#TFP reaction

[keef-a-corn]

THAAAAAT’S RIIIIGHT! It’s everyone’s favourite time! Keef watches TFP and you just get the notes!

This is for season 1, episode 9: Convoy.

I write down the timestamps, but I watch Transformers Prime on Stan (an Australian streaming service) so they may be slightly off.

Also, I’ll warn, I don’t have a lot to say. (Not compared to other episodes)

~~~~Transition~~~~

00:03 - beautiful scenery- for fucks sake, Fowler.

00:05 - ✨walk cycles✨ I Will never not love the way the bots walk and I will never stop reminding you.

00:12 - hehe, height difference.

00:16 - good. (I don’t like Fowler, he’s unnecessarily rude.)

00:21 - hehe Dingus.

00:49 - Raf’s got his priorities straight.

00:52 - Miko’s reaction

01:14 - you already know that a bunch of children had to ask their parents what Propagate means.

01:28 - Optimus knows Fowler would be a reckless driver. But I can also imagine that it’s just generally very uncomfortable and unnecessary stressful for the boys whenever someone else is driving. If not, then I’m making it a hc.

~intro~

02:53 - WOOOOW FOWLER. JUST WOW.

03:07 - Optimus uses that T.H.I.N.K acronym and I will not hear otherwise.

03:18 - if the yellow dot is where the D.N.G.S is, why is it placed between two orange dots? Bee hadn’t moved in front of Optimus yet.

03:22 - I mean.. the truck’s obviously being escorted by two other cars. Why would they assume that all three are unarmed?

03:42 - that’s rich.

03:48 - damn right, Optimus! Shut him dooown! Also Bee, Get back in the lane.

03:55 - translation, ‘a worse evil’

04:15 - Bulkhead said that, but Stan decided Ratchet did.

04:29 - From what we know, most of the cons are greys, black and purples. These are green. The decepticons have a colour scheme going, why would there all of a sudden be a bunch of green cons??

04:54 - that was what Bee did in the first episode.

05:09 - why.. why was his window open?

06:33 - someone that knows transformers lore, could you tell me.. would Optimus be able to feel that?? At the end of the day, that’s still apart of his body.

07:04 - that made me laugh, ngl.

08:23 - Bee really ain’t doing anything, huh? Like they’re breaking in from behind and Bulkhead can’t do anything.

08:41 - oh yeah, forgot about Arcee.

09:03 - makes the whole thing a lot more twisted.

10:44 - FOWLER. WHEN WOULD THE BOTS HAVE GOTTEN AIR SUPPORT?!

10:51 - that’s what it’s like rocking up at school wearing your uniform.

12:23 - Transformers Running well never not be funny.

12:26 - they look like frogs on two feet.

12:37 - specifically watching Bee fight is so entertaining (not just because he’s a favourite, also because he’s really bouncy during his fight scenes.)

12:42 - Optimus moving as though the punch was a minor inconvenience.

12:43 - then he just destroys the con.

13:25 - the big eyes and the cute wave, I caaaan’t!!

14:01 - “I understand-” d o n k

14:12 - Isn’t Fowler able to.. see the fight? Wouldn’t he have seen Optimus get dinked off the cliff.

14:16 - he was taken down by some wood. If you know, you know.

14:25 - Arcee and Bee jumping is the strangest visuals ever.

14:27 - that’s just a group hug in a buttshell.

14:34 - I would love to hear the bloopers for this. How did the VAs manage to say ‘DNGS’ without dying of laughter.

14:37 - you’re telling me that they didn’t have a backup plan??

14:53 - It’s strange hearing ‘suicide’ in a show that probably has a large child audience.

15:00 - How Ratchet pronounced ‘yours’ sounds so out of character that it made me cry. He cares so much he forgot to be an old man.

15:01 - When you watch this scene, watch how Ratchet moves. Like it’s so appealing the way he doesn’t stop moving.

15:54 - did they seriously only have one person in the cart with the D.N.G.S? Seems very flawed.

16:58 - to be fair… yes. He’s right.

17:14 - I’m so confused as to why they went on the train in the first place. Yes it was a bad idea- OF COURSE IT WAS A BAD IDEA AND IT DID NOTHING!

