You can punch him or touch him on the modesty panel all you’d like and he’d probably recuperate but hug him, pat him on the back, or do the Vox-shoulder-touch special and he’ll be giving you death-glares.

I like the idea of the Shattered Glass version of the DJD being made up of specialists in rescue and recovery that work with Soundwave directly and know about the List of Decepticons and Autobot defectors they smuggled to safety and safe zones away from Optimus and out of the war that they guard fiercely. They are the ones sent in on mear suicidal missions/rescues.

One of those Tarn is particularly upset about is Overlord, a mnemosurgeon and pacifist, that he has been trying to locate for years and blames himself for the capture of.

Dominus still acted as a spy, and while Optimus and Megatron were on Earth, he revealed one of the safe houses and Kaon who was intending to Conjunx him had to shoot him to stop him from releasing the full list. Tarn has since become incredibly self-destructive in protecting his team and determined to save as many people as possible.

He has a contact, one of his own spies, Pharma, who has been "killing" Decepticons captured and given to First Aid and smuggling them out to Tarn's team. He has been trying convince Pharma to defect and run away from him but Pharma is determined to stay and get out as many people as possible because he feels a lot of guilt about how the only "Mercy" he could give people was killing them.

Something Tarn understands because though he doesn't ever put in on his team members, sometimes the only thing left for the Decepticon Mercy Division is killing those they tried to rescue because they can't get them out or they are too injured. Tarn takes this all on himself and "sings" people to death gently.

I picture Pharma as having undergone empurata but with the head and hands of a medical drone. Ratchet spoke for him, which is why he wasn't killed but punished instead.

SG Overlord has to be a saint considering that he is a literal psycho in the original universe (with SG Tarn being the same)

And they are madly in love. Not just bodily love, but romantically and platonically as well. They absolutely cherish one another; if one of them died, the other would not hesistate to go with them. If OG OverTarn was more of the somewhat toxic "I despise you and wish you died but dear G O D are you good in the berth" type of ship, this is the polar opposite. Very romantic, very healthy relationship, so happy

Imagine this. Overlord, gently looking down at his one and only love, smiling softly. "Sing for me, Tarn." It is not a threat, not a request, but an invitation. Overlord adores Tarn and his beautiful voice. He couldn't bear to live a day without the other's soft songs and words.

Tarn looks up at the bigger bot. Dear Primus, he is gorgeous. Beautiful. The embodiement of love. And he sings for Overlord. He enjoys every moment of it. Like a bird will sing songs to show love to their mate, Tarn does just that. He loves Overlord with his entire spark. The other reciprocates.

Your honor they are in LOVE

That is so fucking sweet and adorable yes

A little comic with my version of a shattered glass Overlord... Peachlord as I like to call him :3c

I feel like the main turning point in when the deceptions realize this Megatron is different is when Starscream inevitably tries to betray Megatron and become the Decepticon leader again. He gets caught or outed of course so he's now standing in front of Megs to await his punishment. On one servo Starscream is terrified out his fragging mind on the other he's finally glad to see how bad the beatings are going to be. The unknown is scarier than the know kind of situation.

Before Starscream can start begging for his life routine Megatron just says "why?" Starscream confused why what? Megatron why did you betray me he would ask? And everyone especially Starscream is caught off guard. Everybot knows he does this for power and stuff but Starscream hasn't actually really explained why. Especially to Megatron of all people. He feels like this is a trick question and he just doesn't know what to say. Es Megatron seeing his internal struggle just sighs and is like tell me later I got stuff to do then just leaves. Multiple bots seeing this would pinch themselves and ask others if they saw that too. Maybe some of them suggesting they all experienced a mass hallucination.

While everyone is very confused and scared they're also curious if this doesn't make him mad what else won't? So decepticons will subtle try to test his limits. Like brushing against him in the hallway, being a little late to meet him, mess up in front of him, stuff like that. Es Megatron doesn't even notice lmao. His primary focused on calming down Starscream without calming him down himself. Es Megatron doesn't want to blow his cover of evil dictator but uuuuugh. Starscream is acting like those little nervous chihuahua dogs in sweaters. 🥺

The mech is so extremely stressed because he still can't think of a correct answer and is like 5 seconds away from a nervous breakdown. Megs won't leave him like this so he'll just confront comfort him.

Starscream will be called to the throne room by es Megatron and he knows his time is up. The second in command is very quietly freaking out the entire walk to meet Megs. He reaches him and from an outside perspective Megatron looks kinda mad but internally he's also freaking out.

I don't know what exactly Starscream would say/do but regardless in the end Megatron just "logics" his way out why he's being "nice." It boils down to he knows Starscream kept betraying the other Megatron regardless of how badly he was beaten so obviously he was doing something wrong. So ES being the superior Megatron has decided to do something new. He will psychologically manipulate (theraptize) Starscream. The seeker is wondering why he was telling him this;as wouldn't him knowing he was being manipulated make it harder to manipulate? ES just brushes it off and says he'll do it so well that it doesn't matter if he knows or not. The previous Megatron with a proven history of insanity would make Starscream completely believe Megs.

So he's sent on his way and ES Megatron has now begun his absolutely terrible truly evil plan of... of- making everyone more mentally healthy!!

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Bumblebee

Extremely repulsed. There's no other words to describe it. That's not Optimus. Optimus is kind, his sire, values life so highly, and doesn't like hurting people. Bumblebee wants nothing to do with this "prime".

He is not Optimus.

Bulkhead

Kinda neutral on the guy, he doesn't know what to feel, right now he's more focused on trying to stop Miko from interacting with the guy. She doesn't need to hear anymore disturbing war stories or learn how to rip out joints.

Arcree

Put off. She's usually pretty in control of her emotions (except when it comes to her partners) but seeing Optimus like this is throwing her through a loop. For right now she'll observe him and make sure he's not alone with the children.

Optimus

There are not strong enough words in the English or Cybertronian language to describe his horror at what the other Optimus has become. Ever since he became a prime he's always feared that day he would become corrupt. This version of him just confirmed his fears in the worst way possible. He's subtly trying to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it.

Ratchet

Honestly he's not surprised in the slightest. He saw how crazy Optimus was when Raf got hurt during the dark energon incident. Ratchet is more concerned now that he has to look after two leader bots with no self preservation.

Miko

Thinks he's metal as hell and wants to be besties. She'll listen to all his war crime stories with rapt attention. (Remember when she saw Bulkhead disembowel that one vehicon and thought it was cool? Yeah she def into the face ripping.)

She's also glad someone is finally wants to truly kill Megatron, cause fuck that guy in all honesty. I think Miko has the personal belief that some people do deserve to die. She doesn't feel guilty or feel remorse about this thinking. She doesn't talk about because she knows that Optimus ex is still a sore spot for him.

Raf

Scared of him. Optimus is his pseudo father figure and seeing this violent version of him is disturbing to him. Doesn't help that he's not that keen on humans. Raf is going to stay out of his way.

Jack