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Name: SamuraiMarmoset (“Samu” for short)
Age: 32
Personal Journal: N/A
Contact: jamesvogel85@gmail.com
Other In-Game Characters: Corrin
Character
Name: Megatron
Age: Between five and six million years old (one tends to lose track)
Gender: Male
Canon: IDW Transformers Generation 1 Continuity
Canon Point: The end of Lost Light issue 22 when he returns to the ship. Will canon-update to the end of the series when the two-month spoiler period is over. For the record, this will be the quantum duplicate of Megatron who ended up in the alternate universe (and not the one who returned to Cybertron and was presumably executed).
History: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(G1)/IDW_Generation_1_continuity
Personality:
Megatron is trying to be better than he was. It’s been a long road, even since becoming an Autobot at the end of the events of Dark Cybertron. When he first joined the Lost Light while he was no longer actively seeking to hurt or subjugate organic races, he still saw them as less than mechanical life (to the point where he was willing to abandon a planet of organic races that was being threatened with a quantum explosion since it would have been dangerous to the Cybertronian crew to try and save them), and could still be as abrasive and cynical as you might expect a former warlord with over four million years of terrorizing the known universe could be. It took him being thoroughly schooled on what it means to be an Autobot by Skids, seeing the true scope of his life and its effect on his own race on Necroworld, and being psychically exposed to all the pain and suffering he had caused before he truly abandoned his organic bigotry and devoted himself to pacifism and empathy. He emerged from almost a century in the Functionist universe a completely changed ‘bot, fully dedicated to saving lives and trying to make the world-the universe, really-a kinder, gentler place than it had been.
At the same time, however, he knows he can never make amends. This will not stop Megatron from trying, of course, and he doesn’t do good because he thinks it earns him brownie points or will somehow reduce his sentence when the time comes for him to finally be tried, he simply knows that after four million years of war, devastation, and death on a galactic scale, nothing he can ever do, not even his 819-year stint in the Functionist universe, no matter how many people come to accept his change and even embrace him personally as a friend, can ever hope to make up for what he’s done. Nor does he want it to; he knows his journey can end in his trial, either at the hands of the Knights of Cybertron (they don’t exist, but Megatron doesn’t yet know that) or at the hands of some other governing body like the Galactic Council. And he knows this trial will likely end in his death, which he accepts, because frankly, he knows he deserves worse, and nothing will ever change that. But he can never-will never-forgive himself.
But he’ll keep going anyway. His determination has always been one of his biggest traits throughout his life. As the Decepticon warlord, it made Megatron a terrifying, unstoppable enemy on the battlefield, who would do anything-sacrifice anyone, and anything, his own men, and even Cybertron itself if need be-to assure victory in the name of a cause he had long ago stopped caring about, except whenever he needed to pull out an excuse or justification. As an Autobot, and leader of the Anti-Vocationist League, it meant that no matter what losses they inflicted upon him, how many of his closest friends and allies they killed in an effort to make him give up, or fall into despair, he never did. He had a duty to preserve lives, both of his own men, and the organic races the Functionists would wipe out, and then eventually return to his own universe to face his final judgment.
In one-on-one interactions, Megatron is always professional. He has the disciplined, organized mind that prosecuting a four million year-long war would necessitate and it shows in his day-to-day interactions. He’s also got a much, much better handle on his temper now; that’s not to say he might throw something if he gets really annoyed (or maybe punch a wall), but compared to how he used to get homicidally angry and wipe out entire civilizations in a fit of pique, it’s a vast improvement.