17:15 - BIG TALK, MIKO! Raf was working remotely and managed to give them more time. (I don’t understand how, though, because it seems that they went a different route)

17:32 - quick shoutout to character design. Look at the detail on Optimus’s helm here.

17:55 - I’m pretty sure that the using a fire extinguisher the normal way is going to prove more useful than whatever Jack is planning on doing.

19:38 - Excuse me, but… what?. Just… what??? Also does anyone else see any parallel between Miko and Jack and Optimus and Arcee? Where Miko’s trying to think of different ideas of how to get out while Jack’s like ‘we may die, but I’m just gonna accept that’. And in Scrap heap Arcee was trying to think of different ways to stay alive and Optimus is just like ‘if I stay here and relax there will be an outcome. The outcome may be death, but I’m alright with that.’

20:09 - Optiman, Optiman, does whatever an Optimus can. Can he swing from a web? No he can’t, but he can stop a fraggin train. Look oooooout, Optimus aboooout.

20:28 - I may have laughed loudly when I noticed the unconscious guy.

20:49 - Silas really went ‘GG but-’

20:53 - no. What. The. Actual. Fuck?. When and where did he get that??

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So that was Convoy. Because the episode was more focused around the humans than the bots I always found the episode kind of boring.

But considering the episode is mainly about introducing MECH, it’s one that I would watch in a binge, but not one that stands out.

Although being a human focused episode, I thought that they came off either annoying, dumb and/or punchable (with the exception of Raf, he did a good job), particularly Agent Fowler. I hate him in this.

Also, could someone tell me if I should put screenshots before or after their related timestamp. Thanks!

[amandaishighlypredictable]

Yes I had wanted to get this done for Pride but holy shit I have drawn robits in so long it took me all week to get this figured out. But I love it I love them they’re so gay gay homosexual gay.

[glitchgh0sty]

asking here when it comes to deciding was exactly what soundwave will be; if he was a harpy would you go with the pjo disign for him or the tradishonal version from mytholigy; and if you chose a siren would you go ithe the ones in the sea or the bird ladys that actuly sing the songs that loer in sailers? exuce my bad spell in i was rushing

I cannot even tell you the number of times I’ve tried responding to this ask,, tumblr keeps forgetting my drafts and it’s killing me to death,, 😭💀✨

SoOo, I may be a liiitle indecisive, how about we squish a couple of concepts together why don’t we? 👏✨

Fundamentally,, I consider Soundwave to be a bird siren with just, a couple more feathers, XD,, like if I saw him chilling on a rock, my initial reaction would be “LOOK AT THAT BIRD!?” as opposed to “LOOK AT THAT FISH!?” 🫵🤨

Background wise Soundwave likes to chill next to the water because it’s easier to blame strange trills and noises on ocean echos or waves to passerby’s, then it is to get the kingdom guard off his back if they had found out about his abilities 📻🥷

I’ve never considered Soundwave to be a knight as he was created long after the initial knights fall, and only gained his Siren-like abilities due to a pledge he vowed to simply the belief of their existence,, [mostly to protect his cassettes <33] He unintentionally lost his sight to Primus in exchange for these cybernetic abilities because of this vow, u-u✨

Speaking of “Cybernetic Advancements” 👏òuo,, Soundwaves siren abilities are [mostly] used in self defense so what’ll happen [more often than not,, *evil snicker*] is that he’ll wait for his subject to wander into his territory, and create a frequency that matches their EM field rate and make subtle shifts that the target feels and reacts to,,

Making them stressed / anxious,, meaning that if they don’t leave immediately, then they’re usually just scared enough to run away screaming if he pops out at them 😤✨

And, why the tfp Soundwave design? 👀?

UHhm,, aesthetics?? Just look at him! Those big metal bits on the tfp design are literally begging to be some funky wings and feathers 👏😂

[nonsscrapheap]

TFP : Universal Observation

AND WE RETURN! i hope you all enjoy the show!

WARNING LONG POST! AS WELL AS HEAVILY IMPLIED DISFIGURATION! you'll know it when you see it.

Prologue: Shattered Glass - II -

[----- TFP : UO -----]

When Soundwave suddenly showed Megatron of a mysterious gold and silver sphere, with mysterious glyphs carved into its shell, Megatron had been curious about it. When it was revealed that no one had catalogued or even reported the item into their storage, he'd briefly been furious- what if it had been an Autobot trap? Or a dangerous artifact that could have scrapped them to the Pits? 

