#cee bee siblings

[onewingedsparrow]

I love how Bulkhead has patiently assumed the role of "I must physically hold back the Cee Bee Siblings whenever their rage overcomes them"

They're mad for such good reasons, too.... If Bulkhead hadn't been there to assist...bad, bad things would have gone down on both accounts. Bonus: Ratchet

Look at Bulkhead being a physical barrier between Ratchet, who's furious, and Optimus, whom Ratchet is furiously confronting, while also stepping in front of Arcee in particular, keeping her a good distance away from any wayward punches that might be thrown. Good job, Bulk. He's very patient, very collected. I wonder how many fights he had to break up between the Wreckers. He's definitely practiced.

[sparrowsworkshop]

I've Been Driving All Afternoon.... Arcee and Bumblebee have a long and perilous road ahead of them...will they be able to make it back to base? @onewingedsparrow here! I'm so excited to finally share my piece for the @tf-bigbang this year! This was my first time participating in a bang event and it was a blast and a half. I tried out some new techniques and stretched my artistic limits for two of my favorite characters, and I'm so happy with how this turned out. It was an honor to be paired with the fantastic writer @thinkingheron , who wrote an action-packed, suspenseful and humorous story for my Cee Bee Siblings art! You can take a peek at a preview of their fic right here on Tumblr, and read the full story on AO3. Please do. It's delightful. If you like TFP Ratchet, you will enjoy this too.

Reblogs are lovely! But kindly do not repost my art. Don't make me hunt you down. Thank you.

[onewingedsparrow]

I'm so glad you had so much fun writing! It really shows through your story! ❤️‍🔥

Preview for 2024 TFRBB

So... I'm not dead (yet). Here's a preview of my submission for the 2024 Transformers Reverse Big Bang ( @tf-bigbang ), collaborated with the wonderful @onewingedsparrow who did the awesome art that inspired this fic.

This is:

my first ever big bang (reverse, but still)

my first time joining a TF fan event

my second 10K+ fic that I've actually finished

maybe the most fun I've had writing

the fastest I've written so far

The rest will be posted on AO3 starting at July 17th.

[fineillsignup]

Headcanon: Kumo’s “Lost Boy” Culture

So we all know Kishimoto’s Naruto series is one part “do it for the aesthetic”, one part “coherent world building? I don’t know her” and two parts “FUCK WE’RE ON A DEADLINE”, but the fun part as a fan is that trying to make headcanons that tie together all of canon’s unepxlained gaps, inconsistencies, and “because I thought it looked neat” leaps of logic is a good challenge.

In Konoha, almost all the characters have family names. Moreover, these aren’t mere family names in most cases but clan names, with associated symbols that clan members slap on everything that holds still long enough. Konoha itself was founded by two clans, and later joined by other clans, which were independent entities prior to joining Konoha. Loyalty to the clan is a separate thing than loyalty to the village and serves as a major driving force in the plot. Clans are permitted a frankly immoral level of internal sovereignty, to the point that a clan leader (the Hyuuga) is permitted to inflict agonizing pain on “disobedient” branch members, even children, through a cursed seal.

Konoha also seems like a fairly homogenous society. While there is hair and eye colour diversity, the names of the characters are almost all traditionally Japanese. The few characters who don’t have traditionally Japanese names are coded foreign (Tenten, Rock Lee, even Might Guy to an extent).

In contrast, I can’t think of any Kumo characters that have a family name. Instead, Kumo characters all seemed to be named along one of two themes, either letters, or the -ui/-oi names. Kumo is also unique among the nations for having a striking diversity in skin colour, from ultra light to very dark. Yet there doesn’t seem to be any internal conflicts about skin colour, with leaders of all skin tones (I’m counting Samui as a leader since she’s team leader).  Instead, everyone seems to interact like family—bickering family, but still family, with clear concern for one another.

One big plot point in the canon narrative from Kumo is that they attempted to kidnap Hinata when she was a child, and the fall-out resulted in Konoha killing Hizashi and supplying Kumo with his sealed corpse. There seems to be an assumption in the fandom (and possibly intended by the creator) that if Hinata had been kidnapped, her eyes would have been stolen and given to someone else. But what if that wasn’t the case?