Megatron has become a staunch pacifist, though he can be somewhat pragmatic about it. After he renounced violence completely out of a fear that embracing it would cause him to slip back into his old ways, he would never directly participate in battle. During the showdown with the DJD on Necroworld, the revelation from Ratchet that the “Fool’s Energon” that Megatron was taking that he believed sapped his strength was a placebo and the only thing that had been holding him back the whole time was himself, and Ravage’s death at the hands of Tarn finally caused Megatron to enter the battlefield again, where he tore a path through Deathsaurus’ Decepticons. He planned to die with the DJD, allowing himself to be consumed by the antimatter he released on them, but ultimately (if somewhat reluctantly) allowed himself to be saved by Rodimus. During the centuries in the Functionist universe, his pacifism has lightened somewhat; he’ll still avoid combat and try diplomacy first whenever possible, but he’s not above a good *THWACK* using his medkit as a club if he has to. Megatron is also more willing to engage mindless enemies, like most monsters, though if possible he’d prefer not to kill even then, unless absolutely necessary, such as to save somebody’s life.
He’s also surprisingly cultured; before the war, despite his lowly station as an Energon miner, Megatron was an avid writer of poetry in addition to his samizdat writings on social reform through (at least initially) non-violent protest. He also collected the works of other poets whenever possible, and since his reformation has taken up the hobby again, writing whenever he has a spare moment. His anonymously-published poem Afterlight still remains popular amongst other Cybertronians (who don’t realize Megatron is the writer, something Megatron has not bothered to clarify). His first major work, After the Ark was also a stirring indictment of the state of post-Nova Prime Cybertron and its so-called “Golden Age”, and the corruption of the then-reigning Prime, Nominus, who was increasingly being marginalized by a more powerful Senate, and the negative effects Functionism (in which a ‘bot’s altmode determined their function in society) had done far more harm to the Cybertronian race than good.
Really likes the colour purple and things on his arm. He didn’t have to make his med-kit suspiciously fusion cannon shaped and able to be worn easily on the forearm. And if you’re looking for some deeper meaning to why purple is such an integral colour to the Decepticon ethos (after all, it’s the colour of their infamous brand), some deep philosophical meaning to it, perhaps as an intentional contrast to the bright red of the “First Face” that later become the Autobot symbol, there isn’t one. Megatron just really likes the colour purple and had the opportunity to make it a thing. YOU might not look at a ship fifteen miles long and say “every inch of this thing inside and out needs to be purple” and then get it done but that’s why you’re not Megatron.
More Than Meets The Eye/Lost Light Plot Summary
Upon being granted "co-captaincy" of the Lost Light was also forced to take a special type of low-yield Energon called "Fool's Energon" that he was told sapped his strength to make it easier for him to be taken down if he reverted. It was a lie; his body had been so damaged by the events of the Dark Cybertron Prophecy, not even a mild sedative could be used without risking his death, so all the "Fool's Energon" did was taste bad. Megatron was in control the whole time and was holding himself back.
Went to a recreation of Earth created by crew-member Swerve based on various sitcoms and was forced for the first time ever to use a holomatter avatar of a human to blend in, experiencing some semblance of life as an organic for the first time. He was surprised by their frailty (but not, as he clarified to an irate crewmember, their weakness). It proved to be food for thought.
Found the home planet of the Necrobot, an ancient Neutral who recorded the deaths of every remaining Cybertronian, and the sheer scope of what his actions had caused when he was confronted with proof of all the Cybertronian lives that had been lost directly because of him, Autobot, Neutral, and Decepticon alike, to say nothing of the untold numbers of organic races. This caused him to rennounce violence forever and embrace total pacifism. It didn't stick, at least the totality.
Lost the last vestiges of his anti-organic bigotry after falling victim to a psychic attack that exposed him to all the pain, terror, and sorrow that he had caused over four million years of war. By the time the DJD had been dealt with, he was willing to sacrifice himself for a group of organics being kept in stasis by the now-deceased Necrobot since if the DJD discovered them, they'd be killed without a second thought. It was during this battle that Ravage was killed and Megatron finally took to the field with a new fusion cannon that saw the deaths of the DJD at his hands via his control of anti-matter. Was resigned to die with them when the anti-matter went out of control, but was saved (perhaps against his will) by Rodimus. Almost reverted afterwards, but the appearance of his long-lost mentor Terminus (the Necrobot had used a time-traveling briefcase (long story not really relevant to Megatron up until this point) to go back in time and rescue 'bots from both sides of the Great War who had only ever been recorded as "missing" and never conclusively proven to be dead...because the Necrobot had saved them and brought them to the future. They were the "organics" he'd been keeping safe while they recovered from the effects of time travel; Terminus was one of them.
