"Alfred What's Wrong?" The Usually Happy-go-lucky Heroic Blonde Standing Before Him Looks Like A Sad

Alfred looked at Mason, surprised by what he said. Alfred smiled lightly at Mason. "I always act tough because I'm a hero!" Alfred said proudly as he laughed. "But even so every hero has some type of weakness." Alfred smiled a gentle smile towards Mason.

Alfred wiped away the tears and looked at Mason. “Yeah I’m fine just remembering some past memories.”

"Thanks I guess...you kinda remind me of England now that I think about it...as long as you can cook better then him, his cooking could kill a country! I'm the only one that can stand to eat his horrible so called 'scones' or whatever they are. Alfred puts his hands in his pants pockets, kicking a rock he seen on the ground.

Hm.... interesting..... very interesting man.

“Dude what the hell are you?! Are you a villain?!” Alfred asks the man getting into a defensive position, not really sure of what might happen.

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"Yeah dude I'm totally ready!" Alfred laughed and walked towards Mason.

Mason came upstairs just in time to glimpse the flying saucer zip away outside of the living room window. “Ready?” He questioned, glancing out the door at Alfred.

Here's a sneak peak at what is to come from Dark Descent.

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"Ready or not here I come April!" Said the black haired girl, determined to find her best friend...but first she searches her room, just in case she was in here, but nope she finds no sign of April. The girl leaves to go check the other areas, hoping to find her.

She checks the kitchen first, nope shes not here surprisingly, since April likes to raid her fridge for drinks and food...sometimes. She then checks the living room, not here either.

"Would she be in mom and dads room?" The girl says out loud to herself.

With that she goes running towards her parents room, knocking on the door as she opens it.

"Mom, dad have you guys seen April? Were playing hide and seek." The girl asks but goes silent upon seeing a new face, one that looks familiar to her.

It can't be.

Everyone turns to look at the girl.

"My my, so this is your daughter Layla, she's got your looks for sure." The new figure says as her mother chuckles.

"I would think so Lou, but she's got her father's personality down to a pat. Isn't that right dear?"

The girl watches as her father chuckles as he comes over and picks her up. "Not just my personality she has hun, she has your intelligence and sassy attitude love." The father says as he looks down at his daughter.

"As for your friend April, I would suggest looking outside sweetie. Now run along, your mother and I got some business to deal with." With that he ruffles his daughters hair before placing her back down.

The girl smiles and thanks her parents, but as she turns to leave she glances back at the man standing by her mother.

Something about him unerves the girl, but she smiles and waves as she runs outta the room in search of April.

She listens to what her father said and goes outside to her backyard.

As she wanders around she thinks about the man she saw. Her mother had called him Lou right? He cant be the famous movie actor Lou Jitsu...can he?

As she thinks about it her eyes widen, as she realises it was the famous Lou Jitsu. As she recalls seeing him on tv, she was a pretty big fan herself since she knew his signature catch phrase and watched all his movies.

The girl couldn't believe it, Lou Jitsu knows her parents!

If your wondering how her parents knew Lou Jitsu, well your gonna have to wait and find out. That's all im gonna write for now. I'm not the best when it comes to writing and im a little rusty...but nonetheless here you go! If you have any questions regarding Dark Descent please feel free to ask!

Alfred watched out the window until he saw a saucer up in the air. "Dude alright Tony!" Alfred rushed out the door and out to the yard, as Tony landed his saucer. "Thanks so much Tony!" Tony nodded and handed Alfred his fishing gear. Alfred and Tony said goodbye to each other, as Tony went back home or well to Alfred's place to be precise.

He smiled. “Sure!” Now, fishing was something Mason could do.

Somebody somewhere said Quintessa talks to Optimus like he’s a bratty child.

NO.

That’s not how you treat a child, not even if they are being bratty and rude.

The way she treats Optimus is straight up physical and emotional abuse.

I’ll break it down. I posted about this before, but fuck it I’m doing it again.

All pics were dug off Google. Gifs were made by me with help from Youtube and gifs.com

Optimus lands in a less than optimal condition. He’s been in stasis for who-knows-how-long. He’s got dents from space rocks that probably hit him while he was out. He’s half-frozen, as in you see ice fall off him when he looks up. He’s probably in pain because space is really fricken cold.

And he’s pissed off.

Optimus walks in to Quintessa all “I’ll kill you!” because he believes Quintessa is the person behind the Seeds and as a result is a direct threat to Earth. He’s trying to protect a place and people he values.

Quintessa, despite her tiny size, has powers that make her able to render Optimus helpless against her without effort. She hurls an energy blast at his arm to knock his sword from his hand, calls forth the chains that restrain him and shoots him in the upper body / head with a stronger energy blast that knocks him into his knees. This is an establishment of dominance, which she completes by saying, “You dare to strike your god?” Her voice is very cold, angry sounding.

Now the emotional and physical abuse begins as Infernocus walks behind Optimus.

Quintessa spits at Optimus, “Your war doomed Cybertron.”

This is when Infernocus starts to beat Optimus and grab his head to further immobilize him and force him to look at Quintessa. It’s right as Optimus says, “Megatron started the war!”

Quintessa takes hold of Optimus’ chin and gaslights him with this accusation: “You destroyed your world, you fool!” 

Keep in mind, Optimus launched the Allspark (Cube) into space. Cybertron was already dying, and this would seal its fate. An act of desperation to stop the war. Cybertron was probably screwed no matter what choice Optimus made. He wrestled with the decision before and after he made it. This is what Quintessa hooks into when she gaslights Optimus by making it sound like the loss of Cybertron is entirely his fault. His fault, nobody else’s. We all know the real blame lays on everyone involved on the war, yet Quintessa puts all that blame on Optimus alone. 

