aroyalmess

they/he multifandom writer occasional artist/editor AO3: royalmess

[imaroyalmess]

Intro post!

hi, i'm royal! i'm a multifandom writer, occasional artist and editor. but right now my main fixation is transformers (specifically transformers one).

my asks are open if you want to submit questions or writing/sketch prompts! i'll respond to them when i can!

[stompandhollar]

@potato-lord-but-not ‘s art is Malevolent to me. So of course I had to fool around with doodling one of their beautiful pieces in my style.

[imaroyalmess]

been thinking about Skyfire a lot.

Language evolves so it would be interesting to see the little dialect changes that happen, especially with the bots on Earth. So when they find Skyfire, they can tell this mech is old. He uses turns of phrase long outdated, his language tends to be a bit flowery, his jokes don’t quite land. Most of the time, he doesn’t mind but there are others where the isolation and the weight of how much has changed, crushes him. Time makes him adapt. He begins to learn and slowly, he fits himself into the Autobot’s faction—they learn his common sayings, he learns what he humor is like. It’s nice in a lot of ways. Still, he mourns the world that only exists in his processor now.

[startuxi0]

“Star?”

It was that voice. It sounded ethereal, if only because of how unexpected it was, how distant he had been from that voice for thousands of years. Even for a long-lived race like Cybertronians, a thousand years was still a very, very long time. You’d think either one of them would have put them behind them by then.

Unfortunately, they were quite human in that aspect.

[excerpt was written by @misqnon ! Go show them some luvin they are incredibly talented <3]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64575127/chapters/165852523

Starscream n skyfire closeups because I did NOT spend eight hours on this fucking thing just for the details to be blurred out

[imaroyalmess]

TFO Kaon concept

Kaon was once a thriving artistic city before the Matrix’s disappearance. Most mechs that lived there were artists, sculptors, writers, poets and Kaon served as a large cultural hub for Cybertronian art. Orion, knowing D-16’s interest in the arts, would bring him datapads from the archives. What happened to it isn’t detailed but what little is written, it’s implied that Kaon was the Quintesson’s first target after the Thirteen’s deaths. D-16 always wanted to go see/visit it anyway.

Post-TFO, Megatron makes the craters of Kaon the ring where Decepticons fight and claim their rank. What was once the greatest artistic pillar, now flaming gladiator pits.

[imaroyalmess]

Snippets from chapter 2 of my megop / dpax fic! (late wip wednesday woops)

[energ00n]

Been waiting for you

[imaroyalmess]

dpax sketches i forgot to post here! (featuring two scenes from my fic!)

full page under the cut :)

[imaroyalmess]

thinking about megop / dpax hadestown au again

D-16 is a “hungry young mech” who’s never landed anywhere and only ever relied on himself. Orion is an optimistic artist who “sees the way the world should be instead of the way that it is.” Optimus is the Prime who’s married to the king of the underworld and makes the most of his half-year on the surface (the only time energon will flow). Megatron is the king of underworld working his subordinates to the wire, his love for his conjunx having twisted into possession.

[imaroyalmess]

if i were a tfp decepticon, you would catch me defecting so fast after watching megatron lose his ex that didn't remember their messy breakup. like, what do you mean you put us through all this work to cover up our history, call a prime by his former name, avoid killing any autobots in front of him, and keep him stowed away on our ship for months and you STILL FUMBLED?! no, i have no respect for megafumbler. none at all

[imaroyalmess]

i’m reading transformers exodus and yeah idk how a mech didn’t strangle megatron after the orion pax arc.

“i’m in touch with what needs touching, brother” what are you talking about, brother????? you pulled despite your ass flirting and then fumbled the second chance?? i’d have to take matters into my own hands at that point idk

[imaroyalmess]

Collide Like Two Stars (for a while)

Summary: Between the precarious peace only accepted begrudgingly by the mechs left on Earth, the faction of defector bots hunting them down, and his processor making him relive his most intimate and excruciating memories, Optimus Prime might be reaching his limit.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64046467/chapters/164309377

first chapter of my megop fic is out!! happy easter to robot jesus or whatever. (and an unhappy one to robot judas)

[greseadraws]

brainrotting over two old robots

[imaroyalmess]

Megop/Dpax Love Square AU

part 1? this has been lurking as an outline but i'm just going to post it as is to get it out of my brain 😭

Rated: M (sexual themes/talk)

Wc: 1.6k

D-16 is a big Prime fan boy who works all day and reads poetry in the archives during his free time

In this AU, the OG 13 are alive and well. Recently, they took on another Prime but after Sentinel tried to kill them a while ago, they are very secretive about who this mech is. Think: overprotective older sibling vibes.