What if unlike Konoha’s clan-centric mercenary culture, Kumo was formed out of a very different culture, a raiding culture? In my headcanon, rather than mercenaries who took jobs from the wealthy, the ninjas who became Kumo were raiders who plundered, and one of the specific things they would plunder would be promising children. These children would be raised as full members of the society. In Kumo society, children are raised mostly communally, even though of course some people do give birth and thus you have brothers like Ay and Killer Bee, there is still a sense that everyone is your sibling and all the adults are your parents. Kidnapping would become, in fact, an integral part of Kumo culture. This is why so many kids have names that seem like code names (Cee, Jay) or names based on personalities or quirks (Samui, Atsui). It’s not a culture that cares about your lineage, to the point that’s it’s not even part of your name.

A number of fans have commented that Darui looks like he could be Kakashi’s “brother from another mother”, as well as certain personality commonalities and their shared lightning affinity. (Darui’s shoulder tattoo even has a Hatake-like tilted diamond field as a replacement for the “field” part of the lightning kanji.) In my headcanon I also include that Lightning ninja would deliberately attempt to get pregnant by highly talented foreign ninja. So in my headcanon, Darui really is Kakashi’s half-brother and Sakumo’s son. (I haven’t decided yet whether Darui knows and doesn’t care, or just doesn’t know.)

Within Kumo, they don’t consider kidnapping to be an evil crime, but rather a liberation. I can imagine them saying to themselves, “Look at how other nations treat their children! We are saving them!” So in my headcanon, if they HAD succeeded in kidnapping Hinata… she actually would have had a much happier childhood, and ain’t that a kick in the head to the Will of Fire and its supposed defense of the next generation.

In conclusion, Kumo is basically the Lost Boys with no Peter Pan, and they think every other village is Captain Hook. And they have a point.

[raendown]

Chapter 36

@cassandrasdreamworld​ I finally finished it! The pairing you requested is finally posted for the Soulmate Collection. 

Pairing: Sakura/Temari/Karui AU:  The one where your soulmate leaves colored footprints that only you can see

The first time she saw the footprints was when she was twelve. It was her first C-rank mission and Lord Bee was leading them along the border between the Lands of Wind and Rain when she spotted them, causing her to stumble and almost fall. Small yellow footprints that almost blended in to the sand made a trail heading south. Karui stopped to look at them, to admire their shape. There was no telling who had left them or what their loyalties had been. No matter how much she wished she could follow them she knew that it was impossible. She was weeks away from home and the prints could be anywhere up to a week old, since that was the longest the soul trails were visible for.

“Yo yo, why are you stoppin’? If some one comes we might be caught then, yeah!”

Karui reluctantly pulled her eyes away and rolled them in exasperation. “That was a terrible rhyme, sensei.” She made no mention of what she had seen as she moved to follow the others. As it was only visible to her, it was an easy secret to keep.

The image of those tiny yellow footprints, however, stayed in Karui’s mind for years. She dreamed sometimes of following them to find open arms awaiting her, wrapping around her until she felt like she finally had someone who loved her. It was always a quasi-disappointment to wake up and see only her teammates around her. She loved Omoi and Samui like siblings and having Lord Killer Bee as a sensei was truly an honor. Sometimes, however, it felt lonely to know that they all had families to go home to. Having aged out of the orphanage by default when she became a genin, Karui longed to find her soulmate if for no other reason than to have somewhere to belong.

She found them again when she was fifteen, running for a time along the same road she was taking through the hills around the Waterfall Village. When Omoi asked what had made her smile so suddenly she told him she had pictured him falling over a waterfall. Omoi, of course, extrapolated her false imaginings and somehow ended up worrying over whether he could be eaten alive by mosquitoes. It was easier to let him work himself up than explain. She didn’t want to listen to whatever weird worries he would come up with for her. She just wanted to dream in peace.

