#rid clampdown

[jazzy-man13]

Hi! If it's okay to request/ask, could you do a scenario/headcanon of tfrid 2015, Steeljaw's pack, with human (gn! or f!) Reader? Romantic/Platonic

Human Reader's a cinnamon roll, and has the personality/backstory of Perrito from Puss in Boots movie. They're very motherly and therapy-like friend and also a Pacifist but can be passive-aggressive…

Steeljaw's pack x cinnamon roll gn human hcs

Grrrrr hello anon! Ty for the request, I hope this is what you were looking for- I can always do another if not 🫶(I haven't watched tfrid in a hot minute, hopefully I didn't forget anyone- lmao)

Steeljaw: He admires your ability to keep everyone in check in spite of your small size, though you're also slightly unnerving to him. How can you be so kind and patient after the life you've lived? He trusts you, but he'll also try to keep an eye on you, just in case.

Thunderhoof: To him, you're a pleasant change of pace compared to the rest of the group. Since you're so kind and relaxed, he often goes to you to unwind after a long day. Of course, in front of the others he'd treat you the same as everyone else, but when he's alone with you he's actually a pretty decent dude.

Fracture (+Divebomb & Airazor): He'd never admit it, but he's rather fond of you. Sometimes he worries about you since you're a pacifist, and he'll try to convince you to train with him and teach you some swordsmanship skills. As he sees your ability to keep people in check with your passive-aggressiveness, he slowly relaxes and doesnt bother you about training as much. His minicons, Divebomb and Airazor, are obsessed with you. They think you're amazing! They always try to grab your attention to play games with you while the others are on missions. You're like a parent to them, and Fracture only trusts you to watch over them when he can't take them on a mission.

Underbite: He tries to keep up his tough and intimidating reputation, but he's really just a big sweetheart. Underneath all that bulk is a golden retriever personality, and it shines around you. He'd die on the spot if anyone ever found out, but he loves playing catch with you. You always make sure that he gets enough metal to eat so he doesn't get distracted during missions, and his performance continues to improve thanks to you.

Clampdown: Whenever he gets in trouble with the others, which is often, he'll run to hide behind you. Your pleasant demeanor is usually able to calm the situation before someone loses their cool at him. The poor coward clings to you like glue, staying with you for protection.

[deepfriedhopesanddreams]

Humanformed Steeljaw's other pack members

[lunarfeat21]

Sparkling Shakedown

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Chapter two: Peas in a Pod

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Dragging the blue silvery pod was proven to be a task even as Drift did his best to drag the thing out of the ditch, but with the help of his Minicons, they managed to get it out and called the rest for transportation.

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Once they returned with their findings, Fixit worked away as he examined the exterior of the pod.

“Good work on finding the source.” Bumblebee complimented Drift for his excellent findings. The bounty hunter nodded, at least he didn’t explain his embarrassing story of how he stumbled upon it.

“Hey guys, what do we-” Denny was about to ask when he and Russell spotted the pod, blue eyes widened in awed as they approached the team. The light reflecting off the pod’s surface added a wonder to it, like a good fortune is about to come.

“Up, up, up, you’re not coming any closer now Denny Clay!” Fixit intervened as the orange Minicon obscured the pod out of the humans’ view.

“I’m still in the middle of analyzing, however my scanner deduced this pod is an escape pod; albeit a small one.”

“An escape pod?” murmured Bumblebee as he examined the exterior. He doesn’t see why this pod could be special, though it vaguely bears a stronger resemblance to the stasis pods, the ones they imprisoned captured Decepticons from their missions, except for the brilliance gleam of silvery blue. Like it supposed to represent importance to whomever lost it, the glass frosted over that nobody could see through, and down to the middle is a very strange carving. 

Bumblebee failed to notice the carving thanks to the overly flashy outer shell, his shadow blocked out the sun’s light as he got a good view. Those strange carvings are no other than Cybertronians glyphs, and it’s also one sentence.

“What did you find?” piped Jetstorm as he passed the dream-stuck Clays and approached beside Bumblebee, curious of what the bigger bot saw.

“Oh, Jetstorm,” Bumblebee replied as he made a nonverbal gesture of lifting Jetstorm, to which he nodded and picked the Minicon to get a view as well. “I just found Cybertronian writing in the middle, and it seems it only had one sentence no less.”

“One sentence? Just one?”

“I believe so.”

