#i think this is ironhide

[tiny-tf-faces]

[evil-isopod]

the rumors are true, I caved, I bought a g1 astrotrain, best purchase of my life

[witchofthesouls]

Eee Seeker Lennox is just chef kiss! What’s your hcs on frame behaviour differences with him and his fam to the autobots grounder frames.

Fr need more seeker Lennox in ma life xD if you don’t mind pleaseeeeeee write more

When it comes to Lennox family's physiology, there's differences that stem from them being Seekers as well as carryover from their old human selves.

Between Sarah and Will:

Think of Sarah more like a dark and matte version of Blitzwing from the Bumblebee film.

Sarah is larger and heavier compared to her husband. Her color palette is far more muted compared to Will's glossiness.

Seeker femmes don't have digitigrade legs as they require extra stability to carry the extra weight and density. Seeker mechs are geared towards agility, speed, and stealth.

Will has an extra set of talons in his lower legs. His kicks are far more deadly as he can extend the talons for a greater reach.

Yes. Seeker!Will has digitigrade legs.

Them as Seekers versus the groundbound Autobots:

Both are constantly communicating. While wingcant is culturally shaped by the city-state, there's a lot of instinctive movements.

Sarah has the capability to track down Energon deposits across the planet.

Sigma abilities. Will has a very advanced chameleon-like ability to blend in his surroundings. To the point of neutralizing his entire presence.

Typically, Seeker femmes don't have sigma abilities, but Sarah has one. She's capable of scrambling electrical signals that target movement within Cybertronian frames with a furious shriek.

Sarah and Will are aggressively affectionate to each other. Not just blending their fields together, but they have intense urges to constantly be physical. To the point of microtransforming their frames to either mesh into each other or be as close as possible. Wingspans tapping together or realigning to rest side-by-side in public. Nuzzling and necking in private.

Seekers are a very social frame-type. That instinct is made worse by the sudden cut from everyone else as they fled north and their new status as bondmates.

The Autobots don't have to worry about the Decepticon Seekers poaching away Will because the negative influences of no trine are kept in check by his and Sarah's sparkbond.

(If anything, they would need to worry about the Decepticon Seekers attempting to court or capture Sarah. Especially in the period where she's essentially a newbuild that's getting used to her frame but proven with a newspark!Annabelle.)

Ironhide being a goodsport as the pair aggressively rope him into activities that's usually between close ties among Seekers. But he's also needs to be a buffer between Sarah and the rest of the Autobots.

Seeker!Will has accepted that the Autobots are a potential flock, and Optimus acts as his Winglord. Seeker!Sarah, not so much...

The human sensibilities and the Seeker instinct war with her, whereas it's generally aligned with Will due to his exposure and close relationships to the Autobots as a human.

Sarah is slowly coming around as she uses Ironhide and Will to ease the Seeker agitation to defend or challenge down.

Worst comes to worst, Optimus may need to intervene and force the instinct to submit to the hierarchy of the Autobot 'flock.'

The humans thought it's a carryover from their humanity to be more comfortable resting in their root-modes. No. It's their social drive. Nesting is easier with bipedal frames.

The human influence on Lennoxes' Cybertronian frames:

Will's appearance is less of a Dorito and more similar proportion to his old body. His wings in root-mode seem to be split to create the appearance of two sets. One longer, primary pair and one shorter, secondary pair.

They're far more flexible. Especially Sarah, as she actually has a habit of yoga and stretching. Surprises the hell out of Ratchet when she's able to bend in ways that would usually put immense strain on her frame-type.

Far greater tolerance towards lower-grade fuels and able to digest a greater variety of raw ores. Their frames have an edge with more specialized platets across their entire frames to convert UV light into small bits of energy .

Their expressions are far more fluid, even with the more mechanical mandibles. Sarah and Will have a greater range of facial micro-expressions with their optics, conveniently placed ridges to mimick a close form of noses and eyebrows, and the shape of their 'mouths.' A major tradeoff is that their faces are far more vulnerable compared to the rest of the Cybertronians.

Annabelle's development seems both behind and advanced. Her plating is still too soft and lacks the typical density of her mobility. Her sight is more aligned with a newspark, but she has the vocal range of a near first-star sparkling. Ratchet is keeping a firm optic on the little one.

[sphnyspinspin]

Hey, what if Whirl Jr.’s full-actual name was literally Whirlybird?

Okay, gonna share an itty bitty insight to draft I had a while ago—

When Whirl and Whirlybird met each other, what was happening is that other bots Whirlybird knew gave her the nickname Whirl, just because.

