#Esmeral

[emberfriday]

I really wanted to draw them so silly and in love!!🥹🥹🥹🥹🤲🤲

[weiyinxinshen]

female log

[lesserknownwaifus]

Esmeral from Transformers Victory

[cleverthylacine]

Japanese G1 continuity is absolutely not normal about girls but damned if they don't give us some of the best ones

There was a significant amount of Transformers continuity released between 1987 and around 2007 that was produced in Japanese and is really only known to most English-speaking fans through fansubs, dubs that were only released in Australia, and the like. Shows like Headmasters, Victory, and Zone. Manga like Victory and 15 Go Go Go Teletraan (which was really mostly Kiss Players). Radio shows like Kiss Players.

I'm gonna be super up front. Japanese G1 is not normal about femmes in any way, shape or form. At the same time, it gave us some of the BEST and most underused female characters in the Transformers universe.

Headmasters, which came out right after the US G1 show ended, is particularly egregious. In Headmasters, Arcee has been reduced to Fort Max's administrative assistant, uses ridiculously polite and subservient language, and is also the only medic. And being a medic would be kind of badass if they let her be as badass as Ratchet, you know? But they absolutely do not.

Also, in Headmasters, Carly (now married to Spike) allows her son--a freaking child, not even a teenager--to go on missions when Spike can't and a human is needed, because uh, for some reason it's better for a 12 year old boy to go, not an adult woman?

But most of the good femmes don't come from Headmasters. And some of the best femmes we have are from Japanese G1.

Super-God Masterforce made it up to us by giving gave us Minerva, a human girl who is a Headmaster with a robot body (transtector) making her basically a bad ass mecha pilot, and who actively does fight.

The Victory manga gives us Esmeral, Deathsaurus' incredibly classy wife, and Lyzack, Leozack's twin sister, who is in charge of defending the homefront but really does want to go out and fight. Illumina appears in both the Victory manga and the anime. She's a little human girl who has a crush on Jan Minakaze and is always trying to get people to choose nonviolence.

(Lyzack later appears in an English-language comic - the Wings Universe--wherein she's basically Deathsaurus' servant and Starscream hits on her. I don't like that.)

There are a number of great femmes who were only ever toys. The Cobalt Sentries set gave us Howlback, leader of the Decepticon military police (called the Cobalt Sentries). She is basically Ravage's twin sister but instead of being super stealthy she can turn your attacks right back on you.

(Later she appears in several English language comics and in at least one she is canonically trans. I'm not a fan of her depiction in the SG Recordicons Batman tribute arc, though.)

The Unite Warriors toyline - Takara's response to Combiner Wars, basically - gave us the combiner Megatronia, made up of Megaempress, and her four guards, Lunaclub (sometimes called Luna Clover or Luna Trefle), Flowspade, Moonheart, and Trickdiamond. They are incredibly awesome.

(IDW 2019 used Trickdiamond, but none of the others. Tricky was one of Swindle's contacts.)

Then there's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends isn't there...Kiss Players.

So, okay. There is nothing normal about Kiss Players whatsoever. On the other hand, I'd rather listen to KP than watch RID2015 which is just blatant copaganda from hell.

Kiss Players had an interesting plot involving little bits of Galvatron and Unicron getting into humans and creating the Kiss Players--humans who could give TFs a powerup by kissing them and then merging with their internals somehow. Then there are the Legions, the dick-tongued monsters that everyone who hasn't actually listend to the show or read the manga thinks are Megatron.

The dick-tongued monsters are gross. It is also gross that some of the Kiss Players are barely teenagers and definitely not adults and are constantly ending up in Situations.

But the plot centres around the apparent rise of Convoy, or Optimus, from the dead, and his transformation into a weird groomery dude, which many people don't understand there was an actual reason for, because it's not Optimus, it's someone else riding around in his body.