He ordered Soundwave and Starscream to find out how it got on his damned ship and what it was, and to his disappointment, a rare thing for Soundwave but so unfortunately common for Starscream, they couldn't find anything that much significant.

Other than Soundwave's translation of the glyphs that were apparently written in Primal Vernacular, he had thought the glyphs seemed familiar… But that just proved that this item was related to the Autobots, or at least, to Optimus Prime. 

Megatron was tempted to throw it overboard, but… the curiosity about what exactly this sphere was, overpowered that temptation. If it was a trap, then perhaps he could repurpose it somehow. Either way, he kept the sphere and was just about to hold a meeting with his Decepticons on what to do with it when it suddenly glowed.

Blasters had immediately pointed at the item, with an emergency groundbridge as a way to escape whatever would happen- yet it was not needed, as it only began to show a holographic screen. And then it began to show the Autobot human pets running in the halls of a subtly different warship. 

Weapons were put away, but confusion settled in instead. Then shock as the other Starscream appeared, looking far too different from the opportunistic coward that was his second in command. And then the other Arachnid appeared, also very different- the Decepticons on the screen were not disgusted by the human vermin, but treated them like how the Autobots had treated their version of the pests on the screen.

Then, they spoke about him. Megatron. Other Megatron, who, from what he could parse from their words- was an actual Prime on the screen if he was concluding things correctly. Yet his counterpart had no interest in ruling Cybertron apparently, why? After everything—

It showed him. Other Megatron who looked more like Megatronus, his old, gladiatorial self but older. Seemingly wiser, and so different from how Megatron currently was. Even through the screen, there was an air around him that Megatron had only felt around Optimus. Other Megatron was speaking to that human, the one that had the chance to end him yet didn't. And they were talking about Kaon of all things.

Emotions warred in him as he listened to his other self's words, disbelief and a cold anger that cracked through the confusion. What on Cybertron was he talking about? Weakness? Kindness? It took all he had to hold himself back from smashing the sphere to bits, as angry as he was, it wouldn't do to destroy it just yet…

Soundwave proposed something that would seem correct; this was an alternate world they were seeing. A world where it seemed that the Decepticons seemed more like Autobots… while in turn, the Autobots were more like Decepticons. 

[ Megatron, Knock Out and Breakdown exited the groundbridge, arriving in a remote rocky canyon with difficult terrain. Breakdown and Knock Out had their weapons out, while Megatron gave the area a tense survey only to falter as he saw a frame slumped against a nearby boulder, energon staining his plating and forming a small puddle beside him. "Makeshift!" He exclaimed, quickly running over to the injured Decepticon. "Knock Out-"

"On it!" Knock Out interrupted hurriedly, weapons transforming back into servos as he tried to deal with Makeshift. "Makeshift, Makeshift it's me. My friend, can you hear me? Makeshift, come on- stay with me." ]

"Were you ever close with Makeshift?" Breakdown muttered to Knock Out who shook his helm.

"Barely knew the guy." 

Starscream stayed silent, watching Makeshift die before him once again- a slower death this time instead of an explosion. For all the anger he had over Makeshift's blunder, the mech had been an admirable Decepticon, and an amicable one as well. Many of his operations would have probably gone differently if he had Makeshift around. And Megatron hadn't been too pleased to find out that the stealth operative had died.

Even now, the warlord gave Starscream a displeased look that had Starscream flinching. 

[ "Starscream, ready the—" Before Megatron could even finish his sentence, his instincts took over and in an instant he had his sword out. Lashing out and knocking away the red energon blast that had been shot at him and his cons. 

A dark voice chuckled, low, deep and sensual almost. "Well, well, well." It purred as the screen showed the languid moving mech coming from one end of the canyon. "What a wonderful cycle it is, to find a lone Decepticon who then leads me back to my dearest friend." Yellow-orange optics pierced through the screen, a malicious smirk on his faceplate. "Megatron. How lovely to see you again." ]

Involuntarily a shiver went down his spinal strut, optics widening at the sound and sight of the darkened Prime and intake struggling not to drop- because warlords' jaws don't drop in surprise at the sight of- of… Evil Optimus Prime. Megaron felt almost dizzy, from the contrasting sight before him, a picture of his own loathed enemy being compared to the one on screen. His internal fans whirred a bit too loudly and he clenched a servo.

