#megatron x terminus

[transingthoseformers]

So... you thinking Terminus/D-16 or Terminus&D-16? 👀

Both are good.

That is exactly what I'm thinking yes yes I admit it

Update:

[driftsart]

Hello drift i am a very big fan of yours and i was very invested in the story in your au!, i always check your account for updates because the lore is just.. literally amazing i do have two questions though,

1, what do you feel about rarepairs or Oc x canon? (it can be in the transformers community or in any other fandom your in)

2, who is your most favorite transformer?(it can be multiple) and are you excited to see the transformers one movie?

OH MY GOSH HI!! YOU'RE SO KIND, TY!! :D

About rare pairs or oc x canon, I'm all for it! I do have some ocs too!

I love rare pairs too, I have some in my au! Like Megaempress x Slipstream, even Magnus x Red Alert!

About my favorite transformer, probably Megatron! But Terminus, Optimus, Starscream, and Shockwave are close too.

And about the Transformers One Movie, absolutely! It looks so good, I'm soo excited about it I can't wait to see it! (⁠≧w≦⁠)

[anony-man]

Taking chubformers requests!

Send in a request for your preferred character and I'll write up a little drabble for them! Just a few things to keep in mind before asking:

1) Any characters welcome!

2) Feel free to ask for the same character, even if it's already been written!

3) If you have a specific prompt in mind (bedbound character, stuckage, etc), feel free to add it!

See below for finished drabbles and characters who have already been requested!

Characters previously written:

