#i am absolutely remembering all the ''mEGATRON HAS FALLEN! I STARSCREAM AM NOW LEADER OF THE DECEPTICONS'' jokes

[transingthoseformers]

Now i'm thinking about what's the right balance to keep G1 SG au tonally consistent, and feeling at least a little like the G1 cartoon it's based on. Particularly with the PARD incident idea.

I mean G1 can get really dark under the surface, and a little bit ON THE SURFACE too, but still.

Idk, because on average I've observed that shattered glass in total tends to get darker than baseline (but hey that's based on the SG comics I read and fanfiction so many my sample size isn't big enough)

In my opinion, it's easy for something to come off as darker than intended so you might have to treat it like adding blue paint to other colors: a little truly does go a long way.

[tf-decepti-stories]

Drenched in Heat - 2

Hey, new chapter for Drenched in Heat! I managed to finish up the last parts of this chapter today. Less angst here, but Megatron is kinda... oblivious to things. So the angst train will continue to roll on toward the cliff of... idk, the metaphor broke down. The cliff of bad decisions?

With luck, I’ll have the TFA Starscream&Clones prompt up over the weekend. 

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Aside from a few questioning glances, no one said a thing about the three days Megatron had been in his quarters. He was under the impression that the reason behind it wasn’t a secret, but that no one wanted to anger him. That was wise. He was already frustrated enough with being behind on work. Megatron would have thought that Starscream becoming an insufferable ass about interfacing with him would be the worst part. No, it was actually the fact that his second in command had nearly vanished. Starscream was avoiding him.

Megatron went back and forth between worrying that he really had forced himself on an unwilling mech and couldn’t remember, and worrying that Starscream was coming up with an intricate plot to kill him. Sometimes both. He’d checked in with Hook, only to find out that the stubborn seeker hadn’t gone in for treatment. Starscream was too vain not to take care of his frame, so Megatron was left to assume that his trine had helped him out.

He’d gone so far as to send a comm to Starscream, which the brat had ignored. Megatron found himself at a bit of a loss. He wasn’t sure how to approach his second in command. There was a chance that Starscream was, justifiably, upset. On the other servo, he could just be off pouting in a huff. All of the seekers seemed to be avoiding Megatron, though none as successfully as his air commander.

Megatron finally took matters into his own servos. He headed to the seeker barracks, ready to pin one of the idiots to a bulkhead so he could have some answers. They couldn’t all escape him if he was blocking the exit. It was a doubly pleasant surprise when he came across Skywarp in the hall outside the barracks, in a conversation with Ramjet. The purple seeker had his back to Megatron. By the time he whirled around and even considered escape, Megatron had one servo wrapped around his wing.

“Skywarp.” Megatron growled the name, watching as Ramjet fled for the supposed safety of the seeker barracks. “We need to have a talk.”

“Whatever it is I didn’t do it!” Skywarp blurted out quickly, optics wide and fidgeting as he tried to pull his sensitive wing free.

If he was already proclaiming his innocence instead of asking what Megatron wanted, it meant he had done something. He would have to let Soundwave know to be on the lookout.

“I don’t care what mischief you’ve been getting up to, Skywarp. Just tell me where Starscream has hidden himself. I’ve had enough of his tantrum.”

Skywarp lifted his servos, the wing in Megatron’s grasp trembling. “I have no idea where Starscream might be.” The words were spoken in a careful, neutral tone.

Megatron tightened his hold on the offending wing, just enough to almost start bending. “B-But I’m absolute certain he’s not hiding in the back of his lab!!” The purple seeker nearly squealed, face twisted with the beginning of pain.

Of course that was where he’d gone off to hide. At least he was still on the damn ship. Megatron glared at the seeker in his grasp. “You will not be teleporting off to warn him.” The words were a growled command, accompanied by a small shake.

“Megatron? Never saw him. No idea how he found Starscream.” Skywarp smiled weakly and nodded.

He gave a snort and released Skywarp’s wing. The seeker was quick to scramble back and run toward the safety of the seeker barracks. He probably had chosen not to teleport away in order to avoid giving Megatron any suspicions about warning the trine leader.

