There's something unexplainable in these beautiful but somber seconds of Optimus Prime sadly watching Megatron drive off into the distance. Losing a best friend like this is so hard, but the way he gazes at him regretfully, like he just wants his friend back just hurts so much.

Okay so I went back and watched the vod (or at least the part that was uploaded on Sapnap's channel) - below is the transcript of the parts I found interesting.

(everything below the cut is about the characters not content creators!)

/rp /dsmp

dream strikes me as the kind of guy who has never had something good. of course, he had his friends and things he loved, cherished, even, but he seems like the guy who doesn't even know what a good quality of life looks like. it feels like he's always had it rough, had so little, that he doesn't even know that it's bad. the way he said "i don't even sleep" to techno in passing made it sound casual like it was something that's become a common part of dream's life (or always has been?)

dream never approaches the negative parts of his life with anything but a casual, neutral tone. he never complains about grinding for resources, never mentions that he's tired, his houses are barren and empty, and really he had nothing that was his, outside of his armor, for a long time. like, pre-disk finally (and even then- the legitimacy of dream's evil lair being nothing but for show is up for debate). the only exception to this was the Spirit Speech, but those were completely different circumstances.

...has dream ever had a safe place to sleep? has he ever had a home? has there ever been a time where he just let himself rest, realize what's good for him, and what's not? because it really doesn't seem like it

When he falls through the strata he is barely alive, BUT halfway down, you can just catch him as his paint colours fade away (especially the red) to grey, signifying his ultimate death. (Just like Sentinel when he died in a similar fashion.) This was such a clever way D fortold Sentinel's death but now as Orions own fate. He passed away, and suffered alone in darkness....

Look at these gifs! 1 is slowed down so you can see it better frame by frame

Look carefully at Optimus before and after he and Megatron fight....

Post fight, Optimus has suffered damage and he has what looks like scratches or possibly cracks on his chest window, whilst no other harm seems to have been inflicted from the battle (apart from the intense emotional damage that was building up) and in most cases, the glass in a window is usually weaker at the corners. Coincidence? Or intentional?

No paint chips, or other 'scars'..... Yet something tells me Megatron was initially aiming for the actual Matrix and not Prime at first.

Hhhhhhhh

Oh boy. I wonder why. I'm sure I would 100% regret the things I have done when nobody tried telling me what was wrong about it and also tortured me because of that. I'm sure I would love to make ammends with the people that locked me in a box, killed a cat I was getting attached to when I tried to get better, tried to murder me, tortured me and told me if I ever got out they would kill me 🙃 /s

But yeah, c!Dream should definitely feel bad about all the wrong he has done when no one told him even what was wrong about his actions. Reminder: he believes the reason he is locked up (and that it the reason btw, not the exile) is that he has the revival book!! He is not answering for his crimes! He is not learning to be better! He is getting tortured for information!

Please stop saying the prison will make him better. It won't. It's not. How is he supposed to get better when he is getting confirmation on his beliefs every day? Attachments are weaknesses. You can't trust anyone.

He won't learn anything if no one tells him what he did wrong. If no one helps him.

Just thought this was interesting: Kokona’s rabbit is most likely named after German biologist Jakob von Uexküll.

Interestingly enough, Uexküll (the biologist, not the rabbit) came up with the idea of Umwelt, which observes that different organisms in an environment pick up on different environmental signals. Like, for instance, the survival of some animals depend more on certain sounds than on their sight, or more on certain smells than sounds. The part of the world that an animal can perceive is called its “umwelt,” while the reality that exists outside of its perception is “umgebung.” (Which, coincidentally, is a really fun word to say out loud.)

Now how does this relate to the actual show? Well shit, dude, I don’t really know. But I think the show’s concept of “Pure Illusion” may play a part in it somehow. The show may be implying some sort of “emotional umwelt” in its main characters, especially Kokona, since she’s the one who’s been experiencing the most emotional growth in the series so far.