#terminus tf

[coefore]

Two commissions for @ivycorp, lovely working with you and meeting you in person! Sorry for taking so long to upload them. 😭

[driftsart]

Guys, hear me out, Transformers One Terminus. He protects D-16 and Orion from Darkwing, he sneaks out to bring D-16 Megatronus stuff he finds, he shares whatever wisdom he has with them, gives them mining advice. Don't worry guys, I WILL make him real. 🫡

[transformersbrainrot]

[chiliger]

Giving mentor figures as if this AU that’s been silently rotting away in my head isn’t complicated enough already

[spacemothsota]

I.NEED.HIM

You have no idea how obsessed I am with this revolutionary old man. A damn threat to the system straight from the mines. It really saddens me that there are very few art and works with him. There is not even a transformer x reader with him (Just think about it, even Alpha Trion and Kup HAVE, but he does not)

Honestly I believe that despite his apparent softness… Just provoke him or behave disrespectfully and you can get a couple of good lessons from him on "what not to do". Plus his name is so symbolic! Roman deity, "not to give up land", I literally believe that is why he made sure Megatron stayed where he really BELONGED. HE DAMN DECEIVED MEGATRON, I can't just… he is such a threat, but he is great at it.

The kind of father who knows you've been through hell and seen shit. Still, he gives you a chance to choose a better path (not necessarily, but he believes it's the right one…. Makes you literally step outside of your comfort zone). To end this post of love for Terminus, just look at his smug faceplate… THIS MF, I just can't (Chain me to something, this dog is off the leash because of exams).

[melishade]

What if there's a timeline where Terminus was in AOP. All Survey corp (including Optimus prime) would be confused of who this Cybertronian is. But when when Megatron sees him...bro, Megatron would be shocked to see him. And when terminus sees Megatron, Calling his name (who he still call him d-16). I think would Megatron would have a mental breakdown. Like kid who see his dad again (idk if Megatron would straight up hug him or make distance away from him) And the Survey corp (including Optimus) notice Megatron breakdown.

Terminus: ....D-16.....what...happened to you..?

Megatron having a Mental Breakdown.

Optimus: ....Megatron-

The rest of the survey corp: who tf is D-16?!

In the words of @justawannabearchaeologist: this is if Season 4 Eren saw his mom after everything that happened.

Like this would seriously mess Megatron up in such a profound way that he wouldn't be able to properly function for weeks. Finding out that your mentor/father figure survived after all this time, but having to explain how you're not the same person and that you've done cruel and unfathomable things worse than what the caste system did.

But if I were to somehow make this life altering situation happen, I want to do it when Megatron is at his most vulnerable. AKA: Around the Monster chapter and the Regrets and Amends chapter. Maybe a little after that so Armin and Mikasa have an idea of who D-16 before the ball drops.

But lets try to set a scene:

So the idea for me when it came to Terminus was that he's killed by a guard in the mines, forcing Megatron into a fight response and he kills the guard that kills Terminus. Megatron, D-16 then, tries to run away, but gets captured and is thrown in the the gladiator pits as punishment.

But lets just say that one of the guards that survived the chaos saw that Terminus was still barely alive and decides to imprison him as punishment for causing so much trouble. Terminus wakes up on a prison ship far from home, having been in stasis for a really long time, missing the start of the war and Cybertron dying, and tries to muster the strength to escape the guards and turn the ship back around to Cybertron. One thing led to another, the ship is damaged, and the vessel crash lands into the volcano where Wheeljack find the ship in the Heal chapter.

Listen I am going through hoops to make this scenario work for a character that doesn't even exist in TFP! OKAY?!

But long story short, Terminus is stranded on the AOT world. Terminus wakes up again from stasis to see his situation. The ship is damaged, and even if the ship wasn't damaged, he wouldn't know how to fly it because he's a miner. He doesn't have that type of education and he has to figure out how to survive on his own. He has to mine for energon. Thankfully the volcano he's on does have an energon stockpile that lasts him a while. He has to find ways to repair himself and poorly. Somethings don't heal properly and he ends up having a limp.