Megatron turned, scowling as he headed toward Starscream’s lab. Usually he avoided invading that bit of Starscream’s privacy. It was all too likely that the seeker had it boobytrapped or rigged to self destruct if Megatron came inside. Another reminder that his second in command was a paranoid glitch. But now he was left with few options. He could send Soundwave to order Starscream out and back to his duties, but Megatron felt that would be the cowardly option. He was many things, but coward wasn’t one of them. Especially when it dealt with Starscream. The seeker was far to keen about taking advantage of any perceived weakness.  

There was no point in knocking on the door, Starscream was not going to invite him in. So he sent a request to Soundwave for an override code to the lab. At least someone was still loyal on this ship.

The door opened with a soft beep and Megatron peered into the dim interior. The lights had been lowered, but he could see long tables piled with material in disorganized chaos. There was a soft clicking and he hoped that it wasn’t some type of bomb the seeker was working on. He strode into cluttered lab, optics scanning the room. No sign of the glitch. If Skywarp had lied to him, he was going to chuck that seeker into the ocean.

Something clattered against the floor, causing Megatron to tense for a moment. It was ridiculous that he should feel like he was in enemy territory on his own ship . He growled and skirted around one of the long tables, bumping it slightly and causing something to fall over and break. Megatron ignored it in favor of his search. The edge of a wing poked out from under a desk with scattered data pads both on top and several on the floor.

“Starscream…” He’d meant his tone to warn the seeker of his bad mood, but a hint of worry crept into it. Megatron felt uneasy at the sight of the claustrophobic seeker hiding under a cramped desk.

“Go away.” Starscream snapped hotly, pedes scraping the floor as he pulled them closer to his cockpit.

Megatron sighed and stepped closer to the desk Starscream hid under before carefully sitting down. He figured towering over the slender seeker wasn’t going to help his case in this.

“I’m disappointed in you.” Megatron said calmly, leaning his head back against the wall while trying to watch the shadowed figure out of the corner of his optic.

Starscream’s wing twitched, his frame tensing. “Disappointed?!” He hissed the word out between clenched denta. “Mmhm.” He hummed out mildly. “I never expected my second in command to hide from his problems.”

That brought the seeker scrambling out from under the desk, optics bright with rage and wings fanned wide. “I am not hiding! I’m... “ He looked around, anger shifting momentarily to panic. “...preparing new flight maneuvers.” It was obviously a lie, even as he snatched up one of the fallen datapads from the floor to act as though he was reviewing it. “Hiding.” Starscream scoffed at the word.

Megatron took a moment to observe the riled seeker. Starscream looked haggard, no surprise if he’d been hiding in his lab for days. The seeker had gotten his frame repaired since Megatron last saw him. His shoulders and wings were starting hitching defensively as he noticed the attention Megatron was giving him. Megatron felt a strange urge to ask if Starscream had been refueling properly. He gave a dismissive snort and looked away, pushing himself back up onto his pedes.

“Of course. That’s why you’ve been in here for days. Flight maneuvers. Perhaps you can use them in our next raid. Assuming you show up to the meeting.” He stared down at Starscream.

The seeker looked up at him, optics wide for a moment. He quickly dropped his gaze down to the floor and nervously tapped a digit on the datapad. “Of course I’ll be there.” Starscream grumbled, sounding like he was gritting his denta again.

At least things could go back to normal. Megatron rolled his optics. “Fine. Don’t be late.” He turned to leave before pausing, gaze narrowing. “Is that a drone? With a… bladed gun…?”

There was a startled squawk from the floor as Starscream tossed aside the datapad in his rush to get to his pedes. The seeker threw himself ahead of Megatron, wings flared wide as he attempted to hide whatever monstrosity Megatron had spotted. “No!” He shouted and looked around frantically, as though just realizing what Megatron in his lab could possibly mean. “Get out!!” The seeker’s voice was an audial crackling shriek.

Megatron sighed, closing his optics for a brief moment. He needed it to gather his tattered patience. Without even bothering to address the insubordination, and likely assassination plot, Megatron turned and strode back to the door.

Yes. At least things would go back to normal now.

