ProwlBee [you were the sunshine of my lifetime]

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Hey, you know when the show is just MEAN to you? Look, I loved the journey, but that last episode f*cked me up something serious. Like, Prowl was one of my big favorites on his own steam (and the true protagonist of the show, Optimus was a decoy, I WILL make a fifty-page Google doc if you wanna argue), but also, this ship got under my skin from the fourth episode and I was scanning EVERY ep for their interactions because. They're. Adorable. Like...it's that classic "I did not order any shenanigans" x "ALL THE SHENANIGANS" dynamic, and I feel like we really got subtext that whether or not they're romo, they rubbed off on each other in new dimensions. Bee taught Prowl it's okay to be less serious; Prowl taught Bee how to buckle down when it matters and appreciate the world around him. And the gosh dang Twister scene - how did the animators NOT have at least a MILD idea of what the audience at home was gonna think? They had to have known, right? Or the BLUSHING in that same episode?
I thought the most emo I was going to be about this ship was after the space barnacle when they cut DIRECTLY from Sari unbrainwashing them both to the epilogue bit at home - dude, show me what happened when they woke up and realized they almost lost each other in one fell swoop. Show me Prowl realizing what it meant that Bee had faith he'd be able to break the barnacle on his own, and Bee being scared for a sizeable chunk of time that he WOULDN'T.
And then the last episode is just like "You know what would be a good way to end this series? Just kill one of them"
And I get it, heroic sacrifices are an important trope that I personally just struggle with a lot because I hate having to grieve my favies, but what in the WORLD did Prowl's death add to the narrative? They didn't get a season 4, so it's literally the last story beat in the entire plot and there are no long-reaching consequences. Though I write that like I WANTED any consequences. Pfft no. I'm glad S4 is dead. I could NOT have gone through a whole season 4 without Prowl. And apparently, had it continued, Prowl would have freaking stayed dead, but BLURR somehow survives total annihilation by Shockwave? Excuse me. Slap in the face. Unfair x10.
Anyway I had this rule over in TBTC for "no resurrecting heroes, only villains"
That rule doesn't exist anymore. I destroyed it. BECAUSE OF PROWL. Also "Getting Prowled" is the new term for when a major hero dies in the last 10% of the plot (e.g., "At the end of Kingdom Hearts III, Kairi is temporarily Prowled").
I HAVE to reunite them. I'm doing it. It is my sworn mission. Because when Wasp sabotaged Bumblebee's identity and Prowl figured out who he was, he kept a hand on his shoulder when the Elites came to arrest him on false charges. Because Bee is literally the second character to ever see Prowl's corpse (after Jazz) and the LOOK on his FACE when he realizes. Because we never got to see Bee deciding that sitting quietly in the woods to birdwatch with Prowl isn't as boring as he thought it would be, or Prowl learning how to actually trash Bee at fighting games and realizing it's fun. I CANNOT BE STOPPED. But insofar as what canon has given me, part of my coping process is going to be editing around the whole tragedy and setting it to songs and stuff. That's part of the stages of character grief, don't you know.
Anyway, erm, hot take, ProwlBee and BlitzStar are just the morality-swapped versions of each other. The serious one who likes to complain and the goofball he accuses of ruining everything when it seems he doesn't really mind being annoyed after all. Then that serious one dies in the end because of the Allspark rejoining and the silly one is like "WTF man"
We're just undoing that whole thing, bring back our grumpy wet blankets, their goofballs miss them