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mysticfoxdesigns · 4 months ago
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The sailors say when the storms roll in, a mysterious giant robot appears. Guiding lost ships back to shore, and then disappearing once more into the mist.
Everyone thinks that it is just a sea tale, a message of hope for when sailors are stuck in storms. Come on, a giant robot that takes ships back to shore? That's science fiction.
But what if it wasn't a story.
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in1-nutshell · 10 months ago
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So, I saw that thing you did in RID where buddy is basically Perrito from The Last Wish and I love it!
Not RID related, but is it ok if I request TFP cons with a buddy who is like Death from The Last Wish? Same personality, probably uses that creepy whistle of his, loves to instill fear in the Autobots. Thanks! Love your work!
Hi! Thank you for the compliment! We are back with the Puss in Boots characters again! If this is not what you wanted, please let me know.
Hope you enjoy!
Bot Buddy who has the personality of Death from "Puss in Boots The Last Wish" with Megatron, Predaking, and Starscream
SFW, Cybertronian reader
TFP
Megatron
Megatron feels a bit embarrassed about this… he doesn’t remember recruiting this solider.
Truly doesn’t remember recruiting them. It’s almost as if they just appeared one day and just stuck around since.
Megatron can not deny the absolute powerhouse they are on the battlefield. A part of him shudders when he sees the damage his soldier does.
He makes sure that Soundwave always has tabs on them.
But there is no denying the fact that they get the work done. Maybe a little too efficient. Megatron masks this uneasiness the best he can, but he thinks that they might be onto him.
Over the course of the war, he has never felt so uneasy about someone than when he is with them.
Chills are sent down his spinal struts when he hears their signature whistle.
Megatron pity’s the poor bots that have to meet the end of their duel scythes while looking into their cruel red optics.
“My Leige.”--Buddy
“Soldier.”--Megatron
“When will my next assignment be ready? I have some unfinished business with the Autobots, specifically the yellow one.”--Buddy
“The yellow one?”--Megatron
“Yes, perhaps no whistle for him the next time we meet.”—Buddy
Megatron is thinking whether to give the Autobots a warning that his nutjob of soldier is onto them.
Starscream
Buddy is one of the reasons he wants to be leader of the Decepticon’s.
Either get rid of them or brainwash them to be loyal to him only.
He can’t remember when they joined the Decepticon army. They just appeared behind him one day and stuck to the shadows from then on.
Starscream can’t stand being near them.
He wants to run in the opposite direction every time he hears that whistle.
The only reason why he hasn’t tried to kill the soldier is because he firmly believes that Buddy is a supernatural being.
Not that he would ever admit it out loud.
Buddy whistling because they want to.
Starscream shrieking.
Predaking
He finds the soldier very peculiar and a strange fellow.
Predaking hasn’t had much interaction with the soldier.
Some passing through the halls and quick exchange in words, nothing more.
But every time they cross paths Predaking feels a sudden wave of coolness wash over him. Not a pleasant one, a cold unforgiving one.  
They are more of a cryptid on the ship. He has heard more stories about this Con through the Vechicons gossip.
But he has heard the whistle around the ship from time to time.
He may be the strongest Con on board, but he knows that there is a higher presence on board, and he is not going to mess with it.
Buddy whistling while walking through the halls thinking about the bird they saw today.
Predaking a couple doors down.
“…Nope.”
Turns the other way and leaves the ship.
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shottybot · 2 months ago
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✦ — hello, fellow degenerates;
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Hello, I'm Shotgun/Shotty.
I am 34 and this blog is NSFW.
MINORS DNI. 🔞
I'm nonbinary and use they/she pronouns. I am panromantic caedosexual with a probably unhealthy love for Transformers (esp tfp!Soundwave, my cryptid boi 💜). I'm some flavor of neurodivergent, so patience with my nonsense is appreciated.
At the moment, this blog is for random posts I feel like making, along with sharing content I particularly enjoy. I would like to get back into writing, so may dip my toes into headcanons/fics.
My askbox is always open, so feel free to chat.
masterlist;
for, you know, when I actually get around to writing anything...
blog rules;
I absolutely do not tolerate hatred, whether its homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, what have you. If I see it, you will be blocked on sight. Minors and ageless blogs will be blocked upon any interaction. Yes, I check. I'm just here to be a freak, and restricting access is for all of our own good.
ask rules;
When you submit an ask, please be clear about character/s and prompts. The way my brain works means I need clear direction. I may not take an ask if I'm uncomfortable with it. Or I may take one and be a bit slow about it because my brain hates me. I ask for patience, please. Thots and prayers for my mind. I'm always happy to hear about your thoughts, especially the thirsty ones. We're dehydrated up in this bitch. Be kind. Hateful asks will be deleted.
i will write;
Fem and gender-neutral reader, since I have actual life experience as such. I can try writing for masc reader, but as I have no life experience in that area, it may be a little hard.
Mainly human reader. I can also do Cybertronian reader, it's not a problem, it's just that human is my tea. HCs, Fluff, Angst, Smut (not quite yet). Pretty much any Transformers character. If I don't know them, I'll do a deep dive for information before writing. I am most familiar with Transformers Prime, Bayverse, Knightverse, and One. I'm starting to watch G1, so that's on the table as well. Some kinks. There are a few that I'm personally a fan of and absolutely do not mind trying to write for.
i will not write;
NSFW involving minors, animals, or corpses. NonCon (I may write DubCon at most, but that's a big maybe). Excrement, Vore, and some others. I'm not a big fan of Alpha/Omega stuff, but if I can write it similarly to Dom/Sub then I'm okay. Anything hateful or bigoted.
common tags;
#shottyrambles - just talkin' #shottywatches - live reactions to movies/shows #shottydraws - my art stuff I'm sure there will be more...
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brandwhorestarscream · 2 years ago
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I've got the feeling that Optimus/Orion can understand human speech, considering how curious he is and him being a mech in the pursuit of knowledge.
Also, OP just watching the humans panic when they find out that harems are a thing in Cybertronian culture. He just sit back and relax.
This is his soap opera now and he's enjoying every moment of it.
I love this actually. He settles in for the new episode every week with a bowl of snacks and laughs about the inaccuracies of the characters they're based on. The humans had to make some wild guesses about certain things. They made Skyfire the prince's secret ex-boyfriend who faked his death, only to retuen years later in an attempt to seduce the future king and get power in his kingdom, only to end up added to the harem because Starscream still has unresolved feelings for him. It's laughably inaccurate because of the two Starscream is the clever, scheme-y one and Skyfire is just a big ol bumblepuppy
He's also way too invested in all the individual plots. Knockout is a recovering anorexic doctor that's struggling with relapse and hiding it from his husband, Drift is a gold digger trophy wife secretly plotting to kill her husband whom she originally only married for money but is now slowly falling in love with, and the cryptid Soundfam is a silent, deaf crime family that runs an underground black market for organs supplied to them by, *gasp*, Ratchet!
He probably has a soap opera club, lbr XD he and a bunch of friends (maybe even the stars that inspired the show? 😂) get together weekly to talk about the latest episode. He has to translate everything for them cuz he's the only one that speaks english, and everytime something dramatic happens they all go
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artobotsrollout · 4 years ago
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Headcanon that Starscream has a tendency to just sorta perch on things sometimes.
Megatron has a standing order that if anyone tells his Second in Command about how it's 'unusual behaviour' they are to be immediately executed because he absolutely loves seeing the unnerved expressions everyone gets from this cryptid gargoyle of a mech just chilling on high objects.
This is not a seeker thing but exclusively a Starscream thing.
