#autothots aus

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Learning things about Cyclonus In Dark Cybertron and idea to consider: Cyclonus in a TF (aligned inspired?) Universe TECHNICALLY being a terrorcon resurrected by dark energon but because he was not technically fully dead when the dark energon was used to resurrect him he retains his mind and spark.

Thank you.

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New au where Autothots and Decepticunts battle for street corners.

Autothots through peaceful thottery- twerking.

Decepticunts seek power through violent pole dancing. There's Ratchet and Thotimus Puss now!

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Transformers AU where Megatron has a twitter and every single one of his tweets has #autoTHOTS in it

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Friendship Wins the War

Optimus or someone being genuinely nice to Starscream and/or other cons and Starscream/cons having zero idea if it's a trick, what to do with it since it's not, and how to even begin to respond and potentially begin to reciprocate is the good good content. *chefs kiss*

Optimus and crew ends the war by being nice to the enemy and treating them with basic human cybertronian decency. Instead of giving up on all Decepticons, Optimus changes tactics. Instead of convincing Megatron to choose a better path he instead puts that energy into befriending all of his subordinates.

No I will not take criticism./j Give me that good good character development and friendship content. You love to see it. No I will never tire of seeing it in fics. Yes it'll be in my AUs a lot.

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Condescending Deadlock AU

I love the concept seen in some AU's and fics about Hot Rod and Deadlock kinda knowing eachother or even being friends before both of their name changes. That concept plus Scavenger's and Hot Shot's dynamic in Armada have me inspired.

Concept: Hot Rod does something that unintentionally impresses and/or endears himself to Deadlock who then, like Scavenger to Hotshot in Armada, proceeds to try and give him tips when they meet on the battlefield. He yells advice to him regardless of who Hot Rod is fighting.

Have this WIP sketch.

Deadlock, is super condescending the entire time and Hot Rod really wants to punch that dumb smirk off his face... If he could get any major hits in or get passed his thicker armor. Hot Rod does not like this arrangement. Hot Rod is a pretty competent soldier already! It's not exactly fun to constantly get your ass kicked by a Decepticon who isn't even trying to kill you. Unfortunately it's kinda hard to ignore and walk away when one of the deadliest cons kicks your legs out from under you and tells you to stay focused while you're lying on the ground wheezing.

Hijinks ensue.

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Skdjfkg oh that is A MOOD, I leave sentence bits all the time. What are Thundercracker and Skywarp like? What are some things they like and dislike? I'm so so SO happy you're bringing Star's trine in!!

[I am so so sorry this has taken me so long to answer. I was so pumped to answer then I over thought my answer then I was worried because I wasn't sure if some things I said about them were going to be canon or not and then other drafts overtook it and made it hard to navigate to. 😢 I seriously appreciate your asks.]

Woo for half forgotten sentence bits!

And I'm so glad that you and other peeps are excited about the inclusion of Thundercracker and Skywarp in The Harbingers AU!!

Things may change as more of the story is developed but have my current thoughts on them.

Answers to your questions and a WIP sneak peak at Skywarp's design below the Readmore.

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Before I begin I'm gonna get the obligatory 'This is not canon compliant nor other continuity compliant' general warning out of the way. (It's not aimed at anyone specifically I'm just covering my bases here. Also cause I'm ignoring fanon and a lot of canon unless I think it fits and like it. )

ONTO THE QUESTIONS!

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What are Thundercracker and Skywarp like?

What are some things they like/dislike?

Skywarp and Thundercracker play a pretty big role in the Harbingers storyline so I'm P excited about em.

-Starscream is resilient, adaptive, cunning, unpredictable, brilliant, regal, precise, and dangerous. Hard to kill. Stubborn. He's not Megatron's second in command for a large chunk of time for kicks.

-Thundercracker is diplomatic, creative, hard to read, reliable, heavy hitter, perceptive, and a touch eccentric.

-Skywarp is mischievous, fast, a glass canon, hard to hit, hard to pin down, chaotic, intuitive, clever, and ruthless.