Starscream, however, had no qualms in his jaw dropping. Optics practically bulging out of his sockets. "That's Optimus Prime?!" His voice glitched for a moment from how hysterical he felt at the jarring sight of 'Evil Optimus.' 

"... Hot damn." Knock Out breathed out to the side, lightly fanning himself with a servo. Holding on to a dumbfounded Breakdown who was staring at the screen.

Arachnid raised an optic ridge, surprise in her own optics but her derma forming a smirk. "Well, well, the Prime cleans up quite nicely." That wasn't saying that Optimus Prime wasn't a looker here, but there was a certain… spice as the humans would say, in seeing Optimus Prime being openly malicious. 

Soundwave said nothing like always, but he did take a picture. 

(Elsewhere, a group of Autobots and a trio of humans were absolutely losing it at the sight of Evil Optimus Prime. Said Prime himself, seemed utterly speechless at the moment.)

[ Behind him, Ratchet stepped into view, clinical green optics honing in at Makeshift with Knock Out. "The specimen is still alive? You're losing your touch Arcee." He intoned with a slight chuckle aimed at the smaller bot beside him. 

An orange-optic femme scoffed, "Please, it's not fun to just kill him right off the bat- besides, it worked out didn't it?" She smiled sharply at the Decepticons, "I'm sure Optimus appreciates the new company we have here." 

Optimus chuckled, optics burning bright as he stared at Megatron. "Oh, I am delighted." ]

Arachnid narrowed her optics at the Arcee on screen, tilting her helm in thought. "Hm." Part of her did seethe at the sight of the motorcycle-femme but knowing this Arcee was more of a devilish Decepticon there instead of a heroic Autobot… it intrigued her. She certainly seemed to know how to have fun. 

(A medic and a femme scout-warrior boggled at the sight of their alternate selves. Joining their leader in being speechless.)

[ Megatron's servos clenched and it was a flurry of action as Optimus ran forward, servos transformed into blade and blaster. Megatron ran forward to meet with him. Ratchet and Arcee targeted both Knock Out and Breakdown. "Knock Out to base! Autobots are here! I repeat, Autobots ar- guh!" Knock Out grunted as he shifted his servos into scalpels to try and block Ratchet's sawblade weapon. 

"I'm going to need that corpse you're trying so hard to save Knock Out." Ratchet grunts, a cold smile settling on his faceplate. "I have always wanted to get my servos on a Shifter's T-Cog." 

Knock Out gave him a disgusted and determined look, "Not. A. Chance!" He hauled all his strength into pushing the mad doctor away. "Breakdown!" 

"Little busy here Doc!" Breakdown shouted back, trying his hardest to hit Arcee who nimblely weaved away from his swinging hammer with a cackle. ]

"Ugh, what happened to my sawblades!?" Knock Out griped, glaring at himself at the screen- pretty as his other was, he couldn't help but feel frustrated by the fact the other version of that old scrapbucket Ratchet seemed to have the upper hand in combat and had what seemed to be his sawblades. Just because he was a goody-two-pedes in that world doesn't mean he shouldn't still have good equipment! 

(In the Autobot Base, a medic reeled in disgust at his counterpart's words and equipment. He, too, glared at his counterpart.) 

[ "You recruit the most colorful of mechs, Megatron." Optimus says between blows, matching Megatron blow for blow as they fought, misdirecting each other's blaster fire and their blades meeting again and again. "Pity his stealth skills were no match to Ultra Magnus' meticulous and controlling nature, he noticed the extra mechabot not too long after he appeared. My doctor is rather excited to have his servos on the Shifter's T-Cog, I'm sure he'll put it to a better use than you ever did."

Megatron's optics narrowed and his faceplate pulled a gritting, heavy frown. "No, not while energon flows through my veins, Optimus." He replied through gritted denta. ]

"Mechabot?" Megatron muttered with slight interest but his focus returned to the fact that Optimus had said the name 'Ultra Magnus', a familiar name. An Autobot from the Elite Guard, commander of the old war unit the Wreckers. He was on Earth? Or at least, the other version of Earth? 

Actually, nevermind that, how was Optimus matching him blow for blow?! Was Megatron not the Prime in that world?! And a gladiator at that! Why was Optimus still his equal despite those odds! Just what had happened to the archivist in that world? His frame had clearly been reforged, but those skills… Was this Optimus not a data clerk like his own had been? Had Orion Pax in that world, been a warforged or even laborer mech like Megatron had been? Is that why things were so different?