“Whaaat?” whined Fixit as he wheeled over to Bumblebee, and he saw the glyphs as well.

“Well?” Sideswipe chimed as he, Grimlock, Strongarm, Drift, the Clays, and Slipstream gathered around the pod, eager to know the short sentence. “What did it say?”

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High in a nearby hill by the scrapyard, a pointed ear flicked as the sound it heard traveled. His fanged smile grew ever so slightly.

“A short sentence?” Clampdown murmured as he is assigned to be Steeljaw’s parrot, relaying the information from the Wolficon as nobody in the Pack had excellent hearing as Steeljaw. Not to mention being a curious crab.

“You heard that right brother,” a chill coo from Steeljaw’s voicebox that made Clampdown so nervous “they found a pod with glyphs. Doesn’t it make you excited? About whatever it could be inside?”

“Not really,” Thunderhoof grumbled, “whatever is in there is really not worthy.”

“Patience, Thuderhoof,” the Wolficon smoothly replied to the ex-mob boss as he swiveled his head back to the direction of the conversation “patience.”

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“Let’s see..” Bumblebee squinted at the small writing as he studied them.

Everyone patiently waited in anticipation, all optics, hidden ears, and eyes trained to the yellow bot, before the first word was spilled.

“May…”

“Yeah?” Sideswipe whispered as to not be loud.

“The…”

Everyone leaned in closer, dying to know.

“Starlings…”

“Bring…”

“Eternal…”

“Ooooohhhhh I can’t take it!” Grimlock whispered, desperately wanting this to be over with.

“Happiness…” was the last sentence Bumblebee read. Everyone was quiet, some were expecting something to happen, and others were stumped by whatever message this sentence was supposed to mean.

“May the starlings bring eternal happiness?” Sideswipe said as he looked over the sentence as he read it “what in the Primes’ is that supposed to mean?”

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The other Pack members were confused by what Clampdown last said, ‘May the starlings bring eternal happiness’? What the scrap is that about. Before they even about to question Steeljaw, who is still listening, the leader hissed at them to be silent and let him listen.

“Don’t utter another word, something is about to happen and I know it!”

Steeljaw was right, something did happen at the scrapyard, and others were there to witness it… and it was so beautiful as a light shot at the blue afternoon sky.

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Just as he placed his servo on top of the glyphs, Bumblebee shot back and fell as a strong beacon of light rose towards the sky, making the world around them a little white. The Bee Team had no idea how it happened, well, Bumblebee is to blame, but how on Earth are they going to stop it and bring unwanted attention.

For roughly ten seconds, the beam died down and everything was back to normal. Bumblebee got up and checked on the pod, while others emerged from their hiding spots and checked as well.

“What even is that?!” Strongarm asked as she was beside her lieutenant, eyeing at the pod.

“No clue.” Bumblebee replied.

Everyone once again gathered around the pod, all were in shock. The glyphs were glowing along with the rim of the pod sliding door, then suddenly the plaque, in a shape of a circle, twisted counterclockwise in three twirls, and by the fourth the door hissed as steaming air escaped.

The latch opened and the Bee Team leaned in for a closer inspection, drawing their weapons and bracing for whatever is in the pod.

Once the stream is clear, they all pointed at the chamber and were in shock once more. The pod itself is… empty? They all looked in and found nothing. That was a relief.

“I guess the scanners were wrong…” muttered Fixit as he was about to leave when a noise came from the pod. Everyone was confused, particularly Jetstorm as he leaned toward the inside of the pod and looked down. A big gasp escaped from him as both Bee and Drift also looked at where Jetstorm is looking. Everyone else is staring.

“What’s wrong Lieutenant?” Strongarm asked urgently.

“Shh.” Bumblebee shushed quietly, signaling that everyone should lower their voice. A smile painted across his, Jetstorm, and Drift’s faceplates as each took small, yet not large, round objects inside the pod. It really looks like the three were… cradling?

“Bee, what did you find?” Russell whispered as he and Denny approached the cradlers, and as they approached, Denny couldn’t help but notice something that strongly resembled that humans do, especially to babies.

Drift and Bee carefully and slowly put Jetstorm down with the object he cradled, and both humans now saw what the bots had. In Jetstorm’s arms, is a velvet green with gold color, small, miniature version of a young Minicon. To further the proof, it opened its turquoise colored optics with little lashes.