Whirl, himself, found out second-hand and was like “There can only be room for one Whirl on this planet!” And so he wanted to challenge this so-called “new Whirl” for the title of Whirl.

And—no. He did not hesitate to fight a child.

As it turns out, Whirlybird was actually kind of excited about it. Which surprised no one that knew her when she was forged.

Of course Whirl’s friends said “No! We know you’re crazy, but please do not fight a child!” But he did it anyway.

The time came for them to fight for the title of ‘Whirl’. Whirlybird didn’t even care if she got to keep the name because she thought it would be fun to wrestle. Even though she didn’t have that much fighting experience.

Whirl—by accident—started giving her pointers while they were gearing up to dish it out.

Then those pointers starting turning into joor long sessions.

Those sessions became weekly, then daily. And after each lesson they starting hanging out, talking about how their days went, what adventures Whirl went on with his friends, what Whirlybird did in her free time, etcetera.

Next thing they know, Whirl started calling Whirlybird Whirl, saying that “Its a cool name, so only cool people get to use it. Got it?”

That made Whirlybird giggle “Okay. But won’t people get confused when we both start using ‘Whirl’?”

Whirl’s voice shifted into mischievous tone “That’s the fun part.”

[vodid]

trust me to spend a solid hour looking over pics and footage just to figure out how a shoulder works and spending a meager 5 minutes finally drawing it.

[prismatica-the-strange]

Ironhide girlies pspsps! Come get y'all juice!

[ghost-spark-odyssey]

Some of my favorite G1 screencaps part 2/???

[tfbeeredstringau]

I have loose draft of it in my note app but I was watching ponyo today for the first time (I cried) plus tiktok gave me an idea for tf ponyo au.

Bee as ponyo, prince of the goldfish, curious bitlet who loves to explore and has a lot of tinier siblings following him around. Megatron who once was a mech turned ocean wizard looks after his son. Soundwave is Grand Mamare and married to Megatron, both caring for each other deeply.

Starscream as Sosuke who is a curious seekerling and has love for the ocean, his carrier is Optimus/Orion who is married to Cap Shockwave who is captain of research ship. Optimus/Orion helps out in elderly care facility.

Just love the concept, especially with Soundwave as Grand Mamare, beautiful and even his cassettes could be sea creatures that follow him around!! Megatron seemingly cold and powerful sea wizard being a bit of an anxious mess as he tries to keep his bittlet save from harm despite Bee increased want for freedom and to be a real bot so to say.

Optimus/Orion (still haven't decided which one I prefer more) being frustrated with his Partner Shockwave breaking his promise of returning from the expedition by immedietly going for another one, feeling so grateful for his seekerling taking it so well and trying to cheer him up regardless.

Later on in the movie Optimus/Orion and Soundwave having a conversation about their children, carrier to carrier and low key gossiping about their husbands, feeling confident about their children ability to arrive to the water dome unharmed and make the correct decision.

When the balance is restored and ships start to arrive, Megatron asking the two take care of Bee for him and leaving before shockwave has a chance to like question him as he gets distracted with his family and their newest addition but he does make eye contact with megs just before he disappears underwater.

Just yeah, ponyo au :D

[westerntealpiranha]

do you think his smokestacks trip the fire alarms

[kicksnscribs]

"Ah, you want me to talk about the Twins huh?"

"Not much to say about em, really. Used to run the subway system in Iacon way back before all the slag hit the fan. Damn good at it too.

Nicest lads you'd ever met and practically inseparable! Where one went the other was close by, almost as if they were joined at the hip. Rough upbringin's will do that to ya or so I've heard

Couldn't believe it when i saw the white one on the side of the 'Cons, even less so when i realized he was by himself. We captured him one day as a POW one time. Took a lot of us to pull it off but we managed eventually. That's when I heard the story of what happened to his...I guess brother is what you humans would call them if you absolutely needed a word to describe him. Figured the 'Cons promised him a way to get him back somehow if he joined up with them and he took the offer in a desperate attempt to find him.

Though I doubt they ever did give him anything to really go by. Recruiters will say just about anything in order to get bots to join their cause. Especially when it comes to getting their servos on big, strong fellas like the Twins.

He eventually escaped us somehow; found a way to cut through his bonds and was lost to the night before any of us could even blink. Heh, and I thought his brother was the more crafty of the two.

What d'ya mean 'creepy' smile? Rude lil' thing aren't ya?

