#Vote Sunstreaker

[ang-900]

Vote Sunstreaker

I already reblogged this, but I decided to post this as its own post so it gets more attention.

Original poll can be found here.

Let me explain to you all why Sunstreaker is the most pitiful between himself and Cyclonus:

He was kidnapped along with a human teenager - Hunter O'Nion - by shady humans working for Scorponok where none of those same humans received consequences for the unlawful modifications on a child and living being.

The modifications can't be removed and they have each others' memories. -Maximum Dinobots, Issue #5

He is thought to be a literal machine by those humans where he felt them cutting into him, consequently decapitated, and left as a head connecting him as a source for headmasters to connect to. The headmasters were all in his head, too.

The humans think of him as a literal machine as Sunstreaker screams on feeling every bit of what the humans do to him. -All Hail Megatron, Coda: Replay

His own brother, Sideswipe, didn't care enough in the right way to rescue him. Thus, he was abandoned by his family. (Not only that they have a strained relationship).

Sideswipe deciding his brother isn't worth it after spending some of his previous screentime demanding he be sent to Earth. -Transformers Spotlight: Sideswipe

In the aftermath, Sunstreaker developed PTSD causing him to betray the Autobots so the humans would suffer just as he had. (The deal was that the Decepticons could take over if they slaughtered a bunch of humans). Paired with the guilt of the Autobots' situation on Cybertron and his trauma, he later admitted to Ironhide he was suicidal when he prepared himself to buy the Autobots time from an Insecticon swarm.

This apparently has never occurred before and none of them know what kind of consequences there are to a Cybertronian and human mind merging. -All Hail Megatron, Coda: Replay

-All Hail Megatron, Coda: Replay

Susntreaker reveals how he wants the humans to suffer. -All Hail Megatron, Coda: Replay

Him wanting to die. -All Hail Megatron, Coda: Replay

-All Hail Megatron, Issue #9

Time skip to Ironhide's resurrection after the Autobots return to Earth and Ironhide's death. Ironhide finds Sunstreaker in the chasm still alive and replaying his trauma at the hands of the humans all this time. Sunstreaker tells Ironhide he wants to redeem/better himself since he betrayed the Autobots. Ironhide has no idea what the former is talking about since it turns out he doesn't remember what happened to Sunstreaker or the Autobots.

Sunstreaker remembering everything that happened to him. -All Hail Megatron, Coda: Replay.

His memory was on a loop. -Transformers: Ironhide, Any Old Iron

Ironhide doesn't remember anything from the last 4 million years. -Transformers: Ironhide, Any Old Iron

Sunstreaker wanting to atone for his actions, but it goes unappreciated. Transformers: -Ironhide, Any Old Iron

He was disabled and in a wheelchair.

Susntreaker's legs don't work. -Transformers: Ironhide, Any Old Iron

Once Sunstreaker and Ironhide returned to Earth, the former expressed literal discomfort at being in the place of his Trauma's origins.

Obvious discomfort. -Space Opera-Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix

Sunstreaker tries to include himself in social circles, but there is an exclusion with a loser atmosphere to him. The others also remind him he's a traitor.

He's left out. -Transformers: Chaos, Lamentations

Cliffjumper reminds Sunstreaker he's a traitor. -Transformers: Chaos, Lamentations

He's incredibly lonely even though he's surrounded by allies.

He's very lonely. -Transformers: Chaos, Lamentations

And in addition, in real life he's a lesser known character in comparison to Sideswipe with the most minor cameos and some not knowing who he is or that he's Sideswipe's brother.

This is man is a true waterlogged cat.

Vote for Sunstreaker.

[the-rat-is-back]

Vote the Lambros!

Today Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are in the final round of the Red and Yellow Bracket by @redandyellowbracket against Dick Simmons and Dexter Grif! Of whom the latter is orange, not yellow.

We must help the Twins bring victory to the Transformers Fandom! You can vote here.

IT IS OUR MISSION!!!

Posting this for a friend becuse tumblr is for some reason not showing her posts. And to be clear, this is not my art.

[novafire-is-thinking]

Round One is ready!

Results will be recorded on this Google Sheet.

It is recommended that you vote on ALL of the matches, but it’s not required. If you don’t know who someone is, TFwiki is your best friend. Or you can just vote based on vibe. That works too.

This round will run for 24 hours. I will post round two the following day unless a tiebreaker is needed.

For current and future followers who want to be notified when poll updates and new rounds go live, don’t worry about getting spammed with my non-poll post and reblog notifications if you have alerts on. I found a way around it.

