I'd like to formally apologize to @insanely-creative-things, who I have been messaging nonstop about what I just learned 'cause we got to talking about a fic I'm writing for her in my spare time and I was Lore Diving.
Anyways, Bayverse!Optimus and Bayverse!Megatron are split-spark twins! They can talk to each other in their heads at any distance! They feel immense pain when the other dies! They can transform together and make a strong-as-hell alt-mode!
I knew I wasn't going insane when I read that somewhere, it said they were brothers/twins. It's a one-off line at the end of the first movie but expanded on more in the books/comics/OG scripts.
We were robbed of so much Cybertronian culture from those movies, I don't think they understand that we don't want explosions, we want
LORE.
