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Someone hear us out on this:

Transformer protoforms but they start out as bitties who slowly grow up by shedding and replacing metal plates like how insects (or crutaceans) renew their external shells in nature.

Assume that the metal plates on Cybertronian's body are not just parts of armor that they put on but also their cyber-biological version of skin (that can also be removable, tho any skin is removable if you peel hard enough).

Cybertronians clearly don't have skin that can grow flexibly like us so it would (kind of) make sense that the outer plates are getting replaced so they can grow over time.

This process is called "Metalmorphosis".

(90% of the thought process was put into this wordplay)

Still not sure if the biology behind the process is similar to butterfly's whole transformation or crab's molting that just changes its size, or both. Like Metalmorphosis can have different stages in which the first sign is the shedding (or molting) to grow larger and the later stages would have the protoform goes through major changes that can make them look unrecognizable compares to their original frame.

So like a Cybertronian's version of puberty (suck for them)

Well this is it for now, we're still not sure on what will replace the metal plates after the shedding. It will also be metal but how and where the protoforms getting the replacement for their now missing exoskeleton is the tricky part.

So yeah, Cybertronian biology

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Yaoi so doomed that you have to turn to old man marriage to cope

How it feels to rewatch transformers one yesterday and continuing to watch season 1 of transformers earthspark today

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Stickman ahhhh design

Petition to bring back Reedman (that one metal twig bot in bayverse) with this alt mode

I think motorcycle Transformers are cool and I want more of them, but I also don’t like when they make female Transformers motorcycles as like, an excuse as to why they’re smaller and slimmer than the male characters. Not that a female bot can’t be a motorcycle, it’s just that it feels like that scenario happens too often with motorcycle bots

I think the solution is that we need more male motorcycle Transformers. The only ones I know of are TFA Prowl and Thrash, let’s expand that list a bit more

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You know I don’t see any reason for Cybertronians not to have blankets of some kind

Like we just drape them over our bodies to be warm on cold nights, or simply for the comfort they bring. I don’t see why the Cybertronians can’t have that; even if metal I’m pretty sure they have to regulate their internal temperatures, and it can be comfortable for them too

And they can probably make something able to be stretched and not just cold hard metal. Metal mesh exists, and I think I’ve seen one that’s like really small and intricate so the metal bends easily, at least on the macro scale we’d see it at. Or maybe Cybertron just has a material that could be made into something flexible and comfortable to bots, that works too

I don’t know why I’m having this thought. I think it was because I was relaxing in my bed and blankets came to mind

The conclusion? I don’t know, I guess just give Transformers giant blankets. It’s not impossible/impractical for them to have them, they just wouldn’t be the same as ours. They don’t have to sleep on bare berths

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They're so grandpa-and-grandsons core

I watched the whole Unicron arc in Transformers: Prime recently and this was all I wanted to draw XDD I always wish more emotion and tears were shown in times like this.

I am also experimenting with their tear color. Originally I headcannoned cybertronian tears to be their bodies coolant, and so I drew it green. But after Breakdowns line "Boo hoo! I'm shedding lubricant!" While fake wiping a single tear away.. it tells me that they CAN cry and that they obviously cry lubricant. Not coolant.

Buuuuut I felt like blood red tears would be more interesting than the standard yellowish color of clean oil. So I went with that and called it a quirky cybertronian thing <XD

I'll likely change the colors when I make their official redesigns. But hey it was fun to draw for this post at least! :}}

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*Transformers One has female transformers doing their jobs in harsh and cold environments that require them to act tough and rough...

*Someone: hOW dARe thE mOViE bUTcHErED fEmINinTY fROm tHEsE cHArACTeRs???

... They are sexless alien robot, Harold! Not the human characters from the 50s.

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Just saw a post about transformers that was so heinous even I, someone who knows very little about transformers, instantly went, what?

Anyway, daily reminder that the alien robots don’t have gender roles, or even gender constructions. Any transformers that are men or women are those genders because they have come into contact with a society that has gender constructions and then adopted it themselves. All robots with gender are trans.