Thundercracker

A mech of few words and lacking in many exuberant expressions, many wonder what mysteries said mech hides. Some people pity him for Starscream and Skywarp 'stealing the spotlight'. Some think he's the real 'brains behind it all' and is too busy 'reigning in' his trine mates to live up to his true potential. Truth is that Thundercracker actually dislikes the spotlight and loves the energy that Skywarp and Starscream have (even if he gripes about it sometimes). Starscream is the brains, but he does run some things by TC when he needs another opinion. He really wishes that people would stop coming to him and putting his trine mates down just because they are energetic and expressive! He loves their energy and personalities! No one needs 'reigning in' and saying otherwise isn't alright. Those who work closely with the lead trine usually learn real fast not to disrespect any of the trine. Except Ramjet. Ramjet is stubborn and refuses to stop being a little shit about everyone even though he's punished with terrible duties every time he does so. The only ones allowed to insult his trinemates are him and his trinemates.

Many assume Thundercracker must be the straight man to Skywarp's nonsense upon acquaintance but they would all be very wrong. TC just gives off less of an outward obvious energy compared to Skywarp and Starscream. Between the three of them he's basically the best with people and most diplomatic. Can be manipulative if a situation requires it. Kinda has Grimlock from Cyberverse energy. (my headcanon Grimlock in my AU is the Grimlock that's in RiD15 because that's peak him IMO) For a Decepticon he's considered rather polite. The fact that he's the one people usually approaches first annoys TC to no end.

He limits how much he talks, outside of the company of mechs he actually likes to talk to, to save energy. Helping Starscream keep the mechs who follow him happy and helping to find solutions for arguments requires a lot of diplomatic skills and patience which can sometimes leave him exhausted. On his off time he usually sticks close to his trine or hides in his quarters.

He frequently plays the moral centre when situations get outta hand. Closet theatre kid. Some people have made the mistake of calling him "soft". But the whole Trine holds such a high rank in the Decepticons for a reason. And Starscream would not have trined with just anyone.

I'm still kinda figuring TC out so the above may change as time goes on. His personality and deeper motivations are just not coming to me quite like Skywarp's, Ironhide's, and Jazz's did. I think I need to write some head trine shenanigans to really figure his whole deal out.

Likes

Stories in any form. (He comes to really enjoy cartoons, comics, and musicals.)

Watching awful movies and shows with Skywarp and Starscream and mocking it mercilessly.

Writing and art

Cute things

Earth animals

Discussing nerd art and literature stuff with Starscream

Helping Skywarp plan his pranks

Dislikes

Megatron

Having nothing to do/boredom

When Skywarp and Starscream argue about something small and unimportant.

Headcanon Voiceactor Potentials:

Markiplier or ProZD

Notes:

Has a small superstitious streak that Skywarp has been known to abuse with his pranking.

A closet theatre nerd

Has a great singing voice and secretly wishes someone would break into song with him.

Skywarp

Lil sneak peek of my Harbingers Skywarp design!!

I've been tweaking things about his design for awhile now and I'm still tweaking but I'm finally getting somewhere sncjek. Fun fact about his design!! For some of his proportions I'm referencing ferret anatomy.

Does a lot of cackling while he fights. Switches between rough front line scrapper to sneaky stealth attacks.

Skywarp is the sort of person who is more than meets the eye. I'm sorry I HAD to 😂.

Skywarp is very high energy with a mischievous streak a mile long. He is unapologetically himself and gives exactly zero frags about what most others think of him. Besides the whole cackling like a gremlin at everything and causing problems on purpose thing, Skywarp is pretty easygoing temperament wise. He isn't afraid of change or the new and unusual. He let's things go quickly so he's almost impossible to prank or insult back in any satisfying way since he really isn't bothered by much. He really doesn't care that he has a reputation of not being the smartest cause it means people underestimate him. He's more patient and skilled than he lets on. He and Thundercracker are two of Starscream's closest right hand mechs for a reason. But he's not self conscious about this perception and sometimes will actively play into it. An enemy who underestimates you is a more easily beatable one. Skywarp is still loveably head empty no thoughts though. He reserves his patience and smarts for pranks and the battlefield. He has zero brain to mouth filter and is impulsive 70% of the time. Oddly drops wisdom bombs on occasion.

Skywarp's hijinks also kind of puts him in a role similar to a court jester. He acts goofy because that's just who he is a person but the upside of that is some people don't take him as seriously as they should. So he overhears a LOT of conversations from mechs who assume he's not listening. This makes it handy to give Starscream inside information.

Another upside of people underestimating him is it makes it almost laughably easy to get the drop on people. Don't be fooled by his goofiness this mech can be dangerously patient. His impressive agility, surprising patience, and ridiculously good hand eye coordination make him unpredictably deadly for foe and prankable ally alike. He can play the long game.

