Author's Note: A few of my closing thoughts, what could have beens, thank yous, and next steps.

I wrote in chapter one that I wasn't sure this fic would end up being KOBD. Evidently, it did end up going in that direction, even if the genre tag above remains friendship rather than romance. Because of the sheer amount of characters and friendships in this fic, that seems a more fitting genre to encapsulate the fic as a whole.

Random info on chapter names- honestly, I didn't have a plan for most of the chapter names. A few (Live in the Moment, Let's Talk About Me, etc) were picked out long ahead, but most were made on a chapter by chapter basis. That said, there were a few themes. The one I feel like mentioning follows the chapter titles that follow the 'X Decepticon does Y' theme. This one is an example of my weird thought processing components. The OST of TF: Prime has an interesting naming technique. There are quite a few decepticons that have their own songs in the soundtrack (Megatron on the move, Dreadwing, Airachnid). I noticed a comment on this soundtrack theorizing that this is an example of how the autobots are unified as a team whereas the cons are all independent and their concept of a team is screwed up. The chapter titles (Airachnid Calls In A Favor, Shockwave Gets A Letter, etc) that begin with a con (or decepticon-turned-neutral) and then the rest of the sentence about them came out of this note on the unity of the bots vs independency of the cons seen in the official soundtrack.

I came up with this idea years ago, long before I began writing fanfic. I pulled it out of whatever hideyhole it's been sitting in since then in January because I wanted a prompt for an excuse to write this take on Knock Out. He presents as very appearance-centered in the show, but I wanted to experiment with the idea of him being a narcissist in more than just his care for his paintjob. I can't claim that this is accurate to NPD on a professional level, but I did comb over the DSM-5 for traits and habits and cognitive processes that are used for both him and a few other decepticons here. It was a fun experience to write for him and for every other character here. The vehicon from Stronger, Faster, Dreadwing, Bumblebee, Soundwave, all of them- I think this is a character centered story rather than a plot oriented one and so I was truly thrilled with how many of you enjoyed these character studies.

Well, this fic does sit as a standalone. It was always was intended to work as a standalone. That said? I do have it as a series over on AO3 and there are multiple sequels there. Just based on the amount and as a platform, I don't think I'm going to post them here as separate fics and I'm so far not planning on posting them here at all (If I do, they'd all likely end up lumped into the same document). I'll leave that open for now though and if anyone specifically comments on wanted those posted on , I'll try. If not, I'm just letting you all know that there is more content finished and in progress over on AO3.

Thanks again for making it through both the word & chapter count of this fic and the size of this author's note. Have a great day!