Dee’s favorite is still Megatronus. His coworkers kind of mock him for it so he tries to keep it on the down low

So it was a particularly shitty day at work or something but D-16 is already in a horrible mood when he arrives at the archives. but when he gets to a datapad and that mech hasn't wiped the annotations? He snaps.

Not expecting ANYTHING to come of it, he leaves a "stop vandalizing the archives" in the notes below it and shoves it back on the shelf

Jazz comms him and offers to help him cool off, he agrees to go out to a bar(? Or something like it) with Jazz

He gets there. and GREAT that fucker Orion Pax is there. (He’s always there since they run in the same friend circle)

but d-16 is like “Whatever i've had a bad day, I'm trying to unwind, I'll just ignore him”

Unfortunately for him, Orion Pax has a massive crush on him that literally everyone knows about. D-16 kind of knows too, except he doesn’t get it. As in, Orion has the Big Crush and Dee is like "I think he might want me.” He figures that one day, they’ll sleep together, it’ll be mediocre, then Orion will find someone else to flirt with and they can continue being awkward acquaintances. OP is planning the wedding in his free time

Orion keeps trying to hit on Dee and Dee shrugs him off. He doesn’t mind the flirting, he just is not in any kind of mood for it.

Jazz: Dee, I did Not want to be the one to tell you this but please you have to do something about Orion. He likes you

Dee: [brow raised] I know 

Jazz: Oh! ...oh, you're just mean

Dee: It's not that serious.

Jazz: Ah, never mind…so you're stupid—

Flash forward a few days later: Dee realizes he didn't even read the datapad he meant to. So now he has to go back to the archives and get it. And also wipe the annotations he left.

What he doesn’t expect though, is for there to be a response in the datapad. “woops! i realized i hadn’t wiped my notes from the data pad. if you’re seeing this, it should be good to check out now (except this thread ha ha), sorry! A little hypocritical though, don’t you think? Since you also left something in the datapad?”

D-16 doesn’t plan to respond to that. He really doesn’t. But then when he goes to wipe the data, he sees that the original note cross referenced another collection d-16 had been meaning to read and he finds himself searching for the data pad

He finds it, opens it up, sure enough, this one is also still has some annotations in it

D-16 goes back to the OG and responds “you missed some in The Primacy and Caste Systems. Do you treat all your datapads like this?”

Then reads this other data pad. Might as well, since he’s been meaning to anyway

He’s loathe to admit it, but he finds this other mech’s commentary….fascinating

It ranges from “come back to this later” to intense grappling with philosophy to “can you PLEASE shut up already”

Dee finds himself responding to one about how dense the prose is. He can’t help it. And that’s how this Thing starts between these two strangers.

a part of him still Doesn’t Like It because it feels…Forbidden. against some rules (it’s not really but the courtesy!!!) and any time they’re done with one book, he wipes it but not before saving the most interesting bits of their conversations

It's nice. It's fun. D-16 feels like he's sharing a very important part of himself that doesn't quite get the limelight

And his conversation partner....well, he doesn't always get it but they read what D-16 has to say. They follow him from data pad to data pad and value his opinion that isn't tied to what he’s capable of at work.

It’s something special to him. Most of the people he knows are because of his job and to have someone so far removed from that that they don’t even know his designation? He likes it

So he doesn’t tell anyone. Not even Jazz

One day, Dee runs into Orion on his way to the archives.

Dee: what are you doing here?

Orion: ...i work here?

Dee: what? i've never once seen you here, pax.

Orion: aha. it's a, uh. part time gig?

Dee: o...kay

Orion: so are you heading in or?

Dee: yeah, i just had a collection i wanted to grab

Orion: are you busy after?

Dee: Yes.

Orion: Oh. With what?

Dee: reading. that's what i'm here for, pax

Orion: right. but would you want to refuel together or something?

Dee: are you asking me out, pax?

Orion: to refuel, yes.

Dee: ...okay.

So these fuckin sillies go out to dinner

D-16 is like....this is Weird. He's used to interacting with Orion in a group setting. Small group, yes, but Dee is usually the one to kinda slide into the background and let Jazz and Orion and others take the forefront.

