*waves*
I haven't had time to respond individually to all the newcomers' posts, so please consider this my general hello & welcome. Grab a pitchfork and join the fun! The insane asylum is empty, and all the crazies (and telepaths) are here!
A quick note: Ever since I started posting here, I’ve typed any bunnies I’ve thought of in one Microsoft Word document and size-1’ed the already-posted ones to keep it looking neat. (I don’t know why I don’t just delete them. I’m never gonna need them again, and the point of my posting them here is to get them out of my head.) While I was typing this batch, a box popped up that said “There are too many spelling or grammatical errors to continue displaying them.”
This is awesome. I… I won! It’s like MS Word is admitting that even if ‘Decepticon’ isn’t in its dictionary, it slagging well should be. I beat the evil squiggly red lines! I feel like I should get a prize or something.
*coughs* Anyway, the promised bunnies:
1. When Teletraan-1 was reactivated, why didn’t it try to dispose of the helpless Decepticons - or at least wake the Autobots first? … Teletraan’s a traitor!
2. Shockwave recruits the Autobot femmes on Cybertron by convincing them that femmes will have more rights under Megatron’s new government.
3. More about those wacky femmes!
A. The Decepticons' bounty on Elita-1’s head keeps on rising with each successful raid. Since Elita-1 is such an important commander - and Optimus Prime’s bondmate - she and Arcee switch places to ensure her survival. (Think Queen Amidala and her handmaiden in the first of the newer Star Wars movies.)
B. Arcee is older than she seems - she’s Ariel’s (Elita-1’s) creator, and thus Optimus’ mother-in-law as well.
C. If Chromia had a bondmate before Ironhide came along…
D. Firestar and Starscream are related/bondmates.
E. Moonracer and Sunstreaker are related/bondmates.
F. TF: Animated’s Blackarachnia earns the grudging respect of her new Decepticon comrades by unintentionally freaking Megatron out with her creepy alt-mode.
G. One member of any gestalt is secretly a femme.
H. Every member (except one) of any gestalt is secretly a femme.
I. Although all of ‘his’ components are mechs, one of the gestalts is somehow a femme.
4. Beachcomber discovers tie-dye.
5. Blaster originally earned his nickname by setting record scores at the Academy for general firearm accuracy, before he discovered music and dropped out of school to DJ at local clubs. When he meets Bluestreak, he takes the young gunner under his (metaphorical) wing and teaches him a few tricks.
6. G1 Blurr loses his voice.
7. At first, Bumblebee didn’t take to organic species at all. In fact, he had a few bad encounters with them on other planets before he came to Earth.
8. Every so often, Cosmos will stick auto-broadcast comm units on orbiting pieces of space-junk (to mimic his regular transmissions to the Autobot base) and just go exploring for a bit.
9. Cosmos reformatted himself into his current alt-mode because he’s bonded to a Decepticon and needs to keep his distance from the battlefield.
10. Grapple and Hoist build a spacebridge for the Autobots. (It’s about time.)
11. Hound has a curious detestation for a certain animal or group of animals.
12. Beast Wars Inferno is actually G1 Inferno, drastically changed. How did it happen?
13. Ironhide is forced into retirement.
14. (Movieverse AU) Jazz becomes Jazzimus Prime.
15. Skywarp tries to warp into Mirage’s little ‘disappearing-box’ and they both lose their special abilities.
16. Once a normal-sized mech, Omega Supreme suffered from a rare disease which caused his spark to slowly increase in size. When it threatened to burst his spark-chamber, he had to start getting near-constant size upgrades to accommodate this mutation. The Constructicons built all of his new forms; his current form was their last gift to him. Its spark chamber is made from a special alloy, developed by Mixmaster, which stopped the unnatural growth of his spark.
17. Unicron eats Cybertron, but the Cybertronians escape. The Autobots go back to live on Earth, but the Decepticons (sick of foreign organic planets, but obviously unable to return to their own) strike a deal with Unicron and warily settle on the surface of his planet-form.
