#{mikayla}

Starscream, at Megatron for no fucking reason:

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Optimus Prime: whoever took Jazz's energon brownies from the fridge, please report to medical immediately. I've been informed that they were laced with substance 420, which causes dizziness, brain fog, lowered reaction time, and heightened feelings of hunger.

Jazz: and know that whoever took it, you owe me big! I was excited for those!

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Ratchet: If you are stupid enough to try dangerous challenges you saw on TikTok, do not come crying to me when you then get hurt. That's just the consequences of your own actions.

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Optimus: okay bots, we have too many humans hanging around our base. Stop bringing humans in.

Mirage: oh come on!! Bumblebee gets to have as many humans as he wants!

Bumblebee, with Sam, Mikayla, Charlie, and Memo: 🖕

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At the decepticon base.

Skywarp: Why in Primus's name can't we get some better lighting in here?

Thundercracker: Megatron's going through a phase.

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Megatron, knocking on Starscream's door: Starscream, I noticed you slipped dark energon into my ration today.

Optimus has antisocial traits. Not enough to qualify for a disorder or anything, but he is a frequent white liar and typically avoids interactions that could lead to deep social connection. He does have close friends obviously, but he keeps them at arms length. Partially due to war trauma and partially just his personality.

Ratchet and Ironhide are actually very close. They share morally grey beliefs, knowing sometimes you have to get your servos dirty to get the job done. They try not to, but if it's to defeat Megatron..

Contrary, Jazz and Bumblebee were never close, despite being the closest to Optimus. Dispite being "cool" "go with the flow" bots they never clicked. Jazz was actually quite jealous when Optimus selected Bumblebee to go to earth first to make sure everything is all good there.

Optimus views his speech giving ability as a special power. He's always been able to do it, despite not being the most social of creatures. To lift up broken bots and inspire them to keep fighting on his name, it's a gift.

The decepticons are closer knit than the autobots, despite caring about each other far less. They are a group of gossipers so everyone knows each other's drama. Especially the high command (Megatron, Sound/Shockwave, Starscream ECT). Occasionally Megatron will connect to Soundwave and be like, "so.. know anything new or different?" Just trying to dig for some Intel.

Ratchet grew to enjoy studying human biology. However, he always stood on the fact that human periods didn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Blood leaving extra scent, debilitating pain that makes it harder to run. He doesn't get it. He approached Mikayla about it a few times. She didn't really have an answer either.

Bumblebee loves it when Sam falls asleep in his cab, it makes him feel like he's protecting Sam well enough for him to relax enough to fall asleep.

Optimus hates it when humans fall asleep in his cab. It makes him feel like they are unresponsive. He doesn't realize that it's because he makes people feel safe. He thinks all humans are automatically terrified of him, which is not at all true.

If Op and the crew were transported to the middle of a golden aged cybertron, they would be considered extremely ugly. If you look at the proto forms before they scan their alt modes, they look a lot more like the decepticons do. And you see in the second movie, the original seven primes also have that colorless look. This is the beauty standard on cybertron. So all the bright earth colors would be considered ugly or very strange.

Bee absolutely does play up his voice issues. It really is somewhat broken, but he enjoys the attention playing it up brings him, especially from the humans.

Depression is pretty rampant in the autobots. Most of them are living on a "just get through today" mindset.

Bayverse bots lay eggs. In clusters kind of like this.