Dreadwing almost had a spark attack once when he heard Starscream cackle and call him a showoff from god only knows where during a battle where he swore it was just him and one autobot in the area. Sure maybe he was doing more sword tricks than strictly necessary but HEY RUDE!
Breakdown asked Megatron about it once and the warlord couldn't really give a solid answer beyond 'I think he enjoys feeling tall.'
It's not super goofy looking either he somehow manages to make it look elegant and intimidating. Knockout asked Breakdown to boost him on top of some spare energon cubes once because he was curious and... even he looked goofy as all hell. How the ever loving hell Starscream pulls it off is a mystery.
Starscream got super drunk on high grade once and perched on high, but fairly well hidden spots in the rec room and other communal areas and whispered the dumbest rumours during crowded hours to make it seem as though anyone could have said it. He also chucked small rocks at crew members every now and then and quietly cackled at the baffled and slightly offended confusion. He still refuses to correct the rumours he started and it takes all his willpower not to laugh anytime he hears them. Some of them have evolved too and he thinks it's the funniest shit.
Rumours that are absolutely made up but Starscream refuses to correct:
-Knockout is the reason Soundwave wears a mask all the time. Soundwave should never have scratched his finish. (Knockout actually appreciates this one for the fear factor it instills and Soundwave hasn't corrected it cause he thinks it's hilarious. He may have once or twice even stoked the fire of this rumour)
-Megatron and Optimus are secretly an item currently and just good at hiding it. (cue knowing looks and nudges from vehicons whenever Megatron tries to get Optimus's attention.)
-Megatron was never actually a gladiator, he just was super into fighting movies and payed for body mods to look cool.
-Optimus was not an archivist but the real gladiator who just liked to read a lot.
-Megatron is a lightweight. (Megatron enjoys proving this rumour wrong to the shame of the asker. It's still around cause no one wants to admit how Megatron absolutely decimated them in drinking games like they were a beginning game NPC who challenged Megs and his level 100 Charizard.)
-Megatron is Breakdown's brother. (Cue a seriously confused Breakdown.)
-Ratchet was always that strong and good a fighter. Synth-en had nothing to do with it beyond making him more impulsive. Team Prime had to nerf him so their medic didn't make them all look bad.
-Soundwave is basically the cybertronian equivalent of a demon. Only a select few cybertronians can see him and if you can see him don't look at him or talk about him unless you want him going all enderman on your ass.
-Humans eat Dark Energon being the spawn of Unicron and everything.
-Airachnid is what happens when you mix spiders and bad energon.
-Breakdown lost his eye because he looked at Soundwave and Soundwave went all enderman on his ass.
-Starscream has already killed Megatron and taken over. Megatron is actually just a cloned puppet that Soundwave and Starscream use to keep subjects loyal.
-Knockout personally did the Empurata procedure on Shockwave (the whole remove head and replace with single optic deal ) . Shockwave never should have scratched his finish.
-Megatron and Optimus are secretly the same guy.
-Starscream is Amalgamous Prime in disguise
-Megatron once punched his own reflection because it 'looked at him funny'
-Knockout and Bumblebee are the same guy.
-The human Illuminati conspiracy is actually Soundwave brainwashing popular humans to do his bidding.
-Megatron eats humans sometimes.
-Megatron eats vehicons sometimes
-Megatron is a bad dancer (No one knows if this is true or false, not even Starscream. Drunk Starscream just thought a rumour about it would be really funny.)
-Megatron is bad at math.
LISTEN Starscream started so many unflattering ones about Megatron.
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witchysolfan · 3 years ago
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I love the comic of hecate and knock out, the history of Soundwave and aracne, and more! I could read all day about your au!! The words are not enough to express how much I love your witches and heretics au.
I am curious, how Earth come to be in your au?
Aw shucks, you’re gonna make me blush. But I do see you enjoying the AU and I’m happy you like it so much! I actually thought of doing little drabbles to give a more solid timeline of storylines in it. I might actually do that soon.
As for how Earth came to be, I’m assuming the supernatural interacting with cybertronian aspects of it. I saw a post on TFP characters meeting cryptids and supernatural entities and was inspired by that. Also some Halloween fanart of Knockout as a witch I saw. It sort of snow balled from there.
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thenamesblurrito · 4 years ago
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realized that Misfire and Transmutate are in the same room, so I can kill two birds with one stone!
Sky Lynx is the coolest bot around, and he knows it. An onyxoid frame shape, on top of being a size 5 triple changer with a shuttle and a beast alt, a rockin’ paintjob, and a stellar personality? Dude, he is magnificent. He may have modal triple fracture, where his responsive, reactionary, and deflective personality slices are linked to what mode he’s currently in, but he doesn’t let that get him down at all. There isn’t a subject he doesn’t tackle with enthusiasm, not a peer he doesn’t spare a smile for, no challenge he doesn’t rise to! Truly, his presence is a boon to this prestigious Academy, and he is going to make sure that everyone benefits from it. His roommates are the most blessed of all!
Misfire has bumbled his way from Carcer to Cybertron in his typical nonsensical manner, grinning the whole time. He’s gotten some weird comments about his chronic bleaching, but he genuinely likes his sunspots, Cybertronians just have no sense of style. His grades vary wildly, but the one thing he’s dedicated to above all is cryptid hunting with the other Scavengers, an extracurricular club chasing after all the spooky rumors. Heroes are for noobs, he’s going after the Necrobot! While he considers himself an amateur photographer, it’s rare that he ever manages to get his subject in the frame. He’s only just started to remember to take the lens cap off first. His size 4 seeker frame has upraised wings instead of split, so he often accidentally smack people in the face when he waggles them in excitement.
Treadbolt did not expect to end up here, but she isn’t complaining. Her friend Spacewarp also made it into the Academy, and the two of them get up to the same shenanigans that they did back on Caminus. She isn’t one for dramatics, very down to earth and practical, but she isn’t above making someone else spaz out and laughing at the result. Sometimes she deliberately points Misfire in the direction of a stupid idea and then lets him loose, just so she can watch the fallout. Her heavy-duty size 3 earthmover alt makes her stronger than average, which comes in handy during PE.
Sparkstalker loves very few things, and his frame is not one of them. Sure, he’s got a beautiful paintjob, but on an alt mode so misshapen and unclear as his, the colors are wasted. His size 2 beastformer alt is so nonspecific that it’s only barely modeled after some type of insecticon. Whatever, he’s just going to focus on becoming the most skilled programmer in the world while he’s attending the Academy. No one else from the Firecon Den passed the exams, which he’s glad of. It’s nice to have a break from his idiot siblings. Not even his roommates are as obnoxious as they were. He promised himself that he wouldn’t care about anything other than success, but, well... there’s this one Camien who keeps being nice to him...
Transmutate remains enthralled by the way the world works, despite the fact that the world has deemed her a burden. She’s a Mutacon with no alt mode, as well as having nonstandard circuitry, making it difficult to pick up and respond to social cues in a “typical” manner. She’s learned to pantomime these social cues fairly well, but she can’t keep it up forever, and a change in her routines stresses her out. Despite these difficulties, the best thing about this Academy is how it provides in-depth education on every subject to every student, instead of regulating by function. She can pursue her special interest in history, sociology, and biology freely, often losing hours to reading in the library long after other students have gone to recharge. While she doesn’t always trust her assessment of relationships, she’s certain that her roommates are her friends and speaks to them freely about the things she learns on a daily basis.
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elindae-writes · 4 years ago
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Ok, this is all about your headcanons. Is Starscream the oldest/youngest/middle member of his trine? Did he get his trine before or after losing Skyfire? During his time in the Decepticons? How did he meet his trinemates? Was there a cool ceremony? Just tell me everything about Seekers! (Without major spoilers, of course.)
