#rotb nightbird

[dat-lil-shark]

What Optimus Prime's bot form would look like if everyone are beasts in Rotb

still working on most of the others bot forms but here's Optimus Prime for now.

Bonus: other characters as beasts too

(Battletrap: bear.

Nightbird: raven

Stratosphere: vulture

Scourge: also lion

Wheeljack (Pablo): llama (alpaca))

[comrade-slugcat]

Enter the nightbird or something, i havent watched the episode

[mx-jester]

My first ever comm!

A comm for @/hydrograd515 on twitter! I really enjoyed working on this and it was really a fun thing to trying to draw a live action transformers design!

[beemochi-art]

Drew some transformers girls 😌. Strika, Nightbird, Shadowstrike and Arcee (also implied soundwave.) sometimes I feel like they are super underrated, except arcee of course.

Nightbird’s design is inspired by her rise of the beast movie designs. I had a lot of fun with the details and such.

[huanted-dennys]

Rotb Memes Part2 :) SPOLIERS

pt1 pt2 pt3

FUCK I MADE TOO MANY (i’ll make a part 3 with the rest)

[evetronia]

What is their relationship because everyone seems to have their own head canon

[shokaheadcannons]

Meowdy again! Thank you for the Nightbird headcanons, I loved them! I was wondering if you’d do some nsfw ones for her too? There’s a Nightbird drought out here and I’m dehydrated af

well, well I understand haha I have prepared this ;)

18+ from here, if you are a minor outside here XD

Good for her it will be a fun game of playing cat and mouse. Seeing your scared face while you think you're safe, puts it on. Once you're stuck in her servos, she likes to touch your breasts. If you moan she will go faster, she loves to hear you.

She loves to see you overstimulated, when she licks your sex she will lick and suck. She also expects the same from you. If she is not satisfied, there may be some punishment like some mark on your skin made by her dermas.

She does not believe that it is necessary to use toys, just your efforts and hers are enough to reach satisfaction. Plus she'll make you last all night, until she's tired of you.

She loves seeing your face when you get scared and overstimulated, it turns her on a lot. Already seeing your beautiful naked body, she will devour you.

When you do it right, you will always have some compensation. You are her little pet if you do it right she can do something you will never forget ;)

[short-wooloo]

Did anyone else get shivers down their spine every time Nightbird spoke in ROTB?

[chicken-blitz13]

I was crying earlier but drawing Nightbird made my evening a little better

[i-starcreamed]

God, so what if gn cybertonian reader has a prosthetic arm that they can detach anytime they want?

I'm imagining them not having any ammo/weapons in a battle and uses their trump card, going, "Back up asshole! I'm armed!" And fucking detaches their arm and smack the shit out of their enemy.

Hcs for rotb scourge, Optimus Primal, Optimus Prime, and battletrap <3

ROTB X READER

THIS TOOK SO LONG IM SORRY! i genuinely loved this request but didn't have the inspiration for it back then. Anyways I love rotb cons <33 sorry this is so short

[ cybertronian!reader

post includes: Scourge, Optimus Primal, Optimus Prime, Battletrap, Nightbird]

Scourge

First time you do it, I think he would do a double take and then get fucking shot in the face

jk, he'd be like, "holy shit they can do that?!"

Hey, if it works, it works. It CAN be pretty badass too

Was very confused with it at first, but he gets used to it fairly quickly

"Y/N retreat! We're out of ammo!"

"nuh uh" proceeds to detach their arm and knock enemies over like bowling pins

Optimus Primal

He begs you to be careful

He sees you swinging around in the distance, and he grunts. “Y/N, put your arm back on! You’re going to hurt yourself!”

He lectured you the first time, maybe the second. But after, he gives up. He just sighs as you bitch slap Scourge on the battlefield

when you guys run out of ammo, he just looks at you. you know what to do

Optimus Prime

Very similar reaction to Primal, he just stares at you in surprise after a battle.

“…good work?”

He honestly doesn’t care he’s just a bit impressed. Will praise you for your quick thinking

The first time you did it, he thought you tore your arm off. But no, it’s fine. Just a prosthetic.

