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tf_bunny_farm1. Quoth the Seeker, “Nevermore”.
2. Dead End & Edgar Allen Poe.
3. Unbeknownst to Orion Pax, Ariel had been lying to him ever since she met him. When he’d found her wandering around near the factory where he was working at the time, she’d claimed to live in the cheap apartment block next to his own. However, she was actually a spoiled heir-femme from the Towers, who’d stupidly gone slumming in the “poor mechs’ district” and gotten lost. Poor Orion was besotted by the gleam of her plating and the shine of her optics; he never noticed that the expensive polish and optic-brightener she was wearing would be way out of the price range of a working-class femme.
A. Although Ariel-the-poor-femme was ‘dating’ Orion (and possibly falling in love with him, despite her constant self-reminders that he was just a lowly, common laborer whom she was stringing along for the fun of it), Ariel-the-rich-young-debutante was being forced into an arranged bonding. (Mirage? Megatron? The current Prime?)
B. When Ariel awakens as Elita-1 for the first time and is told that Orion became the next Prime, she immediately realizes that the tables have turned and now she’s the one in the lower social class.
C. Did Optimus ever find out about Ariel’s deception?
4. Yes, this doughnut-shaped building in Oxfordshire IS a microscope, the biggest, most expensive and most powerful in the world, and will allow Britain to lead the world in the science of the very small…
It costs £260m, is the size of five football pitches and is the most remarkable British scientific project in decades… By one reckoning this picture shows the most powerful torch in the world - a device that can create the brightest light in the known universe, ten billion times more brilliant than the sun… It can produce a man-made beam of radiation so intense that it would be visible the other side of the cosmos, if it were to be pointed in the right direction...
It is hoped that [the microscope] will revolutionise everything from the way that computer microchips are built to the manufacture of new drugs… Police forces will be able to use [the microscope] as the most powerful forensic instrument in history.
5. Hound and Perceptor were built to work together. What Perceptor sees, Hound can show. (Inspired by the fact that Perceptor’s microscope barrel and Hound’s projector are kind of similar.)
6. Before the war, young Sunstreaker sneaked into the next-door neighbor’s private crystal garden and found the neighbor creating marvelous works of beauty. The neighbor confided that he had once been a famous artist, but had changed his identity so as to remain anonymous. In return for art lessons, the young mech swore to keep the secret.
Sunstreaker is delighted with his newly-discovered artistic talent; the neighbor shares in his joy and seems to be content that his gift is being passed on. One day, Sunstreaker went over to the garden and found it deserted; the house was empty and the neighbor was gone. Sunstreaker waited and waited, but the neighbor never returned. He mourned the loss of a hero, mentor, and friend – and only then realized that he had never asked the neighbor’s name.
During the war, Sunstreaker meets his former teacher. He is greatly surprised at what has become of his hero – and half-ashamed that he himself, like his mentor, gave up art in favor of war.
7. “The wonderful thing about Seekers
Is Seekers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber,
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about Seekers is
I'm the only one!”
8. Mechs with bright white optics.
9. Decepticon: *mutters* I don’t get paid enough for this…
Autobot: *shocked* You get paid?
Decepticon: *surprised* You don’t?
10. Primes don’t get vacation time. Optimus muses on how much the humans have unknowingly helped him, by letting him de-stress while officially ‘on the job’. Technically, playing basketball was ‘investigating and building good relations with a foreign species’ and a long road trip for no reason was ‘gathering data on alien culture and geography’.
11. Sunstreaker wasn’t a conventional artist – he was the only Cybertronian ever to create abstract art.
A. Someone notices that certain abstract paintings on Earth look oddly familiar.
B. None of the Decepticons could figure out why the Nemesis had been originally decorated with those strange artworks of shapes and colors. Certain ‘Cons grew to like them, and salvaged them for the underwater ‘Con base.
12. Crack pairing. I’ve heard of Perceptor/Starscream, and although I can’t figure out where exactly that came from… what about Brawn/Skyfire?
13. The only part of a Transformer that they would want to cover up for ‘modesty’ reasons would be the spark or spark chamber, right? So, wouldn’t having some sort of ‘window’ in the chest area (like Optimus, Soundwave, etc.) be the equivalent of wearing too-revealing clothing?
Megatron: O_O..... O/////O
Optimus: …Not a word, Megatron! It came with the alt-mode, alright?! *is embarrassed*
14. Suppose the second name ‘Prime’ was only used to distinguish the ruler of Cybertron under the old Autobot government. When that government was replaced by Decepticon rule, it was implied that Megatron had gotten rid of the office of Prime as well (by not claiming the title for himself). However, he continued to address Optimus as Prime – despite the fact that without the old government to back Optimus up, he isn’t technically Prime anymore.
15. The golden line had been crossed so many times that it had lost its meaning.
16. X-ray vision.
17. Joy doubled, and grief divided.
18. Without hope, one is only half alive.
19. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my enemy friend.
20. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
21. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
22. "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
23. "Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
24. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
25. “Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.”
26. “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
27. “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
28. “It is easier to stay out than get out.”
29. Cruel and Amusing Prank #785: Remove all traction from soles of feet of recharging comrade. Options: local ‘anesthesia’ and industrial-grade sanding, stylish banana-peel shoes, or epic amounts of butter.
30. Art. Megatron with black Unicrony horns.
31. Red Alert -> Readimus Prime
Inferno -> Ultra Infernus
Firestar -> Alighta-1
32. ‘Mech A’ is just a puppet, being controlled by ‘Mech B’. Then ‘Mech B’ dies/gets stuck in stasis/goes missing/goes insane, and ‘Mech A’ wakes up.
33. Soundwave becomes a soundwave. He bounces around the Decepticon base, trying to get someone’s attention so they can figure out what happened to him and reverse it – but no one is listening. Then while the tower is up, some idiot goes and opens the door while he’s nearby…
34. “Again? Primus! What is wrong with you? You’re like the Charlie Brown to his Lucy! Stop going for the fragging football, you’re never going to kick it!”
35. Not really a full-fledged bunny, but… a fic where someone (a Cybertronian) ‘flounces’. Because it’s a fun verb.
36. Art. Starscream trying to kick a football that Megatron is holding. Bonus points if it’s drawn in ‘Charlie Brown’ style.
37. Ironhide’s original name was Ironide. His creator was a deluded scientist who named him after the new substance he’d ‘discovered’.
38. His imaginary friends told him that he was the only one who could see them. They lied.
39. The war is over, but by the time of the armistice, both factions owed considerable debts to other species for energy or weapons – and since neither side won, the plunder which each side had been counting on to pay their debts could not be collected. Cybertron is immediately hit by severe economic depression.
A. To his dismay, Optimus finds that raiding other (uninhabited, if possible) planets for resources may be the only solution. It’s too bad that the leading expert on this type of mission has gone missing…
B. Some mechs – mostly former Autobots and mostly scientists – are stubbornly refusing to support any plan which includes wrecking foreign environments before they can be properly studied (which would require funds that aren’t available, anyway).
40. Instead of open warfare, the Autobots and Decepticons divide the planet between them and start a cold war (no actual fighting, just paranoia and propaganda and political junk)/arms race.
A. Rather than dividing Cybertron, one faction claimed Cybertron and the other claimed a distant energy-rich planet. An archived scientific report (from a two-mech team, only one of which returned under mysterious and uninvestigated circumstances) indicates that the planet is uninhabited and available for colonization… but the report was dated much, much later than it had actually been recorded.
B. The scientist who turned in that report refused to stay on Cybertron when he found out about the ensuing cold war. He bought/stole some energon and supplies, then left for the planet where his partner had been lost.
C. The cold war ends, and to symbolize the ‘clean slate’, certain records are deleted. Other records are accidentally destroyed by viruses, cleared up to store more important data, or ‘debunked’ as false. After much time has passed, one faction has totally forgotten that the other group even exists.
41. When Megatron decided to refurbish the crashed space cruiser into a base, the Decepticons thought it’d be boring living underwater…
A. The base is located right in the middle of whale pod/dolphin school territory.
1) Soundwave loves the sounds!
2) Soundwave hates the sounds!
3) The cassettes record the sounds and use them to startle their fellow ‘Cons at odd moments.
B. The largest known jellyfish is the lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), reaching 35 meters in height.
