#mcnuggetsandfandom

Oh boy let’s see

1. I’m a sucker for HoH headcanons and there’s that one panel of him cupping his ear so! Megatron has had trouble hearing quiet noises his entire life, since cold constructed miners were made with audial sensors for mining and drilling, which tended to be. Loud. He’s gotten reformats with more powerful audial sensors since, but due to living with low sensitivity to sound for so long, what most would consider a normal hearing range is extremely unpleasant for him. He doesn’t realize he’s doing it, but every time his audial range gets cranked up to “normal” by well-meaning doctors he subconsciously dials it back down over time.

2:. I once read a fic where Perceptor used him in gun mode and Megatron was Into It and it was hilarious so I like to think that “good with guns” is a very attractive trait to him. He has high standards, because after a couple million years at war a lot of people are good shots, but there have been moments where he got distracted in the middle of battle because of an especially skilled sharpshooter.

3. When he was a miner he had a habit of crunching on rocks when he was bored. Crunch crunch. It drove Terminus crazy but he never outright said anything.

4. When reprinting(?) Towards Peace with the “I’m an Autobot now peace out” message he also fixed a typo near the end that he’d only spotted a few centuries ago and had been obsessing over ever since. (There were only like, three other people who had ever noticed it.) (Yes one of those three was Tarn.)

AH YES, THE NAMESAKE OF MY BLOG. MY ABSOLUTE KING

First Impression: It was a lil skewed bc I Knew what was gonna happen between him and TG, but damn if I didn't go "oh fuck he's so pretty 😳"

Impression Now: "oh fuck he's so pretty AND perfect husband material 😳"

Favorite Moment: PLEASE don't make me choose.... His first fight against Star Saber, him using the sword to save TG, "goodbye, little one" OH FUCK that one still makes me cry

Idea for a story: I just want to most domestic shit between him and his two boyfriends Tailgate and Whirl :]

Unpopular Opinion: PLEASE stop treating him like he's emotionless and scary and only sees TG as some random kid to protect, his whole story was about emotional growth and being able to express his feelings in a healthy way PLEASE don't reduce him to who he was within the first few issues of MTMTE after all that he's been through

Favorite Relationship: Cygate, Cywhirlgate, and I have a lil soft spot for Cystorm (cyclonus/brainstorm) don't @ me (but @ me if interested,,)

^^ yup.

And I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again, but...

SERIOUSLY THO WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?????? Literally EVERYONE agrees that plan is just... weird. Wolf and Benson were uncomfortable with it. Scarlemagne calls Kipo Lio’s lab project and even coins himself as her brother- partially because Lio and Song raised him, but also because she, too, was built of test tubes. Even Dr. Amelia was disgusted- and, sure, her reasons were from Mute racism, but even she was like “what the FUCK did you do to yourself??? To the BABY??????”

And yeah Song and Lio clearly both wanted a baby, but they decided she needed to be an Anime Protag Child and injected random shit into her.

Oh, a b s o l u t e l y. I 100% agree.

In fact, this reminds me... something I’ve meant to share for a while now...

While researching random stuff, I incidentally stumbled upon a kind of dysfunctional personality known as the “Atlas personality.” And for the most part, it fits Steven to a T.

(the following taken from Wikipedia:)

The Atlas personality, drawing on the myth of the giant Atlas from Greek mythology upholding the world, is someone obliged to take on adult responsibilities prematurely. They are thus liable to develop a pattern of compulsive caregiving in later life.

The Atlas personality is typically found in a person who felt obliged during childhood to take on responsibilities (extending beyond normal household chores or looking after siblings) such as providing psychological support to parents, often in a chaotic family situation.

The result in adult life can be a personality devoid of fun, and feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders. Depression and anxiety, as well as over-sensitivity to others and an inability to assert their own needs, are further identifiable characteristics. In addition, there may also be an underlying rage against the parents for not having provided love, and for exploiting the child for their own narcissistic needs.

While Atlas personalities may appear to function adequately as adults, they may be pervaded with a sense of emptiness and be lacking in vitality.

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In bold are all the things that especially jump out at me about this. These are all things we have flat out seen in canon, either blatantly or implied. Meanwhile, when it comes to the passage about underlying rage, previously I was like “ehhh maybe not so much,” but considering the newest batch of SU screenshots?

...yeah. The boy’s clearly got some rage he needs to sort out. I get the sense that this anger is moreso directed at Rose/Pink for incidentally throwing all of her mess onto her shoulders by creating him in the first place, rather then directly at any of his caregivers, though.

But because of his compulsion to act as a caregiver and glorified therapist to everyone in his life, yeah. He’d feel awful about any of them seeing his blistering anger like this. Because he’d just feel like he’s burdening them.

SHE JUST WANTED TO BE A GOOD FRIEND IM