If he gets disarmed suddenly, he’ll happily take your arm and punch everyone. He learned it from you

Battletrap

eughhhh

also does a double take

he thinks its very badass

probably gets him in the mood for also punching his enemies

hey look! he also has a weapon he can throw around and slap people with!

sorry this is short I wish he had more screen time

Nightbird

will carry you as she flies and lets you hit enemies with ur arm

this is the only reason why I added her

I had a vison

thinks its dumb but when realizes you're a genius

powermove!

my queen

[ask-cloverfield]

When All Hell’s Breaking Loose

You’ll Be Right in the Eye of the Storm

[creativitysparks4everxoxo]

Well said!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The inner black girl in me was screaming when I saw Elena on screen, because she is everything I've ever wanted to see in a Transformers movie! I've always wanted to see a black woman join Team Autobots and be friends with them and Elena is the perfect character for this. I like that she got to be unapologetically black and an intergal part of the plot! She wasn't pushed to the side to be a mere sexualized love interest. No, she was the team's well of knowledge and she was so compassionate and kind towards the Autobots and Maximals!

And yes!!!! Nightbird was such an enjoyable villain! I got shivers down my spine when she taunted Noah and Elena! Ahhhh!

Agreed! I wish Arcee got more screentime, because I was hooked when she yelled at the air at Nightbird and started blasting away. I wanted to see more of her!!!

And yessss! Don't even get me started on Airazor not being resurrected! We were definitely robbed! She was such an important character!!!! I absolutely loved her bond with Elena!

Anyway, thank you so much for this analysis post, OP! ❤️

ROTB and Black Women's Rep

I know there is a lot of negative talk/critique about the women in ROTB, but I wanted to just share as a black genderfluid person, how liberating at least it has been to me to see actual black women portrayed well in a live action tf movie. I understand to a lot of people, the antiblackness that was always a common staple in live actions transformers history, didn’t impact them but it impacted me. And it’s lack of black women, yet making black women (and people) caricatures at any chance they got, was also really upsetting to me. And the way women in the bay films were treated in general was bad.

Rotb was important to me as a black woman fan because for once, we got to see a whole female cast dominated by black women which is rare, if not unheard of for transformers live action media. And they were all given respectful narratives, not made into caricatures and given a chance to shine. A lot of people have made comments about how rotb’s portrayal of women was awful, or how women were failed, and I understand that perspective. I also do not think that by any means, ROTB was perfect in its portrayal of women.

What I do believe however, is that tf live action portrayals of women have come a long way since the bay films. But for people who are not black women, they may not understand nor care about the importance of for once, seeing black women and culture taken seriously on the big screen. The black female characters, in my opinion, were written well. They were given nuance, a respectful narrative and weren’t jokes, caricatures or canon fodder. Elena, the first black live action human, was a breath of fresh air away from what we were used to. She wasn’t white, shy wasn’t super skinny and she didn’t exist as a sex object or a point of romance. She was smart, she also showed us a very real example of microaggressions and racism black women need to face in the work place. Yet, that wasn’t made into a joke, and she was taken seriously by alien life forms when her white female boss ignored her.

And that’s  just something refreshing. We have a black human woman allowed to be flawed, and also allowed to have her subtle experiences of racism taken seriously without being demeaned for it, but we also see how she is integral to the plot, and how her presence was needed in order for the plot to move forward.

I wish we got more Arcee- but I love that she was humanized rather than just made into a joke or a sexual object. She was shown to be extremely intelligent, skilled, understanding, and she was a good fighter and more importantly she wasn’t a caricature. Her being a black woman didn’t dicate how the audience saw her or how she was written. She was written with so much respect and was over all and interesting character.

I could say the same about nightbird. Because not only was she a formindable villain, but she was played by a transfem afro Latina actress, one of my favorite actresses actually, who brought her to life and that was just refreshing to see. again, in media where black trans fems are usually made into cariactures or jokes, I love that nightbird was taken seriously as a villain and a black female character.

My point is that, just because there are issues with the writing of female characters, doesn’t mean you need to discount the actual importance of Black women in the show. I think a lot of people, who are not Black women, and who don’t actually think of or care about Black women’s issues, are quick to not consider how maybe looking at ROTB’s women intersectionally may add more avenues to the conversation of women’s representation. While I don’t think that the film was flawless in its portrayal of women, I think it’s a huge step up and I do think that in the future, things will get better. But for now, as a black fan and a black woman, I absolutely loved seeing and hearing women that looked and sounded like me on screen.

Now, again this doesn't mean that you can't critique the portrayal of women in ROTB, because I have a lot of issues with some portrayals, especially Airazor and even more so, I wish Arcee got more screen time. But at the same time, if you are critiquing the majority Black women, make sure you actually open your space for Black women to give their opinions on things without getting offended. Especially if you are white or non-black yourself.

