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top 5 physical features of mr optimus prime

Flor, why does it feel like you're calling me out on being thirsty for Optimus Prime?

Anyway this is going to be mainly the IDW1 Orion Pax/Early Optimus and pre-Earth Optimus, which are roughly the same design bc that one is my favorite. In no particular order:

1.- His little white finials or whatever they're called

They're so cuuuuuuute!! All Optimus finials are fantastic and i love them dearly, but these white ones are absolutely adorable and a nice framing for his face.

2.- Beautiful yellow eyes

Look, Optimus Prime with blue eyes is nice and all but the yellow eyes are amazing. They stand out among his blue/red scheme and look very intense, they're especially good when they compliment small yellow accents in other parts of his frame.

3.- Face Mask

Is not Optimus Prime without one

4.- Tits

Sir, do you need help holding those?

5.- Blue crotch

Sir, why are your dressed like a harlot, sir?

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Drift, Optimus Prime, and LOVE

Everyone who has followed this blog for at least a year knows that I ship Drift and Optimus Prime for several (kinda silly) reasons. Namely:

They look hot together (thick thighs squad)

A crystal/horoscope/pagan girlie and an atheist pope. (Oversimplification but funny as fuck)

Deadlock domming/getting dommed by Optimus Prime? Sign me the fuck up.

But.

But I totally overlooked the fact that I have CANON material backing me up. Ohohoho let me get my sources.

Lil disclaimer: I have a love/hate relationship with the first idw run. I don't know which one is stronger tbf. Even if I don't agree with several plot points I'm going to discuss I can still see how they [intentionally or not] formed a bugger picture that serves my purposes. It's a bit of cherry picking if I have to be honest, but I don't feel too guilty looking at all the retcons this series had to begin with.

Why am I saying this? Because Drift as a character is one of the things I both love and hate for the way he was handled as a whole, but I won't go into details because it's not necessary and because I have already seen people on this site articulate this better than I could. The same thing applies to Ratchet, but that is another can of worms, and I am not willing to open it now.

So:

Drift: He comes from Rodion, where he is homeless and is found in a state of confusion by Orion Pax that saved him from Sonic and Boom (these fucking names 💀) and was then brought from HIM to Ratchet's underground clinic.

At this point I was full on rambling in the server becasue:

So to tidy up all that here's what I was hinting at:

Ratchet and his words sure were the initial push that Drift needed to get his life back "together"(as much as one can during a war, but you understand what I'm saying) were it not for Orion Pax's choices he wouldn't be here at all.

Orion Pax saved a mech from two thugs, someone completely out of their wits in that moment, a complete stranger. He had done his job, thugs were dealt with and then he could either arrest Drift (don't quote me on that but I am pretty sure whatever circuit booster he was on was not legal/legally obtained) ergo. Drift would die.

Or take him to a normal hospital, so either Drift died or he would later have troubles with the law, or whatever way the system could further fuck him up. Either way Drift does NOT meet Ratchet.

But Orion Pax took Drift's lufe in his hands and brought him to Ratchet. So he ensured that he had both a good doctor and someone he KNEW and trusted AND that Drift would not suffer more than he already did.

So- Ratchet is sure Drift's [hero/important person/insert better word here*] because he was the doctor that saved him from a fatal overdose and that told him he was special and all that.

But ORION PAX hauled him up and made sure he would live in the first place. And I Will come back to this point later to expand on it. Remember it.

So you see the sentence "what if not the love for life itself of Orion Pax saved Drift?"

This is what then promoted another ramble about a scene I wanted to put in another fic and then about idw OP so... I will ignore the part regarding my wip because it's not too relevant and juno to the idw op part:

To explain how I came to this it's because I was imagining a scene in which Optimus Prime sees Drift and Ratchet and then had a convo with Drift.

And to further prive my point Drift is one of the several statements of LOVE from Op/Orion.

Every action in the comics is driven by an enormous amount of love underneath. The love for "freedom, those he cares about, those that are weaker, those that cannot fend for themselves end even for his enemies and their battles"

Now you can say these are all different kinds of "love" and yet Orion Pax and Optimus Prime both love ardently. His anger and guilt DO come from their love! Ffs it's right there abfjgjg.

