Anode x Lug

Anode x Lug is the femslash ship between Anode and Lug from the Transformers fandom.

Canon
Anode and Lug are Cybertronian but travelled out into the universe on many adventures. For a while, Anode stayed on Caminus and studied to be a blacksmith, which means someone who helps malfunctioning protoforms find their shape and come to life. After a terrible failure, Anode flees the planet from shame and returns to Lug. However, Anode keeps her own failure a secret, which gives Lug the impression that Anode only left her profession for her sake, which makes Lug feel bad about herself. And the two of them end up in Luna 2, where they find themselves on the wrong side of a Decepticon Cybernought, but then end up being saved by a Necrobot that takes the both of them to Necroworld.

Later on, Anode and Lug share a conversation about recent events and their desires for the future, on the Necrobot's monument to the disappeared, where Anode knew she would find Lug in. Anode mentions that she got interested in her new friends' quest for Cyberutopia, though Lug jokes that she would be more interested in plundering its treasures than starting a new life there. Their conversation gets abruptly cut when Tailgate starts fighting with Fangry where the two of them were talking, and Anode even ends up caught up in the middle of the fight, injured. So she goes to get her wounds treated by Kaput, before Velocity arrives to discuss what had transpired when Anode fled Caminus. Anode ends up revealing the real reason why she fled the planet and realizing that Lug didn't know about this all this time, she runs away to the memorial, with Anode following her behind. Lug tells her about how pained she was because she always thought that she was the reason why Anode had fled her home planet. So Anode opens up about her history as a blacksmith and that she needed a reason for her coworkers to hate her, unable to live with the guilt. Anode apologizes to Lug, but when she realizes that Lug seemed to have vanished, she takes that as a "no" from Lug about her apology.

Anode returns to the medibay and starts searching everywhere for Lug. However, after going to desperately ask the staff if they knew where Lug was, they tell her that they have no idea who she is talking about. Anode's explanation prompts the staff to show her the security tapes of her emerging alone from her stasis pod. After the staff tells her that she probably suffered from hallucinations due to timesickness, which means all this time she hallucinating Lug into existence, Anode runs to the list of names on the Necrobot's monument, but realizes that Lug's name was not on it, meaning the Necrobot only saved her. However, Anode still finds some hope when Kaput shows her the flower where Necrobot had preserved some of Lug's Spark energy. So Anode grabs the flower and rushes back to the fortress, where she explains that she can revive Lug by using the snowflake as a receptacle for Lug's Spark.

After Lug fully grews, Anode confesses the truth behind the Lighthouse and why she really left her planet. The two of them end up snuggling up afterwards, fully reconciled and happy together. In the aftermath, Anode and Lug join the Lost Light crew on their "victory lap", before the ship was to be decommissioned. Lug starts introducing Anode as her wife, and they talk about their plans to settle down on Luna 1 and raise some kids.

Fanon
is not one of the most popular ships in the Transformers fandom. However, it's one of the most popular queer couples in the fandom. And some fans in the fandom cite this couple, alongside Chromedome and Rewind, as the reason why they found out about the Transformers comics and started getting more and more interested in the series.

The ship currently has 60+ works in AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In another corner of the multiverse, as the result of the experiment Brainstorm, Nautica and Perceptor conducted to duplicate the ship in another universe, a duplicate Lost Light was produced, with its own version of Anode and Lug, ready to set off into the unknown.