"Soundwave, find a way to gain control over the sphere." He muttered to his communications officer. There were details to this world that he was very interested to know. 

And those words… Hadn't Optimus uttered those words to him the day he brought back Dark Energon and resurrected that ancient battlefield?

This world… possibly every world, was Optimus always destined to be against him?

(A certain Prime couldn't help but think of the same question.)

[ A groundbridge finally opened behind the Decepticon side of things. A helicopter and a jet flew out of the bridge, the copter landing by the terrifyingly still Makeshift while the jet went straight to Optimus and Megatron. "I've got you." Arachnid said as she transformed into her root mode, using her extra legs to help gently pick up the injured mech and make sure he was held stably.

"Arachnid!" A delighted and dark voice exclaimed and the femme froze, glancing over to see Arcee grinning almost ferally at her, abandoning her fight with Breakdown to pursue her instead. 

Optimus grunted as Soundwave's alt mode slammed into his midsection, knocking him away from Megatron, transforming into his root mode afterwards with his blades out. "Ah, Soundwave." Optimus smiled with sinister amusement as he got back to his pedes. "So nice to see you face to face once more." 

The bot trembled in place, in both anger… and fear. "Soundwave! Get back!" Megatron barked, optics gleaming in concern as he knew the trauma Soundwave had with Optimus. 

The screen flashed white for a moment. ]

With how things were swapped in that world, Arachnid had to wonder just what her other counterpart had done to gain such a reaction from Arcee. And just what Arcee had done to invoke such fear in the other spider's faceplate… It intrigued her as much as it annoyed her. 

Soundwave in the meanwhile, tilted his head in question. Silently observing his other counterpart, he could see his fellow Decepticons glance at him in question as well. Especially his lord and master, Megatron. 

When the screen went white, there was confusion before the realization that this was a flashback settled in as it showed the next scene.

A feeling of dread swept through them all.

(The same went for the Autobots.)

[ "Soundwave, it's so nice to finally meet you face to face." The shadowy figure of Optimus said to a restrained and injured Soundwave. His visor was completely shattered, green optics staring up defiantly at him. "Tell me, where is Megatron?"

"Optimus: will never gain information from me." Soundwave replied with a growl, voice strong and steady, frame weakly struggling. "Optimus: Will lose and never have Cybertron! Megatron: is true Prime!" 

The yellow-orange optics tinged a darker color, "How loyal. Let's reward that shall we? You know Soundwave, it's a shame that you hide your faceplate behind a visor, it's rather pleasing to see, though no one even knows what you look like underneath. So it doesn't really matter I suppose…" He picked up a sharp piece of glinting metal. "Well, since you insist on hiding it behind a visor, I don't suppose you'll mind if you give me your face?" He asked softly, sweetly almost, in contrast to his optics slowly turning red and then the swift movement of the metal shard.

The screen cut to the wall, showing only the shadow of Optimus pulling something that was connected to something else, lines that dripped and glowed, someone screaming in the background to the point it glitched severely when Optimus sliced through the lines. Bright energon splattered on the wall as Optimus held up a plate that dripped down and a dark laugh was heard. ]

Silence reigned the room for a while. Jaws fully dropped from witnessing the entire scene. 

Megatron's optics were even wider than before, and for once, he didn't care for his image as his intake was opened in clear shock. It wasn't everyday that his enemy seemingly tortured and enforced essentially Empurata on his loyal communications officer. 

His first thought is Optimus Prime would NEVER. His second thought is Soundwave still has his faceplate, Optimus never took it here. Subconsciously, his gaze snaps towards the silent mech, frame still, like a statue- nothing too unusual but this was different. There was a tenseness that Megatron seldom saw in Soundwave. He wasn't just still as a statue, he was frozen. When was the last time he'd ever seen Soundwave like this? 

"... Well, that just happened." Knock Out said without any tact, like usual. He winced when he earned Megatron's burning gaze filled with ire.  

(In a base, hidden on Earth. A Prime flinches back, horrified, a rare look of intense emotion overtaking his faceplate. His teammates swarm him, trying to comfort and soothe their distressed leader. Three tiny humans join the fray, telling him that he would never. That he was different, that he was not the mech on the screen.)

