[ SECRET POST #3271 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3271 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mysterious Universe Podcast]


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[Elias Ericson]


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[Danny Phantom]


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11. [SPOILERS for Jessica Jones]



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12. [SPOILERS for Homestuck]




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13. [SPOILERS for transformers: more than meets the eye #47]



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14. [WARNING for rape]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #467.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[kamino_neko]

Megatron is a bot that started with good intentions a few million years ago, then went off the rails.

Then he came to his senses and stood ready to pay the price. Then he was bombarded with reminders of both what he'd given up when he went bad, and the atrocities he'd committed - given both a reason to live, and a reason why that life has to end, and before too long.

That's a perfect formula for a woobie ex-villain - a good person, gone astray, genuine remorse and deep tragedy. The enormity of what he did makes a true redemption difficult, but...

Getaway...may, eventually, get that. But right now, he's just a bot who tried to manipulate a naif into unknowingly sacrificing himself for a cause he doesn't understand, and may or may not agree with.

He's got the '(arguably) good intentions causing bad acts' part. The rest, not so much. Unlike Megatron, he may eventually be able to balance his bad acts with good, but also unlike Megatron, there's not much in the way of evidence that he even believes he did wrong.

There's also the fact, of course, that Getaway's creepy grooming of Tailgate is a lot easier to process - being personal, rather than astronomical - and much more like something the average reader of the book may have personally experienced.