#IS THAT THE ALLSPARK RESIDUE

[ao3wasntenough]

Sometimes I remember stinger from the movies exist.

And then I think about Sam and Stinger would exist together in like a shadow of Bee and Sam and how that would look

it would be if between the bots separating from Sam and Sam going for a job at a dealership.

How funny it would be in Stinger was jumpstarted to life at residual allspark shit in Sam. And Stinger is like “I hate everything and everyone and I’m not just emo bumblebee but this human right here is mine now”

And Stinger sticks with Sam while trying to keep away from military/autobot radar. And it’s a twist on bumblebee and Sam’s dynamic. Cause bumblebee needed Sam for ä purpose thus their dynamic feel’s like one part duty two parts “I care for the human a lot” and Stinger while being manmade has more humanness to it and thus is actively choosing to forcefully cohabitate with Sam. Like a stray cat following you home but also hisses when you try to pet it.

I just think there’s an opportunity to explore and expand with Stinger and Sam both being earth born odd balls with weak link to cybertronians. Stinger based of them and Sam’s allspark exposure

[felixdragonheartofficial]

Alright, since I‘m officially allowed to ask more questions about your self insert, here they go:

What‘s his name? I don‘t think I saw it anywhere yet

Is there any particular reason why he‘s on earth?

Do you have a backstory for him? If yes, would you share the rough outline perhaps?

When you draw him, could other people draw him as well (with full credit of course)?

So basically

Before he strolled around in a Cybertronian body

He was a secret human street artist/vandal who was known as "The Bohemian"

As a human he was obsessed with the unusual, easily inspired by the supernatural, so much so that he didn't really lump himself in with other humans. It was often reflected in whatever he he painted.

A year before episode 2 of tfa, he was evicted from his parents old home in downtown Detroit by Porter C. Powell who had bought out the area to transform it into luxury housing for high income family's planning to move into Detroit. Because of this he holds an understandable grudge against Powell and anyone else like him.

Because of the surprising turn of events, and the fact he was a social recluse, he was effectively homeless as he had no one else to turn to. He had a history of mental illnesses, two of which were professionally diagnosed, and he just figured he had depression as the third, it was pretty obvious.

He was struggling with money problems even before, he didn't have enough for college and therefore lacked the sufficient credentials to land a job he would actually benefit from, that and because of the rapid technological boom that's been happening in Detroit since Sumdac came on the scene, jobs that humans could do were dangerously limited.

And Since he didn't think his art would sell all that well(and he didn't like the idea of putting monetary value on his work anyway- he's awful stubborn) he chose to work at a fast food joint, barley earning a livable wage or even Enough to get himself out of debt.

He would go out at night to paint murals on the walls of downtown Detroit, with all the paint he could afford anyway, it was from before his eviction. he tried to be careful about not wasting any.

He was arrested by police for "loitering" in an abandoned metalworking facility site along with a few other of the impoverished after they had made camp there due to the factories somewhat stable structure and shelter.

Because he refused to come quietly, he was additionally arrested for

"refusing arrest"-misdemeanor

"assault on a police officer"-felony

"battery"-felony

"trespassing"-misdemeanor

and "breaking and entering"-felony

with all of these added up his sentencing was going to be a lot longer with an additional 5 years probation.

After being incarcerated, he went to jail where he mostly kept to himself except for the occasional fights, Until his release a few months later

Upon his release around the events of episode 3, he found he had been fired from his low paying job, and that he had been black listed from any available careers.

This is where Megatron comes in.

Episode 3 is were Megatron is brought back online due to the residual allspark energy from Sari's key. It's also when he starts looking for criminals to manipulate.

After spotting "bo" on the security network running around and painting his murals, he's amused, but ultimately unimpressed.

He soon hears from a conversation with Sumdac that power lines, metalworking factories and cybertronics production plants were being sabotaged and heavily graffitied all over detroit.

The graffiti has a recognizable sigil on it that he swears he has seen before, remembering how he saw the lone human decorating his "masterpiece"

He questions Sumdac about the human, finding his profile on the criminal database, only then learning of the context for his crimes.

He never tells Sumdac about the security footage, and only reviews it when he isn't around.

He thinks that this human is easy enough to manipulate, what with all the drama of the past and current events of his life.