He’s the youngest and he trined Skywarp and Thundercracker after he lost Skyfire and also after he first met Megatron. So they were officially in a trine before they joined the Decepticons. He convinced them to join the ‘Cons and without spoiling too much now bitterly regrets roping them into joining Megatron.
The scenes in which he meets the boys and trines them are going to appear later on, maybe during the Orion Pax arc, so I don’t want to spoil those, but I will gladly indulge your request for cool Seeker facts.
Seekers think in three dimensions and not two due to them being flyers and always having to ascend/descend. This is part of the reason they are so claustrophobic, it’s because they are highly attuned to sensing what’s above them at all times and are therefore hyperaware of when the ceiling is too low.
In Seekercant the word for “grounder” is just “taxi-er” because whenever airplanes are about to take off they taxi around first, so Seekers basically just see grounders as wingless bots who taxi everywhere without taking off.
Seekers are unusual in that they see their alt-modes as their true natural forms and think of their bipedal root-modes as their actual alternate modes. This is weird even by flyer standards.
Seekers used to go on giant migrations. I haven’t entirely thought this out because I’m not sure where they’d actually migrate to--maybe they’d just all instinctively fly up and around Vos without leaving the city, or maybe they’d go off and visit ancient older nesting sites built by ancient Seekers. Either way I just like the imagery of thousands of Seekers blackening the skies with their numbers and then the sad image of Starscream trying to complete a grand Seeker migration all by himself because there is no one else left. But someone still needs to follow the ancient winds, so it’s gotta be him.
Starscream is tiny by Seeker standards and Dreadwing and Skyquake are actually more average-sized. It’s also my headcanon his RID frame used to be his old frame, so when Megs downsized him he got fussy about it because he genuinely felt like a bit of his Seeker heritage got taken away.
There were a bunch of different towers in Vos and they all had their own slightly different cultures. Seekers from one tower would whistle and chirp in Seekercant in slightly different tones than Seekers from another tower, like the way whales from different pods have their own unique dialects. Starscream’s fellow Seekers from his tower were infamous for speaking real fancy-like, I don’t know why but I just picture them as speaking in weirdly complex, vague, and mystical ways like the elves from the Lord of the Rings. Despite there being hundreds of different dialects each Seeker is capable of instinctively recognizing the dialect you’re speaking and can just tell what tower you’re from. There was also a Seeker equivalent of Australia somewhere in Vos and it was completely full of weird and intense Cybertronian animals, it was just like that one weird tower where all of the odd little drones and robots ended up. I just like the idea of Vosian Australian memes.
Starscream was from a really high-ranking family, aka the equivalent of Seeker nobility, and was maybe in line to become or at the very least is closely related to the Winglord. That’s why it was such a scandal when he got the heck out of Dodge and decided to abandon his proud noble military family so that he could go blow stuff up in a lab in Iacon.
Shuttles have their own culture, but are weirdly symbiotic with Seekers. I just like the imagery of throngs of tiny Seekers who wandered around their towers with the occasional giant shuttle just lumbering through. Shuttles adopted Seekers and vice versa. Seekers were extremely touchy about whoever adopts baby Seekerlings and shuttles were the only non-Seekers who were allowed to adopt them. When Starscream moved out of Vos and got himself a roommate in Iacon his family was like “who?? who is dwelling with you, I refuse to allow you to have a non-Seeker roommate, we’d much rather have you dwell alone then dirty yourself by living with an Iaconian--”
And then Starscream just sent over a picture of Skyfire and then his family just said  “we will make an exception for him because he looks very polite”
Seekers were infamous across Cybertronian for being--I’m not sure if this is the right word--cryptids? They hate using doors, so if you’re a grounder and your Seeker buddy is bopping by for a visit you’ll just hear a soft tap tap tap by your window and you’dlllook over and see your winged friend waiting for you to open it up and maybe you’d shout something along the lines of “THE DOOR WORKS FINE”
And then your Seeker friend would just flare his wings and get all offended and it would be a whole thing--
Seekers very rarely make non-Seeker friends, but when they do they tend to make friendships for life. That is not foreshadowing, no, not at all. Non-fliers back on Cybertron would even leave their windows unlocked for their Seeker friends--even though the door would work just fine.
Another weird thing about Seekers is that they hate it when people actually see them entering or exiting a room. You’ll just turn around and a Seeker will be there, and then suddenly they won’t be, hence their cryptic reputation around Cybertron. They are infamous for being overdramatic and theatrical, but they just think of everybody else as being underdramatic.
They have no concept of personal space when in bipedal mode. When flying they normally have to fly wide apart in order to avoid collisions (military trines or just trines that are really in-synch are the exception, they normally flew only a few inches apart) so when in bipedal mode they make up for the lack of physical contact during flying by skooching up real close to each other when back on the ground. Seekers are very very good at forming neat and orderly lines. They have a tendency to sandwich confused and surprised grounders who are shocked to have their personal space so suddenly taken up by a bunch of pairs of wings.
Back when Vos was intact there was a big debate going on as to the proper way to teach your Seekerling to fly. There were two schools of thought:
Send your Seekerling to a school with safety nets and attentive instructors and teach the Seekerlings to just hover, then ascend three feet off the ground, then five feet, and then so on.
Or just chuck your Seekerling out of a tower 10,000 feet in the air while shouting “fLAP” and then just hoping for the best. That was how Starscream was taught. It’s also how he taught Eradicons to fly. He’d have them walk up to the edge, he’d go behind and just give them a good kick, and then shout “THIS IS THE VOSIAN WAY”
And then they’d return to the deck of the Nemesis, cold and shaking, and ask “why?”
And then Starscream would whisper back even more gently “it’s  t r a d i t i o n”
Whenever Seekerlings were really really tiny, as in only a few weeks or months old, the adult Seekers would transform, then also have their Seekerling transform into a very smol plane, and then they would secure the Seekerling to their back before taking flight. It’s like when that Boeing jet carried space shuttle Endeavour around, but much cuter. Seekers carried their newsparks around on their backs between their wings and their wings would widen in order to create more room. You can actually tell if a Seeker has tended to newsparks by just looking at their back. Starscream babysitted a lot, so he has this modification. I just like the idea of Seekers walking around like possums with like six Seekerlings on their back, they gotta make room, it’s the only way I could think of to accomodate all the kiddos
Seekerlings are like newborn horses. They can get up and run--or in their case, transform and fly--right after being sparked. The moment their systems go online they then immediately fly off and crash somewhere. Seekerling caretakers had it rough.
Seekers had potlucks. Their systems require very fine and refined energon, so they are very good at tasting subtle flavors. In other words, Vos was home to the Cybertronian version of professional chefs. Their energon was famous for being gourmet and it would be served in fine-dining restaurants throughout the rest of Cybertron. But back in Vos they’d just casually serve each other what was essentially gourmet energon during potlucks like it was no big deal. Like imagine going to the neighbor’s potluck and they’re all eating caviar.
Seekers instinctively cluster around each other in multiples of three. Three’s a very a lucky number in their culture and they had a base-six counting system.
Trinebonds are mostly just full of a very intense and platonic brother love, but there were some trines in which you’d have two Seekers adopt a more parental role towards the third, and in some other trines there would be more romance involved, but for the most part they were just bros through and through.
When a Seeker dies the other two feel an agonizing pain, but will eventually re-trine with a new third in an attempt to feel whole again. Seekers who lose both trinemates will tend to have a full-on mental breakdown and will get so stressed that their spark will actually begin to flare erratically, which unfortunately prevents them from re-trining. Seekers who lost both trinemates and yet who managed to pull through the pain and trine again were treated with great respect.
