#personal continuity

-Primus (in the form of Cybertron) and Unicorn (in the form of his G1 movie self) kind of. Come into being at the same time as the big bang.

-Eons later, Primus creates the thirteen Primes (Optimus isn't among them, though) Quintus Prime spreads life throughout the universe, like in Earthspark, with his most powerful creations being the Quintessons

-The Quintessons become powerful conquerors, enslaving species throughout the galaxy to do their bidding

-In the meantime, the other primes have also seeded life on Cybertron, each with their unique traits. Onyx makes beastformers, Solus makes feminine Cybertronians, Micronus makes minibots, Amalgamous makes triple changers, etc

-The Quintessons make it to Cybertron and attempt to bend Cybertronians to their will, but they fight back

-Two of the leaders of the anti-Quintesson movement are Orion Pax and Megatron

-During this time, many Cybertronians flee from the planet, not wanting to get caught up in the war. One of the escape shuttles is Skyfire, who carries scientists like Perceptor, Beachcomber, and Nightshade (who is in the continuity because I said so)

-After a million years of fighting the Quintessons, they're finally beaten back and Orion Pax is gifted the Matrix of Leadership by Primus himself, becoming Optimus Prime

-Now this is the beginning of the MegOP divorce arc

-The split is based on the fact Megatron feels like Cybertronians should expand to other planets and conquer them, while Optimus is of the opinion they should stay on Cybertron

-This leads to the split between Autobots and Decepticons, with Megatron, Starscream, and Soundwave (along with a bunch of other cons) setting off to conquer nearby planets

-Optimus, who's tired of war after fighting the Quintessons for so long, takes off after the cons in order to prevent them from destroying another planet

-They land on some alien planet, with the cons getting there before the bots. The war then recommences, with the cons wanting to drain the planet of resources and the bots wanting to defend the native creatures

-After a couple million years, both sides forget what they even started fighting about and it turns more personal, with each factions goal being to wipe the other out

-Also at this time, Optimus is gravely injured and passes the Matrix of Leadership to Hot Rod, who becomes Rodimus Prime (and proceeds to make some. Bad decisions)

-At some point, the Autobots decide to retreat and attempt to return to Cybertron, and the cons follow them

-They get knocked off course, and the Ark and Nemesis (which are also sentient Transformers) crash into earth, with both ending up in Oregon, USA for a few million years

-Later, Skyfire picks up on a distress signal from the Ark and heads to earth

-In the human year 1985, an earthquake knocks both the Ark and Nemesis back online. The bots and cons wake up, and go to war again with their new alt modes

-Skyfire also ends up crash landing on earth, but they end up befriending Spike and Carly

-As I see it, there are kind of four factions

The Decepticons (Meg, Starscream, Slipstream, Soundwave and cassettes, Blitzwing, Tarantulas) who want to drain the planet's resources and also destroy their long-time enemies

The Autobots (Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Jazz, probably some others), who want to destroy the Decepticons but aren't above also stealing earth's resources

Skyfire and crew (namely Beachcomber, Perceptor, Nightshade, Bulkhead) who want to protect the planet's inhabitants from the war brought to their planet, and the “good” humans (Josie Beller, Sparkplug, Spike, Carly) that help Skyfire's crew stay undercover

The evil humans (probably ocs) from the US military that launch a counterattack to try and destroy the giant alien robots that suddenly came out of nowhere (kind of like in bayverse)

Additional notes:

Josie Beller (aka Circuit Breaker from the Marvel comics) isn't a villain in this. She has multiple sclerosis and has used her incredible technical ingenuity to make robotic mobility aids

She's also a single mom to Carly. Sparkplug is a single dad to Spike

Josie and Sparkplug are really close in a platonic way, and Carly and Spike pretty much grew up together and are like cousins (There's no romantic stuff going on between Spike and Carly, of course)

AHHH HELLO

sorry for responding to this almost a week late, tumblr didn't give me a notif 💀

but that aside, thank you !!! im not sure if you mean by personal oc continuity or my SG continuity but it's been, a really long time in the making 💀💀💀 (3 or smth years and im still on my first draft 🧍‍♂️)

it's definitely taking a lot of inspiration from IDW2005 and tfp since tfp was a childhood show of mine and IDW as a whole was one i got into a few years ago but it was definitely an instant hit for me

it's definitely more overtly queer than the source material where a lot of my own characters have to grapple with their own sexualities in the wake of war and how that conflicts with their factions and their own personal interests

i think one of my favourite story arcs to write so far has been tacet's (the guy below), he's a bit. Intense since he takes the narrative role of judge, jury, and executioner towards decepticons and autobots; for neutrals he definitely has a more inquisitor type deal going on where he has "sinners" admit to their sins and convert before ultimately killing them

for decepticons who he feels have betrayed the cause he goes a bit medieval and just burns them at the stake (💀), i took inspiration from the inquisitorial trials of i think the jesuits though i could be very wrong, but they had the townsfolk actually participate in the trials against sinners and actually let them go (if that's the right phrasing) if the town determined them as innocent. if the townsfolk found them guilty the inquisitors actually offered them repentance rather than punishment

the autobots trigger a reaction that's more adjacent to how the conquistadors behaved towards their colonies, especially the aztecs where they forced them to admit their sins then kill them

for tacet and his crew specifically, it definitely started out like that before it developed into a kangaroo court where the townsfolk still participate in the trial but it's a fixed trial; if tacet deems the defendant guilty then theyre guilty regardless of what the townsfolk rule, if the townsfolk rule then innocent then theyre killed alongside the defendant, so it's a matter of survival vs what you personally believe is true/right

i have so many OCs i dont think i could fit it all in a tumblr post LMFAO so i'll shut up, but yeah, it's definitely more of a psychological and body horror focused story than anything out of the source material save for maybe last stand and the grindcore arc of MTMTE

Oops edgy Soundwave design