I need to get outside more. : comments.
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Hahaha I only think you'd need help if you MISSED your job fair for the sake of Transformers fanfic. How else are you supposed to settle your nerves? At least you went :3 (How did it go?)
Ooooh shit. Those are both genuinely good ideas. I love the "lost episode" feel in fic, a lot, and the less we can pile onto Ratchet's conscience, the better. Let's seee...
1. Post-TransWarped: I like this one a lot because of Optimus. That really does seem like the kind of thing he would do, especially during that time in the show when shit starts to get really intense and awful. She'd never forgive him for doing something like this, leaving her behind when all she's wanted is to help them in their fight, but if that was no longer an issue... yeah. He probably would take the chance to remove the Autobots from her life. You're right though, Dr Sumdac would keep his mouth shut if they convinced him it was the best thing for her (seriously, he NEVER told her she was robotic, as he seemed to think that was best for her as well).
But yeah, Bee? He would not leave her. ;A; I am with you there. I like this because them adventuring by themselves is so wonderful. And in a very Sari way, you know she'd only question her talking mp3 player for about .3 seconds before thinking it was the coolest shit ever.
Okay, I wanted to cover all the things I love about the first idea but I think the second would work better all around. On the one hand, her being AFRAID of the Autobots is freaky, that it's something that was done to her by a Decepticon does give one hope that it can be fixed. I do like the idea of not using a magic reset button though. Like, hrm, for instance... maybe at some point they can repair the damage that causes her to fear them, but they might not be able to recover her memories, perhaps not entirely. And again, I like that they back off, so Bee and Sari can have awesome adventures by themselves :3
Come to think of it, the second idea supports Bee's new alt way better. If she just "doesn't remember them", there's no reason why Bee can't continue to be her awesome robot car. If she's afraid of the Autobots specifically, he'd have to be something she didn't recognize, ie new adorable altmode and not transforming back unless he has to. Also, if this was done to her by Soundwave, I kind of like the idea of him stealing Cassette technology to compress himself down that small. THAT'S JUST ME THOUGH, sorry XD
Sorry about the late reply, being fic-thinky hasn't come easily lately so I had to wait until I was more into that headspace.
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Though personally I like to fanwank it as "sweet now she's a robot I feel so much less awkward having a crush on her"It was like an hour and a half drive to that job fair and then two more hours of sitting in line, I had to think about *something*. And it went okay, but...well, the only person who actually took a resume from me were the people I mentioned in that other entry. Bleh.
That is a really excellent point about the second story - there's not as much need for Bee to hide himself if Sari just doesn't remember who they are. And so far as them having adventures together - maybe Soundwave didn't think to program her to fear the Decepticons, at least any more than a person would normally freak out about huge robots destroying crap. And thus Bee can slowly try to reintroduce her memories, not by throwing her into combat obviously, but by having her relearn the ideas that hey, there are giant robots on Earth, and some of them are doing bad things, and it's our job to make sure they don't hurt your planet.
I really like the idea of having some of her memories remain gone even after the reprogramming, too. She's gone for much of the series, so it's not a huge stretch, and it allows for some nice scenes between her and the Autobots as she tries to re-learn what she's forgotten. And maybe at the very end her technopathy can come into it, like she'll start discovering it when she accidentally uses it on one of the Autobots - say, Bee - in order to see their memories and try to understand them. And that way it still mostly fits in canon but doesn't use a reset button. I really, really love it.
And you can still have Optimus withdrawing and considering just cutting himself and the Autobots out of her life now that it won't hurt her to do so, it'll just be for a different reason - like, after they've already decided to give her some space because they don't want to make things worse by trying to fix her, he starts thinking that maybe this is for the best before he discovers the reason behind the memory wipe. And that's why Bee gets angry enough at him to go AWOL and hide as Sari's mp3 player, because how could they even consider just leaving her?
Eeeee having Bee steal Cassette tech is a brilliant brilliant idea and I don't quite know how to implement it or how he'd get his hands on it (maybe some of Soundwave's machinery is still in the basement and he can figure it out from there? After all, there has to be a way to translate guitar!Laserbeak into the virtual world, right?) but it's amazing and somehow adorable and I love it. :D
Oh, no no, please don't feel obligated or anything. Talking ideas through is an enormous help and a lot of fun besides, and I appreciate you taking the time to do so!
And the missing-episode can