Trined Seekers are capable of sensing what kind of vague mood their two buddies are feeling at any given time. They can detect when their trinemates are in root-mode or alt-mode or when they’re healthy or sick. Seekers will lose the ability to sense their trinebonds when there’s too much distance between them or whenever their trinemates go into a deep coma-like stasis that slows their spark down.
All of the Seekers in a tower would be almost always all distantly related. The Seekers who lived beneath you were your distant cousins on one side of your family and the Seekers who lived above you were your even more distant cousins but like 53 times removed, but still family and therefore still invited to the family potluck!! They’re all like hobbits in that they are obsessed with genealogy and will gladly talk about it for hours on end. Seekers will greet each other by explaining their genealogy. This really confuses grounders.
Some random grounder: “Oh, hi, how are you?”
Starscream, probably: “I AM STARSCREAM SON OF STARFLIGHT SON OF SKYECHO SON OF AIRHALO SON OF SWIFTWING--”
The poor grounder: *softly* “What the fuck”
If you don’t interrupt the Seeker then they will just keep recounting their genealogy on the assumption that you are actually intrigued. This can go for hours. Seekers are mortified when they learn that grounders do not know the names, personalities, likes, dislikes, and favorite childhood snacks of their distant great-great-great-great-great grandfathers.
Orphaned Seekers who didn’t know their genealogy had multiple options: get adopted, then just list off the adopted family’s bloodline, or if they didn’t get adopted then they’d just list off the names of Vos’s mythological heroes and figures, or maybe even just claim Primus as their ancestor (which isn’t even wrong.) This is kind of like how people in ancient times claimed to be descended from gods. The human equivalent of this would be some dude walking up to you and saying “I am Bob, son of Zeus!”
Some Seeker towers had certain naming conventions. Like you’d have one tower full of Seekers who are all named after cloud formations, and another tower full of Seekers named after noises, like “whistle” or “blast,” and you guessed it--maybe even “scream.”
To be honest I’m not sure if I want Starscream to be a very common or very rare name. Vos was made up of ancient warring clans that all united under the first Winglord (he/she took Vos under their “wing” hence the title) and maybe they could’ve been named Starscream? In most human societies everybody and their neighbor always would want to name their kiddos after the current ruler, but in Vos maybe it was very rare and very bold of Seekers to name their child after the current ruler because it would be seen as an attempt to snatch up that ruler’s glory. So to name your Seekerling Starscream would be the Vosian equivalent of naming your son Gaius Julius Caesar. He’s an intense bot so it makes sense that he’d also have a very intense name.
But then again I also like the idea of the Autobots just thinking of Starscream’s name as being weird and rich and odd and  e x o t i c  but then finding out it’s the Vosian equivalent of John Smith and that there were eight Starscreams on any block at any given time.
Maybe Seekers would change their name whenever they have a big event happen to them, like a trining for example. I think a culture obsessed around airflow would be fine with people changing aspects of their identity like that because then you’re being like the wind, flowing and changing with the same wind that carries you. It’s also my headcanon that this is why Seekers change their frames a lot more. Your frame isn’t you, it contains you, and if you change then it would be really weird not to change the way you look too. 
Despite being really lax about some things Seekers can be very very strict and traditional about other things, such as etiquette. If you’re meeting a new Seeker for the first time and you rotate your wings 70 degrees clockwise that means “may the skies of the holy 70th tower of Vos bless you” but if you rotate your wings anti-clockwise it means “I curse your grandfather!” And then Starscream would just gasp in horror and then shout “DO NOT BESMIRCH THE MEMORY OF SKYECHO”
Some Seeker names were common--like, too common. There were a few thousand Skyechoes, Windblasts, and Driftwings who drifted around at any given moment. This made role-call in school very painful. Some caretakers would try to be edgy about it. “Oh, my son isn’t named Driftwing, he’s named Dreadwing!”
Seekers cremated their dead but in the most intense way possible. They took their dead up and just let them burn up in the atmosphere so that they can become one with the sky. This resulted in some pretty spectacular meteor showers.
Same random grounder: “What a beautiful shooting star!”
Starscream, casually: “Oh, that’s my grandpa, SKYECHO SON OF AIRHALO SON OF SWIFTWING--”
Same unfortunate grounder: “wHAT--”
Seekers make noises all the time and are very rarely silent. They hum when content, beep when excited, chirp when riled up, rumble when confused, trill when happy, and so on. Starscream used to be a chatterbox but was forced to repress his chitterings because Megatron would always tell him to shut up. He’s going to trill more and more throughout Unburied, especially around Optimus.
Seeker towers were infamous for their weird architecture. They weren’t designed to ever be wandered around in while in your bipedal mode. No staircases, period. Just extremely tall ceilings and arches with curved corridors everybody flew through with lots of balconies you could land on. There were lots of holes in the wall that they could fly through that led to actual rooms where they would transform and be bipedal (berthrooms, washracks, etc) but then after they slept/ate/partied they were just like “that was fun guys, gotta go” and then just flung themselves out of a hole in the wall over a 1,000 foot drop and then just transformed in midair and flew off. Grounders couldn’t visit the towers due to there being no grounder-friendly infrastructure. Special buildings had to be built near the ground to help accommodate visiting grounders, but you only ever really saw these kinds of grounder-friendly accommodations in towers meant to receive diplomats.
They had bathhouses in their towers, like the ancient Romans but with robots instead of old dudes in togas. Just giant birdbaths basically. Just lots and lots of splashing and chittering.
Seekers preen themselves, their circuitry is delicate and even the slightest of contaminants can cause big problems. That’s why they have such sharp talons---for getting in the small spots. And for stabbing people. That’s a nice bonus, too. They preen each other all the time. There were some regions on their wings that could be preened by anybody, but some other parts of the wings that could only be preened by close friends such as trinemates. So the outer planes of the wing could be preened by just a general buddy, but the actual area where they connect to the back? That’s trinemate-only territory right there. It’s not a sexual thing, just a cultural taboo they had.
When Dreadwing makes his grand debut I think I might have a scene in which him and Starscream are preening each other while angrily bickering, not because they actually like each other, but just because they’re the only Seekers around and Starscream’s had a rock stuck in his wing seam and slag it, Dreadwing is the only bot who knows how to get it out--so it’d just be angry bird bickering and arguing preen time.
“You killed my brother!”
Starscream would then flutter angrily and say something like, “NO, BUMBLEBEE DID, STOP BLAMING ME--please get that rock out of my wing seam k thX--IT WAS THE SCOUT’S FAULT!”
And then Dreadwing would just be like, “Skyquake is dead, and it’s all YOUR FAULT--I also have a rather unfortunate rock located in my wing seam, can you remove that--and it’s because of your cowardice I am now brotherless!”
Seeker talons were actually retractable. Some Seekers would have their talons out literally all the time though, these were Seekers who were high-ranking in the military or who were just on some quest of personal revenge. After the war began they modified their talons to just always be sharp because you don’t want to accidentally retract them when in battle.
I am only just now realizing that this got kind of long, huh. I hope this wasn’t too much!! I might post more Seeker headcanons in the future.
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G1 Episode 45: Transcript
[This can also be found on AO3!]
[Stinger]
O: Because again, he's an overconfident bastard.
[Intro]
O: Hello, and welcome to the Afterspark Podcast, an episode by episode recap of the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon.  I'm Owls.
S: And I’m Specs.
O: And today we're going to be talking about episode number 45, The Secret of Omega Supreme.  Let's talk about giant robots, shall we?
S: Mm, we start out our episode today with the Constructicons maneuvering an asteroid via moving a rocket.
O: They call back to the Con base, and we get a special guest, Sideswipe standing next to Megatron as he communicates with the Constructicons.
S: We assume that this is supposed to be Soundwave.
