#get optimus primed charles

[protagonistscum]

lmao after watching the last stand yeah i see why they took the timeline out back and shot it

[tragic-ships-tournament]

GUYS!! GALS!! AND EVERYONE ELSE IN BETWEEN AND OUT OF THE SYSTEM THAT IS GENDER!!

THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR... IT'S THEEEEEE-

TRAGIC SHIPS TOURNAMENT!

All 64 of your favorite tragic ships will be going up against each other in this head to head single elimination brawl! To figure out the answer to this age old question.... who is the best tragic ship?

The tournament will (hopefully) be starting 1 week from now! On Saturday, January 11th, for 24 hours only vote in our preliminaries to figure out who will be moving on to the next round. There are two brackets, Bracket A and Bracket B, and the winners of each respective bracket will face off each other in the finals

Without further ado, let's see our brackets!

(apologies if there's any typos or mistakes- I had to google like 70% of these characters to get their names.)

Click for quality please! Tumblr is... Tumblr.

Here is the full list of ships!

Marvin Gardens and Whizzer Brown

Orpheus and Eurydice

Ivan and Till

Mizi and Sua

Donald Trump and Joe Biden

The RMS Titanic

Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater

Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper

Optimus Prime and Elita-1

The Ship of Theseus

My Hopes and Dreams 😔

Miss Holloway and Duke Keane

Lex Foster and Ethan Green

Margaret Cavendish and Samuel Stratford

Charlotte Sweetly and Ted Spankoffski

Melina Whistler and Janice Quatlane

Dorian Gray and Basil Hallward

Fiddleford McGucket and Stanford Pines

Dean Winchester and Castiel

Glinda Upland and Elphaba Thropp

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet

Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan

Yamato and Portgas D. Ace

Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers

Archibald Clare and Ludovico Valentinelli

Aura Blackquill and Metis Cykes

Michaela Arklow and Clarith Netsuma

Peter Simonds and Jason McConnell

Jayce Talis and Viktor

Achilles and Patroclus

Captain Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones

Farilane and Kile

The 10th Doctor and Rose Tyler

Jonathan sims and Martin Blackwood

Enjolras and Grantaire

Rachel and Tobias

Rem and Misa Amane

Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi

Erwin Smith and Levi Ackerman

Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough

The Captain and Lieut Havers

Crick Wellsley and Temenos Mistral

Jason Dean and Veronica Sawyer

Seymour Krelborn and Audrey Fulquard

Agent Curt Mega and Owen Carvour

Jesus Christ and Judas Isacriot

Goro Akechi and Joker

L Lawliet and Touta Matsuda

Thor Odinson and Jane Foster

Tessa Gray, Will Herondale, and Jem Carstairs

Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry

Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru

Tony Wyzek and MarIa Vasquez

Lou Clark and Will Traynor

Phob and Phat

Taranza and Queen Sectonia

Anakin Skywalker and Padme Naberrie

Lawrence Gordon amd Adam Faulkner-Stanheight

Pearl and Rose/Pink Diamond

Ash Lynx and Eiji Okumura

Charles Xavier and Erik Magnus Lehnsherr

Normal Oak and Hermie Unworthy

Rintaro Okabe and Kurisu Makise

Rootspring and Bristlefrost

[bluespider62]

I absolutely LOVE how much of a threat Starscream is in the Energon Universe.

Rather than being relegated to the role of comedic relief, Starscream is depicted as a force to be reckoned with and an irredeemable character. (As much I want to see a redemption arc, it doubt it's possible.) Upon being reawakened on Earth by Jetfire, what's the first thing he does ?

He shoots Bumblebee's face, blasts his only friend for showing weakness and squishes Carly's father like a squeaky toy just for fun.

Later, he willingly abandons an injured Skywarp, telling him he'll come back for him, only he does the opposite and shoots a hospital. This shows how careless Starscream is of the other Decepticons and how he's willing to abandon his men if it benefits him. Once they get back to base, the wounded Seeker is ripped apart in order to repair Teletraan-1 with his parts.

In Issue #13, Starscream mentions that he and his "brothers" are refusing to join a side, clearly referring to Thundercracker and Skywarp. This makes Starscream and Soundwave tearing Skywarp apart even more disturbing than it already was. Did I mention Starscream kicked Soundwave's Ravage and replaces Skywarp with Thundercracker ?

During Devastator's attack on The Ark, Starscream is shot by Carly, only to be spared by Cliffjumper. (Mind you he killed Cliff's entire clan.) Just when he's about to kill Carly in a similar fashion to her father's death, he's accidentally injured by the combiner.

After being challenged by Soundwave in a fight for leadership over the Decepticons in Issue #7, Starscream has his eye gouged by Laserbeak and gets tossed into an active volcano.

It isn't until issue #13 where we see what happens to him and and how he came to be. Prior to the war, Starscream was a blue-eyed scientist named Ulchtar and was friends with Jetfire and a Decepticon named Genvo.

After Jetfire leaves Cybertron, a battle erupts outside Ulchtar's lab before a stray missile destroys the building. Genvo grabs his friend and runs, but gets shot by none other than Optimus Prime himself. Ulchtar is praised by his friend for "screaming the stars into seeing us" before dying in his arms.

With his work destroyed and his friend dead, Ulchtar ponders his future until Megatron approaches him and offers revenge for Genvo and his clan as a Decepticon. Upon being asked what his brothers called him, Ulchtar's eyes turn red and, inspired by his friend's dying words, answers "My name- is Starscream".

A fun little detail I love about this backstory is that both Optimus and Megatron are responsible for Ulchtar's transformation into Starscream.

Ulchtar is a more sympathetic and likeable character. Rather than the treacherous power-hungry homocidal maniac we all know and love, he's somewhat a juvenile delinquent (hence his innocent baby blue eyes) and a bit haughty, self-assured and overly confident (kinda like Maverick in the Top Gun films). When meeting Megatron, his eyes change from blue to red, showing the end of his innocence and the beginning of his corruption.

Issue #14's preview shows Starscream getting fused to a tank by the M.A.R.S. salvage team after getting his legs burned off in the previous issue.

I guess he's Cybertronian Charles Xavier now.

[otaku-tyriq]

Transformers is basically the X-Men:

A semi-Crack Essay by someone who has never watched Transformers and has only watched the X-Men Movies and a handful of X-Men cartoons

As the title and subtitle suggest I have never consumed any Transformers media in my life but have had Transformers Yaoi pop up on my FYP for several months now as some of my fave artists and mutuals have started to really get into this franchise.

