[ SECRET POST #2445 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2445 ⌋

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

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[Breaking Bad]


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[Cillian Murphy]


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[Robert Downey Jr.]


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[Star Trek]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 010 secrets from Secret Submission Post #349.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought he just shoved his sword through Dai's head?

[(Anonymous)]

No, no, look at the last two panels. You can see Star Saber's arm going into Dai Atlas' chest on the one on the left - see the chins up there near the top of the panel? and the motion lines and he shoves his fist up in there? - and then in the last panel on that page, the bright light that's the spark getting squished as the light in Dai Atlas' eyes (which is reflected up from the spark chamber, according to the short story Zero Point) goes out.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Looks like you're right. I was with AYRT and thought it was just a sword through the head. Damn, that sucks. Drift never got to see him again! Assuming, of course, that Star Saber isn't a suit. We know Drift's had voices in his head for a while, which could have easily been Tyrest, and that the tearing down and public shaming/beating organized by Rodimus didn't break him down so far that he just killed his grandrolemodel.

They are on a planet with billions of sparks, though. Including some magic ones, and some very amazing medical tools. Can't they just put a new one in Dai? Please?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Drift's had voices in his head? Since when?

[(Anonymous)]

Annual was the best example: "I'VE DONE EVERYTHING YOU ASKED."

It was very much a "talking to someone" moment rather than a "damn you, universe!" thing. I don't think Drift has enough self-worth to actually damn the entire universe for his problems. Roberts made comments to a similar affect after the issue came out, but I can't find them now.

[(Anonymous)]

Comments about voices in Drift's head, I mean, not Drift's self-worth!

[(Anonymous)]

I vaguely wondered at that point if he wasn't talking to Prowl, what with the whole everything you asked bit, although the "how about a little help" bit doesn't fit there.

I wish you could find the Roberts comments, too. Got any other examples? (Or maybe I'll just have to reread, you know, everything. As if I needed an excuse...)

[(Anonymous)]

Alas, MTMTE details aren't something I'm good at thinking about at the moment. Whenever I think about the comic there's too much panicked screaming in my mind over the idea that everyone I love may very well be dying in less than a month.

I seem to recall, however, that going back and reading after the annual I got a bit more hints of something more going on with Drift than just random ideas. My initial idea was that Dai Atlas said "come find me" sometime in the past and he was talking to HIM. But, again, it doesn't quite fit. The second Tyrest started rambling on about Primus and portals I started to think about Drift's increasingly strange ideas (his crew bio still reads "each crazier than the next"). So even if the idea of Drift wearing a Star Saber-shaped outfit and killing his mentor's mentor makes me feel ill, I'm disturbed at how plausible it seems. After all, Saber was a brainmaster originally, iirc, which means...he was basically created as a power suit. The only thing that doesn't really fit there - and it is kind of a big one - was Dai's dying line about SS letting the Legislators into Crystal City.

[(Anonymous)]

That whole conversation, I think, makes it unlikely that (if Star Saber is a suit, which let's assume is the case for the purposes of this particular bit of speculation) Drift is in the suit RIGHT NOW - it seems to be the same Star Saber that let the Legislators in, and given the timeline that we're pretty sure we have, it can't be Drift. He's been with the Autobots during pretty much the entire window in which the Circle could have been kidnapped.

Dammit, now I really do have to reread everything. EVERYTHING. I planned on sleeping tonight, you know. NOT ANY MORE.

[(Anonymous)]

I would apologize if I felt bad. Because even though this comic has made me both angry and sick to my stomach, it's also - unlike for the OP - given me more joy than any comic I've read for years and years, and the sheer amount of worldbuilding Roberts has done in less than a year is nothing sort of magnificent (solidifying ancient history/creation myths, giving IDWverse a canon method of reproduction, relationships both platonic and not-so-platonic, fleshing out the social structure before the war, illnesses both mental and physical, etc).

So go and read! :D Sleep is over-rated when you can engage giant robots living their crazy, damaged lives.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, no, don't feel bad.

...I think Tailgate still thinks Whirl's name is Nutjob, speaking of crazy and damaged.

[(Anonymous)]

One damaged and one crazy, to be exact. :p