Melissa Faireborn is like if you chopped Marissa Faireborn's IQ in half, dyed her hair blond and threw out any pants or skirts that covered her knees. She is nothing like Marissa and I treat them as cousins, but Xiaoxiao Li is amazing and her real lover.

Anyhow, this female scientist (Dr Amaou) lost her mind over the loss of her daughter during the events of the 1986 movie et sequelae, and she's got to be stopped from turning Atari and her Autorooper robot pal into a permanent fusion to reincarnate her daughter Shizuku (whom for some reason I always want to call Setsuna instead).

It's a little confusing because most of the really good parts of the plot got jammed into a few episodes near the end of the season, although once you know what it is, it's clear that it's being set up. That artist just likes borderline lolicon way too much.

The second season of KP is very squeaky clean and sends the girls out to collect what they think are Allspark fragments, and they are very annoyed because Ravage, whom they call "black panther man" keeps getting in their way and fucking with them, only to later find out that the bots who gave them this task are Unicronian heralds and Ravage is trying to stop them from helping Unicron do what Unicron does.

Rosanna, everyone's favourite robot pop idol, comes from the second season of KP, although you don't see very much of her or her companions Glit and Sundor.

Incidentally KP sets up the Unicron Trilogy and some of its characters end up in the UT--which did come to the US, and gave us Alexis Thi Dang.

(This post is brought to you because I just wrote an Esmeral thing and someone was musing separately about Megaempress as a parent and I almost ended up writing this post while reblogging them, because I'm a nerd with a hyperfixation).

[thegoldenshi-shi]

am I hallucinating or did Deathsaurus not have a wife named Esmereal?

if he did, Rest in Piece Cliffjumper You gotta somehow defeat or straight up lie to his equally terrifying and bigger final boss of a wife *cue the boss music*

(feel free to ignore this but I find it a little funny over the pain that Cliffjumper is going through of being called the wrong name and mistaken for the wrong person. also I am tired and vaguely remember a fanart of Esmereal asking Cliffjumper of what exactly happened to Deathsaurus)

He was, in fact married.

I love the idea of him being weirdly domestic and loving when not out doing evil Decepticon things. Especially when what little we see of Esmeral she was a polite, sweet looking, giant dragon lady. And a civilian apparently? Since she never appeared outside the Decepticon fortress, I'm guessing she didn't have any combat training.

Also, I know it was just the comic style, but her ridiculously girly face makes me laugh.

Now I can see Cliffjumper leaving the hospital after the events of Probat. While he's freaking out over how crazy his life's just gotten, he gets stopped by a huge lady who mistook him as a hospital worker and wants to know where her husband is.

"Your husband??"

"Ambassador Deathsaurus. Do you know where his room is?"

Bonus points if he's afraid of her because she's so scary looking, but she's like the epitome of sweetness. Esmeral's just really upset and wants to go to her comatose husband.

Also, she doesn't know that the jumpy hospital worker is the one who sent her precious husband into a coma, or else she might have gone just as crazy as he did on Probat.

Thank you so much for your ask! I had forgotten about Esmeral and how much I enjoyed her concept.

[dazzledictator]

My piece for @femmemetalezine ✨️

I picked lovely Victory ladies Esmeral and Lyzack (naturally) 💜

[robokisser2000]

esmeral is such a baddie, Deathsaurus better treat her like a queen 😤

[singeamon-arts]

First post ever! I made this cute doodle of Deathsaurus and his wife Esmeral. If you want to use the pose for inspo or repost it please tag me! I don’t think I’ll ever finish this though, and I forgot the wings 😂.

[cherrytimemachine]

Breakdown: Deathsaurus

HELLO THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME ABOUT MY WIFE.