18. When people start calling Megatron the ‘Great Slagmaker’, Unicron gets jealous. The Planet-Devourer decides to teach the Decepticon leader a little lesson in humility and remind him who the real king of destruction is.
19. I’ve seen the ‘humans as pets’ idea … what if the Cybertronians were subdued and kept as pets by humans?
20. “You’ve got it all wrong. They’re more like… like a two-mech gestalt than anything else.”
21. (AU) The war does not exist, and neither do [Autobot] and [Decepticon]… however, they ARE fictional (?) enemies on the Cybertronian equivalent of a popular cartoon series - and of course, the other ‘Bots and ‘Cons are big fans of the cartoon.
22. Art. A pic with Soundwave & one or more cassettes… but the cassette(s) are larger than Soundwave.
23. Animated. If Shockwave managed to make himself a Prime… perhaps some of the other Decepticons were once Primes as well?
24. ‘Cyclonus, the Warrior’… a warrior wouldn’t necessarily need gigantic audio receptors. Maybe those things on his head have another purpose?
25. _________’s happiness and _________’s unhappiness are directly proportional.
26. Sunstreaker and Tracks are indeed obsessed with how they look… but not for the reasons everyone assumes. For some reason, they’re hiding their true appearances with holograms. Any little accidental scuff which mysteriously fails to leave a scratch will reveal them, so they’re careful to avoid such situations. When something happens in public which would normally alter their appearances, they have to quickly change the hologram and petulantly refuse to let anyone else fix the damage. During battles, Sunstreaker throws himself into the center of the fray where everyone’s too busy to notice that dents appear a split second after they should; Tracks hangs back and makes sure that Sunstreaker’s holograms don’t drop while he’s distracted.
27. ‘Wheeljack’, verb:
28. Art or fic. Dinobots/Aerialbots/Stunticons/Protectobots, on Cybertron and homesick for Earth.
29. With some mechs, competency arises when you least expect it.
30. Bumblebee gets initiated into the Insecticons.
31. Optimus as a gladiator.
32. Ignorant first-time creators often unknowingly committed the ultimate act of cruelty: finalizing their sparkling’s programming without allowing space for later upgrade code. Their creations were doomed to fall further and further behind as Cybertronian technology advanced, eventually becoming completely outdated.
33. Megatron suddenly disappears. The Decepticons ask Starscream to be their temporary leader; the suspicious Seeker investigates. He finds out that Megatron left on an important mission, but gave specific orders to every other ‘Con regarding their duties in his absence. Indignant at being offered an empty position as figurehead, Starscream refuses to take Megatron’s place. Instead, he gleefully sabotages his comrades and wreaks havoc with the Decepticon hierarchy.
34. No one ever suspected that Jazz’s ability to quickly gain the trust of others had a more sinister source than mere charisma.
35. Unicron and Galvatron have ‘father-son’ time.
36. What effect could the Grim Reaper have on Cybertronians?
37. (AU) After the mechs in G1/original-movie canon ‘die’, they wake up on the Ark - which actually crash-landed on a Quintesson world rather than Earth in the first G1 episode. Although the actual Quintessons died out before the crash, some mysterious force remains which forced the stasis-locked Cybertronians into a complex dream state. The ‘dead’ mechs must figure out how to re-enter the simulation and ‘kill’ their comrades, freeing them from the simulation as well.
38. Someone finds a genie’s lamp.
39. Cybertronian berserkers.
40. Before the inevitable paranoia struck, Red Alert was a powerful and well-respected seer/prophet. Rich mechs paid incredible prices just for a minute’s use of his abilities.
41. Sunstorm converts Swindle.
42. Someone finds out about the human trick of hypnotism, and discovers that he possesses a natural ability for it.
43. Someone displays an unexpected mischievous side when he discovers the simple joys of Photoshop.
44. One of the Autobots has absolutely no morals, but has managed to hide it by imitating the behavior of more principled ‘Bots.
