Trivia / To Fuel The Guttering Flame

• Ascended Fanon:
  • After Chapter 12, readers noticed that Bludgeon's text (which was black with white highlighting around it, as a reference to IDW!Bludgeon's black text boxes) showed up in the quote boxes as long empty quotes. One of the readers noted it seemed like an effect that could happen to actual Transformer memories in-story. Cue Chapter 22, where Catalyst notices Bludgeon is invisible to all of her sensors except her primary optics.
  • After AshlingWaltzes posted an informational post about how War Titans had Immortal Sparks, several readers noted that Starscream has an Immortal Spark and posit the theory that his ego and ambition is due to being the reincarnation of a War Titan and his spark telling him he should be bigger than he is. The author liked it so much that she declared it canon despite it not being in her original plan.
• What Could Have Been: Shockwave was originally going to be the final antagonist of the Expedition Arc, before those plans were changed.
• Word of God: Some information is confirmed in the threads.
  • There has been at least one Combiner Prime.
  • The identity of Unicron's third component is unknown in-universe.
    • It was later confirmed to be Sideways.
  • The Empire of Dust was the only time that Sideways ever tried to directly and openly make a play for Cybertron.
  • Shockwave's reasoning for taking on the identity of Leobreaker is explained.
  • Parallel is one of Sideways' identities.
  • Unicron can create more copies of Sideways so long as conditions are met, though the longer they exist, the quirkier they become.
  • Starscream's subordinates in the expedition don't know about Shockwave's presence among them thanks to various circumstances.
  • Several key emergency measures of the Nominus Edict are given.
  • Catalysis using Septima rather than Prime when revealing herself to the populace is explained.
    • Further explanation is later given.
  • Catalysis would never consider taking the Matrix of Transmutation if it was presented to her.
  • Although Cat is now a Prime, Sentinel will still be handling most of the political stuff.
  • The Sea of Rust is explained.
  • If the Liege Maximo completed his Matrix now, it'd be influenced by his current state of being.
  • AshlingWaltzes answers questions about how cybertronians get their names, how most of the expedition failed to realize Shockwave's presence after he revealed himself, and whether or not Cat can repair the Enigma, among other things.
  • Equestria was not genocided by the Destrons.
  • The Fallen and Sideways hate each other due to their differing methodologies.
• Working Title: According the to the story's editor the fic had the working title of Against the Dying of the Light, in reference to Dylan Thomas' poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

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