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1. The Quintessons didn't exactly stop production when they were chased off of Cybertron. It continued on, though on a much lower scale and the bots, while sentient, didn't have the numbers to free themselves.

2. The Quintessons must have made a lot of money on the sale of Cybertronians...

3. What did Junkions do for entertainment before humans were technologically advanced enough to have movies and TV shows?

4. "It's not good to tell anyone that the best you have is a long guess."

5. Shockwave/Hook.

6. Can members of a Gestalt be made to forget each other?

7. Hook hates being touched except by his Gestalt mates.

8. 2007. The Constructicons come to Earth and hide amongst a human construction crew. The humans learn what they are but don't seem to mind as the Constructicons actually help out with construction and don't seriously threaten to kill them. What will happen when the Autobots learn of their presence? Note: Bunny inspired by In the Line of Duty by CasusFere.

9. Optimus says something stupid, doesn't realize it, and wonders why everyone is laughing at him.

10. "What's an airhead and why is he calling me one?"

11. "They're gonna eat me!"
"Eh... what?"
"... nothing."

12. Hound/Red Alert

13. When most of the crew is incapacitated, Perceptor is alone to defend them and the Ark. And he does a surprisingly successful and vicious job of it.

14. Hook: "I don't want to trust you. But I do and I hate that!"

15. Art. Vortex sneaking up behind Hook. Optional title: Guess Who?

16. Skywarp teleports but doesn't reappear. He's trapped Between.

17. A sparkling is on the Ark. The human organization Child Protective Services doesn't think that is the safest place for him and seek to do something about it.

18. Megatron tries to bake cookies. Key word: tries.

19. ... not surprising since Hook was the main component of the Devastator personality.

20. Red Alert has medical training. Most people forget this.

21. The Constructicons weren't reprogrammed. They were killed and new sparks were placed within their bodies.

22. And then he klutzed off.

23. Perceptor's starting to feel ignored.

24. Most people believe Skywarp uses his teleportation without thinking. But actually, each use requires complex calculations.

25. An Autobot that turns into a school bus.

26. What if the Constructicons had been a Quintesson experiment?

27. What if Gestalts were used against the Quintessons?

28. Ravage protecting the injured Rumble and Frenzy.

29. Springer decides to court Perceptor. Everyone wonders why he's taking it so slow with Perceptor since usually he would have had the object of his affection in his berth by now. Springer is taking it so slow because he actually loves Perceptor and is serious about wanting a relationship.

30. Perceptor was originally built without a vocalizer. Talking is a new experience for him.

31. 2007. Mirage likes using his cloak to play ghost car.

32. When in vehicle mode, do the Constructicons beep when in reverse?

33. During a routine exam, Ratchet notices old evidence of tampering in Perceptor's CPU. His personality components, to be exact.

34. Perceptor used to be rather vague and prone to wandering off and forgetting where he is... until someone tried to fix him.

35. Perceptor was kidnapped by the Decepticons when he was a youngling and forced to work with them. A while later, an Autobot is sent to assassinate the scientist who is helping the Decepticons to win the war. What will the Autobot do when he learns his target is actually a captive youngling?

36. What if the Autobots and Decepticons awoke during one of the World Wars?

37. "What do you mean someone repaired Unicron?!"

38. Perceptor is not a Cybertronian. He is a member of a far older mechanical race. Older than the Quintessons even.

39. Hook: "Not tonight, Scrapper. I have a headache."

40. What will happen to the Constructicons when there is no more Decepticon cause to be loyal to?

41. The Autobots discover a most terrifying creature... "Why exactly are they all cowering in fear?"
"I'm not exactly sure. Something about a... mary sue?"

42. Smokescreen manipulates Perceptor into a relationship.

43. Devastator came before the Constructicons. The Decepticons split him apart.

44. Art. Sparkling!Perceptor working on his pretend 'inventions'.

45. "Hell's boring!"

