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Will add the rest when I have the energy to do so

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TFP Species swap au posts

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Anon rambles #1

Villains’ turn

Anon rambles #2

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Precannon

June Darby

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Singer!Charlie Watson au

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Charbee headcannons

[hercarisntyours]

march 23 day 1 (favourite) for the @womenintransformers week!!! i had to do my wife my fav ever es elita and a redraw of my fav elita picture ever!!

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rhis is like magnum opus i think

[ultimatecharbeefan]

Ive hold off talking about June for a while in my species swap TFP au because I had plans for her and I’m finally ready to talk about the m so let’s go! If you need context for this au use my Masterpost for all my stuff on it

Like Fowler June comes later in the timeline and is a medic like Ratchet. Unlike Fowler, however she doesn’t want the kids to engage in battle and combat. More like the autobots, she wants them to stay kids. The problem with her is her methods are less mother henning and leans more towards helicopter parent. Especially with Jack.

She’ll be on guard 24/7 and always watching the kids. If they even think about leave the base she’ll follow or insist it’s too dangerous. No sparring or training, even if Fowler insists, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. They’re just kids and shouldn’t be doing anything, she won’t listen. Not even if the kids insist they can do more or are more capable than what she believes them to be. June’s lost too many patients, too many bots that were barely younglings die for this war. She won’t lose these three either.

Since biological relations don’t exist on Cybertronian besides siblings, my thought process on why June cares much more for Jack is June specialized under working with sparkling and taking care of them before sending them to training for the resistance. It was hard for her, sending children off to their deaths and it weighed heavy on her spark since she was one of only medics. It got worse when the planet began to die and less and less sparklings came from the well. As the planet became unhealthy so did the sparkling. Eventually it got to the point where the sparkling she cared for barely lasted a stellar cycle before dying. It was awful.

And then Jack came.

Jack was part of the second to last batch of sparkling before the well stopped making them. And out of his group, only he survived. He was weak but June was able to nurse him back to health. It was hope for her and June held on tight. She was more affectionate towards him than any other sparkling she took care of and even considered having him become her apprentice despite his wishes to become a scout. Eventually he left to train and that was around the time the planet became inhabitable and they all had to leave.

Fowler and June are foils to each other. Both of them were born in a world without war and when it happened, lost a lot. Difference is how they cope are on opposite ends. Fowler pushes others and himself to keep going and finish the war as quick as possible even if it comes at the expense of the innocence and youth of the children. June on the other hand wants to preserve that aspect no matter what even if her means suffocate the kids and prevent any progress. Both of their characters would grow from help of the autobots and the kids’s own perspectives on their situations. Leading to a middle ground that all could agree on

[ultimatecharbeefan]

#11 Charbee Headcannon

Sally, Charlie’s mom, was the last person they told about their relationship. It’s not out of malice but Charlie knows her mother and even after knowing that the autobots want to protect earth still makes her weary of them. Even worse is the fact that they live in the 80s which wasn’t the most accepting time era for relationships that weren’t traditional. Especially since their relationship(Charlie and Sally’s) was finally starting to repair the wedge between since her dad’s death.

Eventually, Bumblebee and Charlie’s own guilt are the factors that lead to her telling Sally(and Ron). Like she predicted, Sally wasn’t the most open to it but was willing to work to become accepting for it since Bumblebee made her daughter happy. It takes a while but Sally does eventually learn to accept their relationship and build a better bond with the autobots.

[ultimatecharbeefan]

Cybertronian!Charbee au in a nutshell:

Bumblebee, barges into the bay: Hey Charlie, guess what I heard from—hi, Ratchet.

Ratchet: Bumblebee

Bumblebee:

Ratchet:

Ratchet:…whatever your relationship is with my apprentice is none of my business but don’t come barging in during work hours—flirting

Bumblebee: we aren’t flirting—

Ratchet: don’t try lying to me, kid

Bumblebee: Understood. So where’s Charlie now?

Ratchet: common area, I think.

Bumblebee: Kay, bye. *zooms out of there before it gets more awkward*

[mrgarage]

[It Only Takes a Moment by Hello Dolly]

Inspired by the fact that when I really like a ship, I imagine an animatic over any song with it.

The third image of Cybertron city on ruins was commissioned to @kalcom25

[ultimatecharbeefan]

*drops sequel TFA Oplita role swap au and leaves*

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Also you need to be registered to access this fic like all my fics

[ultimatecharbeefan]

Charbee angst but where Bumblebee died before she does.