Cyclonus vs. Hound ✧ Dominus Ambus vs. Cerebros

Censere vs. Getaway ✧ Megatron vs. Broadside

Maccadam vs. Rung ✧ Thunderhowl vs. Predaking

Whirl vs. Kup ✧ Tracks vs. Froid

Meteorfire vs. Hubcap ✧ Tyrest vs. Alpha Trion

Flatline vs. Blurr ✧ Topspin vs. Misfire

Dai Atlas vs. Dinobot ✧ Ratchet vs. Grimlock

Rodimus Prime vs. Hook ✧ Cheetor vs. Pharma

Star Saber vs. Hardhead ✧ Thrust vs. Smokescreen

Blackout vs. Heatwave ✧ Hardshell vs. Slingshot

Vos vs. Wasp ✧ Chase vs. Helex

Knockout vs. Silverbolt ✧ Powerglide vs. Grapple

Nemesis Prime vs. Optimus Primal ✧ Drift vs. Skyquake

High Tide vs. Beachcomber ✧ Motormaster vs. Rampage

Fireflight vs. Fracas ✧ Doubledealer vs. Quickstrike

Huffer vs. Breakdown ✧ Ten vs. Tarn

Snarl vs. Boulder ✧ Shockwave vs. Sentinel Prime

Cosmos vs. Sunstorm ✧ Crankcase vs. Trepan

Bluestreak vs. Windcharger ✧ Scrapper vs. Skids

Long Haul vs. Ambulon ✧ Dreadwing vs. Soundblaster

Optimus Prime vs. Riptide ✧ Soundwave vs. Cliffjumper

Metroplex vs. Bonecrusher ✧ Sideswipe vs. Barricade

Depth Charge vs. Brimstone ✧ Offroad vs. Ultra Magnus

Scavenger vs. Rattrap ✧ Starscream vs. Afterburner

Rewind vs. Brawl ✧ Hot Shot vs. Tesarus

Wheeljack vs. Blades ✧ Thunderclash vs. Kaon

Astrotrain vs. Wildrider ✧ Blaster vs. Lockdown

Fulcrum vs. Swoop ✧ Blitzwing vs. Dead End

Warpath vs. First Aid ✧ Perceptor vs. Ramjet

Mirage vs. Bumblebee ✧ Chromedome vs. Sunstreaker

Tailgate vs. Overlord ✧ Jazz vs. Sludge

Prowl vs. Slug ✧ Swerve vs. Brawn

Deathsaurus vs. Springer ✧ Skyfire vs. Sunder

Air Raid vs. Spinister ✧ Terrorsaur vs. Bulkhead

Seaspray vs. Kickback ✧ Guzzle vs. Runamuck

Tarantulas vs. Trailbreaker ✧ Rhinox vs. Ferak

Red Alert vs. Thundercracker ✧ Fortress Maximus vs. Lugnut

Impactor vs. Dirge ✧ Wing vs. Mixmaster

Brainstorm vs. Skydive ✧ Nightbeat vs. Inferno

Gears vs. Hoist ✧ Runabout vs. Drag Strip

Sky-Byte vs. Scorponok ✧ Swindle vs. Tigatron

[mychlapci]

bit of a set of weirder headcanons but i think the autobots are fucking freaks when it comes to sex. like the cons are all rough and tough with each other but kinky interfacing comes with a level of trust in your partner that only the autobots have with each other

i feel like public interfacing is relatively accepted among autobots. you go to get your morning fuel in the canteen and sunstreaker has bluestreak pinned against the bulkhead. average fucking tuesday. oh the medibay is having a slow day with few patients, ratchet has first aid warming his spike as he's going through datapads, keeping one servo firmly wrapped around aid's waist as he squirms helplessly. command meetings have like, a 50% chance to get derailed by prowl's chestplate accidentally popping open to reveal his fat tits and jazz just starts sucking on them and then ironhide smacks optimus' panels and oh god there's an orgy now

kink nights just being a common thing among the autobots. mechs can sign up to do scenes with certain partners or just sit on the sidelines and watch it all go down.

a few of the decepticons end up defecting and they get a weird sense of culture shock with how common it is to see interfacing since in con culture that's stupid slag that only softies participate in. actually i think the decepticons would have a completely separate culture regarding interfacing. i think they would be kinky, but they wouldn't consider the bonding/emotional effects of interfacing unless they're real sappy. like interfacing is to blow off steam after a battle, not for having fun with your comrades

drift joins the wreckers and hot rod gives him the best head of his life and then when they cuddle up next to each other drift just has to fucking sit there wondering why no one in the cons cuddled after fucking because this is actually really nice. he gets bent over a table the next morning by blurr and then kup shoves his spike into drift's intake and oh primus drift is having a religious experience now with how well he's getting pounded

i'm going to beam the image of ratchet walking around the ark with his tits fully out and a pair of pretty golden chains pierced through his nozzles and a few particularly handsy bots reach over and tug on them as he passes.

