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Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring
How would Prowl respond to people arguing that if the fellowship took the Eagles, then they could risk losing the ring in enemy territory. Since Gandalf wasn’t at 100% power while he was still Grey and the Eagles could’ve died fighting the Fellbeasts & other forces of Mordor while protecting the people on their backs.
It’s been a while since I saw the movies, so feel free to correct me if I’m missing anything from the source.
For the ties that bind au characters, what are their specific least favorite things about the hobbit and lord of the rings movies?
Jazz will die on the hill of 'Tom Bombadil Was Good Actually and should have been included' because y'all don't fucking know how to have fun.
Prowl is definitely that one guy who would ask "Why didn't they just take the Eagles to Mordor it doesn't make sense".
Mirage thinks Glorfindel got the bad end of the stick in this series.
Megatron will write a full thesis about how the Stewards of Gondor had almost all their complexity thrown out of the window for cheap movie villain tropes and how Far-from-the-book-amir pretty much took away the author's personal voice.
Rung wants to know why you would do the Ents dirty like this.
i wanna see overlords face when the dvd logo finally lands
it's fun to imagine him being humored by the most mundane of knicknacks
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From Revenge Of The Cosmic Ghost Rider #1
I'm sorry in advance this is a lot of questions! How many and what languages does everyone understand? Which ones do they speak? Is there anyone who isn't very good at English and needs someone to translate for them from time to time? Also, does Rung know like... Every language since he's an AI? If yes does he help the team translate things if needed?
Don't worry about it! Helps me with worldbuilding at any rate.
-Cracks knuckles-
First mention will be mother tongue, followed by other known languages going down a proficiency scale. Italics for understanding some aspects, but not necessarily speaking. If English is in the third spot, they usually (at least initially) have a hard time expressing themselves with it and need translation help. Rung is indeed a lexicon of languages and helps out where he can!
AUTOBOTS
Optimus Prime: Kurmanji, English, Arabic, Urdu Ultra Magnus: Hindi, English, Urdu Ratchet: English, French, Yoruba Jazz: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic Ironhide: English, Spanish Prowl: Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Hakka, Uyghur, Igbo Perceptor: English, Tamil Wheeljack: English, Spanish Hot Rod: English, Irish Gaeilge WindBlade: Japanese, English, Korean Chromia: English, Spanish Ramhorn: Malay, English Kup: Nepali, Hindi, English Drift: Japanese, English Blaster: Cantonese, English, Mandarin Hound: Scots (Shetland dialect), English Bumblebee: English Mirage: English, Welsh, French Nautica: Spanish, English Sunstreaker/Sideswipe: Italian, English Trailbreaker: Malay-Indonesian, English, Hakka Nightbeat: English, Swahili, Arabic, Mandarin Springer: English, Nepali, Mandarin Swerve: English Arcee: Hakka, Mandarin, English, Cantonese Alpha Trion: French, English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi Skids: Omniglot due to Outlier ability: Most European, Slavic and Middle-eastern and Chinese languages, Japanese, Malay/Indonesian. Currently learning others. Roadbuster: Armenian, English Ironfist: Russian, English Broadside: Turkish, Arabic, English Impactor: English, Arabic Whirl: German, English Swoop: Polish, English
DECEPTICONS
Megatron: English, Scottish Gaellic, Urdu Shockwave: Urdu, English, Hindi Starscream: Italian, English, Japanese Skywarp: Arabic, English Thundercracker: Spanish, English Ravage: Spanish, English, Norwegian Soundwave: English, Indonesian-Malay, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Mandarin Laserbeak: Norwegian, English, Spanish Buzzsaw: French, English Glit: Korean, English Barricade: English Tarn: English, French, Urdu, Uzbek Kaon: English, Irish Gaeilge Nickel: Italian, English Helex: Danish, English Tesarus: Spanish, English Vos: French, Arabic
NON-ALIGNED
Senator Proteus: English Dai Atlas: Igbo, Japanese, English Rung: Ultimate Omniglot Terminus: English Elita One: Russian, English Trepan: English
You’re the most recognised and internationally praised superhero, but you don’t fight any crime. Instead, you use your powers over stone and metal to repair the damage caused by the catastrophic fights other heroes get into.
