#pardon the TF2 reference

[flowersandbirdsflyingfree]

rips into my chest and rips my beating a heart out and gives it to you

merry Christmas.

Hooh! Danke, Nikashoowo! Now, would you prefer a baboon’s heart or a jaguar’s?

[harpysix]

Okay, this is valid and all, but I have a question: what's she gonna do with the thing when she's got no adversaries left to consume the souls of? And for that matter, does this thing ever get full? Like, can it just go "NOM NOM NOM, OM. NOM NOM " like a Hoovy with a sandvich addiction, or does it need to digest first?

And what about it

[whatudottu]

Because I've held this off for too long, once again it seems that @nukeli has beaten me to the punch with colour schemes. Damn my procrastination or whatever, but I only just realised that I didn't put any mention of the 'fodder' classes (Vehicons, Insecticons and I suppose Autotroopers since I'm including them) and wanted to put down my thoughts before writing this up.

An added bonus here is that certain character have different alts (based on character changes and even the heavier focus of 'robots in disguise' that these Decepticons are after) so it's not just me ranting about colour schemes.

Yes, this was why I was complaining about the wiki altmodes, so deal with the vehicles I found instead. May or may not be due to me using images as references haha.

The Autobots (you are here)

The Decepticons Part 1

The Decepticons Part 2

Going in order of my notes, we begin with Cliffjumper. He’s obviously a 1970 Dodge Challenger and what colours I’ve given him are on the image below. Nothing much to say about a definitely dead character other than I didn’t just wanna make him blue.

Next on the list is good old Doctor Ratchet. I’ve had it in my mind ever since Nuke’s one post that SG!Ratchet was like Medic from TF2, so I guess I took it and ran.

To play an opposite to regular Ratchet, he comes across as affable and friendly but is really just doing the things he loves to people he hates. Autobots, Decepticons, hates everyone. He despises Optimus Prime too, but he can’t do anything unless he wants to be cooped up in his berthroom reattaching his limbs for it. Believe him, he tried.

As for altmode and colours, I spent way too long finding that he resembles a Mercedes Benz G-Class ambulance that I was ticked to find out he wasn’t at all. I special looked for the green coloured ambulance because Synth-En, duh!

Breaking in after the Doctor comes our local wrecker Bulkhead. I don’t have much of a read on this guy, other than the fact that I thought it’d be a cool idea for him to lose a lot of his memories after ‘TMI’, ya know, from the Synth-En recipe? Certainly not set in stone, but it could very well contribute to my accidental theme of memory (which only has some small links in the posts I actually created).

With the help of my car enthused cousin I have given our not so loveable mech a Terradyne Gurkha, a little more military than the wiki’s off-roader Lamborghini that I’m too annoyed to bother to look at. I thought that the military origins and the black colour scheme sorta allude to something something mindless military man. yada yada.

Following him is our ever wonderful Optimus Prime, or maybe Lord Prime? Haven’t thought too much about that. What I have thought of is this master manipulator who mayhaps also be a little bit delusional idk we’ll decide in the car.

I always loved the idea of a smiling SG!Prime, as if there’s still hints of this benevolent leader that the original has, but it’s warped and meant to add fodder to the war, encouraging mechs to fight to their deaths all in the name of not only the Autobots, but their Prime. Also as a warped version of the original, I wanted Shattered Glass Optimus to be deluded in the fact that Megatron will change, change at least, to submit to the real leader. Ain’t happening. That’s sorta there with Ratchet too, but well, you read Ratchet’s piece didn’t you?

SG!Prime is consistently purple and black, and whilst I have found a Peterbilt Semi Truck with that wonderful colour, it comes with white instead. Think about it, this typically evil colour paired with often innocent white, that’s like perfect for what I’m going for.

Fitting that he’s next, it’s time for Prime’s Second In Command Ultra Magnus. I’ve... really got nothing for him. Maybe he’s still by-the-books but like he finds loopholes just to commit atrocities? I don’t know.

I’ve given this boy a Mack Trident alt instead of Prime’s Peterbilt, just for differences sake.