C. Sunken pirate ships! With accompanying undead pirates!
D. Finding Nemo! Bonus points if you make someone talk in Dory’s ‘whale language’ or use that sarcastic school of fish that form into different shapes.
42. “How can I help it if I think you’re funny when you’re mad…” ~1 Week (Barenaked Ladies)
43. (I may have mentioned this before.) Each gestalt – could be all the gestalts of one or both factions – contributes one or two members (the leaders, or just your favorites) to combine to make the ultimate gestalt.
44. Femme: What is it with mechs and asking for directions?
Mech: I don’t want to play the gender card right now. You want to play a card, let’s play the “let’s not die” card.
45. “I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Come on, Squishy Come on, little Squishy… Ow. Bad Squishy, bad Squishy.”
46. ???1: I promised I'd never let anything happen to him.
???2: Hmm. That's a funny thing to promise.
???1: What?
???2: Well, you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him.
47. Primus and Unicron have a chat with their boss.
48. Human scientists usually specialize in a certain area of science. What if Cybertronian scientists or medics, being experts on mechanical science/anatomy, are absolutely hopeless when it comes to biology and human medicine? Inspired by the fact that fan-Ratchet often heals humans, when he ought to be as bad at that as a human doctor would be at fixing a car.
49. Can connect to previous bunny – what if a non-scientific mech realized that what they really wanted to do in life was study biological life-forms?
50. The ‘Bots (and/or ‘Cons) in each of the fifty states.
51. The ‘Bots (and/or ‘Cons) in as many countries as possible.
52. Swindle is enchanted by the sheer number and variety of human scams.
A. He researches the psychology of gambling (i.e. how people might buy 10 different lottery tickets and think they have a much better chance of winning than if they’d just bought one), and decides to find out if such tricks work on the less logical ‘Bots/‘Cons.
B. He finds out about and becomes interested in magic tricks, and tests them on his fellow ‘Cons.
53. If they win the war, they’ll lose what’s really important.
54. Starscream and Skyfire come to Earth much later, and observe one of the ancient civilizations (Greek/Roman? North/Central/South American groups? Oriental groups?). Curious, they collect data on human mythology and bring it back to the other scientists on Cybertron to analyze. They unanimously conclude that the humans are all insane.
A. A non-scientist finds out about the research, but when they obtain more information about it they fail to catch the key fact that all of these creatures/deities are myths.
B. The person who finds out about the research knows that these figures are mythological, but he conveniently forgets to mention that when he spreads the story because he wants to lead an investigatory expedition to Earth.
55. The wounded Seeker/Aerialbot fell faster and faster, reaching the ground… and continuing to fall through it.
56. Jazz likes all kinds of human music except jazz. He chose that designation because of its other definition, of excitement/liveliness/spirit.
57. Megatron has the ability to alter others’ emotions.
A. It’s very difficult and takes lots of concentration; in fact, though he’ll never admit it, he doesn’t really know how to control his ability at all.
B. Soundwave, Shockwave, and Starscream were all ‘experiments’ at trying to alter emotional responses – all of which were failures and damaged them in some way. After what happened to them, the most Megatron dares to try with the other Decepticons is causing petty anger and calming them if they get upset or rebellious about one of his decisions.
C. Megatron always does whatever he feels like, because he doesn’t know what might happen if he accidentally tries to control his own emotions, instead of just using simple self-discipline.
D. After observing how Optimus’ troops generally obey him and accept his decisions without question, Megatron suspects Optimus of possessing the same ability as him and (consciously or unconsciously) using it to keep control of the Autobots.
58. At first, Chip Chase was only taking advantage of the Autobots, to learn about their technology so he could become the next Bill Gates. All his life, he’d been looked down on by other humans, despite his intelligence – he felt like he had to prove himself. When they actually treated him more like an equal than some humans treated him, he started to feel a little guilty. He knew that when he launched his billion-dollar tech corporation, some of the Autobots would know or at least suspect what his real intentions had been all along.
59. “Have you ever loved someone so much you’d give it all for them / Not the expression, no, literally give it all for them / When they are your heart, and you know you are their armor…”
60. We’ve got Mirrorverse, with good Autobots and bad Decepticons – but I don’t think I’ve ever seen Optimus leading the G1-verse ‘Cons and Megatron leading the G1-verse ‘Bots.
61. Starscream is Megatron’s creator. Although the Seeker’s memory banks were wiped at one point, he retained a tendency to not want to take orders from his own creation.
62. Starscream with multiple personalities: a calm personality (suppressed by the others), a stupid-rebellious personality, a sly-rebellious personality, a scientific personality, a surprisingly-decent-leader Air Commander personality, a glomping-Megatron personality…
63. The Decepticons have a bunch of Autobot prisoners from the last battle. Negotiations are dragging, so the Constructicons decide to get some use out of their ‘guests’: they build some giant hamster-wheels and connect them to power generators…
64. A captive Autobot has an epiphany. Jets may have an advantage over cars in many ways, but there are two fun weapons that jets lack: a horn and a car alarm (and sirens, depending on which ‘Bot this is).
65. Who’d be most interested in human history?
66. Optimus always tells his troops that there’s hope, even when there isn’t any. And when things are going right for once, he’ll tell them that chances are high of everything going pear-shaped soon. Is this just part of what makes him a good leader? Maybe. Or maybe he’s just a compulsive liar.
67. When the Transformers woke on Earth and tried to contact Cybertron, they quickly realized that their home planet had been drifting through space for millions of years, while Earth revolved and orbited the sun – they had no idea which direction their home planet was in or how far away it was, let alone how to get back.
68. When Megatron & Optimus and company didn’t return, Shockwave declared himself leader of the Decepticons. To preserve Cybertron in the long run, he announced an armistice and opened peace talks with the Autobots who had remained. The deep stasis to which Optimus had succumbed fooled Elita-1 into thinking her spark-mate was permanently offline, so she and Shockwave had an alliance marriage to cement the reunion of the two factions.
69. Advances in human technology happen quite quickly. Both the Autobots and the Decepticons rapidly get frustrated with having to switch alt modes so often to keep up with what will ‘blend in’.
70. Human or holoform TFs in high school isn’t uncommon in fanon. What about in preschool, or kindergarten, or elementary/middle/junior high school, or college?
71. Shockwave suffers a personal tragedy of some kind. Elita-1 and the more gung-ho femmes consider on how even the most unlikely ‘Cons were different before the war, and are still just mechs underneath it all.
72. When the Transformers look at the humans, even the most kindly of them can’t help but be insanely envious of the simple thing most humans take for granted – that in a pinch, they can always just grow personal energy sources right out of the ground and live off of them.
73. Red Alert is Reflector’s creator. His paranoia made him create multiple bodies, convinced that one or two would be damaged or that he would somehow make them incorrectly.
74. Two debate teams face off in the final round of the Cybertron-wide championship, competing for scholarships to the most prestigious universities/military academies on the planet.
75. Who would a Decepticon turn to if he really, really needed help with some sort of personal problem?
- aerialbots,
- ariel,
- autobots,
- brawn,
- cassettes,
- chip chase,
- cybertron,
- dead end,
- decepticons,
- elita-1,
- firestar,
- gestalts,
- hound,
- inferno,
- ironhide,
- jazz,
- megatron,
- mirage,
- optimus,
- orion pax,
- perceptor,
- primus,
- prowl,
- ratchet,
- red alert,
- reflector,
- seekers,
- shockwave,
- skyfire,
- soundwave,
- starscream,
- sunstreaker,
- swindle,
- unicron
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Date: 2008-09-18 02:50 am (UTC)Commander swap by Decepitcon project XD
G1. optimus and megatron make a bet, before optimus gets the hang off it starscream goes awol, and the rest off the decepticons dont know what to do.
Link ~ http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4331039/1/Commander_swap
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Date: 2008-09-18 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-18 03:51 am (UTC)70. Human or holoform TFs in high school isn’t uncommon in fanon. What about in preschool, or kindergarten, or elementary/middle/junior high school, or college?
I want to see a TFs-in-kindergarten fic so bad now! XD
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Date: 2008-09-18 08:48 pm (UTC)At least Starscream is whackable when he mocks the Mighty Megsie. *pictures Megatron standing in front of a big window giving an epic speech to the Cons (or the 'Bots, via Teletraan) while the school of fish imitates him*
I want to see a TFs-in-kindergarten fic so bad now!
