DOMIN

# BEFORE I POST ANYTHING. I WANT TO DO AN INTRO. # I GO BY "DOMIN". AN ALIAS I HAVE PICKED UP FROM ONLINE FRIENDS. "DOM" IS ALSO ACCEPTABLE. # I AM 20. AN ADULT. #IT/ITS PRONOUNS.

(SELF INDULGENT AS HEADCANONS TEND TO BE.)

( A FORENOTE -- I CHOOSE TO TYPE IN ALL-CAPS. ) AN ISSUE I HAVE SEEN WEIRDLY PREVALENT ON TUMBLR SPECIFICALLY - THE MISCHARACTERIZATION AND POTRAYAL OF DOMINUS AMBUS. I SEE HIM POTRAYED AS AND WITHIN THEMES THAT ARE DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE. FOR A CHARACTER ALREADY ELUSIVE AND THOUGHT OF BY SOME IN A NEGATIVE MANNER NO GOOD IS DONE WITH THIS. A COMMON POINT RAISED - HE HID THE FACT HE WAS WEARING ARMOR. YES. HE HAD NOT TOLD REWIND BUT HAS ANYONE STOPPED TO CONSIDER THE FACTORS: DURING A TIME OF FUNCTIONALISM IT WAS MOST LIKELY EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. HE WAS ALREADY SPEAKING AGAINST THE IDEALS AND WAS ALREADY IN A SPOT THAT HAD HIM AT POTENTIAL RISK IF WE THINK ABOUT IT. I SEE NO REASON WHY HE WOULD NOT SAY ANYTHING IN A MALICIOUS MANNER. THEY RETURNED TO WAR. I HAVE NO DOUBT DOMINUS WOULD HAVE HAD PLANS TO REVEAL HIS TRUE SELF ONCE THEY HAD RETURNED FROM THEIR TRAVEL. INSTEAD IT WAS IMPLIED THEY HAD BEEN CAUGHT BY SURPRISE AT THE FACT THE WAR HAD ALREADY BEGUN ON THEIR RETURN TO CYBERTRON. HIS BROTHER. DOMINUS AMBUS WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE HIDING HIS BEASTFORMER SELF. HIS SPARK BROTHER MINIMUS AMBUS WAS IN THE SAME POSITION. DESPITE OUR KNOWN FACT THAT THEY HAD A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP AS BROTHERS I SEE NO REASON FOR EITHER TO STILL LACK CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER. ( BESIDE OBVIOUS TELLINGS AND SHOWINGS THAT MINIMUS STILL CARED - SHOWN TO US IN-COMIC MULTIPLE TIMES. ) NO DOUBT TO ME THAT DOMINUS WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IF HE HAD BEEN FOUND OUT - THE SAME COULD BE TRUE FOR MINIMUS. DOMINUS WOULD NOT WANT TO RISK THE SAFETY OF HIS BROTHER. ANOTHER THING I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT - POWER IMBALANCE. (OR AS SOME DISGUSTING USERS THINK IS ALRIGHT TO DEEM IT AS - A SLAVE/SLAVE OWNER "DYNAMIC")

PLEASE. TAKE ONE LOOK AT REWIND AS A CHARACTER AND TELL ME TO MY FACE THAT HE WOULD EVER LET HIMSELF BE IN THAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP - OR ANY RELATIONSHIP THAT WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL FOR HIM IN THAT WAY. IT DOES NOT ONLY DO DISSERVICE TO DOMINUS AMBUS BY LABELLING HIM AS SOMETHING HE WOULD NEVER BE BUT IT DOES A DISSERVICE TO REWIND WHO HAS PROVEN THAT HE IS CAPABLE AND KNOWS WHAT IS AND IS NOT GOOD FOR HIM IN A RELATIONSHIP. (NOT ONLY THAT - DO YOU ALL BELIEVE THAT IS SOMETHING JAMES ROBERTS WOULD WRITE OR IMPLY WITHIN HIS WRITING? THE JAMES ROBERTS?)

THE READER IS DELIVERED THE STORY OF DOMINUS AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH REWIND VIA CHROMEDOME WHO - AT THE TIME - VIEWED DOMINUS THROUGH A NEGATIVE LENSE. AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR AT THAT TIME (EARLY ON IN MTMTE) THAT DID NOT OR COULD NOT SEE THE FULL PICTURE - THIS IS SOMETHING THE COMICS CAN DO BETTER AT SHOWING AND EXPLAINING THAN I CAN. THE WAY THAT USERS VIEW DOMINUS AMBUS HAVE ME WONDERING IF THEY EVER READ SOME OF THESE ISSUES WITH ANY KIND OF MEDIA LITERACY - OR THE CAPACITY TO THINK BEYOND SURFACE LEVEL. IT IS DISAPPOINTING.