#look i started calling them his blueberry emo colors at some point and I'm not going to stop

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okay so.... I dunno how much of this was a thing or just another part of the fandom on this part of Megatron asking Hot Rod to join his revolution in Rodion(?) but Hot Rod declined it and did his own thing.

This is all a very rough idea and perhaps full of gaps that anyone call fill but how about give it a twist for Tfp Decepticon Rodimus/Hot Rod:

Rodimus/Hot Rod did join the Decepticons in the beginning when Megatron asked him and things were going pretty good in the first round of time. But then things started going south after completing their original goal.

Could be when Megatron and the rest of the chosen crew that were going after Optimus is when Rodimus/Hot Rod made his leave and joined the Autobots.

or maybe it was when he listened to one of Optimus' speeches that gave some thought and pushed him forward to leave the Decepticons.

(another thing I would like to point out is that decepticon hot rod might have had either the same color scheme as purple rodimus or cyberverse hot rod when he went through that darker shade of his original scheme, maybe)

I too have no idea how much is fanon/canon!

But, for tfp, considering what I know of both of their backstories (mtmte for Roddie and aligned for Megatron), I exactly see the opportunity here

As far as color palette I like to think Roddie had his LL blueberry emo colors, the blues/blacks/purples look so good on him.

I can totally see Roddie realizing that "oh fuck, Megatron is doing some heinous shit to fuck with his ex" , and deciding it's a good bet to leave. Interesting that he's a decepticon who defected in the beginning, that's gotta lead to cool consequences

Wait idea

It was Roddie getting saved once by Optimus or another that made him rethink things, a la tfp Breakdown style (except unlike Breakdown, Roddie successfully ended up defecting to the autobots)