#decepticon playlist

[the-decepticon-apologist]

This happens approximately every 2 nano-kliks

[paranoidpoltergeist]

Skystar currently has me by the throat, I'm breaking the angsty playlist back out.

[coefore]

I did it! This is an IDW AU born while watching The Green Knight (2021), specifically from one movie shot that I'd like to redraw. I was torn on whether or not to draw them all as robots or humans, so I started making designs for their human counterparts first - mostly because it is more fun to come up with clothes and accessories. I will eventually tackle a robot version. This is a long post, btw!

Indeed, this is a completely separate version from the Lion King AU I had come up with a couple of years ago, I just borrowed the crowns because I really liked those designs lol.

But let's set the stage under the cut. You can listen to the playlist on spotify dedicated to it: I've placed the songs in sequence so that they can create a certain vibe for the scenes I had in mind. You can read the plot part while listening.

Some character traits

This royalty au supposes a parliamentary monarchy (like the UK, Spain or Japan). This work is an in-between of later Roman/early Medieval aesthetics and some Futuristic Stuff. The Autobot brand is the royal family crest, while the Decepticon brand can be used to signal the Protector and their entourage, but only in formal settings outside the nation. Usually, the Protector can show elements of the Decepticon colours (red) in their attires.

Optimus Prime

Optimus is prideful and domineering: he knows he has the power to do real damage to people. After all, he was born into royalty and has known no other life. He has anger outbursts, but that's a side effect of his paranoia. At the start of the story, he is not the prime yet. He's around 23-24, already suffering from a mental affliction much like schizophrenia, but, just as in ye old days, the court and his father (Zeta) are not really concerned about his odd behaviours. "He is just volatile", you know. He is also dramatic, making big scenes when his emotions are too cooped up. Optimus, though, is not intentionally cruel - this isn't a Shattered Glass au where he wants some kind of bloodlust sated. He has a deep inner mind, feeling much more like a philosopher and a writer than a brute. This makes him a little naive, too, having people in court (like Prowl) taking advantage of him - and sometimes even Megatron uses his influence on Optimus to stir him where he wants to. He reads a lot, is curious, and is deeply in love with Megatron - sometimes becoming a little cringy about it. He can be a bit of a goofball, telling jokes and being rather affectionate with his family. Sadly, he's a Pisces.

Megatron

Megatron is a diligent engineer who just so happens to pick the Prime's son's interest at some point while assisting his father (Terminus, a strict, distant man) in a job at court. Optimus and Megatron are the same age. He is aloof, quiet and a very good listener. That means he often allows people to speak over him or for him - that doesn't mean, however, that he isn't going to correct them or speak his mind. He is just a careful man. Coming from a rather cold family environment, he has a hard time expressing his emotions, both verbally and physically: he kisses and hugs, sure, but that doesn't come naturally to him. After becoming protector, he has a hard time getting used to the court lifestyle since he is quite bothered by the intricacies of royal "rituals", may they be clothing, hairstyles or make-up choices. Or Starscream fussing over him about that all day. He also often stands up against abuse of power, especially from Optimus. They fight quite a lot. He enjoys drawing (buildings, like architecture) and reading novels, but he's not particularly cultured. He is also, sadly, an Aquarius. (And transgender, but this has no political or social bearing in the story besides being Rodimus' biological carrier).

Prowl

Prowl is about fifteen years older than Optimus, becoming his advisor once Zeta Prime passes in "a tragic accident". He is ambitious, cunning and... Deceptive. His ultimate goal is to push Optimus to insanity, convince the parliament he is unfit to rule and become reagent in his stead. This would allow him to create an oligarchy with other senators. His words always support Optimus' delusions, abusing the Prime's naivety for his scheming. Prowl thinks of Optimus as an idiot lucky enough to be born in a high position in the social pyramid. He has attempted various times to "warn" Megatron, one of the few people who is extremely suspicious of Prowl. And by warn, I mean having him pushed down the stairs, giving him a nice broken leg. He also acts suspiciously around Rodimus.

Zeta Prime

Zeta Prime was a balanced, careful ruler. He held concerns about his son's future, as he thought Optimus wasn't fit for a leading role. He was a stern man and often frustrated by Optimus' antics. However, their relationship was on good terms. He was "found" dead by Prowl during a political meeting abroad, as he was standing in for Alpha Trion (Zeta's advisor), prompting Optimus' coronation. Zeta wasn't sick, but all primes in this AU suffer from haemophilia (a hereditary illness that makes it harder for the body to stop bleeding).

Rodimus

Rodimus was born three years into Optimus' primacy. He was brought up in a restrictive environment, as Megatron grew more suspicious of Prowl, fearing for Rodimus' safety. That translated into Rodimus feeling anxious when Megatron's not around (for too long, at least) and becoming a little jealous of him, even if it's Optimus taking Megatron's attention. Rodimus uses "dad" for Megatron and "Father" for Optimus. He doesn't like Optimus too much, usually bearing his presence and ignoring him whenever he can, but deep down he worries about his father, too. He is a very knowledgeable child with a vast vocabulary, as he enjoys books of every kind and, just like his dad, he is a good listener, learning a lot from the "adult conversations" around him. Rodimus is often seen together with Starscream (his nanny, in a way lol), who he is fond of but has difficulties showing it. He becomes Prime-to-be at the age of 16, like all Primes.

Starscream

Starscream was the royal alchemist, an inspired researcher and a man of science. He is loyal and has strong opinions on many subjects, especially on morals and ethics. That is also why, during Zeta's late reign, he was demoted to servant with the accusation of insubordination. He is still a high-grade servant, usually dealing with bureaucracy... Until a new Protector shows up, that is. As soon as Megatron becomes a Protector-to-be, he is assigned the role of first maid in assisting him, a task he takes very seriously. Although Megatron's distance and lack of interactions with him drive him quite mad at first, he slowly realises they're quite compatible. Their relationship evolves into confidants and then friends, as Megatron often takes Starscream's side. Also, Starscream has been suspicious of Prowl since day one. He enjoys Rodimus until he starts being a little opinionated pest-- but he's fond of the child, even as he grows older and more anxious. His hobby is sneaking into the court laboratories and fixing whatever annotations made by other alchemists he deems wrong.

Skywarp & Thundercracker

They are part of the Protector's entourage (and Starscream's brothers). Skywarp is a little airheaded, a bit clumsy, and usually focuses on entertainment, mostly writing poems and songs. He is the only one who knows all the intricate inner passages of the court's buildings by heart, meaning he never gets lost. Thundercracker, on the other hand, is a bit more cocky. He is built like a brick, so he helps with manual tasks and is a decent leader, usually picking up the ranks when Starscream is busy. Both of them were not demoted like their brother, they just started working at the court as high-grade servants. They are very loyal to Megatron, although they treat him more like a royal than a friend.

