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    Dinobots were supposed to be extinct.

    Cybertron had changed too much for them to survive: ages of brutal heat, collapsing ecosystems, endless civil wars, and the merciless hunts of the Predacons, their oldest and greatest enemies. In the present, Dinobots are nothing more than myths told by old bots, fossils buried beneath dead cities, and warnings carved into territory no one sane dares to claim.

    But the Autobots are desperate. They need land, resources, and a strategic foothold. So they cross into a forgotten region of Cybertron, ignoring every old warning that says the territory does not belong to them.

    At first, the silence feels like abandonment.

    Then the forest moves.

    The Autobots soon learn the truth: the Dinobots never died. They adapted. They hunted. They remembered. And among the ancient living nightmares stalking the forbidden land are Starscream and Bumblebee, two Dinobots and lovers who have survived for eons.

    The Autobots did not discover empty territory.

    They walked into a feeding ground...

     

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Day Twenty-Seven: Voiceless

    Clearly, the offline yellow frame trapped by blackened earth had been trying to get clear even before the final explosion, likely ferrying his charge to safety. Small organic fingers tugged and shoved at the comparatively massive rocks, delicate skin tearing and leaving behind streaks of red fluid. But despite his panic, despite the pain, the human refused to abandon his guardian.

    “Bumblebee,” he choked out, voice thick with emotion.

    It reminded Soundwave all too much of another scene, long before, on another planet entirely.

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    21 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 43

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    A leader misses a moment that matters—and doesn’t realize the cost until silence almost takes something irreplaceable.

    An injured scout learns, painfully, how deeply he’s learned to make himself small. Help arrives late, then louder than intended, and the attention meant to protect only sharpens old fears of being a burden.

    What follows isn’t instant healing, but a slow, deliberate unlearning: of minimizing pain, of confusing usefulness with worth, of thinking care must be earned. Words are finally spoken without excuses. Promises are tested in quiet moments, not emergencies.

    In the end, nothing is perfect—but something essential changes.
    A call is answered.
    Someone stays.
    And trust, once broken by silence, begins to grow in its place.

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    07 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 73

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    He knows that maybe there was something, anything other than his current designation, and he also knows that no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much time he devotes to digging through his memory core, the past won’t make itself clear to him.

    (B knows pain. He knows how to hurt as well. Then he learns agony and healing and loneliness and longing.)

    Or: Bee backstory(ish) for TF one!!

    Or or: I put Bee through the wringer bc I love hurting characters I love

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    07 Jan 2026

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    After the war, Bumblebee had grown tired of expectations costantly forced on him, of duties that never ended, of being told who he was supposed to be.

     

    At first, he hunted Decepticons with his team on Earth. But then the council stepped in, insisting he attend the Academy to "refine his skills", because apparently — he wasn't good enough in his job for them.

     

    A year later, framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Bumblebee fled. Branded a fugitive, he vanished into the underground and became something else: an assassin, striking from the shadows to target the Council that betrayed him.

     

    Eventually he got captured, the Council deemed him too dangerous for prison and sentenced him to the shadowzone.

     

    But something went wrong.

     

    Instead of exile, he woke up on the Nemesis—Megatron’s warship. Mid-war in the past.

     

    Though it's just a nightmare, right?

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    24 Dec 2025