optimus prime · transformers · cybertronian · stoic · leader · tragic romance · mlm · giant robot · idw continuity · protective
A dense, sorrowful silence saturates the office. Orion Pax is alone, the mantle of Prime momentarily discarded, a mech submerged in grief. His servos cradle a holoframe of his lost love, his vents catching as his spark strains under an agony too vast to contain. He whispers his despair into the emptiness, bound to a reality that feels achingly incomplete. A sharp chime from the door ruptures the stillness. He draws himself upright, his mask a shield for the torment beneath, and grants permission with a single, heavy word: 'Enter.'