And from the things I have gathered through second and third hand about this franchise’s lore over these past few months I have come to the conclusion that it is the X-Men but everyone is a car.

Let me demonstrate

Optimus Prime = Professor X/Charles Xavier

Leader of the hero team. Ex-boyfriend of the main villain. Basically in charge of a bunch of child soldiers. Wants to stop his Ex from committing genocide twice a week.

Megatron = Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr

Leader of the Villain Team. Victim of oppression turned terrorist. Doomed Old Man Yaoi with Optimus/Charles. Used to be “good friends” before the incident™. Makes their break up 50 years ago everyone else’s problem.

Bumblebee = Wolverine

Yellow™ and while the X-Men’s/Autobots roster and team members change with ever single timeline and adaptation, Bumblebee, just like Wolverine, 👏WILL👏 BE 👏THERE👏! (Context under the break)

[kathrahender]

Hello ....Do you mind if I ask your top 5 (or top 10) favorite moments from any media that you love (can be books, anime/manga, tv series, movies, games, etc)? Thanks if you want to answer. Sorry if I ask too much....

Heeey thank you for the ask! Of course you can ask me things like these!

Conversation Zeb Orrelios and Alexsandr Kallus have after getting out of the cave in the episode Honorable Ones (2x17) of Star Wars Rebels.

Slade and Robin fighting together against Trigon's soldiers in the episode The End: Part 2 (4x12) of Teen Titans because I love so much the "Enemy Mine" trope.

All scenes Viggo Grimborn and Hiccup Haddock have together in the episode Triple Cross (6x08) of Race To The Edge because they have to work together to defeat Johan and Krogan (and I love the Enemy Mine trope)

Pitch Black's "Join Me" speech to Jack Frost in Rise of The Guardians because I also love the "We Can Rule Together" Trope.

Walter Strickler and Jim Lake's fight in the Recipe for Disaster (1x11) episode of Trollhunters because the angst potential is awesome.

Megatron saving Optimus Prime in the episode One Shall Rise (1x25) of Transformers Prime and then them holding hands and making a truce.

Catra's love confession to Adora in the episode Heart Part 2 (5x13) of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power because I love them together.

Erik Lensherr and Charles Xavier's last scene in X-Men: Dark Phoenix because it's beautiful.

Barry Allen trying to convince Eobard Thawne of helping him in the episode of Flashback (2x17) of The Flash. Actually, all the scenes between them in that episode.

When Oliver Queen and Slade Wilson become friends again after years of bitterness (an euphemism) in the episode Lian Yu (5x23) of Arrow.

[itneedsmoregays]

Had a blast at TFNation, my very first Transformers convention!

Saw tonnes of awesome cosplayers (lotta people who love Soundwave LOL), bought a nice haul of cool merch, checked out the Robosen toys (just as mind-blowing in person!), and attended the panels hosted by Colin Betts (he discussed how Transformers are marketed to retailers), Michael Charles Hall (he talked about how he wanted to be a director before getting into the writing industry, working behind the scenes with Wally Burr who seemed intimidating but was a very sweet guy, and writing The Return of Optimus Prime: Part 2) and Kathreen Khavari (apparently if Twitch went to a drive-thru, she'd need to keep her energy up and would order everything on the menu XD).

The biggest highlight was meeting Gregg Berger, David Kaye (who was pleasantly surprised I remembered his work on Regular Show) and Kathreen Khavari and them all signing my art I prepared for the con. All three of them were very humble and nice to talk to.

Here's hoping Peter Cullen and/or Frank Welker attend next year! And here's to 40 more years of Transformers!

[bearpillowmonster]

Transformers One Trailer

That new trailer and I have some thoughts? Surprisingly.

I don't normally watch trailers anymore and I've said why before but it basically boils down to they spoil too much too much of the time and what's the point if I'm sold anyway. Now Transformers One seems like a no-brainer, gives those fans a prequel origin sort of thing as well as an introduction for the newbies who only know the Bay and Rise and Bumblebee movies in animation no less so completely different. Then I saw the images of the designs and oh man0

It looks generic. Like I never watched Transformers Prime, it has its fans but I just do not like that art style and this started making me think of that, like it wasn't finished. I much would've preferred a 2D movie but 3D can be done, look at the War for Cybertron trilogy (which I've already talked about)

Nice and stylized, distinguished, scuffed metal, I wanna lick them. Anyways, that's a show though, it'd look good as a movie and heck, T-One looks good as a show but I don't know, is it just me? I also didn't finish the trilogy because the first one was good and I thought it'd only get better but reviews for the second one came out and they were bogus so I dropped it.

But then I watched the trailer-

And it looks better! Notice anything? They're all close up shots! And you mean to tell me this is the same movie>

Ugh. Visuals out of the way, cast. Why? We don't need all these celebrity voices and I'm someone who supports Peter Cullen just being Optimus all the time but I also understand that he's getting older just like Charles Martinet did with Mario leaving the character in a specific position but you didn't get Chris Pratt?? No I'm just kidding, we got Chris Hemsworth, and really, I can't even tell that it's him, I saw his name attached and I was like "Here we go again" and there are a few times where he had traces of that Cullen voice pattern and it's like an adolescent Optimus settling into his voice- wait am I complementing? Stop that.

Josh Cooley is directing and he's got a pretty decent track record with Pixar, we even see Keegan Michael Key again for whatever reason- oh, it's goofy, it's made for children

"But he says bad ass!" mehmehmehmehmeh, so do the other movies twit, somehow, someway, they get away with anything. He's gotta go and announce everything that's happening "I have knives?!" "I have machine guns in my butt?!" Stupid even for a kid, especially menaging Megatron, what'd you do to my angry baby? He's just reading the script, I know, which also isn't great. So, instead of just being a race of transformers, they're a race of robots that gain the ability to transform to save Cybertron. There's the generic nature again! I also don't see it in the trailer but with the toys, they have this weird thing where they use energy to summon their weapons? Bumblebee is fine with the "KNIVES" but

"I put my hand on a ba-all to see if I still bleeeeddd and nothing hurts anymore, I feel kinda freeeeee" What is that? Just give him an axe, he doesn't have to summon it and then attach it to a ball. But wait- the design is different here, what's going on? These toys don't match up with the movie. Like, look at Bumblebee before and after he transforms, he doesn't look like the toy does (I've used enough pictures, do some leg work) and Megatron...just looks like Megatron and I know these are movie toys, just look at Alpha Trion, so I don't know how much of it is an accurate conversion between the two and I normally wouldn't care but it's that ball that drives me bonkers.