46. Skywarp would never be as smart as he had been before that head injury...

47. Starscream null rayed him back to sanity.

48. Pre-war. Hook's in a mental hospital. The others try to get him out.

49. Omen.

50. Hound uses his holograms to hide Perceptor.

51. He was someone Perceptor had been trying to trust, but failing to do so.

52. Perceptor didn't escape after Cosmic Rust.

53. Hook builds something for Inferno.

54. Perceptor can use his emulator to push his consciousness into other machines (provided these machines don't have their own consciousness) and control them. All he needs is physical contact.

55. Bluestreak/Perceptor

56. A human criminal gang captures an Autobot and starts selling his parts, not caring that they're slowly killing him.

57. Red Alert's paranoid predictions always seem to come true in some way.

58. Perceptor's pain was needed.

59. "Stand over there to see if you're purposely distracting."

60. Starscream/Hook.

61. What if Optimus had assigned Ultra Magnus to command the Ark, while he himself remained on Cybertron? In fact, the entire crew was changed, the season 1 bots remaining on Cybertron with Optimus while the season 2 bots go on the Ark mission with Ultra Magnus.

62. "He got seriously killed."

63. Mixmaster searches for a test subject for his latest concoction.

64. Mixmaster: "I'm not supposed to be the sane one!"

65. If two different mental patients, who are in different hospitals and have never met, say the exact same thing... is the idea so crazy after all?

66. If anyone knows about unconditional love, it's members of a Gestalt.

67. What Perceptor sees, he can control.

68. Perceptor: "I think I've always been afraid of you."

69. 2007. The humans have found Megatron... and now all they need to do is drag him to the Hoover Dam.

70. "He's survived a point blank shot from a fusion cannon. I don't think a simple laser gun is going to hurt him all that much."

71. Perceptor ran away from home when he was a sparkling.

72. Perceptor is the creation of Megatron and Optimus. They used to be happy together, but then they started arguing over Perceptor's upbringing. Things began to escalate; verbal arguments turned into one-on-one physical battles. Eventually, they began fighting about other things and things escalated even further; one-on-one battles turned into small army against small army turned into larger army against larger army turned into... full scale war. The war may now be about Cybertron and energon and protecting the humans, and Megatron and Optimus may have forgotten what truly started things, but Perceptor knows that this war is his own fault.

73. Skywarp may not be the smartest of the Seekers but, surprisingly, he was the sanest.

74. It confused Optimus sometimes; knowing how rough and violent the Dinobots could be, and then seeing them with Perceptor, seeing how gentle they were with the scientist.

75. What if the 'war' was just a game of pretend played by sparklings on the playground?

76. Perceptor and Optimus are bondmates yet everyone, including their closest friends, believe that Optimus is bonded to Elita One. Perceptor doesn't reveal the truth as Optimus has asked him not to... and he can't help but feel that Optimus is ashamed of him.

77. Optimus sends Wheeljack and Perceptor on vacation. Ratchet tags along to supervise.

78. A Perceptor with nothing to do is a very dangerous Perceptor.

79. The builders and designers of the Ark built Perceptor a secret lab, one that not even Optimus knows about. What does Perceptor do there that he can't do in his main lab?

80. 2007. Perceptor and Blaster (and cassettes) arrived on Earth during the 1700s and have been hiding all this time.

81. Perceptor's vision is completely dependent on his lens barrel. Disable that and he's blind.

82. Perceptor's universal emulator... What exactly is it? The Decepticons want to know. But what they find may change the tides of this war... and perhaps the very definition of life itself.

83. 2007. The Allspark, although destroyed, still functions. It had a back-up, a piece of itself that it had created long ago (before it was launched) within an Autobot at the time of the Autobot's 'birth'. Not even Perceptor knows what his universal emulator really is... until strange things start happening around him. Note: Seems almost identical to number 82, I know. This wasn't intentional. 82 is G1; 83 is 2007.

84. "Don't you dare call Perceptor a lost cause!"

85. "Man, Perceptor's in a mood."