You and me both.
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Date: 2008-09-18 09:55 pm (UTC)I wish I were better at drawing/colouring, cos I'd really like to see this drawn! (I'd try it anyway, but water is sooooo hard to do convincingly!)
You and me both.
I remember one of the manga I read awhile back (though I don't know which one...) had a bonus chapter at the back of one of the volumes that had all the main characters as members of a kindergarten class. I was thinking something like that, but I can't remember anything about it, so...
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:26 pm (UTC)Maybe you could do a variation with birds. Then the Autobots and the Decepticons could watch and be entertained. The flock could split up and imitate O & M doing their classic banter... *is blatantly attempting to feed art bunny*
I remember one of the manga I read awhile back (though I don't know which one...) had a bonus chapter at the back of one of the volumes that had all the main characters as members of a kindergarten class.
*WANTS TO SEEE*
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:41 pm (UTC)Nah, I may just attempt the fish one anyway. I just can't guarantee it'll look like water. (It may, however, look like a blue screen)
Also, it'll take a while...
*WANTS TO SEEE*
I was such a wannabe otaku freak back then, they all kinda blend together, so I couldn't possible tell you what happened! If I ever remember, though, I may try it out... I dunno if I'd do it as holoforms, though, cos chibi-TFs are just cute!
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Date: 2008-09-18 11:10 pm (UTC)Oooh! It could be an undeletable virus! Every time someone tries to get rid of it, it adds a fish to the formation! The 'Cons are frustrated but have to content themselves with sending a copy to Teletraan-1.
I dunno if I'd do it as holoforms
Wouldn't have to be. Personally, I think it'd be cuter with mini-robots... especially if the teacher is particularly bad at resisting the urge to snuggle them.
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Date: 2008-10-06 12:08 am (UTC)You wouldn't know by looking at it (I don't think it's very good, so sorry about that), but this took me forever.
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Date: 2008-09-18 05:22 am (UTC)2. A match made in purgatory.
4. Why, Perceptor, how you've grown! ... This calls for some Metroplex/Perceptor. *thinks* OR... Sam and Mikaela meet the largest Cybertronian they've ever seen. "I can't believe that guy is a microscope!"
"Well, at least you'll no longer have an excuse to fail science class."
5. *LOVES* IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!!!!
6. *wonders who* Mirage? Cliffjumper (that would be a shocker)?
7. As soon as I saw that first line, I knew what this was about. But who's the only one?
9. Optimus: *suddenly very nervous* "Why is everyone glaring at me?"
Autobot: "Oh, no reason." *glares*
Optimus: *feeling of impending doom*
I wonder how many will want to join the Decepticons now.
12. *tries to see it* *fails* Sorry...
Though I can see Perceptor storming up to them, grabbing Brawn, and screaming "MINE!"
13. "Oh no! You're not going out in that, young mech!"
14. Maybe he doesn't know his actual name?
16. Perceptor would have it.
23. That was cute! Where's it from?
26. ... Disorderly Perceptor?
32. Mech A - Blaster? Mech B - ? (Rewind? Eject? Soundwave? Optimus? Jazz?)
33. And he accidentally zooms off to Blaster, who thinks he's going insane when he starts hearing things.
34. *LOVES* *LOVES* *LOVES* I wonder who is who!
35. It was eerie how... perky he seemed today. Not happy, not cheerful. Perky. He skipped from 'Bot to 'Bot, smiling brightly and offering words of comfort and encouragement. Everyone was staring and he just smiled brighter at them and started humming annoyingly cute songs as he finished his rounds.
It was a very good thing that he then flounched out of the room, still singing, still smiling, because if he had stayed even a moment longer...
Well, let's just say that Optimus was very surprised to find everyone in the medbay aiming their guns at the door to Ratchet's office.
36. Starscream: "Augh!"
37. And that scientist was Perceptor's Crazy Uncle Bob, who Perceptor's creators refused to talk about.
38. Blaster thought his Cassettes were his imaginary friends! *is shocked* I bet the poor dear was so confused when he realized the truth.
39. The Autobots were counting on plunder?
B. So they strike off on their own and colonize an interesting out of the way world. They may not have money to build an actual colony, but who needs a home when you have an entire world to study? It's not like you'd ever leave your experiments anyways.
41. 1. I'm not surprised!
2. *is surprised*
3. They so would.
45. Starscream: *stares* "Did Skywarp forget his medication again?"
46. This... makes so much sense!
47. And their boss is... Blind Io (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_gods#Blind_Io)!
48. So true. First Aid though is an expert on human medicine. I can't remember if thats fanon or canon though.
52. A. They so need a Lottery!
B. I now want to see him pull a rabbit out of a hat. Of course, if he did, Perceptor wouldn't stick around for the rest of the tricks, what with his bunny phobia and all.
54. *LOVES*
55. And he suddenly woke up as he slammed onto the floor of his room.
57. D. And what if Optimus' power was much stronger and he was completely unaware that he had the power at all?
60. This sounds vaguely familiar but it's been a loooooooooooong time. Maybe I imagined it. It wasn't a fic; I just think someone mentioned it (long before this community existed).
63. *CACKLES*
64. *LOVES*
65. Rewind.
67. *wants to see*
69. They could always pass themselves off as classic.
70. I want to see Perceptor in kindergarten, shocking the teachers with his intelligence. Oh course, if all these shockingly smart kids showed up, I think the teachers would have "Am I living in the Village of the Damned" thoughts.
73. That does sound like something he'd do.
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Date: 2008-09-18 09:27 pm (UTC)Interesting phrasing there...
Why, Perceptor, how you've grown! ... This calls for some Metroplex/Perceptor.
Oh, you didn't think of Prowl? The telepathy didn't come through this time! I mean, what with 'donut-shaped' and police forces using it for forensic purposes and all...
5. *LOVES* IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!!!!
XD Perhaps they were meant to be teachers, but they both got so caught up in what they were supposed to be teaching about that they became students instead.
6. *wonders who* Mirage? Cliffjumper (that would be a shocker)?
Mirage - Hmmm. Mirage lived in the Towers, yes? Maybe the part he lived in was right on the edge of a poorer area, or maybe paying for his art got so expensive he had to move out and find a cheaper place. Or maybe Sunstreaker lived in the Towers. Or maybe Mirage used the other place as his studio, to keep his art separate from his social life.
Cliffjumper - He's always suspicious that others will betray him because someone in his close-knit artists' guild plagiarized his work, then accused Cliffjumper of copying his art.
7. As soon as I saw that first line, I knew what this was about. But who's the only one?
Oooh! Wait! *thinks* *adds new bunny to next list* Hee hee hee! Three in one...
Though I can see Perceptor storming up to them, grabbing Brawn, and screaming "MINE!"
An argument or fight between Skyfire and Perceptor would be... interesting. *ponders* They're both expected to be such peaceful, calm people. When they both finally explode one day, Starscream and Brawn have to be the peacemakers and get them to stop before they blow up Earth from sheer sciencey rage.
14. Maybe he doesn't know his actual name?
I wonder how Optimus would feel about that? Maybe a little disappointed that his enemy doesn't seem to respect him much. But I can't see Megatron not finding out as much as he can about his opposite number.
23. That was cute! Where's it from?
Shel Silverstein, I think.
32. Mech A - Blaster? Mech B - ? (Rewind? Eject? Soundwave? Optimus? Jazz?)
For this one, right after I typed 'goes insane', I suddenly thought of Megatron/Galvatron.
33. And he accidentally zooms off to Blaster, who thinks he's going insane when he starts hearing things.
And when Soundwave's cassettes show up and ask if they can stay for a little while until their creator isn't a soundwave (but he hears "isn't a Soundwave") anymore, he *knows* he's going insane.
Well, let's just say that Optimus was very surprised to find everyone in the medbay aiming their guns at the door to Ratchet's office.
XD Yep, definitely an unexpected flouncer.
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:13 am (UTC)It seemed to fit.
Oh, you didn't think of Prowl? The telepathy didn't come through this time! I mean, what with 'donut-shaped' and police forces using it for forensic purposes and all...
Sorry. I saw Microscope.
XD Perhaps they were meant to be teachers, but they both got so caught up in what they were supposed to be teaching about that they became students instead.