Tried to fill Terminus in on the Great War and how far he'd fallen, but an attempt to teleport to Cybertron and get help in tracking down the stolen Lost Light and its mutinous crew accidentally saw Megatron and the rest of Team Rodimus transported to an alternate reality where the Functionist Council had risen again, unseated the Senate, and taken total control of the planet. While the Great War never happened, Cybertron itself was choking under the Functionists' philosophy of form defining function, and he felt compelled to want to help the local resistance movement, the Anti-Vocationist League. This brought him into conflict with Rodimus, who was sympathetic, but unwilling to remain in the alternate universe. While Megatron was prepared to return as well and keep looking for the Knights, he ended up being tricked into staying by Terminus, who stranded him in the Functionist Universe out of a misguided belief he was helping his old friend. Megatron would end up taking control of the AVL and leading it in a non-violent resistance against the Functionists, hoping to change hearts and minds with knowledge, guidance, understanding, and compassion; "peace through empathy". It proved difficult as the Functionists attached planetary engines to Cybertron to take their crusade against those deemed useless (all-non Cybertronian) life. Megatron found the Functionist version of the Lost Light, renamed it Last Light painted every inch of it purple, and set out to ensure that the Functionists could not harm anyone by getting ahead of them to warn the planets they targeted and allow the species to escape by using a maze of subspace tunnels called "the Warren". The Functionists response was to retrofit Cybertron with an altmode in the shape of Primus, supposed creator god of the Transformers, and also target all of Megatron's friends and loved ones-including Terminus-for death, believing that this would stop Megatron. It did not, though the Functionists believed they had killed him during a battle at a place called Perseppalae. They had not. Use of the Warren crossed time as well as space, so while only a few months at best passed in the prime dimension, centuries passed in the Functionist; Megatron spent 819 years there.
When the Grand Architect, aka Adaptus of the Guiding Hand, punched a hole through reality to destroy the Functionists due to having foreseen their arrival thanks to time travel using a "God Gun" made up of six replica Cybertrons (long story) Megatron and the Last Light were pulled through ahead of them, where he was quickly reunited with Rodimus and the others, who still believed he'd betrayed them. Rodimus actually fell back into the old routine pretty quickly, though Magnus, who had taken Megatron's supposed betrayal quite badly, took some more time. But in short order they were able to cook up a plan wherein Primus, the real Primus-also known as the Lost Light's psychologist Rung-created twelve new Matrices of Leadership (dying in the process, though he did so willingly) that would then be opened at twelve key locations on a forced to revert to planet mode Functionist Cybertron, which would overload Vector Sigma and destroy the Functionist Council who had merged with it to control their monstrosity. They succeeded, though even with a rousing speech from Rodimus to encourage the groups to open their Matrices, Megatron was ultimately unable to forgive himself and open his own, forcing Rodimus to do it with his one remaining arm and his teeth. Thus were the Functionists stopped, and the universe saved, with a brand new Cybertron to conveniently replace the one that had so recently got eaten by Unicron in the other books.
But since the Knights had been proven during this whole debacle to no longer be alive, a re-trial for Megatron was necessary, this time overseen by the Galactic Council, the ruling Galactic polity, to help ease the Transformer's membership into the organization. Rodimus was prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop the re-trial, but Megatron accepted it without issue, cooperating fully. However, he was allowed to join the crew on one last "lap of honour", visiting all the plans they'd been to over the course of their quest and reminiscing one last time about their adventures before the ship's quantum engines were harvested to help New Cybertron meet its energy demands, the ship was dismantled, and the crew went their separate ways. However, the science wing of the ship was willing to try a "magic trick" where they could try to create a quantum duplicate of the ship, just as real and valid as the one ship and crew now, but then shunt that version of the ship and crew into an alternate universe where the Lost Light didn't already exist (and thus cancel both out) to continue having adventures forever, while another crew would return to Cybertron and carry on with their lives, never knowing if they'd succeeded or not. The entire crew voted unanimously to try (Megatron included, since succeed or fail he'd still stand trial for his crimes) and the trick was attempted...and unbeknownst to the crew who returned to Cybertron, succeeded. That version of Megatron stood trial, facing a sentence of either infinite imprisonment (no bail, no hope of release, no visitors for all eternity) or execution. Even with Magnus providing a spirited defense, and Rodimus lying under oath about Megatron opening his Matrix, he was still sentenced to execution, a fate he was entirely satisfied with, knowing that whichever sentence was selected, he deserved worse.
