I LOVE! your Hive Prime AU!! Just binged every post and my head is absolutely swimming with brainworms!!! Shaking him around in a bottle!!
I would love to know more about the HiveSpark AU! Really enjoyed how girlfail ES bee was at being a parental figure so, hive prime would be even worse!!! (/pos) How does he feel about taking care of Wilder? How does Wilder feel about Hive? Or the other Primes? Omg! What does Optimus think about Wilder and Hive!! WHAT DOES RATCHET THINK- (sorry!!! I am so so so excited!)
What does Hive actually do after taking back control in the Voice of the Autobots AU? How do all the other Autobots feel about the new prime? Do the other primes still try and take control? Are they mad? Does Hive even listen to them anymore?
Is Optimus proud of Hive?
(sorry about the question spam! no need to answer them all I'm just! I love your work so much???? Hive Prime is so so cool!!! I love when people take Bee, the trademark 'happy fella' guy and just, 1 billion trauma and responsibility him!!!!)
(OH! Hi!!! It's been a little while since anyone's had interest in what I'm up to with my AU's, so please, don't apologize! As a writer, we really mean it when we say that you taking the time to ask about our works is such a joy. Everything I do is 100 percent passion, and I tend not to share it because the stuff I really like doesn't do well. I've got a geometry meme post doing straight numbers right now, meanwhile my very heartfelt OC crashed and burned, poor fella. But anyways, thank you for talking to me! I love talking to people!!!!! I'm so happy that you also want to shake Hive in a jar!)
Hive and Wilder's relationship is much more loving than a plain description of their situation makes it out to be. Hive really does love his son, promise! He's just also very tired. It's the autobot equivalent of raising a kid while chronically ill.
Hive spends very little time with Wilder between Prime responsibilities, and Prime nuisances. It weighs on him, honestly. But when he is with his son, the two are a real handful. It's one of the most stark reminders that the autobots get that Hive is in fact the same trouble making bot beneath the massive frame and responsibility. The two are birds of a feather, and even without the voice bank, Wilder understands his father innately. He is a very tiny child, with a very massive father, so Wilder can expend some energy just climbing up to sit on Hive's shoulder.
But really, even in his hay day Hive couldn't compare to Wilder. That little bastard earned his name. He was online for about a week before Hive was lucid enough to name him, and during that time he caused such a headache for everyone else that Hive's first time holding the kid was simultaneously the first of many long stories about how much trouble Wilder caused. The autobots as a whole are tripping over each other to figure out how to raise a sparkling who's tiny, fast, and determined to cause chaos.
I've said it before, but things go well specifically because Wilder is so intelligent, and the whole community needed to band together to rope him in. Ratchet is a big part of that, as the unofficial second in command, and chief medical officer. Especially because Wilder's immense energy focuses down into a talent for medicine. He holds quite a lot of respect for Ratchet, and sees him as a mentor and second parent.
Really, Wilder is a sweetheart, but too smart for his own good, and he catches on pretty quickly that the reason he can't always have fun times with his father is because of the other Primes. Half his antics are quite clearly bids to annoy the Primes. Really, he can't stand any of them, though the feeling isn't reciprocated.
Most of the Primes are mildly annoyed by him, Prima and Megatronus find him to be an exhausting but darling little sparkling, and Optimus is just very sad that he can't have a good relationship with his closest friend's son. Wilder doesn't recognize Optimus as a good Prime, because ultimately, his bickering with the other Primes over Hive takes just as much energy from Hive as the others do.
As an adult, Wilder never really gets the chance to reconcile. Although the Primes have backed off by then, and his relationship with the autobots and his father is thriving, there were unrealized consequences to being born of the amalgamated DNA of several Primes, and Wilder leaves home towards a painful future...
Voice of the Autobots Hive had a hell of a time between falling into stasis and waking up. While the autobots were busy trying to keep him alive, tiny little Bumblebee was surfing the oceans of his own mind, filibustering every single Prime until he'd made his point clear. It was easier with some than others, but his ultimatum was simple; you advise, I listen, I do. No demands, no forcing control. There was no rest during that stasis, he didn't just wake up and decide to change things. Every second that he was out was being spent to assert himself as the ruler of his own frame.
When he does wake, the change is palpable. The Primes each have an amount of energy alloted to them, and can't take control unless allowed or in times of emergency. It's finally Hive's time to lead, and he steps into it with the wisdom and grace that Optimus taught him. Any fears or uncertainties the autobots had are extinguished. Hive is no longer a silent suffering mouthpiece to warring gods, he makes himself and his intentions well known. The Primes do have sage wisdom to pass down, but Hive certainly isn't dependent on them.
And last, but not least, YES! Optimus is immensely proud of Hive in every single variation of this au. There isn't a single moment from his death until Hive's rise that he isn't on his friend's side, even when it means long and arduous debates with his own mentors. Optimus believes that the Matrix chose Bee, not the Primes, and he couldn't be prouder to know that Hive is worthy. If he'd had a choice in the matter, he himself would have chosen Bumblebee, with Ratchet as a close second seeing as he preferred the medbay to the meeting room.
(Whew, this took a little while! I hope the food's good lol, I try not to make long posts like this normally but you seem like you'd actually enjoy the detail, so I let it get a little long! Thank you again for taking the time to read my work, I really appreciate being able to reciprocate excitement over a project!)