After Magnus, we got our little bug Bumblebee... or is it. Because I wanted to change his colours a bit without going into Beast Hunter territory, I wondered if bees come in different colours and, low and behold, they do!

As for the boy himself, I think he was one of the bots manipulated by Prime himself to join the cause and, given his almost rewritten personality, has only lived through to this point in the war by sheer luck. This mech is an absolute menace, feral and powered by the need for Prime’s approval, tearing others with denta and servo more often than with stingers and blasters.

Now you’ve noticed I haven’t been using his name? That’s because he’s now Blue Band (I just realised he’s still bb haha)! He gets his name from the Blue Banded bee, and I found a Chevrolet Camaro to match.

In line with BB’s younger status, feast your eyes on Shattered Glass Smokescreen! Oh boy isn’t he a delight. His hero worship has essentially turned him to a prime (pardon the pun) candidate for Optimus to form into his perfect super soldier, who already would die for this deranged mech even before laying optics on this grand Prime.

So, he’s an absolute suck up, a straight up spoiled brat that has it harder than Blue Band for Prime’s acknowledgement, and is actively showing off and bragging that he’s Optimus’ favourite (he’s not, he just encourages it because that’s the easiest way to get Smokey to do what he wants).

Almost to reflect that (perhaps another pun) I found this gaudy Chameleon Chevy Corvette that absolutely SCREAMS show off.

Regrettably partnered up with him after the passing of Cliffjumper, Arcee has run out of patience. Not everything she does is motivated by Airachnid (what kind of character would that be? not a fun one) but she does often enjoy killing those connected with her. After Tailgate, she’s gotten a little mad, but her effectiveness otherwise increased so others never bothered to ‘fix’ her.

Having lost both of her partners, when she absolutely hates another (read; Airachnid and Starscream because he still kills Cliff) the best kind of revenge is putting her opponents in her own pedes. Oh, that mech’s growing attached to one of his comrades? Slice and dice them before their optics. Oh, that femme is finally coming out of her shell and making friends? Gore out their spark and hope that humans don’t decide this would be the perfect time to practice what they preach and save the life of that same mech with a hard to perform surgery that may or may not have been lost to time.

Okay so she’s obviously a Kawasaki Ninja (haha that’s kind of fitting) and I was tempted to make her pink like other Arcee iterations, but look at this fancy stuff right here. He hoo glowy look pretty!

Almost in leu of an Airachnid archetype, Wheeljack comes in. Though still quite the wrecker and ever the bomb enthusiast, instead of actively celebrating his impacts and going solo to stop the rust settling in, he’d rather be offed whilst mechs are distracted by his pretty explosion and lay forgotten in the dirt.

I may have accidentally rooted the unintentional memory theme deeply with the wreckers (Breakdown included) and maybe just took it and ran, giving everyone else a little connection, but Wheeljack is probably the most explicit in this idea. He hates nicknames (which i super Ratchet uses to mock him here in Shattered Glass) because that’s like... naming something you’re going to keep to quote that specific fic which, honestly, I can’t remember. Wheeljack split from others to stop them from remembering him and put himself closer to a situation where he can die alone, as morbid as that sounds. No grand death, no stupid death and no straight up suicide (generally that’s a VERY impactful kind of death) so just a mediocre end is what he’s been looking for for a little bit too long.

As for his colours, I apparently have no taste and should not have a car because I really like what this image has going for it. This C3 Corvette is probably one of the few cars that fits the straight up box of a sports car that Jackie’s got, so I’m sticking to it, so no, don’t show me the wiki I’m ignoring it this was too painful to give up dang it!

Okay, finishing off the bots, I have the Autotroopers. Sure, I’m not using a reference of a car to show off the colours, mainly because there’s also going to be flier troopers too, maybe... surely... definitely. Most depictions of them are white, you know, goodie goodie, and I’m tempted to just laze around and do just that. Instead, I think a goldish colour would be fun.

Aside from sharing a key colour with Ultra Magnus, essentially a war lawyer, which is perfect for subjects made to obey, a nice glimmering finish almost feels like they’re all manipulated by Prime to believe in the Autobot cause. I suppose the special devision, if there is one, would be a nice Prime purple, sorta like if it’s Optimus’ personal guard if he actually had any belief they would do their jobs.

