#victorion

[they-hermes]

as a combiner lover i have committed myself to draw all of them at least once. unfortunately its also 1 am and im not drawing alla that

[gardenofchrome]

I’m am dying for more combiners to be shown in Transformers media. But not just any combiners- I would like to see combiners with a sibling like relationship. Who panic in their combined form if a limb gets ripped off because they know that one of their siblings got hurt and seek revenge for it, kind of what Thundercracker is doing for Skywarp in the Skybound comics. Even in their uncombined form they take care of each other.

[dividingcosmos]

Cool shots of the Torchbearers and Victorion (One of, if not my favourite, Combiners)

[saxandviolins77]

"This is blasphemy! This is madness!"

"Madness?

This...

is...

CAMINUS!!!"

*Spartan kick but make it being ripped apart molecule by molecule*

[waves-mp4]

Combiners

I only named a few combiners since there isn't exactly a list of combiners. Also because at least 5 people need to create a combiner and I don't want to name 32+ characters. Way to many people to talk about.

Let's do this

Disclaimer: this is a fan continuity and doesn't fully align with canon (mild spoilers for my fan cont.)

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"Main" Combiners:

Devastator - Scrapper, Hook, Bonecrusher, Long Haul, Mixmaster, and Scavenger (and Prowl)

Bruticus - Onslaught, Brawl, Blast Off, Swindle, and Vortex

Menasor - Motormaster, Dead End, Wildrider, Drag Strip, and Breakdown

Defensor - Hotspot, First Aid, Streetwise, Blades, and Groove

Superion - Silverbolt, Slingshot, Air Raid, Firefight, and Skydive

Victorion - Pyra Magna, Jumpstream, Dust Up, Stormclash, Skyburst, and Rust Dust

(Other Combiners can be found on tfwiki)

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How do gestalts and gestalts bonds work?

Gestalt are the word used to refer to the group that creates a combiner. Gestalt bonds are the bond connecting the gestalt. A gestalt bond is a spark bond similar to trines and host-cassette bonds in my fan continuity.

Emotions and thoughts can be sent and received through the gestalt bond. One can temporary block their side of the gestalt bond and with help, completely cut themselves off from the bond. This doesn't hurt anyone! It will feel sore but nothing more. Gestalt bonds are consensual and a bond will not form if someone really doesn't want to.

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How to combiners work?

Physically, Combiners need at the very least 5 parts. Two arms, two legs, and a torso/head. Devastator is a special case, having a torso and a head separate.

Mentally, kind of similar to Pacific Rim. The gestalt have to be in sync in order for the combiner to stay combined and work. In the mind of the combiner, there is a space that "holograms" are located. Those holograms are the mechs that make up the combiner. They are more of a representation than anything else. There is a visual of sorts of the gestalts mind. The visual can change depend on who is the leader or who is in the gestalt. For example, Prowl's mind calculates a lot. So when he is leader, there is a lot more numerical calculations vs if Scrapper was leader.

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How are combiners created?

This is a complicated question. Some mechs, like the Constructicons, Combaticons, Stunticons, Protectobot, etc. are born as combiners. In other cases, a mech's frame must be reformatted if they want to be part of a combiner.

Very few know how to reformat a frame to become part of a combiner. Hook is know to be the number one medic to go to for a frame reformat. He is known for turning lots of people away.

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What about the Enigma of Combination?

Doesn't exist, even if it did, the combiners would highly upset over a tool that can force mechs to combine. Combiners and gestalts are consensual, they have to be. Otherwise the combiners can't actually work due to the fact that the gestalt has to be in sync with each other.

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Prowl is part of Devastator??

This might worry some but not to worry, hopefully. The way Prowl becomes part of the Devastator gestalts is more fan continuity and less canon. Prowl genuinely wants to be part of Devastator and it can be tiring. Thankfully Scrapper is there to take over when needed.

Since Scrapper is alive, the "Prowl becomes part of Devastator" arc doesn't work. However Prowl does get brainwashed, and like canon, none of his friends notice. The Constructicons see this and they decide to try and be "friends" with brainwashed Prowl.

After the brainwashing, the Constructicons go to Prowl slightly hopeful that Prowl remembers them. Prowl ends up pushing them away and the Constructicons respect his decision. Slowly his memories from being brainwashed comes back and with some prompting from his therapist, Prowl decides to talk with the Constructicons. The Constructicons and Prowl start to hang out more.

One day, Scrapper requests to talk to Prowl alone. Scrapper tell Prowl that he is getting old and tired. Scrapper expresses how much he wants a break. Prowl asks if there is anyway that he can help. Scrapper says there is. One surgery and gestalt bond later, Prowl becomes part of Devastator.

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That is all so far. Questions are always welcomed!

More can be found here

[gardenoblues]

Enid and Eugene: *gasps* thank God it's just you, we thought you were Wednesday.

Tyler: You want me to go get her?

Enid and Eugene: NO!!

Wednesday: *Comes out of a vent

Tyler: yeah, I should've told you, this is a bad place to hide from Wednesday.