In his last meeting with Rodimus, Megatron passed back to him the award he'd been given for "abandoning his evil ways", an enormous golden badge with Rodimus' face on it called a "Rodimus Star" to his former co-captain...to his friend...and convinced Ultra Magnus-Minimus Ambus, really-to destroy the Magnus Armour he'd worn for so long and let the world look him in his own eyes, because in Megatron's words, he was so much bigger without it. He then went calmly to his death.
This is not that Megatron.
This is the Megatron who ended up in the alternate universe, and was just settling in for an eternity of exploration and quests with his crew-his family, really-when, BOOM, Dream Width. However, due to the spoiler period, he will not remember anything initially up to the return to his own universe ahead of the Functionists.
Samples:
Ultra Magnus TDM
Tyzias Entykk TDM
Rogal Dorn TDM
Vaikuntha
Moogle Name: Mogatronus
Moogle Gender: Male
First Job: Scholar
Second Job: Chemist
Melody: Towards Peace, a multi-level Melody that is built around Megatron’s revised philosophy of achieving peace (victory), through understanding (your opponent’s weaknesses).
Level 1-A party-wide heal for some damage
Level 2-A party-wide heal for moderate damage, plus scans an enemy with Libra.
Level 3-A party-wide heal for significant damage, scans an enemy with Libra, and then allows each partymember to choose to be placed under either a Protection or Reflection spell based on the results of the scan.
Name: SamuraiMarmoset (“Samu” for short)
Age: 32
Personal Journal: N/A
Contact: jamesvogel85@gmail.com
Other In-Game Characters: Corrin
Character
Name: Megatron
Age: Between five and six million years old (one tends to lose track)
Gender: Male
Canon: IDW Transformers Generation 1 Continuity
Canon Point: The end of Lost Light issue 22 when he returns to the ship. Will canon-update to the end of the series when the two-month spoiler period is over. For the record, this will be the quantum duplicate of Megatron who ended up in the alternate universe (and not the one who returned to Cybertron and was presumably executed).
History: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(G1)/IDW_Generation_1_continuity
Personality:
Megatron is trying to be better than he was. It’s been a long road, even since becoming an Autobot at the end of the events of Dark Cybertron. When he first joined the Lost Light while he was no longer actively seeking to hurt or subjugate organic races, he still saw them as less than mechanical life (to the point where he was willing to abandon a planet of organic races that was being threatened with a quantum explosion since it would have been dangerous to the Cybertronian crew to try and save them), and could still be as abrasive and cynical as you might expect a former warlord with over four million years of terrorizing the known universe could be. It took him being thoroughly schooled on what it means to be an Autobot by Skids, seeing the true scope of his life and its effect on his own race on Necroworld, and being psychically exposed to all the pain and suffering he had caused before he truly abandoned his organic bigotry and devoted himself to pacifism and empathy. He emerged from almost a century in the Functionist universe a completely changed ‘bot, fully dedicated to saving lives and trying to make the world-the universe, really-a kinder, gentler place than it had been.
At the same time, however, he knows he can never make amends. This will not stop Megatron from trying, of course, and he doesn’t do good because he thinks it earns him brownie points or will somehow reduce his sentence when the time comes for him to finally be tried, he simply knows that after four million years of war, devastation, and death on a galactic scale, nothing he can ever do, not even his 819-year stint in the Functionist universe, no matter how many people come to accept his change and even embrace him personally as a friend, can ever hope to make up for what he’s done. Nor does he want it to; he knows his journey can end in his trial, either at the hands of the Knights of Cybertron (they don’t exist, but Megatron doesn’t yet know that) or at the hands of some other governing body like the Galactic Council. And he knows this trial will likely end in his death, which he accepts, because frankly, he knows he deserves worse, and nothing will ever change that. But he can never-will never-forgive himself.
