#Skyquake

[pschewwpewpew]

Now what about a TFP AU but instead of Smokescreen it's Jetfire with his G1 lore. Starscream development. Jetfire is Jetfire. You can't go wrong.

And maybe even Thundercracker and Skywarp instead of Dreadwing and Skyquake?? Just an idea.

And maybeee some Elita-1 mentions? (Like they planned to do and then scrapped!?1?!??!?) Maybe tie Arachnid with Elita-1 like in TFA??

I love TFP and making AUs.

tempted to write an earthspark AU that's exactly the same but knockout's in it

[umaia3aurart]

Practice drawing twins!

[xiaoddexingjiutang]

An commission art from lofter artist @mou鸽子。a scene in chapter 12 of Migratory Birds, after the twins fought with snow, Skyquake feeling really cold, cute :)

[tigertoes93]

Finally finished all the Prime Decepticons!!

[ramunaee]

and skyquake of course

[fubuli]

22.6的旧图，有空翻新

[brookriver-mudlark]

Part 1 here.

[qara-mohoy]

Family matters especially for them

[catnipvodka]

Quaso!

Idk why but I'm doing it;)

Guess which one is Skyquake and which is Dreadwing>:)

And here we have my oc!

Also here's some silly hc me and my friend came up with: you know everyone is not conscious when they just wake up from a loooong sleep. So, in Skyquake's case, he just woke up from a long stasis, he's not sure what is happening. And let's just skip the canon and imagine they're in a happily ever after au, or just assume when the others wake Skyquake up the war was already over. Because Dreadwing stayed awake like(not like he never recharged just, yk what I mean), million years, he had been through so much more than his brother. So he looks more depressed.

And to my friend I just joked: "he's so depressed bc he kept get beating up by the universe like, a LOT. And his brother just woke up from stasis, have no idea what is going on, like a baby (?)

And then they just attacked me back with a "he will go back to sleep soon;)"

Bro why are you doing this to me 😭

[witchofthesouls]

I do think it's a good thing to point out: violence is always the answer to violence when it's the system that creates the violence.

Megatron in every continuity was right that it needed to be a violent overthrow because the upper castes would not listen and would not change.

The title of Prime is a god-king status above the caste system entirely, but it does beseech its own violence just by existing.

Even if Optimus is a good person, that doesn't erase the damage and cruelty Primes are apparently known for. He is patient and he is imperfect and the tragedy of it is, does he even know that he's changed? How much of the difference is he aware of from his time before the Maxtrix to what he's become as a direct result of it?

Skyquake said he'd never side with a Prime. Not that he'd never side with Optimus, or the Autobots, but A Prime. The idea. The symbol. The Decepticons are fighting to be free from the shackles of a lineage of god-kings endlessly creative in their cruelty who, by some irony, they are compelled to follow by the nature of the relic.

Ratchet is a very good example of the hypocrisy. He was medical- upper middle to upper caste- and in TFP, we know Iacon hoarded a lot of resources. We see his prejudice plain as day just from how he describes Orion Pax and Megatronous. Hell, I'd say he flat out hated Megatronous for teaching a young Orion to speak his mind. He doesn't understand the righteous anger that the gladiator carried, and I don't think he cared.

Tl;Dr: there's a reason the Decepticons are more appealing, honey, most people just don't want to think about it too hard

Uh, I don't know if you're new here, anon, but yeah? Keep on cooking!

I don't know if this is a response to the reblog from nukeli about shattered glass, but under my 'analysis' and 'tf headcanons' and 'gladiator soundwave' and 'cybertronian culture' tags, I do talk about the roles of violence and how it's cemented within Decepticon culture as well as the 'appropriate behaviors' of low-caste vs high-caste of the Golden Age, especially between Orion Pax and Megatron and how it essentially fucked them up after the disaster meeting. Plus, I have posts about the potential cultural damage caused by the Quintesson occupation on Cybertron since they were the ones to implement the caste system.

Ratchet is such a great example of the show's use of unreliable narrator and how he encompasses a higher-caste sensibilities, especially when you take in his background. Compared to Orion Pax, who literally bypassed all the regulations and went from uneducated bumpkin from the middle of nowhere to a cushy and prestigious position underneath Alpha Trion, Ratchet had the correct frame and went through the right channels, so he never had to deal with the kind of discrimination others would speak about. I think of him like that prideful, racist grandpa who the "but you're not like them" locked and loaded. There's a lot of those instances across the show, but I really enjoy it since it fleshes out the story and the character. Ratchet isn't subtle. Not at all. And no one calls him out on it, so it's super telling on what kind of society Golden Age Cybertron was.