O: And in fact is Soundwave in a later shot.
S: Yaaaaaaay…
O: Coloring mistakes!  This was more than a coloring mistake, it was a straight-up drawing mistake! [laughs]
S: Yep, animation errors, what can you say?  Megatron orders Astrotrain to meet with the Constructicons.
O: Meanwhile, (in space) Cosmos is observing the Constructicons on the asteroid and comments on the energy readings coming from said asteroid.
S: Cosmos reports all of this to Prime at the Ark.
O: Prime is a jerk, and tells Cosmos that he needs, “conclusive evidence,” before they make any sort of move and orders him back into space.
S: Ah, poor Cosmos.
O: Cosmos leaves, and Prime goes to talk to the, “One other Autobot who can go into space,” Omega Supreme.
S: What?  Skyfire can't do this?  Is he just off on sabbatical all this time?
O: Oh no, he quit.  He's totally got tired of being their taxi.  I feel like we haven't seen him last- in such- such a long time!
S: He's very overqualified for being a taxi.
O: Yeah!  Right?
S: Optimus drives out into the middle of the woods and calls for Omega Supreme who, um, emerges from the woods, despite you know, being many times taller than the woods.
O: Meet the Pacific Northwest’s new cryptid!
S: The wild man of the woods, Omega Supreme!
O: Obviously, he just plays poker with Sasquatch on you know, friday nights or something, because he's in the Pacific Northwest! [laughs]
S: Mm-hmm.  Omega seems a touch miffed at being interrupted until Optimus mentions the Constructicons.
O: So come to find out, Omega really fucking hates the Constructicons.
S: With um, very good reason as it turns out because Optimus pushes Omega to tell him why he fucking hates the Constructicons.
B: [laugh]
O: And I love that Omega is basically like, “It's private.”
S: But Optimus cares not for privacy, and insists that Omega tell him anyway.
O: I hope you're ready for some tragic backstory.
S: For Optimus’, I mean, the audience's sake, Omega talks reasonably normally as he talks about his past.  His- his sentences are normally truncated in case you haven't seen this. He's not a terribly verbose uh, mech.
O: Yeah, and this often carries over into other versions of him as well.
S: Mm-hm.
[Apparently the actual reason for this was because the writer didn’t know about Omega’s speech pattern, so the dialogue editors had to insert Prime’s request for the flashback to work.  ~O]
O: But long ago, Omega Supreme was built as a Guardian robot.
S: Occasionally uh, Guardian robots will get brought up again, but eh.  We see him getting repaired by a rather strange looking medic that never shows up again.
O: And Omega Supreme was the Guardian robot specifically for Crystal City.
S: It looks like a sparkly, glittery, white city.  It kind of reminds me of the Epcot.
O: Which is like, “Welcome to Walt Disney World, Cybertronian location!” [laughs]
S: Yeah, but I guess Crystal City is super fancy art/science city or something?
O: Right.  Uh, so he then reveals that he and the Constructicons used to be friends and that they were the ones that built Crystal City.
S: Mm-hm, and either they were completely bullshitting Omega for quite a while, or they do appear to genuinely be friends.
O: Omega's even smiling.
S: Mm-hm.  Which is very unusual for him.
O: He's very stoic.
S: Yep.
O: But like a creeper, Megatron lurks around a corner watching Omega and the Constructicons talk. [laughs]
S: Oh god.
O: Apparently, he made a device called a ‘Robo-Smasher’ that forcefully reprogrammed Cybertrons [Cybertronians] to be loyal to him.
S: It is just as crazy as it sounds, and it looks rather disturbing, heh.
O: Very tentacley.  I'm not saying I'm kink shaming Megatron, but I'm kink shaming Megatron
S:I think we both are i mean he kind of warrants it considering-
O: Tentacles!  Why are there so many tentacles, Megatron!?!
S: Yes, considering all the tentacles.
O: Regardless, the Constructicons are next on his little ‘hit list’.
S: The Constructicons enter Crystal City with the intention of performing maintenance.
O: But Megatron traps them in a room and unleashes the Robo-Smasher on them.
S: How did he get that in there!?
O: No one fucking knows!  Omega Supreme is stationed in front of the Crystal City when the Constructicons come up to him and say the capital city is being attacked by the Decepticons.
S: Nevermind that they were, you know, just inside the city and apparently are approaching from the outside in this scene or maybe there's some weird time manipulation but who knows-
O: Right!  But we- we are given no indication that any amount of time has passed.  Which granted, considering the show it could have been a week, I don't know but- but yeah, I- I don't know how any of this happened!
S: Yep, so they convince Omega to leave and that they will guard Crystal City in his place.
O: At some point Omega Supreme realizes there isn't an attack and becomes concerned (presumably because he is aware of the Robo-Smasher) that the Constructicons were lying to him.
S: Yep, and then his concern is uh, kind of verified when he gets back to Crystal City and it basically, immediately explodes while he looks on in horror.
O: The timing on that was just, I don't know who did that but good job, I guess?
S: Yeah, this is like the most emotion we get to see on his face that isn't like, anger.
O: Yeah, so after a commercial break we come back to Omega sitting curled up in a ball on the forest floor with Optimus sitting nearby.
S: Yup, he looks very sad here.
O: Understandable.
S: Mm-hm.
O: And Omega Supreme continues with his story.
S: The Constructicons flee from the rubble.
O: Omega vows to rescue his friends, tracking the Constructicons over the course of several weeks.
S: He then captures them by blasting a hole in the ground, and... yeah, the first two drive in before they realize it's trap, but Omega just comes up behind them and pushes the rest of them in. [laughs]
O: Naughty Constructicons go in the timeout hole!
S: Oh, Omega then attempts to reprogram them back to their normal selves.
O: Nevermind where you learn to do freaking that!
S: That's honestly kind of cr- scary when you think about-
O: Omega Supreme could rewire your brain! [laughs]
S: Ah-
O: He’s a bot of many talents!
S: Yup.  This um, appears to work with Hook saying, “I feel sane again!”
O: Because that's definitely what a same person says.
S: [whispers] It isn't!  Spoiler alert.
O: Spoiler alert, this- this ends about how you'd expect. [laughs]
S: But as the seven of them head back to Crystal City they are cornered by the Robo-Smasher, and it is revealed that the Constructicons are still definitely evil, and uh, following Megatron.
O: Obviously.  And then we find out that it was Megatron that gave them the ability to combine into freaking Devastator!  HOW!?!
S: There is so much weird shit going on in this cartoon.
O: [laughs] Yes!  In particular this fucking episode!  Mind control!
S: Yep, So the Constructicons form Devastator, and attempt to hold Omega Supreme down uh, to be reprogrammed by the Robo-Smasher.  Which is, uh, yeah, not horrifying at all.  I- I'm being very sarcastic with that.
B: [laugh]
O: I'd say all this is why they were okay with mind controlling the Constructicons a few episodes back.  But bhat doesn't work because presumably no one but Omega Supreme was aware of their history!  All that being said, I don't know what the air order was on these episodes.  So, maybe, arguably, it did air in a different order, and that would make a lot more sense.  But I don't want to give this show credit when it doesn't deserve it, and I kind of doubt it deserves that much forward thinking!
S: Yep.  Ah, Omega Supreme is able to get away from the Robo-Smasher and the Constructicons flee.
O: Later, they even left Cybertron and Omega followed them apparently, for millions of years before they rejoined Megatron on Earth.
S: And at this point I think we can safely assume that Omega has... probably a lot of mental and emotional scars-
O: Right.
S: -from all of this stuff.  And at this point after the Constructicons rejoined Megatron, Omega Supreme himself arrives on Earth.
