#i later got starscream and dreadwing

[tftrash]

tfp my beloved

[originalwinnerfanfish]

Well, I did it

Megatron - I love his tfp design. Probably one of the best iteration of Megs. He is huge, heavy armoured, his face covered with scars… He doesn’t looks like an ordinary military leader who is only capable of giving orders, but like real warrior who can destroy any enemy with his bare hands.

So, in the WOF version, he definitely shares some features with Princess Burn, not only because of his might, but also because of his horns shape and dirty-dark scales (that absorbed blood of his enemies)

Starscream - Boy, I hate him so much 🤣… but in the good way, trust me! In my opinion, when the show's creators make you feel such strong negative emotions towards a villain, it means they've done a great job. Also, I think that his animation in the show was absolutely incredible, because even though he's a 3D model, he still manages to move like a 2D character, which is amazing!

I feel that in my design he still looks more like a skywing, than an icewing (which is kinda logical)

Soundwave - This one was tricky. I couldn't figure out what his mask would look like, so I just made his face a really dark color. I think Soundwave has both gifts of the nightwings, and he’s equally great at telepathy and a future vision. So he doesn't really need equipment to predict enemy movements, which makes him an ideal communicator in the WOF setting. His Laserbeak is part of the armor enchanted by Shockwave, and it might also allow him to open portals (but I'm not sure with this one)

Shockwave - My favourite evil genius. He would definitely have animus magic and mind reading. I think Shockwave is the only one who has advanced the study of magic so far, precisely because he combined it with scientific knowledge and created safer methods of using it, that don't damage the mind. It's like if a Mastermind got animus magic in books.

I also like to think that he didn't heal the damaged part of his face just so that his enemies would fear him more)

Dreadwing - This man deserved better! It's really a shame that he was removed from the show so quickly due to financial problems. It would be great if his arc got a proper conclusion in season 3.

Considering that I didn't want to make him a hybrid, it was difficult to choose a suitable color palette. So let’s just say, that I tried my best😅

I don’t think that he would have any nightwing powers, but honestly it doesn’t even matter - this guy can make a bombs, what else does he need to be cool

Arachnid - Did anyone even doubt that she would be a hivewing? Damn, she even got her own “Othermind” virus. Her design was the easiest to work with - just a little poisonous ass (suspiciously similar to Maleficent).

Just like Starscream, I hate her, but in a good way. She's one of the creepiest characters in the entire series, who’s acting like a fucking heartless monster, especially with Arcee, but even so, there's always was something mesmerizing about her. I just really like strong female villains

Knockout - Wery bright and charismatic guy, definitely one of my fav cons!

I tried to draw him as handsome as possible. Worked a lot on the face shape and coloring, and as for me it turned out pretty nice (finally).

Most decepticons think Knockout is as stupid and lazy as all the other rainwings. And it's not like he completely disagrees with that. Of course he’s not stupid and lazy, but if it’s means less dirty work on the battlefield, well, he’ll continue act like a tipical rainwing

(I also believe that Megatron keeps him as an “art”)

Breakdown - Fun fact: "Operation Breakdown" was the very first thing I saw in this series. And it was an interesting experience for 8 year old me. Maybe that's why I'm so scared of eye gouging scenes in movies now…

I think that he didn't have any siblings initially due to his parents nature, and even after meeting Bulkhead, he felt uncomfortable among the other mudwings. And this is why he later chose the side of the decepticons. And maaaaybe because of one cute rainwing influence)

P.s.

I think that, being mostly nightwings and icewings, the decepticons are much more concerned about purity of their blood and rarely accept half-breeds into their ranks.

During the war, there were many animus dragons among decepticons, which is why they have so many artifacts that allowed teleportation and communication at a distance. But, honestly, I still can't imagine what Nemesis would look like in this AU

[cozzzynook]

Drift and Rodimus fragging for the first time. Drift thinking he did a really good job until he noticed Rodimus seemed unsatisfied. He tried to deny it telling him that he was the best frag he'd ever had.

However Drift knows he's lying and bothers him until he admits that during the war he interfaced with Soundwave and it was amazing. No one else could compare and it wasn't his fault.

Hear me out…

This is how Drift finds out Rodimus when he was Hot rod was a decepticon slut who fragged Soundwave multiple times to the point some of Soundwaves minicons are Rodimus’s sparklings as well.

Rodimus has fragged Soundwave on multiple occasions and he’s fragged Dreadwing and Skyquake together on multiple occasions as well. Rodimus admits he has a few sparklings and they’re all well taken care of and with decepticons.

Its why the decepticons bring no harm to him because he’s a high ranking decepticon carrier.

He’s got two sparklings with Soundwave, a set of twins that belong to Dreadwing and Skyquake—Drift knows their spikes are huge, he’s surprised Rodimus never ripped his valve taking the two.

Hot rod surprises him when he admits he’s been intimate with Tarn but not in a sexual way more of a Tarn drank his milk straight from his nozzles as a comfort and he’s acted like a carrier towards him ever since. Its just something he could never push away and the decepticons didn’t try to stop it since it made Tarn more stable.

Rodimus admits he’s fragged the seeker trine just once but he and Starscream are really just friends who helped each other with rut and heat cycles with the trine getting their turns as well. They really only want Bumblebee and he was more than happy to see his little brother get conjunxed with the three.

Drift didn’t see that coming but he should have since Bee is always sparked with a bitty too big for his tanks. No wonder the trine are always carrying him in their arms and the little bug doesn’t complain.

“Oh and then there was the time I fragged Deathhead. He’s actually such a sweet spark in berth he made me giggle and blush the entire time. Oh and it was nice having a frag sesh with Lockdown and Swindle, but really I just wanted to watch. They’re so cute and in love even if they don’t say it. Those two have been dancing around each other for millennia.”

Rodimus even tells him how he’s fragged Megatron on a series of occasions and that he has three sparklings with the former warlord who took great care of him and their sparklings.

“Honestly the only reason we didn’t conjunx was because of Optimus..He didn’t do anything it’s just…you know what nevermind. Point is, if I ever get sparked again I’d want him or Soundwave to be the sires. Dreadwing and Skyquake have a mate now and I don’t want to intrude. Though Soundwave does look like he needs a break..maybe I should bring all the minicons with me for a while so he can relax?”

Rodimus is just lost in thought while Drift is looking at him so surprised and horny because he wants that forge carrying his sparklings.

But then he stops and asks a very important question.

“Why didn’t you frag me when I was Deadlock?”

“Hm? Oh! You’re in love with Ratchet. Thats why. I’m still rooting for you two to conjunx,” Rodimus smiled before comming Soundwave and offering to take the minicons for a while.

Drift is just stuck because Rodimus is right.

He’s also stuck because not even a day later Rodimus is taking care of minicons, Tarn who snuck aboard and Megatron who eyes Rodimus taking care of all these bots like the surprisingly great carrier he is while playing with a vial he knows just has to be innermost energon.

Drift is comming Ratchet with a plan to keep Rodimus to themselves before he knows it, hoping he’s not too late when he sees another handful of cons walk in wanting the same thing.

[hallucinateonpaperspines]

This question is not important AT ALL but it’s going to keep me awake tonight fr. Do you think Starscream was serving cunt the MOMENT he was born with those killer ass heels he got, or did something stupid to his body when he was like equivalent of a teenager? OR are they just heels that he can take off?? Personally I just think it’s so funny to imagine a baby with stilettos waddle around but I wanna know your opinion fr fr. Anyways I hope you’re doing well!!!

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I love this question.

Based on some throwaway dialogue in RID (which does not exist in this Ba Sing Se because that show makes me cry in wasted opportunities) Bumblebee comments on Starscream's new bulkier design as something along the lines of "going back to his old frame-type" which implies that snatched waist and lanky limbed con originally would have looked similar to Skyquake and Dreadwing with actual armor and a lot more color/adornments.