Wednesday: I'm going to take this, and kill you both with it.

Enid: How can you kill us with toilet paper?

Tyler: Put it down.

Wednesday: *glances at Tyler

Tyler: Put. It. DOWN.

Wednesday: *puts it down

Tyler: All right, what's going on?

Wednesday: These two blockheads paid a guy to ask me out on a date.

Enid: We were trying to help!

Wednesday: Why would I need your help?

Enid: 'cause guys are afraid to ask you out!

Wednesday: That's how I like it.

Eugene: I just got dragged into this, I swear.

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Later that day

Tyler: uhh, hey Wen, do you mind if- what I'm trying to say is uh- Will you-

Wednesday: Speak English.

Tyler: Do you wanna go on a date with me?

Wednesday: Thought you'd never asked.

[protagonistprime]

Digibashes based on Miner Megatron pickaxe mold --------------------------------------------------------- Hello everyone. Today i'm giving you something different. Recently i came up with an idea of making small digibashes that are based on weapons, accessories or parts of molds(like heads, excluding headmasters and powermasters). The reason for that was that i don't post often given how big some of the digibashes are and how much time they take to finish, so instead i made D.E.I(it's not AI), which stands for: Digibash Extra Ideas. Like i said earlier it will consist of weapons and some more less looking Evo-Fusions, alternative heads (like the one with minerva) and many more. Let me know what you think of this format and if you want me to change something. ------------------------------------------------------ Megaempress, Judge Pickel, Pyra Magna, Transformers, Legacy belong to Hasbro and Takara D.E.I, Axe Torch and these digibashes belong to me Original pictures belong to their rightful owners

[dragon-snoots-a-boopin]

Not gonna lie, the coloring on these Torchbearers was tricky. See, the concept art I was using for the color guide for the individual bots looked like a light blue and red. But, the image I used as a color guide for the combine form didn’t look anything like the light blue of the combine form. I got a little help for identifying the coloring of the combine form and got it close as I could and so I thought, may as well use that same color on the individual bots too. Not to mention that, after looking at the toys for all, the green seemed more accurate.

Anyway, my drawings of the Torchbearers that make up Victorion!

[pluralsword]

We Take it Back there’s more to the transmisogyny from the usual characters than sidelining

characters who have called IDW1 Arcee crazy and meant it: -Jhiaxus (Heart of Darkness miniseries) -Chromedome Phase 1 The Transformers #28 -Blurr in early EXRID (quickly disproven) -Prowl implies it as a possibility when Arcee says she's not his psychopath killer, and how he thinks her working for him would be a 'liability' if publicly known, also he's done other microagressions to her. Also a manipulative scraphead because Arcee helped lead an Autobot ship and crew to save the goddamn universe near the end of Phase 1 and he makes her a secret not because he’s worried about her well-being but he wants to (ab)use her and her skills and thinks she’s a risk, gaslighting her for a significant portion of the comics. Phase 1 concretely convinced us that Prowl never wanted to be friends with her because of what happens in Early EXRID after. -Jetfire and Fortress Maximus put her in spark iso on Garrus-9 because they didn't know how to help her -Liege Maximo instead calls her a violent loner (accurate in the past, at least he doesn't call her crazy) but he does it in a way that mocks the idea of her having friends -who else is on the transmisogyny by implying her insanity list (other people might be haters for other reasons we're looking at this specifically) -oh and don't forget that in IDW2 Heretekh and the Reversionists imprison her and Greenlight and take away their mentee Gauge and brainwash her since they didn't fit the reactionary mindset. Sadly IDW2 doesn't explore Arcee's transness directly but there's something to this and her writing generally in it that has to do with the trans experience, will try to pick at this later when we have more spoons. help us out here tumblr People who certainly or almost certainly haven't called her crazy and have actually affirmed her and tried to help her: -Anode (and probably Lug) -Windblade -Optimus Prime (but he likely knew about her Garrus imprisonment which like wtf OP did you take another vacation instead of giving her amnesty and therapy and helping her on her quest) -Aileron -Sideswipe (he just struggles to understand gender but he literally died alongside her, because he trusted her anyway) -Hardhead -Chromia -Victorion and the Torchbearers composing her -Galvatron -Marissa Faireborn -?Megatron? (a stopped clock is right twice a day, think we’ve talked about this elsewhere but yeah) -weirdly enough Shockwave but also y'know that's like saying Nova Prime hasn't they’re both responsible in part for her traumas or Tarantulas because he made her relive her guilt complex over seeking surgery, by torturing her, a guilt complex that she had otherwise given up.

So yeah uh- the transmisogyny in the story isn’t just structural or inferrable from Functionists and Shockwave headcanons etc and not just Arcee being imprisoned. It’s really right there throughout the late Phase 1/early Phase 2 text because of ignorance, othering, and fear.

Thread update, we do now have an essay about this in more depth! It gets talked about in Part 2

[transformers-incorrectquotes]

Transformers Hot-Take: Victorion's color scheme isn't that bad

We've had garish color schemes before like the Constructicons, we've just gotten so used to them that we're biased.

