#mtmte megatron
This has been living in my head rent free, so now y’all have to live with it too.
You’d think Megatron would be the type to curl you into his chest as you both sleep, and he does, when not in holoform. Imagine, if you will, if he were in holoform, you’d find that Megatron, ANY Megatron at that note, wouldn’t curl you to his chest, but he’d curl into yours. Why is this? Because he needs to make sure you’re real. At any point in the night, he wants to make sure you’re really there, in love with him, and him in love with you. It would happen on pure accident, his head against your chest and listening to your heartbeat. It’s like an addiction to him. It’s a reality check. And he needs to make sure that never stops. He needs to make sure that you won’t vanish throughout the night.
He needs you more than he realizes, and he’s willing to take the hit to his pride to prove it.
A character arc where the character who did terrible things and regrets them is forced to live, to put one foot in front of the other and find healing, who chooses to pour goodness into the world and make the world a better place
Is more satisfying to me than a character arc where the character who did terrible things and regrets them is redeemed through death
99.9% of the time.
There was a tumblr post about this where basically it was “redemption isn’t about people forgiving you because you do better now, it’s about you doing better even if no one forgives you.”
And honestly this post changed my view on redemption arcs and on the “Redeemed Through Death” arc.
Mermay day 31: Bluntnose sixgill shark Megatron
They light my darkest hour