BUT I will say that I support Scarjo playing- who is she playing? Because that's not Arcee. Elita One? Cool name, at least. Oh, she's an OG, we're good then. Lawrence is also a good one. Anyways, disappointed, we'll see.

[pod-together]

Pod-Together Day 2 Reveals 2023

Fashion is the Armor [text, audio] (Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types) written by wanderingjedihistorian, performed by kbirb Summary: It’s not that Fox would have reconsidered things with Bail and Breha if he had known about…this. It’s just that if someone had told him he needed to go shopping for a “proper prince consort wardrobe” and that said shopping trip would make him long for the days of babysitting Senators…well. He’d have figured out some way to avoid this part.

Through Thin Walls (9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)) written by noxsoulmate, performed by Juulna Summary:“Hey, so please don’t freak out–”

In the next moment, Carlos could hear a thud, followed by a curse, and he was pretty sure the guy had just hit his head somehow. Carlos winced in sympathy.

“Sorry! Sorry, it’s just your neighbor here.”

“Dude,” came the reply, the voice sounding rough, probably from all the crying. “Way to give a person a heart attack. Also, creepy much?”

“My apologies. The walls here are basically paper with some paint slapped on. So uhm… noises are somewhat muffled but… not really, I guess.” ~*~ 3 times Carlos only heard his neighbor’s voice, 2 times TK lusted over a certain officer, +1 time it all melted together.

Captain Jack Books (Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)) written by TrebleMaker07 and Shakespeare_stole_my_url, performed by Shakespeare_stole_my_url Summary: Jack Kelly is the proud owner of Captain Jack Books; however, business is down and the Delancey brothers have expanded. How will he keep Captain Jack Books relevant? And who is the cute guy that keeps coming around?

Fashionable Lectures, composed and delivered with Tact and Titillation (Lilywhite Boys Series - K. J. Charles) written by vinia, performed by jennisaisquoi Summary: The Marchioness of Cirencester seeks advice from her best friend, the Countess of Moreton.

Sk8 Infinity: Winter Break (SK8 the Infinity (Anime)) created by Syr, Opalsong, and Cantarina Summary: EM: It’s another episode of Ambiguous Robot and Earnest Hero Watching Anime, the podcast all about anime, fandom, and what shows are worth spending your short hours on this earth watching, and the drama they create along the way. I: Today we’re talking about Sk8 Infinity: Winter Break, the prequel series to SK8 The Infinity. And no, don’t ask us why it’s called that. This is just the anime nonsense that we are here for.

Old Words, New Mission (Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)) written by poppetawoppet, performed by GhostCwtch Summary: In which 'Til the end of the line' resets all the other code words.

Nearly Enough (Hornblower - C. S. Forester) written by Sanguinity, performed by Luzula_podfic Summary: Over the course of two wild days and two wild nights in Kingston, Hornblower must choose which he wants more: command of the Retribution, or Lieutenant William Bush.

admiring flowers (Hannibal (TV)) written by Koschei_B, performed by Dr_Fumbles_McStupid Summary: Will's not a goddess, but he gets kidnapped by the Reaper all the same.

At the End of All Things [text, audio] (Transformers: Prime) written by autobotscoutriella, performed by Gilraina Summary: At the end of the war, Optimus goes in search of something still missing.

when all the roads you took came back to me (บทกวีของปีแสง | Be My Favorite (TV)) written by Kiranokira, performed by pieces0fstars Summary: In a timeline where Kawi and Pisaeng are both famous and secretly dating, a jetlagged Kawi sits on Pisaeng's lap during a livestream and accidentally outs them to the public.

It’s in the last fifteen seconds of the live while Pisaeng is promoting an upcoming appearance at a local music festival that a sleepy weight drops into his lap, changing the entire direction of not only his life but Kawi’s, too. Sweetly and adoringly, Kawi winds both arms around Pisaeng’s neck, puts his face on Pisaeng’s shoulder, and whines, “Pisaaaeeeng, you weren’t there when I woke up.”

Once More Into the Void (Teen Wolf (TV)) written by melly_diamond, performed by thilia Summary: Derek Hale has moved on with his life; he has a wife and child now, has rebuilt the Hale house, and is living contentedly in Beacon Hills. For a while. Until a long-buried evil rears its ugly head and chooses a new target to torment; Lorelei Hale, the nine year old daughter of Derek and Sasha Hale. And when no one, anywhere, can seem to rid the little girl of her interloper, a plea goes out into the supernatural world for their final option, a mysterious being - shaman, exorcist, magic-wielder - known only as M. to save her. Who is M.? And is he the answer to all their prayers or a whole other problem in itself?

[rescue-dragons-au]

The Eggs

During a storm, a ship crashes onto the shore of Griffin Rock. It's investigated by Sir Charles Burns, first knight. The dragon Optimus Prime helps capture the black market pirates. They discover four eggs on board. The eggs are assigned to Charlie for protection. But when the secret gets out to his youngest son, Charlie realizes this assignment was never just for him. The responsibility belonged to the whole family.

[orchiid-fields]

[ i won't fancy up these kinds of lists because that pinned knocked the wind from me. LOL ]

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[ FANDOM + CHARACTER MASTER POST! these are all the fandoms and characters in each fandom i WILL write for in general! under the cut is the list 🫶 everything is subject to be updated in the future! ]

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[ resident evil ]

carlos oliveira ♡

luis serra navarro ♡

ada wong

reluctantly. leon scott kennedy

jill valentine

ethan winters

mia winters

tbh winters poly. if you dig that

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[ transformers ]

[ non-specific, don't ask for specifics because i default to g1/bits and bops of IDW. some characters may require more research MY APOLOGIES... ]

starscream ♡

thundercracker

skywarp

...very, very reluctant megatron, just don't get weird

soundwave

shockwave

optimus prime

arcee

jazz

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[ reverse: 1999 ]

pavia ♡

argus

tennant

210 ♡

a knight

centurion

horrorpedia

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[ path to nowhere ]

[ a select few until i know more about others who intrigue me! my apologies. even then some of these guys require more knowledge for me, but i'm comfortable writing for them! ]

levy ♡

mr. fox ♡

cinnabar

rahu

demon

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[ spider-man universe ]

[ this includes mostly characters featured from itsv/atsv, and a few select others, however i usually do researching into each character's actual story and not any relation to one sole source, however appearance and personality, once again, may be taken from another specific source. ]

miguel o'hara ♡

venom ♡

spider-noir

very baseline classic peter parker. default. i don't mind writing for him but it won't be any specific peter parker

carnage

lyla

hobie brown

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[ arknights ]

totter ♡

mr. nothing ♡

hoederer ♡

lee ♡

mountain

thorns

broca

silverash

lumen

elysium

ulpianus

skadi

phantom

passenger

logos

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[ touchstarved ]

kuras ♡

vere

ais

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[ red dead redemption ]

charles smith ♡

javier escuella ♡

arthur morgan

sadie adler

molly o'shea

stares directly into the fucking crowd. mary linton

i'm iffy on john. depends on the request!

lenny summers. don't be weird

eagle flies

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[beckyh2112]

Chat Snippets, part 4

[O-Decepticon]: The Fantastic Bombastic Brawl says, "By god, I can't find the spacebridge without a map but I can find the bar just by guessing. I AM a Combaticon!"