Personally, I see two reasons for his changes;

A more aerodynamic design and a lighter frame could have helped with his flying prowess. Faster, more mobility, etc. Just further cementing himself as the elite flyer he's known for.

It was a way to seem less threatening to Megatron or maybe wiggle into King Con's more favorable side. Megatron, despite being heavily armored, is almost completely lacking in a paint job or any ornamentation other than the shoulder spikes. Perhaps Starscream, who from my understanding originates from a higher caste traditionally, sought to ender himself by mimicking the "fashion" statement. Removing anything superfluous from his frame in order to integrate to the traditionally low caste background Decepticons. And later, it might have been a way to make himself seem like a more frail physical threat to catch others off guard...

Ehem, background rambles aside, one thing I did notice was, that between the implied original frame and the one we see in Prime, both have the heels.

SO in my *not-really* professional opinion. The pencil-thin waist was the body argumentation, the heels came with him from the Allspark.

So baby Starscream waddling on heels is 100% canon to me (>▽<)

[bots-and-cons]

I’m on a top gun bender 😂 do you mind writing for tfp starscream, dreadwing, and megatron finding out their human s/o is a top gun pilot after seeing a report on her latest mission on the news. (A mission like the Top Gun Maverick one).

So I kinda read this wrong the first time, I read it as “ I’m a top gun bender” as in like a water bender or an airbender like in Avatar: The last airbender. Which just made me imagine them bending a fighter jet or something, which I found incredibly funny for some reason. I haven’t seen the movie but I do remember seeing trailers about it, I kinda just made up stuff that I thought would fit this so eeeehhh. The Dreadwing ended up very short compared to the other two but oh well

~Megatron~

•Megatron isn’t really interested in what’s going on with humans, since it doesn’t really affect him that much, but Soundwave keeps an eye on what’s going on around the world anyway and reports to him when he deems it necessary

•So when Soundwave happens to catch your mission on the news he of course reports it to Megatron because he recognized your squadron’s jets on the background of the news footage

•Megatron is pretty much in disbelief, because you had never told him about what line of work you were in, and to be fair, he had never really asked

•When you come to the Nemesis the next time, you can basically sense his annoyance as soon as you walk out the ground bridge

•He was there waiting for you and he confronted you right away

•The first thing he asked you was if you were a spy, because now he knew you worked for the army

•He was quite angry and you were a bit scared but you were much more annoyed

•There isn’t really sense in arguing with Megatron, when he decides you’ve done something wrong, he’s pretty difficult to convince otherwise

•It took a while, but you convinced him you were telling the truth, as you were, and he asked “What do you do then?”

•You explained to him that you were a pilot, which got his attention and you didn’t really explain any further

•”So you fly fighter jets?” he asked, now a little bit interested and having pretty much forgotten about his previous doubts of you spying on him

•Megatron was actually quite interested in your work and what you did, so he asked a lot of questions

•He got the great idea that you two could fly together after you were dona talking and while you figured it might be a bit hard to “borrow” one of your squadron’s seekers you agreed

•So one early evening, when it was still light outside, you snuck into the hangar at the base where you worked and off you went

•It was actually quite a lot of fun to fly with someone who had such incredibly over their flying

•Megatron literally is a jet so he has much more delicate control over himself than you ever could over a simple machine

•It’s a lot of fun, and while you do get into a bit of trouble from your commanding officer later it was totally worth it

•You knew you wouldn’t get fired or anything like that anyway, you’re the best pilot they’ve got so they can’t really afford to let you go

•You have to squeeze it out of him, but Megatron also admits he enjoyed himself quite a lot

~Starscream~

•Starscream wasn’t exactly ecstatic when he saw you being interviewed about your job, because that’s how he found out about what you do for work

•He didn’t really even think you could be a spy, that never really crossed his mind, because that would mean you would’ve managed to deceive him and he hadn’t caught it

•There’s also all the stuff about him thinking you would never betray him, because he doesn’t want to think you would ever do that to him

•Aaanyway, Starscream asks you about it when you come to the Nemesis later and you’re like “Oh, where did you hear that? I mean it’s true, but how did you find out?”

•He tells you Knockout showed him a news piece and you’re like “Yeah… that”

•You explain to him what you do and he definitely takes interest when he hears you fly fighter jets

•Starscream is of course like “I’d wager I fly better than you” with a very self assured smirk

•To his surprise you don’t take the bait and just go “Well yeah, you literally are a jet so you should be better at it than me”

•Starscream takes this as compliment, but he still asks if you’d like to prove him wrong

•You’re like “Sure I can try”

•This is all a ploy, because you’re very confident in your flying abilities and just want to lull him into a false sense of security and shock him

•This works quite well and when you go flying with him, he’s shocked by your abilities

•Like the control you seem to have over this machine is so precise and delicate, he’s honestly shocked

•He’s just left hovering there for a moment as you fly off

•You’re talking over the comms but Starscream went silent so you got worried and turned back

•It pretty much turns into a chase and you’re both having a ton of fun, which Starsream would of course not admit to, at least not without a bit of playful whining from you

~Dreadwing~

•You’d told Dreadwing about your job with pretty broad strokes, so he didn’t exactly know what you did, other than you worked for the army

•When he found out you were a pilot he told you he was quite impressed

•He’s always been a bit weirded out by the fact that flying is sort of hard for humans, like on their bodies and such 

•He’s always enjoyed it and he finds it an easy way to clear his head

•You tell him it’s pretty much the same for you, when you’re not on actual missions and are just training I mean

•You actually end up talking more about how great flying is, rather than the specifics of your job

•But Dreadwing is very impressed by your skills nonetheless, especially when he eventually sees you actually fly

[pzdragon666]

Gossip Time

It's nearly 3 in the afternoon on the Nemesis. KnockOut immediately walked over to his human phone as he created a chat.

-DramaKing makes group chat and changes the name to "The Boys + Psycho"-

-DramaKing added 3 participants-

-DramaKing changed their usernames-

Fabfinish: Yall know what time it is!!!

SoundSuperior: Question: why am I in this chat?

CommanderHighheels: wtf KnockOut!?

CannibalHolocaust: The fuck is my username named after a movie!?

CannibalHolocaust: wait- who's who? I'm Illusion

SoundSuperior: Name: Soundwave

CommanderHighheels: Starscream

DramaKing: KnockOut

DramaKing: Now boys (and girl) don't I have some good gossip for you!

SoundSuperior: Spill

DramaKing: OK so, a fight broke out like 3 hours ago cause some vehicons started arguing that Steve was like- dating StarScream and then they said StarScream was dating Megatron and then shit went down.

CannibalHolocaust: Oooh. Any of them died?

DramaKing: Nah cause Shockwave and Dreadwing separated them until one of them, I think their name is Vox like- threw a table at them.

CommanderHighheels: Question: are they OK?

DramaKing: They're fine. So, like, Shockwave then started beating the shit out of Vox until Megatron came and started yelling at him. Then another vehicon had the audacity to yell back at Megatron, and immediately a battle ensued on the Nemesis.

CannibalHolocaust: I didn't think Shockwave would like- lose his cool.

SoundSuperior: Query: same

CommanderHighheels: anymore gold gossip?

DramaKing: hmmm, hold up

-DramaKing adds Steve-

Steve: ???

CannibalHolocaust: Hey Steve. Welcome to the chat

Steve: Why am I here?

CommanderHighheels: got any tea to spill

Steve: actually, a lot!

SoundSuperior: Spill

-7 hours later-

Steve: and then they started like making out in front of me and I kinda gagged at it-

CommanderHighheels: LMAO

CannibalHolocaust: Bruh- IMAGINE

SoundSuperior: Question: Did you recover Steve?

