#(it didn't)

I was just sitting watching my Apokuna building stream, listening to her based takes about using your brain and still acknowledging the storytelling creators are doing on top of your shipping with Pyroscythe in chat, when I was hit by a beam of v!Applespice pain. Apo brings up how she's sad that her and Pyro's characters didn't get a proper conclusion. They beat each other up a bit and then v!Apo got the feeling that one of her kind was dead, only to find out it was v!Pyro. That's how they ended. Like that.

Pyro says it's a realistic way to experience loss, and Apo adds on that sometimes you don't get to be there to see the loss, and just. Sad. I think this is absolute confirmation that v!Apo did mourn. Ugh. Ugh. I've been holding on tight to the idea of v!Apo mourning v!Pyro, but it's nice to know it wasn't wishful thinking.

“Quick, someone write a fic about the void you feel when someone passes but you can’t be there to wish them off," Apo said. I've been wanting to a while, but this might just get me to finally do it.

And Optimus... has enough.

He passed millions of years trying to save his friend, giving him chances again and again, hurting himself by both the Decepticon's actions and his own despair, before - maybe - making peace that Megatron can't be fix. He's irredeemable.

Except he's not. Someone Megatron knows since less time than Optimus, who didn't have the quarter of the relationship they had, who didn't put a fraction of the time and effort and suffering of Optimus, manages to do what Optimus was incapable of doing.

Optimus doesn't want to do anything with Megatron. He doesn't want to talk to him or to see him ever again. He will not hurt him, but he can't forgive him for this betrayal.

Basically,

God I missed drawing hellerby being stupid

Fool, you activated his Blue-Background-White-Skip card! AKA game night at the Kaiba residence not going quite how Mokuba had hoped.

This was a silly little collab with @greebers who has fallen back into the YuGiOh hyperfocus with me!