#Post Matrix

[maneatingseas]

Next level, kids, next level. The proverbial zipper has been grabbed and pulling it all the way down is going to be VICTORY WITHOUT WAR, thanks to two decades of work and the power of recordings. 

[dotty-literati]

"Dodge this."

[coffee-and-cake]

Just imagining Megatron pinning Optimus down punching him in chest repeatedly trying to break the glass. There are tears in his eyes as another punch finally cracks it.

“Give him back,” Megatron cries out in anger.

Optimus doesn’t move to stop him only looking up at his old friend with concern and pity. Megatron bangs both his servos on top of the cracking glass and lets out a broken cry.

“Give me Orion back, give him back.”

Optimus knows he should throw Megatron off but he can’t bring himself to stop him. He wants to reach out, hold him, and reassure him that he never left but…

The punches turn in desperate clawing as Megatron tries to force Optimus’s plating off. Trying to get to the Matrix of leadership nestled inside.

“Once I rip this damn thing out I can finally see you again,” Megatron rambled.

Optimus didn’t respond he knew what would happen if he spoke. Megatron would scream at him to shut up. Go on about how he didn’t want him using Orion’s voice. So he just let Megatron continue to bang at the glass.

[transgendercastiel]

I love you stories driven by fear for change. Stories where someone doesn’t want to take that leap, can’t take that chance. Stories where the risk is just too high, and you suffer for it. Stories where there was a person you were supposed to be, but you never gave yourself the chance. Stories where you know there’s something wrong with the way you’re living, but admitting that would mean you had to do something about it. Characters who lose your shot because you never let yourself take it, you’ll always be my favourite

[tracklessreason]

Hi. It's me again.

WHERE THE FRICK IS BUMBLEBEE?! Sorry, let me calm down and retry.

Thank you for answering my last ask, I can't help but notice how no one knows where Bee's ghost is. And Megatron is the one looking into the Matrix... Is he haunting Megatron? Trying to stop him from doing it? Helping him?

Is Optimus's ghost following Ratchet around like a sad puppy?

Also just the pairings- Jazz with Megatronus? THat sounds... like fun.

Do the primes miss the other Primes and ask their host if they can check on the other bots that got shrapeneled? Maybe one of them asks if they can find a way to talk with the others... or maybe they can talk trough the hosts... maybe... (ah ah possessed arc)

(PS I really vibe with Hive's whole deal, he is very cool :D and I'm devastated that I'm the one that discovered how he explodes)

Hug hug!

Hi again!!! Don't worry, Bee is still here!

His spirit is just...struggling. He's weak at first, flickering like a dying light bulb. He hasn't left the fractured core of the Matrix still in his corpse, but his soul signature is so weak no one can find him. He's just sort of trapped there for a while, in the burnt out room he died in. Until Megatron of course.

Megatron breaks into the autobot base, walks past every sleeping mech he could easily have snuffed, and steals the Matrix core, and by unintentional extension, steals Bumblebee. Now at first, Bee is rightfully upset. He hates being at the gloomy decepticon base, he hates Megatron for taking his voice, he's just mad. Time passes as Megatron tinkers with the core, and Bee regains strength enough to....throw things???

It shouldn't be possible. Somehow this unstable remnant of the Matrix doesn't contain him, but merely houses him, and as he grows stronger, he can appear as an apparition to Megatron. He uses it almost solely to hinder him. With no voice (even ghost Bee gets no respite) all he can really do is mess up Megatron's workspace and insult him through pantomime. Really he doesn't understand why Megatron puts up with it, but aside from the occasional fit of rage at his antics, the decepticon leader ignores him as much as possible and puts his all into trying to restore the Matrix.

Before long he starts having one sided conversations with Bumblebee. Its mostly complaints at first, and insults towards him and the autobots and whatever else goes wrong in his life outside of this little workshop Bee cant leave. It soon gives way to more private matters; intentionally or not, Megatron is revealing his very convoluted, very mixed feelings about Optimus Prime.

The war has gone on too long, why couldn't that idiot just see things from his perspective, he deserved to die, he will be brought back, how could his oldest friend just leave him like this...

