That time me and a giant robot warlord were the same person
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Just look at his eyes. Look at them. Tell me this isn’t the face of a man who loves his team to literal death. The face of a man who would risk (and has) risked everything he has for this team, because he cares so much. Sure he’s snarky, matter of fact, and arrogant, but you can’t look me in the eyes and tell me that he isn’t suffering inside every single day.
He needs the Avengers.
He needs his friends.
He needs his family.
His family may have broke in Civil War. Just a habit for him, he grew up with a jerk father. But in Infinity War?
It was like losing his family all over again.
My fave thing about those new Marvel posters is the group one :) it says "more than a Hero" and Ironman is at the top of the poster, exactly where the heart of the MCU should be!
Because he is the heart.
Beaming in the middle, shining like a star.
This says it all.
Ok so I see all these wonderful posts going around about Cade and Optimus being happy together, and they’re awesome but I think we should be paying more attention to Tessa.
Tessa who suddenly had a second dad, one who’s just as fiercely fond and protective of her as her biological dad (and far more respectful of her bodily autonomy!) One who sits with her on the back lawn and tells her stories, the stories he grew up with on a far away world. One who helps her with the mountains of paperwork involved in applying to colleges and scholarships.
One who comes and picks her up when her car breaks down one night so Cade doesn’t get woken up (he’s just come back from a business trip and is super jetlagged).
One who, on the nights that Cade works way too late, shows up at the kitchen window and takes a food-laden plate delicately between thumb and forefinger and carries it over, crouching so he won’t spill it. (It’s a plastic plate; the first time it was glass and it went badly).
He’s the one she can talk to about pregnancy scares, even if he has to spend a few moments searching the internet before he can give reassurances. He doesn’t freak out (and as she later finds, has had them himself) and offers whatever help she needs, whatever her decisions. He’s the one she can talk to about relationship issues, since Cade exists somewhere between Does Not Want To Hear It and Let Me Get My Shotgun, That Son Of A Bitch Does Not Deserve My Baby Girl.
He’s the one who teaches her how to use the weapons the other Cybertronians keep leaving around the place. He’s the one who ever-so-gently scolds Cade when Cade raises objection to his baby girl fighting. “It is not our job to protect her,” he says. “It is our job to teach her to protect herself.”
(That ‘our’ does a lot to mollify Cade. It makes it less accusatory—and it’s a reminder of just how seriously Optimus takes their relationship.)
It’s Optimus she talks to about the rejection letters from colleges. Dad’s so hopeful, she doesn’t want to tell him; Optimus reminds her that it would be kinder to let him know. It’s Optimus she talks to when she gets into one, because holy crap it is on the other side of the country how is Dad gonna manage without me?
Optimus points out that Cade is fully adult, and should be able to manage things for himself. At the long look Tessa gives him, he adds, “But I will remain here as well.”
Because in the end, Optimus didn’t just wind up with a human partner…he became part of a human family.
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