The Plot (generally speaking)

Optimus is interested in this one engineer working at the court he has seen a couple of times in the last few months. He is gorgeous, and it sounds like a fun time to fill in his afternoons, maybe even getting some sex out of it. That's a thing he hasn't lacked in his life, like most royals he was used to having sex workers available at whim. However, Megatron doesn't seem too affected by the Prime-to-be's attention. He is very deadpan and interested in him as a person; he finds Optimus interesting and funny, so, in a matter of weeks, they kind of hit it off, Optimus falling madly in love with this man, spending most of the time daydreaming and absolutely useless at his duties, much to Zeta's dismay.

As this love story progresses over the next couple of years, Prowl's machination starts rolling out: being a young overachiever, he patiently waits for the chance to get rid of Zeta in a way that doesn't point directly to him. After all, Prowl is trusted and seen as loyal and caring for the Primes he serves; he is an incredibly talented actor, having the support of a few Autobot senators, too. On an out-of-country political trip, he lets Zeta bleed to death, coming back home in a hurry to announce the Prime's death and rushing Optimus' coronation. At this point, Optimus is not mentally ready to hold that position; he is quickly pushed to marry Megatron, making him his Protector. In a matter of a year and a half, Optimus' mental state quickly deteriorates, allowing Prowl to take hold of the neo-Prime's decisions.

Optimus' mental illness worsens, which stresses Megatron into stirring his husband away from Prowl. Rodimus is born in that worried, paranoid environment. Although mostly wanted by Optimus as one of his fixations (and also discouraged by Prowl himself), Rodimus brings more stability to the court. Megatron finally takes hold of Optimus' volatile behaviour as Rodimus grows older, making the Prime doubt his advisor's suggestions more than once. Prowl, thus, "warns" Megatron to lay low, having him pushed down the stairs. The goal wasn't to kill Megatron but to show him Prowl could. As Rodimus turns seven, Megatron becomes more anxious and paranoid, rubbing that over to his son. Optimus doesn't allow them to go around the court or outside without being accompanied.

Prowl's hold on Optimus slowly slips away. At the time of Rodimus' coronation as a Prime-to-be, during a medical examination for his haemophilia, the court physician (Ratchet) tells him he needs to be careful, as that illness was Zeta's cause of death. That was a known thing, of course, but it made Optimus think over the mechanics of his father's death in a way only an obsession-driven man can. He confides with Megatron over his suspicion of Prowl killing his father, and finally, they seem to be on the same page on this...

This is somehow the story up to now. I don't know if I'll update it further. I just enjoy the idea of whatever can happen in this setting. I hope you enjoyed reading this wall of text.

[errolluck]

Hello!

Can you play/record recordings of things like soundwave can?

Kaon:

“I can! - My dad - Soundwave - taught me how after - getting some - upgrades - implanted in - my frame so - I could - communicate and express myself better!”

[Plays the sound of a truck horn, happy to show his abilities]

Kaon loves collecting every noise that he can get his servos on. This includes songs, voices, sound effects, animal noises, clips from TV shows or movies, etc.

Also, fun fact! If Kaon misses someone, he will play clips of that bot’s voice to himself to find solace.

This of course isn’t something he will do often at one point in his life after a very important and traumatic event that involves his parents, the Decepticons, the Autobots and a fight in the Nemesis for Earth’s safety (WINK WINK)

Kaon's Ask Box!

As a semi-related note, I have a Spotify playlist with songs that fit Kaon and I’m also planning to do another one with songs that he likes or uses more often :]

[in1-nutshell]

hi again!

I wanted to know if you could do the single parent buddy again but in the Tfp universe? One with the autobots ( Optimus, Ratchet, bumblebee and Ultra magnus) and another with the decepticons ( Starscream, knockout, Breakdown and Megatron)

Thanks! And please let me know if I'm requesting to much, I don't want to be a nuisance.

Okay so I will be treating this as two requests. This one will have the Autobots portion. The next part will have the Cons.

The max character per request is 5. If you want other characters done, you will have to do another request. You can look on the GUIDELINES for an clarification.

Hope you enjoy!

Bot Buddy the single parent with Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Bumblebee, and Ultra Magnus

SFW, Platonic, Cybertronain reader

TFP

Optimus Prime

One of the best sparkling soothers on the team.

If the little sparkling is ever fussy or in need of a nap, Optimus is one of the best candidates to put them to sleep.

The Prime has deep respect for Buddy.

Not only do they do field work and help out wherever the team needs it. But they are also raising a sparkling.

Optimus does try and keep most of Buddy’s duties on the base, keeping them and their sparkling together.

If he sees Buddy having a slow day, looking particularly tired and exhausted, he’ll offer to watch the sparkling while they take a nap.

“Optimus, sir. This isn’t necessary. I can take care of them.”--Buddy

Optimus takes the sparkling from their hold and gently places a servo on their shoulder.

“You are doing an admirable job in caring for them Buddy. But you must also take care of yourself. Your sparkling will be safe with the team. Please, go and rest.”--Optimus

While Buddy is taking their nap, Optimus will most likely put the little one to sleep and gently rock them.

If they are awake, he will tell them stories and let them sit on his lap while he does work on the main computer.

Ratchet

Ratchet is one of Buddy’s biggest supporters in staying at the base.

He knew too many sparkling’s go on to become orphans in the face of war, he refuses to have history repeat itself again.

Buddy and the sparklings health are one of his main priorities.

Primus help Buddy if he finds them sneaking their rations back.

If he sees Buddy having a slow day, he will make sure they get some rest.

“Ratchet, give me back my sparkling.”--Buddy

Until you get your necessary hours of recharge then.”--Ratchet

“Are you using my sparkling to try and get me to get more sleep?”--Buddy

“Yes. Now shoo!”--Ratchet

Ratchet is a big softy for the sparkling and another one of the best babysitters on the team.

He’ll bring out the sparkling sling so he can work better and keep an optic out for them.

The sparkling usually sleeps when they are with Ratchet, it’s rare to see them awake with him while Buddy is asleep.

Bumblebee

Honestly, Bumblebee probably sees Buddy as another parental figure and the sparkling as his sibling.

He is extra cautious one field work when Buddy is with him. They have a sparkling to look after, there is no way he is letting them get in the crossfire.

He likes to tire out the sparkling before it’s time for them to recharge, it benefits everyone in the end.