1. Sunstreaker (G1)

2. Megatron (TFP)

3. Swindle (TFA)

4. Starscream (G1)

5. Thundercracker (IDW)

6. Sky/Jetfire (G1)

7. First Aid (IDW)

8. Ironhide (G1)

9. Sideswipe (G1)

10. Bumblebee (TFA)

11. Prowl (IDW)

12. Shockwave (G1)

13. Galvatron (G1)

14. Bombshell (G1 - sfw)

15. Devastator (G1)

16. Rodimus (IDW)

17. Helex (IDW)

18. Sunstreaker (G1)

19. Megatron (G1)

20. Bravern

21. Bulkhead (TFA)

22. Optimus (G1)

23. Megatron (TFA)

24. Scrapper (G1)

25. Seaspray (G1)

26. Swindle (ES)

27. Long Haul (G1)

28. Megatron (TFP)

29. Soundwave (G1)

30. Dreadwing (TFP)

31. Starscream (TFP)

32. Blitzwing (TFA - fluffy)

33. Sunstorm (G1)

34. Wreck-Gar (TFA)

35. Minimus Ambus (IDW)

36. Ratchet (G1)

37. Rumble (G1)

38. Chase (RBA)

39. Springer (IDW)

40. Vortex (IDW)

41. Cliffjumper (G1 - mobility issues)

42. Bulkhead (TFA - stuckage)

43. Sentinel Prime (TFA)

44. Unicron (G1)

45. Bulkhead (TFP)

46. Galvatron (G1)

47. Ratchet (IDW)

48. Skyquake (TFP)

49. Bumblebee (G1)

50. Starscream & Windblade (IDW)

51. Ratchet (IDW)

52. Dratchrod (IDW)

53. Breakdown & Knock Out (TFP)

54. Knock Out (TFP)

55. Blurr (TFA)

56. Cyclonus (IDW)

57. Pharma (& First Aid - IDW)

58. Starscream (G1)

59. Megaratch (TFP)

60. Overlord (IDW)

61. Primus (G1)

62. Blitzwing (& Bee - TFA)

63. Misfire (IDW)

64. Windblade (& Starscream - IDW)

65. Kiloton (TF)

66. Megatron & Optimus (ES)

67. Rodimus & Velocity (IDW)

68. Dreadwing & Skyquake (TFP)

69. Smokescreen (TFP)

70. Blast Off & Onslaught (IDW)

71. Starscream & Wheeljack (IDW)

72. Tailgate & Cyclonus (IDW)

73. Rung (IDW)

74. Starscream (TFP)

75. Megatron (& Kiloton & Soundwave - G1)

76. Megatron (& Terminus - IDW)

77. Megatron & Soundwave (TFP)

78. Megatron & Soundwave (TFP)

79. Megatron (IDW)

80. Soundwave (TFP)

81. Skyfire & Cosmos (IDW)

82. Megatron (water inflation - TFP)

83. Pharma (& First Aid & Ambulon - IDW)

84. Brainstorm (IDW)

85. Pharma & Tarn (IDW)

86. Swoop (TFA)

87. Pharma (& First Aid & Ambulon - IDW)

88. Pharma (& Ratchet - IDW)

89. Fort Max (& Megatron - IDW)

90. First Aid (IDW)

91. Megatron (& Soundwave; Gladiators - TFP)

92. Megatron (Armada)

93. Overlord & Trepan (IDW)

94. Megatron (liquid inflation - TFP)

95. Sunstreaker (ovi - G1)

96. Swerve & Skids (IDW)

97. Sunder (& Froid - IDW)

98. Lockdown & Swindle (TFA)

99. Perceptor (IDW)

100. Drift (IDW)

101. Optimus (G1)

102. Cliffjumper (& Shockwave - G1)

103. Tailgate (IDW)

104. Brawl (& Onslaught - IDW)

105. Shockwave (stuckage - TFA)

106. Red Alert (IDW)

107. Ultra Magnus (G1)

108. Thunderclash (IDW)

109. Cyclonus & Tailgate (IDW)

110. Megatron & Soundwave (inflation - TFP)

111. Megatron & Soundwave (TFP)

112. Pharma (& First Aid & Ambulon; blueberry inflation - IDW)

113. Beachcomber & Perceptor (G1)

114. Smokescreen (G1)

115. Hound & Mirage (G1)

116. Bumblebee (& Cons - TFA)

117. Sky-Byte (RID)

118. Megatron (& Soundwave - TFP)

119. Brawl & Onslaught (IDW)

120. Red Alert (& Inferno - G1)

121. Pharma (& the DJD - IDW)

122. Starscream (TFA)

123. Megatron & Minimus (IDW)

Characters requested:

1. Orion Pax (TF: One)

2. Hound (& Crosshairs - Bayverse)

3. Trailbreaker (G1)

4. Starscream (blueberry inflation - G1)

5. Megatron (Cyberverse)

6. Prowl (G1)

7. Sentinel (TF: One)

8. Arcee (G1)

9. Blitzwing (TFA)

10. Megatron & Megatron X (Cyberverse)

11. Megatron (TFP)

12. Soundwave (& Megatron - TFP)

[seraphim-seeker]

Hazbin x Transformers AU:

Megatron as Charlie

Terminus or Megazarak or Galvatron as Lucifer

Termagax or Ultra Magnus Lilith (Depending on who I choose to be Lucifer)

Bee and CliffJumper as Razzle and Dazzle

Optimus or Kiloton as Vaggie

Tarn or Soundwave as Alastor

Rodimus as Angel Dust

Possibly Ratchet as Husk

Brainstorm as Sir Pentious

Drift/Deadlock as Cherri Bomb

IDK for Niffty (Possibly Wreck-Gar or someone else)

Getaway as Valentino

Sentinel Prime as Adam

All I got for now, thoughts?

[idlepollingofcybertron]

Poll Candidate suggestions have finished! Thank you all of my midnight Anons! It has been delightful. Let's get into the nitty gritty of the competition and our competitors.

HOW IS THE POLL SET UP?

The poll will have an initial 48 candidates.

Round One that will last a day with 24 match ups. There will be a one day break afterwards sharing any highlights of that round (and giving me time to make the other).

Round Two will have twelve matchups lasting a day and a similar break set up.

Round Three will have three match ups and last a day.

This will leave us with three finalists. We will have three days of elimination matches leaving the two finalists.

The finals with the remaining two deadbeats will last a week after which we crown the Most Deadbeat Parent of Transformers!

WHEN DOES THE POLL START?

Round One will start tonight at 8:00 PM EST!

WHAT ARE THE MATCH UPS FOR ROUND ONE?

The full list of the twenty-four matches are below. I will be adding links once all the polls are posted. Each are set up with the name of character (continuity they are in) format, except for three special characters which are technically all the same.

Please feel free to add in arguments/propaganda for or against the characters. My ask box and submissions are open.

This is, again, done as a laugh and not to be taken as any serious criticism of the character.

I actively like most of these characters and do have my own favorites on this list.

Miko's Host Parents (TFP) v. Bradley White's Parents (UT)

Unicron v. Primus

Megatron (G1) v. Spike Witwicky (G1)

Hound's Father (Bayverse) v. Quintessa (Bayverse)

Soundwave (TFP) v. Jazz (Aligned)

Blaster (SG) v. Onslaught (Marvel)

Megatron X (Cyberverse) v. Zeta Prime (IDW1)

Optimus Prime (G1) v. Kup (G1)

Megatron (UT) v. Megatron (TFA)

Megatron (IDW1) v. Starscream (TFA)

Jhiaxus (Timelines) v. Perceptor (TFA)

Shockwave (Marvel) v. Shockwave (TFP)

Brian Jones (UT) v. Isaac Sumdac (TFA)

Alpha Trion v. Primacron

Dr. Arkeville (G1) v. Dirk Manus (G1)

Team Prime (TFP) v. Constructicons (G1)

Megatron (RiD 2001) v. Megatron (BW)

Ravage (BW) v. Galvatron (BW2)

Maximal High Council (BW) v. Eject (BWU)

Tarantulas (BW) v. Terminus (IDW1)

Prowl (IDW1) v. Cryak (IDW2)

Leo Convoy (BW2) v. Optimus Prime (Marvel)

Grimlock (G1) v. Ultra Magnus (TFA)

Optimus Prime (IDW1) v. Drift (RiD 2015)

Everyone have fun and remember vote the worst, most deadbeat of them! May the best-worst win!

