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Steve Harrington is normal, everyone thinks so. Captain of the swim team, starter on the varsity basketball team, most popular boy in school, absolute heartthrob, handsome, and rich. He's King Steve, Steve “the Hair” Harrington. He's an all-American boy growing up in the heartland. And he's spent years working very hard to keep it that way, because the truth is the last thing he is, is normal.
No, Steve Harrington has a dark past he's desperate to escape, however that gets much harder when Will Byers goes missing and Steve just can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong in Hawkins, something that's pointing straight to his past. But everything will be fine, right? All he has to do is pretend everything is normal.
Or, another lab experiment Steve story because I can’t get it out of my head, so I’m sharing it with everyone.
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- Part 1 of Pretend Everything is Normal
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Promise Me by lowqualitydriftjpg
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
14 Jun 2026
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They were going to be fine. He had the antidote. They had help just a few floors down. The DJD were most likely not even on the planet. They would be up and out of there in no time and he would personally make sure they never touched down on this frozen slag-pit planet again.
But Drift’s mind was elsewhere. Somewhere terrifying it would seem. And no assurances Ratchet could offer would help him at this point. Except one.
One he had no intention of following through.
“...Okay.”
He accepted the sword and set it down beside him.
“I promise.”
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- Part 1 of Promise Me stuff
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It turns out that being wired into giant war machines doesn’t play nice with human brains. The Earth Mechanical Defense Force, or EMDF, learned that the hard way when their pilots started going… neurotic, let’s say, after a few missions.
The obvious solution to that problem was to simply wire the pilot into their mecha permanently, that way their mind wasn’t being strained by the constant in and out. Unfortunately that strategy backfired and the pilots started going neurotic much, much faster, and this time they were giant and made of metal and much harder to put down.
So, the obvious next step would be to pull the plug on that idea and go back to the drawing board, right? No, that’s ridiculous, the next step was obviously to simply…
Make the mecha forget they’d ever been human in the first place.
Somewhere along the line someone should have pulled the plug, but they’d already invested so much into the project, and you know what they say about sunk cost fallacy.
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- Part 2 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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Dratchet slow burn with a big helping of character study. I'm playing between and around the scenes of canon and filling in backstory as I go.
The first two stories are pretty romance ambivalent; you could read them as deeply emotionally invested Drift&Ratchet bromance instead of pre-slash if that's what you're into.
- Words:
- 323,930
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 193
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Soft Memory Errors by wallflowers
Fandom The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
06 May 2023
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Soft Memory Errors
Soft Memory Errors is a re-examination of MTMTE Drift/Deadlock's character, in an attempt to fully utilize a character built from interesting concepts with patchy (or non-existent) execution. What started as a one-off drabble turned into this series when the 2020 quarantine left me with a lot more time on my hands than I anticipated. The series title is a reference to the computing glitch soft memory error, as the series has a recurring theme of fragmenting memories and the residual processor damage Drift sustained.
Contents
no. 000 | ???
no. 001 | Flowers from a Sidewalk Crack & Two Cents from a Dead End Skiv
no. 002 | Obituary For The [poet] Miner
no. 003 | Commonwealth
no. 004 | My Grave Will Warmer, Sweeter Be
no. 005 | Untitled
no. 006 | Tender & Intercession
no. 007 | ???
no. 008 | The Last in Line
no. 009 | Guns Up, Sinner
no. 010 | Gallows
Sister Entries
no. 101 | Dead Signals [comic]
no. 102 | Physician, Heal Thyself [zine]
- Words:
- 44,732
- Works:
- 1
- Bookmarks:
- 71