Thoughts and info on TTB!Optimus Prime as I’m putting together the plot in a master copy;
- Omar Parvez (Optimus Prime/Orion Pax) actually trained under Sedgewick Princeton, Police Commisioner of London, known fondly as ’Ol’ Sentinel’ (due to their decorated service and high number of arrests) and was something of an apprentice to him. The reason Omar was assigned to patrol the Dead End and its surrounding precinct was because two previous Chief Superintendents had resigned from the post due to their inability to turn it around, as well as the stress that took on them, and Sedgewick positioned it as a trial by fire for Omar to prove he had what it took to work directly in Scotland Yard as Deputy Commissioner.
Omar took up the challenge, but quickly realized after the first two weeks of struggling to adapt standard policing tactics to the area that what he learned in the academy wasn’t going to work here, which is when he decided to try and and solve the issue holistically/win the trust of the locals instead of fighting them; He gets Ronan Chase/Ratchet to establish a free clinic, funds a small public library which doubles as a secondary education centre due to school closures in the area (He lives/sleeps in a second floor office here, because trying to do good means actual sacrifices to time and money, and he’s ok with that), oversees the creation of community gardens to support local food banks struggling with food shortage, builds genuine rapport with locals and studies extensively about the housing crisis/liaisons with activists involved with the cause to finds solutions for the issue for the people of his jurisdiction. (A long time ago, he promised a kid—-a young Morgan Trayton/Megatron— on the other side of the fence that he wanted to be a cop to make the world a better place for everyone, and he hasn’t forgotten that kid or that promise)
Now, crime slowly but steadily goes down as kids have safe places to be, people are fed and housing initiatives are put into place, but what he’s doing is seen as out of his scope of duty (You sure you a cop?) and more importantly to the higher ups, he isn’t making the arrest quotas which means private cells aren’t being filled and less bodies are available for prison labour, which Sedgewick isn’t happy about.
“Boy, you know I like you, but the system works for a reason and you work for the system.”
They get into their first argument as mentor-apprentice when Sedgewick lets it slip that while he’s proud of the fact that Omar had managed to ‘tame’ the Dead End to some extent, the whole idea was to drive out/cage the undesirables and THEN develop the place, not fix it first and let undesirables leech off the goods when there’s big buyers out there looking for the first time to invest in property within this shithole.
You turned it around! That’s great! Now get with the rest of the program!
The cracks solidify when Omar shoots back that he was assigned to this district—not a system—-and he’s going to serve this district and its people, all of them regardless of class, until someone can prove wrongdoing on his behalf in any form, and if that means giving up on that promotion to Scotland Yard next to his mentor, so be it.
Sedgewick can’t find any, Ronan/the local activists serve him a whole helping of loopholes to cover the initiatives they’d put into place, and this is the reason why Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime don’t get along in this universe, and why Sentinel is all too happy to throw Optimus under the bus when he gains the ire of the Senate and fires him the moment a chance presents itself.
“So much wasted potential.”
Is maccadam an alchohol supplier for megatron's bar?
Nope! I think I’ll have Maccadam’s be the name of the diner Optimus and Bulkhead work at (and previously Bee)
I think I’ll have the names of ships/certain tf hubs and what not be the names of bars/clubs idk, keeping it constant
like the club Nemesis, and a lowly bar Death’s Head, The Garrison as another bar—but also a certain underground fight club and dark trading ring
Locations and such are still a wip!! But hmmm the EPF headquarters absolutely has been nicknamed the Steelhaven (tunnels and tunnels of grimey barred confines masked by a shiny exterior would be responsible for that) and I think I’ll have the entire complex that Bulk, Bee, Prowl, Optimus—and Ratchet with his tiny clinic at street level— be dubbed the Ark as a inside joke maybe simply because the building is filled with misfits of all kinds :D
‘Cause I’m no prophet or Messiah You should go looking somewhere higher
Figured I’d draw Omar Parvez/Optimus Prime with the Matrix since I’ve never detailed him with it, but TLDR, it’s very Iron Man!
Notes of interest:
- He doesn’t actually know how he got this weird urban legend arc reactor which seems to respond to his thoughts and emotions, just that he thought Sentinel Prime had killed him by shooting him in the chest and flinging him off a cliff, and then oops he’s actually alive and everything hurts and there’s this brand new addition.
