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Trans reader isn't wearing their binder, which Optimus notices. This confuses him and he asks some questions.

About this fic:

ftm reader, sfw, OP is a respectful icon as always, mention of chest-binding

1.037 words

The Prime gazes over to you, rather intrigued by the sudden change in your physique he noticed.

Of course you notice that and cross your arms over your chest, flustered but also feeling quite uncomfortable in this situation.

"Stop staring, please?", you managed to get out.

Optimus hadn't noticed that he had a fixed look on you and shifted his gaze.

"I apologize. I could not help but notice your chest."

"I know I'm not wearing a binder, no need to stare like that."

This sentence has the Prime bewildered. What could that statement mean?

"I apologize for asking, but what is a binder?", he asked, emphasizing on the last word.

Your eyes widen for a moment, before sheepishly looking to the side, away from the Prime's bright blue optics, which were fixed on you again.

"To make it simple, it's a tight piece of clothing worn to flatten your chest. I'm not wearing it right now, so my chest isn't flat obviously."

Optimus notices that you appear to be tense so he tries to convey his interest and that his intention are not of any harm, in hopes of making you feel more at ease.

"That sounds quite interesting. If I may ask, why are you not wearing it at the moment, if doing so makes you uncomfortable?"

You look back at the Prime, seeing his optics glowing attentively.

"Well... Like I said, it's tight. Wearing it too often or for too long can actually be harmful. And also, it's really warm today and I knew that if I wore it, I would simply die from the heat."

That alarmed Optimus, who didn't catch the sarcasm in your voice.

"Wearing the binder is dangerous?"

His voice filled with concern, he puts a servo on the railing infront of him. "Are there any other solutions that do not have the potential to cause you harm?"

Flustered by the Prime's sudden concern, you smiled awkwardly.

"It's only temporary. I make sure not too strain my body, don't worry. A better solution would be a mastectomy, but that has to wait unfortunately."

You grew more shy as the Prime continues looking at you.

"The struggle of being transgender haha.", you add nervously, trying to conceal your growing nervosity.

Optimus blinks, taking in the information he has gathered and smiles warmly.

Upon seeing this you could swear you felt your heart flutter in that moment.

You rarely see Optimus relaxed, not to mention smile.

Did you ever see him smile before? Why was he smiling at you? But he did look beautiful doing so...

Your thoughts racing, you couldn't manage to get anything out. Now blushing you clear your throat, the attempt of saying something still unsuccessful.

In an effort to appear more confident, you place your arms on your hips..This has you feeling dysphoric though, so you end up crossing them over your chest again.

"I would like to learn more about your circumstances, if you allow. This conversation has garnered my interest."

And now he wants to know more about you?

This unfortunately attractive 8 meter tall robot from outer space?! I mean, you weren't complaining, it just caught you by surprise.

"Eh, sure. If you've got the time at hand I can tell you more."

Optimus nods in response. "Would you like to be in a more private environment for this? This appears to be a personal topic of discussion."

Now wth could he mean by that?!

You look around the place. There weren't many people. Actually just Ratchet and Ironhide, who were bickering about something.

You snicker, watching the scene unfold, then you look back at the Prime before you and nod. "Sure, where do you wanna go?"

"I suggest we go for a drive."

You feel the blood rushing to your cheeks at that statement.

You would be sitting in Optimus' cabin...?!

"Uhh, like right now?"

You gain another nod from the bot before you.

"Okay sure why not?"

You make your way down from the platform, while Optimus transformed into his altmode.

"Fuck...", you mumble under your breath, hoping the semi didn't hear it.

The driver's door opens as you approach the vehicle. Hesitant, you get in and gently close it.

Right as you sat down a voice comes from the radio, startling you. "Geez...", you whisper as Optimus advises you to use the seatbelt. As much as you love that deep voice, that definitely caught you off guard.

The Peterbilt rumbles as the engine starts and Optimus starts moving.

You two leave the base in silence, and your was certain the Prime could hear your heart rate going like 120.

