Giving Arcee Closure and Love Across the Multiverse
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A day of mirth, of memory, of rejoicing, of flames dancing together. On this ancient Camien holiday, some plucky heroes young and old across assemblage including two organics come together to celebrate, and to face the struggles ahead, of transformer majority worlds approaching outright conflict over rejoining the largest treaty organization of the galaxy… All the while ancient conflicts and motives beyond their current understanding overshadow everything, rolled up in the origins of these transforming robots. Between intergenerational family, swords, gifts, and I love yous and more, the steadying of each other is enough, to have a little bit of joy and wisdom on this Day of Multiflame.
In this first chapter, linguist Greenlight sings with some of her loved ones and gathered festival-goers, before trying to figure out how to share time with partners outside of work some more, and then joining a multitude of families all related to the Titan Trypticon, to give gifts together. A galactic treaty and threats to it loom over Greenlight and everyone else’s minds.Edited to not be as heavy on physical descriptions or introduce most characters with them to increase readability. :3
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- Part 1 of Autosignet Cycle
- Part 1 of Giving Arcee Closure and Love Across the Multiverse
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Addendum (an IDW1 Arcee novel fanfic) by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
21 Jul 2026
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7 million years ago, the latest blow to gender on Cybertron is dealt by the rising Functionist tide, stirring an Arcee struggling with loneliness and aesthetic dysphoria into enraged action to help bots in the Hadean System across the aesthetic spectrum save their transformative glory and stories… in the process, she finds aid from the scientist Jhiaxus, who also offers xem a new reformatting surgery to let her spark do shaping with CNA editing help. Thus begins a new chapter in her life as a founding member of the expansion of what would later be called the Anti-Vocation League alongside her beloved partner and fellow old person Codexa, while grappling with her own growing pile of pains and traumas. As the millennia carry on and she heads to space, xey eventually meets Anode and Lug in the stars, and some dear moments near the present all the way through to events after Transformers: Optimus Prime #25: Post… where she helps some gender expansive bots, and with help from Aileron and xeir pals she finally gets some answers and closure to xeir own self, and has a reckoning with forces pitted against her for millions of years. The years after are not what she expected during most of her life prior, and xey is glad for them…
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- Part 2 of Addendum Nexuses
- Part 7 of Autosignet Cycle
- Part 2 of Giving Arcee Closure and Love Across the Multiverse
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You, a trans/expansive transformer, denizen of Caminus, have been friends with Arcee for a decade, going to aesthetics meetings together, sparring with each other... and now you're on your second date after having asked her out. There's a lot to this old bot, firm and compassionate, full of life and so tired at the same time, trusting each other with intimacy will come with a lot of transformations for everyone involved. Do you want to get to know her more, and be there for her, as she fictionally does for folks like us and autonomy itself, and trying to find some love and friendship while she's at it?
This is fic is the most we've pushed the boundary of alien sensual but not sexual. So uh, bear in mind. This will probably appeal to sword lesbians despite not having a lot of sword fighting (If people want that we'll write it no really).
This story wouldn't possible w/o multiple loving communities & friends who helped us through other things or for this and what's in it. It's our 1st attempt at an x-reader fic, want to do more, and this was both the easiest starting point for us and a personally intense one to write. Ty to blurrito (thunderin_brainstorm) (Ao3) for encouraging us so much to write one!
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Some indulgent fluff we were craving of some of the many bots in Arcee's family as we see it / write it / know it that puts words to just different scenes of them sharing time with her. If you're wondering why it's like this its just we love her a lot and turn to her with some frequency to get through things y'know? It's kind of well, ironically, us singing about our love for her which is where we are terminally. We may add more to this later, or not. Also we're about to drop a ton of Lug/Anode content in for Addendum soon, so that'll be fun!
Edit note: I totally forgot to put Rodimus's name in here, she has been added to her respective portion (specifically, the surgery / time after time one), and went ahead and added Springer as well
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AUTOBOT DECLARATIONS OF HOPE AMIDST WAR by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Diaclone (Toys)
16 Aug 2023
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This is a 5k word piece we wrote for the CYBERTRON WANTS YOU! zine, a propaganda zine! Our piece is the reflections of various Autobots across species on the current state of the Great War and what to do about it and the issue of the violence therein itself, after Anode and Lug make a crucial difference on Omnitron. (for those who read our fanfic, if you're wondering, yes this is a semi parallel to things we have planned for the original continuity portion of the Autosignet Cycle).
It was an honor to write for this, and a great deal of fun to work with people on it, fantastic pieces and comradery. Give it a look! :3
And yes our piece was very trans and expansive. We think this doesn't surprise anybody. XD But the pulls for who's talking about the expansiveness besides people we've already written fanfic for might.
