SF Con Bunnies
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1. [2007] remember Sam’s remark that Bumblebee was “probably Japanese”? Yeah, actually, Sam wasn’t being funny. He was being accurate.
2. “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, till the universe winds down and there are no more tomorrows left.”
3. [g1] Someone gets sent back in time, like the Arialbots were. By the time they’ve lived back to the point of their departure, they’re someone entirely different.
4. It’s never a good idea to reach out while you’re dying. It just makes it easier for things to reach back and grab you.
5. [g1] Did you know that in the comic books, Rumble has really, really, bad vision? Something the size of a human is just a blocky, black and white pixilated lump to him.
6. [2007] Magic and giant robots don’t really mix well. A fact Sam, Miles and Mikaela have to keep in mind as they juggle schoolwork, responsibility for the autobots’ assimilation, the peculiar triad of friendship and romance, the attention of the government and the three-way war between their respective covens.
7. Faraday cages as a way to cut communication officers off.
8. AU- He fell in love with humanity in general, and Witwicky and Banes in particular, the first time he ever saw the two. The two soldiers had raced through the shattered streets in a stolen blue truck, laughing in voice high and howling, leading the enemies entire ground force behind them.
9. ?1: I will be fine.
?2: bull-!
?1: I will be fine, because I will not allow myself not to be fine.
10. Someone’s stuck in a labyrinth. Their weapons don’t work, their radio has no signal, and no matter what they do, they can’t harm the walls.
11. “No one is here, not even myself”
12. The autobots are introduced to the…bawdier human drinking songs (bonus points if you include T. Pratchett’s hedgehog song)
13. Unicron was originally a planetoid generational ship for a race of aliens.
14. [g1] Going with the trio-as-the-ideal-relationship plotbunny: Skyfire, Starscream and Perceptor were originally one such trio, but when Skyfire was lost to the ice, Perceptor reacted badly and rejected Starscream. He’s never stopped feeling horrible about who Starscream became, because he knows it’s his fault the other joined the Decepticons.
15. [g1] out of respect for his dead partner’s ideals, Starscream stays neutral in the war, and makes his living selling synthesized chemicals to both sides.
16. [g1] Crossover. Skyfire finds himself a Starscream-surrogate. His name is Rodney Mckay.
17. ?1: From an engineering standpoint it’s a non-trivial problem…
?2: Words to live by, non-trivial problem.
18. Anything will fly if you strap a big enough engine on it, but it’ll still come apart at mach 5.
19. A team of Decepticons and a team of Autobots get into a skirmish far away from Cybertron and Earth, crash land on a lifeless planet, and have to learn to live and cooperate together if they want to live long enough to get rescued.
21. Retroactive infanticide by proxy
22. The scariest thing about evil isn’t what it does, but the fact that it can be likeable, reasonable, and sympathetic.
23. AU Megatron, Optimus and a good chunk of both sides are killed early in the war, and an utter sociopath (Sunstorm?) rose to the head of the Autobots. The highest ranking soldier on the Decepticon side is a young Trine Leader named Starscream. Reluctantly, Starscream and the Decepticons are faced with being the ‘good guys’ if they want anything to be left for them to rule. They’re…not quite sure how one goes about this ‘saving the universe’ bit.
24. Forca by Nelly Furtado-