*nods* Very possible. And so like them.
Mirage - Hmmm. Mirage lived in the Towers, yes? Maybe the part he lived in was right on the edge of a poorer area, or maybe paying for his art got so expensive he had to move out and find a cheaper place. Or maybe Sunstreaker lived in the Towers. Or maybe Mirage used the other place as his studio, to keep his art separate from his social life.
I like the idea of him living right on the edge. If he was rich but not as rich as the others in the Towers, it might explain some things.
Cliffjumper - He's always suspicious that others will betray him because someone in his close-knit artists' guild plagiarized his work, then accused Cliffjumper of copying his art.
Poor Cliffjumper! *hugs Cliffjumper*
Oooh! Wait! *thinks* *adds new bunny to next list* Hee hee hee! Three in one...
*curious*
An argument or fight between Skyfire and Perceptor would be... interesting. *ponders* They're both expected to be such peaceful, calm people. When they both finally explode one day, Starscream and Brawn have to be the peacemakers and get them to stop before they blow up Earth from sheer sciencey rage.
I so want to see that fight! Everyone will be shocked! Except for Brawn and Starscream, of course. They will simply have 'why me' expressions and, at first, might pretend they don't know them. Then they will try to drag them apart.
And sheer sciencey rage. I love that.
I wonder how Optimus would feel about that? Maybe a little disappointed that his enemy doesn't seem to respect him much. But I can't see Megatron not finding out as much as he can about his opposite number.
Maybe Megatron knows it, but can't remember sometimes? Maybe he has the beginnings of Alzheimers? Or maybe he has a crush on Optimus and his mind goes blank whenever he sees him and he knows he can't go wrong with yelling Prime.
Shel Silverstein, I think.
*looks up* He wrote the Giving Tree? And... Where the Sidewalk Ends. No wonder his name seemed familiar. ... Runny Babbit!
I wonder what would happen if Blurr talked like Runny Babbit. Maybe he does already; it's not like anyone can tell.
For this one, right after I typed 'goes insane', I suddenly thought of Megatron/Galvatron.
Huh. I hardly ever think of Galvatron.
And when Soundwave's cassettes show up and ask if they can stay for a little while until their creator isn't a soundwave (but he hears "isn't a Soundwave") anymore, he *knows* he's going insane.
Optimus: *stares* "Why is Blaster cowering in the corner?"
Ratchet: *shrugs* "Something about Soundwave, Cassettes, and voices. He thinks he's going insane by the way."
Optimus: *still staring* "Can you do anything for him?"
Ratchet: "I gave him a sedative. You should have seen him earlier, panicking like that."
Optimus: *notices several Cassettes in altmode next to Blaster* "Did they multiply or something?"
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Date: 2008-09-23 10:20 pm (UTC)As always.
I like the idea of him living right on the edge.
Oh! That makes me think of a quote that I'm putting on my next list.
If he was rich but not as rich as the others in the Towers, it might explain some things.
Hmmm, reminds me of something I read once. Something about having a dual inferiority complex: not fitting in with the super-rich people or the 'wrong side of the tracks' toughs.
They will simply have 'why me' expressions
Maybe this sort of thing has happened to Percy and Skyfire before?
Maybe Megatron knows it, but can't remember sometimes? Maybe he has the beginnings of Alzheimers?
That is... a very interesting idea, considering the fact that Megatron is one of those Cybertronians who looks and sounds pretty old.
Or maybe he has a crush on Optimus and his mind goes blank whenever he sees him and he knows he can't go wrong with yelling Prime.
*grin* And one day he'll be so self-conscious that he'll blurt out some silly pet name by mistake.
I wonder what would happen if Blurr talked like Runny Babbit. Maybe he does already; it's not like anyone can tell.
Reminds me of a bunny I posted a while back about Frenzy + Rumble = Fumble and Rewind + Eject = Reject.
Optimus: *still staring*
You know, I never realized it before, but Optimus (& Megatron too I suppose) is really tormented by this comm almost as much as Perceptor. Because whenever we give Perceptor emotional problems or make him a mass murderer or something, Optimus indirectly has to deal with it on top of everything we do to all the other Autobots.
Optimus: *notices several Cassettes in altmode next to Blaster* "Did they multiply or something?"
Cassettes as bunnies! :D And I'd love to read something where the Cassettes actually use their alt-modes for something besides recording stuff for Soundwave.
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Date: 2008-09-23 10:48 pm (UTC)A fic? Or an article?
Maybe this sort of thing has happened to Percy and Skyfire before?
It always happens. Fortunately, usually not in public.
That is... a very interesting idea, considering the fact that Megatron is one of those Cybertronians who looks and sounds pretty old.
Maybe Starscream tries so hard to overthrow Megatron because he knows the truth and doesn't want the greatest Decepticon who ever lived to be remembered as a foolish, forgetful old man?
*grin* And one day he'll be so self-conscious that he'll blurt out some silly pet name by mistake.
*WANTS TO SEE*
Reminds me of a bunny I posted a while back about Frenzy + Rumble = Fumble and Rewind + Eject = Reject.
I remember that one!
You know, I never realized it before, but Optimus (& Megatron too I suppose) is really tormented by this comm almost as much as Perceptor. Because whenever we give Perceptor emotional problems or make him a mass murderer or something, Optimus indirectly has to deal with it on top of everything we do to all the other Autobots.
... You're right! I hadn't noticed!
Cassettes as bunnies! :D
That'd make a cute picture!
And I'd love to read something where the Cassettes actually use their alt-modes for something besides recording stuff for Soundwave.
Like actually play music? *is shocked*
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Date: 2008-09-23 10:58 pm (UTC)Actually, I think it was a book, but I went and checked the book because it was bothering me so much and I couldn't find the quote. *is sad*
Maybe Starscream tries so hard to overthrow Megatron because he knows the truth and doesn't want the greatest Decepticon who ever lived to be remembered as a foolish, forgetful old man?
...Oooh. Maybe Megatron ordered him to do that for the same reason. Wait - Starscream's null rays are destructive but not fatal, right? Was he equipped with them so he could pretend to 'kill' Megatron while actually saving him?
Like actually play music? *is shocked*
So, if their alt-modes are cassettes, will high temperatures make their tape melt? *wince*
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Date: 2008-09-23 11:09 pm (UTC)That happens to me all the time. I try to write down quotes that interest me but I sometimes forget to write down where I heard it.
...Oooh. Maybe Megatron ordered him to do that for the same reason. Wait - Starscream's null rays are destructive but not fatal, right? Was he equipped with them so he could pretend to 'kill' Megatron while actually saving him?
That's a good explanation for them. I always wondered why he had them. They seem such an Autobot type of weapon.
So, if their alt-modes are cassettes, will high temperatures make their tape melt? *wince*
Blaster and Soundwave: *realize they're out in the hot sun* *panic and start gathering up the Cassettes*
Cassettes: *annoyed sighs*
Everyone else: *stop fighting and watch in confusion*
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Date: 2008-09-25 03:35 am (UTC)Yup, that's it in a nutshell. It's a real pain, especially when you're writing a paper and need to cite everything.
That's a good explanation for them. I always wondered why he had them. They seem such an Autobot type of weapon.
I believe I read a theory once that he stole them from Wheeljack's lab, believing them to be some sort of superweapon, and when he found out what they really did he just kept them anyway - maybe out of embarrassment.
Blaster and Soundwave: *realize they're out in the hot sun* *panic and start gathering up the Cassettes*
Cassettes: *annoyed sighs*
Everyone else: *stop fighting and watch in confusion*
And you'd think this would happen fairly often, what with the Ark being in the middle of the desert and all. I wonder how the cassettes survived being in a metal ship in the desert for all the time they were offline? Would Soundwave and Blaster have backup climate controls in their chests that keep working even if they're offline?
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Date: 2008-09-25 10:18 pm (UTC)That sounds familiar. I must have read it too. Sadly, I can't remember what fic it was.
And you'd think this would happen fairly often, what with the Ark being in the middle of the desert and all. I wonder how the cassettes survived being in a metal ship in the desert for all the time they were offline? Would Soundwave and Blaster have backup climate controls in their chests that keep working even if they're offline?
