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morninkim · 6 months ago

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"Years of fighting. Bots and Cons falling left and right. Dying on our behalf. No more. We settle this now, Megatron." "Just the two of us then? To the death? Ahh, brings me back to the pits all those centuries ago. Very well then, today will be the day the great Optimus Prime finally falls by my hand." "Only one of us is walking away from this rock functional, old friend. It will not be you."

~ Audio from Optimus Prime's remains at the sight of his final confrontation with Megatron that ended the Great War. circa 2003.

Audio encoded by Soundwave, Memory bank recovered by Ratchet

#transformers #maccadam #transformers fan design #optimus prime #megatron #tf reconstruction #had to design them bc i have such a clear idea for an illustration i wanna do for my au and needed ref for when i get around to it #i think their history is Interesting and Cool in this universe #like its standard fair kinda except at one point they were both freedom fighters on the same side against cybertron's oppressive government #(after optimus initially served as a propagandized captain america figure against the growing uprising)#but disagreement's in how to handle everything once cybertron was liberated #(and decepticon generals like starscream and shockwave whispering into megatron's audio processors over the years)#lead to escalations and eventually all-out civil war which spread across the sector and the galaxy #i'm thinking the initial disagreement was like. optimus wanted freedom and self determination free from any corrupt governing body #with the belief that reestablishing the council would only lead to further corruption and therefore another uprising #while megatron at first wanted a better government that actually looked after the people it was supposed to provide for #but that got distorted from ''we need what's best for cybertron'' to ''I'M what's best for cybertron'' over time #idk if that's all that revolutionary or unique but it was what felt right to me

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