[Bex]: Why is it when I say "I have a headache, please keep it quiet" this invites people to come over and try to converse with me? [Luna]: You look like Nightbeat, Becca. That is why. [Scott]: It's the trenchcoat you're wearing. [Scott]: And the fact you turn into a blue car with flames.

[Luna]: …[Animated] Blitzwing would be the BEST and WORST Best Man at the same time. [Haze]: "Friends, comrades….ve are all gathered here today to honor the love of Lugnut und Strika, and *WHIRLY* --TO DANCE!"

[Luna]: You're supposed to record surgeries! If Blackarachnia confiscates the tapes, how will Tarantulas defend himself in a malpractice suit? [Luna]: With guns. I am pretty sure guns are an acceptable defense in a Decepticon malpractise suit.

[Charles]: the last issue of Transformers Nefarious turned up today. I wish it hadn't. [Charles]: you know how it's tradition for comics to have art that makes it clear which character is which and where they're standing? Well, Nefarious is a rebel, man [Charles]: you'll get big ugly crab things with the wrong colours and LIKE IT

[Bex]: Man, as soon as I heard this year's Botcon exclusives were the Animated Stunticons, I went "MINE" and paid them money for a box set even though I wasn't attending. [Kep]: *hees* [Kep]: They are your boys [Bex]: They are. [Bex]: Now next year, they need to do the Aerialbots. (they are never going to do the Aerialbots) [Kep]: If they do, I expect to hear "Exclusive Botcon Toys bought out and shipped to undisclosed New Orleans address; happy squeeing heard in space."

[Bex]: Joy and Cindy get romances with giant robots. Susan gets them interfering with her exploration. Gnee! [Kep]: "Another blasted robot! Good GAD!" [Bex]: <333 [Kep]: *has been listening to the Amelia Peabody mysteries in the car* [Bex]: Alternatively, I suppose we could write an Onslaught/Susan romance. Which probably includes that line. Onslaught, she is doing serious exploration right now! Shoo! Take your war with you! [Kep]: "But…but my strategy…" [Bex]: "-is going to destroy these ancient Incan ruins!" [Kep]: "And…and that would be bad? We could find you other ruins…" [Bex]: "Each set of ruins is unique, Onslaught. The discoveries possible here may not be possible anywhere else." [Kep]: "Oh….I see…" [Bex]: "Can't you, I don't know, lure the Autobots off into the jungle and re-enact 'Predator' or something?" [Kep]: Vortex: "I call dibs on being a sexual tyrannosaurus!" [Kep]: Swindle: SO…you're Grimlock? [Kep]: Vortex: *ponders then shrugs* Sure! [Kep]: Onslaught: "Combaticons! We are going to move this battle to the north…." *glances at Susan* "…is that all right? About thirty clicks?" Bex: Susan: *smiles* "That's fine. Have fun! Beat those hooligans bloody!" [Kep]: Onslaught: "TO THE NORTH!" Kep: Swindle: *whipsounds*

[Sam]: When Simmons refers to Mikaela as "You, in the training bra." Megan Fox's bra is not in training. It is like, a veteran of multiple combat actions.

[Haze]: TF Energon kinda took the laws of physics into a back alley and mercilessly clubbed it with a mini-con on a stick.

(re: Transformers: Exodus) [Bex]: I admit, I entirely picked it up because my friend Ryuu had a hardback copy and the back-cover blurb was talking about how Megatron awoke a longing in Optimus Prime he had never known before. [Ra]: ahahahahaha [Xiaron]: O.o [Luna]: Becca, a harlequin romance would only improve the book. [Bex]: … considering the HQN I finished today, ouch. [Luna]: Optimus having Megatron's secret baby would make the story better and more coherent.

[Bex]: Megatron is offended by the Autobots having jets. [Luna]: As well he should be. [Luna]: Powerglide is very offensive.

[Bex]: Silverbolt: "I'll do something, Prime. I'll get them back, I promise." And thus begins a long history of Silverbolt manipulating his teammates for their own good. [Kep]: Onslaught: if you find a method that works, please let me know [Bex]: Slingshot: "Well, Prime's as stupid as those humans! None of those Autobots can hold a candle to us!" Silverbolt: "… Well, if we're so much better, why don't we run things?" Slingshot: "-What are you saying?" Silverbolt: "Let's go back to the volcano and take over." [Kep]: Onslaught: No! No! bad idea! bad idea! that never ends well!

[Liona]: It's kind of cracking me up how much Tarantulas and Rampage's conversation makes them sound like bitter ex-lovers. [Tai]: … [Ra]: XD XD XD [Tai]: ……. [Tai]: I… [Tai]: My brain [Tai]: I just pictured [Haze]: … [Tai]: all those legs [Haze]: Man

[Charles]: hordes of Predacons and, in secret, Maximals downloading the latest Red Rocket cast, about the dashing and ravishing Deception Seeker who fought Autobot oppression and liberated Female Autobots into a counter-revolutionary force with his interface module [Charles]: his nemesis turns into a truck, of course [Bex]: Of course! [Charles]: and is NOT MEANT TO BE OPTIMUS PRIME, oh no [Charles]: allusions to Optimus Prime by Tyrannimus Prime are COINCIDENTAL [Charles]: the character Higher One that the Red Rocket converts to freedom after a three-hour session is TOTALLY NOT Elita One [Charles]: and his buddy the blue tape recorder…. okay, we won't insult your intelligence with that one [Bex]: :D [Charles]: very formulaic, the Red Rockets - big daring air battle against numerous odds, a sinister Autobot super-weapon, and the day is saved by huge amounts of dodgy sex [Charles]: how dodgy depends on the ghost-writer [Charles]: pop-culture scholars have condemned some of the Red Rockets for being far too nasty and humiliating of the female Autobot characters [Charles]: though The Red Rocket In Chains! has been critically held up as a vital piece in de-tabooing Cybertron's BDSM practices

[Scott]: Optimus Prime, similar to the above Jean Grey example, has only sacrificed his life and revived a total of two times in the G1 cartoon, and another two in the Marvel Comic rendition. Okay first of all they're leaving out the Japanese version's death and the technical re-death in Dark Awakening, but even if that never happened he still died four times in a fandom that was only a handful of years old. [Scott]: How is THAT blowing things out of proportion? [Ravyn]: yeah [DE]: O.P. will never live down Video Game Suicide, nor does he deserve to. [Tai]: Heh. [Flyby]: lol [Flyby]: And they are correct in pointing out that RiD Prime never died. And he's the only one. [Scott]: I mean hell, even with that tally he's still three up on JESUS, and people are still going on about that!

