#and Vos falls for it every time😭😭

[emberfriday]

silly lovers😭😭🤲🤲💔💔💔💔💔💔

[vodid]

Hii i'm new to your art and I wanna know how you came up with all the obsidian king stuff (i think it's called an AU? Don't know what that means nsndnsj) but yeah I love what you do and I wonder if you can give some kind of guide to understand your universe, if it's not so much to ask?

Love you!

P.D.: looking at your art is so relaxing, everything is very soft! 🥺💝

hi there! thank you so much! :)

au means alternate universe — aka a different timeline from canon. it can be the same but human or something way different like royalty or mers!

i came up with this au purely because a) i wanted to give prowl really cool wings, inspired by mecha wing designs! and b) a lot of royalty aus tend to be dark and have arranged marriage, especially making prowl the one used as a political piece. it's not my cup of tea but a more fairytale royalty au sounded fun so i created this au in hopes to make a happy royalty au for once

(this didn't particularly last long as i included more characters and city-states but i still greatly adore this au and the direction its taken)

as for a guide, i have a very long informational google doc about the whole au i created some months ago. i do not have it open to the public at the moment (still a wip and i just made a lot of changes that aren't finished 😭) but i can give you a hopefully quick history lesson summary:

nearly half a century ago (yes i'm using human time here i don't feel like converting), ruby king aries and his "queen" (referred to in this au as:) praxine barricade began a war with polyhex and simfur in hopes to gain more land as praxus is a small kingdom. also tyranny! but soon, vos jumped in and attacked a vulnerable praxus. they were now at war with three kingdoms.

a few years in, aries died in battle and barricade was left to lead as the new ruby king with an heir on the way (coincidence? 👀) during this time, he advanced the wars beyond reparation and had his only son, selenite prince smokescreen, who he locked away in the palace for safety (he was barricade's only heir and was terminally ill)

more years passed, smokescreen grew into a young teen (like 15–17 here) and was introduced to the world outside the quiet palace. upon seeing the death, destruction and lack of attention for their own people, smokescreen set out to usurp barricade and prepared for a few years until a successful assassination killed the ruby king.

after taking the throne, smokescreen worked tirelessly to end the wars, but failed many times over and was left to defend praxus from three different militaries over the course of the next 15 years. during this time, he was raising his only heir, obsidian prince prowl, and shaping him into a strong and pacifistic leader. when prowl grew older, he became the commander and strategist for the praxian military and helped end the wars once and for all. vos took longer to placate but eventually backed off and war on this part of cybertron ended.

unfortunately, smokescreen was only able to enjoy this peace for a little while before he succumbed to his terminal illness, passing away from spark failure, and left a new praxus to prowl.

obsidian king prowl was young, and as such, did not look for a mate despite the norm on cybertron being that every sovereign should be bonded. he did not care for this and focused on running a kingdom for a good two years before he meets a young musician, recently taking over his creators' positions as the praxian palace's court musician. prowl immediately takes interest and requests jazz to play music for him late at night when they are able to meet

they begin to fall in love with each other and eventually want to bond :) this isn't without protests from prowl's cabinet and even some of the populace. jazz isn't praxian or royalty/noble. he was just some musician from polyhex (which might i mention, tensions were still high here) but prowl didn't care. his father gave him a kingdom to rule in the way he wanted to, and you're damn right prowl's gonna take advantage of that freedom.

so they bond, melding relations between them and polyhex (simfur by extension) and have their own little heir, covellite prince bluestreak, and live happily ever after

(until the autobot-decepticon war starts and praxus is destroyed for remaining strictly neutral)

:)