Likes

Pranks

Dumb dad jokes and puns.

Watching awful movies and shows with Thundercracker and Starscream and mocking it mercilessly.

Copying stunts he saw in a movie once

Saying or doing things wrong on purpose purely to annoy his trine mates

Watching horror movies and laughing every time someone dies an easily preventable death. Is frequently overheard whispering "Get em!" at the monster/serial killer.

Dancing

Dislikes

Starscream and Thundercracker having loud philosophical arguments discussions when he's trying to sleep

Being nitpicked

Musicals

Headcanon Voiceactor Potentials:

Bradley Cooper (Similar voice he does for Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy)

Again I'm so sorry this took so long!! I was actually planning on waiting till I finished their rough references but I'm STILL struggling with TC and I don't want to postpone this any longer so Ill just post the refs when I finish them. Thank you so much again for the questions you send in! I love and appreciate them and they are always a blast to answer.

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Aside from Drift, are there any other characters or concepts from other continuities that you're considering adding to the harbinger au?

Oh absolutely!! I'm so glad you asked!!! There's so many rad characters and concepts from different continuities that are way too good to NOT take some inspiration from and proceed to dump my own bucket of interpretations and ideas onto them. They won't be straight rips bc I have my own unique plans with them but they will take varying levels of inspiration from the listed sources!

Characters and Concepts from Other Continuities that are Being Considered for the Harbingers AU

More may still be added but for now have what I have on the table atm.

Concepts

-Some of the beautiful planets in Cyberverse

-As in Cyberverse, Lazerbeak is more like a sort of pet/familiar to Soundwave. If I add Ravage it would be as a pet/familiar to Soundwave as well and not an actual dude.

-I might maybe include an idea from Prime Wars about the existence of a sort of anti-Matrix/ Unicron having his own version of the Matrix.

-A similar game to "Cube" from Cyberverse existed on Cybertron. Not Cube exactly, I'm still figuring out a new name, but same idea. Basically Rocket League.

-I'm yoinking a lot from Cyberverse apparently but sncnke a Cthulu esq titan does exist... Idk if he'll actually make an appearance or not but he sure does exist.

-Outliers from well... most continuities have them? but I think IDW was the one who actually named the bots with unique abilities as outliers. Idk I just got to the part in MTMTE where we meet some outliers soooo...Makeshift in this case would be an example of one. Anyways, they exist and are called outliers. Starscream has a few on his team.

-I'm very tempted to yoink this from IDW. Ratchet having an almost illegal clinic for cybertronians who were considered lower caste and couldn't afford treatment or weren't considered "worth treatment." I'm still debating on this cause I do very much like @optimistpax 's idea that TfP Ratchet was a chemist before the war and this might contradict that. I might just have that early on in the war Ratchet became a medic and he made his services available for anyone to come for medical care for free/at very low cost.

I will probably rewatch a show or two so more concepts may be considered!

Characters

The subcategories are based on how solidified my plan of including them is.

These aren't all the characters I'm considering btw. Ironhide would be in the "debating" category except I wouldn't pull from anything specific. I'd be taking the concept of Ironhide in Transformers and then running with it. And characters who are in Exodus, RiD15, etc already that I'm not replacing, like I am with Drift, won't be here.

Pretty Sure

-Deadlock/Drift [IDW]

-Lockdown[TFA]

-Tarn + DJD [IDW]

-Flatline[TF Universe/ROTF comic]

With Knockout leaving the Decepticons will need a new medic. I'm not making Shockwave the stand-in medic like Exodus did bc I don't want to. 😂 Also I learned about Flatline and I love him very much. I'm not actually taking all that much from the source material besides design ideas for him. The rest I'm gonna figure out.

THIS DUDE TURNS INTO A HEARSE I LOVE HIM.

He's got FOUR ARMS LOOK AT HIM GO

optimistpax thank you sm for showing me the good good boi.

-Jazz [TFA]

Idk if this counts cause all I'm really yoinking from TFA is heavy inspiration for Jazz's design. The rest I'm basically taking the rough overarching idea of Jazz as a character in all of transformers and then changing a bunch and shoving in my own ideas. 😂. He was in Exodus and they seriously wronged Jazz. 😔

I refuse Exodus Jazz and insert my own.

Debating

-Shadow Striker [Cyberverse/IDW 2]

-Shatter [Bumblebee]

-Dropkick [Bumblebee]

-Flamewar [IDW 2]

I've JUST met Flamewar in IDW 2 and I already love her but I want to read a bit more before I decide anything. Her story for Harbingers would be different but still.

