big, even by Decepticon standards, easily on par with Strika for size, and you have one of the most terrifying threats the Decepticons could have asked for during the war.

Overlord made a name for himself most prominently as a sort of one-mech strike force. His specialty was to go into an autobot battleship, or a base, or a small colony, or…say…a fortress, and when he came out everybody would be dead and everything inside would be destroyed. Unless he was sent in to grab a specific bot or an item, in which case he’d come out with a very traumatized bot or a slightly dinged-up item!

Mind you, he was also considered to be a master interrogator, torturer, occasional leader (although he had a habit of treating those working with him as disposeable, or forgetting them alltogether, or sometimes kiling them himself) and notorious partier. Seriousy, there ain’t no party like an Overlord party because an Overlord party don’t stop until at least 30% of the population is eradicated and people are sobbing.

As for the abrupt, startling end to his career during the war…nobody is really sure exactly why he disappeared. Some say that he simply grew tired, or was injured, some believed he’d died, others think he simply found a better fight to indulge in. After all, he was somwhat addicted to battle- and each time he tended to try to up the stakes, to do more, to accomplish greater things, to create more mayhem and fire and revel in it!

Which may explain exactly why he stopped, after all, how could he ever top Fortress Maximus?

Nothing else compares, not after you’ve gone into the heart of the largest living being known to be created, the first and only of his kind, and torn apart his power couplings? Mutilating a sapient fortress, big enough to be considered an unstoppable game-changer? Nothing else is going to compare. No torture is going to meet slaughtering the crew residing inside a sapient being in full view of security cameras, or making every speaker system in a building-sized victim scream static simultaniously.

Maybe just…he realized he’d reached a top, there.

Especially when the Autobots shelved the Maximus program for the Supreme program, downsizing in favor of efficiency.

Or perhaps something else, I don’t really know! Maybe that’s when Megatron took over from Megazarak. Or he came up again the wreckers (who I have a whole OTHER TFA headcanon for where they were a group throughout the first half of the war, largely forgotten by the general population now as anything but propaganda and war stories to thrill protoforms and young cadets), or…well, who knows what!

But by the time he sniffs out the Lost Light for Primus knows what reasons, he’s hungry for something, anything to sink his teeth into. Both proverbial and literally.

There’s a few ideas, I don’t really know which, as to why exactly he picks up on the Lost Light. Maybe he’s working for Tyrest, trying to steer them closer so Tyrest can get his favorite Mini-Con back. Or maybe he simply picks up on a signal, far from any other Cybertronian source, and goes to investigate.

Maybe, who knows?