But he sees this "Bohemian" carrying his stolen and vandalized materials to and fro the outskirts of Detroit, far beyond the reach of his cameras.

Even though he considers all humans to be primitive primates, with all the fuss this hooligan is causing, he ponders the further purpose of his actions.

So he sits back, and waits...

I'll reveal how he became Cybertronian a little later in a part two lol, there's so much. Part two is focused on after his transformation.

Also yes, I'm totally ok with people drawing my self insert👍

[brandwhorestarscream]

*by looking at Double mech preg's posts* I can easily see this happening in that post where rung destroys/reabsorbs all-spark and, while the autobots are thinking about extinction, the decepticons are partying.

Do you mean the de-extinction AU? That's the only one that comes to mind. Rung didn't reabsorb the Allspark in that--it got yeeted off planet and the residual energy the autobots had stored finally ran out

But regardless, yes. The sterile autobots are just like Oh Fuck while the decepticons are fucking each other six ways from Sunday

[officialtokyosan]

megatron kills starscream and the allspark space bridge residual energy him back to life and he goes insane as the allspark god and killed all his seekers

[of-fire-and-light]

Headcanon: origins (for... all the muses, I guess!)

[Oooh okay anon, thank you! This got long so it's under a cut...

OKAY SO. My muses are from original G1, so the canon for their origin is that Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge, and the Armada and Sweeps were created by Unicron from Megatron and the dead or dying remains of various other Decepticons - including but possibly not limited to Skywarp, Thundercracker, and either the Insecticons themselves or a handful of spare Insecticlones. The Dis, canonically unnamed at the time, was pulled from somewhere in Unicron's pockets and given to Galvatron as his flagship. Anything beyond that is open to speculation.

So, for my guys whether in fic or RP, this is just how I personally fill in the details. First of all, Unicron deciding to make himself a Herald and a strikeforce was an impulse decision when he found some of Primus's creations conveniently floating in his path; my theory is that Unicron didn't actually know much about making people, having never considered spawning creations of his own before. So he had to reverse engineer Primus's handiwork to figure out how, and he lied to, or certainly tactically misled, Megatron in order to get hold of his body, his power, and his blueprints intact. He would've told him anything, and meant none of it; he just wanted to persuade Megatron to concede access to all that information, rather than risking him self-destructing or similar if Unicron had tried to forcibly take it.

That much achieved, Unicron then harvested data, blueprints, and materials from all the 'Cons he'd gotten his claws on, used the inspiration and information from the gathered files to design his new strikeforce, and then the salvaged raw materials plus whatever else he had on hand to actually build them. Thus, fandom discourse notwithstanding, my headcanon is that Cyclonus, Scourge, and their corresponding drones cannot meaningfully be said to be "made from" anyone in particular. Sure, you could take them apart down to their molecular structure and identify which atoms were once part of whom, but there'd be no obvious pattern or purpose in the results. You might be able to trace bits of Cyclonus's flight coding back to Skywarp if you compared them line by line, but his cruelty and talent for psychological manipulation could equally well have been ripped out of Bombshell. Unicron just broke the dead Seekers and Insecticons apart like old Lego kits, and built his own custom designs without thinking twice about what he was taking from whom.

But those other 'Cons were dead anyway by then, nothing but useful scrap. Megatron was alive and talking and his mind, if not his body, was still fully functional. So in order to extract maximum value out of this one incredibly powerful and strong-minded individual, Unicron put all of Megatron's memories and files into a set of backup databanks, and installed those in parallel with the new directives, databases, and personality coding he created for Galvatron. Galvatron would thereby receive what amounted to a cognitive jump-start: immediate unfiltered access to all Megatron's experience, judgement, cunning and drive, and, of course, pathological hatred of Autobots.

But he couldn't continue to be Megatron, because that would require him keeping Megatron’s spark. And Unicron couldn't very well leave a shard of Primus lodged in his Herald's chest to conflict with his own power and directives... and so his final betrayal was to rip out Megatron's spark and throw it away. Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge all then received new sparks: tiny offcuts of Unicron's own, just as Cybertronian sparks are little pieces of Primus, aligning their core instincts and emotional paradigms with Unicron’s and cementing his control over them on the deepest possible level.