For people wondering what's going on with the compound noun aesthetics in this piece, they are slowly being revealed in the orig cont stuff, such as in Day of Multiflame (the song the Mistress of Flame paraphrases is from there). If you want more answers, please feel free to ask! :3 There's more we wanted to write than what we got in, the 5k word limit was a nice challenge.
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Duel of Journeys: Samus vs. Arcee by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Metroid Series, Transformers - All Media Types, Metroid (Manga)
26 Sep 2023
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Cybertron teeters on the brink of civil war or a coup. The more centrist Autobots led by Sentinel Prime trying to hold the status quo are watching it unravel before their optics, while more radical Autobots such as Nautica and Arcee seek to push for a true autonomous revolution, in opposition to the imperial Decepticon rise. Arcee in particular continues to tear across the galaxy as if the Anti-Functionist War hadn't ended, seeking out stragglers, catching the attention of the larger Galactic Federation that Cybertron, Caminus, and Earth are all part of. Earth does not want to see another transformers originated war, nor does the Galactic Federation, a body Earth is equally wary of given the various plots foiled by the legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran. On recommendation to Sentinel Prime, Samus is hired for a job... to bring in Arcee and her family to stand trial, and the bilateral government meeting where Samus is given her OpFor info by Prowl proves to be quite the argument.
Samus, worried about maintaining a delicate peace, also seeks the truth behind all this, suspicious of the motives at hand. And so opens the first chapter of what will lead to an explosive and dire confrontation and revelations...Series
- Part 1 of Duel of Journeys
- Part 6 of Giving Arcee Closure and Love Across the Multiverse
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2023 TF Rare Pairing Fest Day 3 (Fittingly Late), Trust & Failure: The Fall of Mars by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
22 Oct 2023
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Written for the theme of Day 3 of the 2023 Transformers Rare Pairing Fest, the theme being Trust and Failure, which we were fittingly late for due to having to take care of family. In this story, the Great War rages on in the Solar System: Mars has fallen, and among remaining Autobots are three special forces Wreckers deployed there; reluctant warrior Arcee, die hard soldier Impactor, and hopeful strategist Aileron. They are holding the line against the Decepticons until civilians can be evacuated by the Earth Defense Command, but things take a turn for the worse when a Decepticon battlecruiser starts to fall out of the sky near the spaceport, and a bearer if Unicron's Matrix of Conquest enters the field... the three don't give up on hope, on love, and must make some difficult decisions in their last stand, including whether to bear the Matrix of Leadership... as always, the transformation of the present is the key to the future.
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- Part 3 of 2022-2023 Transformers Rare Pairing Fests
- Part 7 of Giving Arcee Closure and Love Across the Multiverse
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All Souls' Reforging is Neverending by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon), Transformers - All Media Types
30 Mar 2024
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After the events of Season 1 Ep 19 "A Stygi Situation", Grimlock and Jawbreaker are in the forest when Grim gets a call from his close friend and old revolutionary war pal, Arcee, who's checking on him & offering to hang out beyond the notice of GHOST to help with his healing process, as Grimlock had done for her twice in the past. Grimlock happily agrees, & Jawbreaker goes along as well. In the Autobot's hideaway, Arcee and Grimlock detail to Jawbreaker some of the depths of peaceful transformer history & society that overlap & differ from humanity, the hierarchy that disrupted that legacy, and the Autobot rise after. Arcee also gives him some tools to embrace his strength to be gentle.
As a neurodiverse trans system w/ some gal gender stuff and; a 2nd generation immigrant background who navigated anger, rage, and pain over otherness and alienation, it was a bit saddening back when there was just S1 to see how awkward the guy-gal dynamic was in S1 EP19 and that Arcee wasn't present with her own insight on rage as a tool with reason & ethos. So we wrote this, Chapter 2 & 3 will be about Arcee, Nova Storm, and Skywarp navigating traumas from episodes after, and starting to seek closure.
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Journeys Entwined by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
04 Feb 2024
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The year is 2015 CE, rebuilding of New Spark and Iacon underway, a radical pacifist reconciliation and technology sharing treaty between Cybertron and Earth's polities ratified after the end of the conflicts with the Decepticons, MECH and Forged. Life goes on as best it can to transform marvelously, and though the humans and transformers who composed Team Prime have been apart busy taking next steps with their lives, June Darby and Arcee still have some time together when they while their son Jack studies mechatronics on Cybertron. The two gals go on a date after Arcee picks up June from work, both with new prospects for their lives- and things to share with each other, including some of the true history of Cybertron that Arcee as a Guardian of the AllSpark has known for a long time, and both out of a want to and as an expectation of historical reconciliation by the interplanetary treaty- is going to start to share. The future seems hopeful, and has more in store, as it always does, for history knows no end.