But the thing he's most worried about is D-16. That poor innocent child facing the cruelty of the world. He had seen in his weakened state that he had killed a guard before running. Was D-16 able to escape? Was he killed? Was he going through something worse? The two had kept each other alive ever since Terminus had taken pity on D-16 after he suffered a beating. They kept each other safe. But Terminus miscalculated and now....

Terminus had the sinking feeling that he was going to die on this organic world. That he was going to slowly rot. But...if there was a small chance that D-16 was still alive, then he was going to keep himself alive until he saw him again. Hope, no matter how small, was the only thing that had kept him going all this time.

Terminus stayed on the AOT world, and he stayed for 2,000+ years. He turned on the beacon in the hopes that someone finds him. He had witnessed moments of the cruelty of the Eldian Empire, but he's always done his best to avoid the humans, keep his head low, keep himself alive. But he does admire humanity, despite the many faults that he's witnessed over the past 2,000 years. He's seen the cruelty of mankind, especially with the power of the titans, but he's seen their bravery and ingenuity. He start's picking up hobbies from them. How to grow plants, how to keep warm during the winter. He's learned about the world's history, collecting knowledge that would have been lost over time or burned due to the changing world. He's just trying to keep his own sanity during these 2,000 years. He wants to live, not just survive. He experiences rain, sunlight, snowstorms, nothing he would have ever experienced while he was in the mines. He sees animals and people, sorrow and joy, festivals and funerals. Wars and celebrations. He watched it all from the shadows. He hoped, if D-16 was still alive, he would get to show him these things someday.

But, would D-16 remember him even after all this time? He was getting older, his metal was rusted from poor treatment. It's a miracle he survived this long. Thankfully, technological advancements came at a good time, so he was able to steal metals to try and fix his own parts. He did take from the dead Cybertronians from the ship, using them as spare donors. He just...he prayed to Primus. Hoping he would listen. Hoping that...he could see D-16 again.

But then a miracle came, in the form of Wheeljack.

See Wheeljack decided to keep searching for energon after the whole blow up between Arcee and Megatron and Megatron having his meltdown. When he does, he finds the volcano a lot sooner than anticipated because Terminus had the signal on. So Wheeljack arrives and as he steps off the Jackhammer, he nearly gets his helm blown off by Terminus shooting a rifle at him. Terminus demands to know who he is, and Wheeljack is thinking this guy is a refugee from the war and he says that he's an Autobot. Terminus spits out that he doesn't know what that is. He demands to know if he's with the guard to come and collect him.

Wheeljack being of a lower middle class in the caste system, puts two and two together and realizes this old geezer was from the caste system and he managed to somehow dodge the whole fragging war. Wheeljack slowly explains who he is, and is able to talk Terminus down, convincing the miner that he was safe. Terminus is finally convinced and collapses in Wheeljack's arms. Wheeljack contacts the island and tells them he's bringing someone over, and he states that he's factionless, taking Arcee and Optimus by surprise.

The Survey Corps can't help but ask, and Optimus has to explain that there were a few during the war that refused to take a side, designating themselves as neutrals or factionless. Autobots and/or Decepticons that deserted and refused to join another side were simply called rogues. But to find someone who was factionless that survived the war was unheard of. Majority of them were killed off or forced to join a side. Optimus informs Megatron of the situation and Megatron is forced to come back.

Wheeljack arrives back on the island and helps Terminus off of the ship, and the Survey Corps are stunned to see that Terminus looks physically old. Sure, he was worn down from a lack of repair, but there was just something that screamed old age to them.

Terminus can't help but feel nervous as he has made an effort to avoid the humans, but Wheeljack reassures him that they're safe. Wheeljack sets him down on the berth to help and try to repair some of his other wounds to ease his pain. Optimus introduces himself, and Terminus is immediately put on edge, stating he's not exactly trusting of Primes. Arcee demands to know if he's a Decepticon then, but Terminus asks what the frag is a Decepticon, and Wheeljack explains that he's from the caste system and he somehow managed to dodge the whole war. Everyone in the room is completely shocked at this information. How did he manage to dodge the war?!

Terminus explains his story and how he was taken by the guards before being locked in stasis. When he woke up, he ended up crashing the ship into the volcano and he's been staying on the AOT world for years. Hanji realizes that meant that Terminus had knowledge from eons ago! He's a walking library! Optimus states that Terminus needs his rest and that he needed to give his consent before participating in anything.