To Bee it sounds...exactly like how Optimus felt about Megatron, just drowned in molten anger issues. Against his self preservation instinct, Bee decides to work towards putting this whole mess to bed. Nothing better to do.

With what limited knowledge and communication he has, he does his best to try and help Megatron fix the Matrix. They have spats still, and plenty of set backs, but things smooth over when Megatron (begrudgingly) admits to feelings of regret over taking Bee's voice. As an olive branch, Bee explains something to Megatron that he's been dying to know: how Optimus died.

Things sour fast. Megatron is determined to murder Starscream, Bee is frustratedly trying to explain that if he does so, this little partnership of convenience is over, and he will ensure that the Matrix is never restored. The end of the war relies almost solely on Megatron reeling in his damn anger, and Bee doesnt intend to allow any slip ups. He has no idea how this will end when Megatron leaves the workshop that night.

On the other side of things, the Primes are having a real...weird time?? The ones without hosts can communicate with each other, but the other four are basically cut off from all but their hosts. They don't have the ability to take control anymore, and even if they did, their hosts are nowhere near as easy to possess, nor as willing, as Hive Prime was. Ratchet especially has threatened to tear the Matrix metal from his frame and grind it to dust if Prima so much as thinks about trying it. The other three hosts are similarly put off.

Once again the Primes are relegated to giving advice, but it's not advice anyone seems to want, and yeah, it's mostly because of the wild pairings. Megatronus is constantly clutching his pearls over Jazz's laid-back attitude and deliberate ignorance of his wishes. Prima's calm rationality does little to temper Ratchet's snappy demeanor and only really gets on his nerves (how can you be so calm after what you all did?). Ironhide straight up refuses to acknowledge Quintus. Drift is probably the only one feeling alright with all this. Alpha Trion is generally reasonable, and isn't interested in having control over Drift's form, nor was he interested in it with Hive, so they just vibe like college roommates.

It's uncomfortable, but the Primes are used to sharing space. The worst part is actually sharing it with fewer mechs than usual. The Primes all miss each other to varying degrees, but for the most part are either too egotistical to admit it, or think it improper to mention.

Of course, grand prize for worst ghost time currently goes to Optimus. Dying, watching Bee suffer, feeling his friend's life force extinguish...

He might as well be a husk right now, full on silent treatment is all he's capable of at the moment. The other Primes know better than to try and speak with him. This is their doing to begin with, the channeling of their energy that strained Bee so heavily. Optimus follows the elected council around during the days, but at night he sits outside the room where Hive's body rests. He was there the night that Megatron broke in.

It takes immense effort to travel far enough out from the base to go see Megatron, and he needs several cycles to recover after every attempt, but he keeps doing it, knowing he could fade away permanently. When he gets there, he's too weak for Bee or Megatron to detect him. But he can hear their talks. He misses them both more than words can say.

(Sorry the response is so long, lol. This ask really got the gears turning in my head. I hope at least that makes up for being the one to find out that Ending 3 Hive dies bloody. I'm really flattered to hear you like him! For me that's quite high praise coming from you. Hug hug!)

[emilyscully]

You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

THE MATRIX PREMIERED ON THIS DAY, 25 YEARS AGO

[punkitt-is-here]

[whatsupspaceman]

characters who begin again in completely new worlds… or characters with memory loss being given another shot at life… and then using that desperately trying to make amends for the person they are told they used to be,, or who reinvent themselves into a new person to the betterment or detriment of themselves.. but the shadow of the old self always lingers >>>>>>>

[ballpitwitch]

KEANU REEVES as NEO The Matrix (1999)

[mae-kent]

i’m thinking abt kon and mae today. kara & clark mirror each other in their origins and their grief and their biology - id love a superwoman kara. but kon and mae are the next generation after them, and they match up better than kon & kara do or mae & clark do.

not like romantically- just when it comes to themes and era and the like. they’re both false/lab created supers, they’re both telekinetic, they’re both taken advantage of, and neither of them ever got to be kids. they’re supergirl & superboy <3. their arc is particularly sad because it really seems like they could have been such a good duo- but the very thing that made them so similar tore them apart in the end.

a konmae/maekon timeline & reading list will be out for mae day on dec 15th! :3!!

