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[silvane91.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to notice that my lists are slowly getting longer. I suspect this is counterproductive, but I'm having too much fun here to check.

 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora
Nothing to say, except that I notice a similarity to the Autobots here, and I think it’d be a wonderful title for a story.

2. The gods of his childhood had never much resembled the deities of the rest of Cybertron.

3. ?:The medic said I had ‘abnormalities incompatible with life’.

4. A young Megatron ends up transported through time and space to end up on Earth, in the middle of one of the Autobot-Decepticon battles. Naturally, he does what any smart, minimally armored miner would do in that situation: He runs for his life. Now both sides are desperate to retrieve him, but young Megs isn’t making it easy for them.
1. Megatron ‘remembers’ what happens to young Megs, but only in real time (i.e. Young Megs ends up lost, Megatron wouldn’t remember where he got lost until Young Megs found out.)
2. Young Megs finds shelter with a group of humans. Human activists, to be precise.
3. Young Megs gets cornered by a group of anti-transformer hate group.
4. One of the Autobots human allies meets up with young Megs, becomes fond of the arrogant-but-idealistic ‘con, and tries to help him hide from both sides.
a. Once young megs returns to Cybertron, the timeline changes, so when the ‘cons wake up on earth, Megatron decides to go find that human, so that he won’t risk killing them as he ravages the earth.

5. Fireflight is sometimes worse then the rest of the ark combined, when it comes to mischief. Take, for example, the time he convinced the dinobots that the mountain was actually Mount Doom.

6. Red Alert finds Swindle soothing. He can rest assured he knows exactly what motivates the other’s actions: greed.

7. Spike and Sparkplug got rescued. What happened to everyone else on that oil rig?

8. Soundwave and Blaster were specifically created to house cassettes. That doesn’t mean they want to. (I love them, I hate them, I’d die to protect them, and I’d kill to be free of them.)

9. Femme!Megatron as a serious story. Down in mines, gender didn’t matter much, except for the children you might be forced to spark. (“ain’t I a women?” inspired this)

10. Fireflight/First Aid. They’d both grown up a little, the day the Decepticons took their brothers away. You couldn’t choose survival over loyalty and stay the same. (The Spanish movie, Butterfly, has a particularly heartbreaking scene where Moncho, the main character, watches as his Republican teacher, Don Gregorio, is brought out to be transported to a prison by the Nationalists. Since Moncho is so close to his teacher, and his father is suspected to be a Republican as well, he has to insult his teacher as the man is dragged to the truck, in order to prevent suspicion from falling on his family and himself. The last thing he yells is the scientific name for the tongue of the butterfly, one of the subjects they’ve studied together, to let Don Gregorio know he doesn’t mean what he said.)

10. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. -Josephine Hart
Bluestreak and the Stunticons (minus Motormaster) have an entirely unexpected bond.

11. Bluestreak develops a split personality. One that claims he is the original. (Alternate personalities are created to protect the original from unbearable trauma. Fanon says Blue has holes in his memory, maybe not even remembering anything before the Autobots found him. One of the signs of alternate personalities (from the perspective of a potential sufferer) is loss of time and gaps in your memory, along with a significant traumatic event to cause the split. Like having your city destroyed.)

12. H.I.V.E. by Mark Walden Crossover. There is, in this book, an A.I. named H.I.V.E.mind. At the beginning of the book, he’s about five months old, and several months later, he joins a student rebellion in an attempt to escape H.I.V.E. He’s oddly sweet for a minor character, and he’d make a cute Decepticon.

13. He wasn’t suicidal. He just didn’t worry so much about dying as they thought he should.

14. Silverbolt sometimes wondered how they’d managed to stay together, a flier afraid of heights and a ground-bound mech obsessed with the sky.

15. Most of the time, the inhabitants of the ark don’t even notice it, but occasionally the protectobots will say or do something, and suddenly they will realize that the young mechs are, in some fundamental way, utterly alien in a way that even the aerialbots and dinobots aren’t.

16. Continuing in the same vein as above, the protectobots stay on earth after the Autobots leave. The world continues along its breakneck pace, and pretty soon, 500 years or so, the humans have interstellar travel. Naturally, humanity asks if its ‘siblings’ want to come with. And of course, the protectobots accept. The Autobots are rather shocked when they come across a settled human planet, celebrating the visit of First Aid. (First Aid and the humans would like to admit they find the Autobots equally shocking.)