45. The imagined threats of Red Alert’s paranoia are set loose in the real world.
46. Smokescreen is sabotaged - instead of harmless camouflage, the smoke he releases is poisonous/corrosive gas.
47. Feral (like animals, or prehistoric humans) Cybertronians.
48. Post-war, Optimus struggles to control the Autobots’ thirst for vengeance.
49. (AU) Optimus and Megatron are the same person. The Decepticons eventually win the war, and out of idle curiosity Megatron investigates the background of his arch-nemesis (who, at that time, could be dead, imprisoned, mysteriously vanished…). Although he had been informed during the war of Optimus’ former identity as Orion Pax, he now discovers that Orion Pax actually died and was never reformatted into Optimus. Further research shows that certain other ‘Bots also seemed to come out of nowhere. Eventually, Megatron realizes what must be done to preserve the timeline and ensure the Decepticons’ eventual victory, and thus commandeers the time-travel project which the Decepticon scientists have been working on.
50. (Girl Genius-inspired) During his sparkling years, someone equipped Perceptor with a program-inhibiting device that kept him ‘stupid’ and safely away from those who would use his intelligence for evil purposes.
51. Swindle has a reason for his unquenchable greed and constant scheming: he’s saving up for something - something very important.
52. If Cyclonus had been just a little slower, and Starscream had managed to complete the ceremony, everything would have been different. ‘Coronation’ is merely a petty human idea which Starscream used to mask his true intentions. The ceremony had another purpose…
53. If Punch/Counterpunch died in an accident totally unrelated to the war, which side would claim his body, his weapons, and the intelligence he was carrying at the time?
54. Cybertronians with the Basilisk’s ability (if you look them in the optics, you die). Maybe the mechs with visors, like Jazz and Soundwave…
55. Would Megatron ever jet-judo Starscream to punish him?
56. Some of the Autobots were off-duty and in recharge when the Ark crashed. Since they were safely restrained to their recharge berths, the crash didn’t damage them as much and they woke unharmed.
57. All his life, he’s been able to see the future. Every battle, every action, every conversation plays out just the way it does in his head beforehand. Then one day, he hears a passing comment on the battlefield which deviates from the ‘script’ - and realizes that the other mech is immune to fate and thus has the power to change the inevitable outcome of the war.
58. The Cybertronians’ optics are designed to detect the reflection of light on metal surfaces only. When they come to Earth, all of them are essentially blind…
A. …except for the one mech who had been ‘blind’ on Cybertron because his optics detect light reflected from non-metal surfaces.
B. …so they all have to learn echolocation.
C. …so when they encounter humans, they don’t notice their body language/gestures and assume that the alien noises are coming from non-sentient organic creatures. Then when they find a human city, they realize their mistake…
D. …and the Decepticons start a new round of treachery/backstabbing that resembles a bizarre combination of Hide and Seek and Blind Man’s Bluff.
59. In the game ‘Sardines’, a variant of Tag, one person in a group hides while the others cover their eyes. After a certain amount of time, the group scatters to hunt out the hiding person and hide with them. The last person to find the hider loses.
60. Bluestreak didn’t survive the attack on his city by accident…
A. He was deliberately spared because he’s the sparkling/sparkmate/creator of one of the Decepticon attackers.
B. He betrayed the city to the Decepticons, asking only for his life and freedom as a reward for his treachery - but Megatron double-crossed him and threatened to kill him unless he agreed to join the Autobots as a Decepticon spy.
C. Primus himself caused certain wrecked buildings to fall in a pattern that hid and protected Bluestreak.
61. All the cute puppy-like Cybertronians (e.g. Bluestreak, Scavenger, Fireflight, Bumblebee) die under suspicious circumstances.
62. The Cybertronians left their home planet because it was overrun by a swarm of vicious, parasitical beings (origins unknown). Taking refuge on Earth, many of the Cybertronians are still haunted by the sound of Primus’s panicked, desperate cries as his children abandoned him to die.
63. When the Ark crashed, Megatron was still second-in-command to the first Decepticon Lord; Starscream was third-in command and Megatron’s loyal ally.