He's always been smiling like that. Well...not exactly like that but... you know that mech never had a frown on his face that I'd ever seen. Though I will admit there's something...different about that smile now. Not at all like what I seen back in Iacon. Something sinister...

Not the only one to notice it either. Ol' Rung reckons that being separated from his brother for so long did things to him. Spark twins can't be without one another for very long without it messing with their coding n whatnot, you know?

Though, Ratch knows more about the kid's situation than anybody here on this ship. Says that he apparently had done some things in order to get his brother back. Supernatural things. Things smart mechs should know to leave well enough alone.

Wherever that mech went to get his brother, he didn't come back alone....

Such a shame, he was always a sweet kid. Had a bit of a mobility issue but only when he was excited about something I think? Which was a good thing for all I care. You need to have joy in the things you love 'n he had that in spades.

Did not really understand the concept of personal space though 'n it sometimes got 'im in loads of trouble *laughs*

The black one? Whats there to say about 'im, honestly?

Incredibly polite mech, always there to lend a helping servo or two when needed, a little older than his brother i think? He would always mess with him about that little fact.

Very gentle in situations where his brother would be very harsh, but not like in a mean spirited way, more like an excitable way if that makes any sense? You would never think that what with the constant sour look etched on his face at all times *laughs*

Never liked to talk much. Though not for a lack of ability but more of a 'can't control his volume' situation. He can hit Siren levels of loud when excited enough about something or other and feels bad about it when he does. I don't mind it though, means he's found something to be happy about and that's a good thing in my book if that's worth anything.

Really hurt to hear that he went missing millennia ago. His brother looked absolutely destroyed when I saw him in that camp. I'm glad to see he made it back.

Primus the years haven't been good to him, though. Wherever he went it did numbers on his frame.

He creaks when he walks now, and his gaze has that look of a mech who has seen far more than he should have. He still has that gentle nature about him, though. Which is good, because I think he is going to need it if he ever hopes to succeed at getting those demons running through his brothers brain module out.

I got faith in them though, they're as strong as they are inseparable. They'll get through this like they did every other thing they faced,

together.

[Pulled from the personal Datatracks of Ironhide, Chief of Autobot Security]

[bottleneckdolphin]

okay I need y’all’s opinions on this

I just saw a video on youtube saying that it was Ironhide in the first movie who landed in the pool and I was stunned that so many people agreed

I’d never thought that was Ironhide, I was sure it was Optimus. I mean, why else would that particular autobot get so much screen time before getting an earth vehicle mode? Why would the music change to the male choir and become so much more dramatic?

I just do not believe they would’ve made that scene so epic for Ironhide.

Plus, look at the behavior of the autobot coming out of the pool. He’s careful. He avoids the little girl and steps to hide behind those trees from the parents. Do you think Ironhide would’ve been so cautious? Not saying he would’ve stepped on the little girl, but I don’t think he would’ve been as… delicate

I know it cuts to Ironhide changing into the truck afterwards, but I assumed they just showed Ironhide’s transformation real quick, then cut back to Optimus who was on the hill scanning the Peterbilt. That after Optimus left the house with the pool, he went to that hillside

[novafire-is-thinking]

Jazz: *stays behind under Starscream’s leadership*

Prowl:

[transingthoseformers]

Barn husband's doing eachother's warpaint is cute. So are Ironhide and Will Lenox.

Though I can also see it with Bulkhead and Wheeljack doing Miko's first warpaint to prove she's a Wrecker. Or Raf doing Bumblebee's paint to cheer him up him up.

Or when you have a shared species base and the human soldiers are puting on grease paint in the open so the bots start doing their warpaint too.

Yes

Exactly

Bulkhead and Wheeljack using mass displacement to help Miko do her warpaint would be so ungodly amounts of adorable, yes. Yes. Yes. Also Raf helping Bee, yesssssss.

And on the bots seeing humans donning the grease paint so they go "oh it's go time? Oh let's break out the good warpaint" and yes yes the humans noticing this yes yes. I like this option so much how could you tell

[mychlapci]

ironhide really wasn't in a lot of tf media, huh... pity. i like him

[arceespinkgun]

While the main Decepticon lineup has been vaguely stable all this time, the same isn't true of the Autobots. Who do you think should be their SIC? I've tried to include as many people who have fulfilled that role as possible.

[seagoober]

The more I watch the transformers bay movies the more I fall in love with Ironhide.

Like BAHJAJSJS WHYS HE SO SWEET AND FUNNY.