But he’ll keep going anyway. His determination has always been one of his biggest traits throughout his life. As the Decepticon warlord, it made Megatron a terrifying, unstoppable enemy on the battlefield, who would do anything-sacrifice anyone, and anything, his own men, and even Cybertron itself if need be-to assure victory in the name of a cause he had long ago stopped caring about, except whenever he needed to pull out an excuse or justification. As an Autobot, and leader of the Anti-Vocationist League, it meant that no matter what losses they inflicted upon him, how many of his closest friends and allies they killed in an effort to make him give up, or fall into despair, he never did. He had a duty to preserve lives, both of his own men, and the organic races the Functionists would wipe out, and then eventually return to his own universe to face his final judgment.
In one-on-one interactions, Megatron is always professional. He has the disciplined, organized mind that prosecuting a four million year-long war would necessitate and it shows in his day-to-day interactions. He’s also got a much, much better handle on his temper now; that’s not to say he might throw something if he gets really annoyed (or maybe punch a wall), but compared to how he used to get homicidally angry and wipe out entire civilizations in a fit of pique, it’s a vast improvement.
Megatron has become a staunch pacifist, though he can be somewhat pragmatic about it. After he renounced violence completely out of a fear that embracing it would cause him to slip back into his old ways, he would never directly participate in battle. During the showdown with the DJD on Necroworld, the revelation from Ratchet that the “Fool’s Energon” that Megatron was taking that he believed sapped his strength was a placebo and the only thing that had been holding him back the whole time was himself, and Ravage’s death at the hands of Tarn finally caused Megatron to enter the battlefield again, where he tore a path through Deathsaurus’ Decepticons. He planned to die with the DJD, allowing himself to be consumed by the antimatter he released on them, but ultimately (if somewhat reluctantly) allowed himself to be saved by Rodimus. During the centuries in the Functionist universe, his pacifism has lightened somewhat; he’ll still avoid combat and try diplomacy first whenever possible, but he’s not above a good *THWACK* using his medkit as a club if he has to. Megatron is also more willing to engage mindless enemies, like most monsters, though if possible he’d prefer not to kill even then, unless absolutely necessary, such as to save somebody’s life.
He’s also surprisingly cultured; before the war, despite his lowly station as an Energon miner, Megatron was an avid writer of poetry in addition to his samizdat writings on social reform through (at least initially) non-violent protest. He also collected the works of other poets whenever possible, and since his reformation has taken up the hobby again, writing whenever he has a spare moment. His anonymously-published poem Afterlight still remains popular amongst other Cybertronians (who don’t realize Megatron is the writer, something Megatron has not bothered to clarify). His first major work, After the Ark was also a stirring indictment of the state of post-Nova Prime Cybertron and its so-called “Golden Age”, and the corruption of the then-reigning Prime, Nominus, who was increasingly being marginalized by a more powerful Senate, and the negative effects Functionism (in which a ‘bot’s altmode determined their function in society) had done far more harm to the Cybertronian race than good.
Really likes the colour purple and things on his arm. He didn’t have to make his med-kit suspiciously fusion cannon shaped and able to be worn easily on the forearm. And if you’re looking for some deeper meaning to why purple is such an integral colour to the Decepticon ethos (after all, it’s the colour of their infamous brand), some deep philosophical meaning to it, perhaps as an intentional contrast to the bright red of the “First Face” that later become the Autobot symbol, there isn’t one. Megatron just really likes the colour purple and had the opportunity to make it a thing. YOU might not look at a ship fifteen miles long and say “every inch of this thing inside and out needs to be purple” and then get it done but that’s why you’re not Megatron.