If anything, Victorion's makes sense, it is meant to look like actual rust since her team is called the "Rust Renegades".

[strangeduckpaper]

TF136: Combiners, Part 1

The concept of interlocking Cybertronians is hardly a new one, as evidenced by the twinned-spark mutation observed primarily among the residents of Devisiun. Such an idea stretches back to the Age Of Primes, where Nexus was one Spark spread over five souls, and was said to have allowed other Cybertronians to Combine via his personal artifact, the Enigma of Combination.

The embodiment of “more than the sum of their parts” Combiners are truly powerful beings, hardy enough to withstand blows capable of shredding their component ‘bots. Because of this, they have been a subject of a fairly intensive arms race, with both Autobots and Decepticons hoping to gain control of the Enigma or artificially create them.

Neither option is exactly an easy one, as Combiners require a comprehensive understanding or unit cohesion between their component parts, leading to Combiners often being comprised of already established units. There is also the fact that the Combiner itself retains an entirely unique personality, and the strain of maintaining it places a limit upon its use.

Perfect Combiners: A result of direct exposure to the Enigma of Combination, it is widely recognized that they are superior to their artificial brethren in every way imaginable, with stable personalities, longer operational periods, and even the retention of Outlier abilities.

Devastator: Comprised of a Decepticon aligned dig team that captured the Enigma during the early stages of the war. Its eight bot configuration places it head and shoulders, both literally and metaphorically, above its compatriots, the most powerful Combiner in existence, rivaled only by the Omega Guardians and Titans in raw might. Named after the whirlwinds that blow across the Hydrax Plateau, the half mindless warrior is a living WMD in the service of the Decepticons, and the dread of Autobots everywhere. 

Members: Overload, Scrapper, Skipjack, Long Haul, Mixmaster, Hightower, Scavenger, Bonecrusher.

Computron (Deactivated): The Autobots’ first Combiner. Comprised of an analysis team responsible for researching the Enigma after its recapture by the Dinobots. Though incredibly intelligent and formidable in their own right, they weren’t a match for Devastator, at least until the battle for the Allspark, where five more bots were temporarily added to the gestalt. The main team would serve with distinction, but it was not enough to save them from the Decepticon Heavy Division, a battle that would leave three members dead and the survivors reformatted. 

Members: Scattorshot, Strafe, Afterburner (MIA/Defected), Nosecone (KIA), Lightspeed (KIA). Javelin, Flareup, Pipes, Groove, Backstreet.

Victorion: The Enigma would be lost during the flight from Cybertron, and thus any further Combiners would be artificial in nature...until it would be rediscovered by the Torchbearers of Caminus, relic hunters led by the retired Autobot general Pyra Magna. Possessing gravitational manipulation, teleportation, and a strong sense of honour, Victorion is the most formidable Combiner aligned with Autobot forces. That is unless they’re back on neutral Caminus, warding off marauders under the authority of the Forgefire Parliament. 

Members: Pyra Magna, Rust Dust, Jumpstream, Dust Up, Stormclash, Skyburst.

Infernocus: A shadowy figure only spoken of in hushed whispers, haunting the periphery of battles, aligned with neither the Autobots or the Decepticons. Their loyalties, their purpose, even the identities of their components remain an enigma.

[they-hermes]

various idiots

[txfeline720]

[ID: Digital artwork with a black colored background featuring Victorion. She is shown from the waist up. She is smiling at Windblade, who is standing in the palm of Victorion's hand, and is depicted in a blue outline. end ID]

beautiful giant robot queen. I have a lot feelings for huge robotic women :D

no sketch so I guess it’s awfully crooked (I’ll probably cry when I see it tomorrow morning)

[saxandviolins77]

Ok, last post got me thinking...

Are there people who are Victorion fans?

Not just liking her; I'm talking about actually having her and the Torchbearers as favorites above all the other combiners.

I think what makes the Torchbearers such a weak team conceptually is the fact that they don't have a uniting theme tied to their alt modes.

For instance, the Protectobots all turn into rescue vehicles, the Terrorcons all turn into monsters, and the Technobots all turn into sci-fi vehicles.

The Torchbearers? They're Camien peacekeepers and turn into... A motorcycle, two helicopters, two square cars, and a fire engine? No theme tying them. (Do NOT even imply their theme is being women.)

Also, their personalities aren't very captivating; sure, they have them, but most of the time they're busy being Victorion, who... Is a very boring combiner just by her nature of being OP as fuck; she has gravity powers and is one of the most stable combiners in the franchise... When she appears, I already know she's dominating the fight, so... Bor-ing.

[thedeitywhoplayedwithbricks]

Woe. Ghirahim be upon ye

[dieced]

I was going through Leo’s concept art and noticed a detail I’d previously missed.

Usually when looking at this design I’m distracted by the belt-pocalypse. But if I’m not mistaken, he’s got a little midriff showing.

Look at those slutty hipbones. Incredible.