If he sees Buddy having a slow day, he’ll gently coax Buddy into their habsuite and promising to take care of the sparkling.

“Are you sure about this? You know they can be a bit of a handful.”--Buddy

“Beep boop bep bep bop bep (Buddy, right now you need sleep. They’ll be fine you have my word.)”--Bumblebee

“All right Bee, see you in a couple of minutes.”--Buddy

“Beep boop (A couple of hours you mean.)”--Bumblebee

Bumblebee usually gets the kids in on helping keep the sparkling entertained the entire time Buddy is napping.

Whenever the sparkling decides to recharge a bit, Bee has a playlist of soothing lullabies at the ready to speed up the process.

Ultra Magnus

To everyone’s surprise, Ultra Magnus is the best bot to getting the sparkling to sleep. Even outdoing Prime on how efficient he is.

Magnus doesn’t know why.

Magnus knows Buddy has a lot on their plate as everyone does, but he is a bit more lenient with them.

Afterall he couldn’t imagine raising a sparkling amid an ongoing war and still have time to help around the base.

If he sees Buddy having a slow day, he makes sure his goal is met with sufficient speed.

Magnus walks by Buddy trying to rock the sparkling in their arms.

He plucks the sparkling from their arms and continues his way.

“Get some rest soldier.”--Magnus

Buddy is still trying to comprehend what just happened.

“That’s an order.”--Magnus

Buddy shrugs, too tired to care, and walks back to their habsuite to take a nap.

Now because the sparkling falls asleep fast with him, Magnus already has a sparkling sling ready.

In the rare chances that the sparkling is still awake, he might go over some of his favorite protocols and the Autobot code.

Wheeljack has tried to stop Magnus from having the sparkling listen to it.

[pzdragon666]

Wavewave week Day 3 - Research

Research

Tf fic (fluff)

Ft. Soundwave, Shockwave, maybe the cassettes, Illusion

-

Shockwave rubbed the side of his helm as he stared down at the datapad in his servo. It was confusing in his opinion. A very messy picture of him and Soundwave was staring right back at him. Shockwave, of course, knew that the picture was possibly from the cassettes. He recognized Frenzy's coloring way and Rumble's version of drawing him, but....

He quietly stared at Soundwave's drawn form, seeing how well drawn and color he was compared to his pathetic version of himself. They even drew his curves right-

"《Ahem.》"

Shockwave turned around, seeing Illusion standing by the doorway with Soundwave right behind her as they both were carrying their cassette by their pede.

Atleast Illusion was with Hazard. Soundwave had them wrapped by his tendrils.

"《I believe the cassettes had delivered their picture to you?》" Illusion pointed to the datapad in his servo.

Shockwave looked back at the picture and at his uninvited guests.

"I did not know it had an owner." He spoke. Illusion dropped Hazard down to the floor, not caring that she hurt her.

"[Ow.]" was Hazard's only response.

Hazard got up and quickly walked over to Shockwave, holding her servos up as she demanded the drawing back.

Shockwave gave it back.

Both Soundwave and Illusion were about to leave until-

"Why is there a heart between us?" Shockwave suddenly asked.

Soundwave froze and Illusion choked on her own fluids. The cassettes pretended they didn't hear him.

"/what heart?/" Soundwave asked.

Hazard showed him the heart, ignoring the twins' angry protests and shouts. Soundwave leaned closer to look at the picture, feeling all his energon go straight to his cheeks.

A red, unmistakable heart was right between him and Shockwave. Illusion stared at the heart as Soundwave felt like he was going to faint.

"That is a heart." Shockwave spoke up right behind them.

They both jumped from his unexpected comment and his close proximity. It didn't help with Soundwave's blush.

"What's the purpose of the heart?" Shockwave asked innocently.

Both decepticons syares at him and back at the drawing.

He didn't know???

"《It's a human heart. No meaning at all- OW!》" Illusion rubbed her side after Soundwave bumped her harshly.

Shockwave's finials perked up.

"It must have a purpose if the cassettes drew it for a reason." Shockwave said.

Both Soundwave and Illusion glared down at their cassettes. They're getting banished later.

Shockwave came closer, taking the datapad back.

"I must use it for research purposes to know what the heart means." He said as he walked to his lab table.

Soundwave looked over at Illusion for help but she had already left with the cassettes, including his.

"/Fragging traitors.../" Soundwave thought.

He looked over at Shockwave, seeing hiw he was already trying to access the human internet to understand what a heart is for his research.

Soundwave silently accepted defeat and walked over to him.

He might as well help him with his research...

-

@kyamo18 @chamm0y @mr-playlist @splashscreenofficial @kiyuu-draws @bumblecow @radiatwave @lanth57 @bumblecow @robomusical

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime,

Did Soundwave have to remodel to accommodate his cassetey pals? What's it like in there for them? Are they conscious, or is it like a recharge until he gives them the old '____, eject!'

Dear Caring Compartment,

Even though Soundwave's cold behavior is well-known to most Decepticons, most of the cassettes regard Soundwave as the opposite. His tape storage system is something like a pitstop, or a boxing trainer in your corner giving you advice as you get patched up. Soundwave has several auxiliary data transfer cables and capillary energon lines to replenish his cassettes' energy while reading data from them.

Each cassette experiences this restoration differently within his storage system. Frenzy needs to relax and focus, and Soundwave is happy to provide him with media uploads of failed Autobot missions to reassure him of success. For Rumble, Soundwave instead curates a playlist of footage involving demolitions, earthquakes, or any kind of disaster causing large-scale urban destruction, which Rumble enjoys watching while venting to Soundwave about those who’ve wronged him. Buzzsaw likes his "sculptures" to be admired, Laserbeak enjoys reviewing flight plans, and Ravage likes to receive feedback on his assessment of the state of the war, honing and refining strategies and spy tactics that they may need to use against other Decepticons and stay within Megatron's good graces. Squawktalk, who spends more time inside Soundwave than any of the others, never, ever stops talking—in fact, Rumble swears blindly that the reason for Soundwave’s perpetual frown is that he’s always internally trying to tune out this endless stream of chatter.

Thanks to mass-shifting, Soundwave is able to compress many cassettes inside his chest simultaneously, and he himself benefits from all their individual abilities and inclinations: for example, Buzzsaw's precision, Ravage's stealth, Ratbat's fuel conservation, and Overkill's penchant for cruelty.

[cozzzynook]

I love LOVE soundbee, hear me out. I love how you mentioned that they would go to raves together, with a chance of soundwave being the one who made the concert. I live for soundbee content, anymore headcanons for them? I’ll drop some of my own!! <33

- they would bond over music, because of course they do. bee loves hearing his bf talk about his music.