They’re alien robots, my guy. Female alien robots are commanders and soldiers in the same way male robot aliens are. In fact, lots of the “male” robot aliens probably wouldn’t even fucking identify as male because they’re fucking alien robots!! they’ve been at war for millions of years! Gender isn’t at the forefront of their minds!

This is all bc I saw someone say that the spider-like robot alien who murders people wasn’t feminine enough bc she didn’t have tits and stilettos or something ig. Human women have different body types if that’s what you’re going for, but I guess you didn’t think of that.

There’s weird sexism in transformers sometimes (bc G1 was an 80s cartoon made to sell toys to a target audience of boys) and transformers 1 wasn’t a perfect film. But like, it’s such a buckwild line of critique. Yeah, Elita 1s characterization in TF1 wasn’t my favorite thing in the world, but I’m not gonna disguise my thoughts by talking about “natural femininity” or whatever TERF dog whistle you have decided to project onto fucking alien robot car toys??

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Something happened today

We were failing, bawling our eyes out so we had to scroll through the Internet for mental support

Don't even like Starscream. (Low quality ahh..)

P.S: we stopped failing after this mf showed up

Remember kids, if you are failing in life, Starscream is also balling his way out in life :)

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Concept:

Transformers character's alt mode but it's just one of these bad girls

Bonus point if they're a Decepticon and their theme is ballet related

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Consider this: Motorcycle Bumblebee. And make him a Vespa.

I think motorcycle Transformers are cool and I want more of them, but I also don’t like when they make female Transformers motorcycles as like, an excuse as to why they’re smaller and slimmer than the male characters. Not that a female bot can’t be a motorcycle, it’s just that it feels like that scenario happens too often with motorcycle bots

I think the solution is that we need more male motorcycle Transformers. The only ones I know of are TFA Prowl and Thrash, let’s expand that list a bit more

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Goofy fellas

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Modern Transformers iterations would actually benefit a lot from having odd but interesting alt modes for character design.

Especially when the alt modes themselves are inspired from existed weird vehicles (or their concepts) in real life.

Also, can we please get a Transformer based on the 1955 Lincoln Futura?

It’s such a unique and weird looking car, but also cool looking, you can’t tell me it wouldn’t make for an awesome Transformer design

It’s probably just the colors, but I’m thinking Moonracer would look good with it. But I’m not sure, maybe someone else would be more fitting

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did this instead of hw

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THE one flaw of rid2015 (among other flaws)

raf shoulve fucking BEEN THERE

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The best friendship is between a bitty and another slightly bigger bitty

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Some more Satellite Soundwave!! I wanted to flesh out his back design tbh, especially his wings/solar arrays 😌 this is a point I’m very satisfied with! They may not look like typical earth solar panels ofc but they are! The other non main “wings” can connect with the main ones, but they tend to hover around (think Bluetooth or whatever). Two main wings and four non-main ones, dunno yet if his wings could have sound emitters 😛would that be cool? Anywho this was also an attempt to try a high saturation which I think turned out great

White background cuz I think it still looks nice w/ it and I couldn’t decide which one it pick 😌

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Stretch marks *chef kiss*

More of Spacecraft au Soundwave 🛰️ this time of his front side (continuation from the last post)… I’ve seen a couple of folks confused if the chest thing was a matrix; and originally this was just something I took from his ROTF design but for this au I just made up some lore for it, it’s basically like how in IDW he used the Enigma of Combination with his telepathy except instead of it ending him (albeit with the results he wanted); like he thought it would’ve, it’d fused to him (likely painfully) and maybe later he’d get that touched up and more comfortable to his body considering it can’t really be taken out after that (maybe it’d fused partially into his spark too) also the Enigma probably most likely will work and look differently in this au cuz I said so

Would it occasionally cause him turmoil in some way? Idk but probably I’d assume considering it almost killed him 😌 not sure if he’d try to avoid letting anyone know about that tho