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Guilty Pleasures (Part 3)

I swear this is the last post of Guilty Pleasures! I just felt the need to spread the love around a bit! With that said please enjoy more wholesome robot hobbies.

Ultra Magnus

The Autobot's second in command has been widely regarded as stiff and by the book. His hobby unsurprisingly keeps to this standard.

Even before arriving to earth Ultra Magnus always enjoyed puzzles.

Anything that really put his mind to work could keep him occupied for hours at a time.

But once he got to earth he quickly became interested in the puzzles Raf brought to base.

It took a great deal of effort at first. Attempting to move the small pieces being a lot more effort than it was probably worth, but he persevered anyway.

However Ultra Magnus didn't really get into the whole puzzle thing until Wheeljack proclaimed he couldn't do it.

Suddenly doing puzzles wasn't a matter of interest, but one of pride.

He started with small puzzles in order to work on his dexterity, and then over the course of several weeks, worked his way up to thousand piece puzzles.

It only continued to escalate, with every completed puzzle not so subtly being shown to Wheeljack to prove that he most certainly CAN complete puzzles, thank you.

It became habit for him to set up the most complex puzzle he could find and try to complete it as fast as possible, a true challenge given the size of his servos.

The act soothes him and give him a well earned break from the stress of everyday life.

It also helps ease his anxiety when Optimus isn't around to calm him down on bad days.

Predaking

Predaking, the noble spark that he is, likes to read and listen to stories from ancient times.

Both Cybertronian and earth mythologies interest him greatly.

He has developed a deep respect for Primus, the Thirteen Primes, the previous Predaking, Arthur Pendragon, and the Norse Gods.

The deep set code of honor present in all the before listed entities keeps him positively enthralled.

He prefers to hear the stories from the most reliable sources, as such he goes to great lengths to find those with the appropriate qualifications.

He has listened to every reliable podcast on the subject of earth culture that he can get a hold of.

He has also in great secrecy, met up with Optimus just so he can listen to the older mech's stories.

No living mech knows Cybertronian history better than the Matrix bearer and former head Archivist.

And Optimus doesn't mind telling Predaking his stories, in fact, he finds it relaxing to speak to one who isn't tired of his tales.

Predaking likes to pretend that he is mightier than everyone else, but secretly he holds a great deal of respect for Optimus Prime, partially due to his excellent storytelling but also due to his prowess in battle.

When he isn't gathering stories from the Prime, Predaking goes to historical sights under the cover of darkness in order to see a glimpse of what earth might have been like during Arthur's age.

All in all it is a rather wholesome interest.

Wheeljack

Wheeljack doesn't have a hobby in the traditional sense.

Yes he likes explosives and building things, but he doesn't really do either of those things for his own benefit.

All of his skill and enthusiasm always end up being used to help some other bot enjoy their hobby to the fullest.

He prefers helping others ramp up their interests to amazing new heights, mainly to see if it is even possible.

His interference in Smokescreen's beetle battles being an excellent example of this.

But his meddling is also present in nearly every other Autobot's hobby as well, not just Smokescreen.

Wheeljack has experimented with Arcee's plants to see if it is possible make something like the pea shooter from plantsVSzombies.

Arcee was not pleased, but she also held a certain degree of morbid curiosity towards the bulbous abomination that came from Wheeljack's experiments.

Wheeljack also likes to assist Bulkhead in testing out his more wild conspiracy theories, building drones to sneak onto bases like area 51 to see if there really are other aliens in there.

Results on that front have been inconclusive as Agent Fowler and co have always managed to catch their drone before it could get far.

Ratchet has also found himself with Wheeljack's assistance as he has attempted to figure out human recipes.

Most of the time their combined brain cell ends up taking the instructions way to literally or to the utmost extreme.

What do you mean a pancake isn't supposed to be made of pans? It's in the name!

And the cookies aren't meant to lathered with fire? The recipe said to bake them at 350?! Why can't a blowtorch be used to speed up the process!?!

Their collective IQ decreases and increases simultaneously when they work together, leading to either ingenious creations or utter and complete chaos

As for Bumblebee, he sticks to simply competing with Wheeljack on game nights, he would rather not risk his PC blowing up.

And Optimus, well, Wheeljack quickly learned to never, EVER speak of the Prime's little hobby.

It is a secret he intends to take to the grave.

The Vehicons

The little goons are bored more often than not, as such they take great joy in pranks and recording the hilarious blunders that occur around them.

The Vehicons have developed an advanced communication system that links them all into a version of the internet reserved for them and them alone.

This communication wasn't devised for efficiency, no, it was created by Vehicon St3v30z, nicknamed Steve, for the sole purpose of sharing Starscreams many high pitched screams with the rest of the Vehicons.

It was immediately a hit among the troops and Starscream became a meme over night, not that he knew of course.

It just escalated from there, with different Vehicons assigned to different areas sharing their own recorded videos featuring the embarrassing actions of those in high command.

Soon of course, just waiting for funny things to happen wasn't enough for the Vehicons anymore. They needed more content, thus began the secret, and still ongoing, prank wars.

As a good chunk of the Vehicons are not in any position to record or play pranks they contribute to the cause by providing resources to the recorders.

Usually this just means they take their sweet time with assignments or vacate an area in order for a prank to take place.

This then is the perfect opportunity for the pranksters to get some good content.

A random pipe bursting and scaring the scrap out of Knockout? Hilarious, instant meme.

Arrows on the floor leading Breakdown to wander endlessly and in great confusion in a giant circle? Perfect, comedy gold.

Giant cardboard cutout of Megatron placed ominously around a corner to terrify Starscream? You know Steve was there to capture the marvelous shrieks.

Glitter bomb on Megatron? Pray that Soundwave doesn't rat the perpetrator out and enjoy the show.

Not even the Autobots are safe.

Poor Optimus has been left creepy notes from a supposed ghost, terrifying the rather religious mech and granting the Vehicons some satisfying pictures of the Prime's disturbed expression.

Ratchet has had glitter bombs thrown at him literally every single time he appears in fight. All Vehicons carry at least one so that should Ratchet turn up, they have the chance to hit him with it.

Vehicons who manage to get Optimus caught up in one of the glitter bombs are paraded as heroes privately.

As for the rest of the team? They get random troll messages often showing one of the Vehicons playing an kazoo or doing something equally irritating.

The Vehicons laugh at everyone else's expense.

Here it is! Done! No more! Time for new things and new headcannons! I couldn't think of anything for Arachnid and I don't know if I missed anyone else or not. Please let me know if there is any bot you want some headcannons for or that I missed.