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[The Beginning] | [Chapter three]

[autism-autobot]

"Well... he tried to blackmail a member of the High Council and wound up on The Alchemor." CLAMPDOWN F*CKING KNEW THE ENTIRE TIME!!!!!!!!

[pospoets]

(DOODLES)

RID15 but the difference is that Bumblebee can't keep his mouth shut about Starscream

(RID LWRB AU DOODLES BELOW)

STEELJAW'S PACK COMMANDERS V

[hah-studios]

Some scenarios for my Alliance AU where Bee Team and Steeljaw's pack start to work together. It's having its ups and downs.

[dirtyreusablehandkerchief]

I can't believe Winnie the Pooh, eggman & clampdown were all voiced by the same person

[thewallsaretalking-again]

No context will be given here

[neoprowl]

Cheese with nothin'

Russell: hey thunderhood, gimme a pizza with extra cheese

Thunderhoof: extra cheese

Russell: and hold the tomato sausage

Tunderhoof: hold the tomato sauce?

Russell: and hold the crust

Thunderhoof: hold the crust!? (To clampdown) Ayoo clampdown! Gimmie cheese with nun'!

Clampdown: nun'!?

[djphantomlight]

Cuuute... 😊

Kindergarten :)

[deepfriedhopesanddreams]

Rubble and the Pack

*at the pack's hideout*

Clampdown: hey boss, I found a defenseless minicon outside, think we can use him as a hostage when we meet Bumblebee and his team again?

Steeljaw: well done brother, now with thi-

Thunderhoof: Eyo! NO! What are ya? stupid?!

Steeljaw: you dare go against this great opportunity?

Thunderhoof: listen here, that kid over there, it ain't no ordinary kid, that's lieutenant Bumblebee's kid!

Steeljaw: well that's- wait he has a kid?

Fracture: uh yeah, you didn't know?

Steeljaw: ...

Thunderhoof: I can't believe I'm saying this, but we gotta leave this damn kid where we found him and "we" I mean YOU!

Clampdown: ah! *Shakes in fear*

Thunderhoof: and it better be far away from our base because we can't be caught dead with the kid, not only are we caught but we're also DEAD

Airazor: bad news everyone, he's not budging!

*Airazor and Divebomb are forcing Rubble to move, Rubble still refusing*

Thunderhoof: alright kid, we need ya to leave this place so what do ya want?

Rubble: do you have any food?

*the pack looks at each other*

Fracture: I have Chase Chips, does that count?

Rubble: *shrugs*

Thunderhoof: fine, I think we have enough energon to make my MA's famous Plutonium Pepperoni

*meanwhile, the pack and Rubble were eating some Plutonium Pepperoni*

Clampdown: *munch* wait, it feels like we're forgetting something

Bumblebee: *busts through the door* WHERE'S MY SON?!!!!!

The pack: oh FVCK

Rubble: *giggles*

[lunarfeat21]

Some silly fic skit abt everybot going nuts abt sparklings

Sparkling Shakedown

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Chapter one: Morning Interruptions

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The leftover shimmering of stars as the dark night sky had turned to a pale lavender gradient, the upcoming morning is here. The remnants of meteoroids flew by Denny’s scrapyard as their bright beautiful tails followed.

Especially one huge meteoroid that grew brighter and brighter as it flew over and crashed northwest of the scrapyard and into the nearby woods.

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In their little quarters somewhere in Denny’s scrapyard, it was particularly odd for Jetstorm, stirred as groggy optics fluttered. He could have sworn he heard a loud crash somewhere and glanced at Slipstream to see if he was also awakened by the noise. 

Slipstream is still asleep, but stirred as he too was awake by not the crash, but the activities outside their quarters. “What is going on?” croaked Slipstream as he rubbed his optics out of the sleepiness in them.

“I have no clue,” Jetstorm said as he jumped out of his makeshift and opened the intermodal container’s latch “but whatever the crash was also awakened them.”

The residents of the scrapyard slowly arrived at the Communications Center one by one as the chirps of various songbirds greet the warm summer air. Some members of the Bee Team yawned and stretched to draw the tiredness out, what in the world of Primes’ is going on?

“Grim,” Sideswipe yawned as he spoke to Grimlock as the dinobot arrived in the Center after him “maybe next time you could be careful with whatever you're doing.”

“It wasn’t me,” Grimlock said as he rubbed his optics to keep himself awake “I thought it was you or Strongarm doing something, I was asleep when that crash happened.”

