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Hi! Do you happen to have some screenshots of Cyberverse Perceptor?
Hey! Sorry this took a while to answer, I do believe I have some of him... somewhere in my horde of screenshots. I'll dig through and check, if I have none or not that many I'll go get more. I hope you enjoy and thanks for sending this in!
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When Caramel by Sleep Token came out I couldn’t help but think of it as such an Optimus Prime song. This was the outcome of my binging this song 700+ times ahahahahahasidygsiydgsiuy
Thinking again about GOP (ghost OP). Like omg the potential for character development in not only Smokescreen but also OP himself if Optimus HAD fucking died and Smokescreen got the matrix. Like Smokescreen getting the matrix and becoming a Prime is a whole interesting avenue of it's own but as you know I am fucking obsessed with OP so he's gotta be there.
But like omg. Like idk I just think the idea of Smokescreen being thrust into Primehood unexpectedly and in the middle of the war would really evoke Oh Shit It Me emotions in OP and I just feel there's sooooo much potential in ghost! OP trying to like navigate Smokescreen through the shit ala undead shoulder angel. And I feel that'd really give Smokescreen an intimate look into the man behind the magic tit jewelry so to speak. The Real Optimus, as opposed to Calm and Collected leader.
Especially since, you know, Optimus is also trying to cope on his own with the Whole Being Dead Thing+ not having the matrix doing it's thing in him anymore (vis a vis my other hc about the Matrix being kind of like. A competency amplifier). Also Ratchet being a massive drama king about his death and shit. I feel he'd be like, mixed angst and frustration about that shit.
Plus the comedy potential of Noone Believes Optimus is There As A Ghost. And also my ideal concept in which ghost OP keeps sneaking off during Smokescreens off moments to make Megatron's life hell, bc for maybe dark energon, but mostly bc I say so reasons, Megatron can see him and he's haunting the everloving shit out of him. Pulling out all the horror movie stops. Especially since I like to imagine that ghost OP should look like he did prewar as like a manifestation of self image and soul and shit and anyway that just makes the haunting juicier. Also Smokescreen slowly coming to realize that Megatron and Optimus were A Thing and being HORRIFIED LMAO. Comedy and angst and character arc potential all in one.
God I WISH I could write, but I lack the ability to actually plot out PLOT. my brain decided concepts ONLY. maybe scattered scenes if you're good. Maybe I'll try anyway someday but idk lmao. For now I'll just scream into the wind
Also OP getting more and more acclimated to his fucking ghost powers (throwing shit, possession, visibility) so EVENTUALLY the crew can see him but also so he can possess Smokescreen for like ten seconds to punch his ex in the face one last time
More people need to write KOBD as being freaks tbh. Just completely unethical weirdos. Knockout was happy when he got the opportunity to dissect his husband’s possessed corpse and implied Breakdown would absolutely approve of this. Where’s my content of Knockout being unnervingly enthusiastic about dead bodies and Breakdown going “yes babe you’re so sexy and unhinged you can dissect me too when I die”
concept: shattered glass/tfp dimension swap. sg op does months of research/practice on how to Act Normal in preparation for the swap and gets clocked by the autobots in less than 36 hours because, in fact, he is acting too normal. This is not the sweet and subtly, yet incredibly weird leader we know and love.
Meanwhile on the Shattered Glass side of things TFP OP is doing an unsettlingly good job pretending to be a deranged egotistic tyrant
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One more thing from my rewatch of TFP I been thinking about since is how casual and civil Skyquake and OP spoke to each other after Starscream woke Skyquake up. Of course it did devolve into violence but before that the two were basically standing around talking to one another and kinda rolling their eyes together about Star "Bow To Me Optimus Prime" Scream. Skyquake was basically like "hey man heads up Megatron told me to kill you" and OP is like "that was a long time ago I'd prefer not to have to fight you." And Skyquake like almost regretfully was like "I still gotta follow Megatron's orders. Sorry."
And even then violence didn't really break out until Starscream pulled his 'bow to me Prime' shit and Skyquake punched him while Optimus hilariously just stood there and watched.
Of course it wasn't stated but I like to think this is another case of "used to be Decepticon buddies back before the war". Like these two are talking so civilly and familiarly-- and when Dreadwing is introduced they kinda have a similar dynamic-- like they are on opposite sides but there is still a respect there.