-Road Rage [IDW 2]

I haven't met Road Rage in IDW 2 yet so the rating will likely change as I continue reading.

-Octane [G1]

-Skids [IDW]

-Misfire [IDW]

I'm still reading MTMTE so the likelyhood for comic based characters will change as I go.

Unlikely but Not Completely Off the Table

-Hot Rod [IDW/Cyberverse]

-Blurr [TFA/IDW]

-Rung [IDW]

-Swindle [TfA]

-Wildwheel [Cyberverse]

I just find his whole deal supremely funny snxnejs. Dude is salty no one looked for him even though all of the cybertronians were still in stasis so they actually couldn't. 😂

-Chromia [IDW/Cyberverse]

-Blitzwing [Bumblebee movie/G1]

Tbh he'd be higher on the list bc I love his design in the Bumblebee movie if I wasn't so worried about disappointing people who would expect TfA Blitzwing. He wouldn't be anything like his TfA counterpart so it's much better for everyone if I just use another character. I don't want to falsely get anyone's hopes up yknow?

Side note there may be some coming in from weirdly specific sources like 3H comics etc to round out some of the teams and sub teams.

Teams to be Rounded Out:

-Starscream's crew

-The Wreckers

-Autobot Spec Ops

-General Autobot Warriors

-General Decepticon Warriors

If anyone's interested I can make a post going in detail about the team[s] people are curious about and what characters I'm considering for them but otherwise this current post is already longer than I intended it to be snejid.

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@ut-girl666 : Important question on Jazz; totally chill with his TFA design BUT-

will he have his signature head horns from G1/any continuity that he has horns in? :3?

Heck yee he will!! No matter which way I go with his design he will have his horns/ears in some form or another. Idk if giving him modified horns counts as giving him his signature head horns? but I am working on incorporating them.

I'm going to play around with his design more but above is a pic I took of some conceptualizing around colour choices I was playing with for him. In it you can see a potential head with horns design.

Also! He's not going to be a full direct pull of TfA Jazz. I'm mostly using his TfA design as inspiration for the starting point vibes and rough silhouette/proportions. I am going to incorporate features from other versions of him plus add my own touches to it as well ^w^

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Optimus: I must sacrifice my life to bring life back to cybertron

Primus: No. And also take these just born cybertronians with you.

AHAH YEAH P MUCH. Primus refuses to let Optimus sacrifice himself because he's too good of a dad to die. "You did so good with Bumblebee, Smokescreen, your entire team, and the human children that I'm giving you 50 more children except this time they all want to steal your kneecaps." /j

Also here's a sample of WIP unedited snippet of OP's sparkling adventures.

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you should absolutely put swindle in harbingers au if only for the sheer comedic potential of swindle of all characters interacting with tfp lore

Fjwjsjkw YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT.

Cause Swindle would roll up to Starscream in this post apocalyptic cybertron war and try and make a sale but everyone's just like

"Bro none of us have money"

Which the good news for Swindle is...

he's officially the richest cybertronian....

But the bad news is...

he's the only cybertronian with actual money....Meaning his money is p much entirely useless RIP.

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Considering moving my Harbingers AU into it's own continuity. 🤔Would peeps hate it if I move the Harbingers AU from the category of "fix-it fic" to "one of the stories in my own unique continuity"?

There's a lot of reasons and I have a longer, more in depth post about it in the works if I go through with it but hmm..

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Transformers: Harbingers

The Pirate Scream AU

Before I talk about it you guys are the best thank you for indulging me and my AU from this post xjdjd. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

@badlydrawntransformers @cosmic0de @warrioroffandoms @measlyfurball13 And a bonus thank you to those encouraging me in the tags as well ❤️

I plan to do art for it as well as accompanying written bits and maybe even an animatic but till then have some general info under the cut.

Also there is transformers: Prime spoilers below so open at your own risk.

TRANSFORMERS: HARBINGERS

So this AU comes from the same place many AUs heavily involving TfP Starscream come from: the unfulfilled potential in our boy Scream. Now deeper discussion of that is not gonna be in this post. It'd be a whole essay.

It also comes from just how salty I was that the Team's kindness never really benefitted them much and they kept getting slapped for it. And OP really wanted to win over a con and Starscream kept wanting a partner. ALSO ALSO Optimus was portrayed as keeping his emotions in check and then never really gets a message that it's okay to be emotional so... I'm doing that here.