Steve: kind of-

DramaKing: Anyway, it's late yall. Nighty night!

-DramaKing goes offline-

CannibalHolocaust: Night punks

CommanderHighheels: Night!

-CommanderHighheels & CannibalHolocaust go offline-

SoundSuperior: Night, guys!

-SoundSuperior offlines-

Surprise story for my favorite artists (their art inspires me everyday):

@chamm0y @breakitoutwildbreak

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All right, the story from Allspark🗡️

In the Allspark universe, Optimus is the president or the boss on Cybertron, and our "beloved" Megatron hides in the shadows.

At the expense of the old autobots:

Bumblebee, Arcee, Bulkhead, Willjack, Smoscreen, Windblay, Retchet and a separate team of Bumblebees from Reed, that is, Sideswipe, Strongarm, Drift, Grimlock, they work for the government or work together with Optimus as assistants, and the old Decepticon team::

Starscream, Shockwave, Soundwave and others.

At the expense of Knockout, he may be an Autobot or a Decepticon, but in extreme cases, he is like a teacher with a Doorbreak, they teach a warrior, well, that is, Knockout simply has nothing to do and he became a teacher.

And Ultra is still Optimus's deputy.

Well, at the expense of other Transformers, they have changed a lot in appearance and character. They're fine.

Let's now move on to the Autobots and Decepticons (the new generation)

Decepticons:: The

leader of the Decepticons is Redspear, later according to my idea he will hear Megatron's voice in his helmet when he takes the first step on Nemesis. Breaklawk is an assistant to Redspear (he's like a Starscream) Lowke will try his best to kill Red. Starwave (he's like Soundwave) and he's sooooooo devoted to Redspear, he can certainly talk. But only...... He doesn't really like to talk. Greensclock (he's like a Breakdown/Dreadwing, I'll decide later) he is. You can say a serious Decepticon. Makeshifter (I think he will be an Arachnid character) will try to take Red's place. Fabt as a Fabt character has not been decided.

Now my favorite Autobots::

The leader of the Autobots Dravlix, Dravlix is a former student of Solus Prime, but he still does not know that Megatronus Prime killed Solus ....... Drave has a daughter, Krusty, and according to the author of Krusty::

"Krusty wanted to be a destroyer at the academy, but she became a replacement scout (I don't know what else to call) due to the fact that she is not fighting very well yet and cannot train calmly. She is constantly hampered by Snickstripes, Creasy returns either early or does not return at all. ( yes, I am a "genius")"

Drave had a relationship with Dorlibreak, but now they have broken up. Everything was just terrible in their relationship. Swearing, sexism <-a lot, manipulation, tears(Drava), anger, hatred, pain. And that's why they broke up. Dravlix was not accepted into the Primes. Hollorbite is a top-class medic, and is a good friend) Drave's right-hand man. Luonul-of course he was a thief, but still he deserves respect. Cunning, can turn into any Decepticon. Dionels is a bad option for a scout, he very rarely smiles and laughs. Reijoshi (he's got a Willjack character) he's good with guns, he doesn't fuck around. Reijoshi is a former raker. Lowerbyte is a former thief. And he is a 2 scout, and a former Decepticon........

Raison is an ordinary policeman and Autobot) Follows the rules. Emiltvive..... MY FAVORITE CHARACTER 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

Emiltvive is a former gladiator in the Canon, he was won by Megatron. And after that, he has a long depression, and later Dravlix took him good-naturedly into the Autobots. And you can say he's 3 years younger than Krusty.....Emberhoof

and Nixala are the same character, but only Emberhoof is a former civil servant guardian. And Nixala is a teacher at the academy, Nixala and Emberhoof are like brother and sister (only they don't look alike together). Kreyson, Unicron's former partner. By the way, he is above Dravlix and others in the team. By the way, Kreyson can be shippered with Dravlix, perhaps this spike will be canon) Kreyson, he treats his boss (Dreylix) kindly.

Well, maybe....... It's just possible that peyring Kreison/Dravlix will be canon

#history #Allspark #Transformers

[lexicorp]

Okay so like--

Main examples imma have are gonna include TFP, Armada, and a bit of Earthspark [so warning for prob spoilers]

In both Armada and TFP, you can see thru the seasons of Star being relatively loyal, to salty from the shit and thus lashes out, to coming back to the corrupted reliance/attachment to Megatron despite it all

In Transformers Prime, Starscream ended up leaving the decepticons and was rogue for a large chunk of the show. The lead up was: Megatron being off tryna find some space rock while star lead the cons on earth, and did a smooth ass job, but as /soon/ as Meg got back he immediately began his downplaying and backhanding of Starscream's rank and accomplishments. So it's like, when Meg nukes himself, why would Star give a damn. Buuut of course Megatron ends up being alive cuz of dark energon, and eventually gets rezzed thru a stream of shenanigans, to then /immediately/ beat the shit outta Starscream for tryna keep him dead. In summary, it's just Starscream constantly being belittled and beat up as usual, until Megatron then nearly off lines him in a cave. Then replaces him with some sus ass spider, who immediately betrays star and leaves him to the bots.

But I digress, the whole bs that goes down that relates to our primary topic, is the fact of how screwy their relationship is. How Star ends up rogue and scrounging on his own for a long ass time, before eventually not being able to take starving in a broken down ship anymore, and comes back to Megatron with bargaining chips. Meg almost murders him again, but instead kills dreadwing in a false show of faith (even tho meg was already sus of dreadwing and prob woulda done it anyway) so then Star gets some life debt mentality and heavy fear of leaving the decepticons given the poor states he experienced before. /Thus/ the being stuck in the situation and trying rlly gd hard to please the bitch that uses him as a constant scapegoat. Enter unhealthy attachment to where Star actually later is absolutely distraught at Megatron's death instead. Which seems absurd but it just goes to show how much Megatron fucked up his psyche.

Then a good example of TFP star mirroring Megatron is most clear involving the Predacons. Star is terrified of them, but constantly uses violence to belittlement to try and get them to listen. To feel some semblance of power/control. Even if it doesn't always work. And of course, that behavior is unfair towards the Predacons and they didn't deserve it either. Then it perpetuated the cycle with said Predacons mirroring the behavior themselves.

Megatron's projection of the violence he learned as a gladiator, or D-16's breakdown over sentinel, lead him to do fucked up things. The situation he endured was screwed up, but that doesn't excuse his actions. It can only explain them. And if people can be happy for redemption arc Meg, there's no Primus damned reason why anyone should be against a Starscream redemption.

In Armada, Starscream was sparked into the war, and knew jack shit else. Megatron and him had this fucked up father son relationship in my eyes, and I'm sure you can see how that could go. Star desperately wants to impress Meg and prove himself capable, and sometimes went out of line with the air of a teenager. And often due to Megatron being a selfish lying bich. There's a lot of star getting beat up for shit that isn't his fault but told it is, and people constantly manipulating and gaslighting him and he questions his whole ass life but then even after leaving after a particularly wack incident. Then he again gets roped back next to Meg by some other guy. And in the end, as he's pulling his kamakazi stunt to /show/ Megatron's stubborn ass Unicron is real; he expresses how he came to realize that nothing he ever did was ever enough.

Then in Earthspark, you have that iconic S1 line when Megatron asks star "what if you could go somewhere safe?" After Star had just escaped a prison and Meg had shot/tossed him around intent on being him back minutes ago; star responds with: "nowhere is safe if it's with /you/." And that shit hits hella hard to me, especially with just how Meg reacts with having like, subtle surprise. Cuz Meg doesn't fully understand his own actions.

