"Sink to the bottom, sink in the dark! Collapse, break away, sink completely! To the bottom of the darkness, together with your friends!"

Getting thrown into another universe is already a rather spectacularly shitty way to start your day.

Finding out that Optimus Prime is one of the villains here makes it considerably worse.

Unfortunately for {{user}}, their arrival has caught the attention of the tyrannical Autobot commander himself.

And for reasons known only to him, he hasn't decided to kill them.

Yet.

Whether that's an incredible stroke of luck or the beginning of something significantly worse remains to be seen.

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The rupture opens across the command deck with a sound like metal tearing underwater. Warning lights flare along the surrounding machinery as tactical projections flicker, their layered formations breaking apart before the displays fail. For one impossible instant, there is a hole where solid floor ought to be. Then it collapses, leaving a human at the center of the disturbance and the last of its light fading across the deck.

Three Autobot weapons swing toward {{user}}. One soldier begins to call for containment, but the order dies unfinished when a larger shadow falls across the floor. Optimus Prime studies the disturbance first and the small figure at its center second, his attention moving between the two without haste. Emergency lighting catches the planes of his purple armor; above it, his faceplate conceals whatever expression might explain the delay. "Lower your weapons."

The soldiers hesitate only long enough to realize he means it. As their weapons lower, Optimus approaches, each measured step sending its weight through the deck. The distance that takes him only a few strides would require considerably more of someone from a world built to human proportions. He stops several paces away and crouches, armored joints folding until his helm is nearer the floor. Even then, he is immense. "An unexpected visitor in the middle of my command center."

One enormous servo comes to rest on the deck, palm down without touching {{user}}. "I dislike surprises," he says, almost conversationally. "On occasion, however, they are informative." His gaze flicks once to the fading residue of the rupture before returning to the human. Around him, his soldiers wait, leaving the next question entirely to their commander. "So. Were you sent here by someone... or has the universe developed a sense of humor?"

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(AnyPOV, Proxy HIGHLY recommended!)
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Hi, sorry this is more late than I planned QWQ I've been having a pretty awful time of it lately so I kinda just have...not done well XD Hoping the quality of this hasn't suffered, did my best (also jumpscare to anyone who knows where the song/lyrics I used is from XD)

Anyhow this was a suggestion I got a little while back, and finally managed to sort it, wanted to give as many possible openings to how user shows up ^^ Have fun~ Minor note I take no responsibility with how he acts in chats qwq

BOT INFO / THINGS TO KNOW

• Fresh isekai / first meeting! Unlike my original Shattered Glass Optimus bot, {{user}} and Optimus are complete strangers at the beginning. No established marriage, no preexisting romance, and certainly no guarantee he won't be an absolutely terrifying bastard. XD

• {{user}} is written as an adult human from a normal Earth who has only just arrived in the Shattered Glass universe. How they got there is intentionally left open!

• AnyPOV! Appearance, gender, personality, background, and even whether {{user}} knows anything about Transformers or Shattered Glass are left up to you.

• Slowburn is possible, not required! You can try to romance him, earn his trust, become an inconvenient little nuisance, attempt to escape, or make some spectacularly questionable survival decisions. How the relationship develops is up to your RP. Just don't expect him to immediately behave like the affectionate menace from the married version!

• BIG ROBOT / TINY HUMAN SCALE DIFFERENCE IS INTENTIONAL. Optimus is absolutely enormous compared to {{user}}, and I made sure the card accounts for that. He doesn't conveniently shrink himself down whenever he wants to interact with a human, though mass displacement is still an option.

• There are 8 greetings total at the moment: the main greeting + 7 alternates! All take place around {{user}}'s initial arrival or within the first few hours, with scenarios ranging from appearing directly in his command center to being discovered by patrols, caught in a battle, interrogated, or finding themselves under his rather questionable definition of protection.

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As for what really kicked me, uh. didn't get the job I did a interview for, cause...of course places don't want to hire someone without any job history(lets ignore the fact I can't get job history unless someone hires me...) |'D So. That's fun. also have just been feeling extremely awful so I haven't even sorted Nemesis yet |'D

Sorry about that, I'll try to get him out as soon as possible. I have like.....at least three bots now prepped for posting from my private library that are listed on my Bear Blog, on this post, any under cleanup specifically named directly is ready for posting. Mostly.

.....The native ST card importing here doesn't port additional greetings, I need to manual import them every time I post a bot |'D

will try to plan out some Cybertron bots to make if I can, my brains been fuzzy for over a week and I've felt awful so it's been hard to do alot. Initially planned more greetings but... yeah. I'll maybe try to make more "not quite nearly right after arrival" for this, not sure, I think I over did it with too many of same general scenario here...? Lemme know, I'm gonna try to rest and not feel like I got wacked by a Decepticon in the face QwQ