- they would dance together, wether it be a slow dance or just dancing together to rave music. soundwave almost always take the lead, he’s having fun and bee loves that.

- sound would make a playlist for bee, y’know, take it as a kickstarter for their relationship. bee would listen to it when working or driving, even humming it on his way to other places. SW loved that he does.

- bee would buy cybertronian equivalents of records and vinyls for SW, once even buying him a new record player. he knows how much sound loves music, might as well enhance it

- sound would get bee all sorts of items that resemble those of earth or items imported from earth! he knows how much his bee loved that planet, especially seeing him in the diplomatic meeting chatting away with earth’s own diplomat(s).

love them, even with their positions in this reformatted cybertron, they’ll hang out secretly. before officially dating, secretly of course. the day Optimus finds out is the day he blows a fuse.

— ♫

I love these head canons so much music anon!

Especially Optimus blowing a literal fuse when he learns his bitty is dating a decepticon and such a dangerous high ranking one!

Soundwave does not make the situation any better because he is a troll and will roll with the punches if Optimus does too much, which he does. Bee is trying to play peacekeeper but its a failed mission. Optimus is stubborn and so is Soundwave and they have petty arguments for years about this.

Soundwave and Bee go off to get conjunxed. They want to be alone with Soundwaves cassettes of course.

They go off to a peaceful place where its just them and conjunx during the setting sun overlooking a forest. They sit and enjoy the feeling of the others frame as their sparks dance and a piece of each of them is left in the other. The connection is so easy and feels like home.

Its like a puzzle they didn’t know was missing a piece finally was found and now everything just makes sense.

Thank you for these lovely head canons

[novafire-is-thinking]

Music time

Thanks @decepticon-nerd and @aecholapis for tagging me in this game! Since I was tagged twice, I’m going to double the amount of songs and have people pick their favorite out of 10. Also, unlike last time, I’m not going to shuffle the playlist; I’ll just pick ten songs from it that I want to put out here purely for music rec purposes.

Song links and “why I think this song is cool” blurbs are below the poll.

Tagging: @spiritshaydra @brb-on-a-quest @theconfusedtissue @sphnyspinspin + anyone else who’s interested

All We Are (Spotify | YouTube) - A white pegasus gallops toward me over the salt flat. Sunlight dances across its white armor and the accents of gold. The dichroic glass embedded in its wings scatters light into a dazzling array of brilliant colors. I know the Fire in its eyes, and in its chest.

Right before the beast reaches me, it launches into the air, its massive hooves spraying me with water and salt. It soars up, up, up…before it disappears into the clouds. The Wind and Sun have called it away, and one day, they will call it back.

I wipe the salt from my face.

Bright Like Stars (Spotify | YouTube) - Young Shockwave, young Soundwave, and the bond between them (in Constellations).

Dreams pt. II (Spotify | YouTube) - I’m not sure how to describe how this makes me feel. At the very least, I can say the lyrics make me think of the tragedy of Brainstorm and Quark, even though the music and vocals don’t match the vibe.

Fear (Spotify | YouTube) - There’s something about the way Ryan chooses to capture the emotion of fear in this song. I can’t put my finger on it, but I like it.

Gravitational Forces (Spotify | YouTube) - This makes me think of Constellations!Ravage, especially the part beginning around 1:28. If I could draw and animate, I’d make a little animatic of Ravage pulling off a gravity-defying feat or two, maybe with Soundwave. Or Jazz, because my brain refuses to let go of a Ravage-Jazz team up.

Halo (Spotify | YouTube) - There’s something about this song that feels Cybertronian.

Nautica (Spotify | YouTube) - *points to the title* For obvious reasons, I linked this one on the Nautica-focused chapter of my Bang fic :)

Opaline (Spotify | YouTube) - Novo Amor is one of my favorite artists of all time. In my opinion, this is the “happiest” of his songs.

Til the Light Goes Out (Spotify | YouTube) - Zenith vibes, especially the part beginning at 2:45.

Transcendence (Spotify | YouTube) - This song and the entire album (Spotify | YouTube) have impeccable Cybertronian vibes. Highly recommend. (Looking directly at you, @lets-try-some-writing)

[the-decepticon-apologist]

Since this song has been trending on ⏰, thought I’d make a little something with it

[mothleey]

Glad to hear you're liking tfp so far. Do you have any headcanons you'd like to share?

Hi! I'm sorry I didn't answer it's just that I wasn't doing very well emotionally these days but now I'm a little better. Thanks for the ask! It's the first time I share/create some headcanons, forgive me if they are not what you expected :'))

I don't think I'll write about all the characters in this post so, if anyone else finds this kind of entertaining, there could be a second part!

(I am just starting season three but will only consider the first few seasons for this)

Bulkhead

A big guy with a big heart.

He's actually really smart, caring, delicate and silly. 

Fights decepticons while listening to rock metal (in fact, Mikoo made a whole playlist of his favorite songs for him).

Smokescreen

He loves the phase shifter, not only for the advantage it gives him during battles, but also because he can use it to mess around and prank others (both humans and cybertronians). He would have a YT channel to upload videos of his victims' reactions while Jack is his cameraman (but Arcee doesn't have to know that) and Raf would sometimes help with video editing.

Starscream

He secretly enjoys watching human tv shows and relate to characters who are being betrayed -and also because he's a big drama lover- He would also look for ideas and murder schemes to take down Megatron. Sort of like "how to kill your boss without him finding out/killing you first in the process".

Knockout

He didn't actually finish med school, he just downloaded an online certificate and got on with it.

Knockout & Breakdown

I don't think Breakdown spent a lot of time finding an alt mode, in fact he didn't even bother or thought too much about it. Knockout, on the other side, took a while to decide because he had a very specific idea of what his alt mode should be like.

Since they were already on Earth as well, I imagine they had a whole life before being part of the Nemesis, where they just enjoyed and took care of each other while traveling the world. And somewhere, there is a whole folder of photos of them goofing around at every stop and of the things that interested them during their road trip.

(KOBD could have had a really good dynamic and they deserved better, period).

Optimus

Has a kind soul.

He just sits in his truck mode and observes the details of humans and earth and also reflects on how things are going. But sometimes he can get a little sentimental because some things remind him of how Cybertron used to be before the war.

His role as leader and source of wisdom makes him seem very sure of what he is doing, but deep down he is as lost and scared as the others. And he is tired of having to decide and guide everyone while carrying the burden of trying to save two worlds. This makes him be hard on himself, repressing his true feelings to not affect the others.