Personally, I thought it was really interesting when Skyquake had said that, especially with how Aligned/TFP done the Thirteen since Megatron literally took his name from Megatronus Prime, the direct opponent of Prima, and had tried to legitimize the movement with the Primacy. That's how I read Megatron's demand since it was proof of real change, but there was no way the High Council was going to allow that. Instead, they decided to take advantage of Orion Pax as a way to break the Decepticon movement and send a message to everyone else. Orion wasn't meant to be a Prime. He was just a figurehead, a token of empty promises, until it went off the rails, and he actually unearthed the damn Matrix.

Going back to Skyquake, I guessed that the TFP!Decepticons do have devotees to outlawed sects along with atheists as Megatron has no issues with getting Primal Artifacts, even if he needs to commit corpse desecration to a Prime of the fucking Thirteen to use the Artifact. (Which is another wild event under that mech's belt. It's a good thing they don't have balls because nothing could carry his.) So Optimus was basically barking at the wrong tree. But a majority of the Decepticons would be like that since Optimus represents Prima's reflection of a Prime and civilization. That distinction is really important because after the death and exile of over half of the Thirteen Primes, very few were actually left to guide the fledgling societies. Each Prime represented different Aspects and Domains, so with none able to challenge Prima... is it really a huge surprise it went wayside?

Prima was the Firstborn and Eldest. He was literally the God-King as the Prime of Light. Megatronus Prime was the only one who could truly challenge him, but he laid down his weapons and chose self-exile, and with death of Solus and Liege Maximo, Onyx, Micronus, and Thirteen joining the Allspark to kickstart it, Nexus separating himself, and Quintus, Amalgamous, and Vector leaving... Alpha Trion and Alchemist weren't enough to stand against Prima, who had a vision on how Cybertron should be.

My point is that the Decepticons stood against Prima's Champion by fiercely declaring their own leader. Megatron would have been an uncrowned Prime, a call to return to the long past before city-states, or a symbol a future without them.

[staryxio]

DECEPTI-HOES ASSEMBLEEEEEE  

[beemochi-art]

I’m cooking.

[z-ero-b]

Skeb commission! https://skeb.jp/@BOREZET

[sidui027]

出来たッ🚗🚙💚💙

[luci-muller]

The seekers ! The decepticon aerial army

[weirdlookingsnakewithlegs]

I saw the post about the seeker runway walk and the aerialbots mention at the end, you think the Seekers would be appalled to learn that the aerialbots know NOTHING about seeker culture?

'Has no one told you how to properly clean your wings?'

' ... No?'

*le gasp*

This is exactly what I’m talking about, it definitely doesn’t help that the aerials(INCLUDING Pharma) probably have never even seen a seeker outside of war or slavery because before the war they tended to stay in Vos and any seekers outside were basically just arm candy or servents which all likely looked a bit drab due to the neglectful situations. In regards, they probably believe rust on wing hinges is nearly impossible to take care of so I imagine if any seeker were to ever be captured BY an aerial bot they would simply be appalled.

If not for the lack of basic care then just for the sheer lack of companionship between them. Like yeah the aerial bots are friends and teammates but they’re not trine, they don’t have the bond, the sense, the connection, it explains why they can be so sloppy.

I’m telling you right now if it were Skywarp, Slipstream, or even Dirge they would definitely be making some faces at those wing hinges and inner wings.

And not to mention aerials bots would probably be comfortable with people outside their inner circle touching their wings because they don’t have the extreme sensory mapping like seeker wings do and it would terrify every seeker. What do you mean you’re comfortable with people touching them? That’s disgusting. If Starscream were to ever be in vicinity, a lot of very choice words would probably be said.

However, the aerial bot team are all considered pretty young, I wouldn’t doubt that if the war were to end they could be taught by a trow or a trunder(it’d be hilarious if the trunder was Dreadwing and Skyquake, just the two very large older brothers and their small miscreants) as trines are typically pretty closed off to helping other trows/trunders they don’t have an established relationship with.

Bonus, aerial bots are probably the uncanny valley for seekers. Add that onto the fact that the aerial bots probably wouldn’t be able to follow the Vosian language considering their voice box and system sounds can’t match the seekers.