Hmmm. Possible. Though I think, if their systems were online enough to maintain climate control, then wouldn't it take longer for them to heal? Everyone else, all their power was going to their self-repair systems. That might explain why it took so long for Blaster to show up, but what about Soundwave?
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Date: 2008-09-25 11:23 pm (UTC)Neither can I. Ah well, at least it's one you're read so you don't really have to go look for it.
Hmmm. Possible. Though I think, if their systems were online enough to maintain climate control, then wouldn't it take longer for them to heal? Everyone else, all their power was going to their self-repair systems. That might explain why it took so long for Blaster to show up, but what about Soundwave?
Well, I'd think the tape decks would have extra energy stored specifically for the cassettes' optimal health and comfort. Soundwave, being a 'Con, would insist on extra rations for his family's benefit even if it meant starving other 'Cons; on the other hand, Blaster would freely admit that the entire amount of excess energy wasn't strictly necessary for survival and would forgo part of his extra ration for the benefit of the cause.
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Date: 2008-09-18 09:28 pm (UTC)36. Starscream: "Augh!"
Megatron: *sets timer on hidden bomb inside football and stuffs it into Starscream's cockpit*
37. And that scientist was Perceptor's Crazy Uncle Bob, who Perceptor's creators refused to talk about.
So Perceptor and Ironhide are cousins? I wonder if Ironhide ever got drafted into Perceptor-sitting duty...
39. The Autobots were counting on plunder?
Well, no one outright said it that way, but everyone knew that the only way the 'Bots could ever pay off their war debts was through reparations from the 'Cons. For example, they could dismantle Shockwave's military laboratory and give the equipment to another species in lieu of payment for a loan.
B. So they strike off on their own and colonize an interesting out of the way world. They may not have money to build an actual colony, but who needs a home when you have an entire world to study? It's not like you'd ever leave your experiments anyways.
Eventually, the poor things would realize that it doesn't matter how noble or well-meaning your intentions are: to live on and study that world, you still need energon to drink and shelter from the 'fascinating!' weather conditions. And you can't create energon and shelter from wonder and awe and scientific data.
B. I now want to see him pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Cyclonus: Ow! Let go! That hurts, don't you know how sensitive my audial receptors are?
Of course, if he did, Perceptor wouldn't stick around for the rest of the tricks, what with his bunny phobia and all.
He wouldn't be the only one running.
55. And he suddenly woke up as he slammed onto the floor of his room.
Hmm, the 'falling and waking right before you hit the ground' dream is sort of a classic nightmare for humans. Maybe since Seekers are more accustomed to situations like that, their equivalent would be more like drowning, or something.
57. D. And what if Optimus' power was much stronger and he was completely unaware that he had the power at all?
It would balance out! Megatron knows he has the power but can't use it correctly; while Optimus can unconciously use it, but if he knew about it he'd try not to - because it would be denying his soldiers the right to feel as they please.
And Optimus' powers being stronger would explain why Megatron never just outright kills Prime. With all the close combat he and Prime engage in, all Megs would need is one carefully-aimed point-blank shot with that fusion cannon... but he never does. And it would also explain why he retreats so irrationally sometimes - Optimus makes him feel more frightened than he needs to be.
60. This sounds vaguely familiar but it's been a loooooooooooong time. Maybe I imagined it. It wasn't a fic; I just think someone mentioned it (long before this community existed).
I wouldn't be surprised; it's a pretty basic, classic idea.
65. Rewind.
Oh yeeeah.. he's got the name for it and all. Why didn't I think of that?
69. They could always pass themselves off as classic.
Still, they'd draw attention because they'd stay so well-maintained.
And I just had a thought - if the TFs are shoehorning their advanced tech into 80s alt forms, will their capabilities increase as human technology catches up to them?
Oh course, if all these shockingly smart kids showed up, I think the teachers would have "Am I living in the Village of the Damned" thoughts.
With certain mechs, I'm pretty sure 'shockingly smart' wouldn't be the main problem.
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Date: 2008-09-23 06:31 am (UTC)Starscream: *runs around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get away from the bomb*
Thundercracker: *sighs* "Take it out of your cockpit, Starscream."
So Perceptor and Ironhide are cousins? I wonder if Ironhide ever got drafted into Perceptor-sitting duty...
He did... but he had to promise not to let Crazy Uncle Bob anywhere near Perceptor.
Well, no one outright said it that way, but everyone knew that the only way the 'Bots could ever pay off their war debts was through reparations from the 'Cons. For example, they could dismantle Shockwave's military laboratory and give the equipment to another species in lieu of payment for a loan.
Perceptor: "You can't give away his lab! I called dibs!"
Eventually, the poor things would realize that it doesn't matter how noble or well-meaning your intentions are: to live on and study that world, you still need energon to drink and shelter from the 'fascinating!' weather conditions. And you can't create energon and shelter from wonder and awe and scientific data.
But you can create energon from energy and if there's a sun, then those scientists should be able to manage it easily. Shelter, on the other hand...
Cyclonus: Ow! Let go! That hurts, don't you know how sensitive my audial receptors are?
Swindle: *annoyed*
He wouldn't be the only one running.
Yeah, Blaster would be right up there with him at the head of the pack.
Hmm, the 'falling and waking right before you hit the ground' dream is sort of a classic nightmare for humans. Maybe since Seekers are more accustomed to situations like that, their equivalent would be more like drowning, or something.
You know what I always found interesting? How, when you have that dream and wake up, you bounce as if you actually fell onto the bed. Makes me wonder if we can float somehow...
And I think their equivalent would be being buried... or drowning, like you said.
It would balance out! Megatron knows he has the power but can't use it correctly; while Optimus can unconciously use it, but if he knew about it he'd try not to - because it would be denying his soldiers the right to feel as they please.
If he ever learns of his ability and realizes he's been using it... I wonder how horrible he will feel.
And Optimus' powers being stronger would explain why Megatron never just outright kills Prime. With all the close combat he and Prime engage in, all Megs would need is one carefully-aimed point-blank shot with that fusion cannon... but he never does. And it would also explain why he retreats so irrationally sometimes - Optimus makes him feel more frightened than he needs to be.
Optimus would feel guilty for that too.
Oh yeeeah.. he's got the name for it and all. Why didn't I think of that?
The obvious is sometimes easy to overlook. Like this one time I was looking for my purse. I looked in every room of the house, I looked under my bed, on my desk, on the TV... Finally I just gave up and turned to leave my bedroom... and saw my purse, in plain sight, hanging on the bedpost.
And don't tell Rewind I just compared him to a purse.
Still, they'd draw attention because they'd stay so well-maintained.
People will stare at well-maintained classic cars whether they're actual cars or not. I know I do (I even keep a camera in my purse to take pictures).
And I just had a thought - if the TFs are shoehorning their advanced tech into 80s alt forms, will their capabilities increase as human technology catches up to them?
I don't think they shoehorn their advance tech, I think they just mimic the appearence/function of their chosen form. Maybe as human technology begins catching up, they simply feel more comfortable showing the more advanced examples of tech?
With certain mechs, I'm pretty sure 'shockingly smart' wouldn't be the main problem.
Well, you gotta admit, even a not so bright mech might be smarter than humans. At least in math, computers, and mechanics.
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Date: 2008-09-23 10:33 pm (UTC)And that totally made me picture Starscream running around with his head cut off.
He did... but he had to promise not to let Crazy Uncle Bob anywhere near Perceptor.
It was just one time that he took his eyes off the sparkling for a minute, and the next thing he knew the little brat was trying to spike his energon with some chemical while giggling gleefully.
Perceptor: "You can't give away his lab! I called dibs!"
... I wonder if Shockwave's gun form has some sort of scientific use? Because that would make him part of his own lab equipment. *pictures Perceptor with his arms and legs wrapped around an uncomfortable gun-form-Shockwave in a stubborn possessive glomp*
Shelter, on the other hand...
Oh, this reminds me of an cute bit in some fic where Starscream remembered that before the war, when they were investigating foreign planets on a low budget, he'd sleep in alt-mode under Skyfire's wing when conditions were bad. Such an adorable image.
You know what I always found interesting? How, when you have that dream and wake up, you bounce as if you actually fell onto the bed. Makes me wonder if we can float somehow...
*ponders* Good question! Maybe the back just arches a bit when the dream-self is panicking, and it stops when the person wakes up? Or you start to sit up automatically when you wake and then lie back down before you're fully conscious?
