Jul 2
Post-War! TarnOp fankid who has Tarn’s outlier ability, but they only use it to give their creators headaches so that they can steal extra sweets and / or hide their collection of various stolen war memorabilia
#Grey’s Ideas and Other Things (AKA Posts)#A tiny part of TarnOp are tempted to have some sort of suppresser implanted in their sparkling’s code to keep them from misbehaving but-#-memories of their respective past experiences with having their bodies altered in drastic and uncomfortable fashions shut that idea down-#-almost immediately. And besides they can still teach their sparkling to control their desires and not misuse their ability right? (Optimus#-believes so unlike Tarn…)#Oh god I’ve grown attached to this kid in the span of four minutes#Their fascinated by the Cybertronian War and love to try and smooth talk their parents into telling them what it was like (despite that not#-being how their outlier ability works at all) they trade sweets and shiny objects from their home with the other kids around the street in#-exchange for info on where they can find more relics from the war#They’re a semi spoiled child of two parents who were still way too under qualified to be raising a sparkling but got lucky and didn’t fuck-#-it all up#They keep imitating their parents mannerisms and even their EMP field because they think TarnOp are the coolest mechas in all of Cybertron#Wise refined awe inspiring witty basically every single word the kid can think of from data pads they’ve read in order to label the-#-idolised version of their creators they’ve created#When in actuality their creators are two morons to shimmied their way to semi domestic bliss and awkward social reintegration#Bonus idea: Megatron is either super dead or in exile and the sparkling is especially fascinated by him so they have a lot of Decepticon-#- -related memorabilia#They sometimes try to ask questions related to Megs but it just leads to tense silence and their creators arguing when they think the kid-#-can’t hear them#Tarnop#Opitarn#Tarn x optimus#Transformers sparkling#Optimus prime#Fankid#sparkling#transformers#Maccadam#Can be seen as a divergence of ->#Transformers idw