This blog is for bayverse Megatron, mostly confined to the first three movies, but willing to try and deal with Galvatron and TLK Megatron on request.
Mun is 25+. I'm happy to RP with most people, but, for my own comfort, I'd prefer it if my RP partners were at least over 18.
Be nice. Any bullying or excessive drama, and I'll probably quickly unfollow. I'm way too old for that shit, and so are you.
Do not try to godmod my character. Any attempt at controlling him during interactions will result in the thread being dropped.
Megatron isn't a nice guy, and he really doesn't have a soft spot for humans. He was kept on ice for decades while being essentially vivisected by human scientists, with the implication that he was at least semi-conscious throughout. Even beyond typical Megatron hangups about the superiority of Cybertronians over all organic life, he has a special distrust and disregard for humanity.
(Sentences from The Expanse (2019-2022). Adjust phrasing where needed)
"Watch your eyes. People get killed over a wrong look around here."
"When people don't tell the truth, it always ends badly."
"You're two heartbeats away from running the government, and yet you're accountable to no one. How does that happen?"
"We'll all be dead soon enough."
"Maybe this is above your pay grade?"
"You and I both want the same thing: to do right by our people."
"If this thing is as big as you think it is, you're going to need someone to watch your back."
"I hear the drumbeats of war. It's the sound of lies and the love of power, and I cannot stand idly by."
"Something terrible is happening here, and we're not sticking around to find out what!"
"You told your crew to take off without you?"
"Never listen to what people say. Just watch what they do."
"Usually, when we're in dangerous situations, you hide your nerves by asking weird, inappropriate questions."
"We're the only ones who know what's going on down there – the only ones with a chance to stop it!"
"This crew is depending on me. You've put your lives in my hands."
"God, I hate space."
"Look, I'm for killing whoever needs killing, but it's not going to make you feel any better."
"Please stop trying to take credit for every damn thing that's wrong in the universe!"
"Somebody's got to act. It's the right thing to do."
"The stars are better off without us."
"Somebody's got to act. It's the right thing to do."
"The stars are better off without us."
"When I was little, I was fascinated by stars. I thought they were magic."
"We cannot afford to be enemies anymore."
"When I said I need your help, I didn't mean create a diplomatic incident!"
"It's such a base human instinct to destroy things we don't understand."
"When was the last time you left Earth?"
"Future generations will look back at this day as the moment that you forged your legacy."
"The war does not end when people put down their guns; it ends when they reconcile. Until then, the war has only paused."
"I have seen blood spilled my entire life, and I have spilled enough myself to know that the future - our future - cannot be built on violence."
"You wanted me to play this game, so I did. You don't get to be upset with me because I didn't play by your rules."
"Violence is indiscriminate. If you use it as a tool, it will do more than just kill your enemies. Sometimes it will also kill the ones you love most."
"You are my captain. Whatever you choose, I choose also."
"I'm trying to forget how much I hate politics."
"War is the wrong place for good men."
"You know, for someone who says they don't want to be a hero, you sure end up being one a lot."
"War doesn't end at the battlefield. It ends at the negotiating table, or it doesn't end at all."
feeling a bit rough about my writing on this blog. Admittedly I did make this blog to be largely crack-focused originally, and I'm still a little shaky with serious characterisation, but I'm trying to do better.
Anyway, Imma take a break for tonight. Will get to what I owe tomorrow when I'm a little less meh about life, the universe, and everything.
@stahscream: ❛❛ How humanity survived so long is a mystery to me. ❜❜
"You give them too much credit. INSECTS always manage to find just the right niche to infest to ensure their continued existence."
He scoffs, his facial plating twisting with poorly veiled disgust. Humans are one of his least favourite subjects at the best of times, but the thought of their continual proliferation never fails to put him in a foul mood. Vermin clinging to soft-sparked Autobots to stave off their rightful extinction.
"Still mad?"
"Missed me?"
"Get out. Now."
"Who let you in?!"
"Why are you here?"
"What do you want?"
"Read my lips: no."
"You don't scare me."
"Hey, put that back!"
"You are not welcome."
"Move out of the way."
"Don't be like that..."
"Don't test me today."
"Do you mind? I'm busy."
"Don't come any closer."
"Showing your face again?"
"You expect me to apologize?"
"I won't say it again: leave it."
"You know I can't let you in."
"I don't trust you to behave."
"You being here is bad enough."
"Have you nothing better to do?"
"I thought you didn't trust me?"
"I don't wanna deal with this…"
"I'm not here as a favor to you."
"Are you still holding a grudge?"
"Your presence befouls this place."
"Is there a… reason you're here?"
"I didn't expect to find you here."
"I should just kill you right now."
"What more could you possibly want?"