And anyway I'm foaming at the mouth at these hinted histories with the Decepticons. OG Decepticon Orion Pax is fuckin canon I'm losing my shit. Optimus knows the decepticon inner circle because he USED TO BE IN IT. The fucking tragedy, the drama, the squandered potential.
cackling over the fact that orion was up there breaking into the archives AND THEN clocked into work. our baby boy got up early with explicit intent to break and enter a government facility. dyou think d-16 woke up to see orion gone and was immediately like you gotta be kidding me
what the FUCK happens in cyberverse
Here's a list just off the top of my head, in no particular order. MASSIVE spoilers ahead.
-Wheeljack keeps making party drugs. This is not only accepted but wholly encouraged by the Autobots. He's made the bot equivalent to cocaine so strong it made grimlock physically unable to stop himself from running around the ship at mach 5. This was the basis for an entire episode. He's also made patches that give you a direct link to the Allspark that he passed out at a party specifically to get everyone as fucked up as physically possible. I cannot overemphasize that Optimus make no effort to stop this until things turn destructive on both occasions.
-Soundwave and Shockwave completely fucking hate each other and have a whole rivalry trying to be a better and more useful follower for Megatron than each other.
-Soundwave is a fucking memelord who will play clown music or dramatic riffs to dunk on people from the soundboard he has built into his hardware.
-theres a sort of liminal dimension referred to as Unspace that you can get stuck in and if you are there for too long you will straight up disintegrate. We see this happen to the entire crew aboard the arc from different timelines several times while the main timeline crew we follow tries to escape this fate, thus dooming dozens of other timelines.
-Cheetor is basically Allspark Jesus, and he's tired of all the fighting, so he tries to have Optimus and Megatron settle their differences once and for all. The chosen method for this was making them both play the Newlywed Game. They were both terrible at it, the MegOp Divorce agenda is alive and well.
-the Quintessons invade Cybertron and stick the entire population into a simulation a la The Matrix, which slowly drains their life force until they die. This kills countless unnamed Cybertronians, both Autobot and Decepticon, as well as Hound, who does not get to appear on screen.
-the Quintessons also catch Starscream, rip his face off, and modify him into an Eldritch tentacle beast with his brain attached to two other aliens, and then appoint that amalgamation as the judge that decides the fate of the universe in regards to whether they exterminate all life within it.
-Shockwave commits suicide for Megatron's approval. He launches his spark straight into the Allspark to taint it specifically as a last desperate fuck you to the autobots.
-Soundwave acquired laserbeak by just kind of grabbing a random bird out of the sky.
-Soundblaster is an ex-decepticon that left out of shame. That shame being Soundwave beating his ass in a beatboxing competition so fuckin hard he couldn't show his face around his faction anymore.
-The autobots keep starscream captive and try to get him to take a therapy session with the Arc's AI, and he starts out willing to actually give it a shot but said AI is kind of Stupid and screamer ends up tricking him into letting him escape through an air vent to go wreak havoc instead.
-Starscream also starts a suicide cult with the other Seekers, gains control of Vector Sigma and the Allspark, has the seekers forfeit their sparks to him, thus resulting in a cosmically powered Starscream. He uses that power to "remake" his followers into scraplets that he refers to as, with nothing but love in his tone, his "children."
-Shockwave and Wheeljack are shown to be ex lab partners. Shockwave has an army of drones that look exactly like his altmode that Wheeljack helped program. They are programmed to be able to break out into a coordinated dance number at any given time. Originally this was just to make Wheeljack laugh. Shockwave kept that function in throughout the entire war and initiates it the second there's a truce and Wheeljack asks to see it again.
-Shockwave kidnaps Wheeljack at one point for Science Under Duress purposes and Wheeljack is too invested in all the sweet fuckin tech Shockwave's been making while they were apart to really care that he's being held against his will, and then proceeds to escape without too much issue because he knows Shockwave well enough to know exactly how to disable everything.
-Bumblebee distracts the Decepticons by running in front of their surveillance cameras and shaking his ass in the most underwhelming way imaginable.
-Grimlock is only stupid when he's in his altmode because it takes a lot of power to sustain and he has to sacrifice some of his higher brain functions to keep it manageable. In robot mode he talks like he went to an Ivy League college and knows what champagne tastes like. He throws upscale parties every chance he gets.
