Sep 7, 2018
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Foreshadowing lvl 100
just putting this here because it’s one of my favourite alternate covers for an MTMTE issue...lonely little Tailgate, all the stark, cold blues of the inside against the red corona outside. Really beautiful.
BRAINSTORM NO
congratulations Rodimus, you super-fertile bot, you.
how many robot mpreg fics did this spawn
can’t help but think Cyclonus doesn’t want Tailgate to hope because, deep down, he’ll hope along with him. He knows how this is going to end.
A rare bit of self-awareness on Rodimus’s part here, and coming shortly after we see him looking through all his unread messages from Magnus. Drift is gone. Magnus had disappeared. He doesn’t really have anyone else right now.
...and then I died.
I rarely have such a strong emotional reaction to fictional relationships (I have a heart of stone) but this killed me. Chromedome and Rewind are two broken individuals trying very hard to fix one another - and themselves - and part of the appeal of their relationship, for me, is how real it feels. They’re not perfect, as individuals or as a couple. They bicker and fight and behave badly. They say and do things they go on to regret. But they are trying.
And Chromedome, who has never had the strength to face his pain head-on and learn how to deal with it, changes his mind when he realises how much Rewind cared about him. Enough so that, even though Rewind was hurt and angry with Chromedome, his last act was to compile a message with the sole intention of telling Chromedome to be strong, that he’s a better person now, and that he loved him.
And yes, I think Rewind is completely aware of what Chromedome does to himself when he loses someone he loves, and I think this is a little nudge from him - a way of keeping him strong and reminding him that what they had matters too much to throw away. That all the pain and sorrow that will follow is worth it, because he will always have the memories they shared. For an archivist, that seems like something very important.
(as an aside, the fact that Roberts and co actually went ahead and brazenly made a gay couple canon in a mainstream comic book is pretty awesome. There’s so much ‘subtext’ and queerbaiting in modern media and it’s refreshing as hell to see it actually presented here, unapologetically and unambiguously.)
omg Perceptor’s face when Brainstorm is picking out that Point one spark is hilarious!