[y2kbbie]

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ a rainy day in with... ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

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john wick.

would include LOTS of cuddles and kisses, whether if it's on the couch or the bed, or even if it's somewhere like the kitchen. he's a softie when it comes to you, and it shows when you're cooped up in his mansion together on a rainy day <3 maybe he'd bake a batch of cookies with you. you smear some cookie dough on his nose and giggle at him until he brings his finger up to swipe it off...and surprise you by swiftly thrusting it into your vulnerably open lips, causing you both to laugh at each other. you always love getting the opportunity to hear john's voice for a long amount of time. this would, of course, lead to you listening to him read a book to you while you were practically glued to his side, with your arm wrapped around his waist.

ted logan.

of course, he'd spend lots of time with you in either your/his room, or the basement at his house. since you're his rockin' babe, ted would spend this time getting the chance to perform one of his many written songs dedicated to you while you sat on a beanbag he's always stored aside just for you to use while you were there to visit. if you're still in school, you and ted would finish up whatever homework you had left over together. you would both be your own tutors up into the late hours of the night. after a day of studying, if it's still a heavy storm, ted will protect you by keeping you in his arms while being the big spoon. he'd stroke your hair with his fingertips lightly grazing your loose strands, pushing them gently behind your ears.

neo anderson (real world).

when he's not busy working on his game, neo would spend his free time with you. of course, you have a coffee machine at home; so, he'd make you your favorite latte and put your favorite movie or show on. if it's a busy day with development, he will let you stay with him in his office. sometimes he'll even let you sit on his lap, which he knows that the both of you always enjoy.

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[arcsyne]

wesker getting stuck with yet another virus except this one kind of sucks

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of Army of Ghosts/Doomsday (Part 20)  

Excerpt from SFX (Sept 2014 when “The Doctor and Rose say farewell at Bad Wolf Bay in Doomsday” won 1st place in their 250 Greatest Moments in Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy poll to celebrate their 250th issue):

SFX:  Revisionists would have you believe that Who was always a show with emotional impact, but barring a couple of companion departures that didn’t really become true until Russell T Davies.  His most heart-destroying contribution was this scene, in which a holographic projection of the Doctor talks to a tearful Rose on a Norwegian beach (actually Southerndown, South Wales), with the signal cutting out just before the slow-coach can declare, “I love you”.  It’s a moment everyone can identify with because, as Davies put it, “There’s an echo of every loss you’ve ever had.” We’ve all had to bid farewell to someone we care about even if it wasn’t forced upon us by the threat of universal destruction and this moment perfectly encapulates the agony of break-up.

Russell T Davies:  Thank you!  I’m not often speechless, but that’s quite astonishing. All I can remember about that day is everyone rushing like mad to get it finished because the tide was coming in.  Camille Coduri had to stand on wooden planks in case she sank.  But what a cast - David and Billie are simply magnificent.  All directed with joy, energy, and madness by Graeme Harper. I’m genuinely surprised that it means that much to people, after all this time, and thank you to everyone who voted.

David Tennant:  I remember worrying on the day we shot this that as I was actually a projection from inside the TARDIS my hair shouldn’t be blowing in the wind.  That seemed terribly important at the time and although we didn’t find a solution to it, it bothered me for weeks.  Then I saw the finished scene and of course all that matters is the end of the Doctor and Rose’s story.  Russell had weaved some glorious magic for two seasons and it all came together so perfectly in this scene that people still talk to me about it with misty eyes all these years later (and I suspect they always will.)  Murray Gold created some heart-stopping music that accentuates the misery and Billie is just breathtakingly good.  I feel very lucky to be standing on that beach, with my hair flying around, in amongst all these brilliant elements.  Whatever else I do and wherever else I end up, this will be a moment I will forever be proud to look back on.  Thanks for having us at number one.

Link to [ part one ] of the Army of Ghosts/Doomsday Behind-the-scenes posts or click the #whoBtsDoom tag, or the full episode list [ here ]

[jeebits]

the cycle continues

[gooeykit]

finished a sketch from a few months ago. NOT my hand or toy