O: Right.  So, back to the Decepticons, Astrotrain arrives on the asteroid where the Constructicons are mining ore.
S: Cosmos attempts stealth mode again while he watches the Cons.
O: Failing miserably, mind you, not that it matters, as he trips over Astrotrain, who says nothing and has no reaction.
S: Maybe he's taking a nap?  I mean, it's not like he's got anything better to do right now as the Constructicons load him with ore.
O: I mean, a commendable use of his time, honestly.
S: Yeah, Cosmos makes it back to the Ark with a sample of the ore and presents it to Optimus.
O: Who just sends him back into space.
S: Because we need to know where the processing plant is, don'tcha know?
O: “If you insist.”
S: He sounds so sad!
O: Give Cosmos a break, 2021!
S: Preceptor and Teletraan examine the ore sample, and while they still don't know exactly what it is- it is clearly high in energy.
O: Optimus is satisfied that this is what the Cons are after, and sends Omega Supreme into space to blow up the asteroid.
S: No less than 10 seconds later, Teletraan I informs optimus that the ore is organic in nature meaning the asteroid is alive.  Well shit, I done fucked up, man.
O: [laughs] You did, Optimus.  Uh, the Constructicons however, aren't terribly pleased with Omega's arrival.
S: A fight ensues!
O: Optimus calls and tells Omega NOT to destroy the asteroid, but Omega does not respond.
S: Optimus, maybe don't send your warrior off after his mortal enemies.
O: If you want good results, this is not how you get them!
S: Yep.  On Earth, Megatron examines his own ore sample, but seems surprised to buy the ores makeup.
O: In the middle of the Constructicons and Omega's fight, a crack appears in the asteroid and a space dragon comes flying out.
S: I'm assuming it's a baby.  Maybe.
O: We- we, yeah, we come to the conclusion it's the egg.  The asteroid is its egg.
S: Yeah, which it does make sense for the high energy output.
O: Yes.
S: Ah, the Constructicons taunt Omega about needing to save Earth, but he seems perfectly happy to stay there and destroy them.
O: Teletraan I informs Optimus and Cosmos that the asteroid has hatched and the life form is headed to San Francisco.  Teletran also predicts that they'll be unable to stop the space dragon without Omega's help.
S: Because it is a baby, and it's scared and hungry.
O: The asteroid acted as its food source.  As we said, it is probably an egg, you know.  Leading Optimus to the conclusion that they need to get it back into the asteroid.
S: That seems a bit easier said than done.
O: You would think! [laughs]
S: Powerglide, Ironhide, Tracks, and Beachcomber arrive in San Francisco.
O: They confront the space dragon and Tracks says, “Keep San Francisco clean, LEAVE!”
S: Tracks’ anti-litter campaign isn't going as smoothly as he would like.
O: Smokescreen appears out of nowhere, and jumps into the fray.
S: Not that it does much good as the dragon just flies away.
O: And now in the Arctic!  The Constructicons have made it back to Earth, with Omega in close pursuit.
S: The Constructicons form Devastator and the two big bots begin to toss each other around 
O: Omega Supreme is ready to take his vengeance, but is stopped by Optimus (who's here for some reason).
S: He tells Omega that he needs to save San Francisco and Omega eventually agrees.
O: The Constructicons overhear the conversation between Optimus and Omega and learn about the whole egg/asteroid/food thing.
S: They head back to Megatron to inform him of this and he orders them to destroy the asteroid.
O: Some bots just want to watch the world burn, and that's entirely what he intends to do allowing the dragon to wreck the planet while he sits back and watches.
S: The dragon continues to shoot lasers all over San Francisco.
O: I love that it has lasers. [laughs] This newborn alien has lasers!
S: Well, it's a baby space thing, it's gotta have something to deal with shit!
B: [laugh]
O: Obviously!  Beachcomber spouts some hippy dippy nonsense about them all being one with the universe.
S: But Tracks takes a slightly more pessimistic view, telling him to, “duck!” as the dragon does another flyby.
O: [laughs] Omega arrives and lures the dragon back to the asteroid.
S: Megatron’s quite happy about this development, as he readies a long-range blaster that Hook has quickly put together.
O: But Optimus stops him just in time, blowing up the control panel.
S: Somehow, Optimus takes out Megatron and all the Constructicons by shooting in their general direction.
O: The space dragon eats the remainder of its asteroid and then just flies off and that's the end of that!
S: Ah, later on on the Golden Gate Bridge, Optimus thanks Omega Supreme.
O: And says that even though his experiences with the Constructicons changed him, Optimus hopes he'll eventually find something more important than revenge.
S: Omega responds favorably (for him), while the light glints off the barest of tears in his optics.  
O: And that's the end of the episode, emotional Omega Supreme, a space dragon just flies back off into space.  I... don't know what that's about, or we need to worry about it coming back, but fine, whatever!  Join us next time as the Autobots are the perfect size to add to my collection even without a Megatron in the set.
S: All right, so for today Owls is giving our fanfic recommendations, because I am forgetful.
O: To be fair, one of them I actually did put on this episode, because it was relevant, so-
S: That is true.
O: One wild card fic today.  The first one is, “Giving Life to the Future,” by Merfilly.  It is in the Shattered Glass continuity, it is G, it is Gen, there are no pairings.  Our characters are the Shattered Glass Constructicons, Megatron and Starscream.  And in summary, “The war is over, and Scrapper has a plan. Hook concurs.”  Our theme for this is the Constructicons, and the Crystal City.  It is directly relevant to the Crystal City getting destroyed in the Shattered Glass universe, and it is a one shot.
Our second one is a wild card fic, it has nothing to do with anything, it's just another Shattered Glass fic that I liked.  Uh, it is called, “But Officer, My husband was in there.”
S: [laughs]
O: Which is a wonderful title.  Our author's Interstellar_Child, our continuity is IDW Shattered Glass, our rating is T, it is slash, it is a Minimus Ambus/Megatron fic.  Our characters are Minimus Ambus, Megatron and then assorted Shattered Glass characters.  Like, several Autobots and stuff pop up too, at least kind of in background roles.
Ah, in summary, “Minimus knows how the world sees him. He knows how his brother is using him. He knows a better world is a foolish dream. But he can't help but dream.”  And it was part of the MiniMegs week last summer it was day six for like, AU.  Again, wild card, it's a one shot.  It might be my favorite uh, Shattered Glass MiniMegs fic right now because, it's very well done so, highly recommend!  Uh, if you don't know what Minimus Ambus is like in the Shattered Glass universe, he's basically like a black widow, it's amazing. [laughs] Very, very opposite of what he normally is.
And our fanart recommendation for today is Herzspalter​.  Uh, they do a lot of G1, but they kind of do a bit of everything.  They have some really nice, simplified versions of the G1 bots in their G1 recap comic series, which is hysterical um, by the way, we're- we're just recommending the entire page of that.  Uh, they also have some lovely standalone work, but we've linked to several of their comics.  Uh, first we've linked to their G1 recap series, as I said, and then a comic with Rodimus and a poor, poor beleaguered Ultra Magus.
B: [laugh]
O: “Why is this my life?”
S: “I broke all of it.”
O: Yes, it is delightful, and I love it.  And then we have a Cygate Halloween comic.
S: Pumpkin vampire!
O: Yes, we have Tailgate as an adorable little pumpkin, and Cyclonus is a pumpkin vampire.  It's amazing, and adorable and also somebody totally made little pumpkin Tailgate figurines on Etsy and I have one.  I need to take pictures of my Cyclonus with, it but it is so fucking cute.  It's like, just cute- he’s the cutest little pumpkin!  Anyway, we will be linking to their Tumblr and you can find other links to their stuff on our Tumblr, where as always we will have it in our episode notes.