86. Perceptor: "I don't want to be so important."

87. Jazz: "Why do you hate Perceptor so much?"
?: "Because he hit me and insulted me."
Jazz: "That... doesn't sound like Perceptor."
Ratchet: "Wait... that's what this is all about?"
?: "Yes."
Ratchet: "He was a sparkling! He bopped you on the nose and called you a big meanie. He doesn't even remember doing it!"
?: "He still insulted me!"

88. Perceptor: *is scared* "I... I can't..."
?: "Yes, you can, Perceptor. Just... just try."

89. 2007. During the search for the Allspark, Ultra Magnus, Hot Rod, Blaster, and Perceptor crash on a nightmare world. Every day is a struggle just to survive. They barely have the resources to stay alive, let alone leave the planet. Then they receive Optimus' transmission...

90. Perceptor enjoys Kup's stories almost as much as the Dinobots do.

91. While the crews of the Ark and Nemesis are on stasis on Earth, things on Cybertron take a turn for the worst. The Autobots grow desperate and begin acting more Decepticon-like in their efforts, growing more ruthless and forcing neutrals to fight for them. Many neutrals, like Perceptor and Blaster, rebel against this and form their own army, fighting against Autobot and Decepticon alike.

92. Optimus: *stares in shock at human scientist* "How did you prevent them from blowing anything up?"
Human Scientist: *smiles over at Perceptor and Wheeljack, who are tinkering with some device* "Those two act like overgrown children with a new toy to play with. With children, no matter their size or actual age, you need to lay down some ground rules. These rules can't be the same rules you assign adults; they have to be extremely clear and simple so they're not open for interpretation. You have to be firm and quick to reprimand, but also quick to praise." *looks up at Optimus* "And like children, they need supervision. You shouldn't let them lock themselves away in their labs. Basically, they need parents."
Optimus: *thinks* "Would you like a job?"

93. 2007. Perceptor crashes on Earth decades before Optimus and his crew arrive... and meets a young child named Albert Einstein.

94. What if the war on Cybertron had ended while the crews of the Ark and Nemesis had been in stasis on Earth? Those on Earth don't realize this, so when they awake and start fighting again... and when they try to contact Cybertron for reinforcements...

95. What if Perceptor was the younger brother of the Twins? Or, if not their brother, what if he had been raised by them?

96. Perceptor was supposedly killed after (or just before) the Ark and Nemesis left Cybertron (he wasn't part of that mission). But he was actually captured by a group of Decepticons and has known nothing but abuse for four million years.

97. On Cybertron, Scholarships pay for education, maybe for a dorm room as well. But not food or other things needed to survive. Not allowed to get a job as he's still a student - the faculty doesn't like students splitting their attention - and since his creators honestly couldn't care less about him, Perceptor turns to prostitution to survive.

98. Perceptor used to like to talk... until he was taught that keeping silent means he won't be hurt.

99. Members of a Gestalt can take on each other's pain if they choose to.

100. Perceptor can withstand torture better than people thought. Longer too.

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[kirin-saga.livejournal.com]

My reply was too long! So here it is cut in two!

*considers seven* *shoves into her Perce/Hook pile for later consideration*

Yay! I hadn't thought of that pairing for it but it works!

Nine would be entertaining also, at that. There's so many different possibilities...

Yes... so many. *laughs at poor confused Optimus*

As for ten, is it wrong that my mind automatically jumps to the Aerials?

That's who I had in mind, too!

*cackles, grabs thirteen, and begins to threaten anyone who comes near her* *places bunny in the special hutch for her everyone-finds-out-about-the-tank-mode* I swear, I'm gonna get it written one of these days. *considers* Actually, it just sprung, rather violently back to life... So it might be sooner rather than later.

Yes! Success!

*smirks at fourteen and orders it to join seven*

*does happy dance*

On twenty-three: This is very, very bad. Be prepared, everything is about to go to the Pit.

Everyone will soon realize how dangerous a neglected Perceptor is... *evil laugh* Can't wait to see what you have him do.