"Do you mind getting out of the way?"
"Don't you have hobbies or something?"
"You're threading a dangerous line…"
"What? No open arms, no welcome back?"
"Cut to the chase — why call me here?"
"Do they just let anyone walk in here?"
"How did you… the doors were locked!"
"You're not sorry, don't even pretend."
"You've chosen a bad day to bother me."
"Come now, no need for such hostility."
"Do you find amusement in harassing me?"
"You being here is enough to ruin my day."
"I don't care, you need to let me through."
"You should have killed me… but you didn't."
"So… standoffish. Am I not allowed to visit?"
"You better have a good reason for ignoring me."
"Here, I brought you something!" *Middle finger.*
"Seeing your face sour at the sight of me is funny."
"Is that what I am to you? An annoyance? A pest?"
"Were you expecting me? What a… warm welcome."
"No. Whatever you're about to ask, the answer is no."
"Do you just think it's funny to get me into trouble?"
"You think you can just walk in here after what you did?"
"I'm not going to be intimidated into letting you through."
"Doesn't matter what you say, I'm not doing you any favors."
"You'll forgive me for being curt, but please, leave me alone."
"Grow up. We can hate each other's guts and still do business."
"I won't be held responsible for what I do if you don't get out of my face."
"Isn't it funny that I'm right here and you can't do anything to me right now?"
So many new faces all of a sudden. He makes a mental note to shoot Starscream in the wing next time he sees him; obviously he hasn't been bothering to secure the perimeter properly.
Roz is in shock of herself, flinching as bits of plating fell around her. She freezes when she looks up, sharp optics noticing the fresh wound.
By her hand.
She didn’t hit others. At all. At least…not until now. Beyond it being a betrayal of her programming, it was a betrayal of herself… Everything she believed in. She just got so muddled, so upset, so furious… And now she is so petrified when he looms over her.
But…she returns with her own firm stance, optics pained. “Because of you, half a litter of baby rabbits didn’t make it. And the other half have been left without their parents. Among others. I am fully within my jurisdiction to be angry.” Incredibly angry. Painfully angry. She couldn’t save her island back then, and now…
“……But you’re right. I’m…truly sorry…” Does she expect any of this to affect him at all…? No, but it was all she had besides running. She doesn’t allow her gaze away from him but for a moment, preparing to do just that if he sprung.
“I shouldn’t have done that. Please…” she opens her main compartment, withdrawing a field medic kit that Ratchet had supplied for her. “Let me patch that up.”
His approach is slow and measured, making expert use of the size difference between himself and his intended victim. He stops only to rake a claw across his damaged plating, dislodging the loathed scraplet drones already seeking to infest the reopened wound.
"You think I care about barely-sentient organic slime, too weak to save themselves?You should be GRATEFUL I stopped at one worthless forest."
There's a sharp grinding squeal as his denta grit against each other, as though to drown out the pest robot's impetuous admonishments and pathetic attempts at capitulation. Pain and anger and the scent of fresh energon make his spark burn like a furnace. The memories many ignominies bestowed upon him by this filthy organic planet coalesce in his fractured mind, stoking the fires further still, and he finds himself howling, flinging himself forward to snatch the little white annoyance in his claws.
"Really," he growls mockingly, optics briefly settling on the medical kit. "Striking me was the most DECEPTICON thing you've ever done. A shame to spoil the moment with such AUTOBOT simpering."
I should also point out that I'm 100% an advocate for the "baby fight for babies" headcanon for the Bayverse cybertronian war. In other words, the tyran war is only about 20,000 years old, as opposed to other continuities in which the war is millions of years old.
Also, I think Megatron being MIA for up to half the war also tracks with how he doesn't seem to get Optimus' damage in the movies. Like, yeah, Megatron has a fanatical hatred towards humans because they tortured him for years, but his view of the Autobots and Optimus is pretty much in line with any other Megatron. Optimus, on the other hand, has had to fight through the entire war, watching his friends get killed and mutilated nonstop until the events of the movies.
Optimus just about holds his "gentle giant" persona together until Megatron is freed, and then all that built up PTSD just comes flooding into play. And Megatron just doesn't seem to get it. He's still fresh in this war. Starscream's been holding the Decepticon's together all this time, and Megs just thinks everything will just pick up where he left off. He doesn't account for the fact that Optimus is SICK TO DEATH of the Decepticons at this point. That he's long past the point of being able to try and reason things out with Megatron.
This is what gets Megs killed in DOTM. He goes up to Optimus, helps kill Sentinel, and expects his dumb soft-sparked brother to pull a TFP Prime move and try to take the more peaceful option.
And instead he gets eviscerated by a mech who's been fighting for WAY TOO FUCKING LONG.
