Angst_isFuel



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    Sunk Cost FallacyNoun

    An ingrained failsafe coding instance whereby a mech is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it - even when it becomes clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
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    Exhausted, depressed and shell-shocked, Skyfire finds himself struggling to adjust to the end of the war he had no choice but to take part in.

    Unfortunately, his fractured sparkbond doesn’t seem to be helping, especially when the culprit - and his two trinemates - reappear back into his life.

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    29 Oct 2025

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    Angst is an understatement here. Please and thank you.

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    “You,” Megatron pointed at his chest, fusion cannon incidentally following, and Starscream shut his intake with an audible clack. “Are the Decepticon scientist. I don’t care if Laserbeak has to drag you out there by your pedes, you are going to figure out what’s going on here.”

    “Oh, so now we’re respecting my title as a scientist?” Starscream hissed under his breath, remembering the many, many, many times his brilliant inventions have gotten shot down over the years. “If you would ever pay attention, you’d know that I’m an inventor. An engineer! I have no expertise in anything remotely related to alien or Cybertronian biology!”

    Starscream was lying.

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    While his trine is on vacation, Starscream is forced to investigate a new Autobot bioweapon. It does not go as planned.

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    29 Sep 2025

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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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    14 Jun 2025

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    The amount of angst in this story will keep me going for weeks

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    Starscream has been found in critical condition after a fight with Megatron. It will be a very long road to recovery.

    How will he change under the Autobots care? How will the Autobots change with one of their worst enemies stuck in their medbay? How will the Deceptions manage without their Second in Command?

    Change is inevitable. Whether positive or negative, only time will tell.

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    12/Sep/25 small update! I'm editing past chapters to fix my usage of "Raph" instead of Raf (sorry) and fix some terminology mistakes (fixing head to be helm and whatnot where I've made mistakes) Currently up to chapter 19

    Also, I've cemented a head cannon (first mentioned in the end notes of chapter 23) that Starscream uses Cybertronian time measurements, so I've made some small edits here and there to keep things consistent! Time keys can be found on multiple chapters from before I started implementing this as a part of the story, but I've added one to chapter 3!

    As this is my first fic, I have tried my best not to outright re-write things as I like seeing how far I've come :)

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    26 Feb 2025

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    Seriously good start

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    Lately June feels as though her life is stuck in a loop.

    Wake up. Get dressed. Work. Come home. Sleep. Repeat.

    What would happen if this sleep deprived nurse woke up from a nap and realized that inexplicably she, and half her living room, had been relocated to the setting of one of her favorite series? Can she figure out how to survive without absolutely derailing the story?

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    26 Oct 2024

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    Here for the damsel in distress