64. There is a vast difference between pride and vanity; pride may be considered the greater sin because one who is prideful has become so wrapped up in himself that he no longer regards the opinions of others as valuable.
65. Starscream + Coffee.
66. Arcee ditches Hot Rod and Springer for Galvatron (or Cyclonus).
67. A Cybertronian circus.
68. Certain G1 mechs wake up from recharge one day with the voices of their Movieverse counterparts.
69. “If you’re not careful, your face will stick like that one day.”
70. Fic based on this picture.
71. Skywarp as Starscream and Thundercracker’s sparkling, because red + blue = purple. I don’t know why this possibility hasn’t occurred to me before.
72. One of the chutes in the Autobot public laboratory labeled ‘hazardous waste’ actually leads somewhere more interesting than a modified disposal unit.
73. A study of Decepticon behavior… as seen from the base’s windows… by fish/merpeople/giant squid/Cthulu/etc.
74. Now that I think about it, if the Decepticons spotted Seaspray lurking outside their base watching them, is there really anything they could do about it? Seaspray could film a little documentary or something.
75. (AU) A universe where Megatron is a ‘middle-manager’-type Decepticon; i.e., he has his own team, but also superior officers. Like Optimus is a Prime but not the Prime in Animated-verse.
76. Can flying Cybertronians reduce their speed until they actually fall out of the air?
77. The Seekers make a little extra profit/fend off would-be blackmailers by renting out their cockpits to other Decepticons as storage space for personal stuff or contraband.
78. The Constructicons aren’t as unique as they seem - all gestalts are supposed to have six members, not five.
79. A city named Iacaon (or Iakaon), halfway between Iacon and Kaon.
80. Somewhere beneath the accumulated filth of endless conflict, Cybertron still remains golden.
81. (Potential crossover fic) When Starscream finally left Earth after Skyfire’s disappearance, he was so distressed that he forgot to check his fuel reserve levels. On the way back to Cybertron, he abruptly runs out of power and, propelled by his momentum, hurtles unconscious through space.
A. Until he is discovered by…
B. Until he enters the orbit of…
82. G1 Cybertron suddenly becomes an organic planet.
A quick note: Ever since I started posting here, I’ve typed any bunnies I’ve thought of in one Microsoft Word document and size-1’ed the already-posted ones to keep it looking neat. (I don’t know why I don’t just delete them. I’m never gonna need them again, and the point of my posting them here is to get them out of my head.) While I was typing this batch, a box popped up that said “There are too many spelling or grammatical errors to continue displaying them.”
This is awesome. I… I won! It’s like MS Word is admitting that even if ‘Decepticon’ isn’t in its dictionary, it slagging well should be. I beat the evil squiggly red lines! I feel like I should get a prize or something.
*coughs* Anyway, the promised bunnies:
1. When Teletraan-1 was reactivated, why didn’t it try to dispose of the helpless Decepticons - or at least wake the Autobots first? … Teletraan’s a traitor!
2. Shockwave recruits the Autobot femmes on Cybertron by convincing them that femmes will have more rights under Megatron’s new government.
3. More about those wacky femmes!
A. The Decepticons' bounty on Elita-1’s head keeps on rising with each successful raid. Since Elita-1 is such an important commander - and Optimus Prime’s bondmate - she and Arcee switch places to ensure her survival. (Think Queen Amidala and her handmaiden in the first of the newer Star Wars movies.)
B. Arcee is older than she seems - she’s Ariel’s (Elita-1’s) creator, and thus Optimus’ mother-in-law as well.
C. If Chromia had a bondmate before Ironhide came along…
D. Firestar and Starscream are related/bondmates.
E. Moonracer and Sunstreaker are related/bondmates.
F. TF: Animated’s Blackarachnia earns the grudging respect of her new Decepticon comrades by unintentionally freaking Megatron out with her creepy alt-mode.