Terminus: Awfully kind of you, Prime.

Optimus: I can assure you; I am not Sentinel.

Terminus: So you say.

The Survey Corps hate that they are missing some context.

But...Terminus knows it's a long shot, but he has to try anyway. He turns his attention to Wheeljack, thinking that he would be the one who would have some idea about it, and asks Wheeljack if he knew a miner under the name of D-16. Before Wheeljack could even respond, they hear a startled gasp, and everyone turns their attention to Armin and Mikasa. Mikasa was covering her mouth while Armin stared in shock.

Terminus is surprised by this and kneels down to them, persisting, asking if they knew who he was talking about. And where he might possibly be. Armin stumbles, and confesses that Terminus wasn't going to be ready for the answer. But before Terminus can prod some more-!

Everyone jolted when they heard something hit the floor. They turn their gaze to see Megatron standing at the doorway. His servo and claws trembled and his optics were wide. By his pedes was the busted cube of liquified energon.

Terminus stared at the newcomer in confusion, but his optics widened with recognition. His frame was different, his optics were different, but he'd recognized that face from anywhere. "D...D-16?"

Terminus got his confirmation when he saw Megatron flinch at the name. "It's you." A smile formed on Terminus' lips and lubricant was beginning to form. "By the Allspark, it is you!"

"What the hell?" Connie swore.

"I don't know," Sasha admitted in a panic.

Levi didn't like how Megatron was reacting to the sight of this new Cybertronian. He wasn't moving. Wasn't saying anything. And his eyes....looked so panicked. Like he was seeing a ghost from the past. "Oh no."

"You survived!" Terminus continued as he stood up, "I thought you had perished! I-I thought the guard had killed you!"

"Sir, I do not think it is wise to approach," Optimus warned, noticing the way that Megatron's servos were twitching erratically.

"Look at you." Terminus extended a servo out, "You've gotten so-!"

Terminus didn't have time to react as Megatron grabbed the sword on his side and swung at him, causing everyone to panic.

"NO!" Armin screamed.

"Megatron, stop!" Optimus ordered.

Terminus didn't move as the blade stopped mere centimeters away from his neck cables. Terminus' gaze fell to the blade, and he could see glimmers of his reflection inside of it. He turned his gaze back to Megatron, and he finally registered...just how different he was. He was taller. Taller than him. His armor was modified, more monstrous, more intimidating. His optics were no longer that sullen blue, but a guarded and panicked red. He held a weapon in his servo, a sword. And his name...the Prime had called him Megatron.

"16...what..." Terminus began as he slowly reached his servo out. Megatron's breathing grew more ragged, taking two steps back to try and get away from him. Megatron's whole body froze when Terminus' digits graze his servo that was holding the sword.

"What in the Allspark happened to you?" Terminus asked.

Everyone watched in disbelief as Megatron's sword fell from his grasp and clattered against the ground. Megatron didn't say anything. He didn't utter a single word. Megatron simply turned and bolted down the halls of the ship.

"D-16, wait!" Terminus called out for him, but he didn't turn around to come back. The former warlord just kept running until he got out of the neutral ship. He transformed before taking off to god knows where, refusing to look back.

"What the hell was that?" Eren demanded.

"Terminus-!"

"What happened?" Terminus spoke in a low voice. The miner snapped his helm to Optimus, and everyone could see a flurry of emotions in his optics. Fear, anger, sorrow,...and heartbreak.

"What in the Allspark happened to D-16?" Terminus demanded.

Sooooo....notes!

-Optimus has to be the one to explain what happened to Megatron to Terminus. No one else can really do it. That also means discussing a bunch of Megatron's war crimes. Levi tried to do it once and failed miserably.

Levi: It’s like telling my mom about the fucked up shit I’ve done in the past.

-The Survey Corps are hounding Armin and Mikasa on how they knew that Megatron's previous name was D-16 and the two have to spill that they've been talking to Megatron in private. This...definitely doesn't make Eren feel good.

-Once Terminus learns of Megatron's war crimes, he is depressed. His pseudo son did all of these terrible and unforgivable things! Worse than the guards and the caste system has ever done! He knows why Megatron did what he did. He was a product of every cruel thing that the system enacted. He understands, but he can't help but blame himself. Maybe if he had been there, things would have been different.