Megatron in Earthspark is constantly held accountable. Dunked on my bots and cons alike, and he takes it like a champ all things considered. And the pain around S2/3 Earthspark is that it was set up so much for them to allow Starscream to have some positive influences and work thru stuff as well, but they just didn't commit to that angle of it, and instead made Star the villain again for barely a good reason and not touching the trauma lore after that. Which was so dumb.

They could clearly do a good redemption lore bs with Megs, so they should have been able to equally with Star. They've both done shit things. To each other and others. Many people can debate on who did worse things (even if imo Star gets fucked up objectively more), but the fact in my mind is that the most important part is how a person/character can recognize their own behavior, and correct it and heal to be able to become a better person for themself and others. And be allowed to have moments of weakness and be met with understanding and soft correction from their peers.

Like, it's stupid to blame Starscream for Megatron beating the shit out of him. oOh bUt StArScReAm TrIeD tO kILl MeG oMG-- like bitch it's 99.9 percent of the time a behavior on Star's part born /from/ the abuse. Starscream wouldn't have even started following Megatron in the beginning if he didn't have some sort of respect for the guy! It's just all so insanely wack to me, and it's so /hard/ to clearly articulate my mental process about the whole thing.

Star lashes out as a defensive measure, as a learned means of "yeah this is totally how you are supposed to interact with people", and just out of straight warped perception based on the fact that he was so heavily shaped by his environment to the point that people being chill or nice or something feels uncomfortable.

Basically, I'm jus like-- Star has done questionable things, and can be a jerk, but that doesn't mean it's his fault he endured what he did. It's only his fault for his /own/ actions of hurting someone else as a result. And that doesn't exempt someone from being able to become better and deserve better.

I just had a huge realisation yesterday and I wanted to share this after going through some pretty horrible stuff over the weekend: Something I've always asked myself ever since getting into G1 Transformers was "why do you like Starscream so much even though he's a narcissistic bully? Why are you, someone who is a victim of narcissistic abuse, taking comfort in a narcissistic character?" Well, I think I finally figured it out. Because Starscream is also a victim of that very same abuse. I mean, he's beaten, called names, bullied, unappreciated, abused, and put through the wringer…and he internalised all that abuse because he knew no other way. He had no one to turn to, and the few bots who did support him, he treated like dirt. Once he had that freedom and power, he abused it and became the very thing that abused him. I have no doubt he was always self-centred, selfish, had a huge ego, etc. before all that but honestly? I think Megatron's abuse caused him to turn out the way he did. I could have turned out that way and it's a little scary, some of the parallels I'm drawing with him.

@ichbinmeltdown wrote a great analysis on Starscream that I want to share here:

"Megatron was abusive as hell to Starscream. He treated him horribly, and I legitimately almost cried a few times watching it. There's an episode called Starscream's Brigade that introduces the Combaticons, and I think that perfectly demonstrates the cycle of abuse. The entire world is against Starscream at pretty much every turn throughout the series, but none more so than Megatron. Every word out of his speech synthesizer to Starscream is to berate him, and he's constantly throwing him around, beating him, even ripping out his speech synthesizer in a scene from a previous episode (Hoist Goes Hollywood, IIRC). His own teammates don't like him, and even his brothers- Skywarp and Thundercracker, going off of the idea they're brothers- just... allow Megatron to abuse him. (Not to get into headcanons here, but I personally believe that Megatron's abuse fractured the Elite Trine's family dynamic. They are still brothers and love each other, but they're all too afraid of Megatron to really... stand up for each other as they did in the past.) And Starscream seemed to just snap in this episode. He treated the Combaticons poorly, and even when teaming up with Shockwave, he subjected him to a lot of the same ridicule and torment that Megatron put him through. He failed to realize Shockwave was the one of the only bots who would give him a chance- and unfortunately lashed out at him, which ruined his chances of Shockwave ever being a true friend and ally to him. Once Starscream had finally gotten a taste of power and not being under another bot's boot, he too became the very thing that he lived in fear of. And that really is how the cycle goes- when you're finally free from abuse, it can be tempting to overcompensate and take back all the power you were robbed of, at any cost whatsoever. Starscream, like D16 in Transformers One, snapped up this opportunity."

And the sad thing is, I've seen this in real life and I've internalised some of the abuse I've dealt with too. I'm not proud of it. Like the Seeker Trine, my own family dynamic has been fractured by similar abuse. I know there's traces of narcissism in my behaviour too, and I'm NOT proud of it. Maybe this is why I can forgive Starscream for being a narc, because I can see a little bit of my own personality/attitude/behaviour in him. Maybe it's because I know where it came from, I get why he acts that way and it's not just random and out of the blue. Maybe it's because--and I know this is a bold statement--I don't think he would do some of the stuff my own family did to me (blah blah blah he's a fictional character).

I didn't mean for this to turn into a long rant, so

TLDR: I finally figured out that part of the reason I love and relate to Starscream so much despite him internalising some of the abuse I went through, is because he was the victim of that same abuse.

[prowlspaparazzi]

That Dreadwing fic was amazing 🥺♥️!! Could you do something similar with wheeljack and/or starscream?

yo i got this ask on aug 6th and its the 31st im so sorry this is so late qwq hence why i call them “suggestions” and not “requests” cuz idk if im gonna even FOCKIN write. I only wrote it with Wheeljack for now but I may do Starscream (just a dif universe Starscream) at another time. wheeljack DOES call reader doll in this and that's like the ONLY implication of the reader being “femme” I try to write my readers as gn as possible but I couldn’t see Wheeljack calling his s/o any other nickname doll is just too perf. 

ANYWAYS. roll film. no tws there's no vomit like last time.

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TFP!Wheeljack x sick!(kinda)femme!reader

You struggled to hoist yourself up on the passenger seat of Wheeljack's ship. A little more than usual, which was odd. You pushed the thought from your mind as you looked out the front window.

"Another energon mine?" You asked.

"Yep. Gotta mark this one on the map for later use." Wheeljack answered, punching in some buttons on the side.

"Y'know...I'm down to steal a cube of energon from one of these places for you." You commented, turning to face him.

He continued inputting coordinates. "Heists are pretty dangerous, doll. Sure you're up for it?" Wheeljack asked. He was worried about you getting captured, but he wasn't a controlling lover by any means.

You were about to assure him, when a gust of wind picked up outside, causing the ship to tilt slightly. Wheeljack was quick to steady it but you, not so much. You shifted your stance to catch yourself but unfortunately, your knees gave out causing you to land with an 'oomph!' on the large metal seat you stood on.

You tried to laugh it off but were thrown into a string of nasty coughs. You covered your mouth to catch any germs and phlegm and turned away from Wheeljack, preoccupied with this coughing fit.

"You alright, doll?" Wheeljack asked with concern.

"Ugh. I don't feel alright." You answered after you were done. The familiar and indescribable feeling of malaise began to settle in your body. You were tired before sure, but after that coughing fit, you were now exhausted.  Your body began to ache and your arms felt weak.

"Hm. Better get you to the Autobot base. The other humans will know what to do." Slowly, the ship lifted and began to soar through the air.

You wanted to retort and say you could take care of this yourself, but instead, you resigned to rolling your eyes and laying down in the passenger seat.

-

After a quick WebMD diagnosis from Jack, Raf, and Miko, you all reached a consensus. You had the flu.

"I know I'm sick and everything, but do I really have to be in the hospital bed the whole time?" You spoke out loud to Wheeljack once the base had emptied out.

"Makes me think the flu is a lot worse than it probably is," Wheeljack responded, masking his worry. He had yet to familiarize himself with common human occurrences like annual illnesses.

"Trust me it's not. Lasts for a week, tops. As long as I take care of myself, that is." You reassured him, changing the position of the damp towel on your forehead. You unknowingly sighed in frustration.

"Something else on your mind? Other than that rag?" Wheeljack asked.