It was when she was barely past seventeen that she first found out that she was different; in a way she had never heard of before. Her mission had taken her in to the Land of Fire and she was being extremely cautious not to be seen be any patrols. Despite how much it slowed her journey it was in her best interest to run on the ground. It was a well-known fact that Leaf ninjas preferred to travel among the tree tops. Her hope was that they would be paying less attention to the ground and therefore be less likely to spot her. It was going well until she spotted something that made her throw stealth right out the window.

Little yellow footprints plodded along the main road. By their form she could tell that whoever they were, they had been in no great hurry. What brought the world crashing down around her was what showed up at the end of the trail: pink footsteps. Karui stared at the dual sets of footprints, entirely uncertain if she should check for a genjutsu or not. How could there be two? What the hell was that supposed to mean?

Frantic, Karui followed them. They both took a few running steps then made what looked like jumps. She calculated possible trajectories and found where both had landed among the trees. Both trails headed southwest and it appeared that they were travelling together. They ran side by side for as long as she tracked them. When Karui forced herself to stop, to think, she found tears on her face. She told herself that they were tears of confusion or anger. She told herself they were absolutely not because she was afraid of being left behind, left out. Was she destined to two people who didn’t know about her? Was she destined to two people who wouldn’t need her? On the verge of having a fit of Omoi proportions Karui threw herself in the opposite direction, racing back in the direction of home. Her mission was complete but her heart was a mess. She wanted nothing more than the safety and comfort of the Land of Lightning.

Only a few months after that saw her sensei captured and Karui was travelling back towards the Land of Fire, this time flanked by her two best friends. With the current crisis going on the last thing she had time for was worrying about her strange soulmate situation. All of her concentration was taken up by the need for revenge against whoever had hurt one of her few precious people.

The Raikage had sent them to the Land of Fire to speak with the Hokage and gather any intel available on Uchiha Sasuke, the one who had taken Killer Bee. There were no words for her shock when they arrived to discover a crater where once had been a beautiful village. As they were led by survivors through the wreckage she couldn’t help but sympathize. She may not have any special love for the ninja of the Leaf but she would wish this kind of devastation only on her worst enemies. Even then…this was too far. She could only imagine the death toll, both shinobi and civilian.

While Samui went in search of the Hokage – or acting Hokage, their leader was apparently comatose – Karui and her other teammate went in search of someone who could give them any other information, the personal kind of stuff that came from growing up with someone before the betrayal.

She was not prepared to find little pink footprints crisscrossing the area.

Karui’s eyes widened when she noticed them. At first she had taken them for blood. Lord knew there was enough destruction around her to warrant a bit of blood on the ground. But when she looked closer she realized that it was multiple soul trails all overlapping each other as her soulmate travelled back and forth across the same ground. Since a soul trail was only visible for up to a week after the person had passed through this meant that her soulmate had spent a lot of time in the Leaf Village since the attack.

Ignoring Omoi’s protests, Karui set off trying to figure out where the trails led. Maybe her soulmate knew Sasuke! It would be like killing two birds with one stone and efficiency was a good thing in a shinobi. At least, that was how she justified it to herself. After several false starts and quite a few backtracks, Karui followed one set of prints that led around a small body of water. She wasn’t sure if the pond had been there before the sudden change in topography but she was glad for the smooth shoreline that the trail followed along. They had been walking for a few minutes when they heard voices up ahead discussing, of all things, Uchiha Sasuke. Remembering her original mission, Karui perked her ears and hurried.

“-planning to dispatch tracking ninja to go after him!” a feminine voice was saying. The two of them came around a bend in the trail just in time to see a black haired boy making a surprised expression.

“What, really?” the boy said. “He didn’t mention that Sasuke-”

Her sword was drawn and pointed at the trio she found there before she had even thought about it.

“Go on, keep talking. Tell us all about this Sasuke. You–” Her voice faltered when she caught something out of the corner of her eye. Little pink footprints leading right up to a girl with pretty pink hair, the one whose face Karui was pointing her sword at. She gaped at the other girl in astonishment while the others around them frowned in confusion.

“What’s wrong?” Omoi asked quietly.

“She’s…footprints…I…” Words wouldn’t come to her. It was incredible to think that she had found her soulmate. One of her soulmates, apparently. The thought was like a bucket of ice water down her spine. This girl had already met whoever it was that left behind the yellow prints and Karui had no way of knowing what their relationship was to each other. Squaring her jaw, Karui pulled herself together and repeated, “Tell us all about this Sasuke. You seem to be such good friends.”