And I think their equivalent would be being buried... or drowning, like you said.
Falling through the air, buried, drowning... we missed an element. What about being engulfed in fire? Would that be Seaspray's nightmare?
If he ever learns of his ability and realizes he's been using it... I wonder how horrible he will feel.
Optimus would feel guilty for that too.
Oh, he's very good at feeling guilty. Lots of practice.
And don't tell Rewind I just compared him to a purse.
*has inspired new bunny!*
Maybe as human technology begins catching up, they simply feel more comfortable showing the more advanced examples of tech?
I wonder if it's impolite to 'show off' if a Cybertronian has a more advanced version of the same type of tech as someone else.
Well, you gotta admit, even a not so bright mech might be smarter than humans. At least in math, computers, and mechanics.
Ah, but how much of that is unconscious? Because humans aren't necessarily experts in biology and human anatomy just by being organic. And with a doctor always on hand, there's no need for them to have to learn 'medical' stuff if they have some sort of self-repair for minor damage.
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Date: 2008-09-23 11:04 pm (UTC)I... totally want to see that now.
It was just one time that he took his eyes off the sparkling for a minute, and the next thing he knew the little brat was trying to spike his energon with some chemical while giggling gleefully.
Perceptor looked so disappointed when Ironhide refused to drink it. Ironhide almost agreed to after all... but then Perceptor said that he couldn't wait to see what would grow. Ironhide wisely threw the energon away, staring in horrified fascination as it bubbled and melted everything it touched. Perceptor just looked sad that no sparkly crystals started growing like they should have.
Ironhide never drank energon anywhere near Perceptor after that.
... I wonder if Shockwave's gun form has some sort of scientific use? Because that would make him part of his own lab equipment. *pictures Perceptor with his arms and legs wrapped around an uncomfortable gun-form-Shockwave in a stubborn possessive glomp*
*LOVES THE IMAGE* I WANT TO SEE! Though if Shockwave is part of his own lab equipment... then Perceptor is lab equipment, as well. After all... microscope.
Oh, this reminds me of an cute bit in some fic where Starscream remembered that before the war, when they were investigating foreign planets on a low budget, he'd sleep in alt-mode under Skyfire's wing when conditions were bad. Such an adorable image.
What fic is that I want to read it!
*ponders* Good question! Maybe the back just arches a bit when the dream-self is panicking, and it stops when the person wakes up? Or you start to sit up automatically when you wake and then lie back down before you're fully conscious?
Possible. *wants to float*
Falling through the air, buried, drowning... we missed an element. What about being engulfed in fire? Would that be Seaspray's nightmare?
It would be! Poor Seaspray!
*has inspired new bunny!*
... Sorry, Rewind.
I wonder if it's impolite to 'show off' if a Cybertronian has a more advanced version of the same type of tech as someone else.
Could be. It would make sense.
Ah, but how much of that is unconscious? Because humans aren't necessarily experts in biology and human anatomy just by being organic. And with a doctor always on hand, there's no need for them to have to learn 'medical' stuff if they have some sort of self-repair for minor damage.
True... But we still have a basic understanding of how things work. The heart beats, the lungs breathe... how to eat, drink, move. They may not be geniuses, or know everything there is to know, but they were machines and should therefore know how machines should work. Which part does what, why that part is necessary to allow movement...
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Date: 2008-09-25 03:31 am (UTC)Now that I think about it, in Animated!verse this is practically canon.
Ironhide almost agreed to after all... but then Perceptor said that he couldn't wait to see what would grow.
From that point on, when a test subject asked Perceptor about the effects of his experiment, he would just smile mysteriously and say "You'll find out..."
Perceptor just looked sad that no sparkly crystals started growing like they should have.
Makes me think of those kiddy science kits. How on Cybertron could Perceptor have used the stuff in one of those to make poisonous acid?
...I wonder if Perceptor (or Hound) ever owned one of those rock tumblers that makes the rocks all pretty and shiny. I had one of those once.
Though if Shockwave is part of his own lab equipment... then Perceptor is lab equipment, as well. After all... microscope.
Having Shockwave for an older brother might be just as
badgood as having Primus.What fic is that I want to read it!
Never Change (http://community.livejournal.com/noa_tf_fic/11790.html) by spotlight_noa.
Possible. *wants to float*
*also wants to float* Sorry, Perceptor, but the more reasonable explanation isn't nearly as satisfying as the possibility of flight.
... Sorry, Rewind.
Oh, it's not just him. This bunny concerns Cassettes in general.
True... But we still have a basic understanding of how things work. The heart beats, the lungs breathe... how to eat, drink, move. They may not be geniuses, or know everything there is to know, but they were machines and should therefore know how machines should work. Which part does what, why that part is necessary to allow movement...
Yeah... so would they retain some sort of empathy for machines, like some humans are good with animals?
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Date: 2008-09-25 10:58 pm (UTC)*nods* Yeah, he knows better now than to scare his test subjects into running away.
...Though if the test subjects were smart, that smile alone would make them run.
Makes me think of those kiddy science kits. How on Cybertron could Perceptor have used the stuff in one of those to make poisonous acid?
An experiment is no fun if you know what the results will be, so Perceptor added a few chemicles he found lying around the place (Crazy Uncle Bob really needs to clean his house, doesn't he?). The only words he can read are science-related so he didn't know what he was pouring in there (expensive high-grade and Uncle Bob's Amazing Does Everything Cleaning Formula: Guaranteed To Eat Away At Even The Toughest Stains!). The high-grade was a pretty color and since the science kit was supposed to make crystals of a rather boring clear color, Perceptor thought that by adding the high-grade the crystals would be a pretty color too. He added the cleaning formula because it smelled good.
Though if Perceptor knew it would make crystals, I wonder why he wanted Ironhide to drink it. Maybe he wanted to see if Ironhide turned into a giant pretty crystal?
...I wonder if Perceptor (or Hound) ever owned one of those rock tumblers that makes the rocks all pretty and shiny. I had one of those once.
Perceptor did, until an older youngling named Wheeljack tried to improve it and somehow made it explode. Perceptor lost his rock tumbler and he wasn't allowed to play with Wheeljack anymore.
And don't tell anyone, but Hound still has his. He uses it so much that it's had to be rebuilt several times now. Beachcomber is beginning to wonder where all his rocks are disappearing to.
Having Shockwave for an older brother might be just as bad good as having Primus.
*totally agrees*
Never Change by spotlight_noa.
Thank you!
*also wants to float* Sorry, Perceptor, but the more reasonable explanation isn't nearly as satisfying as the possibility of flight.
Perceptor: *thinks* "Well, we'll just have to rewrite the laws of physics in order to allow those of us not equipped with a natural ability to fly or float to do so."
Wheeljack: *stares* "You can do that?"
Perceptor: *frowns in confusion* "You can't?"
Oh, it's not just him. This bunny concerns Cassettes in general.
... Sorry, everyone! *hides*
Yeah... so would they retain some sort of empathy for machines, like some humans are good with animals?
*nods* Not all of them, like not all humans are good with animals, but a lot of them.
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Date: 2008-09-25 11:37 pm (UTC)So he's cultivated an image of a gentle, passive scientist who wouldn't hurt a fly.
...Though if the test subjects were smart, that smile alone would make them run.
If the test subjects were smart, they wouldn't *be* Perceptor's test subjects in the first place.
The only words he can read are science-related
Ooh! What if that's a sort of glitch (like an odd version of dyslexia) and Perceptor still has it?
He added the cleaning formula because it smelled good.
*loves* Perceptor, it's not a good idea to go around sniffing unknown chemical substances. I wonder if he ever discovered the Cybertronian version of chloroform? (Chlorofoam? The stuff someone uses to knock people out so they can kidnap them.)
Though if Perceptor knew it would make crystals, I wonder why he wanted Ironhide to drink it.
Maybe he overheard Young!Ironhide's nervous ranting over how he could get Young!Chromia's attention when he wasn't really a spectacular-looking mech. Li'l Perceptor just wanted to help!
Maybe he wanted to see if Ironhide turned into a giant pretty crystal?
I am now positive that this is on Perceptor's list of 'Things I would be willing to do to end the war so I could be free to play in my lab as much as I want': turn everyone into pretty crystals and make a crystal garden to enjoy while he waits for test results or something.
