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If anyone makes a fanfic of this, tell me. I need to read it.
This is some VERY old barn husbands doodle like I think around December 2022 so please don’t mind the old art style 😭😭 but I remember having the idea of drawing Earthspark Cade and Optimus,,,
because I feel like it would just be so. FUNNY to have the LEADER OF THE AUTOBOTS develop a huge crush on this AverageTM mechanic guy living about his life. Like he just sees him around Witwicky while scouting the area and gets so mesmerized, he crashes into a Tree. and Megatron starts taking notice and makes fun of him for it.
Imagine:
“You know, when you said you would ally with the humans I didn’t know it would’ve gone so far as to fall in lov-“
“SHUT THE FUCK UP”
Or maybe
“Maybe he would like you back.”
“No, he wouldn’t and besides, we have different lives, different jobs… it just wouldn’t work. He has a daughter and probably a wife so-“
“She’s dead.” “REALLY?! I mean- really? Wow, that is absolutely terrible.”
Like do yOU SEE THE VISION!!!
Also like their first meeting could be the Terrans eventually get involved in something and end up in his backyard (he lives in the country side of witwicky, not in town) and he helps them. And when he helps them back home or something, Optimus sees him and like, Freezes before thanking him (poorly) (hes stuttering like hell) and Cade is like, “no problem! Yk, this might sound real corny but I’m a big fan of you and your team.” all sweet and embarrassed but OP is just like Freaking. Tf. Out. (Internally) LIKE!!!! imagine!!!!!
The Terrans have like no clue and think nothing of it but Dot looks up and Megatron and he just Nods, smiling. Bumblebee just has a midlife crisis thinking about how he might have a Dad2.
currently watching say yes to the dress atlanta while writing my cade yeager/optimus prime fanfiction
life is pretty good
EEEEEEEK i just posted my first published fanfic over on ao3!!! if you are a fan of found family, domestic fluff, human/robot romance, and healing trauma through healthy interpersonal relationships, then this fic is for YOU! preview under the cut!
He remembered the first time Tessa had stepped foot inside the farmhouse. He’d been so nervous that she would hate it, that she would resent having almost no surviving memory of her mother in the house because of the explosion. Instead, she’d seemed thrilled that Cade was finally moving on, which had been a hell of a surprise.
“You really aren’t mad?” he’d asked her.
Tessa smiled at him, that sunny grin that had always reminded him so much of Emily, and touched his arm. “No, Dad. I’m not mad. Sure, I miss Mom sometimes, but I was so little when she passed that I don’t really remember her that well.” She shrugged, the shape of her smile softening. “I’ve met so many people that care about me. I’ve done things no one else has done. And I graduated high school, just like you both wanted! She wasn’t here for any of it, but I know she’d be proud of me. I know she’d be proud of you, too. I think she just wanted you to be happy, and it seems like you’re finally getting there.”
Cade, swallowing around the lump in his throat, had felt tears burning his eyes. “I don’t want to forget about her.”
“You don’t have to,” Tessa said. Her hand squeezed his arm a little. “But it is okay to move on. After everything we’ve been through, we deserve to be happy. You don’t need ghosts haunting you, not when you’ve got giant alien robots to look after.”
“When the hell’d you get so wise?” He’d pulled her into a tight hug, his face tucked against her shoulder. If there had been tears dampening the fabric of her shirt, neither of them said anything about it.
update: chapter 1 is now twice as long because i think it flows better with chapter 2 as part 2 instead! please enjoy cade heating up leftovers and pining over optimus :)
EEEEEEEK i just posted my first published fanfic over on ao3!!! if you are a fan of found family, domestic fluff, human/robot romance, and healing trauma through healthy interpersonal relationships, then this fic is for YOU! preview under the cut!
He remembered the first time Tessa had stepped foot inside the farmhouse. He’d been so nervous that she would hate it, that she would resent having almost no surviving memory of her mother in the house because of the explosion. Instead, she’d seemed thrilled that Cade was finally moving on, which had been a hell of a surprise.
