#megason au

[bayheart]

Trivia: in TFA official canon, Megatron did not found the Decepticons: that was someone named Megazarak. That said, Megatron overthrew Megazarak, and either started the War or escalated it. (You could say, for the Megason AU, that Megazarak led Megatron down a bad path due to the future 'con leader being young and impressionable. That said, Megatron is still very much responsible for how things turned out: he could have left, but he instead exiled Megazarak, took over, and started the War.)

well anon i am delighted to inform you that i did know about him but it was. vaguely. and also two years ago </3 (i am. arcee in this image. taken from when i was first developing the AU!)

essentially . TFA lore is a bit of a nightmare to piece together so my best solution at the time was to just make something up by piecing together snippets from other continuities! Ratchet raising him is my part, then he does become a miner as in the comics, then a gladiator in secret (which i believe is from TFP?), and he makes "friends" through that and is then able to form the Decepticons with other like-minded folk he meets there!

thinking about it again now i suppose i could add Megazarak in somehow, though if anyone does get added in it's more likely to be Terminus since i hear more about him! but i think i might be able to squeeze in both someday :] which. might mean having to Design them in TFA style but. well. we all have to suffer losses sometime </3

thank u for the info though this did remind me that Megazarak and Terminus exist 😭!!

[bayheart]

hey coward (affectionate) my art request is for you to do more of the youth animatic-- /hj

salem (since i KNOW it's u) u only win this round bc i care u. and also bc u redrew a still from this. and also also bc this gave me an excuse to open krita again 💖 missed that bastard program

i don't usually show animatic wips on here but . why not!!!! anyhow. warnin for blood n implied death but. man it's a literal battlefield. whaddya expect??

pls enjoy the sudden drop in quality when it gets to the "i drew this whole section wrong but haven't gotten around to deleting it and starting over" part bc i think its funny :)

[bayheart]

“S’pose whoever it is can’t be too bad if they’re related t’you.”

asks that make you drop everything and scribble out a comic without pause for like 2 hours. anon i love you and you are Correct. how did you know i’ve been in megason au brainrot for days

ratchet probably figured it out after the protoform story from sumdac, but i mean. what’s he gonna do? tell her “hey, i’m your grandsire because i’m megatron’s father”? yeah, because THAT would go down well with the team, right,

[bayheart]

Who, Ratchet? Yeah, I hear he’s even older than Megatron! Ha, do you think they knew each other before the war?

in which i take a joke way too seriously yet again! thanks tff! listen all i’m saying is they have the same voice actor, they have very similar colors and design features in some places, and we know that ratchet is willing to treat decepticon patients (as we saw with oilslick) so what if he’s so nonchalant to the factions because his son is leading them so he can’t truly hate them.... haha jkjk...... unless

i also wrote a one-shot for this au which i will link in the notes bc tumblr algorithm if you want to read it as well for a bit more info!

[bayheart]

let me add to the Megason AU. Megatron finds out that Sari is his child, I feel like there would a lot of chaos between Megatron and Ratchet at that point.

no proper drawing for an answer on this one coz that’s a bit tricky! it’s probably like a coin flip of whether megatron just straight up wouldn’t acknowledge or claim sari, or would take interest in it and try to get her to join the decepticons since she’s kinda Part Of Him. she never would, so he probably wouldn’t care about it too long even then. not sure how it’d play out since we know so little about what would have happened post s3 and each character’s set stories, but it’d probably just be something megatron would bring up if they encountered each other but nothing much beyond that!

as for ratchet, i doubt there’d be tension about it; after all, megatron didn’t know about it at all, and he doesn’t put her in any more danger after knowing than he would have put her in before. and who is he to judge anyway? i mean. he let his kid start a war lmao. as long as megatron keeps no involvement with sari it’s just an unfortunate fact but nothing to be tense or angry towards him about!

that being said i have to show this stupid doodle i did and the comment that prompted it relating to this ask because i think it is funny even if i don’t think ratchet would be aggressive towards megs about it :)

[reptile-house]

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