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[thestitchesarchive]

The Queen of Spades, Nightbird. Personally I think she’s more suited to the Queen of hearts- at least, the Queen of my heart. Hehehehe. I love her.

This marks the second g1 character who I am obsessed over who appears as a big movie villain around the same time I started obsessing over them. Crazy.

[mauditeaffaire]

no matter how hard life gets, i still have my formas (idk how to draw cars nightbird nation forgive me)

[19thcenturylover]

Rotb HF!Art dump :3

I forgot to post some things here soo... my 4 new designs/redesigns :D

1. My bbg scourge, I don't have much to say other than I'm having trouble with your mask. So with his bare rod I like it :]

2. attempts for Optimus and Battletrap, Battletrap's design is out but I wanted to get a basic idea of certain things (he's almost totally blind and has melasma).. and Oppy is Oppy and I love him

3. Arcee finally redesing, I NEEDED to make her eyelashes white :"3♡

4. And my favorite, Nightbird :D. I love how it turned out and it's my final design for her (I still don't have any color drawing but haha)

[creativitysparks4everxoxo]

Thank you!!!!!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I don't think a lot of people truly understand just how important ROTB is in terms of representation. The fact that it took 7 movies before we FINALLY got POC human lead characters is just sad. Even Anthony Ramos mentioned this in one of the interviews with the main human cast (him, Dominique and Tobe). Why the hell did it take soooo long???!!

Elena is such a well written character and I love that she's not a stereotype!!! I love that she's a huge history nerd/artifact researcher and she knows her shit! The fact that she played a huge role in the success of the mission is just **chef's kiss** 🤌🏾 SHE HAD INFO THAT EVEN THE AUTOBOTS DIDN'T KNOW!!! It makes my inner child cry because it was just so nice to watch Elena in action and exist and not be a harmful stereotype. I've always wanted to see more black female characters in sci-fi media and now I have Elena! 🥺 She's so cute and smart and she is such a likable character. And I love her happy ending in the end of the movie! Yes! Finally! Give that sweetie the credit that she deserves!

I also like the fact that ROTB FINALLY gave Arcee the respect that she deserves AND on top of that we got 2 additional femme bots in the movie, which is amazing! Michael Bay could never! ROTB is a huge step in the right direction for what a Transformers movie should be! It's so impactful and I really hope to see more movies in the future that follow its example in terms of representation for black and POC human lead characters and more representation for femme bots.

So I was rewatching Rise of the Beasts (again) and in my mind I kept thinking about that really good article that discussed the lack of female characters, especially bots in the live action movies. I spoke about this last week, but watching the movie again made me sad that the author of the article completely skipped over the importance of not just Elena but also the female bots (nightbird, airazor and arcee) themselves. I think that it’s very understandable that more could have been done with the female bots, but I also think that OP just did not understand the importance of having the two main bots voiced by black women and the main woman being a black human.

The article again, went on and on to discuss the lack of female bots in the live action shows and also went into detail discussing the misogyny that bay perpetrated in the early live action films in regards to the specific women he portrayed. They were very sexualized and mistreated, whereas there were absolutely no fembots to be seen.

When the author discussed ROTB, they completely brushed over both Elena and the important impact that Arcee and Nightbird had to at least, black people especially black women. Could more have been done with nightbird and arcee, yes—but they were still very much characters in their own right, especially arcee. Arcee was not just someone who did flips and fought, she was also good with intel and a scientist to an extent. On top of that, she was voiced by a black woman and that is not something that we’ve really ever had in live action. We had in TFP airachnid voiced by a black woman but everyone was misognystic toward her and hated her. Next we have Nightbird who was voiced by a black trans woman  (M.J Rodriguez) which is a huge, revolutionary and important step and the article just…did not mention that at all.

We even have Airazor, who was voiced by a Malaysian woman (Michelle Yeoh). Which again, is a huge step.

More importantly there is Elena Wallace, who completlely subverted the idea of what a human woman had to be in the live action films. She is Black, she is a scientist, she isn’t super and unhealthily skinny but she is still beautiful and integral to the plot. On top of that, she was allowed to exist without being a caricature of black women, which is most certainly something that the bay films would’ve done because of how poorly black culture was handled.

LOOK I’m not saying that ROTB was perfect with its female rep, especially its fembot rep. but I also think that if you are completely discrediting the cultural impact of having all the fembots voiced by woc, and a queer one at that and the main human female being a black woman that was treated with respect…then you’re just being super unfair.