*huggles twenty-nine* *stares at thirty* Ya know, if I hadn't already said that he'd screamed... hmmm... but that didn't mean he had literally screamed, could have meant that he'd just made a really loud noise. Yeah, I think this one fits in quite nicely with my version of Perceptor.

More Springer/Perceptor! And a silent Perceptor! I love you for adopting these! *hugs*

*cackles madly at thirty-two* This one actually made me lol - a rare experience, and testament to the randomness of this bunny. You deserve cookies, but I have none, so you get muffins instead. Thank you for that, really.

I saw men repaving a road. They had a green vehicle. It beeped. Image wouldn't go away.

*considers thirty-three* *remembers old bunny about Perceptor originally being a Decepticon before being reprogrammed by the Autobots* *mutters to self, before throwing the officially combined bunny into... well, it's way to big to be a hutch now, so... barn?*

I wonder how Ratchet would react to that discovery... Oh, and... Stadium?

Fourty-two makes me feel all fuzzy inside, though that probably says something bad about me. Still, it's so plausible...

Fuzzy... well I guess it all depends on what kind of manipulation... *happily begins imagining*

Now, lets skip forward ten and stare glassy-eyed at fifty-two, shall we? Because that will one day become an awesome one-shot, I assure you.

*does happy dance*

Add another twenty and we're at seventy-two: Poor, poor Perce. You just know that that's going to do some damage to his psyche.

*hugs Perceptor* We don't hate you, baby, honest. We just... like seeing how you handle... difficult situations. Builds character.

To seventy-four: Unless this was written before my fic with Optimus and the Dinobots, it's kinda creepy how similarly our minds work.

I'm pretty sure it was after... Did I post another list between the posting of your fic and the posting of this list? *is too lazy to check*

Seventy-seven, you just know that Ratchet's actually needed, too. Because they might actually destroy the earth on accident if left alone. Starscream: "Ahh... sorry, Megatron. We can't take over the Earth, the Autobot's scientist destroyed it for us. On accident, of course." Megatron: "And that, Starscream, is why I refused them both entrance to the Decepticon army."

Starscream: "Even though Prime even gift wrapped them for us?"
Megatron: "Even though."

... I wonder if Ratchet gets hazard pay for playing babysitter.



TBC...

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[norielit.livejournal.com]

And now, to respond to your response to my comment on your post! *snickers* Sorry, I just wanted to see how that came out. I'm not going to respond to all of them, probably - but there's so many different things to say...

On my comment for thirteen: Yay! You succeeded! *does dance*

Twenty-three: So, so many different possibilities...

*considers comment on thirty-two* Would you mind to much if this found itself on The List? Because, ya know, it's a perfect example. Totally the type of thing I'd do too... (Totally!)

I highly doubt that Ratchet's response on thirty-three would be good - who really wants to know that one of their close friend's true personality has been repressed and the person they've known is just a lie? I actually have a similar theory with Prowl and Jazz - what if Prowl's battle computer was a seperate personality, and controlled Prowl's (*coughbarricadecough*) body while repressing the true personality? And, because I just can't make myself see them with anyone else, Jazz has to learn to deal with this?

*snarks at fourty-two* Now that you say that, I considered the fact that you probably meant he'd manipulated Perce into a relationship with himself - I'd thought that he set him up with someone else. Haven't got a clue why...

For fifty-two: *joins happy dance* *looks rather like a fish floping around after being hooked*

And moving on, no, we don't hate Perceptor. It's actually a very common sign of love in the fanfiction community - torturing your favorite characters. *coughs* Right. It's like digging holes in the hot desert sun, builds character!

*shrugs* I haven't got a clue if seventy-four was written before or after my ficlet. It doesn't really matter, and I don't intend to waste time trying to figure it out...

And finally: Starscream: "But why'd we take Shockwave, then?" Megatron: "Shockwave's twisted, but not dangerous unless provoked. Those two - I swear they don't even realize exactly how dangerous it is to be around them." Starscream: "Ah well, doesn't matter now. They beat the Autobots for us - can we just go home now?"

