#diroxy

[fascinationex]

Take 2! How is Sealstorm handling the heat in Australia when he visits with Percy?

He's a creative problem solver :)

(takes place not long after this short I think)

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Perceptor didn't know when the power went out. For one, it happened some time after two in the morning, when he was fast asleep. He had probably slept better after the relentless cold of the hotel room had melted away.

The first he knew about the power outage was at 6 in the morning when he opened his eyes to clean white sheets and a wide expanse of white ceiling.

His first thought was that Brainstorm was... absent. Odd, since he liked to wake Perceptor up with a suffocating reminder that he weighed at least three regular people.

His second thought was that it was strange that he wasn't freezing. Despite his best efforts on this trip, he usually woke with icecubes for toes and fingers gone terribly stiff with cold.

Preceptor blinked at the white hotel ceiling for a second. Then leaned over to pat the bedside table until his glasses materialised in his hand. His phone was next. There was an SMS, which had come through in silence at 2:31 AM: Dear valued guest, hotel management has been made aware that the electricity supply to this block is currently unavailable...

That wasn't good. Perceptor knew Brainstorm would probably be fine even if the power stayed out for a while, but his belly still did a nervous little flip about it. Getting too hot would be bad news for a polar mermaid.

Brainstorm was truly a creature of the ice and cold, well-armed with all his weight of blubber and fur to swim in waters that would kill Perceptor in minutes. But that meant that he couldn't tolerate a lot of heat. Sixteen degrees was fine, but eighteen was pushing it, and over twenty made him feel sick, which in turn made him cranky and rude.

It being high summer, their selection criteria for hotels on this trip had pretty much started and stopped at climate control. And now, evidently, the power was out.

Perceptor skimmed the rest of the message: utilities supplier working on it, management apologises for the inconvenience. Right. He turned the phone screen dark.

"Brainstorm?" He rolled out of the bed. It was a tall, luxurious hotel bed, set so high off the ground that he kind of just spilled into a standing position. He'd taken to sleeping in soft trousers and a hooded sweater, in red and black respectively, for the cold. They were warm and cosy—a little too warm now, actually. He pulled the sweater off and left it on top of the rumpled covers.

Outside the master bedroom, which was pretty much 90% enormous bed, the hotel suite was... kind of a mess. There were long snaking trails of water over the floor and furniture displaced at random. He glanced into the kitchenette and found the refrigerator and freezer units completely absent, but most of their contents spread across the benches.

"... Brainstorm?" he called, a little louder. Weirdly, the hotel room didn't sound as though the power was out. The heavily glazed windows kept most of the traffic muted outside but he could hear the dull humming of something. "Are you alright?"

"Bath tub!"

The sound of his voice was a relief. Perceptor turned towards the bathroom instead. It was, like the rest of the suite, perfectly palatial and on-trend. In this case that meant it was an awful lot of big marble slabs, and that the room came fitted with the strange, voyeuristic vibe of walls that were half clear glass.

That meant that Perceptor should have been able to see in straight away, but he couldn't: what had once been clear glass had evidently not remained so, and when he touched the surface he pulled his fingers back fast at the biting cold of it. It had become frosted the hard way, he guessed.

A mass of dark smudgy shapes were vaguely visible on the floor. One of them, he assumed, had to be Brainstorm's furred back flippers and tail.

Perceptor was more curious than worried, now. He opened the door and paused in the threshold, and although he was braced for the temperature change, it still smacked into him like a wall of frost. He was suddenly very, very awake.

It was freezing in here.

The remains of several kitchen appliances lay strewn about, cannibalised. Strange mechanical parts littered the marble floors, the exposed organs of systems he rarely contemplated right out in the open. The humming was louder than he expected. There was evidently no grid power in use. Instead, Brainstorm had rigged something with a system of wires, boxes, electrical tape and mysterious coloured fluids: crude chemical batteries, he supposed.

In the sunken tub itself, Brainstorm was half-buried beneath icy water. His long claws were delicately manipulating a length of copper wire that Perceptor felt probably did not belong around so much moisture.

He rolled around when Perceptor came in, turning so he could prop his spined elbow on the lip of the tub and rest his chin upon his hand.

"Percy! Good morning," he crowed, letting the wire tumble from his off-hand casually. His attention was suddenly laser-focused on Perceptor. Heady. "Come inside, you're letting all the cool out."

Perceptor looked at the machinery. His toes already hated him, but he took a step inside the bathroom and closed the door.

"This looks..." Advanced. Dangerous. Necessary, perhaps. Also, very much like an inappropriate use of hotel property. "... creative," Perceptor suggested, instead of any of those things.

