Spoiler: LL Concerning/potentially hilarious thought of the day - Rodimus got a new paint job just in time to visit a new universe What does Functionist!Universe!Rodimus look like here, and how hilarious would it be if our Rodimus were mistaken for him...
Spoiler: LL1 So who wants to bet that the Matrix is still whole and buried underground in the Functionist Universe, waiting for someone suitable to pick it up?
Spoiler: spoilers well the martix in 'normal' verse is 'on record' has connecting very well with Rodimus. (Also see my headcanon/fanwank theory that Hot Rod was one of the sparks from the 'Hand of Primus' hot spot that was saved and part of the reasons the Prime at the time and the Seante wanted the hot spot destoryed was because they'd found out the next 'true' Prime was going to be from there....I also really hope Rodimus gets to go to Nyon.
Spoiler: Spoilres Depending he might not exist if Roddy was one of the sparks from the Hand of Primus hot spot that Orion and the LL folks saved.
I think Megatron was really just trying to lighten the mood so to speak? Badly but. He might also have been trying to deflect from the fact being back on Cybertron would possible mean his Death Sentence would be carried out. (that and Starscream changed his number and Megatron doesn't even know why they expected him to tell Starscream. Like really.)
Psssst, that was me. She's made it clear she's not comfortable with the ease with which people call her 'she' and feels no kindred feelings with lady colonists on basis of gender alone, but she also doesn't seem comfortable as a dude either, and doesn't try to correct people on the 'she'.
My read is she doesn't fully identify as a woman but she doesn't identify as a man anymore, and all of that is worsened by the fact that she KNOWS this shift in feelings is something that was DONE to her, so even if she was comfortable identifying as a woman that comfort in and of itself is a horrible reminder. EDIT: Holy fuck, I just realized you could probably consider her as a survivor of shadowplay, since it's made clear that what Jihaxus did to her wasn't just physical/frametype.
Spoiler: LL Functionists to Megatron: Who the fuck are you? Terminus, pulling Megatron's entire manifesto out of his chest, engraved on his own wires: I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED -
Oh my god though, imagine Terminus who knows he's about to die, no matter how hard Megatron fights to save him. He can't work his shifts in the mines anymore (so he's not doing anything to earn his rations, eyyyy), so he spends his days painstakingly engraving Megatron's writing on his inner plating, his bearings, any surface he can reach. Especially if the miners were constructed with substandard bodies, because hey, they're basically disposable people anyways. Taking apart your own body and carving words into yourself and putting things back together when your plates don't quite fit right, and these joints didn't work great even before you started engraving words all over them. And all this being done in secret, because Megatron is so determined to save him, and he can't know that Terminus has already resigned himself to dying.
I think I'm gonna have to write something for these guys now :3c I've gotten myself all excited about this character dynamic again
SUCH SWEET AGONY Terminus and Megatron are in the middle of a nice shooshpap in the metal pile, and Megatron's like "wtf is on your knuckles? Oh no. I know this phrase. Terminus..." Terminus starts popping open his joints and showing off the engraving on his support struts. "I have no shame, Megatron, nothing can stop me -"
Spoiler Huh, Tailgate didn't go through, did he? Because there was that one art from Ten that had him holding the Matrix...
Also bits for Getaway and Springer that hinted at matrix compatibility, though matrix availability is more of the issue here. I'm still holding out for a whole new thirteen primes, especially since it looks like the narrative is ABSOLUTELY calling out Optimus's recent behavior as not-okay.
Spoiler: GASP If Megatron, Tailgate, Rodimus, Magnus (Ratchet and Drift too maybe? Was there a 'healer' among the original 13 I can't remember) are among them I'm in. Though HASBROS poll in feb leans towards it not even being decided yet - unless they've given IDW free reign to do whatever on this? But on the other hand considering peeps from different universes are on the poll list ... but then on the OTHER other hand -- we've already gotten the set up of traveling to different 'universes' I'm also wondering if some of the hints at Matrix = Primus Spark/Essence will be a real thing or not.
