#(I'd of course still try to figure out a coherent headcanon to at least explain why things were happening or called certain things etc etc)
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DIE AUTOBOTS!!!
Thank you, @thanook, unlike some of my other warriors, you never fail me!
#yippie peace through tyranny!!#till all are one.#funnily enough it was probably that line that got me to start looking into the Decepticons as a faction beyond “The Evil Guys”#(I was probably going to anyway but this line probably accelerated it quite a bit)#I've always leaned towards them for aesthetic reasons and also I just thought they were funnier and cooler than autobots more often.#And I just figured the name was relatively meaningless which... Is usually the case for most transformers series hehe!!#(I'd of course still try to figure out a coherent headcanon to at least explain why things were happening or called certain things etc etc)#I was shown the Bumblebee movie as I was just starting to get into Transformers and only really cared about the big robots and not humans#(This still hasn't changed btw. I will defend any transformers series that ignores humans/earth TO THE GRAVE)#But that line really stuck with me because... Like... Yeah not only do they advertise themselves as Decepticons but#it also WORKS! Not only for the humans in the show but for ME!! I heard the name and went “That's cool.” in the first place already!!#And then my wife (The sympathetic Autobot fool) told me that they're called that because it means the whole “You are being Deceived” thing#Hence Decepticon! And I naturally connected some dots about certain hidden-in-plain-sight subterfuge tactics... I looked into the origins..#Had a whole *thing* learning how to write/play good deceptive characters... Tried to figure out *exactly* why the Decepticons were Evil...#And came out the other end even more strongly attached to them than ever before with a short book's worth of reasons why.#Which is funny because it was also my foolish Autobot/Prime sycophant wife trying to point out why they're bad that made me more convinced#AND because the two Decepticons sent weren't that well known so there isn't as much personal history behind them for the audience#(Besides them obviously being Decepticons and having killed Cliffjumper in the beginning of the movie. Fair move tbh)#AND because they took a much more direct appeal-to-authority approach understanding that the humans would try to deceive them#And of course the fact that the post's line itself further pushed me towards sympathizing with the Decepticons.#There's just all these little tidbits that make this line much more funny than it ever should have been to me.#Anyway there's a lot more on exactly why him noticing but no one caring is actually an excellent example of effective deception#and how he's playing right into the Decepticon's hands in more than one way.#So called “Numb. 1 Optimus Prime Fan” should know *all* about that anyway.#But that's just my fair share of Decepticon propaganda for this post at least haha!
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