#they're war criminals rewind literally found solace in dominus but he couldn't give him a normal life

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Oh boy dominus hate club is trending in our little neighborhood so I'm here to give my opinions you don't want. Why is a fandom for an anti-fascist comic about giant robots in space forcing fetishistic slavery headcanons onto two bots who are both marginalized for being useless alt-modes in a functionist society that prioritizes usefulness? Why would Dominus Ambus ever have a canonical reason to hurt Rewind, when the entire point of everything he did was to subversively maneuver his way in a society that barely gave him any leg room to begin with, for a change he thought he could bring for other bots like him? Actions that endangered his life and had him permanently lobotomized. Actions that, in another timeline, had him fused to the inside of his load-bearer shell and turned into a flathead. He never did anything for himself, he was certainly negligent and hurt people around him, but his reasoning was not for self-gain, and those reasons stay poignant in his character in multiple timelines. Also again, why are we so obsessed with abuse that isn't there? There are literally characters that are as bad as people think Dominus was, if you want to project abuse onto a transformer. Why make a fanon narrative of slavery for those two specifically, when there are characters that have gone through that abuse, and the story poses the results of their trauma in a way that they could conquer it and never saw them as a helpless victim; they fought to the end, and they empowered themself. (You know who I'm talking about.) In a world where these things happen to real people, it's better to have stories where someone has suffered and survived and conquered, than stories that create more suffering without resolution just to point the finger, not mitigate. It's one thing to relate to a character that has been through slavery, s**ual abuse, and all that, and project your own abuse onto them where it's expected and not harmful. It's something completely different when you have no real constructive ground to make content about those things, what does that say about you?