#☔.optimus

[steelthroat]

for the fic ask game, because your concepts are so delightful:

☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?

or if you prefer

🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP.

Oh hiiii and thank you 🥺💕

So yeah there are a couple of them:

The first one is a time travel/loop fix-it fic. So it would be based in the idw continuity and there are Megatron, Optimus and then also Rodimus stuck in their own time loops and they have to find a way to get out of them. The thing is they don't know how and they think they are alone, at some point they find out that in certain specific moments there are some "windows" in which their time loops meet and they can interact and make meaningful decisions that change the timeline. At some point there's also time travel involved because of their guilt and so they say "hey we're already stuck why Don't we try to go back in time and stop everything bad from ever happening?" And when I say everything I say literally everything, so Brainstorm is involved (and the rest of the science team lol). This is my most ambitious project, but it would require me to reread all the idw continuity and crossovers, take notes of a fuckton of things and then develop my plot while also not making it boring/prevedible/unrealistic\out of character. So yeah if I'll ever do this it won't be now because I definitely lack the time, the knowledge, and the maturity.

This one I started writing it a year ago and stopped because it was a big project and I needed to develop it more. So it's a new continuity, takes inspiration from the idw one regarding the society but with differences and the characters are in different settings kind of. So it would be a series retelling the story of how the war/revolution started and ended but from different points of view and different writing styles varying from character to character. So yeah we're going psychological/thriller/unreliable narrators. I think I can do this one, not now but one day it must be done.

Another new continuity this time taking inspiration from G2, very dramatic, but fun, not as big as the other two but still a multichapter. Also knowing myself and the fact that the characters gain their free will and things don't go according to plan when I write I feel like it would become big.

Okay, so this one is set in the bayverse continuity. It's a hate-mail to the movies, really. I'm gonna take the concepts I liked more and use them, I'll know I'll have done a good job if you feel the misanthropy-levels rising while reading. I also think I can do this one, it shouldn't be too long (?) Like idk it's a rewriting of the movies, basically.

Peace time/post war but Optimus and Megatron's mental health is in... dire state

Gladiator Optimus Au! I WILL do this one but I'm still deciding how.

Okkk now onto the dialogue... let's see:

From: Task failed successfully

"So what about Autobots? Can we interface with them?" Vortex asked

Optimus shifted uneasily at the question "I- ahm... If there's consent involved- ah. Ahem, what is Lord Megatron's policy regarding cross-factional ah- interpersonal relationships?" he looked at Megatron, who was now frowning at Vortex... he had been frowning the entire time. Everyone turned towards him eagerly waiting for an answer.

"If anyone decides to act that recklessly, at least be smart enough to keep quiet about it, and if you get hurt, and I get to hear about it, then I'm going to finish the work said Autobot started," Megatron was now glaring at the mechs with poorly hidden disgust and disappointment, his stance was clear.

Optimus cleared his vocalizer. "Please, follow Lord Megatron's orders, but if something happens to you, go to a medic or come to me"