It devolved in to a fight almost immediately. The boy in orange attacked and she and Omoi defended. The short scuffle ended with the two of them jumping back, landing a safe distance away on the surface of the water.

By the time the conversation was over as well their entire outlook on the mission had been changed. Sensei might still be alive! The one called Naruto had named himself as a jinchūriki and offered to help. As they allowed him to lead them away Karui heard a small gasp from behind them.

“Footprints…” she heard the pink haired girl say. “Hey, wait!”

Karui didn’t look back. She pushed off in to the air and followed Naruto somewhere that he could speak to them without his friends. As it turned out, he wouldn’t give them any new information on the Uchiha. Karui was tempted to take him up on his offer to take her anger out on him, but she was still rather flustered from before. She screamed and ranted and waved her hands, but she didn’t hit him. When Samui found them it was a relief to have an excuse to leave.

When they set off the next day to bring the information on their target to the Raikage, Karui’s mind was still in a whirl. She had spent her whole life wishing for somewhere to belong and the second she finds the possibility to have that what does she do? She runs away. Wonderful. Way to go, self! Her frustration with her own cowardice made her quieter than usual while they made their way to the land of iron, to meet up with Ay and his attendants. When they did meet with him, Cee rebuked her team leader immediately.

“Samui you’ve been tailed! Show yourselves, you Hidden Leaf dogs!”

From behind a nearby outcropping of rock came a small group of four shinobi. Naruto and the Copy Ninja were both immediately recognizable. The brunette man wasn’t familiar to her but that pink haired one was. Naruto had called her Sakura. Sakura was staring at Karui with a determined expression that made her face flush. She mentally blamed it on the cold weather and lowered her eyes.

Naruto’s supplication was astonishing – to ask such a thing of the Raikage! It was unheard of! Karui didn’t say much, only called the by a fool. And he was a fool, thinking they would spare Sasuke’s life after what he had done. When the Raikage and his party turned to leave she caught sight of Sakura watching her. Her determination was still so openly displayed on her face, mixed in with wonder and affection. Karui wondered if it was really her the other girl felt those things for or if she was thinking of her lost teammate, the one whose life they were begging for. She thought it was telling that Sakura didn’t try to stop her this time, didn’t even speak to her.

The building where the conference was being held was built inside of a giant cave that looked like nothing so much as a great gaping maw. Karui cringed and hunched her shoulder as the shade of the mountains fell over her. As they entered the building and waited for the leader of the Land of Iron to greet them, she saw Cee turned to the Raikage with a frown.

“We are still being tailed, my Lord. One of those Leaf dogs got here before us,” she heard him murmur. The Raikage harrumphed but said nothing. He didn’t have the time to respond; a middle-aged samurai came in to the room just then to welcome them. As the samurai indicated for them to follow him to the conference rooms, movement caught Karui’s eyes.

The one who had followed them was Sakura. She was standing behind one of the massive stone pillars which decorated the hall and beckoning for Karui to come over. Wary but too curious to resist, Karui did so. Samui and Omoi went on ahead, never even noticing her reluctant departure. She stopped a few feet away and crossed her arms defensively across her chest. Before she could demand an explanation Sakura beamed and dashed out from behind the pillar. Karui eeped when her wrist was grabbed and she found herself suddenly being dragged off down another hallway.

“Wha-? What do you think you’re-? Where are you taking me?” It was shameful how little resistance she put up. Then again, she had heard some stories about the Hokage’s apprentice and her inhuman strength. Non-resistance was probably the wisest course of action when Haruno Sakura had a grip on your wrist.

The two of them burst in to an unmarked room without knocking, startling the three people inside. Karui didn’t recognize any of them. She did, however, noticed the yellow footprints scattered all throughout the room.

“Temari! I found her! I found her! Look!” As she babbled excitedly, Sakura pointed to the floor. A blonde girl sitting up against the far wall raised both eyebrows as she looked down. Then she suddenly leapt out of her seat like it had caught fire.