Note: As a general warning for anyone who isn't particularly fond of polls as I will be using the main tags, all of my polls will be tagged as "transformers deadbeat poll" if you would like to block this tag to cut down on seeing them

[minimegs]

To Terminus, my oldest friend, my closest ally.

There isn’t a day nor cycle that passes where thoughts of you don’t graze across my mind. The berth is always so empty, as it has been for millennia. Your warm frame absent, as it the brightness of your mind that used to lighten the atmosphere, no matter how foul it was previously. Intelligent conversation does not fill the air like it used to. Instead, I am left only with my own frigid thoughts, they leave a damp frost over the memories of what once was.

We had nothing, but that nothing was everything down beneath the ground in the mines. Where the sun couldn’t warm us so instead we maintained each other, and it was love.

I spent two millennia telling myself it wasn’t. Denying it, drowning my processor in work and strategy and playing out a melancholic hollow, lifeless almost comedic act of the revolution we dreamed of together. It was folly. I often wonder how different everything may have accumulated to be if you were by my side. The darkness the hole of you, amongst an array of other things, transformed me into something you would deem vulgar and unrecognisable.

Partly, I am glad you never bore witness to him. Partly, I doubt that Megatron would of ever existed if you were still seated by my side.

Secondary to that, you did believe dearly in the evolution of things, and what had to be done to create a better way of being. I never allowed those ideals to falter. I know you would see how it applies.

There is a mech aboard this vessel whom has captured my attentions. My attentions is a lighter, uncharacteristic way to put it. My processor yearns for him such as a organic fish yearns for water. His real title is Minimus Ambus, though he goes by others. You would like him. He is efficient and stoic, organised and wholly devoted to his position.

I have always partially prided myself on my command of speech, but I find it trying to fathom the words to properly describe him without seeming overzealous. A problem I’ve only faced once before, while writing the last letter you ever read from me.

However, I cannot help but feel like I’m tethered to a spark that no longer glows, while mine barely flickers.

This shall be the last letter I write you that you’ll never read, the last letter to be lost in the pages of a history recited with malice tone.

I am with him now, and for the first time in eons, that warmth has returned to me. Perhaps different from what we once shared, basked in, loved in, but still just as consuming. I can ignore it no longer - after a life spent denying everything around me, I will not deny him.

Till all are one, and I meet you once more.

[deliriousbug]

what about s/o who was a friend of megatron and then he introduces them to terminus, they fall in love and megatron kinda becomes a stepson? lol

omg this is hilarious i love it!

If Megatron had known that introducing you to Terminus would result in this he would never have done it. Currently he was sitting across from his closest friend and his father figure, silent as he attempted to process the news you’d just delivered. You sipped delicately at your engex and sighed contentedly. Terminus couldn’t quite meet Megatron’s questioning gaze. 

“Conjunx Endura?” Megatron finalled managed.

You beamed. “Yes. But we wanted your blessing first.”

Terminus cleared his throat. “You are the closest thing to family that I’ve ever had, Megatron. It only felt right to reserve this honor for you.”

Megatron polished off the last of his highgrade. “I would never deny you happiness, Terminus. Of course you have my blessing.”

You gleefully ordered a round of celebratory shots. While you waited for them to come, you side-eyed Megatron mischievously. “So, son, what family activities should we do this weekend?”

Megatron knocked over his glass in his hasty escape.

[spockandawe]

sunderedstar asked:

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ::::)

Song 5/8, and oh man, my penchant for traditional irish music and other related genres is coming back to bite me in the ass, because it turns out that all my favorite genres are the ones most heavily inclined to writing about stories. Anyways! it’s a fun challenge. So now we’ve got John Doyle singing Crooked Jack (lyrics).

I was tall and true all of 6 foot 2 But they broke me across the back By a name I'm known and it's not my own They call me Crooked Jack

God, I love the melody for the chorus in this song. It;s funny that I didn’t get Process Man or Dark As A Dungeon, because those are in a very similar vein but I know them much better than this one. But this one has a very personal edge that’s awful nice.