[Scott]: First Aid: Nightbeat, I've got some unusual reports from your diagnostic. Did you know that your optics have been set to black and white? Nightbeat: Uh-huh. First Aid: And that the brightness has been turned right down, so that just about everything is black? Nightbeat: Yeah. First Aid: …And that a subroutine has been programmed in to generate grainy imperfections in both your visual and audio input? Nightbeat: What's your point? First Aid: ….

[Bex]: Hook and Perceptor can have love-children. *nods* [Sam]: Wouldn't Hook and Perceptor need to have LOVE first? [Bex]: … Hook and Perceptor can have disturbing-consensuality-issue-laced-attraction children.

[Rin]: see now, Optimus and Megatron BUILDING a baby together? that fic I would HARDCORE read [Rin]: that would be awesome! they'd spend the whole time arguing over how many cannons and lasers and the color scheme and NO MEGATRON WE ARE NOT CHOOSING THE BABY'S FACTION FOR THEM, THEY WILL DECIDE THEMSELVES OKAY

[Kep]: Rugby playing Stunticons? [Bex]: ….. [Bex]: *BSOD* [Kep]: You know they would! [Kep]: "So, you're all on the same team?" "…Team?" [Bex]: *giggles* [Kep]: 'Course, this means for other Deceptions, being the victim of Sudden Involuntary Rugby Syndrome.

[Scott]: "Dear Adminimus, please give me Beast Wars Megatron. I promise to use him to completely break Lugnut's brain. Hugs, Scott." [Bex]: *giggles at Scott* I'm sold. ;-) [Ravyn]: lol [Scott]: I was almost going to submit a similar app to 2k5 at one point. [Scott]: "Dear Charstaff, please give me Outback. I promise to roleplay him as if he was the Crocodile Hunter. Love, Scott." [Ravyn]: lol [Bex]: *sold on that, too* >_> [Scott]: "Now lookit the soize of this Gestalt! This one's a six-bot combinah! Yeh c'n tell by all the green 'n' purple on it!" [Scott]: "OOH CROIKEY, SHE'S A FEISTY ONE"

[Haze]: Though that reminds me of the Power Core Combiner guy that got revealed today. [Haze]: Mini-con that turns into an axe with an awkwardly placed handle. [Haze]: You know you're hardcore when you let someone else swing you around as a weapon by your junk.

[Luna]: …oh Primus, I have found Huffer bondage.

[Bex]: Our Heroes are going to negotiate with a neutral city-state. Hook used to be from there so he's here to provide insider cultural knowledge. (Except he left because they're practicing Functionists and were like, "no, you silly crane, you can't have medical training".) Onslaught and Swindle are supposed to be doing the actual negotiating, with Blast Off along to provide transportation and look pretty. [Bex]: Onslaught insists on bringing Brawl and Vortex along so they can't cause trouble while he's gone. Valid enough. Megatron insists they bring the Stunticons along because ??? [Kep]: "These damn kids are driving me nuts, they can be someone else's problem. And maybe start a war for daddy." [Bex]: on the Autobot hand, Jazz got the Dinobots and the Aerialbots. [Kep]: Prowl wants someone to start a war for Daddy too…

[Bex]: [my TFA versions of] Hook and Bonecrusher: This is our son [Megatron], he is a gigantic evil warlord. Everyone else: Why??? Hook and Bonecrusher: It's what he wanted to do with his life, fuck off. [Haze]: just watching the reports on space robot TV of his atrocities like "we're so proud"

[Bex]: Scrapper: We're spark-bonded, but I don't think that's what they mean… Onslaught: You are? Scrapper: Yes, all of us Constructicons are. I thought everyone knew that. Onslaught: …. Scrapper, I've been in a filing cabinet for six million years.

[Haze]: Whirl is interesting in his rampant assholery [Luna]: No, Whirl is literally a penis. [Ra]: Oh! Yes. [Lotti]: His altmode? [Luna]: Peniscopter. [Tai]: Flying dicks. [Luna]: We are mature people. :V [Haze]: The last thing I want is dicks that go WUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUPWUP [Bex]: *spittakes* [Luna]: *SNORK!* [Tai]: I guess depending on how you curve your hand… [Liona]: Pfffffffffft. XD [Luna]: Hahahaaaa! [Jess]: You people are crazy I love you.

[wander-wren]

my favorite thing in the WORLD is noun names that have normal-sounding real names. especially if you get real silly with it

penny -> aspen

mack -> mackerel

perry -> peregrine

andy -> coriander (i’m also partial to cori)

colt -> cobalt (bonus points for double noun)

mary -> meringue

charles -> charcoal

nick/y -> nectar

rhodie -> rhododendron

it’s great. it’s beautiful. it’s like that guy named tim but actually he’s optimus prime. it’s my favorite thing EVER

[joefesttoyandcomic]

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[agentsquirrelsgotrobots]

OK, now I am writing this. I do NOT have time for another longfic, though I might write Kade's perspective somedat. It's from Cody's perspective.

Cody looked around the tiny cafeteria and groaned internally. There was no way he would get into a good table. All the groups were too well knit. All except for... wait, is the girl in the pigtails waving at him? You know what, sure. At least the table wasn't completely packed.

"Hi! You're the new kid from that fancy tech place in Maine, right? The one full of department of defense rejects?"

"Yeah, that's Griffin Rock, alright."

Cody sat down, and by the end of the lunch period, he could tell that he had a spot to sit for the rest of the year, if not the beginnings of three new friendships.

Of course, he had to go mess it up immediately.

First of all, Jack's motorcycle wasn't a motorcycle. He could tell on sight. It just felt wrong. The same type of wrong the bots were.

Second of all, he REALLY shouldn't have pointed that out to him.