-burnt ice anon

YES. i've seen some instances of “public sex normalized in cybertronian society” and i am LIVING for it. I like the culture shock aspect of it being only autobots who are so open-minded.

A recently defected decepticon just trying to fit in and adapt to the new way of living and they were wholly unprepared to just walk in on people fucking all the time. They walk in on Prowl in his office chair with Jazz slowly grinding against his spike, the sound of his valve gushing is so loud and yet Prowl just keeps on typing away on his data-pad, only occasionally wincing in pleasure. They go to the med-bay next instead but Ratchet's got First Aid sitting on his spike, and it's still weird. They're sitting in the canteen and someone just starts melting right next to them, overloading silly around a remote control vibrator while their partner watches from across the table. Optimus regularly getting jerked off under the desk during high-command meetings, he's pretty sure his side of the desk is completely stained with transfluid from below. Also thank you so much for the image of Ratchet walking around with his titties out. I bet you everyone's sick that day, and absolutely need to be admitted to the medbay and see the doctor right now. He spends the day smacking away wandering hands, though he's only playing hard to get.

hrghhh kink nights with different themes. They get to vote on them weekly. Sometimes a volunteer gets chained and strung up and used repeatedly throughout the night, repeatedly checked up so they're sure he's alright. Sometimes there's pet-play, bots on leashes being told to “go play” with the other pets (i really want to see Sunstreaker for pet-play night… Sunny letting Bluestreak put a leash on him, gritting his teeth the entire time because he's being treated like a domesticated turbofox and it's humiliating and yet it feels so damn good… Sunstreaker rubbing his valve against someone else's, while his owner coos encouragement at him). Or you have simple orgy nights, where people can just blow off steam having sex with anyone. Glory holes in the bathroom that are frequented regularly. Wrecker orgies that shock Drift to the very core but they're fun and he can't complain. And the aftercare is peculiar. They never had anything like that back in the decepticon order. 

[transformers-synergize]

I will go in the order of votes since I'm indecisive on what order I wanna draw these

[mgarmagedon]

How are you and your au co-maker friend doing? Any new ideas?

She is fine, for now she is really busy and has really hard time, so she wouldn't have time to even make anything with me. Wish her luck guys, because she is doing her best ❤️❤️❤️

And she isn't exactly co-maker, because she is from time to time making random content about transformers prime or rid15, I'm mainly creating content here, but thank to her Sideswipe is tampon now. :D

But i can tell off what we were talking about last time:

Like lately we chosen to add that after Starscream almost died in explosion, when he was still mainly into scientific stuff, not only making Megan angry (when war was still active conflict and 90% of the population weren't dead), he met that time KO (when he was still teenager) and without getting licences, because how he could get his licence while the war, when practically all schools were in ruins XD So they met that time, KO helped him in coming back to better shape. This is why KO came to Nemesis in TFP with his husband Breakdown, because Starscream saw him as a trustworthy doctor. I don't need to add that they fucked AS ADULTS ON NEMESIS, when Breakdown was still around, because he was fine that KO wants to life in open relationship. They were still happy together :DD

We talked about the fact that Bee couldn't look at Sideswipe optics at the beginning, because he has Smokescreens optics and after all this shit that happened, it was really painful for him. He drank himself into unconsciousness, Ofc Grimlock and Danny were trying to comfort him as much he could (at that time Drift wasn't around yet, he joined with his sons team after 8-9 months Bee, Strongarm and Sides came to earth). He felt terrible, because it wasn't Sides fault that he born or that his best friend, which he treated like his older brother and first love in his life, made children when both of them was drunk. He didn't won't to hurt him or take revenge on the poor teen, which also had hard childhood like Bee and slowly but surly start to get close with. Sometimes he even thought of if he didn't leave him that day they told him about the protoforms, he would be now Sideswipe and Sunstreaker's father and maybe even marry KO. But those are only his thoughts. I was thinking of making black and while comic of it, but in his bot form not human. XDDD