“You did find her!”

Karui was incredibly confused when the blonde came dashing over to beam at her, just like Sakura was. They both held on to one of her arms each and smiled and laughed. She really had no idea what to do. She was almost glad for the distraction of someone knocking on the door, announcing the arrival of the final Kage.

“Temari,” the redheaded young man in the corner spoke as he rose to his feet. “You will need to come with us.”

The blonde wrinkled her nose and swore under her breath, then turned to Sakura and said, “Don’t you dare let her leave! You’d better both still be here when the conference is done!” Then she was out the door with the two others than had been in the room when they entered, leaving her alone with Sakura once again.

“Was that…?” she started to ask a question, then realized she had no idea how to ask it – or even really what it was she wanted to ask. It felt like the last few days had flown past her at hyper speed, leaving her a little stunned. Sakura brought her back to earth with fingers winding in between her own.

“That was Temari, our other soulmate,” she said. Karui stared at her with wide eyes.

“Our other soulmate,” she repeated. “So, you see two soul trails too!?”

Sakura giggled as she replied, “Of course, silly! Temari and I have both found your footprints before, as well as each other’s. We met a few years ago when we took our first chūnin exams. That was…well it was a rough start!” She laughed awkwardly in a way that made it obvious there was a good story there. “But things are okay now and we’ve been really anxious to find you. And now we have! And we can all be together!”

Karui stared at Sakura some more, taking in her happy smile while those words rang inside her head. We can all be together. She had always dreamed of finding her soulmate because she’d always been alone. Now she had two people who wanted her? Two people she belonged too? Karui would deny the tears in her eyes to anyone who dared point them out, but that didn’t stop her from scrubbing at them with the back of a hand.

“Together,” she mumbled. “Sounds good.” Sakura drew her over to the bench that Temari had been sitting on before.

“We can wait here for them,” she suggested. “Until the conference is over.”

Karui looked in to her soulmate’s green eyes and said, “Yeah. Then we can all be together.”

[naijagospel]

The Uwaje Sisters' Deep Worship Compilation

The Uwaje Sisters’ Deep Worship Compilation

Macmomoh Music and GPK records team up to present “Deep Worship” a 9-track compilation of powerful songs from musical siblings, Pat Uwaje-king, Doris Dumah and Bee Cee Moh – The Uwaje Sisters!

The timely project offer a 35mins non-stop playlist of songs of Prayer, Worship and Gratitude focusing on Jesus Christ, the reason for the season.

Digging deep into the vault, ‘Deep Worship’ features three…

[onewingedsparrow]

THIS Arcee never wanted Shockwave in her mind. Bumblebee absolutely knew about this part of her past or else he wouldn't have volunteered so quickly and sweetly. He's doing it for Optimus because he loves Optimus, but he's also doing it for Arcee, because he loves Arcee. /platonic

This nonverbal exchange in "Sick Mind" is also so important. Before inserting the patch into Bumblebee's mind, Arcee stops, flares her wings, and looks Bumblebee dead in the optics. Are you sure you want to be doing this, 'Bee? Are you certain? You can say no. You have a choice. A silent question to which Bumblebee flashes an instant, confident, energetic thumbs up. A gesture of boldness for her sake, more than for his. I'll be okay, 'Cee. I want to do this.

It is so important to me that not only did Bumblebee offer himself for this task in place of Arcee, but also that Arcee offered a way out for Bumblebee—a way out that was never offered to her when Shockwave forced the patch on her.

This short exchange says so much about each of them.

Ratchet: I love Optimus, but my hatred for Megatron is bigger. Both blind me to any consideration for Arcee’s and Bumblebee’s safety.

Arcee: My love for Optimus is more important than Ratchet’s hatred for Megatron, but doubts about my safety make me hesitate.

Bumblebee: My love for Optimus is more important than Ratchet’s hatred for Megatron, and my safety.

In no way do I fault Ratchet for falling back on his hatred, or Arcee for falling back on self-preservation.

However, I wonder if either of them had any regrets after the fact…or if Optimus was conscious during the exchange, did it affect how he saw them?

