Seibertron.com Energon Pub Forums

I think you can tell by my username that I like Optimus Prime. He's probably my favorite character, hardly being in the IDW-verse (my favorite continuity). I was thinking the other day of mixing elements I liked from other continuities (Aligned really) to get a background that meshes with what I'd like to be my personal fanon. I just wanted to share a little of it here.

I stated with the IDW-continuity. It's my favorite so far and seems to feel right to me. I love the idea of Prime being a cop. Very action-heroy and good for stories. However, due to my own profession, I also dug the DreamWorks and Aligned background of a librarian. Something about a knowledgeable and educated soldier just strikes me as awesome. So how to fit these together?

In my head I imagine Orion Pax starting out as a data clerk or librarian under Alpha Trion. He'd have the "new" Orion Pax body that he sported in the Pax spotlight. Something happens, perhaps relating to the upcoming tension of rebellion and Trion rebuilds him in his cop body that we are familiar with from IDW.

It's not a perfect idea, but I like it and it preserves two divergent backgrounds by integrating them into one. Anyone else do something similar?

In my personal fannon Optimus Prime and Megatron are just a crazy nymphomaniac woman with a split personality and a taste for electric shocks.
She also enjoys making love at midnight and the taste of campaign. And also shooting stuff.

you could even have the cartoon continuity play into that a little for the rebuilding between librarian and cop. It doesn't need to have played out exactly as it did in the show of course, but similar events could have taken place.

Being a reader of superhero comics since I could recognise letters, I'm quite comfortable with playing it fast and loose with retcons and accepting or ignoring events into my person fanon as I see fit. There's also the concept of multiple realities that's already been established as a part of the actual canon of a few TF stories so pretty much everything, including Dead Metal's suggestion is open to us.

In my personal Fanon,I've mixed elements of the Bayverse and G1.I've eradicated stuff I don't particularly like,and added a few of my own. I would love to see your Idea written,i'd definately read it.

Dead Metal wrote:In my personal fannon Optimus Prime and Megatron are just a crazy nymphomaniac woman with a split personality and a taste for electric shocks.
She also enjoys making love at midnight and the taste of campaign. And also shooting stuff.

WOW!! That's totally how I pictured it. OUTSTANDING!!