We also lately write A LOT about Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack. Mainly we was thinking what Magnus was doing after the war and becasue he was like this big badass judge, he could just become the guy how almost rule Cybertron. I mean by it, that Cybertron came back to the almost state after the war and that is not a good news XD. "And what about Ratchet?" nothing, he doesn't give a fuck about him. After all, he himself as a guy in new created council vote to send Ratchet on Earth as his retirement and still explain himself by saying " this is last wish of Optimus Prime". I just like the idea that right hand of Prime, makes Cybertron great again, causing fulling prisons by ex cons and not happy with his decisions war veterans. It would also explain WHY FUCKING CYCLONUS WAS IN THE FUCKING FINAL, because he would be rebeliant that wants freedom for his ppl. He also created slums :), idk I think it's cool idea that Ultra Magnus was a villain of the series And I think Arcee would see sense in that and after all those years and ptsd, also got mature, she would fine peace in new worlds order. But she would still take back her father and brother back on Cybetron... at least be too kick his fucking ass. XDD And practically nobody can do anything with, only Bulkhead is living his best life as a worker, it doesn't mean that he is now fighting, he is just tired and like Arcee wants some peace in his life. After they banned contacting with earth and he could talk with Miko, he needed finally some peace. The same with KO and Smoke. He is living now with Wheeljack AS A FRIENDS!!! But from time to time, Wheeljack is showing up at Magnus mantion to fuck him, say hey to his daughter and then disappear for next 9 months. I'm just seeing NeoCybertron as a Gotham City but as a planet XDDD

I can't write more words, so do you have any more question? XD

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 3, Match 21: Optimus Prime vs. Sarah Jane Smith

Submitted kids:

Optimus Prime: Bumblebee, then depending on continuity, Cliffjumper, Smokescreen, Arcee, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, the Aerialbots, Sari Sumdac, Jack Darby, Miko Nakadai, Raf Esquivel, and possibly others (Mod forgot Spike Witwicky 🤦🏽‍♀️)

Sarah Jane Smith: Luke, Sky, (Lauren), (Maria Jackson, Rani Chandra, Clyde Langer)

Propaganda under the cut!

Optimus Prime:

1. “#VOTE OPTIMUS HE'S THE DAD OF ALL TIME AND HAS ISSUES”

2. “Optimus is not only a dad, he is a dad in the middle of a war!!

A war that killed his world and that is now targeting other worlds

He has all that weight on him and that doesn't stop him from being a caring dad to his men”

Sarah Jane Smith:

“I haven't even watched SJA but it is fandomwide known that Sarah Jane is the Doctor Who character who goes around adopting kids. Like, the first two I mentioned, Luke and Sky, are her actual adopted kids, then apparently she had a biologically related child Lauren? And the last three are kids that complete the Bannerman Road gang, a group defending the Earth that consists of exactly one adult: Sarah Jane. So, yeah, those are also her kids if we're being real. And judging by the way I have seen her interact with Luke, mostly, Sarah Jane is an awesome mum. Caring and protective but trusting her kid with important tasks and working effortlessly I tandem. Also, she is a badass journalist with a robot dog, just so you know”

[idlepollingofcybertron]

Please help crown the Most Attractive Transformer!

WHEN DOES THE POLL START?

Round 1, Group A will start at 12:00 PM EST 7/1!

HOW LONG WILL THE POLLS LAST?

By popular request each round will last a week so you'll be seeing me a while. If you'd like to block these, please block this account directly or black the tag "most attractive transformers poll".

WHY ISN'T [SUCH AND SUCH] INCUDED?

The candidate list was created entirely from submissions. If a character wasn't sent in as a poll candidate they weren't on my list. We did have some pre-qualifiers with certain popular characters to eliminate repeats.

WHAT ARE THE MATCH UPS FOR ROUND 1, GROUP A?

I will be adding links to this pinned post when the polls go live. Each poll options is listed with name of character (specific continuity) as these are the specific versions listed. I will have a beginning propaganda post linked on each poll for both characters. Please feel free to submit any arguments/propaganda for the characters to my ask box before the poll goes live and after either through asks or reblogs or comments. I will try to update daily with new propaganda whenever possible.

Cosmos (IDW1) v. Nightbeat (IDW1)

Sunstreaker (IDW1) v. Dead End (Cyberverse)

Blurr (IDW1) v. Swindle (TFE)

Megatron (IDW1) v. Galvatron (G1)

Overlord (IDW1) v. Fortress Maximus (IDW1)

Astrotrain (Cyberverse) v. Blitzwing (IDW1)

Springer (IDW1) v. Impactor (IDW1)

Deathsaurus (IDW1) v. Cliffjumper (IDW2)

Krok (IDW1) v. Kup (IDW1)

Thundercracker (IDW1) v. Thunderclash (IDW1)

Sunstorm (DW) v. Skyfire (G1)

Airachnid (TFP) v. Arcee (TFP)

Nightbird (Cyberverse) v. Slipstream (IDW2)

Strika (IDW2) v. Shadow Striker (IDW2)

Firestar (IDW1) v. Flamewar (IDW2)

Drift (IDW1) v. Roller (IDW1)

Dreadwing (TFP) v. Skyquake (TFP)

Predaking (TFP) v. Heatwave (RB)

Getaway (IDW1) v. Sunder (IDW1)

Nickel (IDW1) v. Velocity (IDW1)

I hope everyone has fun rooting for their favorite and remember vote the Transformer you find most attractive!