You shook your head absentmindedly. "It's just... I hate that this is happening right now. Like it couldn't wait? I just absolutely HAD to get sick right as I'm suggesting a way for me to contribute?"

"Contribute?"

"Well- I mean- Like I-" You stammered a bit. "I mean, I was hoping to do a tiny little energon heist as a way to be helpful to you... Sometimes I..." You stalled, afraid to put your strife into words.

With a bitter and defeated sigh, you continued. "Sometimes I feel guilty for not contributing and helping you. Sure I'll go in and take pics and record stuff but I get this feeling I should be doing more for you."

"____, you don't need to do more." Wheeljack seemed sad as he spoke. It hurt him to see you put so much weight on yourself.

"But I want to." You rebutted.

"It wouldn't be fair of me or anyone else to put that pressure on you. So don't go doing it to yourself. Having you around is all the help I need from you. You and your pretty doll eyes remind me why I keep fighting those 'cons. The only thing I expect of you is just..." Wheeljack lifted one of his hands to graze the side of your face. His metal digit was rigid and scratched up from over the years of fighting and tinkering, yet he was so gentle with you.

"Stay with me for as long as you want. And stay being my doll." Wheeljack's expression softened into a gentle smile, with lovesick eyes that met yours. The bitter feeling in your chest bloomed into a giddy, shy feeling. You hid your face in your hands in embarrassment, hiding your reddened face.

Wheeljack scoffed at you endearingly. "Geez, you got me all soft now like the other bots." He quickly glanced behind him to check for any others. After making sure the coast was clear he began to mass shift into a smaller form, easier to hug and kiss.

One of his servos wrapped around your torso, while the other one gently pulled your hands away from your face.

"When you get better we can still do that heist if you really want to. For the purposes of having fun and ticking off the 'cons, of course." Wheeljack met your eyes with that oh-so-familiar gleam of excitement.

"You make me feel better already." You spoke just above a whisper, your face inches from his. He smiled in response, his spark fluttering from holding you so close.

"Well not really. I still feel congested but... Y'know what I mean." You chuckled and Wheeljack laughed as well. You met his gaze and spoke again. "I'm sorry that our adventures are put on hold because of me." You smiled sadly at him.

Wheeljack shrugged. " It's not your fault. Plus, a rest stop doesn't hurt every once in a while. We can watch some of those movies you're always talking about as you get better. Just rest up and stay cozy for me."

"Oh wait there's actually a movie I've been wanting you to watch!" You squirmed out of Wheeljack's grasp and grabbed your laptop from your bag. The laptop landed with a soft plop on the hospital bed and you started typing in your password.

Wheeljack faced the screen but watched you during the entire process. You probably didn't realize the grip you had over his spark, and your quiet mumbles as you guided through web pages were so cute. He was in love, with you, and every detail of you.

Little did he know, you could see his lovesick eyes staring at you through the reflection of the laptop screen. On impulse, you turned your head and gave him a quick peck on the lips and turned your head back to the screen.

"There it is. Ok, I'm gonna press play." You spoke and you scooted over to give Wheeljack some room to sit. He opted to instead lift you up and sit you down in front of him.

"How's this?" Wheeljack asked. His voice was low and close to your ear. You knew he was doing this on purpose and you almost wanted to scoff at him. You decided to lean back into him.

"This is nice." You answered, a smile on your face.

"Yeah. It is." He replied.

[elindae-writes]

If it isn’t too much to ask, could you now rank the decepticons on “deserved a redemption arc or at least better than they got” scale from worst (ie megatron) to best? Thanks and also I love your story so much and I hope you are doing well

Megatron

Once you commit genocide you’re officially no longer redemption worthy. Like, ever. No bad childhood will make up for that. His constant toxic behavior and abusive nature also makes him irredeemable. Even if he had never committed genocide he still would’ve been irredeemable due to the sheer amount of abuse he put Starscream through.

Airachnid

Once again we have a character who is irredeemable. Her obvious sadistic glee and torturous methods cleanly slot her into the evil-spider-that-must-be-killed category. Yes, Starscream also does display glee at killing (“I personalllllllyyyyyy ext-INGUISHED the Autobot C L I F F J U M P E R”) but he never outright plays with his victims the way Airachnid does. Also she collects “trophies” from her kills and that is just nasty. She killed Tailgate, whom I know close to nothing about, but who seemed to be a sweetheart. :(

Shockwave

He had his emotions wiped so he therefore obviously doesn’t care anymore about redemption and is therefore literally unable to even emotionally comprehend why redemption is a good thing. If he somehow regained his emotions though then that would be a very different story. Shockwave the Scientist is a no-go, but Senator Shockwave could stand a chance of being shown the light.

Predaking

His might-makes-right mentality and brutal nature is obviously a big obstacle in his redemption. It’s not that he is unable to understand deeper emotions and moralities, it’s just that he doesn’t really want to. The main reason he is redeemable is because it was his severe mistreatment at the talons of Starscream that turned him into a villain. If he were treated better he could definitely turn out better. This is the same scenario for Skylynx and Darksteel.

Soundwave

He’s an interesting one. His obvious support of the Decepticon’s evil ways makes him a pretty big villain. It also doesn’t help that he stood by and not only enabled Megatron’s abuse of Starscream but that he also even helped the abuse happen. He is redeemable though because of his strong desire to have their home rebuilt! He wishes for it to be a much better place not only for bots of his frametype but also for casseticons. He was drawn to Megatronus in the first place because of his noble nature, so clearly Soundwave is a bot who knows a hero when he sees one. (Yes, Megatronus was genuinely a hero in the Unburied verse) Realizing that the true hero isn’t Megatron and hasn’t been him for a long time would be a painful revelation for him but would still be a believable thing for him to realize and later accept due to his logical nature.

Dreadwing

He has a very strict and honorable code of conduct and is determined to do things the right way. His strong sense of justice and nobility obviously makes him a rather good candidate for redemption; however, his code is simultaneously what makes him so likely and yet also so unlikely to be redeemed. His sense of justice is a part of his code, so that will help in redeeming him, but his code also unfortunately includes a strong sense of loyalty to Megatron. I get the sense that he’s deeply jaded and worn down by the war. He is desperate to rebuild their home that he will even allow it to be ruled by someone who is not really that sane (cough) Megatron.

Knock Out

I always got the sense that he was never truly loyal to the cause and was just kind of there, which is obviously why he so casually swapped sides in Predacons Rising. Despite being very ruthless at times he does show signs of compassion, such as when he implies to Starscream that he’s concerned about his wellbeing. There’s also that scene where Starscream basically says “you’ve been a good coworker” and Knock Out says “you’re hawt” in return.

Breakdown

He was always the most compassionate to the drones and showed them so much more kindness than even the Autobots ever did. He is welcoming and accepting. He even was unfortunately “intrigued” by Airachnid and more curious about her than disgusted, thus displaying his warm and accepting nature. He briefly considered joining the Autobots when they helped rescue him from M.E.C.H. He’s not even all that different from Bulkhead. The fact that his betrayal of Bulkhead still stings Bulk to this day implies that Breakdown and him must have been good friends, which implies Breakdown really must be a nice guy.

Starscream

Him!! He is at the top of the list for many reasons. Despite being rude to his drones he does actually do a rather good job managing them. He successfully and competently supported the Nemesis for years all on his own. He is obviously Megatron’s victim. He shows signs of inner nobility, such as when he spares Arcee.

