#Roth motorcity

[star-ts-farts]

Damn bro you got the whole squad laughing

[spectra-bear]

What have I been up to? Stuff

[cryptidwlw69]

MOTOBER WEEK THREE

Day 16 Style It 👗👠

Day 17 Bot 🤖👁️

Day 18 Medieval It 👑⚔️

Day 19 The Duke 🤴🏎️

Day 20 Texas 💯💪

Day 21 Amazon 🏳️‍🌈🤝

Day 22 Outside 🌳🤥

[unknown-jewel]

I spent way too much time on this.

[motorcityarchive]

So like I was gonna put my theories in the tags… But I hit the limit so it’s gonna be here, sorry

Also Chuck appears to have a mermaid tail going off screen and has a hippocampus/Kelpie right above the drawing of him holding his hat.

Also also all the “obvious” hints are in color which makes me think that the big coloured drawings of Mike and Chuck are also hints, anyway kinda a stretch but with the idea that Chuck can turn into some sort of water “monster” potentially Mike thinks he’s attacking them or something and fights back?

Let me know if my theory time bothered you btw and next time I’ll try a different way of theory sharing

ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME

Welcome to the au I've been fleshing out for literal years and finally writing!! I put in a bit of actual writing material in there, including a quote and a boatload (haha) of plot hints— have fun deciphering some lmao

Also, supposed to mention, all my content is now under "engineteeth," not TA anymore!

[waksworldrebooted]

MTV Era Motorcity Masterpost (+ NEVER BEFORE SEEN INFORMATION)

In 2000, Chris Prynoski pitched a cartoon called Motorcity.

He made a card and a website promoting the show, which wouldn't see the light of day until the Walt Disney Company got their hands on it.

THE SETUP

"MotorCity is The Dukes of Hazzard meets Akira. It's American Graffiti and Big Daddy Roth rumbling with 8 cylinders into the world of Sci-Fi. It's the heart of American car culture driven to the next level."

 "Sex, cars, Rock & Roll, and the freedom to wrap your ride around a tree trunk goin' 160."

"In the near future, concerns over global warming, pollution, and the ever-worsening problem of gridlock in America’s major cities brings about the Anti-Combustion Acts of 2009." "These laws banned the use of any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. At first there was a lot of vocal opposition. But the so-called "Digital Revolution" as well as the advent of amazing new transportation technologies neatly filled the void, and the benefits of an improved environment along with a safer, faster and more efficient means of getting from point A to B managed to win even the staunchest opponents over. The oil companies and car manufacturers were forced to shut down under the political and economic pressures." "And a new era was born. Cleaner, faster and safer. America’s cities became modern utopias where its citizens could travel without fear or hazard in comfortable flying boxes affectionately known as "living rooms", and Detroit (The Renaissance City), became the finest example of this new policy. But with all of this wondrous innovation, something was lost. Something inherent in the soul of old America, something called freedom. The freedom to go anywhere. Anyhow. As fast, or as slow as you want. The freedom to speed. And the freedom to die." "This is where our characters come in. A few radicals realized that although you might never die in the "living rooms" , you’ll never really live in them either. So in the "Live fast and die young" mind-set, they fight the law. Scavenging parts and gas from Detroit’s massive underground, Mike Chilton and his gang, as well as a few others are trying to recapture some of what it meant to risk all for the freedom of speed."

THE CHARACTERS

Mike Chilton: A young talent on the illegal race circuit. Mike's right leg is always twitching and itching to jam a gas pedal to the floorboards, and his foot is as lead as they come. He's got gasoline surging through his veins and a 450 horsepower soul. His heart burns to drive and it's all he can do to keep moving faster and faster so that the flames don't consume him. He might be a gangly 19-year-old kid, but his ride has as much muscle as he'll ever need and he knows how to use it.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '77 Trans Am

Julie Capulsky: An Anthropology student with a quick mind and a quicker pulse. She's a city girl with a passion for adventure who's secretly writing a paper on the underground "Burner" culture. As she gets to know Mike and his crew, she feels the freedom of the road and learns the power of a rumbling big block at her command. She is torn between the high performance life of a Gearhead and the love of her father who has sworn to take them down.

Vehicle of Choice: Any Hot Rod that'll give her a ride.