We were originally aiming to release this for Heart & Spark week but we really wanted to put it out sooner and work on it more serially as is typical for us. We'll see where it is when we get there!Series
- Part 1 of Relics of Love
- Part 9 of Giving Arcee Closure and Love Across the Multiverse
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Joined at the Spark by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers One (2024), Transformers - All Media Types
02 Apr 2025
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Before his overthrow was spearheaded by Optimus Prime, Elita One, Bumblebee, and Megatron, Sentinel Prime's colonial client state regime over Iacon and it's mines faced multiple challenges from the very beginning and throughout its fifty years following the end of the overt thousands-year long conflict between Transformer society and that of the Quintesson empire. This is a story of how those challenges were resolved, how no matter how it played out, one way or another Sentinel's regime would fall under it's own oppressive weight, the intercession of his overlords, or from the liberation of revolution- and it is also the story of the first batches of miners at the heart of that, of Solus Prime's gambit against possible betrayal, the story of how Arcee, Moonracer, and their pals pushed back, while Sentinel desperately looked for a way to legitimize his rule by having a co-conspirator to blame- a reactionary much worse than himself. To stop him from destroying the parts of the legacy of the Thirteen and the old alliances of Cybertron, the transformative nexus at the foundation of the eldest ways of autonomy known to their species, that Sentinel still thought he cared for. This is a story about the might of love.
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Taganite Polyformers by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers (IDW 2019)
02 Mar 2025
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As Anode or Lug, you are taking steps in a galaxy following a reconciliatory Autobot victory in Autobot-Decepticon-Unicron wars, to help rebuild and make something new, both for society and yourselves, reconnecting with family and friends you were away from due to the war, transforming the world and each other together, and rekindling love in such reforging of and for peaceful autonomy, addressing old wounds.... We wrote 2 excerpts set at different points in dating sim style for this story, one from Anode's perspective meeting with Windblade and Proxima on Cybertron early in the story to start restoration, and one from Lug's on the Lost Light supporting Rodimus's surgery including by helping her partner Drift with advice on how to support Roddy, This story is very much about finding the Forge of Solus Prime in oneself and the people around you. The Ao3 release has been edited for typos I missed.
Also, our dear friend Spashahoney did an incredible art piece attached to this story (both are in the zine Transform & Go Out With Me!)! It shows other characters on dating routes, which include Chromia, Yellow Splendid Convoy, Lodestar or Lightbright, Muzzel, Spacewarp, Marissa Faireborn, and the Mistress of Flame!
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Analog Closure by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers Animated (2007), Transformers - All Media Types
30 Apr 2026
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This story begins from the basic concept that the only way a country/military would barring sheer incompetence or lack of resources send a single combat medic as evacuation reinforcements for an intelligence commander crucial to binary bond captaining a superweapon naval bot to win a war is either to burn an asset left out in the cold or to exfiltrate quietly under cover. Considering the wrecked battlefield depicted in Ratchet's war flashback episode Thrill of the Hunt, it was decidedly not a quiet extraction... Ultra Magnus and Highbrow made a deal with Megatron to trade Arcee for the location and cover assassin commando extraordinaire Shadow Striker is operating under to kill with near impunity in the Autobot capital so Cybertron Intelligence can move in and capture her, but Magnus has no intention of letting Megatron get the command codes in Arcee's head... Arcee faces a harrowing fight against Squadron X that wipes her planetary Intelligence Director's squad, and in the aftermath of her loss of memory, Minerva will try to heal her while Heavywait and Firestar and Shadow Striker are caught in conflicting interests... when the war is over, Cee and Shadow Striker find common cause in their abandonment, and act on that.
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Slay the Magnus by Pluralsword for megatronusthesecond (jackjones)
Fandoms: Slay the Princess (Visual Novel), Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers (IDW 2019), Transformers Generation One, The Transformers (Cartoon Generation One), Transformers (Skybound 2023), Transformers: Alternity, Transformers vs. G.I. JOE (IDW - Scioli), Diaclone (Toys), Transformers: Regeneration One, Transformers: Cyberverse, Transformers: Precursor World, Transformers: Shattered Glass, Transformers Animated (2007)
04 Aug 2026
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When Flaternity rose, an entire species gestalt of independent transformers joined as one to their iterations across continuities like Alternity before them, their protection and reconciliation of the multiverse was not without challenges. In the Age of the Shroud, more than one group of people from different continuity families have been able to overcome the barrier to some extent, such as the denizens of Cyberverse using Shattered Spacebridge technology or the Quintessons’ Multiversal Drive. Many such drives remain in Quintesson control and threaten the Multiverse, so two of Flaternity’s finest agents, Arcee|Arcee Magnus and Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime, led a special operations force to stop them- and now face themselves as the most dangerous gambit attempted by a Quintesson regime plays out… can the two foil their plans when they are framed as foils of each other and themselves?
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