Perceptor lost his rock tumbler and he wasn't allowed to play with Wheeljack anymore.
Awww! Poor Wheeljack. He must have wondered why Perceptor abruptly stopped playing with him. Maybe this was the explosion that made his mask necessary? Flying shards of broken rock, and all... Poor Perceptor would have been traumatized by seeing his friend with his face all cut up. And I think I've saddified this bunny enough now.
And don't tell anyone, but Hound still has his. He uses it so much that it's had to be rebuilt several times now. Beachcomber is beginning to wonder where all his rocks are disappearing to.
*loves* So cute!
Ravage: *spying in Ark* Hmm, this closet looks like a promising spot for classified material... *is buried in deluge of rocks*
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Perceptor: *thinks* "Well, we'll just have to rewrite the laws of physics in order to allow those of us not equipped with a natural ability to fly or float to do so."
What if he accidentally changed the laws so that everyone who could fly before suddenly couldn't? The Autobots would suddenly have a huge strategic advantage (and the Decepticons would be either trapped in their base, crashed, or drowned) - but the Aerialbots, Powerglide, and Swoop would be Very Displeased.
Wheeljack: *stares* "You can do that?"
Perceptor: *frowns in confusion* "You can't?"
Somehow, I don't think this is the first time that Perceptor has said this.
... Sorry, everyone! *hides*
The cassettes are probably the hardest TFs to hide from.
*nods* Not all of them, like not all humans are good with animals, but a lot of them.
And of course, the ones who don't really like animals or are afraid of/allergic to them, are just adored by said critters. *pictures Megatron with a pet nuclear reactor following him around*
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Date: 2008-09-18 01:12 pm (UTC)Perfect accompaniment
7. “The wonderful thing about Seekers
Is Seekers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber,
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about Seekers is
I'm the only one!”
Lol
A happy go lucky, bouncy Seeker would make the others go Bonkers.
I remember I cartoon called that too.
8. Mechs with bright white optics.
Blind like cataracts? Or perhaps they are seer's? Unable to see the everyday but can see visions.
21. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
:)
U misread that as Galavatron and then got the thought of ole Galvy dressed up as cupid.
38. His imaginary friends told him that he was the only one who could see them. They lied.
Would have to go into the realms of AU but I'm thinking Soundwave and his Cassettes.
45. “I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Come on, Squishy Come on, little Squishy… Ow. Bad Squishy, bad Squishy.”
Skywarp? Rumble? Frenzy? Scavenger? ^^
46. ???1: I promised I'd never let anything happen to him.
???2: Hmm. That's a funny thing to promise.
???1: What?
???2: Well, you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him.
Inferno talking to someone about Red Alert?
Or off the wall; Starscream talking to someone about Sunstorm?
65. Who’d be most interested in human history?
I would say Hound. He comes across as the most Human interested of bots.
68. When Megatron & Optimus and company didn’t return, Shockwave declared himself leader of the Decepticons. To preserve Cybertron in the long run, he announced an armistice and opened peace talks with the Autobots who had remained. The deep stasis to which Optimus had succumbed fooled Elita-1 into thinking her spark-mate was permanently offline, so she and Shockwave had an alliance marriage to cement the reunion of the two factions.
That is just deliciously cruel.
I like it.
70. Human or holoform TFs in high school isn’t uncommon in fanon. What about in preschool, or kindergarten, or elementary/middle/junior high school, or college?
Ooooh I want kinderDinobots!
71. Shockwave suffers a personal tragedy of some kind. Elita-1 and the more gung-ho femmes consider on how even the most unlikely ‘Cons were different before the war, and are still just mechs underneath it all.
Poor Shockwave. :( I guess for him things can get really lonely.
75. Who would a Decepticon turn to if he really, really needed help with some sort of personal problem?
NeutralNurse!!!! XD
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Date: 2008-09-18 06:32 pm (UTC)Uh... it's sweet!
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Date: 2008-09-18 06:34 pm (UTC)Inferno/Red Alert?
Or
Starscream/Sunstorm?
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Date: 2008-09-18 06:38 pm (UTC)It's very difficult for me to see Starscream with anything involving the word "sweet", unless it's proceeded by the words "revenge is".
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Date: 2008-09-18 06:51 pm (UTC)Inferno: Don't you hurt him!
Starscream: What?! He's hurting me!
Red Alert: *Growls*
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:02 pm (UTC)(I just got a mental pic of someone tasting Starscream to find out if he is sweet, sour, salty, bitter, or that fifth one.)
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:17 pm (UTC)Random human: *lick*
Starscream: *OMP FLAILING DANCE OF FREAKED OUTNESS*
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:43 pm (UTC)OMP? *thinks* Oh My Primus? Am I right? (Even if I'm not, that's a great mental image. Way to make me snicker in the middle of class!)
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Date: 2008-09-18 11:01 pm (UTC)Wikipedia says yes.
Oh My Primus? Am I right?
Yup. Two for two!
Even if I'm not, that's a great mental image. Way to make me snicker in the middle of class!
...sorry? :D
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:15 pm (UTC)I wonder if said Seeker could actually annoy them into defecting... and then realizing too late that there are several 'Bots with that same bubbly personality.
I remember I cartoon called that too.
XD
Or perhaps they are seer's? Unable to see the everyday but can see visions.
Hmm, this goes along with the fanon ideas about Soundwave & Jazz.
U misread that as Galavatron and then got the thought of ole Galvy dressed up as cupid.
OH THE HORROR. No more costume parties for you, Galvy. Let's just hope he's not called upon to do Cupid's job... for some reason, 'shot in aft with fusion cannon blast of LOVE' just doesn't fit with the whole image.
That is just deliciously cruel.
I like it.
I'm not exactly sure whom I would feel most sorry for in that situation. I'd think that after so much time bonded to someone else, Elita-1 would have 'gotten over' OP at least a little. I'd be more worried about Optimus - he'd be sad but understanding, and while he's off angsting Shockwave would come after him with an axe to make sure he doesn't try to get in the way of his bond and disrupt Cybertron's peace.
Ooooh I want kinderDinobots!
D'awwwww.
Poor Shockwave. :( I guess for him things can get really lonely.
He needs to sneak through the spacebridge and kidnap some friends (http://darkenergon.deviantart.com/art/Lonely-no-more-86670674).
NeutralNurse!!!!
...Okay, I'm guessing you meant a neutral character, but that made me think of some kind of emergency hotlinish thing. Like OnStar. Decepticons in desperate need of emotional fulfillment can covertly press the button and get five minutes or so of non-violent, sympathetic social interaction. Totally anonymous, and the calls certainly aren't recorded or listened to. Are they, Soundwave?
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Date: 2008-09-18 04:18 pm (UTC)My Magnus muse is eyeing this off with an evil glint in his optic.
8. Mechs with bright white optics.
Are the servants of Primus.
10. Primes don’t get vacation time. Optimus muses on how much the humans have unknowingly helped him, by letting him de-stress while officially ‘on the job’. Technically, playing basketball was ‘investigating and building good relations with a foreign species’ and a long road trip for no reason was ‘gathering data on alien culture and geography’.
Magnus wants to join him on those 'data gathering' expeditions. For the sake of higher command inter-relations, of course.
13. The only part of a Transformer that they would want to cover up for ‘modesty’ reasons would be the spark or spark chamber, right? So, wouldn’t having some sort of ‘window’ in the chest area (like Optimus, Soundwave, etc.) be the equivalent of wearing too-revealing clothing?
Those there are systems between his windscreens and his spark that keep his spark out of sight... but I guess it's still like wearing a bikini, which shows off a woman's breasts without her being totally topless.
I wonder then how Seeker canopies are considered?
14. Suppose the second name ‘Prime’ was only used to distinguish the ruler of Cybertron under the old Autobot government. When that government was replaced by Decepticon rule, it was implied that Megatron had gotten rid of the office of Prime as well (by not claiming the title for himself). However, he continued to address Optimus as Prime – despite the fact that without the old government to back Optimus up, he isn’t technically Prime anymore.
This here makes me think of comic canon, where the Matrix is a holy relic being Prime is also a religious position. Megatron may be leader of Cybertron, but Optimus is still the Prime in the religious sense of the title.
18. Without hope, one is only half alive.
So says Magnus during those four million years Optimus was missing.
19. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my
enemyfriend....Optimus/Megatron.
59. “Have you ever loved someone so much you’d give it all for them / Not the expression, no, literally give it all for them / When they are your heart, and you know you are their armor…”
Magnus - talking about Optimus.
62. Starscream with multiple personalities: a calm personality (suppressed by the others), a stupid-rebellious personality, a sly-rebellious personality, a scientific personality, a surprisingly-decent-leader Air Commander personality, a glomping-Megatron personality…...who has a humongous crush on him.
68. When Megatron & Optimus and company didn’t return, Shockwave declared himself leader of the Decepticons. To preserve Cybertron in the long run, he announced an armistice and opened peace talks with the Autobots who had remained. The deep stasis to which Optimus had succumbed fooled Elita-1 into thinking her spark-mate was permanently offline, so she and Shockwave had an alliance marriage to cement the reunion of the two factions.
There goes Magnus-muse, eyeing off yet another bunny with an evil look in his optic. Stop giving him easy excuses to turn Optimus against Elita - it makes me... worry.
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Date: 2008-09-18 10:59 pm (UTC)Wasn't one of your Magnus ideas having him and Optimus and Elita/Ariel bond in a trine?... or was that Rodimus?
Are the servants of Primus.
...darnit, I am such a sucker for angel/demon cliches.
Magnus wants to join him on those 'data gathering' expeditions. For the sake of higher command inter-relations, of course.
"Inter-relations"...
I guess it's still like wearing a bikini
This idea is becoming more and more amusing to me. Optimus Prime does his work and says his speeches and shares his wisdom and fights his battles in the Cybertronian equivalent of a bikini. Isn't that kind of awkward for the other Autobots, to say nothing of the Decepticons he's fighting? And Soundwave in a 'bikini' would probably be more intimidating to his fellow 'Cons just become of the sheer weirdness.
I wonder then how Seeker canopies are considered?
Certainly fits with the fanon idea of some Seekers being flying sluts.
Megatron may be leader of Cybertron, but Optimus is still the Prime in the religious sense of the title.
Hmm, maybe Megatron tried to create a new religion and make himself its god/high priest to ease the transition, because the planet leader has also always been the religious leader. (Sunstormus Prime as the leader of a theocracy?)
So says Magnus during those four million years Optimus was missing.
Hey, could the stasis lock kind of slowly creep over the spark-bond? So as the years pass and Optimus doesn't return, Magnus starts feeling wearier and wearier. He blacks out at random times and it takes longer and longer for him to wake up...
Sleeping Beauty!...Optimus/Megatron.
XD Yep, just what I was thinking. In some way, Megatron and Optimus are equals on a really deep level; so even in situations where one is 'second in command', neither of them leads or follows the other.
Magnus - talking about Optimus.
Have you ever thought about an AU bunny where Magnus is the Prime's bodyguard, and if something happens to the Prime (death; loss of a limb; trauma; loss of a bonded) than Magnus' punishment is the same?
...I wonder what evil!Magnus would look like/act like/be called? Magatron?
a glomping-Megatron personality…...who has a humongous crush on him.
Well, wouldn't that be awkward if Megatron couldn't figure out that there was more than one 'Starscream'. As soon as Megatron got slightly less uneasy with Starscream crushing on him... he wouldn't be anymore. No wonder Megatron hits Starscream so much - he makes his head hurt.
Stop giving him easy excuses to turn Optimus against Elita - it makes me... worry.
...and I just thought of another one. Sorry!
Magnus and Elita had an arranged spark-bond for social reasons. Both thought they were content until the Prime started taking an interested in them. The couple was suddenly on his guest list for practically every function.
Elita jumps to conclusions and believes that the Prime is interested in taking her as a consort (and although she's already bonded, it's only an arranged bonding and he's the Prime, so...). She doesn't bother hiding that she's flattered and would be interested. Magnus would be upset that she's so fickle - he thought they had a good relationship, despite the fact that they hadn't loved or even known each other at first - but he's also almost positive that it isn't Elita the Prime is interested in.
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Date: 2008-09-19 06:54 am (UTC)That was Rodimus, though I have had a couple of bunnies that had Elita being the third of a threesome. The problem is, my muse has turned more possessive, and wants Optimus all to himself.
"Inter-relations"...
Well... that's what he says...
...I wonder what evil!Magnus would look like/act like/be called? Magatron?
I am trying to get my head around an evil Magnus, but it's kinda difficult with the muse who lives in my head. He'd be inclined to manipulating Optimus through seducing him, more the "power behind the throne" situation instead.
And suddenly, I got the thought in mind that this would go well with my pet bunny of Magnus being a drone of Primus.
Hey, could the stasis lock kind of slowly creep over the spark-bond? So as the years pass and Optimus doesn't return, Magnus starts feeling wearier and wearier. He blacks out at random times and it takes longer and longer for him to wake up...
Sleeping Beauty!*Watches the muse squee. Daft muse.*
...but he's also almost positive that it isn't Elita the Prime is interested in.
... Now that bit is something the muse likes.
I worry about this muse of mine sometimes, he's rather fixated.
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Date: 2008-09-19 01:29 am (UTC)Part of me wants the mentor to be Slog, Decepticon combat artist, despite it not exactly fitting the bunny.
But the most wonderful thing about Seekers is
I'm the only one!”
...am I the only one seeing a psychotic Skywarp singing this surrounded by piles of seeker corpses?
44. *snicker*
62. Starscream with multiple personalities
*deletes bunny from list* More telepathy. Soundwave must be rather bored today.
64. A captive Autobot has an epiphany. Jets may have an advantage over cars in many ways, but there are two fun weapons that jets lack: a horn and a car alarm
And this is why the Seekers don't even try to capture Sideswipe anymore.
75. Who would a Decepticon turn to if he really, really needed help with some sort of personal problem?
My first thought was Reflector, oddly enough. He's got so much blackmail material that it doesn't matter if they give him more, and it's not like he's interested in their positions, unlike other 'cons.
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Date: 2008-09-24 02:58 am (UTC)"You got slagged? By Ratbat!?"
36. Art. Starscream trying to kick a football that Megatron is holding. Bonus points if it’s drawn in ‘Charlie Brown’ style.
Glad you found a pic. It was starting to threaten me.
55. The wounded Seeker/Aerialbot fell faster and faster, reaching the ground… and continuing to fall through it.
Skywarp with a malfunctioning warp drive.
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Date: 2008-09-25 03:38 am (UTC)*wonders how this could be possible*
Glad you found a pic. It was starting to threaten me.
Oh, I didn't really find a pic of what I was looking for. I wanted Starscream trying to kick the ball, and the pic I found had Megatron. *waves artbunny threateningly*
Skywarp with a malfunctioning warp drive.
Oh dear. I wonder what would happen if he tried to warp into a space that was already occupied? Would it just kill him, or would it create some huge disastrous explosion?
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Date: 2008-09-26 12:08 am (UTC)The Autobots got used to underestimating him/her. Wait...what gender does Ratbat go by anyway?
Oh dear. I wonder what would happen if he tried to warp into a space that was already occupied?
Considering atomically that everything is mostly empty space...
*waves artbunny threateningly*
Nah, nah! *dances away then freezes* Oh...No. What if it were Starscream holding the ball? *runs away with artbunny hot on their heels*
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Date: 2008-09-26 12:51 am (UTC)I've only read 'him' (because wasn't he originally a male-designation Senator or something who was downsized into a cassette?), but I suppose that's an area for creative license.
Considering atomically that everything is mostly empty space...
This would be a great way to explain a 'Skywarp gets fused with someone else' bunny...
Oh...No. What if it were Starscream holding the ball? *runs away with artbunny hot on their heels*
*cheers* Who'd kick it? Skyfire? If he misses then Starscream might be in trouble...
Starscream: *stares in disbelief at kicked-off arm*
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Date: 2008-09-26 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-27 09:39 pm (UTC)Well it's not a full comic, but at least it's Starscream (http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/2562.html).
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Date: 2008-09-28 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 11:10 pm (UTC)Prowl: Hmm. That's a funny thing to promise.
Jazz: What?
Prowl: Well, you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him.
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Date: 2010-07-27 09:40 am (UTC)http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5727130/1/Paltereth_the_Seeker_Nevermore