>>3947052>Chromedome/RewindOn anon's petty dislike of Tailgate, I too have a very petty reason to dislike this ship myself kek
To start of very simply, I am a prowlfag. Born a prowlfag. I was a wee lad of 14 years old many eras ago, and I had only watched the Bay movies, TFP, TFA, and some G1
When I wasn't watching those, I was mostly browsing fanfics, probably too much fanfics to be healthy for a little fujo (you can see where this is going already).
I had no idea what IDW was, and no idea who these fuckass characters were. So my first introduction to Chromedome and Rewind was through a spitefic where Prowl was written as Just Some Asshole for the writer to dunk on as a 1 dimensional absuive scorned ex. At this point, my main characterisation for Prowl was, and still is to an extent, fanon Prowl, who is a stiff, overly formal, autistic paper pusher with some grey decision making moments, a numbers guy. Not this emotionally incontinent table flipping guy who keeps screaming and stomping around with this bastard cop persona that these handful of fics seemed to favour, just so they could have an "everybody clapped" moment.
And those fics? They seemed to always be Chromedome "woe is me" fics.
And that's why to this day, I still harbour a distaste for the IDW1 version of them
No, I don't care how heartbreaking or le doomed their sweet, sweet war criminal redemption story is
Fuck em lol
Also doesn't help with how many Chromedome fans I've seen being antis too