More Than Meets The Eye/Lost Light Plot Summary
Upon being granted "co-captaincy" of the Lost Light was also forced to take a special type of low-yield Energon called "Fool's Energon" that he was told sapped his strength to make it easier for him to be taken down if he reverted. It was a lie; his body had been so damaged by the events of the Dark Cybertron Prophecy, not even a mild sedative could be used without risking his death, so all the "Fool's Energon" did was taste bad. Megatron was in control the whole time and was holding himself back.
Went to a recreation of Earth created by crew-member Swerve based on various sitcoms and was forced for the first time ever to use a holomatter avatar of a human to blend in, experiencing some semblance of life as an organic for the first time. He was surprised by their frailty (but not, as he clarified to an irate crewmember, their weakness). It proved to be food for thought.
Found the home planet of the Necrobot, an ancient Neutral who recorded the deaths of every remaining Cybertronian, and the sheer scope of what his actions had caused when he was confronted with proof of all the Cybertronian lives that had been lost directly because of him, Autobot, Neutral, and Decepticon alike, to say nothing of the untold numbers of organic races. This caused him to rennounce violence forever and embrace total pacifism. It didn't stick, at least the totality.
Lost the last vestiges of his anti-organic bigotry after falling victim to a psychic attack that exposed him to all the pain, terror, and sorrow that he had caused over four million years of war. By the time the DJD had been dealt with, he was willing to sacrifice himself for a group of organics being kept in stasis by the now-deceased Necrobot since if the DJD discovered them, they'd be killed without a second thought. It was during this battle that Ravage was killed and Megatron finally took to the field with a new fusion cannon that saw the deaths of the DJD at his hands via his control of anti-matter. Was resigned to die with them when the anti-matter went out of control, but was saved (perhaps against his will) by Rodimus. Almost reverted afterwards, but the appearance of his long-lost mentor Terminus (the Necrobot had used a time-traveling briefcase (long story not really relevant to Megatron up until this point) to go back in time and rescue 'bots from both sides of the Great War who had only ever been recorded as "missing" and never conclusively proven to be dead...because the Necrobot had saved them and brought them to the future. They were the "organics" he'd been keeping safe while they recovered from the effects of time travel; Terminus was one of them.
Tried to fill Terminus in on the Great War and how far he'd fallen, but an attempt to teleport to Cybertron and get help in tracking down the stolen Lost Light and its mutinous crew accidentally saw Megatron and the rest of Team Rodimus transported to an alternate reality where the Functionist Council had risen again, unseated the Senate, and taken total control of the planet. While the Great War never happened, Cybertron itself was choking under the Functionists' philosophy of form defining function, and he felt compelled to want to help the local resistance movement, the Anti-Vocationist League. This brought him into conflict with Rodimus, who was sympathetic, but unwilling to remain in the alternate universe. While Megatron was prepared to return as well and keep looking for the Knights, he ended up being tricked into staying by Terminus, who stranded him in the Functionist Universe out of a misguided belief he was helping his old friend. Megatron would end up taking control of the AVL and leading it in a non-violent resistance against the Functionists, hoping to change hearts and minds with knowledge, guidance, understanding, and compassion; "peace through empathy". It proved difficult as the Functionists attached planetary engines to Cybertron to take their crusade against those deemed useless (all-non Cybertronian) life. Megatron found the Functionist version of the Lost Light, renamed it Last Light painted every inch of it purple, and set out to ensure that the Functionists could not harm anyone by getting ahead of them to warn the planets they targeted and allow the species to escape by using a maze of subspace tunnels called "the Warren". The Functionists response was to retrofit Cybertron with an altmode in the shape of Primus, supposed creator god of the Transformers, and also target all of Megatron's friends and loved ones-including Terminus-for death, believing that this would stop Megatron. It did not, though the Functionists believed they had killed him during a battle at a place called Perseppalae. They had not. Use of the Warren crossed time as well as space, so while only a few months at best passed in the prime dimension, centuries passed in the Functionist; Megatron spent 819 years there.