[hanaby-3]

TransformFriday

Okay, this is an idea that I've been meditating for a long time but I think now is the perfect time to carry it out. Because my favorite comic book (Transformers MTMTE-LL) will soon come to an end, I have decided to carry out this idea: my own Top Ten of favorite transformers... drawing version! The truth is that the end of MTMTE and LL generates me many mixed emotions: on the one hand I am happy because at last I will be able to know the end of the story and I will not observe how my favorite series becomes the next infinitetale (I will not say names ... but we all know who they are ...) but on the other hand I'm so sad about it. This is a story that has marked me and I know that when the comic ends I will no longer be the same person as before. This (at least for me) is a special moment, comparable to when Inuyasha, Death Note and Evangelion ended. I remember fondly when I started reading it: back then I still had the hype of transformers prime and I was looking for more things about it and then a friend in a forum recommended Transformers More Than Meets the Eye and I started reading it (specifically I got it in chapter 18, the house of ambus) and I was speechless with what I found. All the characters were so similar and at the same time so different from everything I already knew. I remember how I was surprised by the lore and all the mythology that had been assembling around the transformable robots and seeing how a world was created so unique and credible with such a cliche premise and yet I fell completely in love with it. I hallucinated with neurosurgery and empurata, I loved how action and psychology were balanced in about 20 pages in such a harmonious way, and the characters ... my god, the characters! I love how James Roberts takes you by the hand and makes you walk the halls of lost light with his characters, I remember being so sad with Tailgate's disease, getting excited about the battle between cyclones and Starsaber, to love and hate the same time to Tarn for his personality, to be moved for the scavengers, the evolution of rodimus and Megatron. For my Transformers it has not been another series of my childhood. James Roberts and Alex Minle have taught me what someone can do with dedication, hard work and a lot of imagination and their comics are not an empty reading. Thanks to this story I have learned so many important lessons from life and myself, I have come to learn how strong and courageous I can be. Thanks to MTMTE I was encouraged to write and draw my first comic, I learned that the hardest It is forgiveness to yourself, I have learned that it is not bad to ask for help and how powerful teamwork is, thanks to TMTMTE I wrote my degree thesis ... My God I can say it, Thanks to Transformers I got graduated! And finally, thanks to MTMTE transformers I still find the strength to continue doing what I like, which is to draw. That's why I decided to celebrate these last months of Transformers drawing my ten favorite characters and of course explaining why every Friday (of course the position 1 and 2 already know them, I'll leave you below the links if you're interested) because the end of this wonderful saga will also mark the end of a stage of my life and is that the truth, without TMTMTE I would be a completely different person and that is why it is and always will be one of my favorite series.

Top Ten

1.-Prowl    

If you have read any of the wreckers comics then you know that Prowl is a bastard. He is not a noble, kind, or honest hero, I can not even call him good. Actually Prowl is a villain who "fortunately" plays for the good side. If I had to define Prowl in a word that would be hate. He hates the decepticons, he hates the new cybertron, he hates his leader/friends for not listening him, even I think that sometimes he hates himself, his life and especially his failures and that's why I love it. I love the contradiction and the final message of Prowl: hatred has turned him into what he most detests. Ironically, Prowl is more decepticon than many cons and at the same time that hate is the fuel that drives him to improve every new plan and fight for a future and a peace that may get to destroy him. He is cruel, manipulative and ruthless but also has moments of weakness and even compassion ................. although he is still a bastard and has not been able to overcome his ex-boyfriend. I love Prowl because he is not a character, he is a person, he is very real and very human and the world and his own decisions have made him into what he is today.

2.- Starscream    

    Leaving megatron aside, my favorite decepticon is Starscream. Either in comics or in the animated series Screamer always amuses me and always manages to make me smile ... basically because I love to see him fail in everything he does. I do not joke, either bad luck or his own ambition always make him fail. If Prowl is hatred, Starscream is ambition. he reminds me a little the homuncle of FMAB Greed, he wants it all, power, wealth, fame, fear, respect and especially the decepticon leadership.

He knows he is the best option to be the leader of the decepticons and he is an incredibly ruthless person who does not hesitate to lie, murder and manipulate everyone to meet their own whims but like Prowl Star is much more than just ambition. I'm not going to say that he's not so bad or he can redeem himself or some stupidity of the style (I really hate that) but Starscream has a reason to be like that. He is an incredibly lonely person who has struggled to survive before, during and after the war. He has learned that he can not count on anyone because sooner or later they will betray him and that is why he only sees the people around him as pawns. He's logic: if you do not approach or attach to anyone they can not betray you. deep down he knows that sooner or later his bad deeds will overtake him and he must prepare himself.