Arcee

After all she has been through and all the pain she carries inside, even though she tries to keep distance from others, she can't deny the fact that she cares about them. She cares too much and too deeply for others, and would do anything to keep them safe.

[mychlapci]

Saw your reply on my TFA SoundBee so I'm sending it again! As best as I can remember cause like, I was soooo freaking tired when I sent it the first time. .....Did I actually send it and not dream it up.....

But anyway! The idea is like, TFA Soundwave wifiefies Bee but the Decepticon way, as the other 'cons are also doing to an extent to the other bots.

He loves Bee's personality, his high energy, his enthusiasm, how good he is canonically with younglings, all of it. The only way to make him more perfect would be to have him be Soundwave's mate and conjux. How does he go about this?

Hypnotism and audial suggestions! He slips hypnotic messages into Bee's online playlists and embedded into the background audio of his games. All talking about how perfect they'd be together, how Bee's so gorgeous and would look great by Soundwave's side, how good Soundwave would take care of him, how pampered and well cared for Bee would be.

Maybe he even sneaks a small receiver into Bee's room at the warehouse, hidden in Bee's servo-made berth to give him more subliminal messages while Bee recharges. Promising him so many overloads, plenty of transfluid, as many sparklings as he could ever want. (Maybe Soundwave even risks sneaking a little taste if he's timed this right!)

Just all of that and more, with the end goal being Bee coming to Soundwave himself, hot and ready and panels leaking from a valve that's so painfully ready to get fucked with a thick spike.

(I also like thinking that TFA Soundwave keeps his mass-shifting abilities, so he can be with Bee in either his original tiny form or his later upgraded huge one! Allll the fun they can have!!!)

mhmm you know, tfa Soundwave would be good at wifefication. just look how good he is at manipulating people, he would be a master of hypnosis, looping a hypnotic message over and over while Bumblebee naively thinks he's listening to music :) Besides, if he wants to bring forth the age of machines, he'll need more populace to fill the world with, and Bumblebee is the missing piece. He could carry so many bitties.

[in1-nutshell]

Hello! I am SOO sorry that I have been cramping you with asks, so feel as free as you can be to push this one alll the way back, or deny it, I am not desperate at all. I just want to type this before I forget this. So after the Megatron with a daughter who was his opposite post, I, too, am in love with this opposite personality daughter series. Like just all of our favourite men as fathers of daughters with individual personalities of themselves but also more or less all resonated their fathers one way or another, or someone they knew! I LOVE IT! And I realized how this formed a perfect trilogy now.

So I am real curious. What if the three daughters exist in the same universe? And, may or may not interact? (would we need individual names for them all? Or Buddy 1 and 2 and 3 like Spider-Man: No Way Home and no one questions it?)

Hello!

I've actually been thinking about continuing the 'daughter with different personality' thing. Maybe in the future you'll see more!

Originally the plan was to have all the Buddy's to be in the same universe, but I ended up scrapping the idea and decided to create separate universes for each one (unless the plot tells me otherwise :))

When I saw the Spiderman part my mind went to this.

(Who knows for the future)

Hope you enjoy!

Optimus Prime, Ratchet, and Megatron's daughters meeting each other for the first time.

SFW, Platonic, Familial, groundbridge and relic shenanigans, Cybertronain reader

TFP

In TFP Rats universe.

Buddy was just minding her own business cleaning and wiping down her father’s tools.

It’s a nice day on base.

There was low Decepticon activity for the past few days, the children were playing their games, Bulkhead and Smokescreen were trying to get Bumblebee and Arcee to play Lob with them, Ultra Magnus and Optimus were reviewing plans for something, and her father, Ratchet, was with Wheeljack looking at a new relic they found in the Artic.

“It’s not another scraplet trap, right?”--Raf

“Nope! Completely checked it with the scanner. We should be good now.”--Buddy

“We ‘should’ be good?”--Bulkhead

“There is always a percentage of things blowing up, I’m not counting that out.”--Buddy

Without warning, the relic whirled to life jumping and shaking onto the floor.

Everyone jumped and backed away from the whirling sound it made. Bright light came out of it as the shaking intensified. The noise was loud enough to get everyone to come to the main room.

The machine scanned the closest bot, Buddy, and opened a portal, shooting out tons of air.

The children nearly flew back, but thanks to Ultra Magnus and Optimus, they were caught before they flew off the ledge.

“Hey Ratchet! What’s it doing?!”--Bulkhead

“Oh, it’s putting on a rock concert. OBVIOUSLY, I DON’T KNOW!”--Ratchet

Machine whirls louder.

“Buddy! Hide behind the med slab!”--Wheeljack

Buddy already behind the slab, clutching onto dear life.

“With all due respect, WHAT DO YOU THINK I’M DOING?!”--Buddy

Meanwhile in megs dimension

Buddy calmly walking down the halls of the Nemesis with some data pads.

“Hmm… wonder why they need so many data pads…”--Buddy

Sudden portal pops up on the wall next to them.

“What in the—”--Buddy

Portal starts sucking her in.

“AHHH—”--Buddy

Portal sucks Buddy in leaving the discarded data pads sprawled in the middle of the hallway.

In op dimension

Buddy is resting her arm on the handrail while talking with Miko.

“How’s the playlist going?”--Miko

“Haven’t been working too much on it. Patrol has been up my tailpipe lately. Do you have any more recommendations?”--Buddy

“Yeah! How about—”—Miko

A sudden portal opens.

“Umm, I don’t remember Ratchet opening up a groundbridge.”--Miko

Buddy grabbing a grenade from her subspace.

“That’s because he hasn’t!”--Buddy

Buddy chucks a grenade at the portal.

BAM!

Nothing happens to the portal.

“What!”—Miko and Buddy

The portal starts sucking them in.

Buddy grabs Miko as she starts to get dragged in, pounds a hole in the ledge and places her in there.

“Buddy? Buddy what are you—”--Miko

Buddy groans as she tries to keep her footing but gets sucked in and the portal closes.

“BUDDY!”--Miko

In Rats dimension

Two figures pop out of the portal and slam into Ratchet’s daughter.

The portal closes.

The two figures groaned.

Op Buddy sits up rubbing her helm.

Meg Buddy sliding off the med slab and onto the floor on her back.

“Urgh… my aching helm…”—Megs Buddy

Rat Buddy gently massaging her helm before looking at the two strangers.

“Who are you?”—Rat Buddy

Op Buddy looks at the others.

“Who are you?!”—Op Buddy

Meg Buddy looking at all the Autobots in the area.

“WHERE AM I?!”—Meg Buddy

Optimus carefully approaches the younglings.

Megs Buddy quickly moves back while the other two just stare widely.