17. Armada Starscream meet Energon Starscream meet Cybertron Starscream meet G1 Starscream meet shattered glass Starscream. I’m sure you’ll all hate each other on sight.

18. It occurs to me, that after the original seven, Sector Seven somehow managed to get two or three generations to all join up, without any leaks to the public. 21 teenagers and young adults, seven every twenty years (at least!), and none of them said anything. In America. Where rebellion against authority is glorified, and rejecting the family business is considered a happy ending.

19. Primus can form temporary bodies from any nonliving metal on Cybertron.

20. AU, from arrival on earth. In the first episode, Sparkplug slips off the tower scaffolding, and nearly drowns. He’s revived, but suffers from major brain damage, and Spike ends up having to care for his disabled father. Considering the trying circumstances, he didn’t offer their help to the Autobots, being more concerned with his father. Fast forward a few years and Hot Rod interferes with an attempted mugging of Spike and Sparkplug, and offers them a ride home. Hot Rod becomes involved in the two’s life, and starts visiting in his off hours. When Spike gets sick with mono, he loses his job, and the two humans are faced with eviction from their apartment. Cue Hot Rod, whose convinced there’s more than enough room on the Ark for a few temporary guests.

21. Soundwave and Prowl have a strange ‘accident’, and lose their memories far from their respective bases. Being the sensible, intelligent mechs that they are, they decide to skip the existential angst, trust issues, and obligatory romance of this type of story, and concentrate on getting back to civilization. (Much to the Cassettes’ disgust, who have been trying to get their creators back together since the war started.)

22. He never apologized for the soldiers he’d killed, because apologizing would cheapen their deaths, turn heroic sacrifices into regrettable accidents.

23. Everyone here’s seen the G1 opening credits, right? Especially that bit where Megatron and Optimus start fighting, and what looks like a theoretical model for a black hole opens under them and they disappear. (Really. See it here.) Where’d they go?

24. One of the most pleasant moments in a conqueror’s life is when his enemies’ creations question their creators’ actions.

25. Unicron is a planet-former just like Primus. And just like Primus, he once had his children living on him. But his brother’s actions led to their deaths, and now, agonizingly free of the physical restriction his brother faces, Unicron is taking advantage of his unoccupied state to take revenge on his brother.

26. The science academy should have, perhaps, been a bit more discreet in their expulsion of Starscream after Skyfire’s disappearance. Student led ‘grass-roots’ campaigns against administrative decisions don’t look terribly good in the optics of the citizens, after all. (Inspired by a similar campaign starting up at my school)

27. Thundercracker/ Silverbolt- As the only sane, relatively stable members of their families, sometimes they just want a break from the melodrama.

28. Directly contradicting the above…
Skywarp: *exasperated* TC, who did you kill this time?
Thundercracker: I didn’t mean to!

29. Ironhide spent most of his courtship of Chromia making a total fool of himself, until he finally realized she frequented the same shooting range he did.

30. I have this strange image, of an annoyed Megatron holding Starscream down (not like that, you perverts) as he paints ‘Void’ across Star’s faction symbols. Giggling Rumble in the corner, most likely responsible for whatever Meg’s pissed about, entirely optional.

31. Starscream isn’t actually that interested in overthrowing Megatron. He’s just covering for his trine mates until Skywarp and Thundercracker can put their master plan into action.

32. A gestalt is the sum of its parts. A group of bar brawlers with all the depth of parking lot puddles can’t combine to form a scientist, a group of violent maniacs can’t create a pacifist, and a group of fliers can’t combine into a mech comfortable on the ground. Superion would need at least one ground bound mech to function, or at the very least, a mech more comfortable on the ground. (Silverbolt’s fear of heights was no accident.)

Comments

[quark101.livejournal.com]

...Oh Primus. Femme!Star would eat them alive. I can see all of them cowering away from her in horror.

Me, too.

The war can be paused for coffee breaks? Or maybe there's deep moral significance to how you take your energon. < /snerk> (I have this image of Megatron with truckstop coffee, mocking Optimus, who has a frappachino. It's all your fault.)

Everyone needs a break sometimes. (Who, me? *attempts to look innocent - fails*)

And I think livejournal cut off your reply to 30.

Either that or I hit "Submit" before finishing. I don't remember. (And I forgot what I was going to say, too.)

[alabaster-demon.livejournal.com]

Megatron with truckstop coffee? *ponders*