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i made a relationships chart for my AU... theres a lot more that id say but not enough space

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you Waste more energy with your mouth !!

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HOW DOES THIS BENEFIT THE DECEPTICON CAUSE, SCRAPPER

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soundwave is here

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I'm so excited for Toby Fox to be working on the new OFF soundtrack! It's an absolute dream team.

Original comic panel by Haus of Decline.

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i saw ur art requests are open...mayy i ask for more Starscream pls?? love the artstyle sm <\3333

THANK YOU! requests always open, I Love getting ideas from people and draw them anyway, i have some tf stuff Aand there's a starscream here too :)) i'm still learning forgive me and, well, g1 designs go brr

memes.........

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Watch where you’re going, big guy!

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saw a megatron version of this going around, but personally i find starscream a lot more interesting. so i made my own

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he looks like a toddler at picture day

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Yknow, everyone’s assumed B-127 was physically unable to leave sublevel 50, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I think it was a slow decent.

He talks about how “the shift manager up there really doesn’t like to be bothered.” So he believes he’s acquainted with a shift manager above sub-level 50.

He knows how to get out. Orion and Dee weren’t knights in shining armor who freed him from his castle, Bee showed them the exit through the garbage chute, which he talks about like he’s used before.

“Cause I’m just so good at what I do…” It sounds like a lie, but I don’t think he’s imaginative enough to come up with that himself from (the popular hc of) misunderstanding that he was thrown and/or left down there to die or starve. He’s the one who brought energon onto the expedition, his needs are seemingly being met. I think he was told that by people who just wanted him to shut up and go away.

㐃 Additionally, why would he have been scrapped in the first place; For being annoying? Even when Darkwing threw Dee & Orion down there, it was for challenging the discriminatory caste system that he as a cop relied on and actively embarrassing him in the race in front of all of Iacon, not yapping.

㐃㐃Though there’s also the question of “Why would Darkwing say they’ll never see anyone again?” I think he probably had business to do & planned on coming back to get them. Oof. (“I’ll make sure of that,” is future tense, “I will do something,” not, “I have just killed you”)

With the facts that he

Knows how to leave, can leave, and has, we see him leaving sublevel 50 in the movie,

Knows someone in the levels above him or with him (I’ve always wondered who this “shift manager” he mentioned is…) who does not like him leaving or being distracted,-

(though note the validity of his statements are a little bit under question since he “basically has built himself a small crew of Wilsons a la Castaway” but I like to think he’s not always lying to himself to stay sane. I like the bits where he’s the first to run away from the erupting rocks, & where he says “He’s going to kill everyone.” We need to give him more credit you guys)

(Though even if the shift manager is a character he made up for himself, it still implies that he’s given some importance to staying down there) (which is important to my point i’m about to make-)

-In mind. Why didn’t he just leave whenever? Why does he talk about being “down here a long time,” as if he was in Castaway & not just in a ‘how long has my job been here?’ kind of sense?

I think he’s actually, secretly, a very atypical depiction of a hikikomori.

I think about how excited he was to make friends, how most characters other than Optimus find him annoying, & just how similar he acts to a neurodivergent guy who just can’t seem to get conversation right despite loving it, and I think about this one quote from ceicocat;

If you withdraw from society for long enough, your social muscles atrophy. The pressure, shame, and guilt for evading your responsibilities sealing you into your room. You become calcified. Locked into the life of an extreme shut-in. (6:07)

This post also mentions that he seems the most fearful and hesitant of the group when confronted with new situations, which I hadn’t even noticed! (As this post seems more interested in proof and technicalities at first, mb lol) He’s more anxious than he lets on.

What if he wasn’t thrown down there one day? What if it was a slow decent? He senses other bots don’t feel like talking to him, so what’s the big deal with getting demoted? New chance at friends! And you get more chances. Again, and again, and again until you’re at sub-level 40. At least I’ve hit rock bottom, right? Nope, there’s more. Now you’re in sub-level 50 and leaving your house literally requires you to crawl up a hole through hordes of garbage. At least you can do your job. You can do it very well, it staves off the shame you don’t have anything to be ashamed of. Crawl through 50 sub-levels of garbage to leave your house when all the wilsons who like you are down here? No thanks!! I’m happy to stay down here and watch garbage burn. Forever. Till the day I die.

Poor Bee, why did I write that, I made myself sad.

I’m just saying, I think it would be really fascinating if, instead of just having a tragic backstory; this version of Bee was like this due to a combination of social struggles and his own weaknesses, choices and interactions! And how interesting it would be for a character easily flanderized as a friendly honeybee to actually be incredibly conflicted about his interactions with other people!

For instance;

What if he’s known for by his coworkers for being very enthusiastic and friendly, but also very hard to find? He takes his work home with him before ditching the office for like a week? And then he comes back like nothing happened!

What if he becomes a scout because he gets to stay hidden and just observe? He won’t have to talk to anyone and he wants to try and parse what it is that makes people act *gesturing vaguely around face* differently around him. It becomes a genuine interest of his like Abed from Community.

Idk… I guess you could say, i think when it comes to B-127… there’s.. MORE THAN MEETS THE EY- *i am yanked offstage by a giant hook.*

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sorry starscream

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bishouju bumblebee :3

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Happy (belated) White Day💝!!

They can find their happiness without having to fight🥹💕💕💕

Concept inspired by↓

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Probably been asked this before bit where did bee get the cane? Is it because he's old or has bad joints? Either way, it's cute adds something to him.

Figure I'd answer this since everyone keeps asking.

Bee with a cane is from the 2005 IDW continuity of comics!

Even after Ratchet got the parts for a full repair, Bee continued to use the cane instead of getting repaired. I don't know how much of this was him feeling he didn't have the time to go under another operation and how much was him feeling like he didn't deserve to get fixed due to how poorly he had lead the Autobots up to that point, but he gave off the impression getting fully fixed just wasn't a priority. Maybe he saw it as a part of him? I do know even after "death" he reverted back to his original frame (He gets massively damaged again right before Dark Cybertron and had his Goldbug appearance without the cane before Shockwave kills him) including the cane which as a ghost he obviously didnt need.

I'm not a cane user, but it means a lot to me that Bee apparently sees the cane as a part of him even after death. I like to think he didn't get repaired because he didn't see the need, he didn't need to be repaired to be functional and whole. My favorite Bumblebees are from Earthspark and IDW1, and the cane is such a nice touch from IDW I just had to include it.

In my AU, Bumblebee isn't old old, but he is actually older than Starscream! I didn't really plan for that to happen, but it's the only logical option since Starscream was brought online later than the other Seekers and the Seekers themselves were created after Cold Construction became standard practice, and Cold Construction became standard practice because the Hot Spots dried up. And Bumblebee is Fordged. Optimus Prime and Megatron are roughly the same age, Bumblebee is slightly younger than them, and Starscream is younger than all three. Not that it really matters, Mechs come online with basic adult functioning capabilities and they're all millions of years old at this point, but I do think it's funny this is how it ended up since Bee is usually seen as the youngest. Old man cane user Bee my beloved.