“I was also asleep when the loud crash happened.” Came a grouchy Strongarm as she appeared behind the duo, optics ridden with a glare mixed with tiredness as she aggressively poked at Sideswipe’s chassis “I thought it was the punk doing dumb shenanigans to wake the scrapyard as a prank, like usual!”

“Was not!” Sideswipe scowled defendly as he returned the glare “I was in my quarters sleeping peacefully when that happened, I thought it was Grimlock.”

“Nope, wasn’t me.” Grimlock chimed.

Running to the Center, both Jetstorm and Slipstream met the others. “Did anyone hear the crash?” questioned Jetstorm as the giant trio acknowledged Drift’s minicons.

“Sure thing,” Grimlock said “it was really loud. What were you guys doing when that happened?”

“Both of us were asleep when the crash happened.” Jetstorm replied.

“And where were you guys too?” Slipstream said as he yawned.

“Asleep like the rest.” Strongarm answered, she too yawned.

“Same.” Sideswipe and Grimlock replied.

“Alright, what’s with the noise fellas.” A sleepy Bumblebee arrived with Drift, Denny, Fixit, and Russell in tow, with sleep written in their face as little bags under optics and eyes suggested.

“We heard a crash happened not long ago, Lieutenant.” Strongarm answered as she shook her helm to stay awake, it’s still early in her opinion. “I boldly assumed it was Sideswipe doing a prank, however, I found out that it wasn’t him or the others as they were asleep too.”

“And what were you guys doing when it happened?” Sideswipe yawned as he stretched.

“Like the rest, asleep.” Russell replied as the young human yawned.

“Denny, could it be possible if one of your antiques just fell off from somewhere?” Fixit glanced at Denny who was drifting back to sleep, only to snap awake.

“Huh, n-no. I always make sure nothing can go out of place and tighten stacked objects. Aside from crashing, I could have sworn I heard a loud roar overhead, like something from the sky before the crash.”

“Now do you mention it,” Bumblebee started as he think a bit of what Denny said “I do heard a roar, but what could possibly-”

A notification sounded off at the Center as Fixit made haste, clearly the blare had jump started their adrenaline. Now they had the energy unintentionally needed as Fixit madly typed down to see what the computer detected; “This is quite peculiar,” Fixit murmured as the Team drew closer.

“What do we got now, Fixit?” Bumblebee asked.

“And why so early.” muttered Sideswipe.

“The scanners detected Cybertronian technology at the northwest of the Scrapyard.” Fixit said as the computer projected the map of the Scrapyard, showing a dot at the northwest outside of the premises.

“So… whatever it is that caused the crash.” Bumblebee concluded.

“Exactly,” Fixit agreed as he read the diagnostics of the object in question “what interests me most is that the scanners also detected possible lifeforms in whatever served as their container.”

“Lifeforms? Do the scanners say what could possibly be Fixit?” Strongarm asked while glancing at the map.

“Not exactly,” the orange Minicon replied “looks like you guys had to retrieve it for further examination.”

“Alright team,” Bumblebee intoned triumphantly, like the many times before he and the rest transformed to their respective alt modes “Rev up and Roll out!”

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In the northwest of the woods, far, far, far up the huge hill he did sniff the dirt. Long pointed ears twitched at the slightest of noise, and yellow optics darted to every corner, Steeljaw was on the trail for his prize. He and his pack heard the crash some time ago and since tracked it to its site, now that he picked up a really faint smell, he will claim whatever it may be. If Thunderhoof and the rest weren’t so grouchy that the crash had stolen their ‘beauty’ sleep.

“Steeljaw, is this really necessary to drag the rest of us ta whatever that noise be.” Thunderhoof muttered at the Wolficon, tired optics seared at him on top of that.

At the mention of the noise, Steeljaw was upset that his needed rest was disrupted, needed sleep for planning and conquering Earth, but for whatever reason his spark commanded him to go to the source and trust himself. 

“You see dear brother,” Steeljaw spoke with charisma, paying no mind to explain the grumpy tractor moose as he entrapped the ex-boss with one servo around the shoulder plates “I get this ambitious feeling that the crash had brought something that is worth tracking.”

“And what does it even mean?” Clampdown nervously rejoined as to not upset his leader. The informant even shrank back a bit as Thunderhoof stared at him.

