#mtmte atomizer

[evetronia]

Toxic yaoi. Anyone got a ship name for these two?

[lonemaximal]

Hm, not bad. Not bad at all...

Something I started before I left and I’ll have to finish when I return.

[tiny-tf-faces]

[transingthoseformers]

Omg did somebody mention Getaway's betrayal of Atomizer?! This is my OBSESSION recently. Atomizer has become my absolute favorite sidelined character, he gets zero attention in the fandom, despite having such an interesting and unexplored backstory and having a lot of au potential?? Like he's a fragging archer assassin in a universe that uses guns and blades and variations therein almost exclusively, and archers are simply sexy as hell. He's dangerous enough with that crossbow for Magnus to BAN him from having it aboard. And he's a weapons engineer, good enough to have worked at Kimia, and he was an interior designer before the war?? Like that combo is so interesting!

And then of course there's his really good story arc during the mutiny that leads to his death, where he goes from following Getaway basically unquestioningly to slowly realizing that oh, oh no, he's following the bad guy. They're winning, but they're doing it *wrong,* so very wrong. And he decides to switch sides at the moment when it's the most dangerous to him in order to protect people, like he always wanted to do in getting rid of Megatron. And you know he knew Getaway would retaliate. He'd seen how far Getaway was willing to go at that point, he'd experienced Getaway pushing *him* to go too far. And he did the right thing anyway. He's a flawed mech who made a lot of terrible decisions and fell in with a charismatic narcissist, but I think he ultimately wasn't a bad one.

Anyway there's also so much au potential with him. What if he'd realized earlier what was happening and tried to shut down Getaway much sooner, or maybe tries to sabotage the deal with Froid and Sunder? Or would he have led the movement to get rid of Megatron if Getaway wasn't there, and what would that look like?

I've got some waaay more angsty thoughts too. Like when Getaway starts tearing into him, he rips open his sparkchamber and finds that he's sparked, and worse, it's *his.* And if Atomizer was still alive at that point, what would he do? Maybe it would snap him out of the madness, but then he has to get help in keeping Atom alive, and there's no more good medics on board...

Or if instead of killing him in general, Getaway hands Atomizer over to Star Saber for "training," the same way Star Saber and Tyrest had tortured Getaway. So Atomizer is still alive at the end of it all, broken and beaten but now has to deal with the Consequences left in Getaway's wake and his own actions/inactions...

I'm sorry for the long ask, I'm just Atomizer's #1 fan and wish we'd gotten more around his character in the comics, or hell, if the Hasbro gods smiled upon us and put him in literally any other media.

Exactly!!!

You'd think he'd get more love considering his theme but no

And his dynamic with Getaway is just juicy, so juicy

He knew. He had to have known Getaway would retaliate. He knew.

Oughhh him realizing earlier had fun consequences

(really, in my mind? Atomizer wouldn't have lead the movement in Getaway's place. ... Though. Whirl might've tbh.)

Fascinating consequences on Getaway deciding that Atomizer was worth "fixing" instead of outright killing him, you can involve Froid and Sunder there too

Plus!!!! I think that Atomizer would look REALLY REALLY REALLY cool in quite a few different styles!!

[transingthoseformers]

In your where sire AU Gateway geting knocked up by Megatron and Atomizer is great.

Id like to seguest in this AU Gateway's not particularly good he's just too busy to plot. His four bitlits are adorable high energy escape artists with a penchant for good natured mayhem. Picture the sweetness of Bee, with the energy of Hot Rod, and the mayhem of potential of Sideswipe and Sunstreaker. All of his plot and scheme processor space is taken up with staying half step ahead of his sparklings. And they clearly favor Megatron with just enough of Getaway and Atomizer to be obviously be theirs as well.

By the time the kiddos are grown he's just too damn tired cause problems.

Okay but that's an amazing option

He's just too busy to be evil and terrible. Those kids sound so adorable and yes like they'd exactly exhaust him because goddamn escape artist children

[transingthoseformers]

what if Whirl had never backed out of the plans with Getaway and Atomizer

[transingthoseformers]

Hello the “Rodimus sparked Getaway and Getaway is a decent parent” anon. Ive come to scream more about it so sorry that i am spamming your ask about this stuff!

I think I sent an ask in about other points in this AU?

But I wanna ramble about Atomizer and Getaway’s relationship more. Because like i can see it having started because Atomizer approached Getaway with his sparkling acting kind of smug and questioning if Getaway is pissy since Rodimus hasnt connected the dots still, Getaway threatening to kill him, and Atomizer offering to be the pesudo sire Getaway’s kid which Getaway agrees to.

Atomizer being a decent dad and actually liking the kid. Atomizer being the voice of reason and more so logic when Getaway gets ahead of himself. Getaway and Atomizer growing closer, slowly getting more romantically involved. The two plotting and scheming. Having just evil couple goals while being parents. Atomizer even mentioning he wouldn’t mine having his own sparkling with Getaway, causing the MTO to get flustered lol.

Atomizer and the sparkling too. Sometimes painting the sparkling his color with sparkling safe washable paints to make the kid laugh. Giving the kid a pair of removable visor that are too big for their face that looks like Atomizer’s. As the kid gets older, Atomkzer helping the kid learn to fight.

Just

Awwww

Yes

[transingthoseformers]

Thinking about Getaway's betrayal of Atomizer

[transingthoseformers]

Another forum post: Had a threesome with the mech-who-shall-not-be-named. Possible for only my friend to be the sire???

(For some reason, ignoring timeline, I so feel that's Getaway posting that and Atomizer is the friend.)

Sxjfjgj

Yes.

Getaway and Atomizer materialize out of thin air just for this.

Getaway did you just admit you're a bottom bitch (affectionate)

[transingthoseformers]

I have "Getaway x Whirl x Atomizer" lying around in my notes and I need you to know about that

[transingthoseformers]

I've been thinking about Getaway and Atomizer's dynamic

[transingthoseformers]

We don't think about Getaway and Atomizer's dynamic enough