[pits-of-kaos]

TF Waterlogged Cat Poll (Round 3)

Vote on all of the matches here.

Unless the continuity is specified, you are voting on the soggiest version(s) of a character that evoke the most pity, regardless of the one in the pic. 🐱

[dumbsterchild]

VOTE SUNSTREAKER AND SIDESWIPE IN THE FINAL ROUND OF REND AND YELLLOW!

i'm placing my propaganda as a separate post so more people can see this

@redandyellowbracket is throwing the final round for the red and yellow tournament! Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are up against Dick Simmons and Dexter Grif. But Grif canonically admits to being orange.

So help vote for Sunstreaker and Sideswipe because voting these two would be voting for the actual yellow character!

If you want to support the Lambros, you can vote here!

[transingthoseformers]

Had to read back through, but I now have a rough timeline. The flashback scenes won't be in chronological order and also I forgot they went from Overlord to Tyrest in like five days.

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eyes # 17

Rewind dies and provides his final message.

Chromedome can’t stand it though and does the surgery. But he messes up, damaging himself. His mind starts melding with “leftover” from the last mind he was inside of, Overlord.

He is sent to the Medbay and truly damaged himself. The first person he attacks is Ambulon because he’s desperate and clumsy, targeting the closest he can find to feelings, scrapping over his admiration for Pharma before coming to his senses horrified. He alters Ambulon’s memories and then he rushes out. He thinks its injuries from being inside Overlord too long and tries to resist, but talks himself into it.

He is desperate for a cure for his depression (boredom) and searching out happiness/love (entertainment). This leads him to starting with the Decepticons in the brig. It’s familiar. Like the Institute (Garrus-9) all over again.

He hunts them at night to cover for himself (stir up and play on their fears). When he has sucked them dry, he can’t get anymore out of them and can’t get caught, stabilizing after clumsily touching them. He needs to be more careful (discerning of superior prey).

He also takes advantage of Red Alert’s vulnerability first to raid his mind since he’s an easy target and gets the codes, something Chromedome assures himself is just so he can be more careful. He won’t touch anymore of the crew.

Transformers: More Than Meets The Eyes # 18-21

Ambulon doesn’t recognize Pharma, which they think must be trauma from the head injuries, but Pharma looks and laughs realizing Ratchet doesn’t know. He preens over it. Pharma had known Trepan and Sunder. He knew mnemosurgery. Even cases where it wasn’t through the brain module. This soothes him, because it is clear Ratchet has no idea.

Ambulon doesn’t call him Dr. DJD and lives.

Pharma is taken prisoner and subject to the same victimhood as the Cons, though Chromedome is more careful initially and devours Pharma’s obsessive regard about Ratchet and how deeply he clung to him, slowly unraveling every bit of him can and soothing over the dark memories with Tarn (relishing them unconsciously). He makes it look more likely a natural corruption and ties the memories together, letting the processor blend things together after only slightly nudged in semblance that covers evidence of mnemosurgery. Not the hack job that was his desperate feeding on Ambulon and patchwork over Cons.

He comforts himself that Pharma isn’t a real Autobot but a traitor after all.

Memory 2b occurs. Sunstreaker and Nautilator.

People are having nightmares, but with the increased scrutiny of the brig Chromedome can’t hunt freely leading him to target others. Sunstreaker is obvious because he is almost always alone except for Bob and doesn’t have a roommate. Once Sunstreaker ups his own defenses, Chromedome starts targeting other bots who are more likely to be alone or isolated, such as Rodimus (who burns him).

This careful delicate hunting (just tasting Chromedome assures himself as he can’t hunt the Decepticons with the guards now there) is carefully maintaining him but only making him hunger for more.

Vote to keep Rodimus as Captain

Memory 1b occurs. Ultra Magnus and Rodimus.

Things have to break though and Brainstorm, who is suspicious, catches him hunting Tailgate and realizes what is going on. He confronts him and Chromedome attacks, “drinking his fill” when he doesn't just “taste” Brainstorm’s memories but devours them, slowly stitching on the way out to prevent damage. This removes Quark and a whole lot more.