Now i went on a rant about Megatron and how he benefits from Optimus' love

Please ignore my bad grammar I was going crazy

The post I was talking about is this one by @desdemonafictional

That inspired part of the entire thing about love and the part about Megatron and fear.

So to go back to my original statement about Optimus Prime and Drift.

Optimus Prime is really a teagic character and I was getting a bit teary thinking about him if I have to be honest. He sacrificed so much and got such little payoff, even speaking of meta.

All the good things that came from his action, well he is able to witness a very small percentage of them. All the goodbyes and the people he cared for were denied to him.

Drift. Drift exists thanks to Orion's love. Drift met the love of his life, he met his friends, he found reasons to live, and found himself and yet...

Optimus Prime was never able to see Ratchet and Drift together. His best friend and a mech he saved so long ago happy and together.

As I said above, the price Optimus Prime/Orion Pax paid for the love of life itself he felt so strongly was all of himself... just so others could love.

If I got anything wrong, please correct me. i am a bit rusty speaking of comics. i tried my best :)

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IDW Optimus is a catboy: My hypothesis

Can fall/jump from high places without being hurt

Has cute ears

Is a bastard

A strong need for personal space

Prefers time to himself to think and unwind

Subcategory of the above: Enjoys sitting in enclosed boxes to think better

Gets zoomies that can only be relieved by running around and doing action things

My hypothesis is very hastily formed, so I may have forgotten some points or worded them poorly...

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hiiiiiii youre quite literally the only person who has given me hope that idw optimus can be an interesting character (my first introductions to him were tfone and tfp, which hold him as the better good, and while im not against the idea of him fucking up what i see most people doing is boiling him down to be a piece of shit, esp when talking about the rodimus n megatron situation in lost light). soo as someone who has never touched a transformers comic, where should i start?

Honestly I think there are people in the fandom that are way more informed about IDW1 as a whole, but if you want comics specifically about IDW OP, I believe somewhere in the #idw op love tag on my blog (I will add it to this post for convenience) has a post by quetzalpapalotl with exact series and issue numbers that would be the most concise list for OP-only content.

If you don't want to go hunting for that, my top picks for select issues/series to read for the "best of" IDW OP would be these (if you just want to skip directly to his bits and are okay with missing some context)

The Transformers (2009) #22-23 (Chaos Theory and Police Action): Introduces pre-war Orion Pax and his first meeting with Megatron, how that inspired him to rebel against the Senate. Has really good megop as a bonus

Death of Optimus Prime: The one-shot that started phase 2, leads nicely into reading MTMTE which is by far the best series in IDW1 that most people start with. Very briefly summarizes what happened in the Chaos story (the aforementioned bullet point) and features some snapshots of how exactly the public sees OP (neutrals hate him so bad) and what his thoughts are on being a leader

The Autocracy Trilogy (Autocracy, Monstrosity, Primacy): Takes place some time after Chaos Theory/Police Action (skips over some events that are covered in flashbacks in MTMTE) and covers the early acts of the war such as Orion's ascension to the primacy and becoming Optimus. Really digs into the nitty gritty of war causing environmental and resource crises, people flee the war as refugees, Optimus faces a lot of questions to his leadership because of how he worked for the previous Prime, Zeta. Literally the trilogy that made me fall in love with IDW Optimus

MTMTE #9-11: A flashback arc that covers what happened more or less right after Orion stormed the Senate in Chaos Theory/Police Action. OP and co. investigate a conspiracy.

MTMTE #36 (part of Elegant Chaos): A flashback issue that covers what happened right after the flashback in MTMTE 9-11. OP and his friends are outlaws fighting the Senate in undercover missions

Punishment (part of Barber's Dinobots trilogy): Takes place during phase 2, the context isn't super important but basically OP is investigating serial murders among the Decepticons. A really really good portrayal of his views on justice, the cycle of violence, and how to build a post-war society.