And the Starscream Pirate AU was born...

Aka Transformers: Harbingers (maybe idk if it's catchy enough djjsw)

Why Harbingers? ''It's just a SHIP Starscream chills in for awhile in the show' ' I hear you say. WELL HANG ON!! I got two very good reasons!! .

First off: Starscream, with the help of some Cybertronians who he wins over one way or another (Ill get to that), help him essentially use the remains of the Harbinger to put together their own functional ship. It's smaller than the Nemesis and will take some pirate ship inspiration. While it is a hardy beast it's a bit jury rigged.

Second of all:

Imagine being a fictional character living in a ship with a name that basically means 'Foreshadowed bringer of change' and then going back to Megatron and his bullshit. I'm gonna grab this and run all the way with it. Highway to Hell just came on my Spotify so... That may be an omen.

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NOW LISTEN

I feel like Starscream and Optimus could really have had such an interesting dynamic but we never really got to see that in TfP and I feel cheated. Also both could have mutually benefitted a great deal.

So what do I do? I shove them together to be sorta begrudging Co-Captains. As a result there's a lot of shenanigans to be had!

How this happens OP has some run ins with cons and, through a way I'm still deciding, has the opportunity to extend a hand to Starscream. Starscream, being kindness starved, doesn't entirely know what to do about Optimus being nice to him one whole time with no sarcasm or ulterior motive and sorta starts trying to get his attention.

Starscream and his crew are a bit of their own team at this point. MEANING sort of new LOGOS!

I'm yoinking the crossed out Decepticon logo from the Dark Energon Starscream and Dark Energon Knockout toys cause I mean... It's right there and also kinda like a skull and crossbones. It fits too well guys.

Starscream essentially manages to win over the autobots enough so they can sorta make a mutually beneficial, if strained, alliance to aid their aligned goal: killing Megatron and revitalizing cyberton. This is aided by some slight changes to the plot of course. It's also a benefit, much to Ratchet's delight, since they finally get some cybertronian tech to work with.

And so they gotta work together to take Megatron out and there's much bonding moments esp later when the autobot base is destroyed. Starscream extends his hand to them and offers them a more permanent position onboard. (rubbing in how unfortunate their situation is and how this is such a big favour but he's paying Optimus back.)

And insert team dynamic stuff!! Like cons teaming up with Bots, Starscream and Optimus trying to stick with it leading their own teams but keep accidently backseat-leadering one another. I will write some other ex-con and bot dynamics cause there's a lot of chaos to be had.

Optimus doesn't open up to his crew for morale sake and masks his emotions well, and Starscream is... well Starscream is Starscream so he masks what he truly feels a lot and doesn't share a lot of personal stuff besides complaints with his team either. So there's a lot of tension.... That is until Starscream has had it at just how good a poker face Prime has.

Because he's absolutely paranoid got a harmless curiosity about Optimus's ulterior motives and wants potential dirty secrets he can use as blackmail to have power over the Prime, he essentially puts cybertronian booze (but kid friendly version of course fbejek) in Optimus's energon heavily expecting him to spill the beans when heavily drunk. What he doesn't expect is that Optimus is just... LIKE THAT to his core. He's smart but very sad and guilty. And maybe a bit weepy and exhausted cause this man has not shown an emotion for eons now. /s. Starscream doesn't know wtf to do but swayed by how earnest Optimus is he sorta softens up and does open up. Might have helped that he took a swig of the tainted energon to get on his level though. But it also helps that neither is the others subordinate so they don't need to maintain their image as badly with the Co-captain as they do their team.

The ex cons sorta accidently absorb some of the autobot's morals over time. The cons help the autobots have some fun. There's a lot of stuff learned both ways. Also the cons realize how cool humans can be and after a lot of argument and forced time spent with the kids, they want to protect earth too.

Starscream, helps Optimus open up a bit more and allow himself to be emotional. He also shows him how to be a little selfish. Optimus in turn helps him with self confidence and making friends. Both help each other with the shit Megatron put em both through and overall boost one another up. (This also does change the start of the war a bit but I'll get to that in another post.)

Miko tries to fight all of the cons at first but quickly changes her tune cause "BOOYAH PIRATE CONS!!"

