#mtmte atomizer

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Omg did somebody mention Getaway's betrayal of Atomizer?! This is my OBSESSION recently. Atomizer has become my absolute favorite sidelined character, he gets zero attention in the fandom, despite having such an interesting and unexplored backstory and having a lot of au potential?? Like he's a fragging archer assassin in a universe that uses guns and blades and variations therein almost exclusively, and archers are simply sexy as hell. He's dangerous enough with that crossbow for Magnus to BAN him from having it aboard. And he's a weapons engineer, good enough to have worked at Kimia, and he was an interior designer before the war?? Like that combo is so interesting!

And then of course there's his really good story arc during the mutiny that leads to his death, where he goes from following Getaway basically unquestioningly to slowly realizing that oh, oh no, he's following the bad guy. They're winning, but they're doing it *wrong,* so very wrong. And he decides to switch sides at the moment when it's the most dangerous to him in order to protect people, like he always wanted to do in getting rid of Megatron. And you know he knew Getaway would retaliate. He'd seen how far Getaway was willing to go at that point, he'd experienced Getaway pushing *him* to go too far. And he did the right thing anyway. He's a flawed mech who made a lot of terrible decisions and fell in with a charismatic narcissist, but I think he ultimately wasn't a bad one.

Anyway there's also so much au potential with him. What if he'd realized earlier what was happening and tried to shut down Getaway much sooner, or maybe tries to sabotage the deal with Froid and Sunder? Or would he have led the movement to get rid of Megatron if Getaway wasn't there, and what would that look like?

I've got some waaay more angsty thoughts too. Like when Getaway starts tearing into him, he rips open his sparkchamber and finds that he's sparked, and worse, it's *his.* And if Atomizer was still alive at that point, what would he do? Maybe it would snap him out of the madness, but then he has to get help in keeping Atom alive, and there's no more good medics on board...

Or if instead of killing him in general, Getaway hands Atomizer over to Star Saber for "training," the same way Star Saber and Tyrest had tortured Getaway. So Atomizer is still alive at the end of it all, broken and beaten but now has to deal with the Consequences left in Getaway's wake and his own actions/inactions...

I'm sorry for the long ask, I'm just Atomizer's #1 fan and wish we'd gotten more around his character in the comics, or hell, if the Hasbro gods smiled upon us and put him in literally any other media.

Exactly!!!

You'd think he'd get more love considering his theme but no

And his dynamic with Getaway is just juicy, so juicy

He knew. He had to have known Getaway would retaliate. He knew.

Oughhh him realizing earlier had fun consequences

(really, in my mind? Atomizer wouldn't have lead the movement in Getaway's place. ... Though. Whirl might've tbh.)

Fascinating consequences on Getaway deciding that Atomizer was worth "fixing" instead of outright killing him, you can involve Froid and Sunder there too

Plus!!!! I think that Atomizer would look REALLY REALLY REALLY cool in quite a few different styles!!

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Thinking about Getaway's betrayal of Atomizer

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what if Whirl had never backed out of the plans with Getaway and Atomizer

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Toxic yaoi. Anyone got a ship name for these two?

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I have "Getaway x Whirl x Atomizer" lying around in my notes and I need you to know about that

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We don't think about Getaway and Atomizer's dynamic enough

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I've been thinking about Getaway and Atomizer's dynamic