There was so much you wanted to say right now but where should you start?

Luckily Optimus took over, asking a question.

"Did you choose your current designation on your own? I assume here on earth it is also the parents that name their offspring at birth"

You nod, then realizing that Optimus probably can't see it so you turn to speak.

"Yes, I chose a different name from the one I was given. And I do not intend on disclosing that information."

You then recognized that the way you said that could come off as rude. "It's just that my deadname, that's what it's called, is something I'd like to leave in the past. You know? Like a fresh start."

"I understand.", the deep voice from the radio responds. But not in annoyance or boredom. No, he really appears to be interested, focused even.

"This matter is something entirely new to me, so I do not know what questions are suitable to ask."

You felt your body relax, now knowing that Optimus was actually interested.

The Prime just didn't know where to start asking.

You thought it was kinda cute actually.

"Well, then I guess I just start and we'll see where this is gonna go. Feel free to ask when there's something you don't understand or want me to elaborate on."

You lean back into the seat, feeling at ease now. "Buckle up Prime, this is gonna be a loooong ride."

All three of them sleeping in the same bed at night and SS tries to wrap an arm around TCWarp who're cuddling and one of them slaps his hand away

Starscream hardcore flirting with Skywarp who just teleports away mid sentence stone faced

Abusers and creeps are not some species of especially heinous animal or alien or monster wearing the face of a human. They're people. And you NEED to drill it into your head that they are people because you NEED to remember that people are capable of doingn heinous shit. And you are a person. And your loved ones are people.

It's okay Megs, it'll be back soon... surely

I think I also mentioned how in the aligned continuity Breakdown used to be a smaller bot like his G1 self in the Cybertron games, and his TFP toy bio sorta connected the two portrayals by saying he switched to the bigger body so he could fight Bulkhead, and when I thought about that for a moment I was like, oh, trans narrative. This little skittish paranoid bot switched to a bigger body and it fixed literally all of his issues. This is a transgender man.

With that in mind, I saw you mention a couple posts ago how Bulkhead gives you gender envy and I think that could very well have been the reason Breakdown got so obsessed with him back before his transition and started their whole rivalry. Literally can't stop thinking about him and it takes a shockingly long time for him to realize "oh, I want to be him"

and I feel like it's not that controversial to make Bulkhead somewhat self conscious about his appearance, so who better to put him with than the guy who literally based his whole appearance and gender identity on him. His perfect body is inspired by Bulkhead's.

Their fights just seem so intensely charged when you read it things this way. It becomes all about "how do you like what my new body can do?" and RAAAAAAGGH I need Breakdown to show him just what it can do in every regard. Breakdown clearly loves fighting Bulkhead and I think it's not just because it's a chance to do something macho/manly with the guy who was his transition goal but also because it's the closest he can get to satisfying the urge to bend him over that extended from initially thinking about him 24/7 for other reasons.

it's all just so intense and physical with those two, and it makes perfect sense that yeah, of course it would be.

on a sidenote, BreakBulk is afaik the only TFP ship to also have a fun name. Sometimes you'll see the ship referred to as Hammertime. And I mean, that really just shows what Breakdown's options here. He can get with the red twunk and get reduced to letters, or he can finally go bear4bear like Primus intended and get a fun name. And only one of them tried to save him from MECH, just saying.

I just want Breakdown to salivate over the thought of the two of them fucking as much as I do, okay?

so i haven't really given breakbulk/hammertime much thought, ig because i'm a pretty staunch tfp bulkjack fan, but... you've got me thinking, you've got me thinking.

the fact that he transitioned into a bigger body so he could go up against bulkhead is just wild to me. like you saw this giant bot and said "i wanna be like you" and we're not supposed to take that as a trans narrative? ok. sure.

iirc i think breakdown was also supposed to defect to the autobots in the original pitch bible, so can you imagine these two actually getting more time together? no way they would pass up the opportunity to spar, cracking jokes about it being like old times. maybe that's when breakdown admits to changing his frame to be more like bulkhead, which... i can imagine bulkhead might be pretty flattered by that.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

no. proship literally just means anti censorship and anti harassment. proship does not necessarily mean liking every taboo ship. it does not necessarily mean normalizing any taboo ship.

you can be proship even if you hate every single ship that is taboo. as long as you don’t harass or shame real people over fiction, then by the definition, you are proship.

almost every person who is proship has something they dislike, hate, or even find disgusting. the point is not to normalize any of these taboo things. the point is literally to not shame, harass or censor people who enjoy the things they enjoy as long as it’s fiction and no one in real life is harmed.

