#Functionists universe

[sweet7simple]

More Than Meets the Eye: Volume 7, Issues #34-38 (Spoilers)

FOOD FOR THE RUNG AND WHIRL LOVERS (me). And also, Whirl has tiny digits in his claws?!? More below.

We get to see Whirl's face before empurata:

LOOK AT WHIRL'S FACE. AND HIS HANDS:

Finding out that the functionists did this to him (which surprises me because I thought that was obvious?) leads to another fascinating factoid about him.

(More under cut)

When Rewind kills Megatron in the past for the sake of the rest of the galaxy, it's actually Whirl who saves Megatron by giving him a new spark (where did he get a new spark from, you may ask? The answer is, Brainstorm was carrying it around) and therefore preserves history as everyone knows it (because apparently a world without Megatron is actually somehow far worse for Cybertronians than a war spanning millions of years. It was terrifying).

First of all, for the sake of chronological order, there was Rung being a badass when they found Brainstorm about to kill Megatron:

(Whirl is so proud of Rung, you can't convince me otherwise).

When Brainstorm can't follow through, it's Rewind that kills Megatron. And then Whirl drags Megatron's body away to a locked room to bring him back.

WHY IS THIS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HEARD OR SEEN OF WHIRL'S TINY DIGITS? WAS NO ONE AWARE THAT TINY DIGITS COME OUT OF HIS CLAWS? All the fanfiction is like, "Whirl can't do anything with his claws in the berth" BUT HE HAS MOTHER FRICKING TINY DIGITS. THIS MECH WOULD BE SO GOOD WITH HIS TINY DIGITS. HE JUST DID MOTHERFRICKING SPARK TRANSPLANT WITH THEM.

LET WHIRL USE HIS TINY DIGITS DURING STICKY INTERFACE PLAY.

Oh, also, here is Rung in the postscript in that alternate reality where the functionists tale over because Megatron was essentially never born:

This mech is such an unexpected badass and he should be recognized for it.

I am obsessed with Rung and Whirl.

[random-cockroach]

My brain malfunctioned and I was digging in MTMTE the whole day, forgot to blink, kicked pillow 8 times and was talking with my reflection 6 times

Ended up with 60+ screenshots of nerds being socially awkward/abnormal/straightforward because we use books to talk, not people, silly, cool or sweet, or just facts ahah

[spicymotte]

there are a million things I love about the MTMTE & LL comics and their approach to Megatron, but his fusion cannon now being some kind of doctor's bag for battlefield repairs... I'm throwing up blood and foaming at the mouth it's so good

[lazyhomestay]

"You are the living embodiment of the Decepticon ideal and are merely a step away from completely embracing it."

[transingthoseformers]

There's a certain brand of angst with the Megatron (war era / post war era) x Orion Pax (pre-war era) brand of megop

Crunchy stuff to me

[smoked-salmon-official]

Holy shit the functionists are fucked up

FUCK YOU MEAN PRESENT DAY???????? What is going on

The girls are fightingggg nah I get it though, I hope they work it out…

HE DID WHAT??? He can do that????

Mr crashout

That’s fucked up. That’s so fucked up oh my god. There’s robo gore like what just happened to trail breaker and ambulon and then there’s this quiet horror

Omg

Please stick with what you’re good at Roddy

Holy shit. They need to stop him otherwise idw… doesn’t happen???

TFP BULKHEAD?????

[lord-squiggletits]

Y'know I kind of feel like when Megatron killed Tarn and said 'I want you to spend your final moments thinking of this: that everything you've done has been for nothing' he was kind of self-projecting onto Tarn? Mainly because at Megatron's statue, M and T had a conversation where Tarn explicitly asked if all the Decepticons in service to Megatron died for nothing, if HE did everything he did for nothing. (And I think M even gave an answer along the lines of 'idk I think we basically did'). And then after Megatron killed the DJD and Rodimus teleported in to rescue him, there was that silent moment where Megatron just stared at Rodimus not moving at all before he finally took his hand at the last moment.

It honestly feels to me like for a while, Megatron fully intended to murder-suicide himself. Murder the DJD, his monsters and his creation, and then take himself out alongside them, because he is also a monster. Because he also feels that everything he's ever done has been for nothing.

