#blackmailing someone into defecting would never be something optimus would sink to

[peace-hunter]

Omg omg imagine ghost prime au, but instead some of the decpticons come back to the Autobots side not because of political motives changing but because Optimus blackmails them.

It’s not even incriminating, it’s all those embarrassing moments that they try really hard to forget and when in battle Optimus brings it up, they stop fighting by the power of Cringe.

It’d go something like this:

Decepticon: Finally I will end you Prime!

Ghosts: Tell him about the time he wore a cape and got stuck in the doorway and couldn’t get out for an hour

Optimus: *repeats above*

Decepticon: *mentally trying to erase that moment*

gasp! optimus?? blackmailing someone into defecting??? he would never! freedom is the right of all sentient beings and threatening someone into being loyal to him would not be right!

that being said.

he's not above exchanging his silence for cooperation and the occasional surrender when there's lives in danger. like. sure yeah Thrust could attack that new autobot base... or optimus could maybe be persuaded to forget that time he was sent on a retrieval mission and brought back several things except the one he was actually supposed to be retrieving. even tho he was gone for a whole week.

but really Thrust is completely free to choose whatever he wants to do :) no pressure :))

it only works because optimus always keeps his word and never mentions those particular incidents ever again. they are by all intents and purposes lost history as long as the 'con in question keeps their side of the deal.

it's fine tho, he's got thousands of cycles of embarrassing slag to get through jakhdkada