Those are honestly the shortest/most important/most Optimus-centric issues you need to read. The rest would be stuff like the rest of The Transformers (2009) or a lot of exRID/OP, but those are literal entire series with like 80 issues combined that would be a huge burden to read (and IMO aren't that good, or at least exRID/OP aren't. TF 2009 is good but has some dumb/cringe aspects).

Sorry for responding so late, I've been having a hard time keeping up with social media the last few months. Hope this helps.

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Hi! I just read like all of your baby prime au and I am in love with it! I was wondering if you had any tips for drawing bots, I'm new to the fandom and I'd love tips! Thanks :D

Thank you! Here’s a mini tutorial about how I draw them

This is like the most basic of basic steps, from here you gotta add all of their details, but this is good for a base at least

Hope this helped :)

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So hear me out

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Sentinel kinda makes slavery legal Mostly cogless slaves started as government properties until their Overseers decided otherwise. While the one with better qualities like good looks or obedience usually got sold to the other high caste.

And none of the miners will know this to prevent them from revolt.

Then we got Orion who likes to snoop around so it wasn’t a surprise when he stumble upon the secret.

Either way, he will get caught sooner or later making the possibilities endless

The possibilities are very endless indeed 🤭

Orion gets caught in the archives for the millionth time. But instead of just kicking him out and roughing him up he’s taken to sentinels tower.

Orion of course is in panic mode as he just knows the prime is properly going to send him to sub lvl 40 or even to a lower lvl he didn’t know existed.

But when he gets there things take a strange turn. He’s told to go into what looks to be a bathroom and wash up. He does what he’s told and comes out feeling shiny and clean. Next he gets looked over by sentinel’s personal medic.

Okay maybe they were leading him into some sort of fall sense of security? Treat him nicely and when his back is turned they him where it hurts.

After all of that Orion is brought into the final room and makes his spark drop. The room is full of coffee bots. Ranging from politicians to celebrities and in the center of them is Sentinel prime.

“Ah there’s the little bot of the hour.” Sentinel beams as he rushes over to the coggless bot and pushes him to the center of the room.

All optics turn to him and Orion can feel his spark is about to burst. The way these bots were looking at him was so… intense.

Sentinel ignored the fear and addressed the bots. “As you all know this is the little miner that has been giving the guards and mining managers a real run for their money.” He looks down at Orion. “You know you have become quite the topic of discussion these past few cycles.”

Orion tries to put on a brave face, “oh really? Glad to see I made an impression.”

One of the bots Orion recognizes as a prime merch business owner. “Ugh I don’t care much for disobedient brats. No matter how cute they are.”

Another bot, a well known government official, rolls his optics. “What you mean to say is you’re lazy and don’t want to put in the effort of training your bots.”

Other boys nodded in agreement and the looks they were giving Orion turned hungry. He wanted to leave but he knows he wouldn’t get far. Orion did not want to know what these guys were talking about.

An older femme spoke up and Orions fear turned to hatred as he recognized her as one of the boy in charge of mining operations. If Darkwing didn’t care about the miners who worked under him that boy cared even less.

“I say we give him to my mining managers I’m sure they would love to finally get some needed release especially for all the trouble he’s caused.”

Sentinel scoffs, “oh please those brutes would break him the moment they got their servos on the poor thing.”

“Then I can give him to just Drakwing then. He has been begging for me to let him have the brat.”

Sentinel hummed as he seemed to actually consider it. “Tempting…”

The politician spoke up again, “I will gladly take him!”

The business owner scoffed, “don’t you have enough of your own bots to play with.”

“Yes but they all are fully trained and I want a challenge.”

Orion felt sick and he finally spoke, “I’m not some fragging toy! I don’t know what you plan on doing to me but I don’t want any part of it so you can all shove it up your tail pipes.”

The business mech made an offended sound, “ugh such a little hooligan.”

The politician only looked more excited, “ah he’s perfect! My prime I will gladly pay double for him!”

Sentinel was grinning ear to ear now, “I see what you mean I might just keep this little bot for myself.”

Potential owners are: Sentinel, Darkwing, and Ultra Magnus. (Main ones I can think off the top of my head lol)

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