First of all, the low-hanging fruit. Terminus. I’d KILL to see the inside of his head while he’s reorienting on the universe after waking up in necroworld, and how he’s evaluating and adjusting for how Megatron’s gotten very old, very experienced, and very jaded since he last saw him. I want to see how he tries to use his old manipulation techniques, how he watches them fail, and how he adapts his approach. I’d love to take this all thew way up through the end of the functionist universe field trip, I want to see him genuinely caring for Megatron, and shamelessly using him anyways, and either ignoring or brushing off the hypocrisy of the whole thing. ‘we need to overthrow the oppressors because they treat people like objects and take their freedom. now do what i tell you, no i don’t CARE if you don’t want to do it’. I think.... I’d love to end it on some point when Megatron is parsing that he’s been left behind and is struggling a bit with it, and it’s so easy to turn to Terminus for reassurance and comfort. I want the smug satisfaction of winning, all while he’s so, so understanding and sympathetic on the outside.

Next up, let’s get some DOMINUS AMBUS up in here. This would be... so hard, man. Because I’d have to write it post-domestication for it to really fit. There was an idea I saw a while back, about how Dominus didn’t find Rewind II on the quantum duplicate Lost Light. And sure, maybe he couldn’t smell him when he was hiding inside another corpse. But I love love LOVE the idea of one of the last things he’s able to hold onto being that he knows Rewind, and he loves Rewind. Even now that he’s been made into the team pet, with masters who are very demanding and have been very cruel to him, personally, managing to draw them away from where Rewind is hiding, and convincing them he hasn’t been able to sniff him out. It would be hard to get the right voice to it, where the DJD has fucked over his brain to a horrifying degree, where even while doing that, Kaon still loves him, and he sure seems to care for Kaon. But Rewind. I want him trying to think and process through all the damage, and just... a very sad story, but one I’d love to get on paper.

Hmm. This wouldn’t be an exaaaact fit. But it has some interesting things I’d love to write about. So I’ve been really interested in Thunderclash lately. Because him just effortlessly being the perfect autobot, flawless in every way, I enjoy it played as a joke. I enjoy it even more if his private mental state very much DOES NOT support that idea. His image is crazy-intense, it’s unattainable. So... he doesn’t think he’s attained it. Crooked Jack wasn’t broken physically, it was emotional and mental. He’s failing everyone around him. And presenting himself in a dishonest light if they continue to believe it. But he’s an important figure to other autobots. He can’t afford to let the mask fall and take that from them. Even though it’s suffocating him, and it’s so frustrating nobody can tell something is wrong. I got at a little bit of this in the Thunderclash/Rung fic, where he tries to weasel around the whole safe, sane, and consensual thing and trick his partner into seriously hurting him for real. Because he deserves to be punished :) If he’d had more screen time and I was able to feel his specific damage out better, I’d love to have a continuation of that fic, where Rung gives him some of what he’s asking for, but stays within safe limits, and works out gradually drawing out of him why Thunderclash wants this thing, until eventually there’s an emotional crash even more significant than the physical crash. And a detail that I’d fit into that story somewhere: Thundercracker was tied to the Vis Vitalis as his life support system (that’s what got me onto the crooked jack connection). But that was... also.... his home? And the MOMENT he got free of the life support, he ditched and joined up on a new ship where he wasn’t in charge. He cut ties and bolted.

[kusakichan15]

DOODLE DUMP!!!!

Some of these are my AU ideas... Some are suggestions for me to draw... All in all its part of my practice 🤣🤣🤣

[transingthoseformers]

What do you think of the terminus x Megatron ship

-anon who loves adult x adult age gap ships

It's an interesting ship to play around with, it broke my damn heart in *Echoes of Messatine", and the implications of the ship on Megatron's relationship experience is intriguing

Especially if you know the fact that Terminus knew he was pushing Megatron in a certain direction with his work, and how Terminus's eventual death affects Megatron

also thinking about their reunion in MTMTE even though Megatron definitely thought he was dead, what things were like when they ended up staying behind in the Functionist universe, and Terminus's real death in the Functionist universe

[driftsart]

I think these may be THE MOST important questions in the entire cosmos:

Can Transformers in this universe get pregnant???? How do they reproduce???? *Takes notes*

I knew this was coming 🧍

The answer is, no, they don't get pregnant (sry <3)

Reproduction for Cybertronians comes in two main ways: sacrificing a piece of spark to create a new spark, or artificially being made.

Spark Reproduction:

Spark reproduction is the most common in higher classes. This process works when a partner removes a small piece of their spark and the other partner does so as well. They are then combined to make a small spark, which will be the sparkling's spark. This process cannot be repeated many times because the piece of spark taken out doesn't heal, and taking too many pieces out can lead to weakness and death. Spark reproduction doesn't have to be a femme and a mech, a mech and a mech and do it, and so can a femme and a femme. It can also be done without a partner, like Alpha Trion did with Ultra Magnus.