(I wanted to include Makeshift but we know nothing about him :( so let’s just say that maybe he also could have been redeemed)

[starprin101]

If Transformers Played Among Us:

Honestly just giant robots being petty as fuck

Everyone is just killing each other out of spite

Like, "Hey Starscream and Airachnid remember when you killed both my partners hahahahaha-" *proceeds to stab one with knife and other with tongue*

If an Autobot gets killed they blame the 'Cons and vise versa

If anyone stands for one second too long an emergency meeting is announced

They constantly argue and waste voting time

When Megatron dies they immediately vote Starscream

90% of the time it's true but he still vehemently denies it

Bots like Wheeljack, Grimlock, Dreadwing, Random/Hothead Blitzwing, etc. prefer to kill to win while the quieter ones sabotage a lot like Soundwave, Shockwave, Bumblebee, Ratchet etc.

When Optimus is imposter I imagine he doesn't really want to kill anyone

He'll probably kill one Decepticon and let everyone else do the work for him

While everyone's arguing he'll still be the one to say "Hey maybe we should stop and actually think about this" but nobody listens

And he just happily watches while they vote everyone off for him and he barely does anything

He'll only kill someone if they catch him venting or smth

Megatron's the only one who's onto him

Like, "Hey don't you think it's a little suspicious how every bot who's been left alone with him is found dead later on, and he's always there to fix whatever is sabotaged but never actually does it, and no one's seen him do a single task, and he never says where he was or what his tasks are, and he's found the most bodies? Shouldn't we at least consider him a suspect?"

*Megatron was not the Imposter*

Knockout would absolutely flirt with the imposter

Bonus if Breakdown's the imposter

Prowl always wins

Always

Ratchet gets very annoyed when he's interrupted from his tasks, especially if it's an emergency meeting

He can't bring himself to to kill anyone. It's against his coding

Unless they're a Decepticon

Bumblebee and Sari would be an unstoppable team

Like they'll always stick together and do tasks and double kill together

They always got an alibi for eachother

"It can't be Sari. We were in Electrical the whole round"

"But I went in there many times and didn't see either of you once"

"..... scrap."

Things get messy when only one of them is the Imposter

Sentinel would be in Security watching cameras the whole time

He's the one who calls as many emergency meetings as he's allowed

"IT'S JAZZ HE'S JUST WALKING AROUND AIMLESSLY AND APPEARING FROM ONE ROOM TO THE OTHER!!!"

"I think your computer's glitching, and this is my first time playing, I don't know where everything is"

"THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE IMPOSTER WOULD SAY!!!"

*Sentinel was the Imposter*

Because Soundwave apparently is a telepath he can accurately guess who the imposter is

Everyone thinks it's unfair since he has the advantage so they set some rules

He can only accuse the imposter if he witnessed them venting or killing

And he can't follow them either

He sticks to these rules which actually help for when he's the imposter

"Soundwave you were the last bot with Starscream, did you see anything?"

*hiding a bloody knife behind his back* "Soundwave: witnessed nothing"

Soundwave would absolutely hack the game just so he can get more pets

For a technologically advanced alien species they sure can be a bunch of dumbasses

This all started because Raf, Jack and Miko were trying to explain the "Red's kinda sus" meme to the Autobots

[angelfishcake]

Let's go in depth! (Tho it might take a bit)

Imagine ... Dragons: Obvious reasons

Decepticon side:

Who Will Rescue Me?: If this were done cinematically, it would focus on Starscream flying over Kaon, getting ambushed, then getting buried alive, all done in a storybook format, then switches to proper animation with the reveal of Alexis crawling out and collapsing in the mud by the end. I have it so high up because it makes me tear up, it's the vibes I feel for the whole Miracle fic, and having it right after The Woods didn't feel quite right

Eat Your Young: All about Starscream eating vehicons and the energon cubes Alexis brings him, and being mean in general :/

Just a Girl: Sort of a montage of Alexis doing super dangerous stuff, asking herself what she did to deserve this, the fact that she's an actual child, and Starscream's false realization of "holy scrap the power of Primus could be in this thing" but she's ... just a girl

Blumenkranz: Slipstream makes her entrance via coolest female villian theme ever

Scylla: Slipstream attacking Alexis and Alexis being utterly helpless to stop it

Someday: Starscream thinking to himself that having Alexis as a pet could be cool, right after the failed negotiation with Slipstream

The Woods: THE BACKSTORY EPISODE

Die in a Fire: super fun one, because I put it here mostly for Slipstream's feelings toward Starscream, especially after Skyquake's death and the delicious irony, but it can work for a number of characters! Like Starscream -> Slipstream, Dreadwing -> Starscream, Starscream -> Megatron, Alexis -> Slipstream, Dreadwing -> Alexis, and Starscream <- -> Alexis for a little bit. Just a giant hate circle!

Deceptacon: Obviously I had to add it by the title alone, and the scene of Starscream and Alexis storming the tower fits perfectly!

Little Dark Age: Mostly the end of the song, the whole fight of Slipstream and Dreadwing vs Starscream (and Alexis)

First Flight: After Dreadwing and Slipstream are killed, Starscream takes Alexis for her first ever proper flight and she's awestruck

Long, Long Time Ago: Starscream and Alexis finding the destroyed village and Alexis's breakdown

Rider's Lullaby: Starscream comforting Alexis (mostly the vibes, cuz he's not good with comforting words) and taking off with her for Vos

Babylon: Alexis arriving at Vos and all the fun stuff that comes with that :D!

The Attic: Alexis finds the machine that Starscream was gonna stick her/Sari in

The Night We Met: Starscream's guilt/regret on how he treated Alexis in Kaon, extra points if there's flashforwards during "I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you" of Alexis hating him in the future

that's what I got for actual scenes, I'll get to the speculation portions later, but moving on to the 3-second transition

Autobot side:

Penelope Graves: I broke my own rules with this one because it's a speculation song with how Sari was born(?), but the VIBES man the VIBES

Medieval Diss Track: Sari and Alexis being little twerps before Starscream shows up and the trauma kicks in

Sad Banjo Song: Sari looking over her ruined home after the vehicons destroyed it then goes with the Autobots to Acutlus

History Has Its Eyes on You: again, the vibes, of Optimus talking to Bumblebee when BB was struggling on how to tell Sari that Alexis is gone

Ki Toko To: Bumblebee and Sari go sledding!!!

Crying: Sari learning that Alexis is dead (as far as they know) and that the Autobots were never going to attempt a rescue

Ruined Lullaby: Sari's guilt on how she wasn't able to save Alexis, bonus points if the music video is trippy

Life: Sari's resulting depression

The House Raising: The mob attacking Bumblebee then him getting hit with the cannon, then Sari bringing him back when the opera kicks in

The Touch: Sari and Ratchet get Teletraan One up and running again like his proper self, and I just had to have this song in here

That's it for now!

Do you have any songs that fit in the miracle series? For playlist purposes? 👉👈

Oh dude you have no idea. I come up with new scenes while daydreaming to songs.

I've been listening to a lot of Epic: The Musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans recently. 'Just a Man' fits Optimus pretty well, considering all the compromises and difficult decisions he has to make during the war.

'Monster' really suits where I'm going with Alexis as she gets older, as does 'Different Beast' and 'Scylla'. A song that works if she's ever tricking someone, pretending to be all helpless and innocent, is the 'Title Theme of Majora's Mask, Zelda' that song gets real sinister towards the end, like Alexis' mask slipping is away the second her enemy turns their back.

'Valley Of Wolves - Take It All' suits Sari as does 'Undertale - Hopes and Dreams'. Any loud final battle theme works for her honestly XD. Sixx: A.M. - 'This is Gonna Hurt' is another one for Sari.

If you want a song for the series as a whole, then 'Louder than Words' by Less Friction is what I would put down.

And if I'm ever daydreaming about Starscream hunting someone down, especially after they have hurt Alexis, I listen to 'The Prowler's theme' from 'Into the Spiderverse.'

