#tf nightbird

[yonker-tonker]

Someone has a sweetheart

[moustawott]

Nightbird design for my Spider Villainess AU!

Quiet and collected, Nightbird is an orphan from the Six Clan, a lineage of Transformers who can change into six modes. However, without a Six Changer mentor, she is limited to three forms: bot mode, quadcopter mode, and owl mode. She has been adopted as Soundwave’s apprentice, acting as a spy for the Decepticons. Many people claim that just like her mentor, she has the ability to read other’s minds, but that’s not accurate! Her actual ability lies in reading body language with incredible accuracy and attention to details.

Hooooly molly she was so hard to figure out 😭 I’m taking a break from doing character designs after this one lmaoooo (actually, I have one left to go but shhh)

Close ups and design thought process below:

- I began with 3 main themes: Cassandra Cain for the personality, the owl for her Nightbird name, and the ninja aesthetic (but making it a bit more subdued than her G1 design)

- I then identified her main alt-mode: a quadcopter drone. I haven’t done one yet and I felt like it suited her role as a spy

- My main humanoid form references were the G1 design and 30 Minute Fantasy assassin figure, you can see the way I shamelessly ripped off armour pieces from both designs lol

- I did like the beak-shaped forehead guard from the Bayverse design, so I took that and make the beak sharper for a more interesting silhouette

[gl1tt3r-gutz-and-r0b0tz-sl]

Trick or Treat!

treat!

[gayinternetsideways]

Exit the nightbird

[bluespider62]

Never mention Nightbird's name in front of Starscream or Alpha Trion…

Yes, Starscream and Nightbird are married in my AU. Got a problem, MegatronxNightbird/MegaBird shippers ?

[deepfriedhopesanddreams]

Tfa Nightbird doodles

I wanna draw Nightbird in a tfa style so bad

[indragonsaur]

Nightbird final redesign

[sweetpeaches666]

Starscream/Nightshriek: Lord Megatron, I know it's probably hard to see me this way. But the obedient little soldier that you think I am just isn't me. I love fighting, I love exploring the Earth, and I'm really, really good at it!

Starscream/Nightshriek: I know I've kept my life a secret from you, you were keeping me secret from the whole Autobot faction. You were doing it to protect me, but I'm 52-years-old and I've never had a real friend. So now that you know who I really am, I hope it doesn't change the way you feel about me.

Megatron: Of course it doesn't change the way I feel about you, Starscream. It's made me realize something.

Starscream/Nightshriek: It has?

Megatron: Yes... I've let you have far too much freedom. From now on, you will be care for and guarded 24 hours a day.

Starscream/Nightshriek: But, Master-

Nightbird: We are doing this for your own good, Starscream.

[pluralsword]

woah so Outright Games is releasing another transformers title, a racing game! very excited for this. The maps look gorgeous and it seems like an easy game to learn. 11 total playable characters who you can level up, four of whom are written as gals; Elita One, Arcee, Flamewar, and Nightbird:

@yonker-tonker we figure people might have told you already that she's in this! she looks so damn cool, love the ankle wheels, yellow biolights, the pink sword...

personally love that this Arcee doesn't have much curve in her waist and has broad shoulders, and is a mix of her bbm and sunbow look with cyan biolights and pink outer thigh slopes (something that was one with her t30/combiner hunter/platinum toys and occasionally by some artists during 2012-2016 for IDW1, and for Synergy and IDW 2019 along with most recently in the TTRPG core rulebook). her alt mode is a more Chromia-esque lightcycle take on her BBM altmode which makes us happy because basically a more heavily armored (and likely unintentional) modern successor to her hovercar/bike mode in Heart of Darkness #2. Think it's important to note that in the Go Go manga Haruka Oda specifically gave Arcee a more G1 look with a BBM-esque alt mode.

for those of you who haven't seen evergreen Elita, this is her! bulky from the hips up. love her deco and that she has two different biolight colors

Transformers Universe videogame / Prime toy Flamewar has had some sort of legacy lately in transformers media, given that she's also had a similar look in the deckbuilding game and robo rally. only now realizing how much her color scheme is similar to Dreamwave's Fallen and instead of having literal flames has flame motifs. please excuse while we think about Megatronus loyalist old lady Flamewar

[starspice-y]

My beautiful daughter if she wasn't ninja c-sectioned and post ninja c-section 💜

From the fanfic Fortuna Primigenia by @ss-shitstorm

[cityzenshark]

Nightbird is the best existing Tf character to return as a Terran.

She's from the G1 cartoon which ES is a sort of sequel to.

She's a man made robot turned sentient.

She ran away from both Decepticons and Autobots and never seen again.

Her stumbling into the Emberstone cave and gained a real spark, got a protoform body, and managed to figure things out on her own is completely possible.

Forget about bringing back characters who already had their limelight. Bring back the ninja bot! RotB did her dirty

[yonker-tonker]

redraw.

[moustawott]

Oughhhh, my daughter why is drawing you so hard 💀

[theneptuneflytrap]

EARTHSPARK DROP A THIRD SEASON WITH JETFIRE OR NIGHTBIRD AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[phantom2696]

Characters I would love to see in Earthspark season 2

Thundercracker (please let him be into making movies imagine him and Hashtag it would be perfect)

Nightbird. This shouldn't be a surprise just look at my pfp lol. She's an underrated robot queen and she deserves to be in more stuff. For Earthspark I'd love for them to stick to her G1 origin, where she was a manmade robot that ended up gaining sentience with the help of the Decepticons. Her sole episode in the original cartoon ended with her re-captured by the Autobots and put into cold storage by her creator, with her making an angry expression as the screen faded to black. I feel you could build on that in Earthspark. Maybe have her break out, with a vendetta against the Autobots and the Decepticons. She's angry at the former for imprisoning her and she's angry at the latter (including and especially Megatron) for using her yet never coming back for her after she was re-captured, making her feel abandoned.

Windblade. I really want to see Windblade interact with Earthspark Starscream. I feel it could be something interesting. I know Windscream is a bit controversial within the fandom for some reason but I feel with this more redeemed Starscream in the show I think it could legitimately work. I also feel she and Twitch would get along really well and she could be another good mentor figure to her!

Blackarachnia and Airazor. I just think they're neat! (and should be GFs)

[cutekittenlady]

Y'know what?

Nightbird in Earthspark.