#Trailbreaker’s got a force field ability you can use that

[quibbs126]

Maybe a bit random, but whenever I watch g1 and Bluestreak shows up (which is honestly pretty rare, he never really gets attention), I notice his chevron

Namely, that his chevron isn’t a real chevron like Prowl or Ratchet’s, it looks more like some sort of fake chevron, or another helm part that he just painted to look like one

Also another note, but he and Prowl are usually near each other when they appear. Like I tend to remember Bluestreak as “the guy who looks like Prowl but isn’t”, but I really only clued in to his key differences of being grey and the fake chevron because he’s near Prowl so often

Personally it’s making me want to draw some sort of connection between the two. Prowl nor Bluestreak never really have anything to do other than say the occasional line, so I can’t say what their relationship is supposed to be in canon. But right now I’m wanting to headcanon Prowl as Bluestreak’s mentor and he made that fake chevron to resemble him more

[planet-of-the-machines]

Places to Go (Part 1)

Ok, so, it’s been a day since we won our competition. What is this elusive prize you’ve been hiding? 

-Heatwave 

You ready now, kids? Great!

It’s a field trip to the surface!

So long as it’s within reasonable dist–

-Trailbreaker

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I WAS RIGHT!!!

-Whirl

Ok, now that my audio sensors aren’t ringing…

Where exactly are we going?

-Hot Rod

That’s what I was trying to say. It could be anywhere, so long as it’s not too far from the outpost. You all are going to vote on the destination. 

-Trailbreaker

…Ok.

Anyone got ideas? 

-Hot Rod

Is Dayton too far? I’d like to see what the downtown of a human city is like, and Cincinnati’s is a crater.

-Boulder

Boulder, getting to Dayton would require circumventing Cincinnati entirely, because the highways around it are also rubble due to all those N2 airbursts. The logistics of reaching there would be a pain in the aft. Also, IIRC, there was an Air Force base right next to Dayton, so I don’t think the city’s as intact as you think it is.

Frankly, Lexington sounds much more doable.

-Heatwave

How about Cabin Fever resort park?

-Uzi

What. Why would you want a trip there?

What are we even supposed to do there?

-Cliffjumper

I dunno, hold a racing tournament or something?

-Uzi

Didn’t you kill her, N?

-J

She barely survived. :|

-N

And got upgraded to a shifter. |:( 

-V

That didn’t answer my main question, Uzi; why would you want us to go there?

-Cliff

Fine. It has to do with Prom and my mother. 

Turns out mom had similar witchcraft abilities to Doll and b*tchface. Dad showed me pictures of this after Prom happened, and guess what? That resort park is where he first met her (and Doll’s mom). Something about being put on a scrap salvage run after losing a bet. You guys can do whatever you want while we’re there, but I intend on getting to the bottom of this bullsh*t. 

-Uzi

Well, why didn’t you say so!?

Count me in!

-Sideswipe

I didn’t say you could help me! >:(

-Uzi

Uzi, doing that kind of stuff alone doesn’t tend to end well. Remember the first time you tried flying? Remember, we’ve got your back.

-Bee

Ugh, fine. But quit complicating my investigation plan!

-Uzi

Is nobody concerned about what else she said? About her mother?

-Blades

Blades, her mother died many years ago. Even if she were alive, I have a feeling she wouldn’t go on a killing spree like her niece did.

-Sideswipe

Mr. Trailbreaker, is Ms. Doorman even allowed to go on this trip? She may be on the blog, but she’s not part of our class.

-Chase

We could just take Mr. Vernon’s class with us.

-Bee

Pardon?

-Chase

Well, they would have won if… stuff didn’t happen. And we don’t have to tell them of the real purpose of going to Cabin Fever, we could just tell them we all want our mind off of recent events. 

-Bee

Uh, Bee, we do want our mind off of them. But maybe we can take some outdoor game stuff with us, and use that to distract ourselves and your class while you do your detective stuff.