Goddamn it's no wonder I liked that scene so much LMAO, as someone who thinks villain Megatron > Autobot Megatron, literally one of his key traits is that Megatron basically took his pain/trauma/worldview and used it to lash out at the universe and try to subjugate it to his vision. So the fact that he took his own pain and brutally murdered the DJD while telling them the very same thing that puts him through so much agony is so very deliciously ironic. And a return, however brief, to the Megatron characterization that I know and love.

[awesomecoyote337]

Scorned Lover Froid

Imagining a scenario in Transformers where Rung manages to help treat a patient who had pulled themselves from Froid's treatment.

Froid is obviously insanely jealous, being catty and snide with Rung. Rung casually mentions being able to satisfy them in a way Froid never could and performing better.

Rung doesn't understand what's making Froid so upset and defensive the entire time.

[tiesthatbind-tf]

Who got trapped in the functionalist world again?

- HotRod (Expedition leader/Frontliner)

- Brainstorm (Data collection)

- Whirl (Frontliner)

- Drift (Frontliner)

- First Aid (Medic)

- Nautica (Engineer)

- Rung (Overseer/tech specialist)

[of-nyon]

Thinking about your forge/metalwork Hot Rod idea and thinking he can just straight up offer to do the job himself (like reframing or something similar), you'll need your own pain patches but like yeah. It depends on how hot you think his fire gets, I just think it's really funny to imagine someone asking how he's gonna do that and he just Grins and cocks chrome pipes holds up his arm

combine it with medic!roddy and he's unstoppable. you WILL get free robot healthcare and/or cosmetic surgery (results may vary)

[wonderwomanpleasesteponme]

Welcome welcome, here I am about to post none stop about my aus like I used to do before becoming somewhat of a lurker.

So recently I've been thinking about what would the functiontist universe be like in tfa. Post war tfa is already a toned down version of the functionist universe, so what if I make it worse in a world without Megatron. Please note I am currently doing my first read through of the idw1 series and have now reached issue #4 of MTMTE so i am nowhere near the functionist universe stuff, i just know about it by being in the fandom for a while now. And the first post about it to come back to when writing the actual goddamn fic is comparing the different mentors between my main post canon tfa au, that I'll probably never end up writing, and the functionist universe ones, for all my found family and domestic fluff writing needs. Or angst if I'm feeling a way on a day.

So first up we got Drift/Deadlock. In tfa it is implied that Drift is around the same age as Optimus' crew being a young adult. So who stepped in to be a mentor / parental figure for him in the main tfa world? Why, Dia Atlas and Wing of course, mostly Wing though. In the functionist universe Drift well Deadlock actually, mentors are Shadowstriker and Flamewar. Unlike Wing and Dia Atlas who met Drift as an adult and are more like teachers to him, Shadowstriker and Flamewar met Deadlock when he was still a youngling and took him in, so they have a more parent child reactionship rather than a teacher student one.

Unlike in the main tfa timeline Prowl and Tarantulas never met but in the functionist universe they did. And of course like in every other au of different continuities with these two they have their weird sciene baby aka Ostaros / Springer.

Another child who goes not exist in the main universe is Whirl Jr. who is actually a sentient scraplet colony. Whirl is the sole caretaker of Junoir but they have to leave her with all the other younglings that the rebellion takes care of in the school house most of the time because they act as a spy for the rebellion within the elite guard.

Next up we have Hot Shot who in the main timeline had your everyday run of the mill Autobot creators but in the functionist universe he's cursed with having Astrotrain as a creator, making him more like his aligned continuity counterpart being a triplechanger.

Well that's all the differences that would be mentioned and taken note of but there will be a scene in the school house where other kids who have different parents between worlds would be mentioned off handedly.

[transformers-coded-music]

'Burning Stars' (Miracle of Sound) is almost Decepticon-core. (DeceptiCore?)

The parts that aren't, meanwhile, are very Functionist Universe coded.

Decepticore…

[magicruned]

OH GOD

[transingthoseformers]

Tarn with a medic fetish could be really really funny actually when you remember that Megatron eventually becomes a medic within the timeline

[yougotthetouch]

I am in fact very open to the possibility of glitz finding love again on the lost light and it being a whole thing. but hilariously I genuinely have no idea Who he would end up with

maybe it's somebody different in every universe. maybe his conjunx was the friends we made along the way

[awesomecoyote337]

(Spoilers for Transformers: More than Meets the Eye and Transformers: Lost Light)

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I headcanon in the Functionist Universe, Froid would serve the Functionist Council just like he served the Senate in the regular universe.

He just unethically enforces the status quo in every universe and that's why we love him.

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.