"What, this old thing?" Brainstorm crooned, picking up a chunk of ice, examining it and letting it splash back into the water. "I'm a creative problem solver. Also, it started getting really hot at about three am and I had to put my unmatched genius to the task. Are you coming over here?"

Perceptor eyed the icy water in the tub. It was very, very cold in here. At some point, there had been a bath mat, which might have insulated his toes a little—but it was basically a block of ice, so he assumed that had gotten soaked at some point before the... unmatched genius situation... had unfolded in here.

He took another step closer to the tub. One of Brainstorm's damp hands wrapped around his ankle. His claws were as cold as steel in winter and the chill bit straight into Perceptor's skin.

"I won't be able to stay in here for too long," he cautioned, hoping to manage Brainstorm's expectations. He knew Brainstorm loved to brag about his successful inventions, but Perceptor might have to listen from the other side of the glass.

"That's a shame. That looks interesting." Brainstorm nodded at Perceptor's chest, where his nipples had beaded up tightly, obvious under his tee-shirt. He pressed his thumb gently into the big muscle of Perceptor's calf. Beneath the sting of the cold, it felt nice.

Perceptor hummed. "Freezing is less sexually interesting to me than you may imagine."

Brainstorm let his ankle go, rolling his yellow eyes extravagantly.

"I've heard," he said, sounding perilously close to whining. "Believe me, I've heard."

Perceptor's teeth were starting to chatter. He leaned down just enough to smooth his hand over the cold bone of Brainstorm's helm. "It's very impressive. I'm glad you're not overheating."

"Of course! I'm just that good." Brainstorm beamed "Let me know when they get the electricity on again?"

"Certainly." And that was about all Perceptor could manage, barefoot in this cold. He shut the bathroom door behind him, feeling the warmth of the rest of the hotel suite hit him like a wall. He shivered all over and his glasses fogged at the edges.

At least that meant Brainstorm was still taken care of. Perceptor headed into the carnage of the kitchenette to make his depredations on the steadily warming contents of the fridge. It would go too waste, otherwise.

Probably, he should be more concerned about who was going to take care of the bill for damages to an absurdly expensive hotel room. Brainstorm seemed unlikely. The university, possibly. Insurance, maybe. Wasn't the tourism department sponsoring part of this trip...?

Perceptor deftly avoided the spilled water on his way back to bed with his breakfast.

[elmonstro]

My entry for the @tf-bigbang, this short comic of @diroxy’s fic spark eater, spark stealer, you’ve met your match! A time-traveling adventure in which Brainstorm will try to fix his own mistakes, I recommend you read it first since this is a bit spoiler-y.

Don’t forget to check out mmskas_ amazing art of the fic on twitter and instagram too!

This scene was so intense I couldn’t just draw one thing, I hope I did it justice, I will link the fic when it’s posted.

[counter--fate]

Comm for DiRoxy on FR

[duckprintspress]

Our Favorite Reads of 2023

Inspired by this post from the Queer Liberation Library, we asked our awesome rec-list contributors to name their one favorite read of 2023, and the result is a list wonderful in its diversity of formats, genres, characters, stories, and authors. Check um out!

@adrianharley Favorite: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

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@unforth Favorite: Mo Du by Priest

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Shea Sullivan‘s Favorite: Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold

@thechaoscryptid Favorite: The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K. S. Villoso

@hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon Favorite: Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir

@fpwoper Favorite: November by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

@captainhaterade Favorite: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

@tryslora Favorite: To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

@ramblingandpie Favorite: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

@nursinggeek Favorite: The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta

@boneturtle Favorite: Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

An anonymous Favorite: Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

@diroxy Favorite: Add Magic to Taste

@maggiepageauthor Favorite: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

Lyonel Loy’s Favorite: The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards

@crowbraiin Favorite: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

@not-gwaenchanha Favorite: Open Throat by Henry Hoke

What was YOUR favorite read of 2023? Dare ya to try to pick only one!

[diroxy]

They couldn’t save everyone. The medical team and scientists from “Team Rodimus” failed, and their crew stayed Spark Eaters. Brainstorm, angry and bereft, decides that enough is enough, and he’s going to fix it. He’s going to do it right this time. Brainstorm isn’t going to lose Perceptor like this.

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My @tf-bigbang fic is here! Extra details like tags and warnings are under the cut. Huge shout out to @elmonstro for making a gorgeous comic for chapter 4, and @mmskas_ for their beautiful art in chapters 1 and 4. It was amazing to see it all come to life under y'all's hands.