-Hot Rod

That could actually work. 

-Arcee

Okay then, let’s have that vote. 

-Bee

[dhs-in-distress]

Been thinking about the silly goofy AU (aka the „Trailbreaker lives and everything is (relatively speaking) gucci“ AU) and,, uuh, this:

So in the normal setting I made Scatters a pretty good fighter since he‘s a five million year old war vet who‘s been quite literally fighting to survive even after the war, obviously he‘d be good at combat. But because he‘s such an asshole and mental wreck it all balances out in the end. Can‘t have a completely op OC after all, they either gotta struggle with external problems ((metaphorical) road blocks, combat or interpersonal conflicts for example) or internal ones (identity, grief, worldview,,,,, VULNERABILITY PROBLEMS,, etc etc), otherwise I‘d get bored writing their journey. (Except if it‘s supposed to be slice of life, but this isn‘t slice of life, it‘s TFA, so MOVING ON)

BuT. In this AU both him and Trailbreaker (and Jailbreak) are (for the most part, still war vets after all) relatively well adjusted mentally speaking. They all still have their struggles and flaws obviously, but it‘s nothing as debilitating as „consumed by grief“, „identity crisis“ and „literally fucking dead“. So BASICALLY what I’m getting at is while in the „normal version“ the primary conflicts/arcs/developments/JOURNEYS of Scatters and Jailbreak are focused on internal struggles and therefor don‘t have the combat they‘re so good at in focus anyway but that just isn’t the case in the AU.

To be fair in this AU they‘re just supposed to be silly side characters to the main plot (like I originally PLANNED before I got LAZY WITH DESIGNING TRAILBREAKER AND FUCKING KILLED HIM WHY DID I DO THAT WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME AAAAAAAAAA-) and don‘t really need these kinds of strong arcs to begin with,, I still want them to be balanced and not completely op though so I should finally get to the damn point of this post god damn it-

SO. What I originally came here to say I wouldn‘t forget: Since Trailbreaker has the force field ability and made up a whole lie about how he could explode people‘s brain‘s with that ability that one time in the IDW comics I thought it‘d be funny to actually make him be able to do that. This would obviously make him way too op, because if he has the precision to make a tiny force field around a brain and then shrink it until the brain exploded it would mean that he can do just about anything with his force fields. Instead of just making him less powerful in his skills like a normal person I thought: „wouldn‘t it be funny if Trailbreaker used to be a trainer for Elite Guard recruits (until he found out that the military is fucking evil and left, officials say he was exiled lol) and was rumoured to be this super powerful guy who might as well be able to explode you with your mind, but when him and Scatters turn up in Detroit Bee and Bulkhead (who both knew about the rumours and very much wanted to see all the crazy shit he could do) find out that he‘s since become a complete pacifist, refusing to even spar with them“. So that‘s that. I can physically hear Bee say „Omg why are you so uncool irl?? I wanted to see you explode Blitzbrain with your mind!!“.

As for Scatters… he doesn‘t kill, but only his boyfriend can stop him from trying to seriously fuck up Sentinel. In general he also has a very „fight first, think later (or not at all)“ approach to combat, which works just fine against opponents his own size or slightly bigger, he can handle Prowl or even Optimus just fine with reflexes and muscle memory alone, Decepticons on the other hand… It might be for the best that Trailbreaker usually pulls him away when he notices that Scatters is about to try and climb on top of someone covered from head to toe in bombs.

Jailbreak is too busy trying and failing to rizz up Blitzwing and subsequently arguing with Lugnut to even really pay attention to the fight, also it‘s not like she dislikes team prime at all… Needless to say she does pretty bad, but ditches the ‘cons soon enough and does much better fighting against Blitzwing and Lugnut rather than with them. I do feel like these two would be a nightmare for any ADHD person though, not just her.

I should‘ve started the post with „in this essay I will-“ cause writing this sure felt like an essay, it‘s been a fucken hour I‘m going to bed good night everypony-