-Grimlock also helped start an anticapitalist revolution with Bumblebee when he found an underground society of insect transformers that had a rigid caste system. This was within moments of finding out that the ultra wealthy were hoarding the limited energon reserves for themselves. Grimlock is a comrade and he does not fuck around.
-Skybyte is here and he sounds like Skeletor.
-Windblade and Slipstream are nemeses and somehow it's even more toxic yuri coded than Arcee and airachnid in tfp.
-speaking of Arcee, she's besties with Grimlock. They at one point have a physical fight over who gets to die to protect the other.
-hot rod and soundwave are forced to share leadership over the team of bots and cons that escaped the quintessons' simulation and it's packed with so much homoerotic tension its unreal.
-Maccadam is some kind of lovecraftian war machine that can unfold himself into a whole armory whenever he feels like it. We have no idea what his whole altmode looks like, all we see are the ominous shadows of the weapons on the walls. He uses this specifically as a threat to keep anyone from fighting in his bar bc he's insistent it remain neutral ground. He also can kinda just. See into the future. And casually drops prophecies that get written off as spoonerisms until they turn out to be relevant.
-Optimus Prime has horrific social anxiety that he can kind of power through when he's in a crisis, but the second things are chill and he has to give a speech at a party or something he simply does not know how to function.
-the entire planet of Velocitron gets taken over by cosmic rust and everyone inhabiting it that couldn't escape in time was killed horrifically.
-cosmos is a girl and she hangs out with a dude named Meteorfire who is, for all intents and purposes, just robot Steve Irwin.
-Astrotrain keeps closing doors in people's faces for the funny
-Megatron is killed by a version of himself from an alternate universe that went nuts and starting creating a master race of perfect Decepticons to inhabit Cybertron. Said perfect Decepticons were carbon copies of idw Tarn in all but personality.
-Acidstorm is canonically genderfluid and keeps switching between male and female seeker frames whenever they feel like it
-Kup, who had not been in the show at all until this point, decides to show up and narrate an entire episode like hes giving a political speech.
And, the infamous one we all know and love
-Megatron is a twitch streamer and he livestreams Starscream's fucking funeral. The chat has custom Decepticon emotes.
If OP took a hit of dark energon like Megatron did what do you think would happen? Angsty internal fight to retain his personality and morals amid the corruption of Unicrons influence?
Or the correct, funny option, which is that Unicron and Primus become his cartoon shoulder angel and devil?
Optimus, frustrated: I wish humans would learn to use their blinkers, one of these days I'm going to end up running into someone.
Inner Primus: You must exercise patience when dealing with the flaws of others.
Inner Unicron: RUN THEM OFF THE ROAD
Optimus: You make a compelling argument.
Inner Primus: NO.
Optimus, sighing: But no.
Optimus, fighting Megatron:
Inner Primus, and Inner Unicron, in a rare moment of agreement, though for different reasons: KICK HIS TEETH IN
Megatron, suddenly nervous: why do I hear boss music
Primus: This path leads only to suffering, my child. You are the last light of Cybertron, do not extinguish yourself in vengeance. Strike only when necessary. Use compassion, not chaos. However for him, all exception's work.
Unicron: Blow up Megatron, you know you want to.
Optimus is stuck in the middle, deadpan staring into the void, gripping his helm like he's got a migraine from hell.
Ratchet: "Are you talking to someone, Prime?"
Optimus: whispering with terrifying calm UNICRON and PRIMUS are telling me to commit a war crime."
Ratchet: "...WHAT?"
Meanwhile, Primus and Unicron are bickering on his like divorced parents fighting over custody.
amnesiac Orion Pax on the Nemesis, going through the worst day of his life after learning his entire planet is dead, his race is on the edge of extinction, his boy Megatronus fucking hates him and is the reason said calamities occurred, decides on the spur of the moment in the depths of rage and despair that rather than going mano y mano in a suicidal death match with Megatron ,he is going to use his Hackerman skills and newly discovered weaponry to blow up the Nemesis and everyone in it.
Soundwave figures out what's going on, the Autobots pick up on it by listening in to Con channels while they're on the ship trying to attempt the rescue mish, both panic.