Oh boy this is so long...

[samuraiknight-1600-blog]

BATTLE OF PHARSALUS.

On 9 August 48 BC at the fields of pharsalus, the fate of the roman republic was decided when roman soldiers took up arms against eachother in a bloody civil war, the result of a power struggle between 2 men. Julius Caesar, and Pompey the great. The winner would rule Rome. Prelude: In the 50's BC. the Roman republic was basically run by 3 men. Julius Caesar, Markus Licinius Crassus and Pompey the great. Each of these 3 men tried to strengthen their position in the republic by winning battles, conquering new lands and bringing in wealth, All in attempts to become the leader of rome, the consul. In 53 BC Crassus was killed during a failed invasion of the kingdom of Parthia in modern day Iran, leaving only Caesar and Pompey left. Both Caesar and Pompey had been successful in bringing in land and victories for the republic, Caesar In Gall, pompey in the east. Following his victories Caesar desired to return to rome to be consul. but Pompey had beaten him to it and had become consul of rome and thought he had won as a roman general was not allowed to enter rome with his army due to risk of civil war. But Caesar did just that, He marched his armies from Gall and into rome, An act of treason. Underestimating Caesar Pompey took his army on ships and sailed to Greece to prepare for civil war. He did so as the greek province was loyal to Pompey. Caesar entered rome to discover that Pompey had fled and since he didn't have a fleet so it took him more than a year before he could face Pompey. Pompey's army outnumbered Caesar's 2 to one, but he was reluctant to fight, he hoped that with the countryside and farmers on his side, he could starve Caesars army out without a battle, this almost worked, but reinforcements from Caesars friend mark Antony plus summer harvests shattered pompey's plan. he was finally convinced by his men to face Caesar in an open battle, being convinced that his superior numbers would crush Caesar. The battle: Finally on 9 August 48 BC, Pompey and Caesar faced each other on the fields of Pharsalus. Caesar had an army of 22000 battle hardened troops and 1000 cavalry, They were greatly outnumbered by Pompey's 45000 troops and his cavalry outnumbered Caesar's 7 to 1. But Caesar's troops were battle hardened veterans and had a deep affection for their commander, He refered his men as comrades and he knew all of his army's centurions by name. Knowing the threat of Pompey's cavalry, Caesar had a few cohorts of troops taken from the battlelines to form an extra battle line behind his outnumbered cavalry. Pompey refused to advance but opted to wait for Caesar to make a move, arguing that by the time Caesars troops reached them they'd be exhausted. Realisering that pompey would not attack, Caesar ordered his men to advance, as they did so Pompey ordered his cavalry to attack Caesars flank. easily beating back Caesars outnumbered cavalry, but Caesar responded by unleashing the extra line of infantry he placed behind the cavalry who were able to chase Pompey's cavalry away. As that was going on, Caesars troops approached Pompey's line under volleys of pilum throws (roman throwing spears), Again Pompey's tactics failed, shortly before reaching Pompey's line, Caesars troops halted to get a quick breather and regroup the lines, this was not an order by Caesars but a decision by his centurions on the field. Afterwards they threw their pilum's and charged. As the 2 armies collided, neither side could get an advantage, that's when Caesar unleashed his reserve line which contained his most elite troops who shattered pompey's lines who started to flee the battlefield. As Pompey's lines broke, he lost all will to fight and fled in panic, leaving his army behind. Caesar had won the battle. Aftermath: After his defeat, Pompey fled to Egypt where he was murdered by one of his own centurions, When Caesar arrived shortly after he was offered Pompey's head but he refused to look at it. he had planned to pardon his rival and so buried Pompey with full honors. As the indisputable ruler of rome, Caesar tried to wash the wounds of this civil war by pardoning many of Pompey's troops, One of them was Marcus Brutus who later betrayed Caesars mercy to him by murdering Caesar along with a number of senators. But for now Caesar had triumphed and essentially became the rule of Rome until the year 44 BC when he was murdered by a number of senators in what they claimed to be an attempt to save the republic, instead, the death of Caesar marked the end of the republic and became the start of the roman Empire, where emperors would rule.

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