S: Yep, and that just about wraps it up for us today.  Remember to check us out on Tumblr or Pillowfort as Afterspark-Podcast, for the additional information, show notes, or links we may have mentioned.  You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter at AftersparkPod (all one word) and various other locations by searching for Afterspark Podcast such as AO3, iTunes, Spotify and Youtube, just to name a few.  And feel free to send us questions on Tumblr, Youtube or AO3.  Until next time, I’m Specs.
O: And I’m Owls!
S: Toodles.
[Outro]
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k1tcaliber · 8 years ago
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Consider: precious human, a cryptozoologist or cryptid believer , encountering starscream and like thinking hes the mothman or some other winged cryptid. Love at first cryptid sighting. And like photo snap sound alerting him and the human is like trying to communicate?
[ka-chik]
the noise was small, but alerted Starscream all the same. his head whipped around looking for the source, but it remained hidden from view. he went back to what he’d been doing.
[ka-chik. ka-chik ka-chik]
alright, what in the pit is that noise. he thought to himself, returning to his search.
[ka-chik]
and there it was. a human, device in their hands, pointed towards him. a quick scan of databases - cybertronian and human alike - told him it was a “smartphone.” and the sound he was hearing was the camera “app” making a shutter noise.
he bent down, his face hovering over the human. “i do hope you understand the mistake you’re making, little one.”
the human gasped. “i didn’t know mothman could speak english!”
he resisted the urge to slap his hand onto his face. “i am no “mothman,” human, i am the Decepticon Starscream, and you--”
“i’ve never heard of that one before...” they mused, flipping through their hand-made cryptid reference guide. “there’s no mention of any “Decepticon” or anything in here...”
with a low, annoyed growl, he reached down and wrapped his hand around them.
“would you like to learn about us? because i’d be more than happy to oblige you, back on the ship...”
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turquoisedragonmaster · 7 years ago
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Here have a bunch of my Transformers OC’s. If you wanna draw them feel free I guess. Just credit me.
NAme: Inkjet
Gender: Mech
Species: Cybertronian
Altmode: Black 2017 Mazda MX-5 Miata
Faction: Autobots
Appearance: Inkjet is a smaller, somewhat round bot, with a completely black frame. He has blue optics and his headlights are yellow and function as his way of speaking. His neck is scarred and mangled, as he was tortured by the Decepticons, which caused him to lose his voice.
Personality: Inkjet is not much of a fighter, and he prefers to let others fight.  He is emotionally connected to a human named Ruth, and will protect her at all costs. Curious about human culture, he enjoys listening to the radio and communicates through morse code or his radio.
Special Features: Mangled neck, Autobot symbol on left shoulder
Weapons: Tattoo needles, Pulse Cannon
Other:
-I was really worried he’d be too much like Bumblebee but he’s not
-Soft boy
-He’s a sweetheart
-He still believes there's good in Decepticons despite what they did to him
-He’s a member of Team Screenshot (Which consists of him, Feedback, Teal, Turquoise, Spectrum and Slickshift)
-Too pure for this world
-Help him
-Amazing tattoo artist, he was in very high demand
-His morse code is normally slow but when he gets scared or excited it goes really fast and nobody understands it except for Ruth (She has like… Cybertronian enhancements that allow her to understand it)
-His favorite Earth animal is the Snapping Turtle (WHY)
NAme: Feedback
Gender: Mech
Species: Cybertronian
Altmode: Orange Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4
Faction: Former Decepticon, Currently an Autobot
Appearance: A broad shouldered, rather tall mech, his orange plating is bright against gray undertones, along with doorwings. Numerous scrapes and scars. His optics are purple.
Personality: Feedback is nervous around others, his past makes him think he’ll hurt anyone. Massively overprotective, he fights with little control, and has psychological issues. A lot of them.
Special Features: Autobot symbol is clearly overlaid over the Decepticon one of his left doorwing.
Weapons: Dual pulse blasters, stasis dagger
Other: GAYYYYY
-Kinda an asshole
-He trusts nothing except Team Screenshot
-Which is like trusting a mamba
-His nervousness makes him trigger happy and that makes Teal nervous
-Cannot be trusted around explosives
NAme: Turquoise
Gender: Femme
Species: Cybertronian
Altmode: Turquoise Carrera GT
Faction: Autobot
Appearance: Turquoise is not an extremely big femme, nor is she small. SHe is actually reasonably sized, and you probably wouldn’t notice her if she wasn’t BRIGHT TURQUOISE. She had doorwings, which move constantly. Her optics are dark blue.
Personality: Derp master extreme. Accidental badass, who is super smart but talks/acts without thinking. Her underlying aggressiveness is undermined by her insane loyalty.
Special Features: Autobot symbol on chest
Weapons: Sword, double mini blasters
Other: Smokequoise. Turqstorm. Jazzquoise. SHIPS
-Has a huge dumb crush on Jazz in every universe ever
-Smokescreen and her are more platonic than anything
-Teal and her are extremely close (TOUCH HIM AND I'LL MURDER YOU)
-She’s an okay person
-Loves Earth music and Animals
-She likes using the groundbridge to go places and see different animals.
-Ratchet thinks she’s crazy
-Has ADHD
-Her front left tire falls off hen hit just right. She keeps saying she’ll get that fixed but she never does.
-She fishes in her spare time.
-She caught a shark once (In Australia)
-She has an alligator she keeps in the garage’s basement. His name is Godzilla.
-She has a dog too, his name is Smokey
-She tries to flirt with Jazz but he’s oblivious.
-Whenever Jazz comes around she blushes super hard and tries to keep calm and fails
-OMFG REPTILES
-She loves reptiles with a passion and protects them
-She’s a cryptid among poachers it’s just like this giant blue robot comes out and kicks their butts and takes the animals
-Nobody believes them b/c she has an EMP generator so they can’t get pictures ;3
Name: Teal
GEnder: Mech
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot
Altmode: Teal 2007 GMC Topkick 4x4 Pickup
Appearance: Teal is FREAKING HUGE, rivalling Optimus in size. He is quite bulky, looking very fierce despite the fact he’s not a fighter. He. like Turquoise, had doorwings and blue optics.
Personality: Teal, like his spark-twin Turquoise, is easily distracted. He is quite powerful, but prefers to leave the fighting to others. He is insanely loyal, and very aggressive when those he cares about are threatened
Special Features: Autobot symbol on chest
Weapons: Twin pulse cannons, Warhammer
Other:
-loves birds
-So much. Birds are the greatest
-Birds love him too. At any given time there's at least three birds hiding in his plating
-Sometimes he opens his doors in alt mode and sparrows fly out and Ratchet screams
-A big soft man
-Highly protective of his little sister (Even though she’s the older one)
-Makes weird squeaky noises
-Loves tractor pulls and cows and just being in rural areas
-He’s so gentle it’s amazing
-Ratchet came out to the back of the garage to see him in recharge in a field surrounded by cows with birds perched all along his shoulders and was like ‘Teal why are you like this’
-Teal regrets everything he did as a warrior but the birds make him feel better about himself.
- ‘Turquoise what the fUck’
The twins make fun of Ultra Magnus constantly like the giant children they are
Name: Spectrum
GEnder: Mech
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobots
Altmode: Turquoise and white F1 racecar
Appearance: In build, Spectrum is a lot like Turquoise, small, with aerodynamic plating and the family doorwings. He is white with turquoise racing stripes and biolights on his doorwings edges. His optics are bright green.
Personality: Literally the stereotypical ‘cool dude’. He says things like ‘totes rad’ and ‘YOLO’ and fingerguns a lot. He annoys everyone.
