Megop - Blog Posts
Due to my ignorance regarding canon, I shouldn't be allowed to write this, but there's noone there to stop me.
So, I have this concept or idea that being an archivist in Cybertron meant that the people in charge extracted most of the information straight from the archivists' heads. Sure, there were pads, but what if simply writing was considered too unproductive and slow? And what about editing and crossreferencing? It was obviously better to leave all that to the mechs more experienced, and for that they needed direct access to the information recopilated. Naturally, the cleverest way to achive that was extracting the data right from the archivists' heads.
So they simply went and connected with the processors of their archivists. It wasn't bad, at first. But the poor archivists, those little bots didn't know anything about writing or editing, they didn't know what was important and what was supposed to be left out, so the mechs in charge decided that whatever was in their minds needed to be reviewed and then it would be up to them to decide what was relevant enough to be recorded.
With time, the archivists became little more than glorified cameras. It was their duty to record and give the information away, they had to give absolute access to their processors, they couldn't complain, least of all refuse.
One fine day in Cybertron, Orion Pax was sparked.
This system was already fully developed, Orion was born into it, it's how it had always been so it had to be good, right? It had worked so far and he'd never heard anyone complaining, he'd never had to complain.
But as he began to grow, as he learnt more, explored more of the world and himself, he realised that there were things he didn't want to share.
Things that were embarrassing or too personal. Things that were private, things that were inappropriate to share with people he didn't trust.
He tried to refuse one time. He was restrained and his superiors entered his mind against his will. He tried to keep them out, he tried, but he couldn't and it hurt.
He tried again, and again, and again. He no longer bothered with voicing his disagreement, his refusal, but he tried to stop them, to keep them away from the bits that were supposed to be his. It was painful, it was dangerous, this push and pull inside his own processor hurt him every time. Until it got nearly fried.
From then on, every time his superiors needed to extract information from him, they simply disconnected Orion temporarily.
The funny thing Orion realised afterwards was that his superiors could have done that since the beginning. Why hadn't they?
The answer was all over the Archives, in the side eyes of the other mechs, in the whispers, the looks thrown to the archivists whose secrets were all over the place, maybe all over Cybertron.
Not "important enough" to be recorded, never respected enough to be kept quite. But apparently, highly entertaining.
So Orion became careful. He became measured in his actions, feelings and speech. Hyperaware of his movements and thoughts.
The Academy was his chance. He did his best and failed, but he never had to go back to the Archives.
Now he was far away, another planet, another galaxy. Constant danger, constant fighting. But his thoughts, his feelings... Optimus Prime was the sole owner.
What's the point of this little idea aside from the additional angst?
Simply consider Megatronus, the gladiator who was made to fight in the arena in a kill or be killed spectacle for the masses.
Megatronus wasn't the owner of his own body.
Orion had no say over his own mind.
What a fun thing to bond over! 😊
People keep making fanarts of D-16 meeting TfP Optimus and being absolutely enamoured with him. And, honestly? Understandable, D-16, you poor, little mech.
And I've seen one of Orion also meeting Megatron and calling him ugly, which was hilarious.
But consider:
The four meet, just like in the fanart I mentioned, and D-16 is practically drooling at the sigh of Optimus while having a mayor internal freak out because somehow Orion went from chaotic and ridiculously pretty rebel to some sort of beautiful and incredible hero. At the same time he looks at Megatron, who appears so fearsome and angry, even hateful, and then at Orion, sweet, kind Orion, watching Megatron unblinking.
"You're incredible," breathed Orion, smiling up softly at the tall mech.
And both D-16 and Megatron flinched, stunned because how could he? How could Orion Pax say that? Worst of all, how could he mean it?
Megatron knew that tone of voice, he knew that look in the small mech eyes. He was being honest, he said what he thought, just the way he thought it. That awed note on his voice, the amazed spark on his optics, it was all so painfully truthful and Megatron didn't know what to do with it all.
Then he turned to his old self, the one who had finally stopped staring at Optimus to look at his best friend with confusion, paired with adoration and barely concealed longing.
Orion finally noticed D's yellow optics on him. He turned and smiled, bright and happy.