A mission gone wrong, maybe they got ambush, outnumbered, or a plan gone wrong. Whatever it is, it ends with Bumblebee gone from the world.

And no one wants to tell Charlie. Charlie, who is waiting back at the base for them. The human who had helped them and kept their secret safe while they stayed on earth. The girl that loved the scout and resigned in Bumblebee’s spark. Or at least she used to.

In the end, Optimus is the one to tell her. They arrive back at the base and Charlie’s there, waiting. Most of them are conflicted, a part of them wanting to stay and be there to comfort their friend, another wanting to leave knowing that it was going to be uncomfortable.

Charlie notices the tense atmosphere and asks what’s wrong. It doesn’t take her long to notice Bumblebee isn’t with them and Optimus gives her the news.

At first, she doesn’t say anything. Her expression is neutral and she just stares at him. She doesn’t seem sad or even bothered by the news. As if expecting him to take it back. The bots offer her their condolences and Charlie just ask for someone to take her home, a job reserved for Bumblebee.

It’s only as she arrives home does it finally hit her. He was dead. The love of her life was gone and she couldn’t say goodbye. She breaks down in loud sobs in front of her house

[ultimatecharbeefan]

When talking about Charbee in different Transformers continuities, we always make them meet before the og cannon happens but I would like to put on the table the idea of them meeting during cannon .

In TFA imagine Bumblebee runs into a decepticon and thinks he’s can take him in his own. He goes missing for a while and Sari can’t find him and the team can’t find his signal and are getting worried before BAM—Bumblebee comms them back with a damaged voice box but that’s okay! Cause he also now has a girlfriend. He’s also in California which is 2,000 miles away from Detroit.

TFP Bumblebee goes through a ground bridge to check out an energy spike in Brighton Falls and they lose him for a while. By the end of the week he’s back and using a radio as a replacement voice! He seems more cheerful and keeps talking to the humans about someone name Charlie

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GO VOTE OPLITA FOR THE TRAGIC SHIP COMPETITION!! YEAH SURE JAYVIK IS SAS BUT AT LEAST THEY DIED TOGETHER AT LEAST THEY ENDED OFF ON GOOD TERMS IN EACH OTHERS ARMS! NAME ME ONE CONTINUITY WHERRE OPLITA IS ON GOOD TERMS AND ONE OF THEM ISNT DEAD! OPLITA FOR THE WIN

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Charbee Cyberverse au wherein Charlie ends up at the cliffside whilst on a drive on her bike and Tripp recognises her from her diving (similarly to what happened in the movie. Just without Bee or Memo present). But she backs out. Can’t do it. 

She returns the next day, looks at those lapping waves and wonders, what is she even doing here? She can’t do this. She hasn’t dived since—

Charlie spots a glint of something in the water. Something large, swept close to the coast by the tide. She swears it wasn’t there yesterday, though, admittedly,  all she remembers of that moment is the water, the swell of waves and nausea, daunting, disorientating, and the sound of a flatlining heart echoing through her head. 

She couldn’t make the jump then. Even when the teens around her jeered, even when names were thrown, coward, wimp, chicken. Even when Tina Lark smirked at the sorry sight of her reputation, never once having to lift a finger for Charlie’s own self sabotage. But she didn’t jump. 

What they had to say, it didn’t matter. Fell on deaf ears as she rode home. 

But today—today. Today something has drawn her back. Called through the water to the dreams that plagued her, a siren at sea in a storm of nightmares. Fear controls her on this ledge. Grief reminds her that her Dad won’t be there cheering when she reaches the bottom. 

And yet—Charlie jumps. 

It comes back to her in free fall, the diver she once was, posture honed—even out of practice, where air meets water she once again thrives. The ocean embraces her plunge, and suddenly blue is all around her, blue and—

She floats, suspended in the syrup of saltwater, staring with a mix of confusion and wonderment at a yellow metal cylinder, far larger and heavier than anything she could haul up to the surface. 

And inside, visible through a thick layer of what looks like glass—

She has to stop herself from gasping. Inside, unmoving, slumbers a humanoid shape, giant and metal, far more advanced looking than anything she’s seen from human technology. Almost out of this world. 

