#and thinking about a scenario of Bumblebee backstory with maybe Wasp and another Hornet character

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So I ended up making that character that’s a reference to some game, because I don’t know why

I probably won’t use her, but she exists now and I mean I like how her design turned out

So uh, yeah, this is Stinger

I have decided I won’t tell you the name of the game she’s a reference to because I want people to guess. But honestly, I don’t know how easy it’ll be to guess the game

But I mean, I think I was relatively blatant in the reference. If you want another hint, half of it is her name, and the other is part of her design. I really don’t think it’s that difficult, but you also have to know the game exists, which I’m not sure how many people do

But anyways, design things

A lot of her design takes inspiration from one of the characters in the game, and so I can’t tell you that aspect, but I also referenced Transformers characters as well, mostly Animated characters. Arcee in her body type (I may or may not have traced the initial body from her because I couldn’t get my proportions right), Drift for her top head thing and the things on her sides, and then Shockwave for her hands and alt mode

I gave her claw hands to reference the fact that her name’s Stinger; she needs something to sting people with

But also outside of them, another primary influence was Beast Machines Jetstorm, since he’s very slender like what I wanted

I didn’t actually know how to design her alt mode, all I knew is that it was supposed to look vaguely like a dinosaur and also terrifying. But I don’t know how to draw that, so that over there is my best attempt

Probably need to get better at it if I want to convey a terrifying Airachnid and/or Blackarachnia in my AU like my brain envisions, but oh well, a problem for later

Edit: I’m realizing now, she probably doesn’t look at all like a dinosaur. I don’t actually know how to draw them, and my lazy ass didn’t look up references because it was going to be sketch only. She probably looks closer to a kaiju or the Balrog or something than a dinosaur. My bad

And sure, her normal and alt mode don't really look like they're the same person, like you can't really see where the dino stuff comes from on her, but spoiler alert, she's almost definitely not actually Cybertronian, just taking the form of one, so it's fine I guess

But anyways, on to any sort of character stuff, it's mostly what's said above

The main idea I had outside of that is that in a story where she hypothetically exists, she had once mentored one of the main characters, though she seems to have mysteriously disappeared, presumed dead. Then one day, presumably back on Cybertron, the group encounters this absolutely terrifying dinosaur looking thing that eats people and eventually realize that this is what Stinger has become. They think that this was like, the product of a forced experimentation, like how the Dinobots come to be in some continuities, but the twist here is that this beastly form is completely intentional on her part, and she is fully sapient like this. This is more what she actually is (though probably not fully). She might have had a different alt mode in the past, but this is what she looks like now

Her motivations are also completely unknown to anyone but her, and due to her true otherworldly nature, pretty much don't have anything to do with the war between Cybertron, and probably involve its destruction? But not because she's evil, because of some higher, but also more base purpose

I don't know, I figured her true motivation after taking a small break from writing this description, and coming back now, I realize that the description I gave her on the art made her sound too normal, too mortal. I mean I guess you can say it was an act, or maybe she just had amnesia and forgot her true purpose, but I don't know, sounds a bit cheap

So, for now, let's take out her true motivations because they're too big, but she can keep secretly being a terrifying, somewhat eldritch entity

Not sure I have anything else to say, so yeah, take this thing I made that I don't even know why

She probably didn't even have to be a Transformer, but I must insert my new fixation into everything (dead serious by the way, I do this with most other things I see and think are neat and I think it's becoming a nuisance to other people tbh), so she is