[gospelhotspot]

The Uwaje Sisters' Deep Worship Compilation

The Uwaje Sisters’ Deep Worship Compilation

Macmomoh Music and GPK records team up to present “Deep Worship” a 9-track compilation of powerful songs from musical siblings, Pat Uwaje-King, Doris Dumah and Bee Cee Moh – The Uwaje Sisters!

The timely project offer a 35mins non-stop playlist of songs of Prayer, Worship and Gratitude focusing on Jesus Christ, the reason for the season.

Digging deep into the vault, ‘Deep Worship‘ features three…

[onewingedsparrow]

-Friend of yours? -Family.

[onewingedsparrow]

*screams incoherently because Parallels™️

[onewingedsparrow]

The trio occupying my brain for the past four years and counting <3 One energetic son; one feisty daughter; and one patient father making sure they don't crash and burn. I could post so many characters, but I went with these three since I'm writing about them a lot at present. Tagging @louwhose @walkthruthewords @leiladebees @margindoodles2407 and @traveleorzea

uh gonna start a chain. reblog with yuor fave character, one ur absolutely obsessed with. tag ppl to keep it goin :3

@sparrow-ceiling @littleeggrock @1dkreally @gayseball

[onewingedsparrow]

The first time the Cee Bee Siblings look at each other in Prime

VS

The last time the Cee Bee Siblings look at each other in Prime

The opposite mood of these bookends...! The storyboarding told in the colors of the scenes and posture of the characters...! (I'm not crying, you're crying) Warning, this is a long post. ;) I have a lot to say about the Cee Bee Siblings and the storyboarding of Transformers: Prime! I already fell in love with the first Cee Bee bookends I noticed earlier in "Darkness Rising Part 1," as well as earlier in "Predacons Rising." Discovering those bookends made me want to search for more, and I'm delighted to find these ones here. This particular pair of bookends above will always be one of my favorites. It's beautiful how many times Arcee and Bumblebee share a glance in Transformers: Prime. You just know from how often they look at each other, and the moments wherein they look at each other, that they share a long history with all the sharp secondhand embarrassment; snarky, sassy teasing; and silly inside jokes that come packaged with a close relationship. The opposing contexts that bring Arcee and Bumblebee to glance at each other in these bookends here are fascinating.

Prior to both these snapshots, Team Prime was engaged in a hectic, draining battle directly linked to death.

In "Darkness Rising Part 1," at the beginning of TFP, Arcee was grieving the recent loss of Cliffjumper when she got caught in a scuffle with Eradicons, a scuffle into which Bumblebee and Bulkhead then jumped to help her out. In "Predacons Rising," at the end of TFP, Team Prime was grieving the immediate loss of Optimus, upon learning that he willingly merged the Matrix of Leadership and therefore his own spark with the Allspark. In the first situation, Bumblebee and Arcee have a tough time battling the Eradicons. Exhaustion from grief, the distraction of the unplanned spectating humans, and other factors take a toll on their fighting. Despite the fact that the battle is 2 vs 2, and despite the fact that Arcee and Bumblebee are usually a highly efficient team, the Cee Bee Siblings are locked in a stalemate with their opponents, until Bulkhead (belatedly) shows up and the Eradicons (wisely) choose to skedaddle. Once the Eradicons leave, Bumblebee hunches over to catch his breath, and Arcee dryly shoots up at Bulkhead, "What took you?" to which Bulkhead replies, "Traffic." At this, Arcee and Bumblebee share a look, their first shared glance of many in the series, and the scene ends. While this "Traffic" joke is amusing to the audience (who knows full well what it's like to be stuck in traffic), I don't think Arcee and Bumblebee's reaction was tied to the humor beyond the fourth wall. Rather, what I see here between them is a glance of relief mingled with grief. After all, if Team Prime hadn't been delayed earlier, whether by traffic or otherwise, they would have been able to save Cliffjumper from death. In the second situation, Team Prime has just listened to Optimus Prime's farewell before his final flight, directly into the Well of All Sparks. While they stand on the edge of the Well, hundreds of lights, new sparks, burst forth, scattering like fireworks as new life at last returns to the once-desolate Cybertron. Team Prime stares, awed at the spectacle, until one especial spark catches their notice—a spark that dances above them, glowing with blue and red, while Optimus' voiceover closes the cinematic storybook that is Transformers: Prime. Only then—only then—do Arcee and Bumblebee look at each other. Where once grief over Optimus' passing darkened their faces, now, in their expressions, there is simply joy. Joy for the new beginning of which Optimus speaks. Joy for the knowledge that while death is an ending, death is not the end. Joy for the freedom they've found, for the war they've won, for the peace they've protected. No more do their wings droop from weariness; no, their wings stay upraised and alert. Gone is the exhaustion that once clouded their eyes; now, there is only light. In place of the frowns that they once held, smiles grace their faces. Though once they stood under the dusk of Earth, a striking symbolism for the darkness rising, now, instead, on Cybertron, they catch the glow of the brilliant sparks above, illuminated by the very future they fought so hard to see. Both these bookends were touched by death and grief beforehand. But the beauty of the contrast, the hope that shines in TFP, is that no matter how deep the tragedy, no matter how dark the hour, the ending will always be brighter than the beginning. Life has returned to Cybertron. Peace has ended the war. It's truly amazing to me how the very spark of Transformers: Prime can be encapsulated in something as simple as two passing glances between Bumblebee and Arcee.

