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Happiness Is Where The Tide Takes You (Float! Optimus! Float!) by DesertRose244
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One
17 Apr 2026
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You've been with the Autobots for around half a year now. Even with your comparitively tiny eyes you can see that Prime puts on more masks than the one that covers his face. He's not only fearless. Not only serious. Not only a commander. He's tired, and mourning, and so annoyingly unwilling to allow himself to be happy.
If time is the moon that forced the tide to come in, and Optimus is your tide. Then you are the happy swimmer that learned to ride the waves at their highs and lows. That learned to let go of all the places time took you past and away from. That learned to float. And you WILL teach Optimus this lesson.
Because despite all the turbulent space between your lives- your moons, your waves. You see a parallel. That though you are caught in a riptide you never initially wanted, with him, you are swimming parallel to the shore. And maybe with you, he can be too.
- This is quite loosely placed in the G1 continuity. Optimus is a blend of G1 humour and TFP jaded. Not all things are referenced or accurate to G1, it's just the framework from which I worked around.