#The Thirteen Primes

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Cybertronian Colloquialisms - Primes Edition

So we've all heard "By the AllSpark!" or "What in the Pit?" or "Oh Primus" in our TF media. However, I feel like TF writers are missing out on the goldmine that is colloquialisms invoking the different Primes. So, here is a small collection of such colloquialisms, and please, feel free to add more if you have any of your own you use.

"Primus below!" - Exclamation similar to "God above!", invoking the fact that Primus is the core of Cybertron.

"Vector give me patience" - Often paired with "because if Prima gives me strength, I'm going to need bail money." The go-to for when somebot if getting on your last nerves.

"To Alchemist!" - A popular drinking toast, to thank Alchemist Prime for inventing high grade.

"The Three Below" - Refers to Solus, Onyx, and Micronus, the three Primes who formed the Well of AllSparks

"Maximum Blessings on you" - a stealth insult/curse from some dialects, where "Maximum" and "Maximo's" are nearly indistinguishable. As Liege Maximo was the Prime of Lies and Trickery, it's a fitting way to wish someone ill.

“Solus’s slag pit�� - Used for something incredible, awful, and incredibly awful. Often used to refer to the latest high society fashion mess.

"Find peace or take it up with the Fallen." - In other words, calm down or screw off.

“As you say, my Liege” - A condescending remark towards a person who’s attempting to lie, cheat or mislead.

Again, if you have any primal colloquialisms you use for your fics, reblog and share them with the rest of us.

[tenebres-for]

Подниму я к Сварге руки Попрошу я у Богов Чтоб Перун убитых войнов Приютил в краю небес

I'll raise my hands to Svarga I will ask the Gods So that Perun sheltered the slain warriors In the edge of heaven Kaira - Белый дым (с)

[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!)

[lets-try-some-writing]

"I would have given anything to make our time together last an eternity." - The Unnamed Thirteenth Prime

Lore below:

Before Megatronus, Solus Prime loved the unnamed Thirteenth Prime. They were the first lovers, and they were also the first to suffer the pain of separation.

The Thirteenth kept many things from his beloved, and Solus never suspected a thing until he gave himself to his visions. They were completely devoted to each other, to the point where even after the Thirteenth left her, Solus never fully moved on. While she did come to love Megatronus eventually, her spark was forever torn between her first love and the one who remained by her side until the bitter end. This, combined with other factors, left her life chaotic and her relationships strained.

With the Thirteenth gone, Solus went from cheery and carefree to duty bound and serious. Her beloved gave himself to his visions, and partially in remembrance, she threw herself into hers as well.

[lunaforyou]

HI

Maybe you seen me in @transingthoseformers asks and wondered "Wow, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?"

Many years of catholic trauma

ANYWAYS, YES, I'M MAKING AN AU

So like, to understand this AU you need to understand three things

1) My genuine belief that tf1 Optimus will be tied or connected somehow in the creation of new sparklings

2) The fact that merging with the Matrix is considered "Interfacing" (IDW Optimus put it this way, not me)

3) My interpretation that the Matrix and the bearer are constantly spark merging.

I lied it's 4) My obsession with the Virgin Mary, she should have been at the cluuuub

So, the AU starts by Optimus somehow in the surface, his entire frame has been aching for a while but he is still needed to fight the Decepticons and the Quintessons.

Maybe a fight goes wrong, but it sends him panicking because his HUD just fucking told him "Emergence protocols initiated" and it's a little earlier because of the fight but that's not an impediment, the little one wants out and he wants out now

So you might want to guess, where does our dear Prime go to give birth?

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That's right! The cave of the Primes! You get nothing for guessing correctly <3

Plot twist; Optimus didn't have a forge, another thing Sentinel took from the miners. The Matrix gave it back when restoring his frame, after all, it needed it for restoring the rest of the Primes. So yeah he freaks out a lot a lot

And yes! He is going through this TWELVE more times

The first one is Prima naturally, the little one gives Megatron a run for his money in "things that nearly killed Optimus multiple times" and almost gets stuck in the birth canal once or twice (Optimus doesn't want to think what would have happened to them both if his coding hadn't kicked in at the right moment) and Optimus can't see the little one without getting his carrier coding out of hand and deciding right then and there that he needed to find a sire for their sake. Also Optimus absolutely loves the little bastard like he hung the moons and the stars

And all the time, he felt the presence of other mechs in the cave with him. Someone definitely helped him stay upright, and he could squeeze his hand around a much much larger one when the contractions hit.

Right so he goes back to base, and everyone pretty much noticed how white and gold the sparkling is. Everyone assumes that somehow D-16 is the sire, keeping on brand with the platinated colors, and, well, Optimus doesn't correct them. Besides, it was just one sparkling, what harm could it do if a few rumors ran around here and there?

Ohhhh boy, not a week later, he discovers that maybe it won't be just one sparkling.

Also, I'm naming this au Primes Reborn, and you can't stop me

[planetformer-central]

Three hours later, I have all these rough sketches complete. Yes I am well aware I have a baby Primes problem. No I will not be stopping.

Enjoy the critters and their forever changing designs because I am indecisive.

[hoaxsacrament]

Solus Prime first time meeting the new recruit Amalgamous in my AU doodles;

She’s very pretty i love her sm<3

She’s just happy she ain’t the only femme (at least she thought she isn’t the only femme)

Yappin’ to her new girl best friend<3 (also silly height difference ehe).