[onewingedsparrow]

This screenshot means...everything to me. What if I told you Arcee wasn't putting her hand up and raising her gun to protect just Bumblebee? What if I told you that she was actually doing this to save both Bumblebee and Optimus? What if I told you that she was severely outgunned in this scene and she had no physical backup available in this moment but she still stood her ground, fully ready and willing to lay down her life for the ones she loved, who loved her just as deeply? What if, indeed?

What if I told you that this image isn't worth merely a thousand words, it's worth tens of thousands of words and I'm still not done writing the Arcee & Bumblebee & Optimus Prime fic I've been working on for years? If I told you this screenshot means everything to me...would you b'elieve me? Would you...see? Someday...when I post that story...I hope you will.

[onewingedsparrow]

I JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE NYCC FIRST EDITION TFP BUMBLEBEE AND ARCEE

THE TOYS CAME TOGETHER ⚠️ Do not separate the Cee Bee Siblings. ‼️

Also Arcee was pink and Bumblebee was a taxi back then, lol. Okay but do you also see THIS ⬆️ on the back of the box? "Arcee is an accomplished, street smart and powerful fighter with little patience for those who don't know their way around the battlefield. "Luckily, Bumblebee is as skilled as any other warrior in the Autobot army. "Set loose on the streets of the big city with their human partners Raf and Jack, they're an unstoppable team in the defense of the planet." ⬇️ Bumblebee: Hey, I heard you're going to New York! I wanna roll with you if that's cool. ♪(^∇^*) Arcee: Leave me alone, kid. Do I look like I have time to babysit rookies? (¬_¬") Bumblebee: Listen, I may be a Scout for now, but I can take on any Warrior. ┗|｀O′|┛ Arcee: Oh yeah? Prove your mettle to me, and then I'll think about it. (¬‿¬) Bumblebee: You're on. o(*^▽^*)┛ ~ (More pics of the toy at the source)

[maybeiwasserious]

I assumed that Bee had siblings, Ayy and Cee.

SO I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS

Because if one of those is Bee’s music box, then WHAT ARE THE OTHER ONES

[sparrowsworkshop]

Whatever happens, I'll never forget you ~ I am so pumped for "Car Trouble" by Owl City!!! You would not believe your eyes ! :D Hearing his lovely preview gave me so many ideas—I already know that that song is gonna fit Prime in Disguise Bumblebee so well. Can't wait till it releases on March 1st! 🎉 In the meantime, I went and revisited the original demo, "Floppy Fish." I've always loved it, but listening to it now, after "Car Trouble," made me instantly think the demo would make a perfect Cee Bee Siblings song. <3 I had to make this as fast as I could, so I put metal to the pedal. ✨ Enjoy my TFP Arcee & Bumblebee AMV! (Contains spoilers all through the end of Transformers: Prime...and beyond.)