G. One member of any gestalt is secretly a femme.
H. Every member (except one) of any gestalt is secretly a femme.
I. Although all of ‘his’ components are mechs, one of the gestalts is somehow a femme.
4. Beachcomber discovers tie-dye.
5. Blaster originally earned his nickname by setting record scores at the Academy for general firearm accuracy, before he discovered music and dropped out of school to DJ at local clubs. When he meets Bluestreak, he takes the young gunner under his (metaphorical) wing and teaches him a few tricks.
6. G1 Blurr loses his voice.
7. At first, Bumblebee didn’t take to organic species at all. In fact, he had a few bad encounters with them on other planets before he came to Earth.
8. Every so often, Cosmos will stick auto-broadcast comm units on orbiting pieces of space-junk (to mimic his regular transmissions to the Autobot base) and just go exploring for a bit.
9. Cosmos reformatted himself into his current alt-mode because he’s bonded to a Decepticon and needs to keep his distance from the battlefield.
10. Grapple and Hoist build a spacebridge for the Autobots. (It’s about time.)
11. Hound has a curious detestation for a certain animal or group of animals.
12. Beast Wars Inferno is actually G1 Inferno, drastically changed. How did it happen?
13. Ironhide is forced into retirement.
14. (Movieverse AU) Jazz becomes Jazzimus Prime.
15. Skywarp tries to warp into Mirage’s little ‘disappearing-box’ and they both lose their special abilities.
16. Once a normal-sized mech, Omega Supreme suffered from a rare disease which caused his spark to slowly increase in size. When it threatened to burst his spark-chamber, he had to start getting near-constant size upgrades to accommodate this mutation. The Constructicons built all of his new forms; his current form was their last gift to him. Its spark chamber is made from a special alloy, developed by Mixmaster, which stopped the unnatural growth of his spark.
17. Unicron eats Cybertron, but the Cybertronians escape. The Autobots go back to live on Earth, but the Decepticons (sick of foreign organic planets, but obviously unable to return to their own) strike a deal with Unicron and warily settle on the surface of his planet-form.
18. When people start calling Megatron the ‘Great Slagmaker’, Unicron gets jealous. The Planet-Devourer decides to teach the Decepticon leader a little lesson in humility and remind him who the real king of destruction is.
19. I’ve seen the ‘humans as pets’ idea … what if the Cybertronians were subdued and kept as pets by humans?
20. “You’ve got it all wrong. They’re more like… like a two-mech gestalt than anything else.”
21. (AU) The war does not exist, and neither do [Autobot] and [Decepticon]… however, they ARE fictional (?) enemies on the Cybertronian equivalent of a popular cartoon series - and of course, the other ‘Bots and ‘Cons are big fans of the cartoon.
22. Art. A pic with Soundwave & one or more cassettes… but the cassette(s) are larger than Soundwave.
23. Animated. If Shockwave managed to make himself a Prime… perhaps some of the other Decepticons were once Primes as well?
24. ‘Cyclonus, the Warrior’… a warrior wouldn’t necessarily need gigantic audio receptors. Maybe those things on his head have another purpose?
25. _________’s happiness and _________’s unhappiness are directly proportional.
26. Sunstreaker and Tracks are indeed obsessed with how they look… but not for the reasons everyone assumes. For some reason, they’re hiding their true appearances with holograms. Any little accidental scuff which mysteriously fails to leave a scratch will reveal them, so they’re careful to avoid such situations. When something happens in public which would normally alter their appearances, they have to quickly change the hologram and petulantly refuse to let anyone else fix the damage. During battles, Sunstreaker throws himself into the center of the fray where everyone’s too busy to notice that dents appear a split second after they should; Tracks hangs back and makes sure that Sunstreaker’s holograms don’t drop while he’s distracted.
27. ‘Wheeljack’, verb:
28. Art or fic. Dinobots/Aerialbots/Stunticons/Protectobots, on Cybertron and homesick for Earth.
29. With some mechs, competency arises when you least expect it.
30. Bumblebee gets initiated into the Insecticons.
31. Optimus as a gladiator.
32. Ignorant first-time creators often unknowingly committed the ultimate act of cruelty: finalizing their sparkling’s programming without allowing space for later upgrade code. Their creations were doomed to fall further and further behind as Cybertronian technology advanced, eventually becoming completely outdated.