When the Grand Architect, aka Adaptus of the Guiding Hand, punched a hole through reality to destroy the Functionists due to having foreseen their arrival thanks to time travel using a "God Gun" made up of six replica Cybertrons (long story) Megatron and the Last Light were pulled through ahead of them, where he was quickly reunited with Rodimus and the others, who still believed he'd betrayed them. Rodimus actually fell back into the old routine pretty quickly, though Magnus, who had taken Megatron's supposed betrayal quite badly, took some more time. But in short order they were able to cook up a plan wherein Primus, the real Primus-also known as the Lost Light's psychologist Rung-created twelve new Matrices of Leadership (dying in the process, though he did so willingly) that would then be opened at twelve key locations on a forced to revert to planet mode Functionist Cybertron, which would overload Vector Sigma and destroy the Functionist Council who had merged with it to control their monstrosity. They succeeded, though even with a rousing speech from Rodimus to encourage the groups to open their Matrices, Megatron was ultimately unable to forgive himself and open his own, forcing Rodimus to do it with his one remaining arm and his teeth. Thus were the Functionists stopped, and the universe saved, with a brand new Cybertron to conveniently replace the one that had so recently got eaten by Unicron in the other books.
But since the Knights had been proven during this whole debacle to no longer be alive, a re-trial for Megatron was necessary, this time overseen by the Galactic Council, the ruling Galactic polity, to help ease the Transformer's membership into the organization. Rodimus was prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop the re-trial, but Megatron accepted it without issue, cooperating fully. However, he was allowed to join the crew on one last "lap of honour", visiting all the plans they'd been to over the course of their quest and reminiscing one last time about their adventures before the ship's quantum engines were harvested to help New Cybertron meet its energy demands, the ship was dismantled, and the crew went their separate ways. However, the science wing of the ship was willing to try a "magic trick" where they could try to create a quantum duplicate of the ship, just as real and valid as the one ship and crew now, but then shunt that version of the ship and crew into an alternate universe where the Lost Light didn't already exist (and thus cancel both out) to continue having adventures forever, while another crew would return to Cybertron and carry on with their lives, never knowing if they'd succeeded or not. The entire crew voted unanimously to try (Megatron included, since succeed or fail he'd still stand trial for his crimes) and the trick was attempted...and unbeknownst to the crew who returned to Cybertron, succeeded. That version of Megatron stood trial, facing a sentence of either infinite imprisonment (no bail, no hope of release, no visitors for all eternity) or execution. Even with Magnus providing a spirited defense, and Rodimus lying under oath about Megatron opening his Matrix, he was still sentenced to execution, a fate he was entirely satisfied with, knowing that whichever sentence was selected, he deserved worse.
In his last meeting with Rodimus, Megatron passed back to him the award he'd been given for "abandoning his evil ways", an enormous golden badge with Rodimus' face on it called a "Rodimus Star" to his former co-captain...to his friend...and convinced Ultra Magnus-Minimus Ambus, really-to destroy the Magnus Armour he'd worn for so long and let the world look him in his own eyes, because in Megatron's words, he was so much bigger without it. He then went calmly to his death.
This is not that Megatron.
This is the Megatron who ended up in the alternate universe, and was just settling in for an eternity of exploration and quests with his crew-his family, really-when, BOOM, Dream Width. However, due to the spoiler period, he will not remember anything initially up to the return to his own universe ahead of the Functionists.
Samples:
Ultra Magnus TDM
Tyzias Entykk TDM
Rogal Dorn TDM
Vaikuntha
Moogle Name: Mogatronus
Moogle Gender: Male
First Job: Scholar
Second Job: Chemist
Melody: Towards Peace, a multi-level Melody that is built around Megatron’s revised philosophy of achieving peace (victory), through understanding (your opponent’s weaknesses).
Level 1-A party-wide heal for some damage
Level 2-A party-wide heal for moderate damage, plus scans an enemy with Libra.
Level 3-A party-wide heal for significant damage, scans an enemy with Libra, and then allows each partymember to choose to be placed under either a Protection or Reflection spell based on the results of the scan.