-Terminus is really talking to Wheeljack the most because of Wheeljack's previous standing in the system. Optimus is a Prime and Arcee seems to be trusting of the Prime.

-Terminus is curious about the humans, specifically Armin and Mikasa. They seemed to be the closest to Megatron and he wants to know how he's been. Megatron's refusing to talk to him. Terminus still hasn't heard his voice.

-Speaking of Megatron, Megatron's been avoiding Terminus like the plague, he cannot FACE HIM! Not for his war crimes, what he's become, and the fact that he held Terminus at knife point! Optimus is the one that tries to convince him to talk to him! This is a golden opportunity he wishes he could have with Alpha Trion! But Megatron refuses. Hanji decides to distract him by telling him to focus on the mission at hand, which does do the job. But when Hanji tries to bring up Terminus, he cuts the line.

-Terminus actually does direct Wheeljack and Co to the energon deposits that he's found over the years, and he lets Wheeljack use parts of his ship to contact Cybertron like in the original AOP timeline. But everyone is surprised at how productive Terminus had been over the past 2,000 years. He created a whole ecosystem in the extinct volcano and collected knowledge from cultures lost to time.

-Terminus keeps calling Megatron D-16 out of habit.

That's all I have for now. I don't really know what to call this bonkers timeline.

[synchros]

The first of my Reverse Big Bang pieces, set to accompany a fantastic story by @disgracedc0smonaut! SUCH a pleasure to work with, and I had so much fun doing the art for it (special shout out to an OC made for the story, Shredder, who I have a soft spot for now). We're giving baby Megatron a hard time >:}

You can read it here ->

[smoked-salmon-official]

More idw for my pookies

Prowl and the constructicons my fucking beloved. I honestly love idw prowl sm

Now that’s a good quote . *you are being deceived.* also whoa that’s terminus first time seeing him. Guess who skipped megatron origin

OH SHIT VOS IS THE ONE THEY FOUND AND FIXED UP ??? BAD IDRA BAD IDEA BAD IDRA

you sound so calm about this first aid

SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH HES SO FINE WHAT THE HELL

That’s gotta hurt man. Poor trail cutter bro wtf

Vos is looking hot in this one tho

The middle panel goes so hard

Toward peace omg I’ve been waiting so long to read this and it’s so damn good

Oh right brainstorms a spy… man wtf thought u were on our side ! I hope they drag him back to the autobots I like him too much for him to become an antagonist and then fucking die

[cyber-skeletons]

What do you want to be when you grow up? | Megatron IDW

(edit audio by @kiske on youtube)

[drabbletron]

When I saw Terminus, I thought he looked like a teddy bear

That big ol' bot can be my teddy bear anytime!

[billblock2013]

mtmte #54-55 spoilers! so i was reading mtmte with @vyrroca and i was picking out music that fit pretty well with some scenes and i wanted to share it with you all!

pics of the scenes, acompanied by the songs i picked (with links!)

Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles) - Megatron steps onto the battlefield

Vangelis - Dr. Tyrell's Death - Megatron siphons antimatter, kills the DJD

Chris Remo - Thorofare Hike - Ravage's last moments

Vangelis - Fading Away - Megatron reunites with Terminus

BONUS: Sangam - Space in Time - Issue 55 Regular Cover

so yeah thats about it! dunno if anyone would care about my silly little soundtrack ideas but here they are,,,

[beemochi-art]

Terminus is Megatron’s mom. Do not argue. I am right.

[the-mines-are-singing]

Would you like a kup of kup, no kup?

[tenrose]

Had to stop reading precisely at a necrophiliac moment because I was at the bus station lmfao

[thebrokenbean]

Very very long post, but utterly FASCINATING!

I wish I could figure out exactly when this post was made, so I could gain a little more perspective into whether it was written just before Lost Light ended, or after.

Either way, really good stuff here! I'd never thought of Terminus this way before but now that it's been laid out in front of me it seems so blatantly obvious.

Thank you OP! Very interesting points to think about, here.