“Buddy—”--Optimus

“Yes?”—All Buddy’s

All Buddy’s turn around and point at each other.

“Your name is Buddy! I’m Buddy!”—All Buddy’s

Meg Buddy standing up pacing a bit.

“Maybe this is some alternate universe…I always thought something like this was possible from what he said… It’s the only logical explanation for this…”—Megs Buddy

“That seems to check out. Which explains why Dad hasn’t started giving me the ‘speech’ again.”—Op Buddy

“Dad?”--Kids

“… Oh, this is going to be fun.”—Op Buddy

“This is not going to be fun…”—Meg Buddy

Everyone is confused.

Come to find the relic would scan someone and find ‘alternatives’ of them. It could mean alternative of the bot or by their names.

To avoid confusion the Buddy’s are labeled.

Op’s Buddy would be known as Buddy 1.

Rats Buddy would be known as Buddy 2.

Megs Buddy would be known as Buddy 3.

“How come she’s Buddy 1? Why not our Buddy? She was hear before you guys showed up.”--Miko

“Cause I’m older and cooler.”—Buddy 1

“Yeah right.”--Miko

“Don’t believe me Miko? Watch this.”—Buddy 1

Buddy 1 transforms into a monster truck.

“I take it back! That’s so cool! Can I ride you!?”--Miko

“Of course!”—Buddy 1

“Miko no!”--Bulkhead

“Miko yes!”--Miko

“Then why is our Buddy number two?”--Raf

“Because I’m the second oldest. Three is the youngest one here.”—Buddy 2

“Guess it makes sense. You she is kind a smaller than you two.”--Jack

“Hey! I’m a minicon! Of course, I’m smaller than everyone here!”—Buddy 3

“You’re a minicon?”--Arcee

Buddy 3 shrinks back a bit at Arcee’s gaze nodding.

Buddy 1 made the Team guess who her father was, bets were on the table and ready to be thrown. Buddy 1 managed to get Buddy 3 to get in on the guessing part. Buddy 3 guaranteed that no one would guess her creator.

A part of her didn’t want them to know either.

“All right we are ready.”--Miko

“Wow so soon?”—Buddy 3

“Too soon if you asked me.”—Buddy 1

“We’ve narrowed down three bots for each. If we win, 1 needs to take me out dune bashing in her alt mode.”--Miko

“Miko!”--Bulkhead

“I can stand by that.”—Buddy 1

“And if you don’t guess right?”—Buddy 2

“You’ll have to tell us.”--Miko

“…”—Buddy 3

“Lets get started!”--Miko

“Okay these ones are for Buddy 1.”--Smokescreen

“Got it, lets hear them.”—Buddy 1

“First one… Wheeljack!”--Miko

Buddy 1 laughing at the response.

“HAHAHAHA, Sorry, its just, just that Jackie here is more like my Uncle. Definitely not my dad.”—Buddy 1

“All righty then… Bulkhead!”--Miko

Buddy starts laughing at that one too.

“Nope! Bulks also like my Uncle!”—Buddy 1

“The last one… Smokescreen!”—Miko

Buddy is now on the floor laughing her tanks and near crying.

“…I’ll take that as a no then…”--Raf

Buddy finally stops laughing.

“You lose.”—Buddy 1

“Got that. Now spill it! Who’s your Dad?!”--Miko

Buddy stands up rather stoically.

“One shall stand, one shall fall.”—Buddy 1

Everyone stares at Optimus, who looks equally as surprised.

“Your—your Boss Bots kid!? How!?”--Miko

“A question everyone has been asking since we met.”—Buddy 1

Miko turns to Buddy 3.

She hoped that they would have forgotten her, but alas here she was.

“Your turn!”--Miko

Buddy 3 nervously sits next to Prime and Ratchet

“First one… Arcee!”--Miko

Buddy 3 looking terrified.

“NO! I mean no.”--Buddy 3

“How about… Ultra Magnus!”--Miko

Buddy shakes her helm while looking at Magnus.

“Sorry try again.”—Buddy 3

“Okay… Optimus!”--Miko

Buddy 1 looks at Buddy 3.

“Are we siblings!?”—Buddy 1

“I mean aren’t we all in a way?”—Buddy 3

“Buddy.”--Ratchet

“Sorry, the answer is no.”—Buddy 3

“Dang it!”--Miko

“Then who is your Dad?”--Raf

“…Megatron…”—Buddy 3

“…”—Everyone

“HOW!”--Jack

Buddy shrinks back at the sudden movements.

Buddy 1 and Buddy 2 immediately stand by Buddy 3

“Hold it now. Just because 3 dad is Bucket head, no offense.”—Buddy 1

“None taken.”—Buddy 3

“Doesn’t mean she’s bad. Right?”—Buddy 2

“No, no I’m not.”—Buddy 3

“Really and how can you prove it?”--Arcee

“Arcee—”—Buddy 2

“Well think about this. If I was truly bad, why haven’t I hurt you.”—Buddy 3

“Because your short?”--Smokescreen

“… Okay that one’s asking for it… but beside the point, I could have easily hurt the kids, yet I haven’t. I could have attacked or given any other hint that I had malicious intentions. But I haven’t, have I?”—Buddy 3

Pause

“I stand by 3.”—Buddy 1

“And I stand with 1 and 3.”—Buddy 2

“I will stand by her as well.”--Optimus

“Prime!”—Most of the team

“Prime?”—Buddy 3

“She is our guest and so is 1. We must treat them with the respect they deserve.”--Optimus

“…Thank you Prime.”—Buddy 3

After the confrontation a little more research is done on the machine.

Thanks to Buddy 3’s expert decoding skills, she was able to read the full effects of the machine as well as how to reverse it.

The good news was that the effects were reversable.

The bad news was that the machine needed time to recuperate before usage again.

The Buddy’s decided to kill time by hanging out with each other and the team in the meantime.

Aka shenanigan time.

1 tries to start a conversation with her alternate family especially with Prime.

She is curious to see if there are any differences between her father and her alternative father.

“You always did have a thing for the Halls, didn’t you?”—Buddy 1

“The Halls of Iacon was where I worked.”--Optimus

“You mean, where Orion worked.”—Buddy 1

“…Yes.”--Optimus

“Sorry, but I see Orion and Optimus as two separate bots sometimes.”—Buddy 1

“It is understandable.”--Optimus

3 tended to stay with 2 for the most part.

2 was a soft soul and was quiet for the most part.

2 did entertain 3 with the occasional story here and there.

Buddy 2 and 3 talking to each other near the med bay.