Lt. Capulsky: Julie's Dad and head of Detroit's Anti-Combustion Enforcement Division. He's old enough to remember when the highways were the arteries of America and the drivers were its blood. He rode with Fast Eddy in his youth and understands the joy of inhaling the fumes of burning rubber as the hot road turns his tires to black jelly. He's forced to deal with enforcing a law he's not sure he believes in. But that doesn't stop him from holding the record for the most illegal auto busts in the state of Michigan.

Vehicle of choice: Police "Living Room"

Ed Pirelli: (Fast Eddy) The old-timer who serves as Mike and the crew's link to the past, as well as their guide for the future. A wrecked hulk of a man, Eddy lived in a time when America was the land of wide-open spaces, and you had the liberty to go where, when and how you wanted to travel. You had the freedom to live, and the freedom to die. None of those damn boxes.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '58 Chevy Roadster

Greg Raden: This young cop looks up to Lt. Capulsky as his ultimate hero. Born after the Anti-Combustion Act, He doesn't understand the rush of a vibrating steering wheel responding to every reflex of your sweaty palms. He wants nothing more than to grind the gears of the "Burners" to a halt.

Vehicle of choice: Police "Living Room"

Dave Earnhardt: Mike's worthy rival on the race circuit. He's a speed demon who stops at nothing to win. He might be Mike's worst enemy on the tar, but he'd take a speeding bullet for him off the track.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '69 Camaro RS

Holly Biscayne: A fellow "Burner" who has a thing for Mike. She's jealous and suspicious of Julie's big city motives. She wants to make sure that when the checkered flag waves, she'll be on top.

Vehicle of choice: Retrofitted '05 Jaguar convertible

Brute Conklin: The bastard child of internal combustion and computer technology. This crafty gearhead beats "The Man" at his own game with a never-ending digital assault on the computers that control the Global Satellite System.

Vehicle of choice: Chopped 98' Harley Pan-head

Claire Constance: This ice queen might look like a hot number, but she's really a wet blanket who tries to smother her best friend Julie's fire. She can't understand what's with risking your life in the "sewers" when you can be shopping in style in the safety and comfort of your own clean home.

Vehicle of choice: None if she can help it

Promo card released in 2000

Concept art made shortly after the trailer (ones that closely resemble the final show)

From left to right: Luv (Dutch), Holly Biscayne, Chuck, Mike Chilton, Julie Kapulsky, Claire Constance, Texas, Greg Raden (Tooley), Lt Kapulsky (Abraham Kane), and The Mayor of Detroit

Pitch Trailer

[spaceistheplaceart]

i was playing splatoon and thinking about motorcity... and u know what happens when you think of two things at the same time lol take these messy sketches!

Summarized ID: Multiple sketches of Motorcity characters as if they were in the splatoon universe, most are octolings but others are different species

FULL ID UNDER CUT:

First image has Mike Chilton, here named "Mike Chilfin" with his back to the camera, smirking over his shoulder. He's an octoling, with his canon hairstyle except instead of two little hair tufts at the top, it's a tentacle sucker. There's an ink tank on his back and he's holding a staff with two Splatana Stampers on the ends. It's modified and held together by tape. Beside him is his octopus form, with a square head and brown ink.

Next to him, weilding a five pronged Tri-Stringer, is Chuck. Here named "Muck". His ink colour is yellow and his octopus form has long, curling, tentacles.

On the left side of the page is two drawings. One of a Salmonid with one eye missing, and another of a Sanitized Octocopter (Green Octarian with flying device on head) with one eye. Notes beside it say: "Reef?" "Salmonid Roth or Octo Roth?"

Second image shows a bust of Kane. He's an Inkling, and here named "Abalone Kane." His squid form has two long tentacles in the back and two short ones in the front. His rattail is a tentacle with a sucker on the inside.

There's a bust of Julie. Her hair is long tentacles. She's an inkling. Her Squid form has two long tentacles and then slightly shorter ones in the front. There's a note beside her that says "uses dualies"

Then an almost full body of Mike Chilfin but in Octoling armour. He's wearing goggles, a black crop top with silver plates over it, black shorts, black elbow-length fingerless gloves, and is holding an Octoshot. Seaweed is placed behind his ears and curves upwards above his head.

