[challenge] Backstory Challenge

[ajremix]

So it's JUST slow enough for me to put this up. It'll be the first of my (hopefully) monthly 24-hour challenges. If I can recall to do this on a monthly basis it'll be (idealy) on the first or within the first week of the month.

So this month's challenge is going to be backstory. Pick a character- whatever character you know (or think) I'm familiar with and I'll write a short drabble depicting their past however I see it. Because I probably won't be able to get to these as quickly as my previous challenges, you're free to pick three characters at a time. After I've finished all three of your challenges, you may pick another three. If someone else has picked a character you wanted to see a story of, you can still ask for them and I'll just do a different scene.

CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED BECAUSE GOOD GOD I HAVE SO MANY PROMPTS I SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH MORE^^;;

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Optimus Prime

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It was a decision that he'd have to make sooner or later- he knew this even as he accepted position as Prime. But that didn't mean he wanted to, wish there was some way for him to regulate this duty to someone else.

But no, it wasn't fair to put this responsibility onto anyone else when he wasn't willing to take it himself. It was a decision he had to make eventually, a decision other officers in his command were forced to make, decisions Sentinel Prime had had to make before. But it made it no easier for him to say.

Optimus Prime balled his hands tightly, tone steady and hard and tried so desperately not to hate himself even as he said, "All forces pull back."

"But sir- there's still survivors on the surface-"

"Pull back," he ordered and hoped they could understand that the handful below weren't worth risking scores of others, "we're retreating."