Bayverse: I Am Become Jazz, the Creator of Memes

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So, see, before they did the whole falling rocks thing at the beginning of the first movie, the Autobots camped out offplanet, but close enough to eavesdrop on our satellite communications. Maybe on the Moon, maybe on the Ark, I dunno. (Ignoring the other two movies for this.) Now, Jazz is their spy and communications expert. He is equally capable of annoying people to see how they react and just quietly sitting and listening, absorbing how people interact when they don't know he's there. And sometimes he strikes a happy medium.

Because they have such long lifespans and the 'Cons aren't that close behind them, they spend eight years lurking. They learn languages, they learn political and cultural systems, and they explore the wide wonderful crazy Internet, which is analogous to something they had back home.

And Jazz? Somewhere in that eight-year timespan, Jazz constructs enough of an online identity to get a free LJ account.

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