And then he gave them the Dis, designing and building it on the spot using assorted ship blueprints he'd found in the 'Cons' memories and the reserves of raw materials in his own holding tanks and internal furnaces, and sent them all out to go and do their thing for him. Cyclonus and Scourge were pretty much blank slates at this point, just accepting the reality they'd awoken into and largely controlled by Unicron's slave-coding; but Galvatron initially had a bit of trouble separating himself from Megatron, because while he could intuitively feel the difference, he also remembered "being" Megatron and there were a lot of those memories. Of course, he immediately started archiving new memories under the identity of "Galvatron" - and the trauma of having Unicron's control ripped out of his mind at the end of the Movie, followed by his time in a hot tub plasma pit on Thrull, was a sufficiently defining set of life experiences that by the time he was found again by Cyclonus and Scourge, he was certain that he was Galvatron, and had a sense of self completely disconnected from Megatron's residual identity. (He still has Megatron's memories if he needs to refer to them, but he doesn't do so except in desperation because he really hates feeling even briefly like someone he knows he isn't. Besides which, he has some pretty major ideological and emotional differences from Megatron, and the cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable.)

Random consequences of all of this include:

- The Unicronians kinda have... opposing spark polarity to Cybertronians. In mundane contexts it doesn't affect anything much, but, eg, if Galvatron entered a consecrated temple of Primus he'd feel like a demon trying to stand on holy ground - he might be able to do it, but it really wouldn't be comfortable for him. Regular Cybertronians instinctively feel creeped out and uneasy around the Unicronians even though they usually can't articulate why, and anyone with significant spiritual affinity or training would outright recognise them as Unicron-spawn pretty much on sight.

- They're simultaneously violently allergic to the Matrix because it was created as a weapon against the very power their sparks are made from, and magnetically drawn to it because Unicron programmed them to hunt it down and it radiates "this thing is delicious, try to eat it" to their instincts on a literally spiritual level. In most of my 'verses, Galvatron has managed to precariously but effectively resolve this conflict of interest by nibbling on Rodimus Prime whenever he gets the chance. Rodimus sees no downside to this.

- The sparks of Megatron, Skywarp, Thundercracker etc have all returned safely to the Allspark by now. If anyone were to attempt to summon or contact their spirits, it would be possible to do so, and there would be literally no collateral effect on the Unicronians other than them probably freaking out about ghosts if they heard about it.]

[spark-gem]

They're discussing the space barnacles and how it cam in contact with residual Cybertronian energies before the Autobots crashed on Earth. The barnacles control whatever they’ve absorbed unlike the typical barnacles.

Given Megatron’s dominating personality what are the odds that the barnacles are being controlled by an extension of his will.

The body is looking for its head and if it finds any stray autobots then it uses them to enforce his will (getting the key from Sari later in the episode, revenge against the autobots who guard the allspark, ect.)

[primus-why]

Hey so uh

What if we had a TFA MegOp situation where Megatron is severely injured and Optimus is able to use residual Allspark energy left over from all the times he was healed/revived to fix him?

[allspark]

Blasting his way into the Allspark Studio today is the Maximal one man army, Big Convoy!  Will he head into battle on your shelf alone, or will he stop all that nonsense and babysit the next wave of Maximal recruits?  Tune in after the jump to find out!

As I have said many times, Beast Wars got me back into Transformers. It was the vehicle that guided me to a collecting passion I have enjoyed for more than 20 years. As Beast Wars was close to an end, I became aware of Japanese versions of Beast Wars molds being used as new characters, then finding out Japan got brand new figures we had never seen in the states. This was the onset of my eBay addiction during the early 2000’s. Suddenly, the universe was open and multiple many-colored versions of my favorite figures existed in a magical land on the other side of the globe. All I had to do was get on the Internet and research the characters and then start hunting them in online auctions. I have fond memories of getting my first Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo figures in the mail, and frantically opening the packages to get to the plastic jewels inside. Big Convoy was a quick favorite of mine because who does not like woolly mammoths? Making a woolly mammoth into a version of Optimus Prime is chocolate and peanut butter, am I right?

