Imagine If Rung Was In A Lot Of Pictures Of History Books. Like Hes Just There In The Corner Walking

Imagine if Rung was in a lot of pictures of history books. Like he’s just there in the corner walking down the street behind the cybertronian equivalent of George Washington in a biography.

He doesn’t even try too and nobody ever notices him but he’s just there in so many significant Cybertron events.

Imagine someone finally notices and starts going through older and older photos yet still finding him until they get to the oldest picture in cybertronian history only to find that instead of in the background it’s a purposeful picture of him.

Twitter ship chart or something. Hate these guys. Paragraphs in the lower half below the cut, for whoever wants a closer look.

What draws them together? -The fact that both want to learn about the other. The other person is unique, strange. Not like everyone else, yet continues to provide for the other. They're both in this line of work so they're bound to form a bond. Just not one they can put a label on. It isn't romance but its still some fucked up form of intimacy and trust.

What stands in the way? -Both are actually shitass people and neither have the time nor mental state for an actual healthy, romantic relationship. I call this the "in another life" situation. Where if things literally weren't they way they are now and they weren't such shitty people, they would've had a chance at something normal and happy and healthy. What are their good traits? -At times they can respect each other. There's a mutual, unspoken agreement of "You need me, I need you." And due to that, they can still work affectively while also showing the other that they're there for them. That's about it outside of that, neither of them are gonna have a talk about what they are and if this is actually healthy or if they're both just infatuated with the other. What makes them hopeless at romance? -Isn't even defined as romance, not to them anyways. Its moreso partnership. Doc has the idea that Hank is replaceable. That whatever may happen, he doesn't ACTUALLY need him. There are plenty of people at his disposal. It just so happens that the local Killing Machine will listen sometimes and is a valuable asset to him. While Hank sees Doc as a tool. Something to get him closer to his goals no matter what, even if its selfish. He knows it is. Hank knows that Doc will continue mending him and piecing him back together. He KNOWS he's valuable but wont be replaced, at least not anytime soon. But that doesn't mean he never questions why Doc does the things he does. Neither of them are gonna ask any time soon.

just a small update, but im almost done with the rewrite for an act of solace yall. i am so excited to dump it out in a few days <3

being madly in love with someone platonically is so ridiculous. hey man i think about you all the time. i wish you were here right now. talking to you makes me indescribably happy. i miss you. honestly what the hell

The Orokin have got to be THE most pompous and insufferable predecessors i know from any piece of media. Every new lore drop about them is "The Executors enjoyed a daily bath in the blood of children (no older than 3yo) taken from their slave's family and if one of the parents so much as shed a single tear they would be given the death penalty by the Ultra Mega Death Laser and their consciousness would be put on a shitty dog (not even a good dog)".

Their entire empire was a pile of bombs they built simply because they were absolute assholes. They're such fucking idiots that the intelligent garden tools they sent to terraform another solar system so they could colonize it too grew sentience and could clearly see they were fucking assholes so they launched an entire war against them. And then they tried sending a ship there and possibly fucked up the integrity of reality and time beyond repair. And then they made biological weapons to fight the garden tools but they couldn't control them either needing the few children that survived the aforementioned ship voyage to tame them bc BY PURE CHANCE they could do that. And then everybody got tired of their shit and killed them nasty during a system wide rebellion AND STILL one of their biggest assholes, possibly the biggest, managed to survived and managed to start ANOTHER FUCKING MASSIVE WAR and almost ate the entire solar system to fuel a portal to another system for himself only bc that's how special he thought he was.

By proxy or directly basically everything bad that has ever happened in reality has been because the Orokin are so goddamn self righteous they just make irresponsible and vainglorious decisions with catastrophic consequences and believe they will survive them bc they are gods incarnated. They're assholes to a magnitude i can barely put into words.

the lore really hurts if you think about it