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mimi_sardinia) wrote2008-09-25 04:39 am
mimi_sardinia) wrote2008-09-25 04:39 am
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Plotbunnies Eat At My Brain
My muse has been grabbing onto plotbunnies again over on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tf_bunny_farm again.
43. Ultra Magnus was the Consort for the previous Prime and when Optimus became Prime the Consort went to him. As a Consort is still Prime’s Consort whomever holds the title.
The muse liked this, but has been trying to bend it to fit it's personal world-view. It seems to have succeeded.
I have this nebulous idea of a set of laws that only pertain to Primes - regulations that dictate their lives. This is a great concept to blame some of the ideas that come up in plotbunnies, like the one in some of my OP/UM/RP threesomes about Primes only bonding in trines.
I also made up some arbitrary ages for TF development, based loosely on human aging but substituting years for vorns. 20 vorns is adulthood, while 15 vorns is akin to 16 years in human lives, and about the lowest age that a young Cybertronian can get their first adult upgrades.
I have also included the basics of some of the IDW events in this, though I only really know what the wiki can tell me.
Anyway, Prime Law dictates that a Prime must always (or as close to) have a bonded consort.
When Sentinel Prime's consort dies, a replacement is found - a young mech who is taken and trained in the duties of the Prime Consort. His name is Dion. So when Dion gets to the age where he can be upgraded to an adult body, he becomes Ultra Magnus, the new Prime Consort.
Sentinel, after losing his previous consort, is less than interested in having a new one thrust upon him, but he can't get out of it unless he wants to risk loosing the Matrix to a new Prime. So not wanting some useless piece of fluff that a Consort usually is, Sentinel starts training Magnus to be a peacekeeper, in the Security forces, something that Magnus appreciates, since he had not exactly been willing to be Prime Consort either when he got chosen.
This usage of the Prime Consort is however considered perverse and wrong - Prime Consorts are meant to be Prime's dutiful lover - basically an adoring piece of fluff that exists to be seen on the arm of the reigning Prime. The fact that Sentinel trained Magnus to be a soldier and peacekeeper was considered by many a total misuse, and the upgrades Sentinel got for Magnus to make him better suited to the role of a soldier were seen as disgustingly perverted. Best analogy would be how the majority of America would take it if the President was revealed to be gay - and started being open about it (only Sentinel couldn't be impeached for making Magnus into a soldier).
The relationship between Sentinel and Magnus becomes more of a mentor/pupil type of relationship.
But then the war starts moving, and Sentinel ends up dead at Megatron's hand.
Another section of the Prime Laws comes into play - if a Prime Consort survives the death of the Prime they are bonded to, they must bond with the successor Prime. When Optronix finally gets chosen to be Prime, it comes with the attached proviso that he has to take Magnus as his Consort.
But despite how misused as Magnus is seen to be, and how far from being a proper Prime Consort he's become under Sentinel's instruction, he comes to be the best sort of Consort Optimus could end up with, in the middle of a war - a Consort who is a competent fighter instead of the useless piece of fluff a Consort should be.
It doesn't stop people from disapproving of such an unusual Consort - even to the extent of some saying that Optimus should replace Magnus with someone who would be a proper Consort, but Optimus has started to form a friendship with Magnus and is less than willing to throw aside a reliable advisor and support, just because of standards that quite frankly have no place in a war.
The end image I have of this is that they end up best friends, lovers and comrades-in-arms, and that Magnus's training from Sentinel is something that protects Optimus, because Magnus can defend himself and because of that is also defending Optimus, because of the effect that losing a bondmate could have.
tf_bunny_farm again. 43. Ultra Magnus was the Consort for the previous Prime and when Optimus became Prime the Consort went to him. As a Consort is still Prime’s Consort whomever holds the title.
The muse liked this, but has been trying to bend it to fit it's personal world-view. It seems to have succeeded.
I have this nebulous idea of a set of laws that only pertain to Primes - regulations that dictate their lives. This is a great concept to blame some of the ideas that come up in plotbunnies, like the one in some of my OP/UM/RP threesomes about Primes only bonding in trines.
I also made up some arbitrary ages for TF development, based loosely on human aging but substituting years for vorns. 20 vorns is adulthood, while 15 vorns is akin to 16 years in human lives, and about the lowest age that a young Cybertronian can get their first adult upgrades.
I have also included the basics of some of the IDW events in this, though I only really know what the wiki can tell me.
Anyway, Prime Law dictates that a Prime must always (or as close to) have a bonded consort.
When Sentinel Prime's consort dies, a replacement is found - a young mech who is taken and trained in the duties of the Prime Consort. His name is Dion. So when Dion gets to the age where he can be upgraded to an adult body, he becomes Ultra Magnus, the new Prime Consort.
Sentinel, after losing his previous consort, is less than interested in having a new one thrust upon him, but he can't get out of it unless he wants to risk loosing the Matrix to a new Prime. So not wanting some useless piece of fluff that a Consort usually is, Sentinel starts training Magnus to be a peacekeeper, in the Security forces, something that Magnus appreciates, since he had not exactly been willing to be Prime Consort either when he got chosen.
This usage of the Prime Consort is however considered perverse and wrong - Prime Consorts are meant to be Prime's dutiful lover - basically an adoring piece of fluff that exists to be seen on the arm of the reigning Prime. The fact that Sentinel trained Magnus to be a soldier and peacekeeper was considered by many a total misuse, and the upgrades Sentinel got for Magnus to make him better suited to the role of a soldier were seen as disgustingly perverted. Best analogy would be how the majority of America would take it if the President was revealed to be gay - and started being open about it (only Sentinel couldn't be impeached for making Magnus into a soldier).
The relationship between Sentinel and Magnus becomes more of a mentor/pupil type of relationship.
But then the war starts moving, and Sentinel ends up dead at Megatron's hand.
Another section of the Prime Laws comes into play - if a Prime Consort survives the death of the Prime they are bonded to, they must bond with the successor Prime. When Optronix finally gets chosen to be Prime, it comes with the attached proviso that he has to take Magnus as his Consort.
But despite how misused as Magnus is seen to be, and how far from being a proper Prime Consort he's become under Sentinel's instruction, he comes to be the best sort of Consort Optimus could end up with, in the middle of a war - a Consort who is a competent fighter instead of the useless piece of fluff a Consort should be.
It doesn't stop people from disapproving of such an unusual Consort - even to the extent of some saying that Optimus should replace Magnus with someone who would be a proper Consort, but Optimus has started to form a friendship with Magnus and is less than willing to throw aside a reliable advisor and support, just because of standards that quite frankly have no place in a war.
The end image I have of this is that they end up best friends, lovers and comrades-in-arms, and that Magnus's training from Sentinel is something that protects Optimus, because Magnus can defend himself and because of that is also defending Optimus, because of the effect that losing a bondmate could have.