For some reason, his processor thought back to Optimus' yellow scout and the parallels to the moment, yet so very different. 

[ The screen flashes white once more and returns to Soundwave standing between Optimus and Megatron. "Tell me, did you ever replace your faceplate? After all this time?" The look on Optimus' face was predatory, "Perhaps I should find out!" He dashed forward with a sly grin and wild optics, both servos turned to blades.

The screen froze completely. ] 

("I don't think I wanna watch this anymore." A small human admitted, and was heard as his words instantly froze the screen.)

"What's happening? Why did it stop?" Megatron questioned gruffly, optics narrowed and intense at the sight of the Other Optimus- so different from the heroic Prime that he knew. 

"I- I don't know, Master. We didn't do anything!" Starscream exclaimed, 

[ OBSERVATIONS PAUSED: CEASE OBSERVATION? ACCEPT / DECLINE ] 

"Someone is doing something!" Megatron hissed in annoyance, servos darting out to touch the screen- he doesn't even know which option he would've chosen. It didn't matter as his clawed digits did nothing but phase through the words just as the option of ACCEPT was picked.

("A-Accept! We don't want to watch whatever that was anymore." The oldest human exclaimed, feeling relieved.)

[ OBSERVATION CEASED UNIVERSE DATA RECORDED: SHATTERED GLASS (JM-DESIGN) SAVED UNIVERSE AVAILABLE FOR PURVIEW WITHIN UNIVERSE LIBRARY ERROR - UNIVERSE LIBRARY CORRUPTED UNIVERSE LIBRARY HAS LOST PREVIOUSLY RECORDED UNIVERSE DATA UNIVERSE DATA AVAILABLE FOR CURRENT CONTINUITY: ONE (1) - SHATTERED GLASS (JM-DESIGN) SEARCH FOR NEW UNIVERSAL OBSERVATION? ACCEPT / DECLINE ]

"Uh, Lord Megatron? I don't think we're in control of whatever's going on right now." Breakdown hesitantly spoke up, cringing away when the warlord turned his optics at him. 

Megatron growled, glaring at the screen. "No, it appears we are not… I suspect the Autobots are the ones controlling this sphere somehow despite the distance… Soundwave, can you do something about it? Either take control of the sphere or track the Autobots' signal from it?" 

For a moment, Soundwave says nothing, does nothing. "... Soundwave." Megatron repeats, not exactly soft, but not as harsh as Megatron would have said to gain his loyal communication's officer's attention. 

The mech finally twitched, his cables emerging from his frame to try and connect to the sphere. He tried in all different angles, the inner wires of his cables trying to find a seam it could get into, a crack to slip in. But nothing. Reluctantly, his cables retreated and he hung his helm low in shameful defeat. 

Megatron scowled, but aimed it at the sphere instead of Soundwave. He watched as the option ACCEPT was picked, and wondered what exactly the Autobots were planning this time.

("Let's uh, let's find something else! Hopefully something a bit more light hearted?")

[----- TFP : UO -----]

[ ENTER KEY WORD TO START UNIVERSAL OBSERVATION ]

[----- TFP : UO -----]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH yeah i did that. the moment i started the shattered glass segment, i had the scene of sg optimus tearing sg soundwave's face off- as a reference to the wild bayverse movies. also i thought it'd be fitting in a way? because megatron took bee's voicebox, sg optimus gets to take sg soundwave's faceplate away.

once again i thank @jealousmarquis for their edits of the shattered glass universe. THEY ALSO HAVE AN EDIT OF SOUNDWAVE'S FACE AND I DIG WITH IT! thats now canon in this fic.

prologue is done! mostly because we now know the premise and yes i know this shattered glass segment was woefully short BUT DONT WORRY IT CAN COME BACK! we just gotta let the trauma settle for everyone a bit and go towards something a bit more lighthearted

HOWEVER! YOU GET TO DECIDE! i'll be giving vague options for everyone to choose!

another reason why i decided to end the shattered glass segment is because i realized halfway into writing is that i kinda sidelined the kids in the reaction bits- i showed them in the beginning, but the beginning premise is supposed to include jack, miko and raf as the main characters of each reaction universe. but then the shattered glass segment easily pushed them aside and while that IS fine, i kinda wanna stay focused on the kids being main characters here for a moment.