Cut to the Decepticons and Autobots racing through the ship trying to beat one another to find Orion to either
a) kill him and stop him from blowing up the ship and defeating the entire Decepticon army in one swoop, Megatron you idiot why did you bring your crazy ex on board,
b) use the power of friendship to stop him from blowing up the ship, because don't kill yourself you're so sexy ahhah and also if you bring down this giant alien spacecraft full of extremely toxic, extremely volatile energon down in the middle of a populated area it will be a fucking disaster, Fowler is going to have a stroke, no we can't believe we are advocating for not blowing up the Decepticons either, yeah I know you don't know who we are, but like, trust
And it occurs to me now, after posting, that, actually, Orion doesn't know for sure that Megatron is the one who caused the war/destroyed the planet, etc etc. Because he knows NOTHING.
he doesn't know anything, except that
1) he apparently at some point became a Prime (something he never wanted to be)
2) was the leader of a group called the autobots (whose goals, like everything else about them, are unknown)
3) apparently something happened that made Megatronus, the man with whom he apparently shared many goals and ideals with, hate his fucking guts and fight in a multi million years war against him
My man not only doesn't know who the autobots are, he doesn't know who the hell HE has become in the intermediate years he can't remember. He could have become someone he would now despise. He doesn't know how much of a role he played in the war, in the destruction of Cybertron, anything. The autobots could be just as bad as the Decepticons. He doesn't know. He can't trust anyone.
Thus, drama. Just blow the whole ship up at this point.
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The Decepticons use the Cortical Psychic Patch on Optimus to steal tactical information, etc, but it doesnt work because it turns out that internally Optimus is constantly just screaming at the top of his voice because this Christ-like war leader shit was not on the librarian application
I have so many fucking thoughts about this scenario i’m glad people are realizing how chaotic Optimus’ mind probably is
The reason why Optimus is to calm and quiet is because 1) he has a magnificent poker face 2) he’s waiting for is poor stressed out mind to produce one (1) thought that isn’t panic. 3) he absolutely can’t let anyone know how much panic can fit inside his head. The Autobots are betting their lives on his leadership, under no circumstances can he let them know how often he’s winging it between sheer gut instinct and “What Would A Real Prime Do?”
Internally he probably just does a Google coin flip whenever he has to make a decision and it just so happens that Primus is on his side and it works out somehow. Then later when they’re celebrating their victory and congratulating OP he just smiling and nodding, but the entire time in his head is just empty
okay okay but what if the Matrix was actually a magic eight ball and that’s how Optimus makes all of his decisions
Oh my god this is the greatest addition to a post I’ve ever seen I’m crying shakskskskak imagine he does a little dance to shake the 8 ball then he makes his decision I can’t—😭😭
arcee: What should we do, Prime???
Optimus: I will ask the Primes of the past for help. *turns around and hides the magic 8 ball Matrix close to his chest as he shakes it for an answer (Ratchet is sighing in the background and preparing a groundbridge to skedaddle out of there) and the magic eight ball reads “Ask again later”* I am afraid that none of them have faced a situation like this and so we must go on to forge our own path. Whatever we will do, we will do it together.
Team Prime: *cheers*
Optimus: *sighs heavily and mutters* this is third fragging time I used that speech on them and they still haven’t noticed.
OP at this point stressed beyond his librarian mind and shaking the magic 8 ball for the 100000th time to win the war and it somehow working out despite all odds and using the same speeches 300 times:
yeah!!!! plus I’m not sure whether it’s funnier if Ratchet knows that the matrix is a magic eight ball or if he doesn’t and Optimus has somehow hid the matrix before Ratchet does a medical exam on him or! OR! if Optimus is hiding it so badly and Ratchet knows but because he feels bad he pretends that he doesn’t know about the magic eight ball matrix and subtly helps OP out
Litchrally like one of the top three things that are Very Important to me about OP (tfp) is the bit where he was, for all intents and purposes, a Decepticon. My IDEAL dynamic is basically
The kids, Orion Pax arc: wait, so Optimus was a Decepticon?!!
Ratchet: ACTUALLY, that's HIGHLY SIMPLIFYING a COMPLEX MATTER. back then there WERE no autobots and decepticons. we were not at WAR, so there were NO FACTIONS, so NO, he was definitely NOT A DECEPTICON. the IDEA. the NERVE.
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The kids, post Orion Pax arc: so.... You were like the OG Decepticon?
