[there's no further comment on it, no thanks, but riptide's expression is grateful.]

Megatron. Hey, you noted down I know him as an Autobot? [riptide laughs lightly; that'll probably shock him if he hasn't already read it.] Still a bastard, though.

[he'll change his tune when he's canon updated... his expression turns into something unreadable for a moment.]

Optimus is still a hero. He still cares. It's just... yeah. It went sideways. Everything went really, really wrong. Even if Autobots officially won the war...

...What was the Optimus you knew like?