and yes, the options, despite involving optimus and megatron working together WILL have the kids as the main focal point of the reaction universe. and to those who don't want that- be patient, i'll have things shifted as we go along.

EDIT: forgot to mention! the reason the other SG Autobots haven't shown up is just that i decided to mostly do with the characters that jealousmarquis edited for easier visualization. if they ever do the others and we're revisiting the shattered glass jm-design, they'll be there one way or another.

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it's vol 2 yall

need more ko live reaction memes cuz they looks hilarious

[primussavethesemechs]

I want the human/cybertronian life difference to be talked about more in canon

Cuz I mean. it’s RIGHT THERE.

Just a smidgen of true acknowledgment I BEG YOU HASBRO‼️

i mean come on all it takes is someone mentioning how long the wars been going for one of the humans to go “4 MILLION YEARS???? WHAT THE FUCK HOW OLD ARE YOU???”

And optimus or ratchet to be like “…5/7 million?” And all of the humans to have a break down CUZ WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUVE BEEN ALIVE SINCE BEFORE THE HUMAN SPECIES EXISTED??? WE WERE MONKEYS WHEN YOU WERE BORN???

And the (woefully uniformed) cybertronians to be like “??? What do YOU mean your species was still evolving when I onlined, how long do you guys live?? A thousand?? A few hundred??”

And the gobsmacked humans to be like “??? NO WE HARDLY LIVE OVER A HUNDRED ITS CONSIDERED AN ACCOMPLISHMENT?? AVERAGE OLD AGE DEATH IS LIKE MID 80s!! TECHNICALLY THE AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IS 72 OR SOMETHING???”

Cue the autobots being like “😨 72??? THATS A CHILD WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT⁉️”

the more attached/emotional bots looking at their charges and realizing that not only are they sparklings compared to them but they’ll die as sparklings too in just a few decades, causing them to straight up have a mini meltdown.

Yeah they’re in a war and they’ve lost plenty of friends, but never to anything as predictable and inescapable as old age.

It’s the seeing-it-coming part that gets to them, the slow dread of knowing that even if they do everything right and keep them out of danger and they stay healthy there’s nothing they can do to stop them from withering away in a couple of decades.

Most versions of bumblebee looking at their charge/friend and realizing his assumptions about the fact that since they’re both still young that they’ll have plenty of time to just. Live together and have fun- are wrong?? Immediately tears. Even if cybertronians can’t cry tears he’s doing whatever the equivalent is and running away to cry in his room. And then running back to snatch them and take them with him cuz HE CANT WASTE A SECOND IF THEIR LIFESPANS ARE REALLY THAT SHORT HES GONNA JUST HAVE TO SPEND 24/7 WITH THEM

This whole concept ESPECIALLY applies to TFP since all of them got their own little human buddy and there’s only like 5 autobots to begin with (of the main season 1 crew) they’ve lost so many of their own so recently, their numbers are already dwindling down to nothing, they’re losing the war and the kids are what’s given them a major morale boost. To continue fighting they need hope, and the kids have kind of become their hope for the future- to know they’ll die off in under a century despite how young they still are is a shot to the spark.

Look me in the eye and tell me bee wouldnt panic hearing that Raf only has 70-80 years to live. LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME HE WOULDNT HAVE SOME KIND OF FIT OVER BEING TOLD THAT HIS LITTLE BUDDY (from a cybertronian perspective) HAS A LIFESPAN EQUIVALENT TO A LATE STAGE TERMINAL ILLNESS DIAGNOSIS. Bee would start treating Raf like a kid with stage 4 cancer 😭

I just KNOW bulkhead would have the worst reaction other than bee, maybe even worse cuz he looks at miko and realizes she’s used up basically a fifth of her entire lifespan already and she’s Still So Little and straight up starts weeping. That’s his DAUGHTER you can’t take her from him so soon it’s not FAIR! He might have to go destroy a canyon wall or something to let some of the anger and grief out

Arcee is Not taking it well either.