33. Megatron suddenly disappears. The Decepticons ask Starscream to be their temporary leader; the suspicious Seeker investigates. He finds out that Megatron left on an important mission, but gave specific orders to every other ‘Con regarding their duties in his absence. Indignant at being offered an empty position as figurehead, Starscream refuses to take Megatron’s place. Instead, he gleefully sabotages his comrades and wreaks havoc with the Decepticon hierarchy.
34. No one ever suspected that Jazz’s ability to quickly gain the trust of others had a more sinister source than mere charisma.
35. Unicron and Galvatron have ‘father-son’ time.
36. What effect could the Grim Reaper have on Cybertronians?
37. (AU) After the mechs in G1/original-movie canon ‘die’, they wake up on the Ark - which actually crash-landed on a Quintesson world rather than Earth in the first G1 episode. Although the actual Quintessons died out before the crash, some mysterious force remains which forced the stasis-locked Cybertronians into a complex dream state. The ‘dead’ mechs must figure out how to re-enter the simulation and ‘kill’ their comrades, freeing them from the simulation as well.
38. Someone finds a genie’s lamp.
39. Cybertronian berserkers.
40. Before the inevitable paranoia struck, Red Alert was a powerful and well-respected seer/prophet. Rich mechs paid incredible prices just for a minute’s use of his abilities.
41. Sunstorm converts Swindle.
42. Someone finds out about the human trick of hypnotism, and discovers that he possesses a natural ability for it.
43. Someone displays an unexpected mischievous side when he discovers the simple joys of Photoshop.
44. One of the Autobots has absolutely no morals, but has managed to hide it by imitating the behavior of more principled ‘Bots.
45. The imagined threats of Red Alert’s paranoia are set loose in the real world.
46. Smokescreen is sabotaged - instead of harmless camouflage, the smoke he releases is poisonous/corrosive gas.
47. Feral (like animals, or prehistoric humans) Cybertronians.
48. Post-war, Optimus struggles to control the Autobots’ thirst for vengeance.
49. (AU) Optimus and Megatron are the same person. The Decepticons eventually win the war, and out of idle curiosity Megatron investigates the background of his arch-nemesis (who, at that time, could be dead, imprisoned, mysteriously vanished…). Although he had been informed during the war of Optimus’ former identity as Orion Pax, he now discovers that Orion Pax actually died and was never reformatted into Optimus. Further research shows that certain other ‘Bots also seemed to come out of nowhere. Eventually, Megatron realizes what must be done to preserve the timeline and ensure the Decepticons’ eventual victory, and thus commandeers the time-travel project which the Decepticon scientists have been working on.
50. (Girl Genius-inspired) During his sparkling years, someone equipped Perceptor with a program-inhibiting device that kept him ‘stupid’ and safely away from those who would use his intelligence for evil purposes.
51. Swindle has a reason for his unquenchable greed and constant scheming: he’s saving up for something - something very important.
52. If Cyclonus had been just a little slower, and Starscream had managed to complete the ceremony, everything would have been different. ‘Coronation’ is merely a petty human idea which Starscream used to mask his true intentions. The ceremony had another purpose…
53. If Punch/Counterpunch died in an accident totally unrelated to the war, which side would claim his body, his weapons, and the intelligence he was carrying at the time?
54. Cybertronians with the Basilisk’s ability (if you look them in the optics, you die). Maybe the mechs with visors, like Jazz and Soundwave…
55. Would Megatron ever jet-judo Starscream to punish him?
56. Some of the Autobots were off-duty and in recharge when the Ark crashed. Since they were safely restrained to their recharge berths, the crash didn’t damage them as much and they woke unharmed.
57. All his life, he’s been able to see the future. Every battle, every action, every conversation plays out just the way it does in his head beforehand. Then one day, he hears a passing comment on the battlefield which deviates from the ‘script’ - and realizes that the other mech is immune to fate and thus has the power to change the inevitable outcome of the war.
