I saw a Youtube comment talking about how, in the episode "Crosscross," Silas was able to track Jack's location and personal info via social media, so why didn't the Decepticons just do THAT all this time, so they could track the humans/Autobot base?
Then all the commenters agreed that it's because the CAPTCHA "I am not a robot" thing actually works on Decepticons, because they are, in fact robots.
I love this and it shall now be my crack headcanon.
(In all seriousness, I actually don't think it's a plot hole. I think it's a great example of the Decepticons' characterization.
The real reason Decepticons never tried social media tracking is because they're too proud to use human technology. To them, it's considered "inferior."
I'm fascinated by the idea that, if they hadn't underestimated human technology, they could have found all these Autobot secrets, like the location of their base and humans, EASILY. But they never bothered, because "oh, that's worthless human tech."
Keep in mind, in one episode, Starscream actually did explore the human internet, and almost located Bumblebee that way, but the others made fun of him for it (the tap-dancing monkey incident) so we can see they don't respect it enough to give it their time.
It also kinda shows how MECH, to some extent, has an advantage against the Autobots because they're all humans, and are therefore better aquatinted with Earth. Even Airachnid didn't realize social media would be a useful weapon until Silas explained it to her. The Decepticons are obviously more powerful since they're giant aliens, but MECH uses their humanity and Earth knowledge as their greatest strength. It's kinda neat.
Souviens-toi de la première fois, où nos regards s'étaient croisés
Même que ton œil disait merde à l'autre, surtout à moi
Mais pourquoi moi, alors que les autres te trouvaient bien trop laide
Peut-être que moi, je suis trop bête, mais je sais t'écouter
Ave Cesaria - Stromae
My gift for @tachocracy for @secretsolenoid-revived this year! I hope you all love it as much as I loved drawing it. I've been wanting to do a zine about Knockout and his specific way of grieving in TFP so I was so excited to receive this prompt.
It seemed like a lot of you guys are liking it so far!
And if you are wondering what the Pixie AU is, it is basically a (mainly Tfp centered) AU of mine where all the Transformers characters are now humans, and now all the canon humans characters are pixies! SO that most of the plots can stay the Transformer/human relationships can stay the same!
Optimus Prime
Ratchet
Silas and the Mech
And enjoy Pixie Raf working hard to hack the Decepticons
“There’s a war brewing…between the new world order, and the newest…”
I wish we could have seen what MECH’s original agenda was, because my biggest question is, “What war?”
I assume Silas was speaking about a “turning of ages” here, rather than a typical war, but I still want to know what huge thing was happening in the world before the discovery of the bots caused him to change plans.
The writers didn’t explore any of that, but Silas' words and his reaction to Cybertronians do have other interesting implications:
For all his faults, I admire Silas for his insight into what the presence of the bots meant for humanity on a practical level. He took one look at the mechanical titans, and ascertained that humanity would be in trouble unless it adapted to the newcomers and did something to close (or at least decrease) the power gap between the two races. Or, rather, that those who didn’t adapt and close the gap would be left behind, since I doubt Silas cared about the future of humanity as a whole.
Obviously, Silas was not going to let himself be one of those left behind. When his first attempt at putting himself on an equal footing with the bots didn’t work, he went so far as to grovel at the feet of Megatron—arguably the most powerful Cybertronian on the planet at the time.
Of course, that didn’t end so well for him, but the point still stands:
Silas was an opportunist. He recognized what walked on the earth and what it would likely mean for humans in the future.
He misjudged and miscalculated, but he was definitely onto something, and I would have loved to see it go somewhere.
If Optimus Prime or Megatron mentions about Cylas'/Silas' Project Damocles, what will the their reaction?
It's a murder on site situation. Like the Survey Corps are genuinely disgusted with the idea of a human taking the body of a dead person and then using it as a freaking puppet.
If Silas was alive with MECH, the Survey Corps would just do everything in their power to sabotage him and his whole operation, and they would get really far. Hanji would steal the data first before releasing Levi tbh.
But if it was Cylas, (Silas in Breakdown's body), all bets are off. They are just straight up jumping him. And none of the Cybertronians that are there would stop it. They would just let it happen.
Nile: Shouldn't you all stop this?
Arcee and Megatron quietly sipping energon.
Wheeljack: Look, I used to work with Breakdown before he went all 'Con, so helping out the human using his corpse feels wrong.
Optimus reading a book before speaking in monotone: Oh Primus. Stop. Don't hurt the human.
TFP Shattered Glass, but June and Fowler are swapped.
I've never seen anybody do that, usually the humans stay the same as baseline except Silas and Fowler are sometimes swapped.
Or maybe up it a notch and swap all three of them? June as a government agent, Fowler as M.E.C.H's leader, and Silas as a nurse? Or nurse Fowler, agent Silas, and M.E.C.H leader June?
You know, that would be fascinating because i admit i have a tendency to forget the humans whwn i mess with shatteree glass, but swapping all three of their roles up would be so fascinating as all fucking hell
I'd be so here for MECH Leader!June actually she'd be so fucking cool