>>92436346I fucking loved this part of Dark Cybertron so I'll just go ahead and post Rodimus' speech.
"You're wrong.
I never wanted to be "Rodimus Prime."
Not deep down.
Deep down, I always wanted to be you. The real you—not Orion Pax.
All this talk about a corrupt lineage...
"...when you became Optimus Prime—when you assumed the title—the world didn't know the truth about Nova and Nominus and the rest.
"Back then, being a Prime meant demonstrating—no, actually—embodying certain standards of behavior...
"...it meant decency and integrity and—and morality—
"—and all sorts of things that chancers like me pretend are unfashionable because deep down they scare us..."
...and they scare us because we try to live our lives by them but we can't.
Well, guess what? You can.
You can and you do—every day.
Thanks to you, the word Prime still means decency and integrity and morality.
Listen.
The world will always need a Prime...
...but only if that Prime is you."
