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1. Optimus Prime's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Cycle by Hoard_of_hyperfixations

   Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   03 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Optimus Prime/Starscream
   • Skywarp & Starscream & Thundercracker (Transformers)
   • Optimus Prime & Prowl
   • Bumblebee & Optimus Prime
   • Starscream (Transformers)
   • Optimus Prime
   • Megatron (Transformers)
   • Prowl (Transformers)
   • Shockwave (Transformers)
   • Soundwave (Transformers)
   • Skywarp (Transformers)
   • Thundercracker (Transformers)
   • Jazz (Transformers)
   • Bumblebee (Transformers)
   • Ratchet (Transformers)
   • Primus (Transformers)
   • Unicron (Transformers)
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Time Loop
   • Optimus Prime Needs A Break
   • Optimus Prime is So Done
   • Starscream Redemption (Transformers)
   • Starscream Being Starscream (Transformers)
   • Starscream is a Little Shit (Transformers)
   • Megatron Being An Asshole (Transformers)
   • How Do I Tag
   • Humor
   • Violence
   • Blood and Violence
   • Scientist Starscream (Transformers)
   • Competent Starscream (Transformers)
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Skywarp Being Skywarp (Transformers)
   • Starscream is Bad at Feelings (Transformers)
   • Starscream is a Menace (Transformers)
   • Protective Optimus Prime
   • Yes Optimus Dw Its Totally Normal To Note That Starscream Has A Slutty Waist
   • Size Difference
   • Bickering
   • Attempted Murder
   • Murder
   • Angry Optimus Prime
   • Baffled that that is not a tag
   • playing fast and loose with lore

   Summary

   Optimus has watched Starscream, decepticon air commander and loyal (ish) second to the ruthless Megatron, die, approximately twenty times.

   It's disturbing.

   He doesn't like Starscream. Nobody likes Starscream. But Optimus doesn't enjoy seeing anyone pass away; it's the thing that constantly makes him hesitate to continue the war. If he were fighting for a lesser cause, he would have surrendered to end it and, in the process, end the continuous loss of life the fight cost.

   -

   Or, the one where Optimus gets stuck in a time loop that resets every time Starscream dies. A mech who remembers every time he's failed to save someone, and a seeker who is not only doomed to die, but is utterly insufferable.

   What could possibly go wrong?

   Series

   • Part 17 of Arson's Transformers Fics

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   English

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