You've been given a blank check to create a transformers series starring Elita-1, what would you do with it? Plot, format and priorites are all up to you. No pressure for this, I just love your fics and blog, and your dedication to Elita, and would enjoy your thoughts on this. Have a good day of your favorite things.
I got on our home PC that I only use when I need to do a lot of writing specifically for this ask.
Anon. You might think you know, but you have no idea how much on a daily basis I think about exactly this. I joke with my partner @plenoptic07 and friends that I would change majors, go to film school, somehow become a director with a huge budget just so that I could make a TF movie in order to get the change to make ONE scene in particular *takes a breath* ... but I'm always a little serious about it. So thank you so much for this ask! But gosh, tp be honest I would make a series centering around my fic that its appropriately named "The Fic That Will Never Be Written" in my google docs.
So if I were given free reign, I would unashamedly make a series that centers right on Elita One. It would start with Ariel of course, on Cybertron and it would be an in-depth exploration of Cybertron's cultures. Cultures, in that I am very tired of us focusing on Iacon like that is the only place worth really exploring. What of Tarn? Kaon beyond the gladiator aspects. VOS??? Oh my god I would love to know more about Vos.
But it would follow Ariel as she grows up. We would see Cybertron through her experience, and learn about its many many people with her. Of course Megatron would come it, but I'm not going to go in depth about it lest I spoil anything for the aforementioned fic. Honestly Orion Pax, Megatronus, Starscream, etc, would have somewhat minor rolls though they would obviously be around. That means this would be one hell of a slow burn, but hopefully that keeps my budget coming in, right??
So I would love for each "episode" to be in a kind of chapter format. A period of Elita's life that may sometimes make the series look no unlike a documentary. We would see Cybertron's larger conflicts in the background, such as in the media Ariel sees, who she meets, and what she gets caught up in. But of course this is her early life. Very early because I feel that no matter if she even tried not to, Ariel would not be able to help but get herself involved in Cybertron's conflicts. Slowly but surely, be in getting involved with Megatron or otherwise.
I would want for this series to explore the beginning of the Decepticons. How the Decepticons started and how their rhetoric was first concieved. I'm just skimming the surface of all I could get into with that but I hope at least some of what I'm putting down is getting picked up. I want Ariel to be the initial founder of the decepticons... Megatron just happened to be loud and got the most credit because he did the speeches Ariel wrote for him.
And if this is perhaps the first season, I want there to be cuts to the "present", which will be the Autobot and Decepticon's war when its really getting to the thick of it. Optimus is the Prime of course, Megatron is leading the Decepticons and both factions are militarized. And we are still following Elita, but at this point the audience doesn't know just how Ariel became Elita. And sometime within the season, it will become aparent that no one else does either, and currently the timeline of the War has it that Ariel was killed.
And now everybody has to wait for season two.
OooOOOooOOOO I know, I know. But if I go any further, I'll spoil my fic beyond what will be obvious in the first chapter or two.
But Anon, thank you so much for this ask, and also for the kind words! You've got me feeling all warm inside. Thank you so much for reading my fics, I put my heart into them and to know that people genuinely enjoy them... it just really gets me going and its comments like this that give me the drive to keep writing.
