Day 13 - Favorite pairing

[konora]

I have a lot of favored pairings. Generally, as long as something is written/drawn well, I love it. Now, as far as OTPs go, my first was Starscream/Skyfire. Then there's Hound/Mirage. Bumblebee/humancompanion.

Favorite pairing though. That should be fairly obvious.

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[konora]

I will read The World Translated Thus happily for the rest of my days if I never have to read that damn Shattered Glass fic or anything like it ever again. But I never despised TWTT like some people in fandom, so I guess I'm biased. Still... that SG fic is still really bad.

This is the first OP/S summary I've seen that made the pairing seem appealing.

What can I say? I like that about them. Neither of them are perfect - which is something a lot of fans forget about Optimus especially. He's not a mean jerk, but he's laughed about Starscream getting beaten by Megatron, yelled at Blaster to shut up, and told Perceptor to just shut up and get to work. There are lots of examples. But there are still tons of people who write him like perfection incarnate. It's just not so.

I picture the pairing as sort of one of those old 40s movies (at least I hope I get the era right...) possibly starring John Wayne. Optimus is of course The Duke, while Starscream fills the role of the feisty, defiant, arrogant rich woman. In the films it was pretty sexist, but with genderless alien robots it's a dynamic that appeals to me.