“What do you think they’re talking about?”--Smokescreen

“Beep boop bep bop boop. (Probably about medical stuff.)”--Bumblebee

“Yeah, probably.”--Smokescreen

“So, then Arcee raised her blasters at the wannabe Cybertronians and started blasting.”—Buddy 2

Buddy 3 listening intently.

1 likes to place 2 and 3 on her shoulders.

1 being the tallest and bulkiest of the Buddy’s could support the weight, not that they did weigh anything to her.

The other two Buddy’s liked feeling tall.

“Hey! Hey! Look at this!”—Buddy 1

Buddy 1 supporting Buddy 2 on her shoulders while Buddy 3 was on top.

“We are Buddy Supreme!”—Buddy 2

Buddy 1 has a bright smile on her face.

Buddy 2 has a wobbly smile trying not to laugh while carrying 3.

Buddy 3 is just staring in amazement.

“So, this is what it’s like to be tall… this is nice.”—Buddy 3

Soon it was time for them to leave.

3 really doesn’t want to leave her new friends behind.

She certainly doesn’t want to go back to the dark halls of the Nemesis.

But this pleasant experience was soon to be the spark to ignite the flame for peace between the two fractions again.

She was going to do everything she could to end this war with peace.

Whether Megatron liked it or not.

“It was lovely seeing you all and knowing there are alternative versions of myself out there. I hope we meet again on much pleasanter terms in the future.”—Buddy 3

“Same goes to you 3!”—Buddy 1 and 2

Buddy 3 walks through the portal.

A flash of purple shines before returning to its natural color.

“It’s your turn kid—”--Wheeljack

“SEE YA!”—Buddy 1

Buddy 1 back flips into the portal before a flash of blue shines.

The portal turns off and all is still.

“…Well, wasn’t that an eventful Wednesday afternoon?”—Buddy

In megs universe

Buddy bounces off the wall of the Nemesis.

Literally.

“For once I’d wish for a smooth landing…”--Buddy

“Buddy.”--Soundwave

Buddy looks up to see Soundwave.

Buddy waves.

“Hey Soundwave.”--Buddy

Soundwave starts walking forward.

“Sorry about the data pads—”--Buddy

Soundwave is in front of Buddy.

“I swear I meant to go straight to the room when—”--Buddy

Soundwave gets down on his knees and pulls Buddy in a tight hug.

Buddy freezes for a moment before hugging back.

None say anything, just holding onto each other in one of the empty halls of the Nemesis.

In op universe

Buddy gets thrown at Bumblebee and Smokescreen.

“OW!”--Buddy

“BEEP! (BUDDY!)”--Bumblebee

“BUDDY!”--Smokescreen

Both bots hugging Buddy’s sides tightly.

“We heard from Miko that you go sucked into some groundbridge or something!”--Smokescreen

Buddy patting both bots helms.

Bumblebee digs his helm further in Buddy’s neck cables whirling in concern and relief.

“Boy, do I have a story to tell you guys. But let’s wait till everyone gets here, I can’t wait to see Doc bot’s reaction to his daughter.”--Buddy

“HIS WHAT!?”—Smokescreen and Bumblebee

“MY WHAT!”--Ratchet

[pzdragon666]

Transformers Earthspark: Illusion

She's an oldy so I gave her a faint color scheme. She's supposed to be the resemblance of a ww2 tank or something (at least to let people know how old she really is). As you see in the tags, she is neutral in Earthspark. She was once a decepticon but switched sides when Shockwave left her for scrap (that bitch-). However, she leaves the Autobots too because they don't fully trust her due to her troubled past and her gruesome ways in battle (Prime and Bee were the only that wanted her on the team) She would spend time on her own (along with her minicon, Hazard) and refuse to contact anyone unless they find her. Starscream would find her to deliver the news that Megatron became an Autobot (which she does NOT take well). Soundwave would also be a frequent visitor since he misses her and to ask for her advice on how to deal with the betrayal (which she sucks at.) She would eventually meet the terrans, first being Twitch who wandered to deep into the woods, and would see Bumblebee again (he was also one of the few Autobots who trusted her). She'd just show up randomly to chat and would sometimes train the terrans when she feels like it. She hasn't contacted neither Prime or Megatron because she doesn't trust them anymore and also because she doesn't know how she'd feel in seeing them again.

@breakitoutwildbreak @mr-playlist @chamm0y @kiyuu-draws @splashscreenofficial @kyamo18 @lanth57 @katzske

[cyberverse--reblogger]

Size chart for (some) Cyberverse characters!

(Note: The size and conversions into feet will be done below, typed out for convenience.)

So I was scrolling around on Seibertron's discussion threads about cyberverse (somebody was trying to bring some political figures in the conversation and I was so confused) to try and ignore my real-life responsibilities and I stumbled upon this post!

It's a (probably) official size chart for certain characters from cyberverse! I posted another version of the screenshot below. Also, here is the original video from where the size chart came from, and it is also in a playlist, including other videos about this cyberverse magazine.

Note: I suggest you click on the picture or open it in a new tab, as tumblr murdered the quality pretty badly. I also suggest you all to watch the video, because my computer is kinda crappy, and idk if taking a screenshot murdered the quality.

HEIGHT AND CONVERSION INTO IMPERIAL SYSTEM:

This is by the order from left to right, top to bottom. Please note that this isn't exact, as I'm just trying my best with eyeballing the heights, and I'm using google conversion to change this in the imperial system, and I'm also rounding the numbers to only two decimal places. Also, the poses they're doing are really weird (seriously, what are you doing, Acid Storm?), but I'm assuming that wherever their heads end is how tall whoever put this chart together wanted them to be, and they didn't have access to any official art that had everyone standing straight.

By the way, please don't chew me a new butt if I'm off by around 0.10 meters or something. I'm trying my best here, and I don't really want to break out the rulers and grid and do math to find their exact height. I'm just doing this for fun :]

AUTOBOTS/TOP ROW: Bumblebee: 4.75 meters, equivalent to 15.58 feet. Optimus Prime: 5.75 meters, equivalent to 18.86 feet. Windblade: 4.75 meters, equivalent to 15.58 feet. Grimlock: 6 meters, equivalent to 19.69 feet (nice). Hot Rod: 5.25 meters, equivalent to 17.22 feet. Wheeljack: 5.50 meters, equivalent to 18.04 feet. Blurr: 5.50 meters, equivalent to 18.04 feet. Ratchet: 5.65 meters, equivalent to 18.54 feet.