Perceptor finds Brainstorm and takes him to the Medbay. Everyone becomes convinced it was an experiment especially since they find Brainstorm with research on the information creep. Brainstorm and Perceptor start investigating the briefcase.

Sunstreaker is on the hunt for other victims and ends up meeting Amblon while looking into it and finds out he also suspects something because of Pharma, who he has taken to mentoring. Ratchet and the others confirmed his own memories simply had their storage damaged on Luna-1 and will return on their own time, but Ambulon is suspicious. Sunstreaker reads him in on it and thinks he’d get mocked for his concept of it being a monster, but Ambulon accepts it nonchalant, claiming it would fit in with the rest of this ridiculous journey which makes Sunstreaker snort.

Things are getting worse with people acting oddly.

Ratchet’s personality change which only Rodimus, who has been stuck in depression mode for weeks, notices.

Tailgate’s memory issues which they assign to age and his recovering Spark.

Brainstorm personality change fallout.

People are getting tenser and angstier as emotions become unstable.

Getaway is also target but manages to rip out needles that look like mnemosurgery needles. They compare them to Chromedome and confirm they are different, not in any database. That's because Overlord was trained by Trepan to make mnemosurgery needles unlike Chromedome so he fabricated a different set.

Chromedome and the leftover from Overlord and others he's injected into start to meld together more making him more unstable and frantic. Everyone assumes that Chromedome is being similarly affected by the emotional instability plaguing the entire ship.

Rung is attacked and is left shaken by the whole events and temporarily forgets his name is Rung. He has odd older dreams. And without thinking it automatically corrects First Aid that his manufacturing number is 1 not 1 million and then when the both pause is perplexed by this. But feels it is correct. He is feeling much, much older and remembering things like speaking dead languages, having brothers, a war, and when Ratchet examines him he's surprised by more processor activity and older files that had long been archived and degraded (information creep) clearing up and being re-established.

The Sunstreaker Investigation Bureau gets Nightbeat involved and he is very inappropriately excited. They realize that Sunstreaker is right and he looks deeper into it, getting people like Mirage and Skids involved. Skids taught himself in depth coding once and finds that hidden within the date there have been alterations and entrances into multiple people's rooms not just Sunstreaker's and all of them use Red Alert’s ID and authority.

They contact Red Alert and he confirms that sometimes during his time in "stasis" at the very end he'd feel awake enough to have nightmares of something inside him.

They bring their findings to Rodimus and the other command officers and show the example and a pattern of the "health issues" being related to the same cause. This is then investigated because Rodimus brings up he thinks people have lost memories and cites Ratchet leading to the Drift recollection. And Rodimus speedrunning the Ratchet was in love with Drift realization which he announces to the room at large.

Pharma, who has been semi-mentored by Ambulon and a reluctant First Aid (Ratchet doesn’t interact with him) at this point, helps with the investigation, eager to prove himself even if it means doing something dangerous. He argues passionately that the symptoms do not actually match those of isolation and other degrading and he'd looked at his own good and while it is masterfully done doesn’t actually resemble trauma induced info dumping and deletion 100%. There's some back and forth between Ratchet and him but he takes a breathe and listens when Ambulon backs Pharma up. Though Pharma does get scolded for looking at his own coding and messing with it without back up available in case anything went wrong and no Bob is not adequate backup.

Bob makes an offended chirp at this. While Pharma huffs slightly and First Aid feels weird about being the responsible adult scolding his former boss who is pouting about dangerous experimental treatments. Pharma insists that fine they may have a point but that the results mirror mnemosurgery and shadowplay. A very good mnemosurgeon truthfully. Each one has their own signature and part of the reason it isn't looking like it traditionally is they aren't going through the usual points. Pharma is getting excited about his explanation on sheer joynof solving the mystery, Nightbeat at least is rapt, and flashes his Spark showing minute scars that are nigh undeniable in between plating and then gets Ambulon to help remove lower back plating showing other similar scaring in his spinal cord.

They examine the others and find similar, more sloppy damage hidden between scarring left from Luna-1 on Ambulon, some on Ratchet and Sunstreaker, none on First Aid and wuickly run through others finding evidence now that they know where to look. Pharma had been focusing on remembering and finally does running into a staff meeting excitedly saying he found it out. He remembers Trepan and Trepan's exceptional apprentice. That's why it looks familiar. Trepan was very proud of his successor and showed Pharma his signature, which is different from the needle imprints. Trepan's apprentice thought like a cop so his patterns resembled Iaconian Enforcer Grid Search Patterns. Pharma, beaming says the apprentice's name was Tumbler.