“You really aren’t mad?” he’d asked her.
Tessa smiled at him, that sunny grin that had always reminded him so much of Emily, and touched his arm. “No, Dad. I’m not mad. Sure, I miss Mom sometimes, but I was so little when she passed that I don’t really remember her that well.” She shrugged, the shape of her smile softening. “I’ve met so many people that care about me. I’ve done things no one else has done. And I graduated high school, just like you both wanted! She wasn’t here for any of it, but I know she’d be proud of me. I know she’d be proud of you, too. I think she just wanted you to be happy, and it seems like you’re finally getting there.”
Cade, swallowing around the lump in his throat, had felt tears burning his eyes. “I don’t want to forget about her.”
“You don’t have to,” Tessa said. Her hand squeezed his arm a little. “But it is okay to move on. After everything we’ve been through, we deserve to be happy. You don’t need ghosts haunting you, not when you’ve got giant alien robots to look after.”
“When the hell’d you get so wise?” He’d pulled her into a tight hug, his face tucked against her shoulder. If there had been tears dampening the fabric of her shirt, neither of them said anything about it.
God this was so cute a must read
Extra: Day 14: End of the Road/Starting for Home (Optimus Prime x Cade Yegear)
Really? You spilt your indulgent shake on this random trucker and accidentally caught two strays, Yeager.
Another fanart for this fic to serve as a send off for the event, felt the last day needed a proper finale piece.
Optimus Prime x Cade Yeager is the best transformers ship and you can't change my mind
Eat Cade X Optimus!!!💙❤️💚
If everyone is calling the Cade x Optimus ship 'barn husbands' has anyone ever like.... actually written a fic where they have a wedding or something..? If not what are we doing...?!! Someone write a fic where Cade and Op get married!!!
Please... someone!!! Write this!!!!!!!
What I want to see in The Last Knight: The Autobots being super overprotective of Cade cause they know Optimus will kick their asses if they let anything happen to his smol husband while he’s gone
Barn husbands.... ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
how the last knight should have ended
The camera pans in on Optimus and Cade aboard the Autobot’s ship. Cade sitting in Optimus’s lap. They’re talking. Trying to catch up. Cade begins to yawn and after a while Optimus asks the human, “Cade, do you just want to take a break for a while?”
“What like just disappear for a while? Just the two of us? Nah who’s gonna watch the kids? I mean bots. I meant soldiers.”
Optimus chuckles, “Well maybe for just a few days then. I’d hope they’d be able to not tear each other apart for two days.”
Cade laughs at that and yawns again, “I’d like that.”
Optimus smiles and picks Cade while he adjusts himself so that he is now laying on his back. Cade lets out a yelp as he’s picked up and gently placed down on Optimus’s chest. Cade smiles at Optimus one more time before laying down and making himself comfortable on Optimus’s chest, “G'night, Optimus.”
A large flame painted hand hovers over Cade protectively, “Sleep well, Cade.”
And the two finally get that much needed sleep that they both fucking deserve. Let my boys rest damn it.
You fools, TF4 did the human/alien boyfriend relationship first before Venom.
They fucking belong together!!! Change my mind!!
That's why they had Cade kiss Vivian. Too much chemistry between him and OP
bay got mad that cade and optimus looked pretty gay/bi in the last movie because of the "if you look to the stars, think of one of them.. as my soul" scene and inserted a straight people kiss with cade in the last knight to make us mad lmfao
im joking obviously
Why does this describe barn husbands so much?? 😍😭
rt if you like damaged goods
The way they look at each other 😫😵💫😍
100% agree with you!!!!
okay okay okay jokes aside and also this is under a read more because it would imply a spoiler maybe or at least i think it does
Keep reading
FUCK YEAH!!!