Rating:

Explicit

Archive Warnings:

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Major Character Death

Category:

M/M

Fandom:

The Transformers (IDW Generation One)

Relationship:

Brainstorm/Perceptor (Transformers)

Characters:

Brainstorm (Transformers)

Perceptor (Transformers)

Getaway (Transformers)

Rodimus | Rodimus Prime

Nautica (Transformers)

Velocity (Transformers)

Chromedome (Transformers)

Megatron (Transformers)

First Aid (Transformers)

Ratchet (Transformers)

Various Other Background Characters

Additional Tags:

temporary major character death

Happy Ending

graphic depictions of gore

Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers)

Hurt/Comfort

Angst

Slow Burn

Time Travel

Case Fic Esque

spark eaters

Blood

time loops

Exhaustion

Love You'd Go to the End of the Universe For

Brainstorm Will Not Let Perceptor Die Like This

Brainstorm Gets to be a BAMF for 1 (one) Moment in Time

Canon Typical Violence

Language: English Words: 16,167 Chapters: 6/6

[artsilon]

A birthday gift for my partner, @diroxy! Bappy Hirthday! <3

[jellydishes]

tagged by @broodsys, tagging @skeletonsgeorg and @neonhoneycomb and @diroxy

1. How many works do you have on AO3 uhhhhhhh hang on i gotta combine three different accounts lol. ANSWER: 209

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 383,402 + 194,512 + 6,876 = 584,790

3. What fandoms do you write for? Dragon age 2 and Transformers, mostly, but i randomly branch out on occasion

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? uhhh on my main account?

misfiled, a magnus archives fic, with 314 kudos

mama said there'd be days like this, a bojack horseman story with 246

the trick is not to look down, an avatar: the last airbender fic, with 227

two truths, a disco elysium nsfw story with 184

only our enemies leave roses, an umbrella academy fic, with 177

(bonus round, i won't be linking these bc it's my forbidden account, HOWEVER: 173, 124, 118, 114, and 111 kudos for the top five)

5. Do you respond to comments? i do! often very very late because of my social anxiety, but yes

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? uhhhhhhhhh OH! that would be one breath, two

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? offhand??? maybe bone meal

8. Do you get hate on fics? fairly regularly for my forbidden account, yes, i just got a nasty comment last week

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? every couple of months, yes. typically m/f or f/f in general, [REDACTED] for my forbidden account

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? very occasionally. i did a final fantasy seven/fire emblem or a while back, which fulfills both criteria

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? idk? probably, but i don't worry about it very much

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? not to my knowledge

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? yup! i worked together on a couple dragon age fic before, for instance, as well as on my second forbidden account lol, this one specifically for transformers

14. What's your all time favorite ship? uhhhhhhhh idk probably bethany hawke/literally anybody

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? the sequel fic for believe it's easier for you

16. What are your writing strengths? dialogue and characterization

17. What are your writing weaknesses? action scenes and plot

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i mean if i knew another language sure

19. First fandom you wrote for? uhhhh either yuyu hakusho or h*rry p*tter

20. Favorite fic you've written? idkkkk uhhh potentially silhouette, which is a hard fic to pitch to people but it's the fic that first saw me experiment with writing an nd protagonist back in the day, so i have a lot of affection for it

[chefbeepo]

Oh god I wrote a fan fiction

Surprisingly, it's not based off of any of the miraculous ideas shared to me in my ask box (though I will get to those soon!!!)

It's actually based off a multi-chapter piece by @diroxy :D if you haven't read theirs, Spark eater, Spark stealer, You've met your match, please give it a read!!!

Anyway uhhh here's this

[rogueofpans]

AO3 Stats Game

Tagged by @heyholmesletsgo  Thank you for the tag :) 

Rules: Give us the links to your wonderful words with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.

Most hits: 10,975 Lovely Nightmares

Most kudos: 542  Lovely Nightmares

Most comments: 127 If We Both Shall Die

Most bookmarks:   261 Lovely Nightmares

Most words:  69,772  Lovely Nightmares

Least words:  81 - Poem - His Words Unspoken

Tagging:  @diroxy @robot-thighs

[sumeriasmith]

Hi! I had a question. Your art is GORGEOUS and would make really pretty tapestries. I was wondering if I could use your Wei Wuxian piece as a cross stitch pattern? It would be for personal use only and would keep your signature from the image in it. I would just be running it through an image to cross stitch converter.

What a flattering question to be asked! By all means, go ahead, and if you ever post pics of either the progress or the final piece I'd love to see them!

[callmearcturus]

diroxy replied to your post: I have been tapping the refresh on the WTNV feed...

It updates on the 15th, so tomorrow

............................................. oh.