❝ long way from home, aren’t you? ❞
❝ why do you even care? you could have just walked away. ❞
❝ i almost feel bad for you. ❞
❝ i can tell you a thing or two about family matters. ❞
❝ lucky for you, my schedule’s wide open. ❞
❝ they’re gonna be sorry they picked this fight. ❞
❝ i heard you. it’s not up for discussion. ❞
❝ i will rain down agony, every possible violation, upon you. ❞
❝ um, alright…that hurt a little. ❞
❝ you think you understand, but you don’t. ❞
❝ didn’t you hear that? voices. it felt…evil. ❞
❝ you do not want this fight. ❞
❝ truth is more important than kindness. ❞
❝ i know every corner of these lands, every language spoken, every war waged, every deal struck. ❞
❝ it should have been you. you hear me? you. not her. ❞
❝ only use this as a last resort. ❞
❝ deny it all you want, but you saved me. ❞
❝ you don’t want me and you never will. ❞
❝ they do not stop us, so they do not concern us. ❞
❝ only time you talk to me is when you need something. ❞
❝ that doesn’t mean you should lie to your friends or family. ❞
❝ will i see you again? ❞
❝ don’t leave me alone ever again. ❞
❝ you see in the eyes of a child. ❞
❝ i know you hate gods but you really can’t stay away from them, can you? ❞
❝ you are in your head. let it go. ❞
❝ it is wise to be discreet. ❞
❝ you are right…i do not believe you. ❞
❝ the power of any weapon comes from your heart…but only when tempered by your head. ❞
❝ wow, you’re so stupid. that your father’s doing? or your mother’s? ❞
❝ will we see people on the road? friendly? will they try to rob us? ❞
❝ smells like rotting eggs. is it still good? ❞
❝ you’ve only killed those deserving, right? ❞
❝ you’re sounding more like your father by the minute. ❞
❝ that thing was trying to kill us. it’s not like you don’t get angry in a fight. ❞
❝ leave. my. home. ❞
❝ you killed against my wishes. ❞
❝ it’s all you talk about, over and over. do something about it or shut up. ❞
❝ behind you, watch out! ❞
❝ don’t know, don’t care. ❞
❝ this used to be a challenge. ❞
❝ this place feels like a prison. ❞
❝ it feels like something is waiting for us down here. ❞
❝ don’t be sorry. be better. ❞
❝ kill for survival, not for indulgence. ❞
❝ can’t believe you’ve lasted this long. ❞
❝ in war, a soldier sees beauty in the blood of his enemy. ❞
❝ the winds of fate have given us a strange coincidence. ❞
❝ close your heart to their desperation. close your heart to their suffering. ❞
❝ you’ve had to kill people before, haven’t you? you’re used to it. ❞
❝ why do you say nothing? ❞
❝ you’ve seen it with your own eyes. you can’t hurt me. nothing can. ❞
❝ anger can be a weapon if you control it. ❞
❝ whatever it is you seek, i do not have it. you should move on. ❞
❝ when they find you - and they will - they’ll make things difficult. ❞
❝ there is one unavoidable truth you will never escape: you cannot change. ❞
❝ only time you talk to me is when you need something. ❞
❝ we do what me must to survive. ❞
❝ follow down this path and head for daylight. ❞
❝ heh. thought you’d be bigger. ❞
❝ you have a knack for ominous statemants. ❞
❝ just tell me what i want to know! no need for this to get bloody. ❞
❝ we all gotta take responsibility sometime, huh? ❞
❝ that was a waste of a perfectly good apple. ❞
❝ you think i’m weak, because i’m not like you. ❞
❝ but…you told me never to go down there. ❞
❝ you know, i really hoped i’d never see this place again. ❞
❝ until our journey is over, one of us must remain focused. ❞
❝ you must be better than me. understand? ❞
❝ did something change? the forest feels different now. ❞
❝ with power comes a big choice. you serve yourself or you serve others. ❞
❝ do not mistake my silence for lack of grief. ❞
❝ we are not men. we are more than that. ❞
❝ i know i was never what you wanted. ❞
❝ mourn how you wish. leave me to my own. ❞
❝ hurry! i’m slipping. ❞
❝ do not allow yourself to feel for them. they do not feel for you. ❞
❝ do not concern yourself with what might be. focus on what is. ❞
❝ we do as we please. no excuses. ❞
❝ your father can kill. are you going to be able to do that? ❞
❝ accuracy over speed. ❞
❝ you left me here. again. why don’t you care? ❞
❝ what, you want a hug? ❞
❝ finish what you started. ❞
❝ you know, for someone so strong, you worry a lot. ❞
❝ you are hunting deer - not chasing it. ❞