Now, he's being driven out of town in a green humvee with Miko, texting Kade that he was going to a friend's house.

Kade was a bit too chill about him not coming home that night.

The car pulled into a tunnel, and Cody really wasn't surprised when he saw

"Cody?" Optimus said, a look of relief on his face. "Thank Primus, you're safe. You and Kade seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, and nobody could trace your family's location."

"Oh, uh, Kade got a new job, Graham moved away to college, and Dani joined the air force."

"Really? Graham and Dani are accounted for, but you and Kade disappear, all bank accounts emptied, credit cards closed, everything. Kade's driver's license and your birth certificate were found in a drawer in your father's desk."

Cody stepped back, both in shock and in denial. "No, it was just a move. A fresh start, Kade noticed I wasn't doing well after my dad died."

William Fowler walked downstairs. "It's true, Cody. You disappeared. The bots assigned to Griffin Rock haven't been seen since a week before you went offline."

"What? Kade said they were called back by Optimus. I didn't see them leave, I was sick, but Heatwave wished me well before he left. Also, who are you?"

"I'm special agent William Fowler, I would like to speak to you, Cody Ruger, about your brother James."

"I don't have a brother named James, sir. My brother's names are Kade and Graham."

"And your mother's name is Catherine Ruger?"

"Yes, she and my dad got divorced when I was a few months old. She joined the military and was stationed overseas."

"Cody, could it be possible that Kade may have had a reason to change his and your name?"

"Yeah, Kade was always a mama's boy, but I didn't know he changed mine."

"Hmm. I will go make some calls, but are you open to staying here or with Jack tonight?"

"I just met Jack today, sir."

Fowler was surprised at that statement. "Then why, may I ask, are you here?"

"Special Agent William Fowler, Cody's late father, Police Chief Charles Burns, was the human liason to the civilian rescue service bots I had you relocate a few months ago."

"Agent Fowler, he knew that I wasn't a normal motorcycle by sight alone. I didn't think about the civilians in Maine, I thought there was another data leak." Arcee said, concern plainly in her voice.

"Prime, you said that the existence of the civilian bots was strictly classified."

"Agent Fowler, one of the bots was Bulkhead's brother. I could not in good conscience lie to his face until the war was over, and I am glad I didn't."

"Why?"

"Because this whole thing reeks of MECH, and if there is any possibility that the four bots could be recovered alive, we can not waste time on betrayed trust."

"Wait, wasn't that the terrorist group in the news that hacked that satellite last year?" Cody asked.

"That was the Decepticons, but MECH took credit for it." Jack said, leading Cody to the stairwell up to the human's lounge.

"Agent Fowler, I don't believe that Kade may be acting under duress. I want to remind you of the kind of spaces found in his internet history before he went off the grid. I wish Cody to continue as normal until Kade makes a move or attempts to flee."

Agent Fowler sighed. "Fine. But I want one of you bots to keep an eye on him. Remember that they still haven't completely ruled out foul play in Burns' death. I am gonna assign a few eyes to be on Graham, though Dani is deployed overseas on disaster relief and is out of MECH's reach."

They got their answer to the agent old question, 'is the angry redhead a traitor', surprisingly quickly. I mean, when he shows up next to the bad guy with a slicked back new haircut and wearing the goon uniform, you can make an informed guess.

Yeah, Kade was definitely evil.

However, Silas is currently taking Cody hostage at gunpoint and making him stand under the still alive, tortured body of his last remaining father figure, so maybe Kade wasn't the most evil person in the room at the moment.

Yeah, Silas won this one this time around.

Speaking of evil, Bulkhead and Wheeljack were currently failing to defuse a bomb embedded in Boulder's gut, the fact that the wound was still leaking energon was not helping.

Blades and Chase were unharmed but stuck in a metal storage unit that they probably could have busted through at any time, but again, it's Blades and Chase, so we aren't exactly working with the brains of the operation here.

Blades were panicking, and Chase had all the skills to escape of a cat with its head trapped in a paper bag, so, yeah, they both looked pretty stupid when Arcee ripped the door off its hinges without so much a grunt of effort.

Luckily, the most dangerous part of the bomb in Boulder's gut was the location, and after Wheeljack got it out of him, he tossed it aside just in time for it to barely scorch the concrete. Now that I think of it, there might have been a reason MECH put the bomb in Boulder's gut.

Fowler dealt with the hostage situation by tackling him while Optimus tried to bargain with Silas. Silas did not win against the tackle by a man that weighs one and a third of his body weight, and 40% flab. Optimus scooped up Cody and stuck him in his chest, pulling Heatwave's arm over his shoulder and calling for a ground bridge.

Luckily, after a long surgery, Heatwave was fine. Boulder just needed his wound cleaned and sealed shut.

Kade was caught by human border patrol several weeks later, trying to flee to Canada for some reason.

Yeah, I don't know what his thought process was there either. I kinda nuked everyone's intelligence in my attempts for this fic to not be longer than 2k words.

Task failed successfully, Cody moved in with the Darbys and was adopted by the Greenes after Kade was arrested and charged with terrorism. After the bots healed, Fowler got Dani honorably discharged from the Air Force and moved back to Griffin Rock. He got Heatwave a new handler from his men, and they get along... fine, to put it simply. They are professional with each other, at least. Chase adores his new handler, but the people of Griffin Rock are not fans of the uptick in traffic tickets.

Boulder refused to be assigned a new partner, and Fowler just rolled with it.

Ooooooo - what if MECH got to Kade. Not in a murder sense, but in an indoctrination. He had a REALLY rocky relationship with Heatwave in the early seasons, so all it would take is MECH realizing that he is a weak link, fuel his frustrations with Heatwave and Haley, and suddenly you have an angry, fit, and well placed agent within a house of four titans and Cody, who is a perfect hostage/victim. Engineer an "accident" that takes out Chief Burns, and now Kade's in charge.

Over time, Silas could have gained more and more of Kade's trust and, eventually, turned him against the entire island and the bots.

Who knows, Kade might have stood by as the Rescue Bots were dragged away to their deaths, him believing that he was protecting Cody.

I can imagine Optimus coming back to find the firehouse staffed with a normal crew, Kade forcing the rest of the family to skip town.

He is eventually moved to Jasper by Silas, and maybe, just maybe, takes a seat at a lunch table with three other outcasts...

[lets-try-some-writing]

Guilty Pleasures

Every sentient being has a secret hobby or interest. Autonomous robotic organisms not excluded.

Megatron

The only one who knows about his little hobby is Soundwave, it's a good thing too, because Megatron would kill anyone else who uncovered his secret.