/pouts

[letsplayandchill-blog]

What better way to break in the new tumblr, than to have our first post be about Detroit Become Human. With @rogueofpans at the controls and @diroxy and Justin (who doesn’t have a tumblr, shame shame) making comments in the background, it’s sure to be an adventure of a time.

[elmonstro]

Preview of my art for the @tf-bigbang !

I got to collaborate with the incredible author @diroxy and the amazing artist mmskas_ (on twitter & instagram), working with this fic was so much fun and I can’t wait for you to read it and see the complete pieces on September 22nd 💙❤️

[duckprintspress]

Created Works Round-Up: January 2024

Duck Prints Press’s monthly “created works round-ups” are our opportunity to spotlight some of the amazing work that people working with us have done that ISN’T linked to their work with Duck Prints Press. We include fanworks, outside publications, and anything else that creators feel like sharing with y’all. Inclusion is voluntary and includes anything that they decided “hey, I want to put this on the created work’s round-up!”

Check out what they’ve shared with us this month…

cruel forgiveness by Cedar McCafferty-Svec / @diroxy

art || transformers || m/m || idw rodimus prime/armada megatron || teen & up || no major warnings apply || complete

summary: Digital drawing of IDW Rodimus and Armada Megatron based off a scene from a roleplay server on dreamwidth. Megatron is faking his own death and making Rodimus watch.

other tags: self harm, canon mashup, based on roleplay

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Stay by Smehur / @smehur

art || baldur's gate 3 || m/m || astarion/tav || mature || no major warnings apply || complete

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Astarion by Smehur / @smehur

art || baldur's gate 3 || no ships || general audiences || no major warnings apply || complete

summary: This started as a silly colored pencil doodle and ended up my best drawing so far. Anyway, I love him.

TUMBLR - TWITTER

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Self Help & Writing Advice by Tris Lawrence / @tryslora

blog post || original work || no ships || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 781 || complete

summary: I don’t like self-help books. Which means I often don’t like writing advice books.

Which sucks because I really want to like both of them. I am positive there are things I could learn from them.

TUMBLR - PILLOWFORT - LINK

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ND Creative: Time, Focus, Organization by Tris Lawrence / @tryslora

blog post, nd creative series || original work || no ships || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 957 || complete

summary: Time, focus, and organization can be complicated things as an ND creative.

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Things I Thought Were Mine by enchantedsleeper / @iffeelscouldkill

fiction || fence comics || m/m || nicholas cox/seiji katayama || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 9,235 || complete

summary: Nicholas, Seiji, and the King's Row team are invited by Jesse Coste to join him at an exclusive summer retreat for elite fencers at the Coste residence. Surrounded by reminders of the life he could have had, and with Jesse determined to pick up where he and Seiji left off, can Nicholas survive the week without some closely-held secrets bubbling to the surface?

other tags: Canon divergence AU, hurt/comfort

AO3

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a dream or two (away from you) by enchantedsleeper / @iffeelscouldkill

fiction || fence comics || m/m || aiden kane/harvard lee || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 8,845 || complete

summary: Everyone knows that magic isn't real. Never mind that Aiden, crown prince of Feldhaven, has been having strange dreams from a young age in which he meets and plays with a young boy from a far-away kingdom.

He can't explain it, but he isn't concerned - until years later, when an eighteen-year-old Aiden is suddenly introduced to the new Captain of the Guard: Harvard Lee. The boy from his dreams.

other tags: mediaeval fantasy AU, slightly handwavey dream magic, friends to lovers

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You Make Sense of the Devil by Hermit / @hermit-writes

fiction || mcu, criminal minds || m/m, f/m, poly (multiple genders) || james "bucky" barnes/emily prentiss, james "bucky" barnes/steve rogers || mature || rape/non-con || 15,772 || complete

summary: A ghost from the BAU past reappears and drags up unfinished business for Aaron Hotchner. The ripples are enough to call back missing team members and spread well beyond the circle of his influence.

other tags: Timeline What Timeline, MCU fusion, Criminal Minds fusion, liberties were taken with the legal system, Case Fic, No One Is Okay, canon typical trauma, Past Rape/Non-con, Flashback, discussion of trauma, Implied Polycule

AO3

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A Godsdamn Kraken by Smehur / @smehur

fiction || baldur's gate 3 || m/m || astarion/tav || mature || no major warnings apply || 7,760 || complete

summary: Astarion and Tav met before the events of the game - and immediately got in trouble.