Optimus: yeah
#like i don't necessarily think hes....proud of it but i think he'd be like YOU KNOW IN THE BEGINNING IT WAS A NOBLE CAUSE #and ratchet being like ARE YOU SURE. ARE YOU SURE #basically i just like any version of op that's not like..... squeaky clean morality. like i think home dog is like. #like there was a fracture where they split but i think its important and fascinating to consider that HE AGREED WITH MEGATRONS APPROACH#AND IDEALS BACK IN THE DAY. THATS SOOOO INTERESTING #basically the concept of og decepticon orion pax being a facet of autobot leader optimus primes personality #is very important to me lol #the road to hell is paved with good intentions and i think if he and megatron hadn't fallen out hed still be walking that road
"Degenerate fans are ruining Transformers!" Imma hold your balls as I tell you this, but these "degenerates" (which, in this case, is often just used as a dog-whistle to refer to the queer community or horny people) are the ones RUNNING Transformers.
(Excuse the multi-colored format. It helps me not get overwhelmed as well as separate points. Also, working on this has now become a hobby, so expect edits and new things a lot, lol)
One of the main illustrators for IDW Transformers, Alex Milne, made an art book series called "Hot Motor Oil", in which he draws softcore porn of the bots
The fandom term "interfacing" to refer to robot sex became so popular that TFP made it canon ( "Frankly, I find it repulsive. The idea of you fleshies... interfacing- EUgH" Knockout talking about two humans dating)
G1 had 2 episodes dedicated to human/cybertronian pairings bcuz robot-fucking is deeply ingrained in this franchise and fandom (link to ep, link to ep)
Transformers Prime knows this because they make a joke about June wanting to look good for Optimus
The Transformers being queer isn't a new thing. They've been like this since Energon in 2001 and IDW in 2005. (Technically, the 1990s as well, but the couple in Transformers Zone was between a human and a humanoid alien)
average day on the Lost Light 👍
Rung “don’t forget me” and Shockwave “remember me as I was” friendship. Are y’all getting the vision hello is this thing on
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been thinking about Skyfire a lot.
Language evolves so it would be interesting to see the little dialect changes that happen, especially with the bots on Earth. So when they find Skyfire, they can tell this mech is old. He uses turns of phrase long outdated, his language tends to be a bit flowery, his jokes don’t quite land. Most of the time, he doesn’t mind but there are others where the isolation and the weight of how much has changed, crushes him. Time makes him adapt. He begins to learn and slowly, he fits himself into the Autobot’s faction—they learn his common sayings, he learns what he humor is like. It’s nice in a lot of ways. Still, he mourns the world that only exists in his processor now.
I'd genuinely like to know what Sentinel thought when Optimus came back from his first space bridge maintenance assignment with a random stranger, who somehow established himself as the team's second-in-command.
Maybe at first, he assumed Oppy was just being charitable and soft-sparked. He must have saved Prowl from a bad situation in the middle of nowhere, right? And Optimus isn't a "real" Prime by his standards, so Prowl was probably just the most helpful bot present when his first assignment went so horrendously wrong, right?
But then Sentinel decides to ask Jazz if he knows anything about Prowl, cause they seem oddly familiar with each other.
And Jazz is like "Oh Prowl? Yeah, we know each other. He was the last bot my old master took on as a student before being murdered. He's kinda' like the baby brother of the entire Cyber Ninja Corps; we're all waiting for him to reach his next stage of enlightenment, so he can finish his training and become a fully-fledged member. Other masters have tried to take him under their wing - you know, help him along. But...Prowl's got a bit of a 'problem' with authority. Yoketron's the only one who ever managed to train him. Optimus's leadership skills must be somethin' special for him to wrangle Prowler into being his second-in-command."
And from then on, whenever Sentinel has to visit earth and work with Optimus, he's bombastically side-eyeing Prowl the entire time. Wondering why this ultra-rebellious baby cyberninja is so attached to "Maintenance Prime", and follows him around like he's a real leader. Wondering why Optimus chose such a disobedient and difficult bot to be his direct subordinate. Jazz never gives him trouble like Prowl gives Optimus trouble. Maybe that's because Jazz is a mature Cyber-Ninja. Or maybe Optimus is just that bad of a leader that he can't pick himself a good second-in-command.
