Transformers, Decepticons specifically, using the quadrant system 👀💦
Idea: Decepticons and only Decepticons using the quadrant system while the Autobots go “what in the hell”
Starscream announces “Megatron is my kismesis” and Soundwave stands up slapping a club-shaped magnet on his shoulder and goes “like HELL” and Megatron goes “you can’t be my kismesis, Optimus is my kismesis” and Optimus goes “what in the world is a kissmississippi” and Skyfire, poor Skyfire who Knows, Skyfire says “it uhh it uhhhh it means he hates you, that’s all, it doesn’t mean anything else”
More serious headcanon: in MTMTE in issue 13 all the Autobots sit around and talk about who their nemesis is, you know, your nemesis, everyone’s got a nemesis—and I sorta lowkey headcanon that that’s a Cybertronian wartime-specific kismesissitude system. like, your official nemesis is someone on the enemy faction that you always fight and definitely wanna beat/kill and the feeling is totally mutual and either one of you would celebrate if the other died, but only if YOU’RE the one who did the killing; but also, like, you probably also kinda wanna fuck your nemesis. and everyone sorta, gets that. If you’re caught by a superior officer fragging an enemy soldier but you’re like “sir, this is my NEMESIS” they’ll be like “oh okay gotcha” and just sorta, leave you to it, because it’s not fraternization, that’s just what things are like between nemeses.
Optimus and Megatron are nemeses. They haven’t fragged but you can smell the sexual tension from three star systems away. Prowl and Shockwave were inches from being nemeses, both being the Cold Logical Pragmatists With Frighteningly Similar Yet Shockingly Opposite Morals, but Prowl was like “Optimus’s obsession with Megatron isn’t healthy, I should leave Shockwave open and hope that Optimus goes for him, they had a history before the war and the shadowplay,” so instead Prowl went for Starscream. Starscream spent the entire war oblivious to the fact that Prowl was making nemesis overtures at him. Consequently, no one was monitoring Shockwave, and you can see how that ended. Soundwave and Jazz played at being nemeses but it was like, a political marriage. The mutual respect was there but not the mutual loathing, but they made it work.
In general, when I do serious headcanons, I don’t like exporting quadrants to other fandoms; but I make an exception for formally socially codified cross-faction nemeses with sexual tension.
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