A headshot of Dutch, with the Octoling Afro hairstyle. And a headshot of Claire, who is an Inkling. Her square bun is now a tentacle tied around itself and she has earrings in her triangular ears.

Third image shows Jacob as a shrimp much like Crusty Sean. He has two claws instead of hands and six little arms in the front of his fried-looking shrimp body. Hard to explain. Imagine a shrimp fried in breadcrumbs. That's his body. Two legs on the bottom.

There's a half finished drawing of Texas but as a Inkling Salmonid hybrid. He's got a connected eyemask, fins for ears, and a tail. There's a red X next to him. Then a small drawing of a Texas starfish with a hat on it.

On the left of the page is Texas as a Mussel. His body is how it looks in the show, humanoid and muscular, but his head is a clam with cartoony eyes and a little hat on top. His mouth is open. There's a green checkmark next to him and an arrow pointing to him labelled "Mussel!" Above him is the Mussel Texas but in a sexy "paint me like your french girls pose". He's wearing a black speedo.

Fourth image shows the Duke of Detroit, here named "The Duke of Detrout" in the right hand corner is a turnaround of The Duke of Detroit in the show, and below it is a picture of a Lionfish. Scattered around the page are Duke as a Lionfish. His hair is striped and prongs stick out of him, mimicking his cape and the Lionfish's fins. His arms are elongated fins and his eyes are black. Instead of facial hair, there are stripes on his face mimicking the goatee and mustache.

END ID

[cringefailprogrammer]

Motorcity Splatoon au - General overview!

Mike Chilton, Formerly known as "Agent C"

- Inktoling (Inkling + Octoling)

- Also additionally mains the Krak-on Roller!

- Leader of the "Seamounts" (represented by an icon of an underwater volcano)

- Driver of Mutt

- Former KaneCo Agent and platoon captain

Chuck

- Inktoling (Inkling + Octoling)

- Mike's best friend and Copilot, obviously

- Driver of Blonde Thunder (Briefly)

- Former Kaneco army technician (Think Marina)

- Secret DJ?

Julie Kapulsky Kane

- Inktoling (unknowingly) specifically mixed with a mimic octopus.

- Driver of Ninelives

- Kaneco technician intern

- Mains the Undercover brella! (And sometimes the E-liter)

- A member of the Kaneco Idol duo, partnered with Claire

- Secretly Kane's daughter.

Texas

- Yeti Crab + Coconut Crab

- Driver of Stronghorn

- Mains Modified Tetra Dualies, Modified Dualie Squelchers, and Modified Grim Range Blaster

Dutch Gordy

- Inkling + Urchin

- Driver of Whiptail

- Artist and Mechanic

- Rescued an Octoball named Roth!

- Mains Modified Octobrush, Modified Splash-o-matic, and Modified Snipewriter

- Former Deluxe resident

Claire

- Octoling

- Deluxe Idol and Julie's best friend

- Doesn't participate in turf wars (YET!!)

- Weapon of choice is the heavy splatling (In red because of the FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!)

Jacob

- Nautilus

- The Seamount's Guardian

- Driver of The Leviathan

- Really bad at cooking.

Abraham Kane

- Inkling

- Kaneco and Detroit Deluxe President

- Kind of like Octavio, but way less fun and cool. I love and respect Octavio. I do not love and respect Kane. (Kind of also has the Grizzco Capitalist aspect too, but i also love and respect Mr. Grizz)

- (Younger Version of Kane can be seen in the episode Ride of the Fantasy Vans)

The Duke of Detroit

- Inkling (Specifically Disco squid)

- I mean if youve seen the show everything I tell you wouldn't be a surprise.

- Probably mains some flashy shit like the .96 Gal Deco

- Probably calls himself a DJ and a Rockstar, doesn't play it during Turfwar because he doesn't respect it.

Kaia

- Former Octoling, mutated into a Salmonid

- Technically, a Queen Salmonid

- (FROTHY WATERS GETTING EAR PEIRCINGLY LOUD)

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I have a bunch of other characters done, but they're background characters, and thus, I'll update the post with them in a self-reblog. Also, I have alot of things to say that are series spoliers, so I'll probably keep them to myself or reply in messages asking about them.