Megatron knew then that Orion hadn't understood. And it made sense, after all Pax would never expect D-16 to turn into... Into Megatron.
But maybe, the most surprising part was just how much it hurt, to realise that Orion could still look at him like this, and that if he could do it, then maybe...
Nah, that was impossible.
Ok, so...
Is there any Transformers fic (megop if possible), where Optimus is a little (a LOT) less tolerant of everyone's shit?
All my Tf knowledge comes from fics and you are free to tell me I'm stupid, but anyways.
From what I've read in TfA the Autobots on Earth were a sort of repairing crew and had been sent there, which was like sending them to some remote corner of the Universe. So it sounded like glorified exile.
In TfP Orion used to be an archivist.
In TfO he was a miner.
And in both cases he used to be Megatron's friend.
Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
So, why not get an Optimus that is just kind of sick of Cybertrone and its BS? It could just be him not wanting to deal with politics while trying to protect people. And you know how sometimes some writers feature Megatron trying to make Optimus question his loyalty to Cybertrone and OP gets an existential crisis? Well, couldn't Optimus just for once laugh at Megatron's face and be like...
"Of course they don't give a shit about us! Did you think I'm doing all this for Ultra Magnus? Or Sentinel? I'm fighting for my friends and family whose lives you actively threaten every fragging day!"
And so Optimus cuts Megatron's crap on the spot because how dare he try to act all high an mighty? Try to fool him just like all those assholes he preaches against?
Let him go feral from time to time, let OP go violent and rabid with rage and maim some bots. Megatron and the highter ups should watch what that mech is really capable of.
For the past few days I've been reading Transformers' fanfiction. Am I in the fandom? No. Was I reading about Optimus and Megatron? Yes. Should I be Ashamed? Yeah, probably, but that's not the point.
The point here is that I learned that in the past, Optimus was Orion Pax and Megatron was D-16. And then I remembered an episode of an animated serie I used to watch in Cartoon Network where Optimus lost his memory and he seemed to get along with Megatron and belive what he said. Then I think I stopped watching, either because they always repeated the same episodios or because I got bored, I don't know.
I'm also confused about Megatron's past. D-16 was a miner. But I also read about him as a gladiator and the name Megatronus instead of Megatron is also thrown around.
Orion Pax was an archivist I believe, which I understand as a sort of librarian.
Where am I going to with all of this?
You'll see, I want to know if there is a fic where, when Optimus loses his memory and becomes Orion Pax, he is a complete and absolute menace. He is still an archivist, sure, but he has a Past, he has Lore. He was not the cool and collected hero and soldier he is today and he was not some quite and shy young mech. No, he was chaotic. Trouble followed him and when it didn't, he went looking for it.
I can't decide if I want the past friendship with Megatron to be a part of whatever this is or not.
But lets say it isn't, let's say that Megatron is just as confused as everyone else.
And what about Autobots and Decepticons? Easy, Orion would have no idea what those are. And he wouldn't care. He would only care about how cool flying seemed and then be absolutly exited about being able to do it himself (assuming he can, I don't even know where in the saga I am putting this). He'd want to race the Autobots in the ground and the Decepticons in the sky.
BUT he would not trust any of them. Why? Because they all kept calling him Optimus Prime, insisting that's who he was. Prime! As if he'd ever become part of that system!
In the meantime, he is balancing the despair of the news about the destruction of his home world and everyone he knew with the excitement of a new world plus the loneliness and confusion that came with the later.
For Megatron, you'd think things were ideal since his greatest obstacle was out of the way, right?
Wrong!
There was one thing Megatron could have never imagined, never expected or even suspected, and that's just how much the other Decepticons liked Orion Pax.
Orion was funny, he liked to spar and he fought dirty. He made jokes and teased them and he was not afraid of any of them. He was not stupid and understood that all of the Decepticons had a past, they all had done horrible things, but for some reason that wasn't a deterrent. Sure, the mech didn't trust them (and those trust issues should be adressed, but the Decepticons were no better so...), but Orion was always up for a good sparring session or just fooling around. The mech was also odly well-read in the weirdest of topics from history to medicine, mythology and weird facts about games from Kaon (why? and how?).
