TF Big Bang 2025 : (Un)Becoming of a Prime
THE TIME HAS COME. Thank you for the amazing artists @cr0w-brainworms and Mikey for their wonderful works to go with this fic. Thank you to Ferin (@satyrn-exe) for the beta help! Thank you to the @tf-bigbang discord for encouraging me and putting up with lots of ramblings..
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: (Un)Becoming of a Prime
Rating: Mature
Continuity: Continuity Souping a Full AU
Ship(s): Jazz/Optimus Prime (more to be added)
Warning(s): Major Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Unhealthy Coping Behaviors, Body Dysmorphia, Mech Preg (Transformers), (more to be added)
Additional Tags: Jazz Becomes Prime And Makes It Everyone Else’s Problem, The Matrix Owes Child Support (and more to come)
Summary:
Jazz is chosen as Prime after Optimus dies, leaving him saddled with the Matrix, navigating this new peace-treaty between three factions, and mourning the loss of his conjunx. The only benefit he has is unlocking the real secret of the Matrix: the inner realm where the sparks of all former Primes remain, including Optimus. Dealing with gossipy, opinionated dead Primes with their own agendas is worth it to see Optimus again, but discovering Optimus (and the Matrix) left him a little Surprise changes everything. He can’t accept this future, a peaceful, blossoming society, without Optimus there with him, and he is going to get him back, even if he has to break the Matrix to do it.
He’s not raising his sparkling alone.
Harmonious Prime. Still sounded wrong, no matter how the notes flowed together. Too perfectly out of sync. Not like it was the first time he’d changed his name, but, usually, he got to be the one changing it, and he always came back to Jazz. This time…it wasn’t his notes playing.
He was never going to get used to being called Prime. He wondered if Optimus ever felt that way, after waking up to a world where Orion Pax no longer existed to anyone but Jazz.
And now, here he was, Harmonious Prime existing in a world without an Optimus or Orion to remember the 'him' he wished he still was.
