Hear me out, a rodimus who believes that hot rod is dead (he doesn't wanna believe that he is hot rod).
Whenever he talks about his past before becoming rodimus, instead of saying "I did" he says "so hot rod...". And nobody knows why he talks like he isn't hot rod.
They don't understand until Megatron gets so annoyed by that, that he starts demending rodimus to stop talking like he isn't hot rod.
And rodimus just looks him, dead in the optics, and says: "But I am not hot rod, I am rodimus. Hot rod is dead. Don't you remember Megatron? You were the one who killed him after all, weren't you?"
And after he says it there is just silence. Because nobody knows how to react or what to say.
Nobody knows how to react to finding out that too become a prime, their captain literally died (I like to believe that rodimus doesn't like to talk about how he became a prime). That he died at the servos of the mech who became his co-captaim years later.
Or that he believes that who he was before is still dead. and not even the matrix can bring him back.
I made some transformers memes (they are mostly MTMTE and me shitting on Optimus)
I know close to nothing about MTMTE or the idw comics. But that will not stop me from making memes based on what I do know about it
I heard a sound on tik tok where a character said they are the same age forever, and that got my brain puting rodimus in there.
SO, rodimus who's stuck the same age he was as when he died, both physically and mentally.
The matrix revived him, but he just, stopped aging. He doesn't even realize it until someone points it out to him.
I imagine he doesn't tell the crew cause he doesn't want pity. But then one time he's very drunk and out of it and just starts talking and making everyone concerned.
The Wolf Man is Jason, isn't he?
I just know its Jason
I know the sort of common consensus is IDW Hot Rod/Rodimus being with the Wreckers (probably mainly because of AHM), or just a reserve Wrecker, but I would like to present another potential option:
SpecOps agent Hot Rod/Rodimus.
No one asked for it (and probably no one ever will), but here is a list of the kinds of characters that I like (it is very weird):
1. Emotionally stunt/ compromised with a LOT of trauma.
2. Lives in a world with magic or other tipe of power system, and either can't or doesn't want to use that system, and just uses their hands and feet to fight. Like ONLY brute strength (and maybe a gun or a big a$$ sword with it).
3. Probably as ADHD or autism or other kind of mental disability that isn't confirmed but ALL of the signs are there and everyone knows they have it.
4. Anger issues.
5. Short and have anger issues.
6. Probably apart of the aro or ace or aroace community just not confirmed.
7. Women who can kill me.
8. Really smart but also very tired all the time. They just don't have the energy to actually try. (It's a good thing, they could take over the world if they tried).
9. No gender.
10. LGBTQ+
11. Animal.
12. Tired mentors.
13. Any kind of disability.
14. Clinically insane.
15. Dumbass.
16. Really likes violence and fighting.
And that is everything that a character can have to automatically make it my favourite.
I won't elaborate more so don't ask.
Hello transformers fans.
Here is a thought I just had about transformers one. More specifically the fight between starscream and D-16/ megatron.
Do you think that the only reason as to way starscream lost the fight was because he was starving from lack of energon?
I mean, he was the leader of the high guard, he fought against the quintesons (I don't know how to write it) in the war. He also kept probably most of the high guard safe and surviving on the surface.
Yet he lost to a mach who only got his t-cog like a few hours before.
I don't know about you but for me it's weird.
So I came up with the explanation that starscream lost the fight only because he was starving himself so his soldiers and the mach under his commend won't die.
Because with the lost of their primes, their leaders, he was now technically the leader and only one incharge. So he decided that he would not disappoint his primes by kipping their army and the mach they entrusted him with safe.
Even at the exchange/ price of his own life.
I don't think you understand how much I need rodimus to be good at math. I mean a person who learned physics at university for FUN good.
And he doesn't even realize how good he is cause he uses it for art and for his creative outlets (you can't tell me carving on your desk with a knife is not a creative outlet).
He can literally do most math problems in under half hour cause his brain moves super fast (speeder and ADHD), but he doesn't realize it cause he doesn't even LIKE math. (Just like me for real).
He only finds out it's not normal to solve a math problem in under a half hour cause of the one time he walked into the labs while brainstorm was calculating and just casually looked at the board and point out a mistake. Brainstorm cries for about an hour cause of that.
Anyway, I need rodimus to be good at math but also really lazy about it so no one knows or believes brainstorm when he tries to tell them.
My bed, it came back.
Probably just a fluke in the system
It's a giant PAN! maybe it's friendly! (The pan is friendly, but the one that has it in their servos, is not)
That statement is going to live rent free in Starscream's spark
I have an mdzs headcanon where Jin ling's first words where a-die/baba -(dad in Mandarin) to Jiang Cheng, because Jiang Cheng practically raised him and because he (Jin ling) saw other children call the man that raised them baba he called Jiang Cheng baba. And that is the story of how Jiang Cheng cried for the first time since wei wuxian died because of is nephew