And Orion was that odd kind of friend that didn't tell you shit about himself, but for some reason you wanted to tell him everything about you.
And what about the Autobots?
Well, they obviously missed their leader, but the ones that really had a problem were the younger ones because why was Opt-Orion so friendly with the Decepticons but didn't even speak with them?
Orion was avoiding them and he would keep that up until those Autobots stopped calling him Optimus.
Orion would go here and there and some times help the Autobots and others the Decepticons if any of them were in actual troubles because he was still a good person who cared about others while trying not to do so.
Just... Orion Pax accidentally uniting the remaining Cybertronians by being his lovable, reckles, and complicated self.
And there is megop, apparently...
2 ideas I currently have:
Megatronus and Orion Pax were once lovers. They was proof of them once being together--the courtship, the sparklings Orion carried and Megs sired, footage of them making Soundwave and Strika the godcreators of said sparklings, the love datapads they exchanged, documents and pictures and audios of them laughing and being happy. Yet, history will erase everything that they had and say, "they were just friends."
Dockyard Courting AU where Sentinel (previously known as Avean) and OP fall in love while trying to overthrow the corrupt caste system since the current rulers are lying politicians who are causing severe harm to Cybertron.
Summary:
Soulmate. A very real human concept to Cybertronians. Each mecha was born with the name of its mate engraved on its wrist. A sign that they would always have someone. That they would never be alone. Optimus had been lucky enough to find his soulmate many years ago on Cybertron. Back when things were easier, when he was just an archivist named Orion Pax, and his soulmate was Megatronus the gladiator. He missed those simple days. He missed Megatronus. Yes, Megatronus' name was no longer on his right wrist, but not like it normally should have been. Ever since Optimus had accepted the matrix of leadership, his mate's name had simply disappeared as if it had never existed, leaving behind the regret of a phantom loss. And Megatronus? Well, now he was Megatron, the great leader of the Decepticons. His enemy.
— With the little time I had, I ended up writing a one shot about soulmates, because I really like this type of fic and because I'm kind of liking transformers :D
working on tf animatic !!!
few of the frames i've done so far :))
"So, I'll be somewhere thinking about you"
Heeeyyyyy, I'm not dead! Anyways, Orion Pax, my beloved <3
This is inspired by the fanfic "In Which Fanfiction and Figurines get Orion Pax Fragged" (Great fic, super fun and silly)
It's not an actual scene from the fic, but it plays along the lines of what actually does.
Only Megs sees Op's beauty fr
Inspired by the debate on twitter if ES Optimus was ugly or not lmao
Average cyber cat behavior.
(Tfp Orion pax arc)
If Fumbletron was smarter, he would have let his soft, seductive voice do the work in manipulating Orion. JUST SAYING
Art idea/origin:
Optimus lives rent free in Megatron’s head
And then the revolution started 😔👌
original under cut
Goofy fellas
This one gave me a full belly laugh
Like how did we get here?
D 16 would go full fanboy mode on Tfp Optimus.
This scene got me laughing so hard. Holy shit.
They are so divorced
yeah so those storyboards killed the little light left in me ty for @/Shmeckdoesstuff on twt for the inspo
You made me this.
Storyboard by Ahmed Nasri
Just imagining Megatron pinning Optimus down punching him in chest repeatedly trying to break the glass. There are tears in his eyes as another punch finally cracks it.
“Give him back,” Megatron cries out in anger.
Optimus doesn’t move to stop him only looking up at his old friend with concern and pity. Megatron bangs both his servos on top of the cracking glass and lets out a broken cry.
“Give me Orion back, give him back.”
Optimus knows he should throw Megatron off but he can’t bring himself to stop him. He wants to reach out, hold him, and reassure him that he never left but…
The punches turn in desperate clawing as Megatron tries to force Optimus’s plating off. Trying to get to the Matrix of leadership nestled inside.
“Once I rip this damn thing out I can finally see you again,” Megatron rambled.
Optimus didn’t respond he knew what would happen if he spoke. Megatron would scream at him to shut up. Go on about how he didn’t want him using Orion’s voice. So he just let Megatron continue to bang at the glass.
orion's one day on Nemesis
d16 goon as you guys asked
stop being clingy Orion!