You might think Simon can't qualify as a tumblr sexyman because he's attractive, BUT there's more to his character than just his looks:

Simon 'The Butcher' is a murderer with a body count of +60 people.

Traumatized to hell and back, haunted by his past.

Raised by what's essentially a death cult to be a child soldier.

The most sopping wet cat of a man to ever live. Literally. He's completely drenched in blood.

Personality of a kicked dog: Quick to anger, but apologizes profusely SO many times for hurting other people, HE EVEN APOLOGIZES TO A PANEL BOARD FOR PUNCHING IT

Haunted by mind shattering horrors.

Disfigured and turned into a monster by said horrors.

Not just this, but think about the win this would be for an indie project

Think about the traction this would give Iron Lung

Think about letting this newcomer have his time to shine

And if not for anything else, think about how funny it would be for Mark "I see everything" Iplier to find out he won the 2026 tumblr sexyman contest as Simon

Like, obviously this depends on which character, but they may have some internalized (or very obvious, Starscream) superiority for any other being that can't fly, human or cybertronian alike. This may at times make them a little condescending when talking about flying when conversing with you, and they may even end up dissing humanity as a whole just because we are rather firmly grounded. Like, there isn't a particular kind of human that can fly, like how cybertronians have seekers. So in their mind they're going ‘yeah sure you guys made planes, it is very impressive that you were able to find a way off the ground, but it’s not the same.’ Doesn't make their processor go ‘that's another flier.’

And then somehow they find out you do acrobatics. And not just any acrobatics, but aerial acrobatics.

The main ones I have in mind are aerial silks, aerial hoop/lyra, and trapeze, though obviously that last one is a little different from the first two lol. These are what I think of, mainly because you can end up performing quite high, and that only adds to the illusion of flying.

In general, regarding the reactions to the different types of acrobatics, I imagine that the aerial silks and hoop might be considered something of a kind of ‘lazy’ form of flying in their subconscious, but in a sleepy or dreamy kind of way. (Of course, that depends on how you perform, but let's pretend for now.) What with all the spinning and swinging that can be done when performing, it might end up even looking somewhat playful to them while you're in the air. Aerial silks might be a bit different, though, depending on how you might headcanons cybertronians and their relationship with fabric. Personally, I headcanon fabric to be something of a luxury on Cybertron—save for maybe cloths that they use to polish their finish—so if you perform with silks you might end up looking a little expensive, or even a little sexy, depending on how you wanna see it.

Trapeze I have in mind something a little different, and it's largely because in trapeze you perform in groups, and I like to think that seekers might subconsciously end up equating this to something similar to a trine, given the right context, even if there's more than three people in the group.

Now, I perform exactly none of these, I'm not even an acrobat in general. But I just think that seekers might see you performing and have their subconscious go ‘that is another flier’ and I don’t know how that would affect their relationship with you, but somehow, in some way, I think it would.

But yeah. Acrobatics are the seekers of humans. And I think seekers would like that. A lot.

And no I won’t be counting each individual reblog I make to make you guys happy, it takes a lot of effort to run this and I’m not adding that much more effort to appease people

Seeing propaganda for characters and getting a reblog it is a part of the fun to me and I like getting to see it no matter what character it’s for but if you guys keep complaining I can stop allowing propaganda for him, or I could do what some poll runners have had to do and ban characters from fandoms that won’t behave but I’m sincerely hoping I never have to do that