And yet Starscrean has virtues as great as his flaws: he is incredibly determined and hardworking, when he wants something he does not skimp on resources, time or effort in getting it, he is extremely intelligent (probably not as much as Prowl but he is a force to have in account) and he always learns from his mistakes. I would say that's why he has had such a long reign in comics and even has moments of humanity and genuine compassion. Maybe he really wants to redeem himself ... but he knows that he is beyond all salvation and that for him it is too late.

3.-Cyclonus

The truth is that this is a character that I find it hard to talk about, basically because he is someone I love so much and I identify so much that I block myself. 

I will start strong: Cyclonus is my perfect waifu, he is a revision to the classic stereotype of the solitary warrior and constantly reminds us that every age, however dark or terrible it may have been, created beauty. Fuck, Cyclonus loves any form of art: music, writing, architecture and also he is a killing machine that can slice just about anyone, what else could you ask for? And in spite of him being so cultured he has a huge darkness inside him, of course Cy is fully aware of that and always tries to channel it ... with mixed results.

But the truth is that the feature with which I most identify with cyclonus is his sense of honor and loyalty, that is something that resonates a lot with me. The moment that I see Cyclonus is willing to do him on the side in order to ensure the happiness of the person he loves the most is something that makes my throat tighten. Besides that his relationship with Tailgate is the best yaoi I've read, let's be honest and he has the best sentence ever written. you want to know? You will have to read the comic because the spoiler is not from God.

4.- Megatron

Of course Megsi was to be in my topten, he is almost a god in my pantheon (sorry optimus). I love all the incarnations of Megatron except for the transformers prime novel (seriously, a revolutionary who hates the primes but he wants to be a prime …. what the hell?) But my favorite so far is the IDW Megatron , he is a very complex character that goes through different stages: fallen, self-discovery, acceptance, temptation, redemption … all a carousel of emotions. He pass from being a ruthless murderer to a pacifist in constant conflict with himself. Although my favorite aspect about megatron is its moral: we all deserve a second chance … but redeption is not as easy as bowing your head and apologizing. Throughout MTMTE and LL Megs works every minute of his life to redeem his mistakes even when he knows they are too big and as he advances towards his death he knows perfectly well that there is a possibility that no one will forgive him but that does not stop him. Megatron words always resonate strongly within me: We are all work in progress.

5.- RungMy second perfect waifu and a cinnamon roll too pure for this world. Rung is the most adorable autobot ever drawn … until he takes off his glasses and becomes the greatest latinlover ever created. But leaving aside my inclination for robots, Rung is an incredible character, I know that many joke about the theory which says that Rung is the self-inception of Roberts, but I think that rather Rung is the connection with the reader. He is a character that has been kept at bay from most problems by having a very convenient good luck, he is skinny, short, lovable, sometimes too much kind and he prefers conversation rather than confrontation but he is not weak On the contrary, Rung has incredible mental and emotional strength. he has not only endured that everyone, absolutely ALL mispronounce his name at least once, Rung listens to the problems and confessions of others around him to make a living; he literally knows the worst of all, he knows the darkness that dwells within each of his companions … and that never stops him from helping or comforting others. If I had to define the role of Rung in some archetype that would be the maternal one. Of course there are parents in fiction who are loving and protective, but the mother figure always ends up being kinder, the comforter and the one that drives you to improve and that is precisely the raxon for which I love Rung.I have met many maternal characters but what makes the difference with Rung (besides being male) is the moment in which (spoiler alert) during the kidnapping of Fortress Maximus, Rewind reproduces a part of the torture in Garrus 9 and Max, realizing that he is doing exactly the same as Overlord and reliving those horrible memories, he throws himself to the ground to mourn and Rung, with a patience of a saint, despite the kidnapping and even though Max had yanked his thumb out… he surrounds him with a kind arm and tells him that everything will be fine and everything ends for today. That’s something my mother could have done.Because deep down Rung is that, he is kindness and he teaches us the strength found in compassion and as the functionalist universe demonstrates, Rung possesses incredible strength of character and determination and he is capable of giving his life to save those who he care … and that’s a large number of people.

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