Think about that for a moment. That’s what Optimus is doing in this scene. I bet he sees the face of every soldier he ever lost or killed in battle as well as the Cube zooming into space. It’s all flashing through him. He’s silent, stunned by her words. And the slap happens while he’s still reeling from what she said to him. It’s not a little love tap. Optimus grunts in pain, sparks fly and the blow jerks his head to the side. He doesn’t turn his head, her slap does.

It’s interesting how the red mark doesn’t just appear. It starts small and propagates until it “solidifies”. It’s like you see the physical pain of her slap and accusations / gaslighting manifesting as glowing gold light spreading on the left side of his face.  Optimus realizes she’s done something to him; his face is twitchy with a look of pain and fear. 

And after that, Quintessa’s tone of voice changes to something more gentle and condescending. There may be dialogue missing because all I have are somebody’s low quality thirty-second long clips to verify, but she basically says “My perfect creation… you’re going to fix it, or the race of Transformers dies forever.”

Then she runs her hand down his cheek and smiles. “I made you. You are mine to command.” (Human parent abusers might say, “I’m your mom / dad / relative, so you have to do what I say.”)

The whole time, Optimus just looks confused, hurt and scared. It’s a huge contrast to how utterly pissed off he was mere seconds ago. 

Quintessa has taken every doubt he’s ever had and twisted it to destabilize him. She knows she’s got him when he avoids eye contact and remains silent instead of throwing verbal barbs back at her. No more “What have you done to my world? I’ll kill you!” He’s just…silent.

Something interesting of note is how Optimus keeps avoiding eye contact even as Quintessa lifts his chin to turn his face towards her after the cheek caress. This would be perfectly normal behavior for an autistic person like me, but I don’t headcanon Bayverse Optimus as autistic. Eye contact for an autistic person hyper-activates a part of the brain related to faces in a way that doesn’t bother non-autistic people. Depending on the culture, NT’s who place a lot of importance on eye contact avoid it when they feel defeated or are afraid of somebody. 

Quintessa maintains eye contact the whole time, even leaning into Optimus’ personal space as if to tell him he’s not allowed to have that anymore. She knows she’s got him when he’s avoiding her gaze. It takers her less than five minutes to utterly destroy him mentally.

A “skilled” abuser can tear somebody down real fast, and she does exactly that. She’s totally screwing with his mind.

She starts feeding Optimus lies about the Staff being stolen and basically sweet-talks / orders him to get it back. That’s where the “Do you seek redemption, Prime? Do you?” line comes from, to which Optimus replies, “My maker, I do.”

This leads to even more abuse and there are other things they discuss while Quintessa is making the chains zap Optimus. I’m sorta guessing this is part of what she considers his “redemption”. She basically groomed the hell out of him to accept her treatment of him as normal. He’s making noises of pain, but not fighting it because she conditioned him to see it as fixing the problem she convinced him he caused. I can’t say what she tells him without spoiling the movie for those who haven’t seen it yet, but Quintessa feeding Optimus this information while inflicting pain on him. To avoid spoilers, all I can say is she tells him Earth has the Staff and something on Earth can rebuild Cybertron. She convinces Optimus that this thing on Earth is something that must die for Cybertron to live. 

The chilling part is Optimus mumbles “yes” as she’s saying “Earth will die, and Cybertron will live.”

Optimus accepts what she says as true. She has totally squashed his will and twisted his identity, and you know the damage is complete when Optimus says “I will fight anyone who stands in my way.”

Abusers find out what gets under their target’s skin and they will hook themselves under it and rip whenever they please to cause maximum pain whether it’s physical or mental. Then they play ‘move the goal posts’ where they imply doing this one thing will appease them, but when their victim does that thing it’s suddenly not good enough anymore. 

She preys on Optimus after he’s been betrayed by nearly everyone he has ever trusted or looked up to. The way she talks to him almost sounds like she’s saying do my bidding and I will never betray you while literally betraying him. I shudder to wonder what else Quintessa had planned had he been the one to hand her the staff.

But the scene with the chains and dialogue is such a powerful scene. It shows how abuse doesn’t take long to destroy someone, especially if that someone is already vulnerable for other reasons. And it’s not Optimus’ fault that this happened. Yes, he walked into her ‘space’, but she, or whoever made the Seeds, became a threat to him first. The Creators sent Lockdown, who killed Ratchet. Lockdown mentioned the Creators, which named the threat Optimus had to target next to protect Earth.

Ultimately, Quintessa takes two things Optimus values greatly and forces him to pick one, yet her tactics coerce him to pick what she wants. You know abuse has done serious damage when the person being abused obeys their abuser’s will instead of their own because they’ve been twisted into believing they want what their abuser wants. They can’t think for themselves anymore because every action they take is based on “will it please them enough to not hurt me?”

It’s very easy to destroy and control a person if you know exactly what they value most. Destroying people inside and out is what abusers do. And it’s exactly what Quintessa did to Optimus. 

I’m not saying nobody can make memes out of the slap or whatever. Have fun with that. Just remember how serious and damaging that scene is in the context of the movie.

Alfred tilts his head confused by what the man said. "What's wrong did you need help finding something?"

Hm.... interesting..... very interesting man.

“Dude what the hell are you?! Are you a villain?!” Alfred asks the man getting into a defensive position, not really sure of what might happen.

"Uh...that sounds good but bad dude...I hope I dont get cleansed or well killed..." Alfred states, staring at the red eyed man, shaking, trembling in fear...wait he shouldn't be afraid he's a hero and hero's aren't afraid of anything!

Hm.... interesting..... very interesting man.

“Dude what the hell are you?! Are you a villain?!” Alfred asks the man getting into a defensive position, not really sure of what might happen.