And I don't know if Ratchet gets hazard pay. I still intend to write the bunny about Perce getting hazard pay for working in the same lab as 'Jack, but I just can't work out how they get hazard pay when they don't even get regular pay.

TBC... again.

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[kirin-saga.livejournal.com]

*considers comment on thirty-two* Would you mind to much if this found itself on The List? Because, ya know, it's a perfect example. Totally the type of thing I'd do too... (Totally!)

Go right ahead!

I highly doubt that Ratchet's response on thirty-three would be good - who really wants to know that one of their close friend's true personality has been repressed and the person they've known is just a lie? I actually have a similar theory with Prowl and Jazz - what if Prowl's battle computer was a seperate personality, and controlled Prowl's (*coughbarricadecough*) body while repressing the true personality? And, because I just can't make myself see them with anyone else, Jazz has to learn to deal with this?

Yeah, Ratchet would go on the warpath. Though I wonder if he'd try to undo what was done to Perceptor, or decide to keep the friend he knows. And I do believe there is a bunny where Prowl's battle computer was a different personality. I can't remember if it was one of mine or someone else's.

*snarks at fourty-two* Now that you say that, I considered the fact that you probably meant he'd manipulated Perce into a relationship with himself - I'd thought that he set him up with someone else. Haven't got a clue why...

I did mean with himself, but setting Perceptor up someone else would be just as good.

And moving on, no, we don't hate Perceptor. It's actually a very common sign of love in the fanfiction community - torturing your favorite characters. *coughs* Right. It's like digging holes in the hot desert sun, builds character!

I vaguely recall seeing an essay somewhere about why fans liked hurting their favorite characters. But it's been so long... I might have imagined it.

And finally: Starscream: "But why'd we take Shockwave, then?" Megatron: "Shockwave's twisted, but not dangerous unless provoked. Those two - I swear they don't even realize exactly how dangerous it is to be around them." Starscream: "Ah well, doesn't matter now. They beat the Autobots for us - can we just go home now?"

They really don't realize do they?

Perceptor: *looks around at all the death and destruction surrounding him and Wheeljack* "What just happened?" *is confused*
Wheeljack: *is also confused* "Maybe the Decepticons built a new weapon?" *shrugs* "Anyways, do you know where that nuclear reactor I was building went?"
Perceptor: "I think it's over by the fusion generator I was modifying." *thinks* "I wonder what would happen if we combined the two."
Wheeljack: "Now there's an idea!" *is excited*

Megatron: *watches all this in horror* "As long as those two cannot find a way to follow us... yes, we can go home now."
Starscream: *nods and nervously begins backing away*

And I don't know if Ratchet gets hazard pay. I still intend to write the bunny about Perce getting hazard pay for working in the same lab as 'Jack, but I just can't work out how they get hazard pay when they don't even get regular pay.

With extra supplies? Or maybe more freedom to invent whatever he wants with less supervision?

Ratchet: *panicks* "No! Perceptor does not need less supervision! He needs more! More, I tell you!" *shakes Optimus* ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME?!?!?!"

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[norielit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Ratchet would go on the warpath. Though I wonder if he'd try to undo what was done to Perceptor, or decide to keep the friend he knows. And I do believe there is a bunny where Prowl's battle computer was a different personality. I can't remember if it was one of mine or someone else's.

I don't know what Ratch would do, which is why the bunnies so interesting. And, yeah, that's an adopted bunny. *shrugs* I have no shame.

I vaguely recall seeing an essay somewhere about why fans liked hurting their favorite characters. But it's been so long... I might have imagined it.

I admit, I'd want to read that. *considers writing one* I don't know enough about the mind to do that... I would, however, like some guidance on discussing fanfiction with those who aren't interested in it - really, how does one go about explaining the excessive amounts of time spent online to one's mother?

With extra supplies? Or maybe more freedom to invent whatever he wants with less supervision?

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought. But then, it kinda seems like they're given free reign to invent what they want as is. *pounds head* I dunno. I jus' dunno.