Charlie does not know what compels her to place a hand to the glass, reaching out towards this being, or what compelled her to return to this cliff, but when the pod hisses into activation, lights flickering on, and a pair of robot’s eyes open, wide and blue, it’s as if it’s meant to be. 

They climb up onto the shore and Charlie introduces herself. This Bee is less scared and more curious and excited if anything to meet her. 

Charlie ends up taking him in and naming him after learning about his amnesia. Which at first poses a challenge because where does one hide a robot? They find out then that he can transform into a car—and though Charlie thinks it would be sick to ride around in his super sci-fi altmode, it doesn’t seem like good camouflage. They find out Bee can scan Earth’s vehicles. He gets a random one from the road but he later finds one he likes in Hank’s scrapyard. 

With no decepticons on their trail yet, the pair end up being able to spend years together (with Memo barging in at some point and suddenly being in on the secret). Charlie helps fix him up, with Bee a little injured from the stasis pod crashing into Earth like that, and doing him more harm than good with its faulty systems. They have a scare when Bee runs low on energon—without knowing what it is—but do find some on Earth thanks to the in-built scanners he doesn’t know he has. Eventually they end up travelling, looking for signs of others like Bee, any sign of where he came from. But they never find anything there, nothing more than rumour, old, old tales documented from the Wild West that could never be proven as more than campfire talk. 

(Well. Nothing that wants to be found, anyway. Always ten steps behind, Cheetor watches, waits.)

Though they do find love. 

Though strange, though unconventional, though Charlie has no idea how to go about explaining this to her mother who won’t stop badgering her about her love life, Charlie wouldn’t have them any other way. 

Charlie ends up opening a garage. Time passes. People start asking her what her skincare routine is, even though it’s mostly motor oil from working in a garage and accidentally smearing it there. Maybe genetics are good to her.

Her and Bee are out for a drive (in his camero alt mode he’s had for a while by now) in the canyons when Windblade locates them (a giant floating hologram that may or may not make Charlie jump out of her skin at first). And isn’t this amazing!!! After all these years, finally, some answers from someone who seemingly knows Bee (Charlie’s a little confused how she knows Bee’s nickname. But it turns out it’s a nickname for B-127. Apparently he’d never chosen a name for himself. Not until Charlie).

Windblade is a little confused why Bee wants to bring Charlie along, but she can see they are attached. So. She allows it. They try and get Bee’s memories back, and Charlie is disappointed she cannot enter. Even more so when she realises he can speak in there. 

Things carry out similarly, just with Charlie added into the mix. She’s happy Bee is gaining his memories again (which he recounts to her between times when Windblade leaves them alone on the ship), but after learning about how long lived his species are and how close he and Windblade are, she has to wonder how much his time with her really means. If he’ll still want her when he realises what he’s missing, especially after wondering if he and Windblade were a thing upon hearing how they met (they were not).

But his actions are quick to assure her he’s still very smitten with her. Charlie feels bad about doubting this and letting jealousy and doubt worry her for a while like that. She gets on pretty well with Windblade following after. 

And then they find the arc, fight on Earth for years (maybe we see characters like Raf and Sari and Spike), get Bee’s voice back (he says Charlie’s name so many times, absolutely delighted he can say it), and then comes the time they have to leave for Cybertron. 

Charlie has to make a choice. Bee says he’d return, and she knows he’ll try and keep that promise, but he could be gone for eons without meaning to, out in deep space, trying to find peace on a planet that has known centuries of war. And maybe she can live that long—one look at her face shows that time is certainly on her side, and now she realises there’s only one culprit for that, unintentional as it was. But to be parted from him this long? Does she stay or go? 

She wants to go, Bee wants her to go, but ultimately they both know that Cybertron is no place for her. Everything she needs for survival—nutrients, fresh, breathable air—it’s all here. On Earth. 

When he bids her goodbye on the Golden Gate Bridge, they both have to hope it’s not forever. 

(Some years later, and Cybertron sees a peace treaty, liberation. And when Optimus asks what he will do next, where he will go, Bee has exactly the answer.)

[charredhoneycomb]

Charbee reincarnation into the well of Allsparks au wherein it becomes clear Charlie’s near the end of her life, old and grey, with laugh lines and crows feet, and hands that can no longer hold a wrench, unsteady with her grip. And though it’s been a good run, long for a human, it’s barely a fraction of that of a cybertronian lifespan, with their millions of years that time can barely weather. Her and Bee always knew this, knew that forever wasn’t an option for them, that Charlie would die having lived a complete life and Bee would have to live on so many lifetimes after. But they couldn’t live with regrets—and neither of them could regret choosing each other.  

