#TFP Breakdown

[ladytoon70]

The lat meme I drew of these two reminded me of this meme so I drew it too 💕

[lovinglonerhybrid]

Had so much fun at TFCon Baltimore! Met so meany nice people and had a grate time. I hope I’ll be able to come back next year! Here’s some goodie’s I got at the con!

And shout out again to @oozeandgoo-art for the whirl sketch I love it so much!

[whatudottu]

Introducing to you - made over the course of a few months - a visual guide to cybertronian pedipalps and proboscis!

The general gist and inspiration for such being of course the episode Thirst and the fact that, up until that point, dark energon did not have any mutagenic properties only (in the show) being utilitised to revive the dead. What if, instead of being a side effect of dark synth energon, dark energon just... reactivated dormant pedipalps (remnants of a more buggy pre-metamorphosis sparkling/protoform lifestage)?

A more comprehensive look is down below- and don't mind how it's exclusively 'Cons lmao :P

Starting off, I referenced CYLAS' canonical pedipalps to try and understand the shapes being used which resembles a lapping type mouth that bees have (so considering there is a tranformers character named Bumblebee it feels appropriate but he ISN'T HERE), let alone the flexible proboscis which I just made as a siphoning type from butterflies which; this is the wikipedia image I used to understand mouth parts :P

Breakdown himself wouldn't need to open his whole face in order to consume energon, given that he has an opening and closing jaw in addition to having the dexterity and power of limbs and a neck to not require lapping, but energon is still drunk through the proboscis like a straw.

Continuing onto characters that would NEED their pedipalps, vehicons and other faceless cold constructs (whether you have the belief every cold construct is faceless or they recently shifted to facelessness to save on costs) by technically did not metamorphose like forged mecha and thus their mouth parts have not gone dormant. Instead, their construction means they have not known anything other than pedipalps and proboscis, having no experience at all with facial expressions and thus not susceptible to phantom sensations.

Though their jaws do not have joints or at least do not have an opening to function like an enclosed mouth, vehicons still do have one on the basis of having a neck and a location to store their coiled proboscis when not in use.

Unlike other cybertronians - forged or constructed - empurata survivors have their heads and/or faces completely remolded and restructured where they do not have a functioning jaw. They have in it's stead a reconstruction of the original pedipalps formatted appropriately to the new head mould.

Monoptics like Shockwave do not have enough room in their helms to have a mouth-like structure at all, instead the neck is reconstructed to open with the pedipalps; the proboscis when fully extended appears longer in monoptics but that is due to the fact the opening is lower and closer to it's base. Nulloptics like Soundwave have their entire face replaced by their mouth, often covered up in seamless panels that give the appearance of a screen, up until the nulloptic actually replaces the panels to include the electronics necessary to protect and display visuals.

In average adult cybertronians however, the pedipalps remain dormant - at least in their use for eating - and are instead used to produce vocalisations alongside the proboscis (which still remains in use by function of the liquid energon diet), in addition to being used in expression in conjuction with the many servos operating within the faceplate. The reason why, despite the variety of things pedipalps can do now that they aren't being used to consume fuel, that empuratas and constructs cannot re/gain a face with the same ability and level of complexity of the average cybertronian is because of the hyperactive function of those very pedipalps.

Vehicons can - if they so choose - express visually through the exclusive use of their pedipalps, but factoring in a faceplate with all of it's own complicated servos intricately woven into each other, the faceplate lacks the ability to split along the seams of the pedipalps and would restrain their mobility and prevent the cold construct from refueling. Empurata have a similar issue with the addition of their lack of functioning jaws and their modified head structure preventing the synergy of a faceplate. Nulloptics' heads are functionally all mouth so the corresponding faceplate cannot have features for optics or ridges, and monoptics' pedipalp expression is on their neck and thus a faceplate that matches where the mouth in their case would be a very bizarre choker-

And that's all folks, hope you love my cybertronian pedipalps post :P

[victorzhuzhakin]

Art request!! If you're okay with it! Can you draw Knock Out wearing Minori's Worldwide Wander outfit?

(I feel nervous asking this because I'm scared that you might not understand what I'm saying..)

I hope I really understood

My commissions :]

[spicycury13]

Thats right everybody, it's your favorite boy

[shisabun-art]

Knock Out and Breakdown enter the meme.

KoBd is love. KoBd is life.

[umaia3aurart]

Have y'all read the TF/MLP crossover comic yet? If not, YOU SHOULD!

This is fan art of "the Magic of Cybertron," with Rarity and Fluttershy inviting KOBD over for a tea party afterward!

In this comic, Knock Out expresses his feelings of friendship to Breakdown to help remove his brainwashing. My headcanon is that it was the first time he opened up about his feelings toward Breakdown and called him "My better half," not just a partner! So he asks Rarity for love advice on how he should approach BD next (They become "girl-talk friends" lol) I'd say she would definitely be their matchmaker!

And also, somehow I felt BD and Fluttershy would get along well when I saw them chatting on the last page of the comic! 🦋

[reroro-art]

Womanization tfp

[trashiiplant]

offers more content and skedaddles

+ struggling

[omnipotentgarlicbread]

You guys should totally go check out my YouTube channel :)

[alduinprime]

silly little ko x bd doodle

[chamm0y]

so i had this idea

SHSHAH enjoy

[daleespringdraw]

A little heart to heart ❤️ 💙

If you know then you know :)

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Bonus:

[devilart2199-aibi]

Some blushy faces with the TFP Decepticons! (u v u)

[victorzhuzhakin]

Took my friend's headcanon generator idea and sketched this with the Decepticons too. My homies said it looks very canon lol

[kawareo]

Pep talk

my headcanon is that Soundwave ships them too

based on this post by @cyber-streak-2 !