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Finally, one of these that I think I can finish without getting stumped. XD I'm doing it multifandom. Less brain-breakage that way.

Day 1: Your favourite character

( Oh, take a wild guess... )

ETA: ( adding a clip! )

Using this icon instead of a more related Transformers one, because this is the face I make when I watch Beast Wars.

A bit of backstory first: yes, I grew up with this. Sort of. My history with Transformers continuities is a bit different than the one for people in the USA, because until the mid-90s or so, we got cartoons with a delay of years; I've watched cartoons from early and mid-80s until well into the 90s. That means that I watched G1 when I was about 8 or 9 (and probably still got reruns much later, because my younger brother remembers it well enough), and then I got Beast Wars more or less at the same time as people in the US did, when I was 12.

Now, it's true that G1 is the continuity that makes me go "my childhoooooood ♥". Because I was younger, I guess, or because it's what defined Transformers for me, or both. The face of Transformers will forever be G1!Optimus to me, no matter what. But I did really, really like Beast Wars, and I was still a kid, and thinking about it comes with a lot of affection and nostalgia filter.

So I was more than happy when I started rewatching it and realized that, yes, it's actually as good as I remembered. ♥

( It gets long and rambling, and it probably reads as if I was talking about an old friend )

The short version: I STILL LOVE THIS SO MUCH. ♥ I won't call it my favourite continuity; I love G1, BW and TFA all, for different reasons (I wonder how weird this makes me in the fandom, heh). But it's true that I love love love Beast Wars.

Even if it's going to break my heart. Sigh.