But it’s devastating to know what they have put off thinking about for so long is here. That soon their days together will end. 

They can’t go on drives as much as they used to, but knowing that this will probably be their last outing, Charlie musters up the energy for what she knows will be their last trip. She asks to see the Golden Gate Bridge, just as they had all those years ago when they parted ways. 

But he came back. 

Though Bee’s voicebox was repaired years ago thanks to Rachet, he speaks to her mostly through song. Maybe it’s the nostalgia, maybe it’s that goodbye is so difficult to say. 

They watch the sunset. It’s her last. 

Some may wonder whose bright yellow car that is at Charlie’s funeral. And who left its radio on to play a non-stop loop of Smiths songs. 

♫⋆｡♪ ₊To die by your side

Is such a heavenly way to die 𝄞𝄢♪

But Otis knows. So does Kris. They talk for a while when the crowd disperses.  

Though Bee was stationed with a team on Earth after the end of the war, he eventually decides to return to Cybertron, offering Strongarm his position there if she chooses to stay. He loves Earth, a second home, but Charlie had made it so. Everything that had made Earth so wonderful, its music, its television, its life, everything, it just makes him ache. 

Many, many untold vorns later, he crosses paths with a medbot by the name of C-989. Her voice makes his spark freeze. 

Surely not—

He shakes the line of code off. Or tries to, because he keeps re-processing the interaction. 

Meanwhile C-989 swears Bumblebee is familiar to her somehow, despite this being their first interaction. She hopes to see him again. 

She gets teased by some bot she knows over her liking him and wanting to conjunx.

Another goes “Oh? I would forget about it if I were you. Mech’s too hung up on his dead one. That’s what happens when you get entangled with a fleshie.”

Over time, especially around Bee, C-989 starts to get flashes she can’t quite explain. Memory files? But they’re not hers. And yet, they’re not not hers. They feel nostalgic somehow, though she can’t explain.

And yet. Somehow she finds herself using terminology she doesn’t understand. What’s a heart? Shouldn’t she have said cross her spark? 

C-989 misses things she can’t name. Feelings she can’t explain. Tastes that energon—though with delicious flavourings—cannot replicate. 

One day Bee tells her about the origin of his name. Who gave to him. Charlie.

She repeats it out loud. Then over again in her processor. It just sounds. Right. 

And it’s like things fall into place.

She spends a moment wondering how he would take it if she asked to take the designation. But then the memories start to filter in, cohesive, her attachment with them. 

She manages to finish off one of Bee’s stories for him. He stares at her in wonder.

“…Charlie?” he asks, tentative, unsure.

“Yes Bee,” she says, vocoder chocked up on so many emotions. “It’s me, I’m back.”

“You’re really… But how?”

“You know we can never say goodbye for too long. And now the well of allsparks has seen to it. I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”

[charredhoneycomb]

A Charbee au where in a roleswap universe GI Joe are working with the Autobots on space bridge tech from what was discovered in Peru (or maybe they don’t know??? And so the autobots try and prevent this because they know it’s a delicate technology that could easily be messed up into a black hole).

Roleswap!Bee and Charlie end up stuck in the canon universe and end up in California. Believing they have merely been teleported, r!Bee (who is named Barnaby because Barnabee, get it, get it?) suggests they stop by his adoptive parents’ home (Orion Pax and Ariel) whilst they are there. But all they find is canon Charlie. Who is wondering why they are trying to get into her mother and Ron’s home, and wait—is he stealing her car?

R!Bee is not, however. That’s just r!Charlie’s altmode. C!Charlie is delighted to see another corvette on the road—but wait. That symbol on the wheel. She knows it, can’t forget it, even after seven years. 

So where during this r!Bee introduces himself as Barnaby Pax—but his friends call him Bee which. Oh. She cannot imagine herself calling him that. Not when that name belongs to—

It gets revealed that r!Charlie is an Autobot—who is also called Charlie, who would’ve thought? (R!Bee wanted to give her a gender neutral name, unsure of how gender worked for cybertronians)—and that they both need to go back to base. Charlie asks if they know Bee, which they don’t, (nor do they know the large red and blue one she describes from a projection) but maybe the others have a way of finding him. C!Charlie seems trustworthy so they bring her along. 