This is some VERY old barn husbands doodle like I think around December 2022 so please don’t mind the old art style 😭😭 but I remember having the idea of drawing Earthspark Cade and Optimus,,,
because I feel like it would just be so. FUNNY to have the LEADER OF THE AUTOBOTS develop a huge crush on this AverageTM mechanic guy living about his life. Like he just sees him around Witwicky while scouting the area and gets so mesmerized, he crashes into a Tree. and Megatron starts taking notice and makes fun of him for it.
Imagine:
“You know, when you said you would ally with the humans I didn’t know it would’ve gone so far as to fall in lov-“
“SHUT THE FUCK UP”
Or maybe
“Maybe he would like you back.”
“No, he wouldn’t and besides, we have different lives, different jobs… it just wouldn’t work. He has a daughter and probably a wife so-“
“She’s dead.” “REALLY?! I mean- really? Wow, that is absolutely terrible.”
Like do yOU SEE THE VISION!!!
Also like their first meeting could be the Terrans eventually get involved in something and end up in his backyard (he lives in the country side of witwicky, not in town) and he helps them. And when he helps them back home or something, Optimus sees him and like, Freezes before thanking him (poorly) (hes stuttering like hell) and Cade is like, “no problem! Yk, this might sound real corny but I’m a big fan of you and your team.” all sweet and embarrassed but OP is just like Freaking. Tf. Out. (Internally) LIKE!!!! imagine!!!!!
The Terrans have like no clue and think nothing of it but Dot looks up and Megatron and he just Nods, smiling. Bumblebee just has a midlife crisis thinking about how he might have a Dad2.
Gah! 😫💙
Cade getting taken with Optimus instead of Tessa in age of extinct. How different would the events turn out or would it be the same
I think it might depend on Cade's priorities vs Tessa's in the scene.
When Cemetery Winds attacks the Yeager property (as Optimus is yeeting people and storming out of the barn to defend his new whoomans) Cade LEAPS to action, grabbing the little eye in the sky thing, defending himself, getting to Tessa to protect/guide her etc. This moment shows his quick thinking in literal life or death moments. He's far from useless when the chips are at stake. Cade shows more than once he can be clever enough when the adrenaline is pounding to make different choices than Tessa does. (Of course, Shane also has to physically stop Cade from sprinting after his daughter when she's captured by proxy during the scene with Lockdown collecting Prime. (His reactiveness can be helpful and also cause him to start shit he shouldn't.) And there's nothing wrong at all with Tessa's main priority to get the FUCK off the creepy ass alien ship. Especially since she and Optimus get separated pretty quickly! I don't blame her for wanting to piece out, being frightened and panicked. (And she's still not so panicked she makes poor choices, so kudos to her reluctant bravery.) Esp since Cade's crusade was to fix Optimus, then get revenge on CW for threatening her. Tessa's goals are...keep her dad alive? Stay with the autobots for protection, etc. Different goals = different responses, but I do imagine the outcome would eventually be the same.
For one, since the Prime 2.0 team are by now more familiar to her, she would be just as adamant they help her rescue her father I'm sure. Bee especially would be easy to persuade, or take none at all.
Replacing Cade and putting him in the netting with the SUV instead would be different but I guess similar. (Like, the scene would likely end with the bots sneaking onboard, saving Prime/Cade.) Although obviously Cade would want to get off the ship and return to Earth ASAP, I could also see him more intent to stick with Optimus, even if it's just out of sight (However hard that might be.) And to use the chaos of the moment to get nearer and take shelter to wait for a chance to help in whatever capacity that looks like. Because he's already displayed a desire to help Optimus before. Seeing Mr. Leader of the Free Galaxy literally tossed into a cage and strung up upside down like a piece of meat in a butcher's house would not sit well with Yeager. He's too much of a protector for that, he has to do something.
I could see Prime seeing that as both foolhardy while also quietly touched by the sheer loyalty Cade gives him.
I like how in almost every barn husband's fic Cade at some point is on Optimus shoulder. Like the whole (small T^T) community just agreed, yup that's Cade's spot. I love it and I stand by it.