Artificially Made:

This is most common in lower classes. Bots who are artificially made do not have "parents," and their sparks are lab made. They are made in large factories and thousands are created a day. This process is much quicker, and useful for the lower class where many bots are replaced daily and many more are needed to work. Megatron is an example of an artificially made Cybertronian, and so is Terminus.

So in conclusion, they do not get pregnant, and their ways of reproducing are asexual. Spark reproduction is not s*x, many bots will take out a piece of their spark as a way of saying "I want to spend eternity with you" or something like that. It's something they can do in public.

[techtainia-makes-things]

I feel like I’ve gotten the message: have some more MTMTE Megatron x reader. Warning: This includes spoilers for ‘Dying of the Light’

—

So this was how it ended.

Hiding, a battle field, and sitting curled up nearby as Ratchet lectured Megatron for being self centered and hypocritical.

Watching Ravage get torn in half by Tarn over the monitor.

It ended with you waiting on the side lines, waiting to see how many of your crewmates, your friends, have been injured.

It ended with Megatron storming into the battlefield.

But you weren't at the end yet.

You didn’t register Megatron’s holoform until he was walking towards you with purpose. 

You hardly registered how he laced the fingers of his gloved hand into your hair. Or how he pressed his lips to yours like this kiss was his last meal. Or when he pressed his forehead to yours with a look of thinly veiled agony.

“I love you.” He whispered into your ear as his holoform faded away. 

The moment you had registered what had just happened, was the moment he deployed the force field to trap himself with the DJD. 

Ratchet didn’t have to ask for you to respond with a grim expression that had even shocked him. 

“He better survive this.”

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“All he did was think, and think, and think, and,” Ravage glanced at you from the medical slab where Ratchet had since stopped trying to fix his wounds, “and write poetry about you.”

The statement stung more than if he had just slashed at your face.

You sighed, trying to keep your sentences short as to give Ravage all the time he could to speak until his spark failed. “The day he confesses is the day I get told about everything, and the day he’ll probably die. Just my luck.”

“He finally told you?” Ravage would have chuckled if he had the energy. “It’s about time.”

—----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When Megatron stormed in, you would have rushed to greet him, comfort him, or something of the sort, if he didn’t radiate the fury of a raging fire. 

When Ravage died and he flipped the medical slab, you didn’t flinch.

You didn’t flinch when he snapped at Ratchet. Or when he pulled the charred remains of his fusion cannon. 

You did, however, watch as he practically collapsed into the arms of a mech he had called Terminus.

And when he walked away with this new mech, you called after him, “Megatron?”

He glanced at you with something akin to guilt, then glanced at the confusion on his…you actually didn’t know what they were, father/son maybe? Anyway, he glanced at the confusion on his companion’s face, and they left the room.

“He better come talk to me about all this once it’s all over.”

[artsy-hobbitses]

So what's the autobots and decepticons main base like ? Is like the xmen mansion with hidden bunkers and stuff. Or a old castle like the ones in still intact in Germany or England?

The Autobot's main base is indeed similar to the X-mansion! More so because it's an actual French chateau in Normandy owned by Alpha Trion, albeit 'hidden' because Trion is a recluse who goes as far as to have a whole different living address in the closest town (around 10km away where he owns a vintage bookstore) to throw people off. Initially, the chateau hosts basically the world's largest digital library which he complied post-war in attempts to restore and keep alive what written parts of the world's culture and history were left after the Quintesson Wars, and to ensure chunks of it would never be lost the way they were during those years. Not all of them stay on-base, as it isn't far from the coastline where several old bunkers from the war exist, and several of these retrofitted are where the Dinobots and Wreckers live (they prefer it here among their sub-group team mates rather than living with the established rules/schedule of the main base, and merely come to the main base for meetings, supplies or medical care), while some like the Protegonauts (Protectobots) actually live in the nearby town itself.

The Decepticon's base was formerly the mine/area where Megatron and Terminus worked at in his youth, though it had become fully automated by the time of the clampdown. After Megs took over he region, he established the Decepticon HQ there. The interior of the mine provides an excellent bunker for their forces and cover since it goes deep enough that you can't scan what's underground with most military-grade equipment.

