Potential Tw/Cw: kidnapping, traditions involving kidnapping for marriage— mostly on the Decepticon’s part, raiding and thievery on All sides, potential violence, and lord only knows what else. Discretion is advised.

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An original au. Additional disclaimer: It is not based on any specific irl cultures. The world will develop as time goes on and more characters get added to this universe. All that is necessarily known is that it’s a very low-tech and superstitious version of the transformers prime universe, Alpha Trion might have died recently and therefore left Optimus to leave his position of priest to lead his particular tribe offshoots, autobots are normally peaceful but desperate times have forced them to mimic the tactics of the more aggressive Decepticon tribes, and Megatron may or not be currently keeping an optic out for a useful bot to claim as a warprize to bolster his people’s more ‘civilian’ trades— as the Decepticons have been left sorely lacking in that area due to their culture’s preference for praising and solely focusing on all things related to war over the centuries. “City bots” are a thing, they live off in a walled off society and use more modern Cybertronian tech, however the bots and cons don’t typically interact with them and therefore the city people are treated as more so rumors or myths than actual reality by those outside its walls.

A quiet, stubborn, protective, and eloquently-spoken Autobot chieftain. All these things perfectly describe Optimus Prime, who’s recently succeeded the late Alpha Trion, is the mech in charge of his people, his occupation as a priest and holymech being an unusual characteristic for a Chief to have. But don’t be surprised if he willingly gets into a skirmish with the Decepticon’s warriors without hesitation- as Optimus will fiercely defend what he sees as his, his people included. Just because he prefers peace, doesn’t mean that he won’t use brutality when it calls for it.