I am minded of a fic wherein there was a human-style ban on officer/subordinate intimacy, which led to a rather silly result in the idea of Optimus Prime being hard-hearted enough to kicked two Autobots out of the army for being in love.
There are a lot of good reasons for not wanting officer/subordinate intimacy going on, and given how... human the Transformers' emotional make-ups are usually portrayed (yes, in canon), most of those reasons would still apply to them. It's difficult to really say what sort of rules or traditions they'd have in place, since in-faction romance is covered so rarely, but I know I, personally, have always been inclined to think that the reason Rodimus gives up on Arcee so completely when he becomes Rodimus might suggest that some of the rules or traditions do apply to Autobots, at least. That said, I couldn't see Optimus kicking two Autobots out for being in love; it's far easier just to assign them to different stations.
Kup has hella clobber. Somewhere in the late issues he threatened to relieve Optimus Prime of command, and Prime took that very seriously. Not sure why him specifically.
Because Kup = Awesome. Though seriously, it is interesting, given that, based on Kup's Story, he's only been back with the Autobots for a hundred or so years (after recovering from his burn-out). Maybe it has to do with the fact that he recovered from burn-out at all, since it's strongly suggested that that's all but impossible?
Possibly a lack of exposure to the concepts?
Maybe, but it's pretty sure the writers of canon themselves never had any more exposure than what ends up in the popular media. You don't need to have even my level of experience to write stories that toss those sorts of things in!
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There are a lot of good reasons for not wanting officer/subordinate intimacy going on, and given how... human the Transformers' emotional make-ups are usually portrayed (yes, in canon), most of those reasons would still apply to them. It's difficult to really say what sort of rules or traditions they'd have in place, since in-faction romance is covered so rarely, but I know I, personally, have always been inclined to think that the reason Rodimus gives up on Arcee so completely when he becomes Rodimus might suggest that some of the rules or traditions do apply to Autobots, at least. That said, I couldn't see Optimus kicking two Autobots out for being in love; it's far easier just to assign them to different stations.
Kup has hella clobber. Somewhere in the late issues he threatened to relieve Optimus Prime of command, and Prime took that very seriously. Not sure why him specifically.
Because Kup = Awesome. Though seriously, it is interesting, given that, based on Kup's Story, he's only been back with the Autobots for a hundred or so years (after recovering from his burn-out). Maybe it has to do with the fact that he recovered from burn-out at all, since it's strongly suggested that that's all but impossible?
Possibly a lack of exposure to the concepts?
Maybe, but it's pretty sure the writers of canon themselves never had any more exposure than what ends up in the popular media. You don't need to have even my level of experience to write stories that toss those sorts of things in!