So, I think we need to talk about Terminus. Because there is some interesting stuff going on there. And after LL06, I was upset and confused and wanted to figure out what was going on, and I tripped over some fascinating things along the way. Behind a cut for spoilers and length.

Keep reading

[melishade]

Regarding the timeline with Terminus, can we get a look completely from Megatron's perspective?

Previous Episode of the Remorse Timeline

Oh my god, just picturing Megatron and Terminus' reunion in the Remorse Timeline made me think of this:

Megatron was rather confused when Optimus had told him over the comm. link that Wheeljack had found a factionless Cybertronian. He could've sworn they had all perished during the war or were forced to join a side. He knows he forced a few factionless Cybertronians to join the Decepticons or die.

Megatron arrived at the neutral ship and he could hear the excited chatter down the hall. Megatron decided to delay it, wait it out, as he went to grab energon for himself. He still wasn't even sure how a factionless survived this long. How much of the Cybertronian war did they avoid? Did they remember him during his youth?

Megatron sighed to himself as the cube filled up with liquid energon. He really didn't want to deal with the blow back of this being a person he wronged. He's already been having to deal with Wheeljack and Arcee, and the promise of him returning to Cybertron for trial and execution.

Megatron grabbed the cube and made his way towards their makeshift medbay. Megatron didn't know if his lack of sleep was getting to him because one of the voices sounded vaguely familiar.

"Uhhhhh, I-I'm sorry," Megatron heard Armin stutter with his apology, "But I don't think you're gonna be ready for that answer."

Megatron arrived at the door and looked inside the room. He saw everyone, human and Cybertronian alike, crowded around-!

Megatron's mind couldn't catch up with his body as he had dropped the energon cube. He was certain that he had gotten everyone's attention, but...the rest of the world was drowned out as his focus was now on the Cybertronian before him. He was clearly a miner with those familiar markings, and he was old....extremely old. With....blue optics....there....there was no way....this was an hallucination. A lie. There was no possible way that this was-!

"D...D-16?"

Megatron couldn't help it. His body and mind were out of sync. He couldn't keep his composure. He had actually flinched at the sound of his old name. His first name. He had just recently told Armin and Mikasa about it....but no other Cybertronian should have known that name. No Cybertronian alive. But he knew. And said it with ease. No. This couldn't be possible. He shouldn't even be alive!

"It's you." Megatron saw a smile form on the miner's lips. "By the Allspark, it is you!"

Megatron's body kept on betraying him. He couldn't control his servos as the miner began to move.

"You survived!" the miner continued as he stood up, "I thought you had perished! I-I thought the guard had killed you!"

Get away.

"Look at you." The miner approached him.

Get away. You aren't real. You're a lie. You're gone!

"You've gotten so-!" The miner extended his servo out to touch him.

HE WASN'T REAL! NONE OF IT WAS REAL! Megatron's body reacted in reflex. He grabbed the sword at his side and unsheathed it, ready to decapitate this hallucination and be done with it!

"NO!"

"Megatron, stop!"

Megatron's sword stopped mere centimeters away from the miner's neck. Armin and Optimus' voices pierced the veil, and he was brought back from his spiral into madness. But he couldn't stop panicking. He was taking long and ragged vents. His servos were trembling and unsteady. Part of him was certain that his expression resembled that of a frightened sparkling.

"16...what..." Megatron's vents grew more unsteady and he found himself taking two steps back. He wanted to get away. This wasn't real. This wasn't real. IT WASN'T-! Megatron's body froze when the miner's servo had grazed the one holding his sword.

"What in the Allspark happened to you?" he had asked.

It was him. After all this time...it was Terminus. He was still alive. He somehow had managed to survive.

And he was about to kill him again.

The sword fell out of Megatron's servo and hit the ground. Megatron didn't care if this was a display of weakness on his part. He needed to leave! He needed to get out! HE NEEDED TO RUN!

Megatron bolted down the hall, ignoring Terminus' calls to him, begging him to come back. As he continued running, the memories of all of his past crimes came flooding back to him. The murder, the death, Cybertron's destruction, the dark energon, all of the suffering he caused. He could hear Unicron cackling in his mind as Megatron finally made it out of the ship. He transformed and flew off, trying to get as far away as he could.

(Well, that was fun)