How I feel about this character: He's one of my favorite Transformers actually. I love his cheeky attitude in Victory, his protection of his people and his human son Solon (and his fear of caterpillars for some reason) in the Victory manga, and his strong leadership and advocacy for his troops in MTMTE.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Esmeral, of course. I'd love to see more people talk about her and her dynamics, both as an individual character and alongside Deathsaurus. I do think that the slight homoerotic beef going on between him and Star Saber is funny tho.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Star Saber. Their rivalry is extensive, beginning before the war. In my AU, Star Saber was the head of the Elite Guard during Sentinel's primacy. Sentinel was an avid hunter, and he was not shy about it either. He ended up crossing a major line when he decided to bring the guard with him to Kalis on a hunting mission. It had always been an aspiration of his to kill a Predacon and add the beast to his trophy case. Star Saber did question the importance of it, to which Sentinel reassured him that it was well worth their time as Predacons are considered a dangerous species that poses a major threat to Cybertronian lives. It was at this time that Deathsaurus was the new young leader of his tribe. They ended up slaughtering most of Deathsaurus's tribe mercilessly, and ever since Deathsaurus hated anyone from the guard. Once Sentinel was dead, his hatred turned to Star Saber, who had enlisted in the Autobot ranks and became on of the Prime's generals. Deathsaurus's grudge turned personal when Star Saber imprisoned his fortress in the Dark Nebula. He didn't know it until much later, but Star Saber had just stranded over half of Deathsaurus's forces, including his wife, taking the only family he had left. To him, Star Saber had taken everything he'd held dear once again, and he was determined to make him pay for all the destruction and misery he brought.

My unpopular opinion about this character: He should be recognized as part of the Predacon species, like the ones in TFP. His alt mode is a Kaiju, which is a big monster not specifically like a dragon, but there are types that are very dragon-like. I want there to be Predacon tribes on Cybertron that persisted after the Great Cataclysm, and for them to have their own cultures. Because of his striking similarity to Onyx Prime, I'd like to think his tribe was the remains of Onyx's empire in Kalis, which is now mostly uninhabited by Cybertronians due to it being considered too dangerous. There's a larger population of Predacons there, and the lack of Cybertronian civilization had the city nicknamed the City of the Dead. I think it's fitting for Deathsaurus since he was from a place called the Death Zone in Victory. I have more thoughts on Esmeral's tribe as well, so feel free to let me know if you're curious.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: His wife wasn't in the Victory cartoon, nor was she in the MTMTE comic. Esmeral needs more love, and an updated design. I would also like to see more backstory with the rivalry between Star Saber and Deathsaurus. According to Ask Vector Prime, they have known each other since childhood and have always had beef. Their parents knew each other, and I would like to see someone take the ideas of Terrorsaurer and Galaxy Saber (their respective parents) and make some canon or fanon media around them. I also wanted some more collaborative shenanigans between Deathsaurus, Tarn, and Overlord. People make such funny interpretations of their reluctant alliance that I really want to see it now.

Ask me more about my blorbos!

[liaswritesrobots]

[kzelcs02]

Esmeral

[cleverthylacine]

Happy Birthday, @camp-mithril-lake!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Victory Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ravage & Esmeral (Transformers) Characters: Ravage (Transformers), Esmeral (Transformers), Miko Nakadai, Megaempress (Transformers) Additional Tags: Decepticon Culture (Transformers), Decepticon Politics, Female Friendship, Revolutionaries After The Revolution, Megaempress is a Title, Primax 1020.27 Iota, Absolutely Crushing The Bechdel Test Series: Part 13 of All Hail Ravage Summary:  Ravage and Esmeral have been friends online for vorns. They didn't expect their first meetings in person to be so awkward. But Megatron's rule casts a shadow over Ravage's assumption of the title Vox Destron, and Esmeral doesn't want to be exacly the same Megaempress her mother was.

[millidew]

women be upon ye

[IDs in alt text]

[transingthoseformers]

Look I so much fucking much love the idea of Star Saber and Deathsaurus finding their own end to the war a significant while before the main part of it ended because they're just that isolated

But also because DeathSaberMeral

[cyber-streak-2]

Esmeral:

Deathsaurus: Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.

[robokisser2000]

I’m working on Deathsaurus rn but like- do yall remember Esmeral..? She was kinda cute ngl