❝ i don’t know you and you don’t know me… don’t seem to want to. ❞
❝ killing animals i get. they’re food. but people… they’re just trying to survive too. ❞
❝ do you hear that? it sounds like someone screaming. ❞
❝ i’m going to cut off your head now. ❞
❝ it’s…it’s still alive. ❞
❝ we are here because of you. never forget that. ❞
❝ do not speak again. ❞
❝ your anger…you can get lost in it. ❞
❝ you don’t have to be the smartest man in the world to see that. ❞
❝ we’ve come so far. there has to be a way. ❞
❝ don’t you see? they never gave up hope. and neither should we. ❞
❝ you can change your path. it’s not too late. ❞
❝ i’ve been to many strange places… but this is a new one. ❞
❝ oh, cut it out, princess. you’re gonna get me all weepy. ❞
❝ you are too quick to temper. you a rash, insubordinate and out of control. ❞
❝ the path ahead is difficult and you are not ready. ❞
❝ you are not ready - stay back. ❞
❝ think i’m afraid of you?! you’re nothing to me. ❞
❝ stay by me. touch nothing. ❞
❝ you were gone for so long i thought that you… ❞
❝ you will always be a monster. ❞
❝ look at me! look at me! ❞
❝ you are going to have to kill me for that to happen. ❞
❝ can you kill something that big? ❞
❝ on our journey we will be attacked by all manner of creature. ❞
❝ so we’re gonna go toward the creepy singing? ❞
❝ why are there two beds in there? ❞
❝ slow down. your haste will cost us. ❞
❝ i warned you. you would not listen. ❞
❝ no, wait…i’m not giving up. i just…have to catch my breath. ❞
❝ well, this is it. it’s been an honor. ❞
❝ you left me alone to fight. ❞
❝ are you the last of your family too? ❞
❝ my mother made it for me. ❞
❝ fight until we stop or we are dead. ❞
❝ the last in his realm of all this kind and you shoot him. ❞
❝ come. no looking back now. ❞
❝ you’re more concerned with their safety than our goal. ❞
❝ i don’t think we’re supposed to be in here. ❞
❝ i’m…sorry for your loss. ❞
❝ i hoped that’d you, out of all the people i’ve faced, would make me feel something. ❞
❝ slow and old. you should never have come here. ❞
❝ that bow’s a little big for you, isn’t it? ❞
❝ earlier you said people might kill us. i’ll kill them if they try. ❞
❝ pain we endure. faulty weaponry we do not. ❞
❝ let me guess…you’re gonna be smug and say we shouldn’t have got involved. ❞
❝ no. you’ve been gone a long, long time! ❞
❝ if you try, i’ll try. ❞
❝ wow, uh…that was something, that fight. ❞
❝ you did not think it was important to tell me? ❞
❝ death suits you better. ❞
❝ is it dishonorable to grow old? ❞
❝ so unclean. so, so unclean. ❞
❝ you won’t stop me. ❞
❝ and i thought my family was fucked up. ❞
❝ i’m strong. i’m smart. i’m not what you think i am. ❞
❝ when i require your counsel, i will ask. ❞
❝ don’t you know when to give up? ❞
❝ listen to me. i can help. ❞
❝ you’ve taught me so much. let me teach you something. ❞
❝ okay. there are a few gaps in my knowledge. ❞
❝ the path you walk. vengeance. you will find no peace. ❞
❝ you know i love you. you just can be better. i know you can be. ❞
❝ let them go. take me instead. ❞
❝ i’ve never felt more alive. ❞
❝ no…you’re bleeding. ❞
❝ do you have any idea, any idea at all, what you have cost me? ❞
❝ i used to dream about getting eaten. ❞
❝ relax. do not think of it as an animal. it is simply a target. ❞
❝ try to find forgiveness, and we can start something new. ❞
❝ there is much about me i won’t have you know. ❞
❝ have you ever heard the term “tempting fate?” ❞
❝ your memory was a comfort in dark times. ❞
❝ she meant more to me than you anyway. ❞
❝ you are not yourself. ❞
❝ if seeing me dead will make things right, i won’t stop you. ❞
❝ i’d bow if i could, your majesty. ❞
❝ then we will go home. to give up this easily, so close to the start… ❞
❝ only fire when i tell you to fire. ❞
❝ not my blood. ❞
❝ nobody’s killed a dragon for hundreds of years. ❞
❝ are they dead…? oh! not dead! not dead! ❞
❝ a dangerous beast. we’ll take him down together. ❞
inthecompanyofprimes replied: “One hundred guys versus a gorilla was a *thought experiment*.”
"And that is why your nauseating insect species will never amount to anything. Because you'd rather whine about hypotheticals than take action!" He nudges Sam towards the haphazardly thrown together arena door. "Make sure to avoid the claws."
