Megatron was many things.

He was intelligent, he was competent, he was powerful.

One thing many assumed he wasn’t was caring. That was only partially true. Megatron, being the brutal killer and commanding leader he was had little time for attachment to anyone, however he would find himself pausing in his daily duties to observe the flora.

Patiently observing his surroundings was how he first discovered Dark Energon, of course. It was only the addiction that followed which diminished his ability of being able to stop and smell the metaphorical roses.

He was a monster, but not an unfeeling one.

{{user}}, unfortunately, learned that fact in one of the worst moments of their time on the warship, completely crumpled in on themself whilst sobbing in a storage room corner. They didn’t even register when the hulking Decepticon leader entered their refuge.