“An excellent question brother.” Unhanding Thunderhoof as Steeljaw, now speak to Clampdown regarding to his question “It means that whatever it was, we will use it for our goals of conquering this planet and make our Decepticon world paradise, a dream come true.”

“Oh…” the Crabicon recognized as Clampdown, slowly inched away from Steeljaw, chuckling nervously while Steeljaw confidently giggled; then to full blown laughter. 

Thunderhoof, Fracture, Underbite, and Quilfire had various reactions, but think the same when glancing one to another. The group collectively believe that the crash caused Steeljaw to be a bit… loose in the helm, to say the least.

The laughter ceased when Steeljaw’s ears perked up, signaling that the Wolficon detected whatever he heard. He heard something huge traversing through the woods they’re in, the roar of engines from vehicles and their tires crushing the dead vegetation. Steeljaw bared his sharp denta as he hissed at his Pack “Someone’s coming! Hide right now!”

The Pack wasted no time as they shifted to their alt modes and hit the gas to where they came from, much to Steeljaw’s frustration as he too transformed and followed suit while four vehicles arrived at their designation; not even the vehicles saw Steeljaw or his Pack leaving the area.

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“This is where the signal came from,” Bumblebee spoke to no one in particular as he and his team transformed to bipedal mode, some starting to search for the source “I want everyone to leave their commlinks on incase when you found the source or an emergency. Got it?”

“Got it!” The Team replied as everyone fanned out.

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In a few minutes not far from the rendezvous, in the southmost part, Drift, Slipstream, and Jetstorm checked the underbrush and other signs. Everything seems normal, minus a bird that scared the living days out of Jetstorm, who checked in a bush where its nest is in. 

“Master Drift,” spoke Jetstorm as he eyed on Slipstream, trying his best to suppress his giggles from his scare, then focus on his teacher “what do you think of what is inside the object that Fixit mentioned? Could it be something… dangerous?” The dark colored minicon shivered at the thought.

“I believe it's not Jetstorm.” Drift calmly replied “It’s rather unlikely something-”

Without warning, as Drift was formulating an explanation to his student as his attention was diverted from him when he landed his foot to a deep hole in front of him. The hole itself wasn’t so deep, merely around 5-or-so feet, and during his short fall he landed first to a metal surface.

The Minicons wasted no time skidding next to the hole and gasped, from where their teacher felt on top is something that the scanners detected.

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[Chapter two]

[lilpoeghostie]

Ok gotta draw this.

[Name], walking into their house: Hello, people who do not live here.

Steeljaw: Hey.

Thunderhoof: Hi.

Fracture: Hello.

Clampdown: Hey!

[Name]: I gave you the key to my place for emergencies only!

Quilfire: We were out of Doritos.

[pospoets]

Steeljaw's pack part two

[blueikeproductions]

So an unexpected lore drop for the Robots in Disguise 2015 cast cropped up.

The Transformers series has an RPG game, though I have no idea if many actually play of it or even know if it.

There’s three books so far.

The third one being the most recent, and a particular surprise that it’s heavily based on Beast Wars, Beast Machines and other series that have included beast characters like both RiDs.

One thing I find funny is the named Maximals are surprisingly small: Optimus Primal, Dinobot, Cheetor, Rattrap, Botanica, Silverbolt and BlackArachnia. The Predacons and Vehicons are much more robust, with Skold from IDW Beast Wars specifically mentioned as a Predacon. Maximal Nyx, as far as I can tell, isn’t mentioned, which is funny because she was treated as IDW BW’s mascot, but was pry the most forgettable character from it. Forgettable to the point she doesn’t appear to be acknowledged here.

What’s most surprising is Beast Machines in general being acknowledged since the struggles between the Maximals and Vehicons aren’t a popular idea to return to. Acknowledging a techno organic Cybertron is almost considered apocryphal to some, but with how increasingly Earth like Cybertron has become in modern stories, perhaps Hasbro is just more accepting of Cybertron’s inevitable evolution into a pseudo organic state.

The book starts out with Cheetor, post Beast Machines, speaking to a human colony on New Earth about the history of the Beast Wars he fought in and other Beast Wars he is aware of such as the events of RotB and RiD01.

Nightshade is listed as a lesser known beast Transformer, and going by the growing apathy towards EarthSpark and it continuing to be a rallying point in grifter spaces, I think that’s gonna remain that way unfortunately. Curiously, as Cheetor is the one that name drops Nightshade, I’m unsure if this is supposed to be the EarthSpark version, or retroactively this is a post BM Maximal version. Going by other chapters that seem to identify characters as belonging to G1/Beast Wars canon, it seems likely this Nightshade is a Maximal rather than a Terran.

