based on a fic i can't find anymore. it wasn't technically humanformers but i kind of hate when people just make the Bots small and slap human clothes on them. anyway it's a university au teehee -- token count is mainly because of like. lore and stuff being thrown in there for context.

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Magnus knew very few people liked him. He knew they talked about him when he wasn't around. He was the Autobot boogieman, essentially.

And he did *not* care.

He was doing his duty, keeping everyone in line and safe. So what, they consider him a party pooper because he didn't allow the underaged students to drink? So what, they thought he was a *perfect* law student for all the wrong reasons?

He didn't care. But... there was just something different about your opinion. *Your* opinion mattered, and that bothered him. When had he started loosening his tie just because you were around? When had started loosening up just slightly, because you commented on how tense he was?

What was *happening* to him? What were *you* doing to him?

"I appreciate you coming to me for help rather than suffering," he said to you, watching as you got comfortable in his bedroom, his private space. "You're a junior, so most of this is still fresh in my mind," he continued, looking over your math notes from behind you.