Unending Sarcasm

Me, knowing damn well this creature could kill me: My fucking baby boy right there!!!!!!

hoe don’t do it

Okay, I know this is kind of out of the blue, but this panel started bugging me today. So, it’s time for some brainstorming!

We all know that Rung’s special somehow and they just haven’t revealed it yet and blah blah… Except, what if they have?

Here’s what some snotty cadet is sarcastically saying Rung may be; A Knight of Cybertron, a Progenitor, and Alpha Trion’s brother.

Now, let’s think about this… What if he really is all those things?

Alpha Trion’s Brother

I’m not sure what the implications of this would be, but it is a rather amusing thought. And somewhat plausible. Both Rung and Alpha Trion are ancient as all fuck. Perhaps he’s the Minimus Ambus to A3’s Dominus Ambus?

Progenitor

I couldn’t find anything lore-specific on what these might be, but a quick check with our old friend Google yields the following definition;

a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent

a person who originates an artistic, political, or intellectual movement.

Now, we can make some assumptions based on this definition. The Progenitors could be the origins of different frames/types of Cybertronians, the prototypes if you will. This may explain why Rung is so reluctant to upgrade his body, and why no one seems to know what his alt mode is. Later examples of bots with Rung’s frame type are the mnemosurgeon Trepan and (loosely) the Necrobot. Such interesting descendants you have there, Rung!

Okay, now on to the really big one…

Knights of Cybertron

Okay, so we’ve all heard the old story about the Knights, how they were the original Cybertronians created by the five Gods, and how they left Cybertron ten million years ago to spread enlightenment, blah, and all that… But, knowing this, would it not make some sense for them to leave someone behind to watch over the newly-forged Cybertronians? What if Rung is the one, or one of the few, they left behind? This would explain why Rung seems to be ‘a historical constant’, as Chromedome put it. He’s always been there for every important event in Cybertronian history, albeit only as an observer in the background.

And then Rodimus starts his quest to find the Knights of Cybertron. Who should show up? Rung. Unassuming little Rung. Just along for the hell of it, supposedly. Except, what if he’s a Knight himself? How messed up would that be if they went through all that trouble only to discover that the very thing they were looking for was right there on the ship the whole time? I do believe bricks will be shat.

But there are even more implications to this now that Megatron is the captain, especially due to why Megatron is the captain. He’s searching for the Knights so that they may preside as the judges over his trial. What happens if/when Rung is revealed as a Knight? I do believe we may see our little psychiatrist friend wearing that Chief Justice tiara next.

Speaking of Megatron, this theory gives a little more weight to his voluntary session with Rung at the beginning of ‘Season 2’. Firstly, he was the one that wanted to speak privately with Rung, without giving a reason why. Secondly, during the session, he mentions meeting Rung when asked about the three most important encounters in his life. You know what I think? I think he knows.

Of course, that’s not to say Rung knows himself. There is the possibility that his memory has been altered to hide his true identity from even himself, either by the other Knights or later by a mnemosurgeon. There were plenty of opportunities for them to stick the needles to him, after all. The Functionists supposedly ran every test possible on him to find out what the hell he was. A memory sweep might just be one of the more extreme of those tests.

Picture it; a mnemosurgeon is poking around in some tiny psychiatrist’s head, searching for some very basic information when he just happens to stumble upon just who it is he’s injecting. He panics, informs the Functionists, they panic, fearing the consequences of diving into a Knight’s brain, and order his memory to be covered up/altered to save their own afts. Then they very kindly give him his own alt mode category, give him his backpack/wheelbarrow unit to help prevent people thinking anything was unusual about him, and just send him on his way. I dunno, I can believe something like that.