Tag: shipping

cookie-waffle:

what I say: Optimus and Elita are a cute couple.

what I mean: Optimus and Elita’s relationship in the episode The Search for Alpha Trion was actually touching and an underused dynamic especially back in the 80’s. They are of equal ability and there is a mutual respect between them. Not once does Optimus (or even the cons) ever expect less of her because she’s female. She was just as every bit as badass of a leader as he was, even having a deep strong yet gentile voice like he did. The episode had this sort of reverse damsel in distress thing going on where the man had been captured and was near death and woman had to risk her life to save him, rather than the usual trope where the woman of equal rank is captured as the man has to save her. Both characters truly loved each other and it was shown with how Optimus was willing to go back to Cybertron for Elita as soon as he found out she was still alive without even giving it a second thought, whereas usually he would stop to think it over because it was clearly a trap. And Elita used her special power to save Optimus even though she knew she would likely not survive it. To me personally, thier feelings for each other being shown through their actions like this didn’t make it feel like just another forced het romance and actually got me engaged and made me want to see them together again. This deeply loving relationship and mutual respect and rank that they had for each other is rarely, if never, touched upon in other continuities which is a shame because what they had was truly touching and beautiful.