It's awkward. at first especially. Orion, who usually cannot shut up, is sitting there. Servos clasped hard and optics right on D-16. It's weird. The staring is unnerving and D-16 is not the one to ask to carry a conversation.

Orion: so, you like reading?

Dee: yes.

Orion: what do you read?

Dee: poetry, mostly. i don't mind philosophy or fiction either.

Orion: oh! i've been reading a bit of poetry lately. i tend to stick to history, politics, and philosophy though.

Dee: really?

Orion: yes? is that surprising?

Dee: very.

Orion: why?

Dee: because you're...you come up with such stupid plans.

Orion: i don't think any of my plans are really stupid. i rely on everything having the best outcome, more than anything.

Dee: which is a stupid thing to do, pax. most things don't work out like that.

Orion: yeah but can't hurt hoping right?

Dee: i can name at least three instances where it did hurt actually

Orion: ....this isn't really going well is it?

Dee: [standing up] no not really but how about we stop talking? 

Orion: yeahhhh okay i get it.

Dee: not sure you do. are you coming back to my habsuite with me?

Orion: but you said...?

Dee: we will not be talking in my habsuite, no.

Orion: oh! oh, yeah, then. lead the way

Orion has never stood up so quickly in his whole existence

The walk doesn’t take long thankfully.

D-16 shuts the door to his habsuite and Orion's little switch Flips. Like he realizes he has to lock the fuck in or this won't happen ever again.

So Orion crowds d-16 against the door, one servo on his waist and the other at his throat cables. Dee is startled by the change up but not quite bothered by it. he'd assumed that he would have to take charge of a nervous bumbling Orion so this was a pleasant surprise of sorts. "How do you want me?" Orion whispers, leaning in so his dermas brush a seam on D-16's shoulder. "I could take you right here if you want it quick. With my intake or with my digits, whichever you prefer." He punctuates this point by flicking his glossa out, dipping into the seam while D-16 jerks at the sensation. "Or we could take our time and you can have them both. Then my valve. Tell me what you want from me, I'll let you have it."

And yeah, d-16 wasn't quite as prepared for Orion Pax as he thought. His core heats at a rapid pace as all sorts of situations race through his processor. The possibilities and Orion, willing to fulfill them...and since this would be the only time, D-16 figured he could go for it.

He reaches up with one servo and grabs Orion by the back of the helm, dragging him up so their optics lock. "All of it," D-16 says with no small amount of greed. Orion tilts his helm as he observes where his thumb presses into D-16's neck. Both of their cooling fans kick on and Orion grins. He says, "You'll be covered in my colors by the time I'm done with you." Then D-16 pushes him to his knees and Orion takes the hint and gets to work.

Interfacing with Orion was a mistake. Because Dee was wrong and it was good and he knows they are definitely going to do this again. 

So D-16 resigns himself to his fate as fuck buddy of Orion Pax. (Dee still isn’t aware that Orion’s feelings are more than just “blowing off charge”—and Orion doesn’t correct him)

At the same time Dee and Orion start sleeping together, things start ramping up with his little archive buddy. Having multiple conversations within a single book

Some of which have NOTHING to do with the book itself. Sometimes even visiting the archive two or three times in a day to see if the other had replied.

Things are going great! Even if he’s developing a little crush on this mech that lives in book annotations. Between that and his thing with Orion, he has two outlets to vent any frustrations from his day (via some great overloads) or any emotions he might not normally get to express (via baring his spark into the comments on a public data pad).

It’s. Nice. Great, even.

What he doesn’t know is that both of those outlets are Optimus Prime.

Similarly, OP doesn’t know that his crush/acquaintance with benefits and his new archive friend, are one and the same.

OKAY i have more but i'm going to leave it here for now lol we'll see when i post a part two!

feel free to ask me more about it in the mean time tho!

[star-starters]

[0yorixu]

tears we shared

[imaroyalmess]

so i'm learning about how fandom created EM fields and the fucking. ANGST potential for post-tfo megop???

like, megatron and optimus meeting in battle for the nth time and amidst the viscera it suddenly it hits them— the love is gone. their EM fields, which used to contain a sliver of that love between two cogless miners finding meaning in the world through each other, held none anymore. the war had consumed it. the two of them should feel relieved. but all megatron feels is rage. all optimus feels is grief

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