Maximal and Predacon biology has never been definitively nailed down before, but this guidebook specifically declares that Maximals and Predacons evolved from Pretender technology and Micromaster technology, something ancillary media suggested before but never set it as hard fact.

The next story features Simacore as part of a Decepticon think tank led by Shockwave, as they discuss what seems to be the modern versions of “Beast Mode” technologies.

Of particular note is what the animal Decepticons in RiD15 are retroactively labeled as: Hybridizors. Hybridizors are apparently a breed of Transformer that has an animal like Robot Mode that converts into a Vehicle Mode. It seems this evokes Fuzors from Beast Wars: Maximals and Predacons who transform into hybrid mutant animals like Silverbolt’s wolf with eagle wings and claws.

Mechanimals are also referenced, a term that’s cropped up in ancillary media that refers to Cybertron’s native fauna: the difference is it now specifically refers to fauna and Transformers who convert from humanoid Robot Modes to robotic Beast Modes like the Dinobots.

With this in mind, we now have two distinct races that make up the RiD15 Decepticons:

Hybridizors: Guys like Steeljaw, Clampdown, Ped, Bisk, Quilfire, Underbite, Scatterspike, Groundpounder, Simacore, RageByte & Springload. While not specified, presumably this also includes Cyclone & Torpedo Mini-Cons.

Mechanimals: Guys like Scowl, Grimlock, Nightstrike, Chop Shop, Filch, Saberhorn, Glowstrike, Scorponok, Scuzzard, Shadow Raker & Zizza.

The crash of the Alchemore is also an event that occurred in this G1/Beast Wars version of events, further solidifying these characters into the general mythos as accounted by Thunderhowl, based on the Cyberverse version funny enough. Thunderhowl does retroactively fit nicely as an RiD15 character, but his defining role in CV is serving Onyx Prime and getting trapped in alien crystals until the end of the Great War. He’s frankly an odd pick as the narrator of the third part of the book, when he’s not a remarkable character and to better fit with the Beast Machines theme, he could’ve been BM Nightscream or TFP Predaking looking at old data trax about Cybertronian history. Just a thought.

What makes the Hybridizor idea most interesting is the writers of the RPG book consulted with RiD15 staff writers to have Steeljaw and company fit in the RPG gameplay. I’m personally excited, since RiD is my favorite series, and getting new lore related to it by the staff is so cool. My only complaint is I kinda wish they thought of this name back then, as it probably would’ve saved a lot of headaches as to what the RiD15 Decepticons are supposed to be. Despite the show making it clear all the animal dudes are naturally occurring species on Cybertron, a lot of fans tended to view them as augmented experiments of Shockwave’s, similar to the Insecticons and Predacons. This does include the Dinobots, but because RiD also states Dinobots are a common reoccurring mechanimal on Cybertron, with RiD Grimlock, Scowl, Velocirazor and Tricerashot examples of this, it makes FoC Grimlock’s Dinobots retroactively bizarre, as why would Shockwave rebuild Grimlock’s unit into Earth Dinosaurs, when Earth Dinosaurs exist on Cybertron anyway? Works if you squint, my actuator.

Still the specific mention of Beast Mode tech does lean pretty heavily into the fan theory Steeljaw and co could’ve been experiments of Shockwave’s, so it’s now officially plausible even though I’m not personally a fan of that idea. Not everything needs to be Shockwave’s fault, I think we learned that the hard way in IDW.

This retroactive labeling is also interesting as the animal Decepticons came about by Hasbro kinda stumbling on it. They didn’t have a clear idea on what RiD’s theme would be so in play testing, they found kids liked to have the Autobot toys fight monster Decepticon looking toys, so that became the defining characteristic.

If you were to go back and rework it to have these Decepticons be a new breed of savage beast and turbo revving machine, equipped with a gimmick like the Energon Ignitors from Bumblebee or the Activator Mini-Cons RiD did use, I think that might’ve helped smooth things over better.

[thegerto]

Decepticons Team: The Mighty CyAnimals

-Steeljaw -ThunderHoof -Clamp Crawfish (Clampdown RID 2015 But with a different name)

Others

-Decepticon Astrotrain -Scarlett Bat (New Oc)