#megop jumpscare

[whatwooshkai]

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CHAPTER TEN: CABIN FEVER

Optimus Prime and Megatron talk. It goes just about as well as you'd think.

[10/?]

[beastwars-transformers]

@prussianmemes i’m greatly exaggerating because this was more awkward than explosive but I went to a local con for my birthday last year and I wore the megop bag as a crossbody purse and the Soundwave bag as a backpack. Now this con was geared more towards anime so I expected nobody to really care but I wanted to wear them anyways.

While browsing a little Lolita fashion shop in the dealer’s hall, I hear someone shout “is that the decepticon logo?!” (The yaoi bag has one alongside an Autobot pin) so my ears perk up in hopes of a fellow fan. First warning sign: it’s a guy in a suit.

We made our greetings and one alarm bell goes off for me: the only TF related stuff I had watched by then was TFP and Bayformers. Maybe a few episodes of G1. This guy has seen. ALL OF THEM. So now I’m stuck with a fanboy because I’m separated from my friends and I have no idea what to say because I’m way out of my league.

What follows is snippets of conversation I remember for being even more embarrassing. More so for me being stuck in this and having nothing to add than him:

Me: (fuck the yaoi bag is so stupid uhhhh) hey i also have my soundwave ita check it out! *turns around*

Him: cool buuuuuut I wish Balster got more attention he’s way cooler than Soundwave :/

Me: *has only seen blaster on a merch page once* oh um. Sure hehe.

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Him: do you have any obscure favorite character in the series?

Me: uhh I like Windblade! She’s really cool I hope she shows up more

Him: yeah but she’s so obviously the fan favorite and they make her like win like all the time like how in Cyberverse she was kicking ass while Optimus was struggling it doesn’t make any sense. It’s really dumb.

Me : (oh fucking no) well women should. Always win haha *said in between the ongoing rant*

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Me: (oh wait if I mention that I’m a bayverse defender he’ll get annoyed and this will finally end!!!) oh uh well. You should know that I like the Bayformers movies hehe *points to my commission button*

Him: oh my god I loved the Bayverse movies too! Especially since…*this keeps going and I just made it worse for myself.*

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Somehow the conversation started to talk about how distraught children were when Optimus died in the ‘87 movie

Me: it’s kinda funny cuz when I was 7 and watching ROTF I wasn’t upset at all when Optimus was brutally killed by Megatron haha

Him: well that’s because modern media has a lot more death than media in the 80s people back then didn’t expect their main characters to die so they were a lot more shocked than us today *this also keeps going. No matter how times I try to interject I was the same age as those kids in 1987 or the fact I only watched MLP and Disney back then, I am not heard.*

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The last funny thing was that the conversation finally turned towards TFP, still my favorite so I can talk about it. If I could ever get an edge into this conversation in the first place.

Anyways. He started saying “it’s awesome how in TFP how crazy Megatron is” and it was very clear his next part was going to be “and how he doesn’t love anything” but I swear I saw his eyes flick down to the bright yellow yaoi button sitting on my chest and immediately course corrected and said “and how he’s so destructive and angry”

This was the only time I influenced the conversation probably.

Anyways. During this entire time I was trying to edge away and browse the Lolita shop we were in to escape. It doesn’t work because he keeps following me and keeps talking.

He decides to give me one last jumpscare by asking for my name. By this point I was just kind of frustrated with all of this and I wanted to find my friends again, but now I was straight up panicking. Paranoia sets in hard for me when this happens, when I feel like I’m being hit on. So I gave him my go-to fake name and prepared for the worst. He just told me his name, stuck out his hand. We shook hands and he left. I was free. I crashed at the concessions stand and texted my friends to find me so we could go to the artist alley. All while trying to slow my heart and assert the fact I am not in any danger. This is also stupid because paranoia in an anime con is stupid.

Let me make one thing clear. It’s pretty obvious this guy was somewhere on the spectrum. This was probably his favorite thing and just wanted someone to talk to about it. And I was the worst person to talk to about it because how I like TF was very different from how he liked TF. I should’ve been more forthright about wanting to leave. Maybe mention my friends and how I had to go find them or something. I’m not really mad at him at all. It’s just a funny experience looking back. I wouldn’t mind to see him again if we do ever cross paths. Maybe we could talk about beast wars.

But. That was a relatively small, local con. I’m going to a big one in March. Peter Freaking Cullen will be there. I’m afraid. Very afraid.

I wanna go to this con nearby and wear my ita stuff but idk if it would be safe to bring the robot yaoi bag since peter Cullen is there