Unfinished Fics: #7 - Blood & Diesel

[koilungfish]

Unfinished Fic #7
Blood & Diesel
A motorway pileup causes Optimus Prime to have a nervous breakdown.

Comments

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Interesting. From the title alone, I would have expected more, er, roadway carnage and less Jesus, but the Jesus idea is pretty interesting.

Granted, I would generally cast Optimus in more of a Moses role, but that is me.

[jedi-sheng.livejournal.com]

Ummm *offers hug* I am sorry that you are feeling bitchy and I hope that you will feel better soon, with the cause having improved?
A FASINATING delve into cybertronian culture and tech. I would love to have seen the discussion on the tires and their function (not to mention the delving into how far someone with Optimus armor-class would roll). I LOVE doing stuff like that, looking at TFs and sorting out what would be different and why and the hows.
Also, I love seeing the Optimus-comic-version show up, I like the comic characters better than the cartoon versions most time (mostly because I was introduced to the comics first by my Grandfather, who was a friend of one of the minor artists). I also like how you worked the comic personality and history in and melded it with the cartoon history.
Thank you for posting these unfinished fics, I must admit I enjoy reading them, and seeing your explinations for various plot points and tech.

[(Anonymous)]

That bit of fanon about the Matrix is a rather elegant solution to the S1-S2 Prime's chest cavity problem. One would think Magnus or Prowl would have at least suggested leaving it behind, under the circumstances.

Reconciling it with Beast Wars might be a bit tricky, but then Beast Wars never quite made up its mind about whether Prime was carrying the Matrix or not.

I'm glad someone other than me noticed Megatron and Starscream's policy differences. Looking at fanfiction, one gets the impression that they have no substantive disagreements at all and every fight they have is a provocation. It's like people can't wrap their heads around the idea that their professional dynamics might be motivated by something other than their interpersonal relationship. Of course sometimes they are just picking fights with each other, but they clearly also have a fundamental disagreement about how to prosecute the war.