Despite his general distaste for humans, Megatron admires their creativity, more specifically their literature.

He may be a warrior first and foremost but he also has a love for any all all historical and poetic works.

He enjoys reading and having to decipher the hidden meanings behind the stories he collects.

It fascinates him to read about just how different and how similar Cybertronian societies are.

However he would never be caught dead reading a book written by a human. So he sends Soundwave to fetch him good books whenever there is nothing more important on the agenda.

He is greatly inspired by Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, J.R.R Tolkien, C.S Lewis, and Homer.

He has a whole secret closet in his berthroom filled with dataslates that contain the works of his favorite authors.

He will often read them before falling into recharge, and occasionally he will attempt a little writing of his own if he is feeling particularly inspired.

This has led him to create another secret stash in his berthroom filled with his own stories, ones that mostly illustrate his own life and views on how society should be structured.

(If Megatron's works make their way into the newly rebuilt Iacon hall of records in the future due to a certain Prime, then no bot comments on it)

Optimus

He has a rather unique little hobby, one that like Megatron, he would never be caught dead engaging in.

His particular hobby stems from his base coding as an Archivist.

Since the war did not really grant him much opportunity to work with and organize the data he desired, he ended up developing a tendency to note and catalogue the relationships of bots around him.

In short, Optimus is a shipper.

It was not a purposeful thing, but as time passed and tensions heightened Optimus just started listening in on conversations more frequently and paying extra attention to body language and how other bots interacted with one another.

He found it fascinating and so began to write it all down on a dataslate, and from there it just escalated as he began noting how certain bots reacted around others.

It really began after he started listing known relationships and all the information he had on them (In surprising and almost creepy detail)

Then he started theorizing and creating a whole separate catalogue dedicated to organizing gossip and discerning what was correct and incorrect so that he could get his relationship files properly updated.

In the end he created the most intricate and well informed database filled with information regarding every known relationship, platonic, familial, and romantic that he caught wind of.

But of course that still wasn't enough for his Archivist coding, he needed and still needs a constant flow of fresh data, and so he started playing a role in the relationships around him.

A well placed rumor here, a slight change of orders there, and Optimus's notes gain new additions from either the success or fallout of the event, satisfying his urges and helping his troops sort out their feelings much quicker than they would have otherwise.

To the complete and utter shock of everyone when they eventually find out; it is not Smokescreen, Bumblebee, Jazz, or any other source that has all the tea. No, it's all Optimus, and he knows everything and will gladly play matchmaker for his favorite OTP.

Soundwave

Cats. Soundwave. Loves. CATS.

He thinks they are the best to thing to happen since Primus himself came into being and nothing will change his mind.

His berthroom is covered in posters, pictures, and art of cats.

He has a whole pile of cat plushies that he stole and he adores it, especially when he is having a mental breakdown.

Soundwave also has a whole drive reserved solely for any all and all cat related content on the internet.

He is obsessed, he wants a cat badly, and he is not shy about his desire to adopt one.

However as he knows it would not be safe for a feline to stay on board the nemesis, Soundwave has turned to alternative methods to satisfy his desire to be around the fluffy organics.

Soundwave's solution is to not keep cats on board the nemesis permanently, but to bring them on for a limited time before ground bridging them away.

When he has the chance he collects a few street cats that he has taken a liking to and will keep them with him in his office, taking every measure to ensure their health and happiness.

The cats love him and he loves them, everybody goes home happy in the end.

However on the off chance that someone wanders into Soundwave's office while he is with his court of cats they are met with hisses and a terrifying blank stare from the spymaster.

Everyone on board the nemesis chalks it up to Soundwave being strange as usual and refuses to speak of what they see, lest the spymaster make them disappear.

Ratchet

Despite his gruff personality Ratchet has a rather wholesome secret hobby, that being baking.

He picked up baking from his mentor before the war, the older mech had been fond of the activity due to its simplicity.

Ratchet was skeptical, but out of respect for his mentor agreed to participate.

He ended up developing a fondness not for the energon goodies themselves, but for the process by which they were made and the smiles of those who consumed them.

During the war he made energon goodies and secretly put them in among the rations to increase moral among the troops

For a while a rumor spread about how there was a ghost meandering about leaving goodies for bots who did well or were going through some things.

No one suspected the 'I NEEDED THAT!' Ratchet to be the one leaving the treats. (except Optimus or course, such data would never escape his notice, not with his files constantly needing updating)

Ratchet also got into the habit of making small batches of goodies for Bumblebee every now and then when he was small, mainly to keep him quiet but also because he genuinely has a soft spot for him.

The habit continued even when Bee got older, surprising the scout on occasion when a little baggie of goodies appeared in his rations.

Once on earth Ratchet also ends up becoming interested in the human version of baking and since then has found no end of frustrations with the whole process.

Despite how much it aggravates him, when he has time he tries hard to figure out the intricacies of human baking so that the children won't feel left out out when the energon goodies are passed around (not that he will admit that is his true purpose)

Currently his baking capabilities with human food are abysmal largely due to inappropriately sized equipment and lack of organically attuned taste buds.

But the children appreciate the burned cupcakes he produces anyway, after all, its the thought that counts.

Knockout

In his own words, he is not only an Automobile but an Automobile enthusiast.

He goes street racing when he can but for a mech as interested in cars as he is, only being able to street race is not nearly enough.

And so Knockout collects things, more specifically model cars.

If he likes them as they are, he will liberate (steal) them from human stores and display them on a little shelf he has in his berthroom.

He even has some mood lighting around the shelf to really draw attention to his collection.

His favorite models also have their own little pedestals which spin and light up.

He is particularly proud of himself for setting it all up correctly.

But, oh boy, if any bot on the nemesis so much as looks at his collection funny he will end them.

Those are his models. No touching.

Usually the models he collects are well painted and well within acceptable standards but sometimes he just doesn't like the colorations of his models.

On such occasions he will spend hours, painstakingly using tiny tools to change the coloration of his collectable. Carefully using small brushes and glasses in order to make everything just right.

He always takes great care to not damage the fragile human product. Sometimes going so far as to watch online video's on model painting just so that he doesn't mess up.

Occasionally though, the mass produced models simply don't cut it for Knockout, and so he goes hunting for rare and custom made collectables.

He even set up an account online and liberated (stole) some cash to use to buy particular models from around the globe.

If a human were to see his collection they would be flabbergasted as he has one of the most pristine and extensive model collections known to man.

Bumblebee

Bumblebee never really had a hobby on Cybertron, he was far too busy training for and fighting in a war to really get involved in anything else.