[idlepollingofcybertron]

ROUND 1 RESULTS

Miko's Host Parents (TFP) v. Bradley White's Parents (UT)

Unicron v. Primus

Megatron (G1) v. Spike Witwicky (G1)

Hound's Father (Bayverse) v. Quintessa (Bayverse)

Soundwave (TFP) v. Jazz (Aligned)

Blaster (SG) v. Onslaught (Marvel)

Megatron X (Cyberverse) v. Zeta Prime (IDW1)

Optimus Prime (G1) v. Kup (G1)

Megatron (UT) v. Megatron (TFA)

Megatron (IDW1) v. Starscream (TFA)

Jhiaxus (Timelines) v. Perceptor (TFA)

Shockwave (Marvel) v. Shockwave (TFP)

Brian Jones (UT) v. Isaac Sumdac (TFA)

Alpha Trion v. Primacron

Dr. Arkeville (G1) v. Dirk Manus (G1)

Team Prime (TFP) v. Constructicons (G1)

Megatron (RiD 2001) v. Megatron (BW)

Ravage (BW) v. Galvatron (BW2)

Maximal High Council (BW) v. Eject (BWU)

Tarantulas (BW) v. Terminus (IDW1)

Prowl (IDW1) v. Cryak (IDW2)

Leo Convoy (BW2) v. Optimus Prime (Marvel)

Grimlock (G1) v. Ultra Magnus (TFA)

Optimus Prime (IDW1) v. Drift (RiD 2015)

[dorkicon]

Not to be basic with capital b but I do be curious,, would you give us your judgment on Megatron, be it overall or from your favorite continuity/media? //Eye emoji

if youre basic for sending this, then im double basic for having so many opinions on megatron :^) gonna do g1/idw/cyberverse for funsies

send me a character and i’ll list:

•favorite thing about them

g1- i dont think this man has ever had a thought that hasnt ended with "and then ill punch optimus prime in the face" hes so dedicated to being cartoonishly evil, i have nothing but love in my heart for him.

idw-jro said "do you want sad old man megatron" and i said yes sir!!! also honestly i really like his design. the first model kit i bought was idw megatron :^)

cyberverse- look, ive been trying to come up with something that isnt just "i like him because hes gay" but, well, i like him cause hes gay. dude has the energy of a divorced dad who still has his ex on speed dial. yes i do mean optimus.

•least favorite thing about them

g1- i-uh...well...he should be nicer to starscream.

idw- i think...early idw megatron is really at odds with mtmte megs character wise. like they went all out making him an absolute bastard (spotlight megatron comes to mind) and while i respect that from a story standpoint, i really have to like ...have two different megatrons in my mind when i read idw. the megs that deserves a second chance and the one from...the rest of the continuity. comic books are just like that sometimes i think.

cyberverse- ok yeah. he needs to be nicer to starscream. i think he softened up a bit near the end of the show in general, but hes SO brutal to starscream that first time he kills him it almost feels out of place in the show 😬

•favorite line

g1- "MY EQUILIBRIUM...DESTABILIZED...HHUGHG"

or uhm literally any banter fight with optimus prime "everything i touch is food for my hunger" etc etc

idw-when he hugs terminus...AAAH

-"What's happened?"

"Nothing. Everything. I've lost my way."

cyberverse- not a quote, really, but when he has a twitch stream of starscreams funeral bsbsvs jesus christ dude

•brOTP

g1- soundwave full stop. soundy is ride or die.

idw- soundwave :^) also rodimus! and ultra mags! and maybe optimus

cyberverse- i dont think he has friends. again, maybe optimus. sometimes he vents to soundwave but soundwave is blasting my chem in his headphones or something

•OTP

g1: if youve been on my blog for more than 2 seconds u know i really like g1 megop. megatron stares in the mirror every night practicing banter for their fights. he polishes his buckethead. megatron built clones of optimus prime on several occasions, and once, he didnt even do anything evil with it. he just made starscream punch it or something. why do you have a clone of op just laying around bud? huh? ok gayboy

also megatron/soundwave is good :^) and i wrote megatron/shockwave once...

idw: i dont ship idw megop all that much but, yaknow, its goin on the list

cyberverse- go on :^) guess ;^)

megatron and op got divorced but they kept the rings.

•nOTP

megastarrrr

also, for idw specifically: megatron/rodimus :^/ i do not like it...also megatron/rung, probably others, i unno

•random headcanon

g1- lazerbeak is his favorite cassette, and he likes to spoil her with energon goodies. soundwave is afraid hes gonna make lazerbeak a little chubby birdie :^(

idw- i think he knows a lot of folk songs from his time in the mines, but he doesnt really sing anymore.

cyberverse- i think after meeting megatron x and hetting his chrome butt handed to him on a silver platter, hes kinda over leading the decepticons, honestly. he seems tired.