Special Features: Autobot symbol on his lower abdomen (Like Bumblebee)
Weapons: Twin laser pistols.
Other:The Bluetwin’s cousin. Do Cybertronians have cousins?
-Legendary weirdo
-What the fuck
-I love his design tho
Name: Bonebiter
GEnder: Mech
Species: Cybertronian(?)
Faction: Decepticons
Altmode: Off Road vehicle of unknown make
Appearance: Bone takes the form of a hyena, with spines creating a bushy mane on his back and large, powerful fangs. He is silver with darker grey accents and red optics.
Personality: Bonebiter is the literally epitome of being a jerk. He’s mean, crude, teases both friend and foe, and is rude and sarcastic, even to those who he KNOWS could beat the shit out of him. He makes horrible snide comments about EVERYTHING, and he’s unbearable.
Special Features: No robot mode, Decepticon symbol on right side (In hyena and vehicle modes)
Weapons: Extremely strong jaws, claws
Other:
Name: Blizzardburst
GEnder: mech
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Decepticons
Altmode: F-16 fighter jet
Appearance: Blizzard is white with pale blue accents on his torso and wings. A rather lithe seeker, he had red optics with orange speckled in them.
Personality: Cold, harsh and brutally effective, he has no qualms with killing, or changes in leadership. In fact, all the otehr Decepticons are afraid of him, with the exceptions of Soundwave and Megatron. Even Bluebolt gives him a hasty respect.
Special Features: Decepticon symbol on wings
Weapons: Rocket launchers, ice missiles (Like TFA Blitzwing)
Other
Name: Slickshift
GEnder: Mech
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot
Altmode: Diesel Truck. A Blue one. With sparkles.
Appearance: Slick is around the size of Ultra Magnus, so is by no standards small. He’s a big buff dude, with kind green optics.
Personality: Cinnamon roll. He’s a sweetheart,and all of Team Screenshot will MURDER you if you so much as look at him wrong. He’s not much of a fighter, and is actually a bit of a crybaby
Special Features: TALL BOY, Autobot symbol on chest
Weapons: Mace
Other: Poor baby
Name: Fasttrack
GEnder: Mech
Species: Cybertronian (Former Stunticon)
Faction: Decepticon
Altmode: Green F1 Race Car
Appearance: He’s a skinny lime green asshole with bright fucking red optics.
Personality: He’s a jerk. That’s it. He is rude to everyone, literally gives nobody respect, not even MEgatron, and its remarkable he follows orders.
Special Features: Weird fin things on his arms, Decepticon logo on chest
Weapons: Twin energon blades
Other: he’s totally crushing on blizzard but blizzard gives no fucks
Name: Cobalt
Gender: Femme
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot (Former Decepticon)
Altmode: f-22 Fighter Jet and Dodge Viper
Appearance: Cobalt is dark blue (Although not navy, just normal blue) with wings and pedes not unlike seekers. She is set like a sports model, although some Seeker traits do shine through, most notably in her wings, pedes and helm.
Personality: Cobalt can be quiet when around strangers, although when she is comfortable she is loud and energetic. She is very very smart, and creative, although she does have problems with anger.
Special Features: Autobot logo on chest (Cockpit/hood)
Weapons: Katana and throwing stars (She’s a fucking ninja)
Other: Transformsona (Besides the twins)
Name: Replicator
Gender: Mech
Species: Cybertronian
Faction: Autobot technically (His methods are…. questionable)
Altmode: DNA Extractor (OR CNA)
Appearance: Replicator, through some serious work on his own frame and weird circumstance, looks eerily like Perceptor. Although he has blue instead of red, and lacks the signature microscope features, the resemblance is uncanny.
Personality: Replicator will do anything in the sake of his research, although he does have a conscious and morals, so he hasn’t done anything too horrendous. Yet. He tends to be a total jackass to everyone, whines constantly, and is a complete coward. So yeah. Annoying.
Special Features: He can extract and replicate CNA, Autobot symbol on shoulders
Weapons: None (he’s a useless sonofabitch)
Other:
Name: Carboncopy
GEnder: Mech
Species: Dinobot
Faction: Autobot (Reluctantly)
Altmode: Allosaurus (NOT A T REX DAMMIT)
Appearance: He looks like Grimlock. That's it, he looks like Grimlock. He has tattoos on his tail, courtesy of Ink. (They’re dinosaur bones)
Personality: An angry, bratty giant child, he complains that ‘I AM NOT GRIMLOCK’ so often it’s probably burned into his processor. He blames Replicator for all his problems.
Special Features: Autobot symbol on chest
Weapons: Jaws, tail, grabby hands of DEATH
Other:
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brandwhorestarscream · 1 year ago
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Cybermorphs AU Orion being a monster lover is something I wanna read. Also, to mimic a hive; maybe the Vosimorphs are the guards and Orionmorphs (Civimorphs?) are the worker drones like in a bee hive? MayBEE (hehe. See what I did there?) if another is added the harem, it's a tank of sorts? Idk which one tho. And these offspring could become the hive protectors?
Then you've come to the right place, because now I'm obsessed with the idea of tiny husband Orion being so in awe and in love with his giant cybermorph queen husband. If he ever gets dragged off to be made into a Prime he's very >:c about it and regularly escapes to run back to his monsterfucker paradise
The vosimorphs are definitely the hives' aerial security, especially if they have the cryptid seekers' ability to camoflauge. The hive strikes a delicate balance between work and pleasure: they're all siblings, after all, and while they're naturally hardwired to be loyal to the hive and their carrier, they're also not controlled by a massive hivemind like the baseline xenomorphs are. They have a wide range of emotions and genuinely love and care about their family, same as any non-mutated cybertronian. They all have their pre-assigned place that helps the hive function as a well oiled machine, but they're not always working, yk? When they're off shift they hang out and just enjoy spending time together
Idk what exactly to call Orion's sired offspring, but civimorphs is a great placeholder for now. They're much smaller than their siblings when fully grown, so I'm thinking maybe they primarily work in the nurseries, watching over newborns and monitoring those still incubating. Maybe also help teach the younglings to fight and hunt. Some of them also operate outside, though: they make excellent spies. Their relatively small size and ability to disguise themselves as civilian mecha makes them invaluable for infiltrating the northern half of the planet. I'm thinking that all cybermorphs can, at least for the most part, transform to look like normal, unmutated mecha. Bipedal with a single pair of arms, two optics and a mouth, that kinda thing. They can either be gathering intel on the opposing autobor forces or maybe snagging fresh incubators if Megatron has an awaiting clutch and they don't have enough bodies for them 🤭
I'm super down for a tank to be added to the harem line up. My first thought goes to Tarn, but I kinda like the idea of him being one of Megatron's many offspring. Maybe Kiloton could work? I'm vv soft for him 🥺
And one final thought: from what I've gathered through reading, the praetorian guards aren't born, they're made. Specially selected from the queen's broods and then fed royal jelly (I'm still not entirely sure how the queens make it but. Whatever. We can figure it out if we go this route) to trigger the transformation. It's kinda like metamorphosis, I think? If that's the case, I imagine competition is steep: becoming one of the hive queen's personal guards is a big deal, a very prestigious assignment, and also gives the lucky chosen ones a size and power buff. Could definitely be smthn cool to explore, and maybe Megatron chooses one child from each clutch for the great honor. Maybe their sires or teachers or older siblings' recommendation holds some weight, or maybe it's left up to his sole discretion 🤔 regardless, how do we feel about that? About the special guard morphs (do we? Still wanna call them praetorians??) being specially chosen for the position? Maybe there's a whole hive-wide event when Megatron decides it's time to choose another guard, and everyone competes to prove themselves worthy. Could be kinda fun!
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