#armor’s box of yelling abt shit that doesn’t matter

[doruumon]

I don’t want to be annoying on someone else’s post but I think that’s like, been a really hard thing to talk about with others when you already write in a niche.

To me there’s no fun in muddying waters with what happens in one continuity and insisting it’s the same across all others. It removes what makes each one interesting and unique.

Like little things can be interesting here and there—in Tyran the species turns to cannibalism to survive. It’s a horrifying reality of losing their resources, but it doesn’t show up much/if at all in other continuities. But then a dear mutual of mine brought up, “maybe Armada Megs would definitely do it just because he’s already a bit off and just, unhinged,” and I can see it. Like, chews on an arm as a treat. It doesn’t change anything else about the UT meta, he just does it once in awhile and it’s like, what are you going to tell the wild toddler that he can’t eat someone? No. It fits well. They have synthetic Energon but sometimes you need the Cronch. It doesn’t change the underlying themes or anything. This weird guy is just more weird.

But like, “all Megs are miners or gladiators,” no quit it. “OP should always be a librarian,” stop.

I don’t like continuity soup. I honestly really fucking hate it. I like my foods separated on my plate. If I wanted everything muddled together in what I AM WRITING, then I’d make my own universe/continuity, but that sounds exhausting so I don’t want it.

And I know I’m a very tiny writer, my words mean nothing to anyone but me, but I just get. Frustrated.

IDW OP wouldn’t have worked the same way if he hadn’t been a cop. Archivist just doesn’t. It doesn’t WORK. Same with UT Optimus.

In the same breath, TFP OP couldn’t have been an enforcer and had the same impact. At all. It wasn’t who he was.

Fucjing Tyran OP was a scientist!! The study of societies I don’t remember what it’s called but. He wasn’t anything we’d ever seen before and it WORKED for him.

Does that make any of them better than the other? Of course not. But they’re all different and that makes each of them Great for their stories.

Every Starsc is conniving to some degree, but not all of them would hire assassins to take out people they don’t like, but almost none of them would sacrifice themselves to make a positive change in the universe without the right setup. And that’s FINE.

I don’t write soup. I don’t want it.