•unpopular opinion

g1- i love him too much probably?

idw- i dont uhh ship him with anyone?

cyberverse- theres barely a cyberverse fandom. if anything, me liking him so much is an unpopular opinion.

song i associate with them

g1: theres nothing profound here, i just wrote a megop fic titled this once

idw: yeah ok i know what i just said about not shipping idw megop all that much but you tell me this isnt their dynamic. go on. i dare you

cyberverse:

*strangling myself* shut up about megop shut up about m

•favorite picture of them

g1-

ol buckethead summed up in one image

idw- sir thats my emotional support warlord

cyberverse- BUENAS DIAS MEGATRON (WACK)

[thanksjro]

More Than Meets the Eye #28- I Sure Hope Y’all Like Megatron

“Dark Cybertron” is finally over! Woohoo!

Who’s ready for a return to hijinks and mild peril?

I know this guy is!

Hold on a second-

We start our foray into Season 2 of MTMTE with a little meta-humor-

-and then it’s right into the swing of things, as Brainstorm uses the thin, fragile wine glass of faction-based morality to hold his personal need to make instruments of violence. Nautica disapproves, but then why wouldn’t she? She’s not been steeped in the militant ideologies of the Autobots for millions of years.

It’s six months after the convoluted events of “Dark Cybertron”, and our beloved ship, the Lost Light, is back on track for the Knight Quest. Nautica’s joined the crew, which is neat, but there are far more interesting things going on.

Like Rung actually doing his fucking job for once.

Wow, look at that little creamsicle man go.

It would seem that in the last half-year (by Earth standards) Megatron’s somehow gotten himself into the esteemed position of Captain of the Lost Light. This likely means that Rodimus has been defeated in battle, or perhaps fucked off on yet another space yacht to run away from his responsibilities. I suppose the narrative will have to fill us in on just what exactly happened.

Or, at least, I hope it does. Wouldn’t be a terribly good story if I had to guess on how exactly this dude’s in charge of a whole-ass Autobot crew.

Yes, yes, I know he switched sides, but goddammit, it takes a little more than saying sorry and changing your wardrobe to excuse the murder of half of NYC.

I mean, we can do both. Both is an option. I’ll break out The Communist Manifesto right now, let’s fuckin’ gooooooooo-

Six months prior to Megatron’s therapy appointment, Rodimus is ready to high-tail it off of Cybertron yet again. This is because, as established in previous posts, Cybertron kinda sucks butt. He bursts into the meeting Optimus Prime called- even though he’s really not leader of anything anymore, Starscream is- bids everyone farewell, and is about to run back out of the room when he’s stopped.

Turns out that the populace of Cybertron want Megatron to stand trial. That makes sense, given what all he’s done. Of course, the Autobot pals we’ve got in the room want to skip due process and go straight to the part where Megatron pays through the nose for the last four million years.

Which doesn’t feel terribly heroic or good guy-ish, but I think by this point you’ve probably caught on to the fact that everyone in IDW Transformers is morally gray at BEST.

Because Megatron’s had a rough time the last few years, in relation to his bodily integrity, spark extraction- that thing that High Command lied about in relation to Overlord- isn’t an option. It would just kill him dead.

Uh, excuse me? Optimus Prime, sir? Monsieur Premier?

Guess Optimus hasn’t been keeping up with exRiD.

Anyway, yeah, since Tyrest fucked off in “The Sound of Breaking Glass” and also tried to commit a genocide, we’re gonna need someone to cast judgement.

Course, a military trial isn’t exactly ideal, but as long as it’s open to the public, it should be fine.

Probably.

Anyway, Prowl’s also going to help. Ultra Magnus has been assigned the task of representing Megatron in court, a job which he’s positively delighted to have, if his face is any indication.

The gang breaks for lunch, and Rodimus and Optimus touch base on how the Knight Quest is going.

Because Rodimus’ half of the Matrix had the map for finding the Knights of Cybertron in it, they’re gonna have to go with Plan B.

Oh fuck yes, I love Plan B!

Unfortunately, finding the ideal romantic partner for all Cybertronians is going to have to wait until after the trial, because Optimus really wants Rodimus here for this. Though perhaps there’s a way to make things move a little faster…

Back in the present, Megatron’s had just about enough of Rung being a psychiatry joke, and is about to walk out of his appointment. Ravage is here, which is neat. Rung asks Megatron about the three most important people in his life, and how he met them. One of these people is, funnily enough, Rung.

Rung, if you’ll recall, was thrown into Megatron and Impactor’s table at Maccadams waaaaaay back in The Transformers #22, the first issue of the IDW run that Roberts wrote solo. It would seem that getting arrested and subjected to police brutality ruined his once-idealistic worldview. This is just a lightning-round recap of the events of the “Chaos Theory” storyline.

Being reminded of how hard he got dunked on makes Rung break out his copy of Megatron’s autobiography, Towards Peace. Of course, Megatron has to be “that guy”, and makes it out to be far more than it actually is. My dude, you used your writing to tell all your proto-Decepticon buddies to go beat up Whirl in prison. Let’s not make things sound more grandiose than they are.