Notes and Fun facts -

- The general music style of the Seamounts would hypothetically be a mix of all main bands from the splatoon series. (Eg. Squid Squad, Wet floor, C-Side) I have already gushed about this on discord, may as well send it here too!

splatoon Mike voiceclaims - Triple dip backup vocals, Undertow demo secondary Vocals (the fast part), Chopscrewey Backup Vocals, Don't slip masc vocals, Endolphin surge main vocals, Ink or sink chanting (during the metal)

splatoon Chuck voiceclaims - Undertow Demo (Intro Vocals), Seaskape, Kraken up support vocals, Higher Headhammer Vocals, Main triple dip vocals (I MEAN TRIPLE DIP IS LITERALLY JUST THE CHORD PROGRESSION OF THE MOTORCITY INTRO) Endolphin surge masc secondary vocals, Ink or sink chanting(during the metal)

splatoon Julie voiceclaims - Don't slip femme soundin vocals, Endolphin surge fem secondary vocals

splatoon Texas voiceclaims - Kraken up, Chopscrewey, Metalopod, Ink or sink metal vocals

splatoon Dutch voiceclaims - Ink or sink secondary vocals, specifically for the second call and response section, Undertow Launch ver opening Vocals

splatoon Claire voiceclaim - Shy-ho-Shy demo vocals!!

ALSO, CSIDE IS VERY MOTORCORE TO ME. GILLTY (A LOBBY SONG THEY'VE MADE) IS LITERALLY JUST MOTORCITY BGM.

End of rant!

- Chuck makes music under a fake name, and it probably has something to do with larping somewhat. Sounds like a mixture of dedfish, the artists of alterna, and sashimori. (Eg. New you Bisk ver)

- Chuck probably has a crush on Claire because of the whole idol thing.

- Technically, Motorcity has no idols, but splatfests still take place.

- Mike and Chuck often do league double battles with each other, but when in normal league, they bring along Dutch and Texas!

- Chuck is definitely a charger tryhard, he prides himself in his accuracy!

- The Seamounts made a special inktank for Texas!

- The deluxian army has kind of an octo expansion vibe to it but basked in white instead of grays and neons.

[featherssideblog]

So listen. The past month or so I’ve been mildly obsessed with astolat’s Transformers fics. Do I know anything about canon? No. This is beside the point. The point is - can you imagine a Motorcity - Transformers crossover?

The Burners find a car that turns out to be a giant sentient million-year-old alien mech. ROTH with a giant robot from space! Mike longingly imagining what it would be like to not just drive, but be a car! Chuck freaking out about meeting a real life extraterrestrial! Texas asking the worst questions imaginable!

And that’s just the goofs! If Optimus “father figure” Prime showed up and got involved I’m pretty sure you could work in some painful stuff with Julie and/or Mike . . . I have no idea how much astolat’s fics adhere to canon Transformers. However. Assuming the history of the decepticon/autobot war looks anything remotely like it does in Victory Condition, any older autobot that ends up in motorcity would see alarming and unpleasant parallels between Detroit and Cybertron. The shiny new city being built on top of the old, blocking it out and forcing part of the population to live down in the dark! “Progress” built on the backs of the underclass! The THEMES! The Burners have some common ground with the decepticons, it’s right there.

I don’t know enough about Transformers to write this but these worlds would mesh together so beautifully! Do you see my vision? Do you see it??

[motorcity-thoughts]

What kind of toys do you see Motorcity having?

-the cars ofc (with the guns & weapon accessories)

-action figures

-possible lego sets of the ultra golem, the burners hq, or even kaneco tower (if it got popular enough)

-play sets!!

-toy versions of the handheld burner weapons

-TOY ROTH!! he speaks! he shakes! he can flail his lil plush arms!! his eye can glow!! ^.^ he is just as marketable as r2d2 and bb8

-hologram toy? :>

[snowbatmakesstuff]

More sketch pages for Galaxies Below! This time starring more than just Mike and Julie. I need it known that Roth is the best droid, Texas put cool stickers on his helmet, Tennie is a twi’lek and Kane and Tarkin have the most passive aggressive business relationship and it’s great. Also if you can translate what’s written on Mikes chest in basic - you get one free non-spoiler for Galaxies Below~ in case anyone actually wants that.