She JUST got attached to this one, just got used to a new partner and your telling her that no matter what she does he’s never going to last as long as tailgate of cliff jumper did?? Even if both he and she do everything they’re supposed to do to protect him and extended his life?? Depression time baby

Optimus and ratchet don’t react as much outwardly to the news as the others but inside they’re both 💔💥

These kids have brought optimus a level of contentment he hasn’t felt in vorns, and he sees how bright their spirits shine- Only to now know those precious spirits will burn out in less than a century- it gnaws at him inside, yet another strike from the cruelty of fate

Ratchet is devastated but refuses to acknowledge it, these kids- yes even miko- have become his pseudo grandkids and he’s not ready, nor will he ever be ready, to outlive them. Jacks reminds him too much of a younger optimus, still learning and still hopeful. Miko is… well she has a fire to her that ratchet can appreciate (when she’s not actively annoying him) she’s determined enough to make anything happen which he does begrudgingly respect even if he wishes she wouldn’t just throw herself into any and every situation just for fun.

And Raf…

Raf is his apprentice, the only one of the kids to understand him and listen intently to his stories of cybertron. To show appreciation for his work and his ideas, to Listen and Learn and Improve his inventions. He harbors the most fondness for Raf since he sees so much potential in him, and has taken him under his wing in teaching him cybertronian language and biology.

He feels almost like he’s training a student to take his place- only for the ground to be ripped out from under him to know that Raf will never have the chance to succeed him, will never even outlive him.

A parent should never have to bury their child, and ratchet already feels that he has.

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TLDR the autobots find out humans have fruit fly lifespans next to them and become one big soggy mess of tears, optimus and ratchet included although they try to have a stiff upper lip about it (and fail to varying extents)

I swear this was supposed to be about any and all continuities but TFP took over completely😭 idk it just fits the best since they focus so much on how attached the bots get to the kids

Edit: btw this was inspired from the fact I found out that the cybertronian equivalent to a year (yes I know technically they have solar cycles which are roughly a human year but what they consider a year vs their lifespan/time perception is different) is a vorn. A vorn is 80 HUMAN YEARS. I saw that and went “oh wow a vorn is like a whole human lifespan!😃” and then I went “OH A VORN IS A WHOLE HUMAN LIFESPAN 😀“

[witchofthesouls]

I'm rewatching TFP and I didn't remember June being that horny for Optimus.

I mean, I get it. But GIRL your son is right there. Please be more subtle about your attempts to get him a Dadimus Prime.

June knows exactly what she wants: teasing her son and Optimus' sweet rims. Both sets.

[your-compadre-infinity]

[hee-blee-art]

this is what starscream looks like in like 85% of tfp. to me

[image ID: a simple cartoony digital drawing of starscream from transformers prime. his expression is exaggerated to look miserable and tearful. end ID]

[shrilleth]

"knockout is bad gay rep" well maybe we as a society are past the need for good gay rep. you ever think of that? knockout was on a level of villainous faggotry unseen since scar from the lion king and you dislike that? you think its something to be fixed? you will not survive the winter.

in some interview one of the guys behind tfp made a joke that knockout is "like that" because of a "glitch in the allspark" and yeah that's homophobic but also its iconic and i'm reclaiming it. i'm a glitch in the allspark too actually xx just in case you didn't know that already

like I could make a whole post about how this line of discussion is just completely out of touch in terms of what kinds of homophobia actually cause harm in the year 2025 but I want to keep this fun and lighthearted so anyways. knockout would listen to chappell roan and be like "I'm literally her" even though he is not like her in a single regard. has never been in any of the situations in her songs. wait no theres after midnight but other than that none of them.

[cayennesugar]

How did Heatwave’s sires react to the news?

[skyaya-100]

k soo, I started watching tfp, and it’s pretty good ngl! Everybody’s hips don’t lie in that series🤭 lol that’s not the point tho, I just thought that if Arcee and Quickshadow were to meet up, they wouldn’t really be friends, more like rivals lol. I just think it’d be funny to see the other bots see the two femmes bicker about something silly

[darvyyeet]

KHEHE

[ask-uts-earthspark-au]

I think Twitch may explode from this but Alligned(Prime) Continuity Wheeljack

Twitch: *gasp*

Twitch: A Wheeljack/Dad 2 with swords!!

Thrash: He sounds pretty cool, to me. ,':)

Hashtag: yoooo, cool as hell!

Jawbreaker: why would he view Optimus that way? But otherwise I suppose he could be fun to hang around.

Nightshade: might be fun to invent things with him. :).

[feral-birb-husband]

So silly so goofy

[novafire-is-thinking]

G1 And Prime Soundwave Fight!! >:D

😆 Pretty much.