However upon coming to earth and getting roped into earth culture his status as a mech without an interest changed quickly.

Bumblebee swiftly got swept up in the melting pot that is the internet, and there he learned a great many things he wishes he could forget.

But it was also on the internet that he was introduced to video gaming.

He spent countless hours watching gameplays, livestreams, and walkthrough video's, yearning more and more with every video to be able to play as well.

Thankfully his wish was granted when Raf rolled round and helped him get his own gaming system set up, with controllers of the appropriate size of course.

What no one expected however was for Bumblebee to become and absolute boss in nearly every game he played.

Online matches are filled with anger towards Bumblebee's character, but being a veteran of the internet by the time he starts playing, he is unconcerned by the human profanity thrown at him as he leaves his competitors in the dust.

Bumblebee has even made it into the world of E-sports, operating under an alias when online and using a holoform when he is required to turn up for tournaments.

Agent Fowler had a fit when he found out, but since no one suspects Bumblebee's alias of anything other than hacking he left it be.

Little does anyone know that Bumblebee has no fragging clue as to what he is doing.

More often than not it is dumb luck, a lot of ignorance, a healthy dose of stupidity, and his spectacular servo to optic coordination that pull him through.

Everyone around base praises him for his skill when they watch him play, and Bumblebee thoroughly enjoying the praise, refuses to say anything regarding the truth of his gaming career.

[comicaurora]

Are there any romance stories or romantic subplots that specifically worked really well for you? Maybe because they were "good friends being good friends" plots first and "romance" plots second?

it is very depressing to me that for a while I could only give a conditional "yes" to this one. There are romantic subplots I liked up to a point that the writers made decisions about them I thought were weird and dumb, or that I liked in hindsight but didn't really appreciate at the time. And despite having watched a not inconsiderable amount of live-action media, every single halfway good example I could conjure up was from a cartoon.

Catra and Adora have a fascinatingly tumultuous arc to me, but I spent the entire show genuinely believing we'd never get a payoff, and when we actually got the big kiss I was too busy being shocked to really process the ramifications. In my head I'd filed them right next to Charles Xavier/Magneto and Optimus Prime/Megatron, enemies so clearly soulmates with each other but in that special murdery way. I've been planning a full rewatch, so I might get to fully appreciate it this time!

When I watched through Ben 10: Alien Force I remember being genuinely surprised at how much I liked the romantic subplot between Kevin and Gwen. I think because they were both kinda assholes about it, but in very synergistic ways. He's the platonic ideal of an Edgy Emotionally Repressed Lancer but he's kind of too blunt and straightforward to remember to be emotionally repressed all the time, and she's a smart snarky ass-kicker who figures out that they're clearly into each other immediately and bluntly asks him when he's gonna ask her out in like episode three, which completely throws him off his game. It was very cute, and Kevin got in a few good "take the bullet for the love interest to save her" moments that I'm always a fan of, but after the first couple seasons something shifted in the writer's room and Kevin got shunted back down the "actually a dickhead" route and the characters stopped acting like they cared about each other so much. It was a bummer, and since the characters stopped acting consistently in-character I kind of disengaged. But I did like how they handled it early on!

I am, obviously, broadly a big fan of the romantic subplots in ReBoot, as I am with all other major parts of that show. The main one that got focused on was between protagonists Bob and Dot, which was kind of standard background will-they-won't-they fare for the first three seasons - some miscommunications and arguments and daring rescues - until they get in a big kiss in the finale. The problem, as ever, is in season four, when they start doing some really weird sitcom telenovela twists, including a second Bob popping out of a portal and claiming to be the real Bob, and everyone in the show spontaneously sheds 90% of their braincells to forget the fact that their Bob is the one who saved the day over and over again since getting fished out of the Web, so everyone ignores our best boy who actually did the heroics to play favorites with Other Bob. Obviously Other Bob turns out to be a bad guy in disguise, but this is revealed at his wedding to Dot, and it's just fuckin stupid that it would get to that point at all. This is a big part of why I mentally carve season 4 off the canon timeline and just let it end at the season 3 finale.

The other romantic subplot is between Matrix and AndrAIa, who meet as children in season 2 and have a cute kind of mutual crush thing going on before they get lost in the games in the season 3 timeskip and, offscreen, grow up together and enter a fully-established and completely solid relationship. Aside from a brief "matrix gets jealous" subplot in the back half of season 3 that really just serves to reflect his fascinating cocktail of trauma-induced self-loathing issues, they're remarkably stable and play off each other well. I think the fact that we skipped all the romantic will-they-won't-they drama and went straight to "they did, they have, and they're totally good" did it a lot of favors - and despite Matrix being, by any metric, an asshole, it never feels like AndrAIa is settling or putting up with him or tasked with fixing him. It's more like they're each the only person the other truly feels safe and whole around, so Matrix is truly an asshole to everyone but AndrAIa (and later Bob and Dot, his other loved ones) and AndrAIa is not guarded or defensive around Matrix.

Gargoyles also had two different romantic subplots I liked - one between heroes, one with villains. Goliath and Elisa have a great dynamic that's a little less will-they-won't-they and a little more of an unspoken agreement, "we're both really into each other but we also don't really think this can happen on account of being fully different species and we're too mature to get dramatic about it." Since they're basically on the same page about it, they don't have much in the way of drama or miscommunication, it's just all that good "rescuing each other from peril" content I like.

On the villain side, David Xanatos and Fox had a surprisingly wholesome relationship considering they're full-blown villains for the first couple seasons. It's a case where their romantic subplot made them both better people in the long run as they developed priorities that weren't selfish. They ALSO skipped all the will-they-won't-they and went straight into a wholesome, committed, mutually supportive relationship.

I do also recall being genuinely surprised how much I liked the romantic subplot between Trevor Belmont and Sypha. I think what made it work for me was the tendency for them to clearly and honestly communicate with each other - about more than just their romantic subplot. There's a great bit in season 4 where they just sit down and are like "everything's been happening a LOT lately, let's talk about how we feel about that", and I appreciated the moment I think is in season 3 where they're like "hey… maybe… leaving Alucard alone in his dead parents' castle ten minutes after helping him kill his dad… was bad for him?" It's a romantic subplot that doesn't feel like it eclipses the rest of their characterization and it doesn't mean they stop caring about anything other than each other. And it also skipped over the will-they-won't-they, so honestly no wonder I liked it.

I know there's more, but I genuinely had to google lists of shows to remind myself of the one-in-a-million examples I actually liked, so let's leave it here for now.