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1.Perceptor smiled and nodded encouragingly, and mentally added the mechs name to the list of those who would be removed in the coming revolution.
2. Bluestreak got his name because he talks so much. He talks so much because he’s traumatized his city was destroyed. Therefore, since the cause of the name came before the name, he had a different name before his city was destroyed. Which might explain why no one seems to know who he was before the Autobots rescued him.
3.There is no good or evil. Only blatant stupidity.
4.Humans have only three responses to radioactive waste: pay someone else to take it away quickly, die, or develop superpowers. Unfortunately the last option has a vanishingly small success rate and the tragic side-effect of utterly destroying the victims fashion sense. -Snarky science journalist (“No Perceptor, you may not test that.”)
5. It wasn’t that Miles was afraid of Sam, but still. After Mission City, Sam had an edge to him he hadn’t before. It was like flopping down on the comfy sofa in the basement…and gradually realizing the odd lump he landed on was a loaded gun.
6. Ender: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them...I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.
Perceptor quietly explained to the Jazz how to drive a wedge between the seemingly inseparable pair of Megatron and Starscream in even, measured tones. That night, he’d walk into his quarters, lock the door, and weep. Three days later, Jazz would receive a polite, formal letter explaining his resignation from special ops, and a small request that he never be contacted by any member of the department again. For now, Perceptor had to be strong as he destroyed two other’s universe.
7. It’s been 413 days since Mission City, and Sam really isn’t okay. (The one where Sam’s not accepting his act of genocide by attrition.)
8. Expansion on the Bee-treated-as-a-child idea. Before they were stranded on Earth, Bumblebee really wasn’t treated like a sparkling. He was one of the many unnerving, almost alien, war-sparked bots who no one really interacted with or felt comfortable around. When he woke on earth however, and the ‘bots met the Witwickys, Bee was assigned to interact and win the confidence of their new human allies, since he was such a good spy. Bee quickly determined the best way to win the human’s affection and trust was to act like a kid slightly older then Spike, taking on the ‘older brother’ role. However, Bee found out something strange: He liked playing the part. For the first time, he had an excuse, and newly discovered desire, to do things like play catch, or have long pointless arguments, or play pranks, or skive off a shift to go see a movie. And if he kept up the role while Spike and Sparkplug were away, none of the bots found it odd, since he was still on the mission, even if his ‘targets’ were temporarily away. The longer Bee played the role, the more the rest of the bots tended to respond to him as though that was his real personality, which was what Bee was coming to want.
9. “Burn the land and boil the sea, you can’t take the sky from me.” (Anyone else reminded of the seekers?)
10. Flashfire’s programming shunt, Hook decided, to polarize the personality matrix. An infinitas loop to bind their loyalty. And below the surface of those two lines of code, several nasty viruses to occupy morality protocols and a few bits of redundant programming to protect their fragile sanity. They had to be in their right minds, after all. Insane medics served no one. But the parts of their right minds that were the constructicons were locked away, unable to surface except for a few stolen moments.
11. Mirage was quietly suffocating before the war. (“Tower mechs have no words for suffering.” “much the way miners have no words for ‘darkness’, I note”)
12. sparkbonds really didn’t have anything to do with romance or sex. They were originally used to mentor younger bots. Of course, the first time a mentor and his student had sex, that function swiftly went out the window…
13. Perceptor had a backup processor. Unfortunately, He overwrote it with questions he was seeking answers to, data from experiments, formulas, and blueprints for completed projects. When his memory chips were destroyed, all he had left was a head full of knowledge and no way to figure out how he obtained it.
14. Fireflight has a little quirk. If one of his brothers is sitting down, he’ll wander over, grab one of their hands, and start manipulating the joints for no apparent reason. After a few years of this, the aerialbots don’t even notice. (Based on my older brother, who did the same thing with me.)