58. The Cybertronians’ optics are designed to detect the reflection of light on metal surfaces only. When they come to Earth, all of them are essentially blind…
A. …except for the one mech who had been ‘blind’ on Cybertron because his optics detect light reflected from non-metal surfaces.
B. …so they all have to learn echolocation.
C. …so when they encounter humans, they don’t notice their body language/gestures and assume that the alien noises are coming from non-sentient organic creatures. Then when they find a human city, they realize their mistake…
D. …and the Decepticons start a new round of treachery/backstabbing that resembles a bizarre combination of Hide and Seek and Blind Man’s Bluff.
59. In the game ‘Sardines’, a variant of Tag, one person in a group hides while the others cover their eyes. After a certain amount of time, the group scatters to hunt out the hiding person and hide with them. The last person to find the hider loses.
60. Bluestreak didn’t survive the attack on his city by accident…
A. He was deliberately spared because he’s the sparkling/sparkmate/creator of one of the Decepticon attackers.
B. He betrayed the city to the Decepticons, asking only for his life and freedom as a reward for his treachery - but Megatron double-crossed him and threatened to kill him unless he agreed to join the Autobots as a Decepticon spy.
C. Primus himself caused certain wrecked buildings to fall in a pattern that hid and protected Bluestreak.
61. All the cute puppy-like Cybertronians (e.g. Bluestreak, Scavenger, Fireflight, Bumblebee) die under suspicious circumstances.
62. The Cybertronians left their home planet because it was overrun by a swarm of vicious, parasitical beings (origins unknown). Taking refuge on Earth, many of the Cybertronians are still haunted by the sound of Primus’s panicked, desperate cries as his children abandoned him to die.
63. When the Ark crashed, Megatron was still second-in-command to the first Decepticon Lord; Starscream was third-in command and Megatron’s loyal ally.
64. There is a vast difference between pride and vanity; pride may be considered the greater sin because one who is prideful has become so wrapped up in himself that he no longer regards the opinions of others as valuable.
65. Starscream + Coffee.
66. Arcee ditches Hot Rod and Springer for Galvatron (or Cyclonus).
67. A Cybertronian circus.
68. Certain G1 mechs wake up from recharge one day with the voices of their Movieverse counterparts.
69. “If you’re not careful, your face will stick like that one day.”
70. Fic based on this picture.
71. Skywarp as Starscream and Thundercracker’s sparkling, because red + blue = purple. I don’t know why this possibility hasn’t occurred to me before.
72. One of the chutes in the Autobot public laboratory labeled ‘hazardous waste’ actually leads somewhere more interesting than a modified disposal unit.
73. A study of Decepticon behavior… as seen from the base’s windows… by fish/merpeople/giant squid/Cthulu/etc.
74. Now that I think about it, if the Decepticons spotted Seaspray lurking outside their base watching them, is there really anything they could do about it? Seaspray could film a little documentary or something.
75. (AU) A universe where Megatron is a ‘middle-manager’-type Decepticon; i.e., he has his own team, but also superior officers. Like Optimus is a Prime but not the Prime in Animated-verse.
76. Can flying Cybertronians reduce their speed until they actually fall out of the air?
77. The Seekers make a little extra profit/fend off would-be blackmailers by renting out their cockpits to other Decepticons as storage space for personal stuff or contraband.
78. The Constructicons aren’t as unique as they seem - all gestalts are supposed to have six members, not five.
79. A city named Iacaon (or Iakaon), halfway between Iacon and Kaon.
80. Somewhere beneath the accumulated filth of endless conflict, Cybertron still remains golden.
81. (Potential crossover fic) When Starscream finally left Earth after Skyfire’s disappearance, he was so distressed that he forgot to check his fuel reserve levels. On the way back to Cybertron, he abruptly runs out of power and, propelled by his momentum, hurtles unconscious through space.
A. Until he is discovered by…
B. Until he enters the orbit of…
82. G1 Cybertron suddenly becomes an organic planet.