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𝓹𝓪𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 ⤏ (Bayverse!Optimus Prime/Yeager!Reader)
𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓻𝔂 ⤏ Cade Yeager’s older sister never knows what she’ll find in their barn upon returning from her routine antiquing trips—the submission box at the driveway is often littered with junk of all kinds that they try to fix for a living. You just never would have expected for him to take on the task of repairing a Cybertronian.
𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 ⤏ ptsd, night terrors, (minor) (canonical) character death, grief, mourning, mentions of cancer, alcohol abuse
𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓼 ⤏ canon compliant, angst, hurt/comfort, slow burn, strangers to lovers, enemies to lovers, fluff, flirting, angst with a happy ending
𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓻𝔂 ⤏ When the kids grow restless during the weekend, you entreat Optimus to take the group of you out for 'educational' purposes—all goes well until a thunderstorm strikes, but it could have resulted worse.
𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 ⤏ thunderstorms, medical examination (not performed on reader)
𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓼 ⤏ camping, campfire (cooking) (ghost/mystery stories), poetry, crushes, cuddling & snuggling, falling in love, (tooth-rotting) fluff, (not actually) unrequited love, everything is beautiful and nothing hurts
‘ 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕘𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘 ’ | ☾ / ♡ ♤ ♣ / ♗ ♖ ♘ ♙
𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓻𝔂 ⤏ You find Optimus musing about the past while surveying Earth's celestial sphere. You try not to let your personal feelings impair your ability to comfort him.
𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 ⤏ grief/mourning, (minor) (background) (past) character death, loss
𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓼 ⤏ sleepovers, stargazing, cybertronian culture/language, angst (and fluff) (with a happy ending) (and hurt/comfort) (and feels) (and tragedy), language (barrier), first meetings, first love, religious discussion, (not actually) unrequited love
I love the old man ratchet doesn’t know what a meme is tfp headcanon. But
Ratchet knowing all the internet/cool kid slang because A: he spends a lot of time on the web and B: seems to be the one who listens to the kid’s side conversations the most means that he’d probably have the best grasp on ✨the lingo✨ than any other autobot. And I think it would actually be a point of pride for him, being able to know that much about human culture despite acting like he finds humans completely un-fascinating.
It gets even better when you consider the fact that soundwave is probably also in the same boat but nobody knows it.
I’m just imagining Ratchet getting really excited when he pulls a fast one on soundwave and yelling something horrible like “pog champ!” And sounwave just stops in his tracks and looks directly at him. There’s a moment of direct eye contact between the two of them in that I know what I’m talking about how do you know what I’m talking about way.
Soundwave plays never gonna give you up on his visor to break the silence.
Okay- I have become aware of the fact that I have made people feel some kinda way for Megatron, which wasn't what I was going for, but I am glad I am doing the lord's work. I will convert all of you.
Anyway, here is Optimus, and I followed the train of though that started as a sketch for @exileandtrust 's John (holo Op) and I am quite pleased with it. Big cardigan energy.
For the love of everything you hold dear, please read Handprints. It has been a masterpeice to follow and will be one of those fics that make you scream in your pillow at three in the morning, weather out of fluff, angst and every feeling in between.
Literally the first chapter out the gate:
You: I am damaged goods.
Op: You are not to me.
Who would you guys like next?
I started sketching their righthand men, but it is still in the works.
I wanted to add my two cents in on the cybertronian reproduction conversation if that’s okay. :) As far as whether or not cybertronians require reproductive organs, I’ve always headcanoned that they can reproduce via sparkmerging (with a sire and a carrier and the newspark comes to term within the carrier’s spark chamber with a molten/semisolid armor like larvae that they shed and redevelop once they’re born kinda, etc. - I think I picked that up form the MTMTE/LL side of the fandom), rather than through human genitalia parallels. HOWEVER, I have also always headcanoned that since cybertronians were exposed to organic cultures for a long time even before the war, I always considered it like a fad or a body modification fashion thing to have organic-like reproductive style organs implanted into one’s pelvic arrays, and then over a long time, since it was essentially a contraceptive way to have sex without worrying about newsparks and thus got super popular (as well as having stress-related health benefits), they just started automatically implanting such systems into cold constructed newspark during the war to save time. I’ve probably thought about this way too hard and way too long and I could go into a lot more detail but this is the gist of how I think about it. Hope this helps! :)
definitely a valid and very detailed take my friend and thank you for sharing to however I am probably going to remain inconsolable for some time bc even though I didn't come into this caring at all about robot balls I now cannot stop thinking about them and will not rest until I find content.
a future continuity should absolutely take the "megatron wrote poetry thing" and use it but ALSO bring back optimus being willing to just fuckin go to town on ripping into him a la RiD01
Damn man just imagine Optimus with a pregnant reader think he’s anxious about their safety on a normal day? man would probs have a heart attack if they got heartburn while pregnant. they stumble once and he'd try to carry them everywhere,ever seen a mech as tall as a building faint because of a false contraction? YOU WILL.
(god I wanted to write this in so bad fml)
He orders all hi-grade removed from the base for nine months. Ratchet openly weeps. He also gets rid of the stairs because you could fall and replaces them with gently sloping ramps. The afternoon after your first bout of morning sickness you walk into your room to find five whole-ass pallets of ginger ale that he "requisitioned" from god knows where and Bumblebee has to finish taking you to your (few and far between) human obgyn appointments because the first time Optimus backed over the receptionist's honda accord twice when she wouldn't accept your gov. issued fake ID.
Okay but can we talk about the fact that Ratchet of all autobots chose to stay behind on Earth? The same medic that was devastated when Optimus first broke their only way to restore Cybertron? The fact he goes from telling Megatron he couldn’t care less what happened to the kids(as a fib), to telling the predacon sent to kill him, that he wouldn’t mind death seeing as he (unintentionally) helped in humanity’s destruction??????
Sketches for an idea i had about the autobots liking the trailer and just passing time there. Optimus just lets it happen, bc why not
Anyway, i let him be happy for far too long already
The thought of optimus having to carry the literal dead weight of his friends is what actually made me want to do this, i might make this a full piece one day, who knows
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