Meanwhile, Chromedome is alone with Ultra Magnus investigating something and the alert goes out with Rodimus frantically calling him. Chromedome lunges and due to the Magnus armor can’t reach Minimus but does manage to trap him inside unable to react or escape but able to watch.

Then Chromedome uses Red Alert’s codes to shutdown the ship. Then when he starts talking he refers to himself as "we" and talks and references things that genuinely don't make sense to Ultra Magnus because it is Overlord’s shade and others that Chromedome was asked to look into: the dead and the killers who are clambering together in his brain.

Eventually Ultra Magnus is found and Rung identifies it as mind blending which is another danger to mnemosurgeons. They normally have lingering data portioned off in their processor as temporary files until it can be deleted. Whatever Chromedome did to delete his memories of Rewind instead broke that barrier so now Chromedome isn't strictly Chromedome.

Cue horror move sequence of Chromedome hunting the crew and activating various triggers left in them to make them helpless.

Eventually he is captured by someone broadcasting Rewind's last message and voice through the ship which makes Chromedome freeze up and go unsteady, starting to glitch out because he has been degrading this whole time. He says Rewind looks around him clear headed for the first time in a while and injects in himself to "turn himself off".

They ask if it is curable and Rung admits he knows only a minimal amount and another mnemosurgeon would genuinely be their best bet. The crew votes and decides to keep Chromedome and find the Knights and hopefully a cure or another mnemosurgeon.

Ratchet makes the decision to go find Drift runs off without everyone and the Lost Light goes after him because wtf Ratchet, plus Rodimus has been lingering on regrets and thinking of reaching out himself. Ratchet finds Drift and Drift upon realizing what happens drags him back.

Ratchet is the one pursuing and showing up to Drift every time now to figure out what happened, or rather didn't, between them and they fall in love. Drift decides to stay Neutral and Rodimus introduces him to the Con and now Neutral or Autobots from the brig.

Dark Cybertron

Megatron joins the ship.

They find Rewind.

Elegant Chaos doesn’t quite occur the same because Brainstorm doesn't remember why he needed it or what he wanted to pursue. Instead it is Rewind who is much worse because he won't hesitate to shoot a newborn. Rewind did go to the Alyon Fields because he was going to shoot baby Tarn as well because he remembers who tortured his Chromedome too.

Brainstorm reluctantly gives up his "secret brainchild" he has been constructing a frame for in secret to make his own mentee once he find a Spark hidden in his chest. Megayron is still born while Brianstorm sulks at him until he is gifted with another Spark by Cyclonus. He accidentally purrloin one of the Sparks from the fields when they did an emergency jump after saving Damus, who references the events during the Confrontation, which delights Brainstorm and they stick it in the Protoform resulting in the abandoned Lost Light Baby storyline.

Confrontation with DJD is different: Skids doesn't die because Chromedome triggered his memories earlier, the Pet is just with them because once he saw Rewind and Minimus he clung to them and they were able to identify him as Dominus, Pharma nearly has a lot of panic over Tarn.

The Mutiny doesn't occur so the DJD Confrontation doesn't go like Canon.

Once they get to the "end of the map" there's a huge argument about mayne euthanizing Megatron after all. Once they reunite and save the universe and are sort of hovering above the planet. Going through a reunion.

Chromedome is able to be "fixed" though as is Dominus somewhat. He has memory issues though and has to deal with leftover pieces of others. He doesn't remember-remember Rewind but he knows him and they start courting again. Slowly.

More emotional relations have other scenes not mentioned and having a different idea for handling the Funtionalist Universe, basically how Ravage and others get yeeted into it, resulting in alternate timeline there as well and, ironically, a DJD redemption arc off screen because the timecase explodes with Ravage and the DJD caught in it resulting in them being there. And Cat Dad dont track with nonsense.

So they are saved by the DJD arriving instead of Megatron, having helped with a somewhat peaceful revolution in another timestream. That, however, will be a different story since this one focuses on Chromedome's Antagonist Arc and recovery.

Fr the Overlord Incident and Tyrest incident were back to back like that

Interesting bit on the Overlord bits still being in Chromedome's processor because that sort of tracks with what we know of mnemosurgery. No matter what, no matter how safe and orderly they try to make it, the very process of connecting with someone's mind like that is inherently dangerous for both parties. I imagine for mnemosurgeons, it's a lot like how radiologists have to step out of the room because otherwise they'd be getting an x-ray EVERY time their patient gets one and that's bad for them— except the mnemosurgeons can't "step out of the room". CD mentions more than once that mnemosurgeons die young, it's addictive, and it's a whole thing that there will be a last injection.