She just wants a girl best friend:(

[transingthoseformers]

Prima, Megatronus, and Solus love triangle that ends in tragedy

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

(making this ask into a post bc i kinda love this a lot)

ok so hear me out on yet another au (based on the hc that alpha trion is orion's real dad and he's related to the primes)

ok so imagine that sentinel didn't win over the primes when he betrayed them. The quintessons are defeated and chased off of Cybertron, while Sentinel is exiled from Iacon and the Golden Palace of the Primes, making him seek refuge elsewhere on the surface.

But, Sentinel is determined to have the last laugh. Orion was about three cycles old when this happened, and was under the care and eventual training of the Primes, until he was kidnapped by Sentinel before the traitor vanished without a trace.

With the help of Airachnid, Sentinel builds a functioning and stable tower deep in the mossy forests on the surface of Cybertron, locking Orion in there and brainwashing him to think that he's too weak for the outside world.

meanwhile, orion is in awe of the floating lights that appear in the night sky every year on his birthday, and yearns to find out what they are

so basically a tangled au, and later on, D-16 finds him and I think you know the rest.

[rescuebabiesau]

Anyone wanna think about how Sentinel and Orion both go gray when they died, but the Primes' bodies in the cave didn't...?

...What if they weren't completely dead?

[cheesekai]

PRIMA of the Thirteen Primes

Drew the one and only TF One Prima! I am literally so invested in all the Prime's designs it's crazy, I literally love them SO MUCH

A little close-up :)

[churino]

Design for megatronus and galvatronus

The first decepticon but not quite the fallen just yet

unable to live with himself after what he did to solus, megatronus simply decided not to. And retreated into a different person, he was last seen being exiled from Cybertron aboard the prison ship carcer

Megatronus was a soldier, the best, strongest, and most powerful soldier to ever live according to the bot we now call solus prime, she, as she had done to many before him, forged him into a living weapon, he in turn worshiped her every footprint.

And when solus and his other mentor, liege maximo, joined the revolution, megatronus followed, and among their ranks grew quite popular, rivaling prima in prominence, but as things developed, megatronus was forced to gun down the woman that made him into what he was

In her final moments, she taught him the truth of her ideals, a world where no friend would turn to foe, where all are united as one, struck with grief over her needless demise, and manipulated by liege maximo he interpreted her vision as peace through tyranny.

While maximo would use the cult of personality around megatronus to found the decepticons, megatronus began to spiral into madness, After Solus Prime's death, Megatronus personally notified her friends and family even while being hunted down by the government. During this task, he met Malleus Minotaurus, the forge of solus prime, and she revealed onto him secrets about her creation, the power of dead stars.

It was not heat and hammers that built the transformers within the forge. It was the severed hand of the projenitor of transformation, the bot we now call Amalgamous prime, the rest of their body said to have been lost to a black hole, while their severed hand, hidden within the depths of cybertron retained the ability to shape bodies

Seeking to be anyone but himself megatronus absorbed the hand into his body, reshaping himself into Galvatronus, gaining the ability to turn into anything, free of any restrictions like mass, color, or composition, and able to recreate and share that power to his followers

Horrified by what he had done to solus' birthplace malleus attempted to fight galvatronus only to be crushed into her alt mode of a hammer and have her t-cog tampered with to stop her from transforming back. Tossed into space never to be found.

Meanwhile, Galvatronus became whatever he needed to be, a grieving outcast, an inovator, the hand of something secret, a ruthless leader. It all depended on who he was talking to, and slowly that mascarade began eroding away his actual identity, till he couldn't remember his own name

[tenebres-for]

Я пугать не хочу Но нельзя, миледи Доверяться ведьме – Злом я вам отплачу!

I don't want to scare you. But you can 't trust a witch, my lady. – I will repay you with evil!

Woodscream - Аконит (с)

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HIIII! Sorry to bother, but I've recently found your Hive Prime Au and I INSTANTLY fell in love. It's kind of rushed, but I really wanted to get this idea out of my head. I based him more off of Transformers RID mostly because of his build. Apologies again if it's not up to par, I've never really drawn a robot before 😅

Oh my PRIMUS WHY ARE YOU APOLOGIZING???

This is not a bother, it's a masterpiece! Look at him he looks so cool!!!!

I had to put down my phone like five times because I got too excited looking at him!

[lunaforyou]

I love your Primes reborn au! If it is ok to ask, what order are the primes born in?

Awe thanks! And of course it is okay to ask!

It's still not too defined but it goes something like:

Prima is the first, followed by Zeta. Alpha Trion is the third, and then Solus is born. Quintus is born after her and the rest I'm still not too sure. Oh but Megatronus is the last because the Matrix decided to "be nice" and have him be the last one so Optimus wouldn't have to go through that again

[planetformer-central]

The Thirteenth Prime, my personal take on him.

I like to think that he's an energy being, similar to Amalgamous in a sense, but unique in that he can inhabit pretty much any armor capable of housing his spark. He is fully capable of wandering around as a mist like being without any harm coming to him, essentially making him functionally immortal.

(Megatronus Prime has yet to test and see if a giant fan is capable of doing anything to him.)