[iwantofall]

Pencil doodles from school. First pics my fav sjfbjwndek

[unknown-jewel]

Little details/things to think about/things to appreciate in Motorcity: 

- Mike is always dropping un-prompted compliments into conversations with his friends (calling Dutch “the best mechanic in Motorcity” in “Like Father, Like Daughter”, calling Chuck a genius in “Vega”, etc). It’s really sweet. X3

- The Duke’s security system said “Ouch” when Julie shorted it out in “The Duke of Detroit”

- Mike is very protective of his bobblehead dog. He held onto it during the Detroit Doom Jump, so it wouldn’t get damaged in the explosion. And he made sure to take it with him even when he abandoned Mutt in the finale. He really loves that thing.

- In “Vega” when the Duke is proposing that they team up, it looks like Roth and Cyborg Dan are about to fight. Do they have beef with each other? XD

- In “Like Father, Like Daughter” when they’re all discussing what they would do to torment Kane, Chuck is the only one whose idea would have instantly killed him

- In Texas’ imagination sequence in “Texas-ify It” everyone else gets carried (semi)comfortably on Texas’ back, while Chuck gets dragged behind him like a sack of potatoes. Even in an imaginary scenario Chuck can’t catch a break.

- Chuck only has nine toes, and he’s afraid of cats. These are both canon facts that the show mentions once, then never brings up again.

- Claire was just casually watching cartoons, while everyone else was fighting for their lives with the climator. XD

- The show never states or gives any hint that Motorcity has any sort of government

- Claire was so excited to help during the big battle at the climax of “Julie and the Amazons”. It’s cute. :3

- Based on “The Duke of Detroit” and “Vendetta” it seems Chuck has a big appetite

- Chuck and Texas are both visibly amused by Julie’s “Their moms forgot to pick them up from hockey practice” joke in “The Duke of Detroit”

- Kaia sounds so awkward when speaking to Mike after she left him for dead. Like she legitimately didn’t think he’d survive and now she doesn’t know what to say upon seeing that he has.

- Kane hates cars and banned them... but he’s actually a really good driver?

- Mike is the only one of the Burners who doesn’t have friends outside the group

- Claire seems a lot more receptive to Chuck’s advances when he acts more confident (see “Fearless” and the ending of “Reunion”)

- Chuck and Claire both like puns (see “Ride of the Fantasy Vans” and “Mayhem Night”)

- Mike stress-cleans

- Most animal species are probably extinct in the show’s setting

- The brown parts of the Duke’s hair don’t seem to be attached to the blond parts. They look like extensions.

- Julie has a paper with little cat sketches on it pinned to her bedroom wall. Did she sketch them herself? Or was it one of her friends?

- Julie wears high heels, but is still the shortest person in her friend group

- In “Julie and the Amazons” Claire could have said “Then you met the Burners” or “Then you came to Motorcity” instead of “Then you met Mike” and gotten the same point across. But she felt the need to single Mike out. My Jukebox brain refuses to let that go. X3

- Jacob suffers from chronic night terrors (see “The Robo-Roundup”) :(

- Jacob immediately goes to Mike for comfort when it seems like the Mama’s Boys have killed Roth

- The location captions in “Threat Level: Texas” are perfect. “The Duke’s Stupid House” is my favorite. XD

- In “Mayhem Night” Mike says “You remember last year” when addressing the whole group. The Burners were definitely already formed by Halloween of the previous year.

- Julie seemed pretty happy about Claire kissing Chuck. Does she ship them as much as Mike does?

- Dutch was so ready to throw hands with the Duke in the finale

[engineteeth]

It's here...

To all of you who have supported me and shown your love of this story, thank you <33 You have quite literally been around through my toughest times, and even tomorrow I have to make a big personal step, so what better way to celebrate than finally have the time to finish editting?

Again, thank you all so much, truly. Please check the note at the end of the epilogue, and I hope you all have a good Sunday! :'>

Summary: The end of the beginning.

[snowbat-does-other-shit]

-Not my art-

But a friend of mine painted me some fanart of Roth from my fanfic Love Me Tender (which is a 1950s circus au) He’s a little Eclectus parrot and I love this so much and ahhhhh!! She doesn’t want to be named at the moment but wanted me to share it and just look at this little guy!!