So, yeah. Makes sense Chromedome lost his shit. Also because he was in Overlord's mind pretty deep for pretty long.

He won't touch any more of the crew

We know where that leads

OOOO ON PHARMA HAVING KNOWN TREPAN ABD SUNDER. I think it makes sense that mecha have experimented with mnemosurgery away from the average mold. After all, Sunder does it primarily remotely, and we see with Megatron Trepan prefers to do it directly through the brain module. Chromedome also says rather early on he prefers to go through the eye sockets with corpses. There are probably so many New Institute experiments with the mnemosurgeons being both the experimenter and the experiment. Pharma can see the signs.

damnnn so he's getting more methodical and falling into a rhythm

fucker is a joy (among other emotions) vampire, but in the same way a mosquito does with all the metaphorical anticoagulant skeeter spit: messy and with unforseen consequences

MMN YES I'M SEEING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DOMEY AND SUNDER'S TERMINOLOGY NOW

ooooo interesting that Chromedome has a separate set of needles for "hunting"

It must be so fascinating to see this epidemic of memory loss and Rung pull up with the opposite

Sunny is absolutely on the money for involving Nightbeat, and dammnn involving Skids and Mirage into this is such more a good idea.

Rodimus yes

ohh pharma oh no. Yes.

Sdfhjko ah yes casually flashing his spark. I'm fairly sure even in canon that's got meaning.

Mmhm they're getting closer and closer, and this is when I remember mnemosurgery scars are awful. Just... In general.

Yep yep, it's Tumbler all right. Now known as Chromedome😁

oh Chromedome

Yep yep, something got fucked up and caused Chromedome to flip absolute shit.

OWO on the horror movie scene idea

yep yep, oh Domey.

OOOO ON IT BEING REWIND 2.0 GOING THROUGH TIME WITH HIS OWN DAMN LIST. Dude's got his own trauma that's just. Yeah. Jesus fuck Rewind 2.0 must have opinions about finding out what happened with Chromedome 1.0.

Ooo interesting interesting

Interesting that it's the DJD stuff that's different, for several reasons.

Okay fr this is cool as all fuck, so many interesting changes and interesting parallels

[ang-900]

Today Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are in the final round of the Red and Yellow Bracket by @redandyellowbracket against Dick Simmons and Dexter Grif! Of whom the latter is orange, not yellow.

We must help the Twins bring victory to the Transformers Fandom! You can vote here.

IT IS OUR MISSION!!!

[shattered-ass]

Voting sunstreaker not because he has the better design but because I want to make him cry. Biblically. Tracks is objectively hotter

well that is simply not the question they were asking and you have lied to the people

[blackhillsroan-blog]

Ok I'm stuck between who I want you draw next, so I need help from all of you. Who should I draw next.

1.Fortress Max

2. Sideswipe/Sunstreaker

3. Drift

4. Rachet

Leave me ur answer in the comments, and who ever has the most votes I will draw 1st.

[cleverthylacine]

that new robot husband poll

As y’all have noticed, I’ve voted on all of them.

Some of the takes that I’m seeing in the comments just have me completely cracking up though.

“Chromedome has had 4 husbands and Sunstreaker hasn’t had any, therefore Sunstreaker must be the better husband...”

In what universe is having 4 dead spouses a worse indication for the success of subsequent marriages than just not ever having been married before?

“Lugnut would be terrible to live with and Fortress Maximus is so cute!”

Fortress Maximus used to run a prison. He was on his way to rescue the beastformers on Tebris VII and decided that he needed to waste his time trying to take Grimlock (who’d already been horribly tortured enough) back to jail and that he’d just arrest the Scavengers on the grounds that they were Decepticons and he’d probably be able to get something on them if he just took them in.  And he can’t keep his hands off beastformers no matter how much they complain. In other words, he’s a hypocritical fascist with bad boundaries.

Lugnut is not the brightest candle on the menorah, but Lugnut loves without reservation and is unfailingly, deeply loyal. He’s not conventionally handsome, but he’s pretty cute.  Come on.  We could all do a whole lot worse than Lugnut.

Blurr

I forget who Blurr was matched up against, but since I personally do not want a sex-free marriage, no, because the idea of fucking someone who does everything that fast is not appealing.

Ten Vs Tarn

Honestly, I’m surprised that anyone would consider marrying any DJD member other than Nickel or Vos.  Although Ten might present some consent issues, IDK. Then again, like Groot, he only says one thing, but the meaning is pretty clear every time.