Beast Mode

As impressive as he was in both modes, Big Convoy had a few issues that I was never able to get over. First off, his mammoth mode is basically a solid brick. Yes, his ears move, and so do his tusks and snout, but that’s not the kind of articulation I think most action figure collectors are asking for when they spend their cash. In addition to that, his beast mode was basically a puzzle AND a shell at the same time. It was as if someone from Takara took two of the fandom‘s greatest complaints about figures and forced them together in a brilliant middle finger that everyone would have to buy. I have also found that over time, the rubbery parts on the snout have developed some sort of sticky residue. I really hope I don’t get to my Beast Wars Neo shelf one day and find a disintegrated face on my original figure. All of this is to say that beast mode looked really nice but lacked a little in execution.  Still, for what he was, he looked great on my shelves as a stoic mammoth back in 2000 or 2001 when I first purchased him.  Almost 20 years later and he continues to get comments and attention from anyone that is new to my collection.

For the Encore release, Takara has put this mold out in much better colors. Gone is the gold plastic (which still frightens me to this day) and the two-toned look to the fur. The only remnant of this is on his mammoth feet. The dark brown fur is a deeper color than on the original release, giving the beast mode a much closer appearance to the way Big Convoy looked in the Beast Wars Neo cartoon. Having eyes with actual pupils is also a huge improvement. I can safely say that the Encore release has produced the definitive version of his beast mode, with improved colors and a bit more personality.

  Robot Mode

Big Convoy’s robot mode has always fared a little bit better than his beast mode. He has some superior articulation. Between the double ball-jointed feet, double-jointed knees, 360° ratcheted hips, waist, ball-jointed shoulders, elbow articulation, and a limited ball-jointed neck, this pachyderm is packed with a passel of potential possibility. Yes, I went there. 😛

Unfortunately, he suffers a little bit from top heaviness and balancing him in some dynamic poses for shelf display can be difficult at times. Fortunately, he looks very majestic in a general standing pose, holding the Big Canon in his hand. That is pretty much my go to pose for this mold in any color variation.

One of the things that I really enjoyed about this figure was that he was the first “Prime” to my knowledge that had an actual matrix as part of the original production of the figure. No third-party add on for this guy!

Overtime, other issues like the residue on the mammoth snout have begun to appear on the various uses of this mold. Sometimes the mammoth puzzle pieces don’t want to lock in the way they are intended. The back piece that connects the rear legs to the tail section seems to be one of the worst parts. Additionally, I have noticed that the mammoth parts that connect to the underside of the forearms have been very loose on some versions of this mold. That does not seem to be the case on the Encore release of Big Convoy. I was very happy to find that overall the quality of the mold seems to have been restored for this and the Blue Big Convoy release.

Along with improving his color scheme in beast mode, the robot mode is very clearly attempting to pull off the animation color scheme and I love it! The scary gold plastics have been swapped out for blinding yellows, and the off-white plastic is beautifully bone white. The metallic blues and silvers and the muted reds have also been replaced with a vibrance only seen on film. This is the closest thing to having Big Convoy jump out of your TV screen and join you in your living room.

This release has me floored with how well it turned out.  Therefore, I give Encore Big Convoy 92 Angolmois capsules out of 100!

He is a thing of beauty that’s sports repairs to his molding and much improved color choices in this deco. If you were not in the fandom during his original release, or you are just now coming around to the glory of beast modes, you definitely need to add him to your collection! He is a little on the expensive side for some budgets, so you may not want to get him for your children, but if you do, you will be the most awesomest parent in the entire universe. Seriously, no one would be able to beat you. Give your children the power of the matrix.

  Encore Big Convoy Gallery and Review! Blasting his way into the Allspark Studio today is the Maximal one man army, Big Convoy!  Will he head into battle on your shelf alone, or will he stop all that nonsense and babysit the next wave of Maximal recruits? 

[transingthoseformers]

Bit of a silly addition for the ES Megatron having eggs idea

Megatron was extremely confused when he realised he was going to have a clutch. He wasn't confused by the actual carrying, more on how it actually happened at all.

After all, the Allspark wasn't there and everyone knows you need the Allspark to be able to form newsparks.

Ooo you see i considered that and I feel like the answer is:

The million year robots have longer carrying times and the clutch was sparked while the Allspark was on earth

Something about the now activated Emberstone on earth?

Needing the Allspark for sexual reproduction is a myth / only partially true?

~it's a mystery~

Residual earthspark energy stuff?

Sixth suggestion I don't have