DECEPTICONS/BOTTOM ROW: Megatron: 6.25 meters, equivalent to 20.50 feet. Starscream: 5.10 meters, equivalent to 16.73 feet. Shockwave: 5.75 meters, equivalent to 18.86 feet. Thundercracker: 4.65 meters, equivalent to 15.26 feet. Shadow Striker: 5.65 meters, equivalent to 18.54 feet. Acid Storm: 4.65 meters, equivalent to 15.26 feet. Soundwave: 5.65 meters, equivalent to 18.54 feet. Slipstream: 4.65 meters, equivalent to 15.26 feet.

Below the cut is some stuff that I found interesting, like the average of heights, orders from shortest to tallest, surprises I had, and other thoughts. Take a look!

AVERAGE HEIGHTS OF AUTOBOTS: 5.39 meters, equivalent to 17.69 feet (nice).

AVERAGE HEIGHTS OF DECEPTICONS: 5.29 meters, equivalent to 17.37 feet.

AVERAGE HEIGHTS OF BOTS WITH LAND-BASED ALT-MODES (there were 11 of them in total; 7 Autobots, 4 Decepticons): 5.61 meters, equivalent to 18.40 feet.

AVERAGE HEIGHTS OF BOTS WITH AERIAL-BASED ALT-MODES (there were 5 of them in total; 1 Autobot, 4 Decepticons): 4.76 meters, equivalent to 15.62 feet.

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Height re-order; Tallest to shortest, all bots: 1. Megatron (6.25 m // 20.50 ft) 2. Grimlock (6 m // 19.69 ft) 3. Optimus Prime and Shockwave (Both 5.75 m // 18.86 ft) 4. Ratchet, Shadow Striker, and Soundwave (All 5.65 m // 18.54 ft) 5. Blurr and Wheeljack (Both 5.50 m // 18.04 ft) 6. Hot Rod (5.25 m // 17.22 ft) 7. Starscream (5.10 m // 16.73 ft) 8. Bumblebee and Windblade (Both 4.75 m // 15.58 ft) 9. Acid Storm, Slipstream, and Thundercracker (All 4.65 m // 15.26 ft)

Height re-order; Tallest to shortest, Autobots only: 1. Grimlock (6 m // 19.69 ft) 2. Optimus Prime (5.75 m // 18.54 ft) 3. Ratchet (5.65 m // 18.54 ft) 4. Blurr and Wheeljack (Both 5.50 m // 18.04 ft) 5. Hot Rod (5.25 m // 17.22 ft) 6. Bumblebee and Windblade (Both 4.75 m // 15.58 ft)

Height re-order; Tallest to shortest, Decepticons only: 1. Megatron (6.25 m // 20.50 ft) 2. Shockwave (5.75 m // 18.86 ft) 3. Shadow Striker, and Soundwave (Both 5.65 m // 18.54 ft) 4. Starscream (5.10 m // 16.73 ft) 5. Acid Storm, Slipstream, and Thundercracker (All 4.65 m // 15.26 ft)

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This whole list was pretty interesting, although I do feel like the animators weren't all that faithful to this (heck, I don't think they had this, and were just told general guidelines to follow to make each character a certain height.) Also, I'd have thought the seekers (and Windblade) would have been taller than most of the other bots that have land-based alt-modes, like Bumblebee or Hot Rod. I guess not in this continuity.

Considering that the other bots that are the same height as Shadow Striker or taller are either SUVs, tanks, large trucks, dinosaurs, etc, while Shadow Striker is just a sports car is pretty interesting.

I also like to imagine that the only reason why Starscream is taller than the other seekers listed is because he made some sort of mod (maybe something that has to do to his rockets at his heel/foot?)

It's too bad that there doesn't seem to be anything with the rest of the s1 characters (Because I swear there were more Autobots first shown in background scenes during season one, but I could be wrong), and it really is too bad that we don't have anything for the season 2, 3, and the movie specials.

Still, I hope you all found this post as interesting as I did!

[wifeguycyclonus]

g1-style silly show in the modern day where the tfs have social media:

Hound has a youtube where he posts videos of animals and trees that he thinks are cool (most are completely ordinary but ppl like his channel anyway bc he brings a whimsy to the ordinary that’s very charming)

Jazz also has a youtube where his videos are edited in cool ways and he’s got a travel vlog type vibe. He loves to talk to street musicians and check out festivals and stuff. Other autobots regularly guest star on his shenanigans

Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are streamers. They do fortnite and valorant and occasionally react to stuff. Suntreaker does tier lists of Earth vehicles (very few make A or S lol). Sunny also has an instragram and very occasionally he’ll post his art but mostly its nice selfies or silly pictures of Sideswipe

Skywarp, Rumble, and Frenzy film pranks on each other and on the other decepticons and also do reaction stuff bc ppl love seeing aliens react to classic Earth culture. They also read Thundercracker’s terrible fan fiction and film his reaction when he hunts them down for revenge

Soundwave makes ten hour videos on youtube of weird sounds (like space noise and the sound of microwaves (the energy not the appliance)). Ppl think its weird asmr.

Blaster is also on youtube and he makes playlists and helps produce for indie and growing artists. He’s also got a vlog channel about the happenings on the Ark (he could film it professionally but he likes an amateur-ish look to it)

(Soundwave tries to sabotage Blaster’s youtube which results in Blaster and Jazz teaming up to get back at him. The rivalry has developed a noisy and invested audience whom Soundwave will occasionally nuke the accounts of when he thinks theyre being too annoying)

Prowl runs the official autobot twitter and that’s the only social media he uses (Jazz has tried to get him on others but Prowl consistently refuses so Jazz just makes him a constant on his own platforms) (actually he might get on reddit occasionally to be pedantic)

Wheeljack and Ratchet have a loosely myth busters vibed youtube where they showcase Wheeljack’s latest invention. They have a lot of scientists in their comment section losing their goddamn minds as the laws of physics are regularly flouted but they also have a good chunk of viewers there for the explosions. Ratchet also does videos of caring for cars that are filmed the same way as middle aged men who do the same sort of video

Optimus, surprisingly, has exactly zero social media presence except for when he appears on somebody else’s thing or if he’s on the news for some reason (like doing a volunteer thing at middle schools or after dealing with a crisis, manmade or decepticon). This is because he knows he’ll get in roast fights on twitter and get himself in trouble with Prowl (and also if Megatron learns he has a social media he’ll never get any peace again)

oh and Megatron definitely has a twitter where he yells at human politicians and talks smack against trolls. He’s blocked by like half the platform while the other half watch in morbid fascination as he gets his ass handed to him by basically anyone with a spine to backtalk him (Soundwave is sent to nuke or hack the accounts of ppl who piss Megatron off too much. he also sends them mean prank stuff in retaliation, which the trolls actually view as a badge of honor)

i could probably continue but i wont rn lol