[thanksjro]

Dark Cybertron Chapter 7: Simon Furman and His Lack of a Relationship with the Singular They

The Lost Light is still being attacked by Ammonites, like it has been for the last few issues. Hound’s taken over as acting field commander and is calling all the shots. Chromedome uses his stupid beefy arms to punch things. Trailcutter is screaming. Swerve’s got his My First Blaster™ strapped to the top of his alt, and saves Crosscut.

Crosscut is our toy tie-in character for this issue. He’s a senator, and drafts play scripts. Arguably one of the more interesting tie-in guys, at least in theory. In practice, all he’s doing is forgetting Swerve’s name, which isn’t going to help the guy with his through-the-floor self esteem.

Crosscut points out that Swerve’s communicator is flashing, and while he’s checking his voicemail, all the Ammonites seemingly vanish… at least, until the gang realizes that they’re instead heading for Metroplex.

Inside, it would appear that the Rod Pod Squad aren’t actually dead, though their ride is probably toast. Before everything went to hell, a wall slammed down from the ceiling, protecting everyone from being utterly destroyed. Skids has figured out what all the arrow graffiti is about, earning himself a BOMP from Getaway. Looks like the internal structure of Metroplex has been shifting, and that’s why they got the runaround last issue. Also, Whirl’s gone missing, but we don’t have time to worry about that, because Swerve just called back with some bad news: the admium flakes they saw earlier mean that Metroplex has an alchemical virus.

Don’t you look at me like that, I’m getting to the explanation.

Alchemical viruses turn the metal of the body into admium, a rare, incredibly soft metal that will break down very easily and also kill you. It’s pretty bad to have. Also, contagious. Fellas better get outta there, posthaste.

The Ammonites are also storming Metroplex, so that’s an additional issue. God, it just never stops, does it?

Over in the Dead Universe-

Is

Is that a fortress of evil in the shape of Nova Prime’s head?

Is that a goddamned fortress-

Anyway, the center of Nova Prime’s universe is Kup, who was the guy who got oh-so-dramatically revealed at the end of the last issue. Unfortunately, Orion Pax also considers Kup to be very near and dear to his heart, and the whole “being turned into a space bridge” thing is going to be an issue.

This is the weirdest love triangle I’ve ever seen.

How the hell did Kup even get here? Well, in order to know that, you’ve have to had read Infestation, the bullshit zombie crossover comic miniseries that ran in 2011.

But I’m not going to do that.

Because I don’t want to.

After a bit of showboating, Nova Prime orders Nightbeat to take Team -Imus to their cell.

Over on Cybertron, Shockwave is getting real sick of Galvatron’s shit, but Galvatron is too busy posing dramatically to notice. Waspinator, Metalhawk, and Dreadwing float in the air. I’m not sure what they’re up to, but I’m sure it’s important. Jhiaxus shows up with a gaggle of goons, one of which seems to have forgotten his face in the jar by the door.

Galvatron gets shamed for tearing Megatron in half, since that sort of broke the space bridge in his torso, but he’s too busy being classist to care. Waspinator floats in the background. What are you doing back there, pal?

Shockwave orders Waspinator to carry Megatron to his quarters, but Galvatron’s decided that he’s going to be an asshole about everything today, even when he’s being helpful.

…Okay, Boomer.

Waspinator still ends up hauling Megatron’s ass away, and Shockwave and Jhiaxus have a little chat.

Back in the dead universe, Team -Imus are in their cell, as Nightbeat double-checks the locks or some shit, I dunno. They’re gonna get their sparks ripped out later in the day, so that the space bridge Kup’s got running in his torso finally has enough juice to actually friggin’ work.

Then Rodimus flashes his mystery hand at Nightbeat and makes him fall down. In order for the whole brainwashing thing to work, Nightbeat’s true nature had to be suppressed; however, whenever Rodimus shows off his mystery hand, it makes his brain kickstart back on, messing up the brainwashing.

Well, you know what, Cyclonus? That’s not my fucking fault. Blame Roberts and Barber. I certainly do.

ORION PLEASE.

We finally get a look at what Rodimus’ hand mystery is, and if you read Eugenesis, you might know where this is going. It would seem Nightbeat has not- which is for the best, really, given what happens to him in it- but he’s still a pretty smart cookie and can suss it out through the power of deductive reasoning. Here’s what he’s working with:

After a moment’s deliberation, he asks Rodimus, who he knows to be the captain of a ship, how many folks are riding around in the space yacht. Rodimus tells him 190, and shows off that he’s got his lipgloss on, and it would seem that Nightbeat’s a free man again. He lets everyone out of the cell, and they gear up to go pick up Kup. Orion Pax is confused as to what the hell just happened here, and Rodimus promises to explain why he’s carved a division problem into his palm once they aren’t in immediate danger.

Back on Cybertron, Galvatron and Waspinator are dragging Megatron’s halves towards Shockwave’s quarters, when Bumblebee pops out of nowhere with a gun and a mouth full of swears. He’s here for Megatron, and he’s not taking “no” for an answer. Galvatron thinks that this is super fucking funny, and tosses Megatron like an empty soda can into the wall so he can squash a bug.

It looks pretty grim for ol’ Bumblebee, but suddenly Galvatron realizes he left the oven on that Megatron’s gone missing.

Oh, there he is!

Megatron blasts Galvatron in the torso, then- in a surprisingly polite manner, at least for him- tells Bumblebee to grab his legs so they can get out of here. As the two of them traverse the burned-out husk that is Cybertron, Megatron decides to be a complete bastard, as he smiles at the idea of Starscream suffering. Like, dude, I know he kept you in weird hamster ball jail and spouted soliloquies in your general direction every single day you were there, but folks are dying right now.

Speaking of Starscream, he’s having a moment, as he sits on his knees and stares at the sky in abject horror while the world burns around him. Scoop comes by to yell at him for being a harbinger of death, and generally being a less than stellar leader, and Starscream halfway calls himself a dumpster fire.

Back inside Metroplex, the Rod Pod Squad are fortifying their defenses against the Ammonites, even though they really need to be getting the hell out of there before they get turned into talcum powder through the power of alchemy. Whirl shows back up, the Ammonite hanger-on in his grasp, and we get the skinny on why the hell the Ammonites are involved with this whole debacle anyway.

The answer is Shockwave.

The answer is always Shockwave.

Then the little dude explodes. It’s fine, they do that sometimes.

Before he went kablooey, little dude uttered the phrase, “if the dead are not enough.” We’ll get to what all that’s about later. Right now there are far more important things going on.

LIKE MOTHERFUCKING LADY ROBOTS.

But why is this such a big deal? Why is it that non-male coded robots who aren’t Arcee haven’t been seen up until this point? What’s up with that, huh?

Well, in order to understand IDW’s complicated relationship with gender, we’re going to have to do some digging into the history of Transformers as a franchise.

We’re going to have to talk about Simon Furman.

We're going to have to talk about Prime's Rib.

And we’re going to have to talk about Spotlight: Arcee.

Simon Furman wrote a lot of Transformers. You cannot get away from Simon Furman, because the man is so ingrained in the franchise. He was there for Marvel UK, he was there for the back half of Marvel US, he wrote for several other publication runs of Transformers, he worked on the Earth Wars mobile game-

-and, of course, IDW publishing.

Because Furman is so very well established and known in the industry, he gets the benefit of not being questioned on a lot of the calls he makes.

Which is a problem, because the man is a massive misogynist.

In 1989, Marvel UK #234 came out, containing the story entitled “Prime’s Rib!” in which the Autobots built Arcee in order to appease a group of strawmen feminists. Of course, one female Transformer isn’t enough for them, and they yell at poor Optimus Prime for trying his best. This is the point where Hot Rod is used as a writer avatar to try to smooth things over with the reader, because you see, the Transformers don’t even know what sexual dimorphism and gender identity even is, so of course they wouldn’t have female members of their race! Jazz is used for a breast joke. Arcee acts like a massive, stereotypical bitch the whole time, despite not having been written like that at all in the other issues. It’s a bad comic with hideous ideology leaking out of it, and I'm halfway sorry I read it, so I’ll just give you the essence of this nightmare.