Anyway, it turns out that Rung is actually just as much a nerd as he looks, as he reveals that he’s in possession of one of the only few copies of the original version of Towards Peace. And then he takes off his glasses and the fans go bonkers, even though he’s just got that Milne Same-Face going on, just like everyone else.

There you are, you animals.

Rung discusses Revisionism, I’m reminded that the first publication of Eugenesis had a dedication to Roberts’ son of all people, and we get the question of who Terminus is to Megatron.

But alas! The X-ray vision’s been turned on, and it’s time to see… nude robots? An in-depth anatomy lesson?

Robots are confusing sometimes. Anyways, major props to Milne for drawing all that detail. Dude does the technical stuff with a ferocity that must be awe-inspiring to behold.

Megatron’s decided that it’s time for lunch, and then he’s going to do captain stuff.

Because he’s captain of the Lost Light.

I’m convinced Rodimus is dead. That’s the only way this is happening.

Six months ago, Swerve was being awful Swerve-like, with his new buddy Crosscut- guess he finally learned the guy’s name- and Riptide, who we’ll get to a little later on. These three wonderful lads are holding a sort of “crew try-outs”, and it looks like the requirements needed for entry on Megatron’s Lost Light are stiff.

Still, maybe our new friend Nautica will make the cut.

Oh, you are simply delightful!

Despite Nautica having interest in nearly every topic in the universe, on top of having impeccable taste in booze, she just misses the cut. It’s at this point that Nightbeat bursts into the room to stop this farce from going any further. The fact that nobody mentioned anything prior to this is surprising, given that portmanteaus don’t really seem the type of thing Ultra Magnus would approve of.

Back six months ago, we see what Optimus Prime’s super great idea was to expedite the judicial process- Chromedome. It’s always Chromedome. He’s gonna do that thing he promised his late husband he’d stop doing. I suppose it’s a good thing- for Rewind, anyway- that Megatron is wholly against the idea of having his memories torn out of his head. Guess we’re gonna have to do the trial the normal, non brain-pokey way.

Optimus leaves the cell, because I suppose he’s remembered that there’s a conflict of interests here, but Rodimus stays behind to let Megatron know he deserves everything that’s coming his way.

Then Megatron breaks out the puzzle-box from Hellraiser.

In the present, Chromedome isn’t so much spiraling in his depression as he is circling the drain. Nightbeat doesn’t give a shit about that though- he’s more concerned with the fact that one of the numbers on the door to Chromedome’s room is missing. But I’m sure it’s fine.

It’s fiiiiiiiiiiine.

While Nightbeat’s busy being insensitive to his fellow man’s distress, Megatron’s arrived to his room to find his door’s been vandalized by a bunch of idiots who must have just discovered what a thesaurus is. Then he gets shot in the fucking hand with an arrow.

As you do.

Whirl’s gotten ahold of a bow, and he fully intends to use it for Megatron-directed violence. And also his fists. His very pointy fists. He punches Megatron through the fucking floor into the fuel furnace, and they fall what’s probably a good 200 feet to the ground below. Whirl yells about evening the score between the two of them, and then knees Megatron in the dick.

Turns out, Megatron remembers Whirl even better than originally thought, having gone so far as to order his forces to not kill Whirl, because, in a way, he was grateful for the lesson he learned back before the war in Rodion.

Oh man, I hope Rung’s somehow listening in on this. Like, eavesdropping is obviously bad medicine, but we’ve already established that he sucks as a professional, and he needs what few advantages he can get.

Whirl, enraged by the implication that he’s been fighting fixed battles for the last four million years, punches Megatron in the gut… and his arm gets swallowed up by an errant portal leftover from all of Shockwave’s tampering. Since you can’t really fight with only one arm, Megatron wanders off to do captainy things.

Walking back the timeline slightly, we revisit Megatron leaving Rung’s office, and the idea of personal revisionism, the conversation becoming parallel with the strange happenings going on within the ship, as Rewind’s final message is altered so as not to end with “I love you” but instead a blood-curdling scream. Chromedome is, understandably, upset by this turn of events.

Over with Whirl, it’s revealed that the little fight we saw was intentionally set up. For what purpose, or by whom, is left a mystery.

Please see a doctor.

One last flashback to the trial, as Prowl lists off everything that’s standing in the way of our Sympathetic Megatron Redemption Arc.

Good fuckin’ luck, James.

Back in the present, Megatron’s slapped a bandaid on the hole in his torso, as he checks to see what’s happening on the bridge. It would appear there’s a coffin floating around in space.

Pretty fucked up.