- He doesn’t like being called ‘Prime’. At all. He’ll reluctantly accept it from outsiders/casual acquaintances who are genuinely using the title as a term of respect for him, but within his inner circle, he prefers to be called by his given name only. That the title was not levied on him willingly is part of the reason; Sentinel Prime took on the title of the 13 Quintesson war heroes as his own when he was becoming increasingly dictatorial, and an irate Alpha Trion who he took as a captive for information, blurted out that his protege (Optimus when Optimus was a cop) is more of a Prime than he’d ever be. And it sort of snowballed from there when Optimus was revealed to be one of two heads of the Resistance. Morgan/Megatron found it somewhat amusing but kept to calling Optimus his given name in being the man’s close friend and understanding his discomfort with being placed in that pedestal. Though during the war when he becomes increasingly antagonistic, he does occasionally call Optimus ‘Prime’ in a more taunting manner.
Thoughts and info on TTB!Optimus Prime as I’m putting together the plot in a master copy;
- Omar Parvez (Optimus Prime/Orion Pax) actually trained under Sedgewick Princeton, Police Commisioner of London, known fondly as ’Ol’ Sentinel’ (due to their decorated service and high number of arrests) and was something of an apprentice to him. The reason Omar was assigned to patrol the Dead End and its surrounding precinct was because two previous Chief Superintendents had resigned from the post due to their inability to turn it around, as well as the stress that took on them, and Sedgewick positioned it as a trial by fire for Omar to prove he had what it took to work directly in Scotland Yard as Deputy Commissioner.
Omar took up the challenge, but quickly realized after the first two weeks of struggling to adapt standard policing tactics to the area that what he learned in the academy wasn’t going to work here, which is when he decided to try and and solve the issue holistically/win the trust of the locals instead of fighting them; He gets Ronan Chase/Ratchet to establish a free clinic, funds a small public library which doubles as a secondary education centre due to school closures in the area (He lives/sleeps in a second floor office here, because trying to do good means actual sacrifices to time and money, and he’s ok with that), oversees the creation of community gardens to support local food banks struggling with food shortage, builds genuine rapport with locals and studies extensively about the housing crisis/liaisons with activists involved with the cause to finds solutions for the issue for the people of his jurisdiction. (A long time ago, he promised a kid—-a young Morgan Trayton/Megatron— on the other side of the fence that he wanted to be a cop to make the world a better place for everyone, and he hasn’t forgotten that kid or that promise)
Now, crime slowly but steadily goes down as kids have safe places to be, people are fed and housing initiatives are put into place, but what he’s doing is seen as out of his scope of duty (You sure you a cop?) and more importantly to the higher ups, he isn’t making the arrest quotas which means private cells aren’t being filled and less bodies are available for prison labour, which Sedgewick isn’t happy about.
“Boy, you know I like you, but the system works for a reason and you work for the system.”
They get into their first argument as mentor-apprentice when Sedgewick lets it slip that while he’s proud of the fact that Omar had managed to ‘tame’ the Dead End to some extent, the whole idea was to drive out/cage the undesirables and THEN develop the place, not fix it first and let undesirables leech off the goods when there’s big buyers out there looking for the first time to invest in property within this shithole.
You turned it around! That’s great! Now get with the rest of the program!
The cracks solidify when Omar shoots back that he was assigned to this district—not a system—-and he’s going to serve this district and its people, all of them regardless of class, until someone can prove wrongdoing on his behalf in any form, and if that means giving up on that promotion to Scotland Yard next to his mentor, so be it.
Sedgewick can’t find any, Ronan/the local activists serve him a whole helping of loopholes to cover the initiatives they’d put into place, and this is the reason why Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime don’t get along in this universe, and why Sentinel is all too happy to throw Optimus under the bus when he gains the ire of the Senate and fires him the moment a chance presents itself.
“So much wasted potential.”
”… What’s happened?” ”Nothing. Everything. I lost my way.”
This was honestly meant to be a short piece, but my crippling weakness for dads + found families means my muse took the wheel for some Morgan Trayton/Megatron and Thaddeus Marshall/Terminus over the years.
(For the curious, Terminus raises Megatron as something of his son in this Human AU! Also that panel with Megatron beaten up is basically the night he came back from police custody after going out for a drink with Impactor in the city.)