They exchange stories. And it becomes clear something weird is going on. R!Bee assumed his parents moved out (without telling him???) but Charlie’s family has been there for years (though she moved out some years ago and is just visiting). 

And r!Bee and r!Charlie’s story is very very similar to c!Charlie’s. Not to mention r!Charlie brings up through the radio that Charlie’s voice is incredibly similar to her old one. Almost like it’s the same. Just, less tinny. 

Well. If aliens exist, why not dimensional travel? Sure. 

(Though if they’re from another dimension… will there even be a base?

They decide to try anyway. Given the similarities, they could find this universe’s autobots.

And maybe c!Charlie can reunite with c!Bee again…)

C!Charlie is having a hard time wrapping her head around the concept of a human Bee. And an autobot her. Is this what her version of him sounds like? So chatty? She hates even more that his voice was taken him. 

(She may have spent many a time wondering what he sounded like. But that’s neither here nor there.)

He’s a bit of a speed junkie who loves racing. Even if he can’t turn into a car in this universe, that part hasn’t changed. 

(He’s also kinda cute. Like her Bee. But just in a humany way that her brain can recognise as attraction—and it’s weird that she finds a human version of her friend attractive, right? Not that she would change a thing about her own Bee because that’s her Bee and she loves him just the way he is. 

Platonically, of course. Because they’re friends.)

R!Charlie is a medic bot. A decepticon named Tinner ripped out her voice box. 

(And oh does Charlie have questions for this bot. She’s literally her. As an alien. How different must her life have been—)

It’s even more shocking when c!Charlie realises these two are in a relationship. 

That’s a thing. That could work between them. She hadn’t even considered—

(Would that explain the way she feels?)

R!Charlie has to wonder if their relationship would be easier. If she was like c!Charlie. When she chats with r!Bee she gets on so well with him, r!Charlie wishes she could talk to him like that. 

R!Charlie starts taking recordings of her alternate self’s voice. It’s not quite like having her own. But it’s closer than what she had before. C!Charlie asks if her other self wants her to say random words and phrases to help with that.

They arrive at the base, and yep, it’s immediately clear this is not the same as the one the roleswap duo know, however it’s still housing autobots. 

A beautiful reunion unfolds as c!Charlie catches sight of c!Bee. 

C!Charlie then introduces her new companions to the group. And who exactly they are. 

Meanwhile r!Bee is a bit startled to hear OP’s voice. And honestly, the whole team. ‘Raj is there, and that guy who calls himself Noah, that’s got to be Nohvastar. 

C!Bee had been hoping he’d get the chance to reunite with Charlie again. And now he has. And he’d even got a second one here which is one more Charlie than he’d been expecting. And she’s taller than him. Which isn’t much of a surprise, but she’s Charlie, and she’s cybertronian and someone took her voice how could they, and everything is happening all at once.

The Bees get on super well (though r!Bee is horrified to learn that absence has made c!Bee come to gradually appreciate the Smiths. Oh the horror—r!Charlie had overheard one of their songs on the radio one day and suddenly she had been playing nothing but their music). 

This universe’s GI Joe has also been trying to make that bridge tech, which perhaps the bots did not know about. But they will have to work together to get them home. 

R!charbee try and wingman their alternate selves during their short stay. 

C!Bee is teased a bit with his other self’s relationship to OP. There’s no denying it now. 

[ultimatecharbeefan]

Crack charbee au where they have kids but they didn’t adopt or somehow created one despite their difference in biology but one day Primus just plops two half-sparklings half humans at them and said deal with it

[ultimatecharbeefan]

I’ve talked about mermaid charbee au before but I’ve never mentioned that yes, mermaid Charlie Watson is massive compared to her alien boyfriend. I imagine one day he’s introducing her to the autobots so they go to the beach and they aren’t sure what they are expecting but they aren’t expecting a forty foot big red mermaid popping out

[ultimatecharbeefan]

#10 Charbee Headcannon

Bumblebee always lets Charlie sit in the driver’s seat and even lets her drive sometimes. It’s his way to show how much he trusts her to let her take control of his body.

[ultimatecharbeefan]

#9 Charbee Headcannon: Charlie and Bumblebee regularly have movie nights. Either at drive-in theaters or from the television in her garage. The only places Bumblebee could be in his bot mode but he doesn’t mind.