Oh, those big, mean, scary feminists are bullying the robots for living their lives, huh Furman? Life is just so goddamned unfair when a woman exists in your fucking line of sight.

Furman has gone on record saying that he doesn’t see the point in including the concept of gender in a race of non-sexually reproducing robots. He sees them as “genderless.” Which, if that statement existed in a vacuum, I could perhaps see where he’s coming from.

But Simon Furman does not exist in a vacuum. He exists in a world where sexism exists, something that he’s willingly participated in.

Let me back up that little tidbit with a bit of a disclaimer: I’m not in any way an expert on gender. I didn’t study it in school, I’ve not read an obscene amount of pieces on the topic. I’m not even sure about it on a personal level.

Maybe some of y’all have noticed the whole other set of pronouns I slapped into the bio in the last month or so. It doesn’t really matter, 90% of people don’t read the FAQ/About, I know that, and then 95% of those people only read it once, and this has been a relatively new self-revelation.

BUT ANYWAY.

Let’s be… fair about this. 1989 was a while ago, a lot of research on the concept of gender has taken place, maybe he’s ch-

Oh, what’s that?

Misogyny?

Transphobia?

Transmisogyny?

Treating women as an aberration being forced on Transformers as a whole?

And the writing is clunky and overstuffed?

Well, that’s just fucking fantastic, Furman, thanks so much.

This was in 2008. Because Furman established that female Transformers weren’t something natural, but rather made, and forcibly at that, and nobody fucking smacked his little hands away from this terrible idea, AND nobody tried to fix it for years, there was a lack of gender diversity within IDW until 2014, with the release of Dark Cybertron Chapter 7. Because we waited six years to fix this nightmare, things couldn’t be done quite the way that Roberts had been hoping, in that he intended for our female robots to not have the whole… fembot build happening. IDW wanted them immediately clockable, because this was very clearly a problem that needed rectifying.

So, in short: because of boys’ club mentality and a lack of understanding of what gender means or why it’s important for roughly 50% of the world’s population to have representation in media, Nautica and Chromia are here now.

And despite the convoluted road they had to take, I love them very much.

[withered-tears]

5 and 13 for any TF character of your choice!

5: Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

I was going to say no at first, cuz i dont think this is the sort of "ruined" the question means? but, while i wasn't too far into MTMTE, i read a Rung x Whirl oneshot, and thought it was pretty cute!

But then i learned more about Rung and the whole parient x doctor thing and went "oh yeah this ship sorta not my cup of tea anymore"

13 Unpopular opinion about XXX character?:

Dominus is actually a pretty nice guy when you think about it.

...

Ha i bet you got worried there for a sec, okay now the actual answer:

This is about Transformers Prime Megatron.

I understand that the character had to be written as a cartoon villain, but i just cant help but think that TP megatron is just, dumb.

Like, he makes very dumb decisions.

"Hi my name is Dreadwing im a hella strong decepticon 100% loyal and oh whoops megatron just killed me to protect starscream who have already tried to assassinate him like 3 times this week."

And thats not even the worst of it, like Megan buddy, you have DOZENS and DOZENS (if not like a HUNDRED) decepticons on your ship under your command, theres only FIVE (granted, plus 3 more later on) autobots on the planet.

Letme do the math for you:

100 decepticons + less than 10 autobots + 7 billion humans all over + groundbridge technology = STOP BEING DUMB AND JUST SEND SMALL TEAM OF STEVES TO SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTACK LIKE 20 RANDOM HUMAN CITIES ALL OVER THE PLANET YOU IDIOT.

what are the autobots gonna do?? Prioritize the squishies, leaving you all the time in the world to do... whatever the fuck you wanted to do on earth.

ALSO GIVME SOUNDWAVE A RAISE

[quirkychaoticraptor]

HCs, maybe....

So, I’m bored out of my head, right now...and, I think I may have come up with a few headcanons for “Transformers: Prime”. I don’t usually do headcanons, often, of anything.... I prefer reading them and just write fanfics xD. Anyway, it may not be a lot, but here’s what I came up with:

 On his off days, Optimus acts like a father-figure to Jack and Miko, no matter what...and does, at some point, gets Raf that snowball.

Ratchet, as much of a grumpy man (bot) as he is, becomes like a father-figure to Rafael, since the kid’s real family is so large and pretty much ignore him.

Arcee, although she doesn’t fully understand the point, starts to help Jack out more with the girls at his school...sometimes.

Bulkhead will sometimes sneak Miko over to concerts of their favorite bands, and be back home before her host-parents notice.

Bumblebee helps Rafael on all of his school projects, and Rafael tries to teach Bumblebee some dance-moves that aren’t “the robot”.

Smokescreen goes to watch NASCAR races on his off days...sometimes, he brings Jack along.

Ultra Magnus joins everyone on almost everything in order to try and get a better understanding of humans in general.

Wheeljack actually secretly worries over Miko whenever she’s with him and Bulkhead in battle, but never lets it show. Not even a sliver.

Knockout secretly wishes he had a human partner of his own, but wouldn’t really know what to do if it ever happened. Perhaps he should get some advice from Arcee, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee? He would have his own rules, though...like, don’t even think about touching his paint-job! You’ll lose....

Starscream preens his wings whenever he’s alone, and has some free-time.

Megatron and Soundwave actually admire humans, but absolutely refuse to show it in any way, shape, or form.

When nobody is around, Breakdown will watch YouTubers and will laugh at whatever jokes they make.

Before the war on Cybertron, Dreadwing and Skyquake had heard of the human species, and took interest in doing a lot of research on them before the two ended up separated.

Makeshift once copied Megatron’s looks...the results were the opposite of pleasant.

Airachnid wasn’t always cruel and torturous...in fact, she once had a partner of her own, but then he died in battle. This left her heartbroken, and very envious of anybot who had partners...yes, even Decepticons.

Shockwave, when he’s not working, researches anything medicinal and how the human body works...you never know! Just in case!

 Uh...I think I actually got everybody xD. I didn’t mean to make such a long list! Ideas kept hitting me in the face! Lol....! Well, anyway, those are my HCs. Probably going to be the last time I do any sort of HCs because frankly, I just don’t do it, often, and I prefer writing fanfics and leaving HCs to other peeps xD. Hope you enjoyed these, anyway! If some or all of them have already been written up by someone else, I deeply apologize. I didn’t know, and I also don’t recall seeing anything quite like them when I was reading TFP headcanons, earlier. I did try, though....

 I’m gonna go get myself some lunch. Later!

[whatudottu]

You give me ideas? Feed me free thoughts? Angry Sex Drwing/Screamer for you! Dreadwing and Starscream Drunk Sex for you!

Starscream: I will take everything that your brother is and make it mine. His love, his body, and his twin-! Wait-

Dreadwing: I’m his twin-

hah, dreadscream sounds like a horror movie, but starwing is just plain- WAIT- dreadstar? dreadful screaming? idk none work as well as starquake. fitting, actually-

OH FUCK YEAH! Tumblr can’t delete you out of existence-!

Just in time for another thought hehe- Inspired by me choking on my tea and holding my cough in so I don’t splash, or worse drop the cup, if Starscream gets invited to more tea times with the twins, Dreadwing probably quickly develops the resistance to spittakes and split tea-

/starscream training both twins to swallow hehehe

One, it's good to be back! Two, this makes it sound like you want me to write some hanky panky with starscream and DREADWING, dot-