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• We're all walking somewhere by attic_cat

  Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types  

  • General Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  09 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Optimus Prime & Original Character(s)
  • Team Prime (Transformers: Prime) & Original Character(s)
  • Original Cybertronian Character(s) & Original Character(s)
  • Team Prime & Team Prime (Transformers: Prime)
  • Miko Nakadai & Original Female Character(s)
  • Optimus Prime
  • Ratchet (Transformers)
  • Arcee (Transformers)
  • Bulkhead (Transformers)
  • Miko Nakadai
  • Jack Darby
  • June Darby
  • Rafael "Raf" Esquivel
  • William Fowler
  • Megatron (Transformers)
  • Starscream (Transformers)
  • Vehicons (Transformers)
  • Original Characters
  • Autobots (Transformers)
  • Decepticons (Transformers)
  • Original Cybertronian Character(s)
  • Team Prime (Transformers: Prime)
  • MECH (Transformers)
  • Asexual Character
  • Asexuality
  • Platonic Relationships
  • Platonic Female/Male Relationships
  • Platonic Male/Male Relationships
  • Platonic Female/Female Relationships
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Morally Ambiguous Character
  • Moral Ambiguity
  • Moral Dilemmas
  • No Romance
  • Asian Character(s)
  • Vehicons Deserve Better
  • Good and Evil
  • this may or may not be a way for me to mull over the themes in TFP
  • especially the moral ambiguity theme that deserves to be explored more
  • Idealism
  • Friendship
  • Everyone Needs A Hug
  • Optimus gets a human charge who is going to make him and everyone else overthink basically
  • Team as Family
  • The beginning of the fic takes place some time after S1E5
  • Not Beta Read
  • Cybertronian Civil War
  • Cybertronian Culture (Transformers)
  • Cybertronian Politics (Transformers)
  • War
  • the first three chapters are shorter because i was unsure of the suitable word count

  Summary

  Good versus Evil, Autobots versus Decepticons.

  She knows it is not that simple. Nothing has ever been that simple, nothing has ever been so black and white. She will stay silent for now, but damn her if she ever stops questioning.

  (Or let's talk about morality, and what it means to be good, what it means to be evil.)

  (Let's talk about loss, and how it affects us all.)

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  [THIS VERSION IS ABANDONED. THE REWRITTEN VERSION CAN BE FOUND AT: https://archiveofourown.info/works/70582931/chapters/183413141]

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