Other bits about this AU:

Starscream will eventually get a slight design change. It'll be less scrappy and look more confident and put together. It'll be minor

Because they are on a flying ship but have less energon than the Nemesis, everyone gets equipped with mods for flight. There is a jetpack upgrade one can get or Knockout can straight up help change their alt mode surgically.

I'm working up a list of who gets what flight mod but... Ya'll should know that Wheeljack dares Knockout to make him into a flying car. Largely cause I just got the image of Wheeljack flying above vehicons and just turning into a car and dropping on them. That and driving up the side of the Nemesis and confusing the fuck out of Megatron. Out of all the characters you know that would be a Wheeljack thing.

Arcee and Knockout grieve together.

Knockout loves bugging the hell out of Ratchet. It's extra fun for him cause Ratchet often can't do shit about it since they both need the room and tools.

Knockout and Wheeljack become an insufferable duo with the nicknames they have for everyone.

Wheeljack won't leave Starscream alone and keeps coming up with worse and worse nicknames like he did with Ratchet.

Starscream and Ratchet become complaining buddies.

STARSCREAM'S SEEKER SQUAD REJOINS. Well some of them. Skywarp, Thundercracker and maybe other peeps.

Miko manages to befriend Skywarp and Bulkhead now has to watch both Miko AND Skywarp. Wheeljack refuses to help Bulkhead round them up.

Raf hits it off with Thundercracker.

Knockout: "FINALLY a team with fragging MANNERS!"

Instead of Beeftimus Prime from the forge, Optimus actually gets access to a third alt mode and.. Idk something else primely. So he actually gets wings.

Starscream and the other fliers are greatly amused because Optimus, as great as he is at his poker face most of the time, hasn't yet figured out how to not emote with the pair of wings he gets from the forge. Thundercracker is the one who eventually informs him while the rest of the crew are booing loudly in the background.

I actually do have designs of TFP Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Ironhide in the works.

Fowler and Starscream have insult battles. Oddly both grow a weird almost fondness for these verbal sparring sessions

They frequently raid the Nemesis

Miko keeps talking in a pirate voice. Smokescreen has joined her.

AND A LOT OF OTHER STUFF I'LL GET INTO WITH MORE DETAIL AND ART. I'll also talk more in depth about some of these things that isn't a ramble like this post is. xnwjskw.

Feel free to ask about anything you're curious about.

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I was originally going to have Flatline be the Decepticon medic but @optimistpax mentioned a

"what if Pharma was in the Harbingers continuity/AU"

and now I cannot get the idea out of my head y'all it's so funny.

Megatron forced to coexist with this asshole and not being able to do much about getting sassed because

Tarn likes Pharma and the DJD is absolutely essential to retaining his power and decreasing defection rates. He wants to minimise how much he pisses off the DJD. He needs them to remain loyal.

He's scared away all his other medics. He cannot afford to scare off the last available one, even if he is the worst.

Megatron having to grit his teeth and bear through Pharma's bullshit is the funniest karma for Megatron's awfulness

Idk %100 if imma make this is canon yet but the likely hood is above %50. 😂

Flatline would still appear if so he'd just defect with Starscream instead of sticking around.

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Did I ever mention I like dragons? Listen... Airachnid is the worst but she’s an excellent villain in TFP and her design slaps so I couldn’t resist dragonifying her

Also her helmet always gave me MAD Maleficent vibes.

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I'm pretty sure Drift is in the sequel cartoon to prime, (dont know his deal tho.) So like. You do have a canon basis to chuck him onto the pirate ship.

Oh dang I totally forgot about that you're right!! I keep forgetting Drift is in RiD15 sjfjwjs. Maybe I keep forgetting it cause they based him off the Bayverse Drift instead of IDW Drift which is very different.

Thank you for the remind!!! 👏

I'm totally gonna put IDW inspired Drift/Deadlock on the pirate ship!!!

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TfP Harbingers (Aka pirate Scream) AU Q+A

Vehicons on board

@milabazal2002 asks: [I have a really important question. Will there be a vehicon named Steve in crew?]

That is a very important question! Absolutely there's a vehicon named Steve! Also, he's a part of Starscream's Armada and is frequently part of the main team who follows him. He was one of the fliers who went to help bust out Breakdown! Pirate!Steve is a little different than the common fandom version though.

There's also Chris and a couple of his friends who only joined the Harbingers crew because Starscream said he'd allow them to have a puppy if they did. It's technically Thundercracker's and it's fully grown but they aren't picky and spend a lot of time with the pupper.