AO3

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Tremble by Tal / @thatgirlonstage

fiction || link click || m/m || cheng xiaoshi/lu guang || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 2,096 || complete

summary: Cheng Xiaoshi has a bad time in a photo. Lu Guang is there in the aftermath.

other tags: Hurt/Comfort

AO3

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Phase Shift by Terra P. Waters / @pterawaters

fiction || original work || platonic or familial, f/m || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 99,500 || ongoing series

summary: Despite being a self-professed science geek, high school freshman Camilla Mitchell has had a secret imaginary friend for years. It comes as quite a shock when said friend, Emma, accidentally drags her into a dimension full of hostile telepathic creatures. Cam’s friends, her brother, Oliver, and her mother, Kathryn, work furiously to solve her disappearance and bring her home. Other members of their small Minnesota town disappear, one after the other, including Lizzy Becker’s best friend, who is ripped from her arms. Lizzy badgers loner Oliver into working with her to rescue their missing loved ones. They discover a bridge between the two worlds—a bridge that allows the hostile creatures from Cam’s newly-discovered dimension into ours. If there’s a bridge, there’s a way to rescue the people taken. Right?

other tags: Tags: science fiction, alternate dimensions, teen characters, friendship, bisexual main character (minor references), lesbian character, nonbinary character, aliens; Content warnings: disordered eating, emetophobia, child abuse mention, homophobic bullying, teen characters in danger, gun violence, physical violence, abduction

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The Last Drop Cafe by Terra P. Waters / @pterawaters

fiction || stranger things || poly (multiple genders) || jonathan byers/chrissy cunningham/steve harrington/nancy wheeler || explicit || creator choses not to use warnings || 77,500 || complete

summary: Nancy Wheeler is in her last year of college, about to graduate with her journalism degree. She's just working as a barista at The Last Drop Cafe until she can find a real journalism job. She loves her boyfriend, Jonathan, though there's been some tension lately, and she's not quite sure how long the relationship is going to last. At least she lives above the coffee shop, which makes rolling out of bed at five in the morning to go to work slightly more tolerable. Her upstairs neighbors, Steve and Chrissy, are newlyweds eager to start their family. When a case of sleep deprivation and mistaken identity ties the two couples together, things quickly get complicated. But maybe complicated is just what Nancy was looking for.

other tags: Coffee Shop AU, College AU, Mistaken Identity, Polyamory, Somnophilia, Accidental Non-con, Unplanned Pregnancy, Birth, Hospitals

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Phase Shift by Terra P. Waters / @pterawaters

fiction || original work || platonic or familial, f/m, f/nb || teen & up || no major warnings apply || 99,500 || complete

summary: Despite being a self-professed science geek, high school freshman Camilla Mitchell has had a secret imaginary friend for years. It comes as quite a shock when said friend, Emma, accidentally drags her into a dimension full of hostile telepathic creatures. Cam’s friends, her brother, Oliver, and her mother, Kathryn, work furiously to solve her disappearance and bring her home. Other members of their small Minnesota town disappear, one after the other, including Lizzy Becker’s best friend, who is ripped from her arms. Lizzy badgers loner Oliver into working with her to rescue their missing loved ones. They discover a bridge between the two worlds—a bridge that allows the hostile creatures from Cam’s newly-discovered dimension into ours. If there’s a bridge, there’s a way to rescue the people taken. Right?

other tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Aliens, Teen characters, Alternate dimensions, Friendship, LGBTQ+ characters, Hearing Impaired Character, Eating Disorder, Child Abuse, Gun Violence, Kidnapping, Teenaged Characters in Peril, Minor Character Death

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Prayers of Descent by unforth / @unforth

fiction || tian guan ci fu || m/m || hua cheng/xie lian || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 1,648 || complete

summary: After 800 years in the Heavenly Court, Xie Lian receives a prayer with a simple request: "can I see you, your highness, just one more time?"

other tags: Canon Divergence, Jun Wu/Xie Lian

AO3

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[diroxy]

Rating:

Explicit

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

M/M

Fandoms:

The Transformers (IDW Generation One)

Transformers - All Media Types

Relationship:

Megatron/Rodimus | Rodimus Prime

Characters:

Megatron (Transformers), Rodimus | Rodimus Prime

Additional Tags:

Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Plug and Play Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Spike and Valve Interfacing, Sex Used as Comfort, Angst, Comfort, Self-Loathing, Unresolved Romantic Tension (Technically), Oral Sex, Fingering, field play, Introspection

Language: English

Summary:

It's over and done, their adventure come to an end. The Functionist Universe is banished, and Megatron is no longer on trial. He never thought this day would come. He certainly never thought the day would come where Rodimus came to him for comfort and a simple plea. "Help me forget." There is nothing that Megatron would not do for his captain.

[three--rings]

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