toukendanshiwarrior

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Ask me anything about my Firsts to Grow Up AU

My ask is open for the next eight hours! If you have any questions about my Earthspark rewrite, ask away!

Please note:

Be respectful. Any asks that come of as rude will be ignored.

You can ask about my other Earthspark AU, (Terran Mirage) and Transformers-related things.

I won't be answering asks immediately. I suspect many of you live on the other side of the globe. If your ask isn't answered, please be patient. I will answer them when I can.

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I had a dream about him🦮

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What do you think of Earthspark rewritten, or in an AU or whatever where former colonies exist like in IDW? It’ll be cool to see the involvement of other planets of Transformers and how they’ll revolve around Cybertron (after the war ended on Earth and Cybertron). How will Earth fit in the picture if the former colones found out there are TFs born on Earth?

TBH, I haven't thought about things on a galactic scale in the ES universe. I admit that I'm a bit rusty with IDW stuff but as for what I could see happening:

-I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be backlash of some sort that two human kids were put in charge of the Emberstone.

-There would be debate about whether or not Earth would count as a colony since the Terran population is so small

-TF colonies being a thing would further explain why Mandroid was only concerned with wiping out the TFs on Earth: It's a warning to other TFs that they would meet the same fate if they came to Earth.

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It's funny how the story's attempt to make GHOST be Cemetary Wind 2.0 when the actually vibe I get from them is NEST turned into an international police force.

Not to mention the Ghoids always wear masks to hide the fact they are robots. Human GHOST agents show their faces.

My point is GHOST is a *shady organization with good intentions*. Just note how every Decepticon in the prison are notably those who have caused harm and are ready to do more harm at any second. The only GHOST member doing all the bad thing is....

...dun DUN...

Executive Agent Croft!

Just her alone.

Now tell me again why does GHOST collapse over a single executive agent? She can't be the only executive agent. And she's definitely not the director of GHOST.

The G for GHOST stands for ghost, not global apparently.

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EDIT: Alright, I see another faulty writing in the worldbuilding here.

To make GHOST evil-evil, Croft has to be its Director or at least one of the top positions, not executive agent. Schloder's position is only "Agent" yet so many other agents follow his command. It makes Croft's position merely right above him, not that high above as we thought it was. Croft can be extra intimidating if she became director after doing something to the previous director who wanted to help all Cybertronians return to their home.

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It's funny how the story's attempt to make GHOST be Cemetary Wind 2.0 when the actually vibe I get from them is NEST who became an international police force.

Not to mention the Ghoids always wear masks to hide the fact they are robots. Real GHOST agents show faces.

My point is GHOST is a good organisation. Just note how every Decepticon in the prison are notably those who have caused harm and are ready to do more harm at any second. The only GHOST member doing all the bad thing is....

...dun DUN...

Executive Agent Croft!

Just her alone.

Now tell me again why does GHOST collapse over a single executive agent? She can't be the only executive agent. And she's definitely not the director of GHOST.

The G for GHOST stands for ghost, not global apparently.

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Also why did they ditch my man Schloder from the story..... :(

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🫵🥺

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raf shoulve fucking BEEN THERE

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unsure if my ask went thru bc i didnt see the popup that said it sended over so i’m typing it out again

i NEEED NEEDD a tutorial on how you draw & design mechs bc the way you draw them is literally perfection in every way. this is from an anon who wants to make mech ocs but is unsure where to start theyre so complicated to design

dusting off my tutorial brain

my style of mech is very influenced by transformers (mix of different continuities and tf artists that I like) so I look at a lot of characters for inspiration

There's a lot of stuff you could add to it too like vents, pipes, antennas, fins, wires, joints, etc..

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It's funny how the story's attempt to make GHOST be Cemetary Wind 2.0 when the actually vibe I get from them is NEST who became an international police force.

Not to mention the Ghoids always wear masks to hide the fact they are robots. Real GHOST agents show faces.

My point is GHOST is a good organisation. Just note how every Decepticon in the prison are notably those who have caused harm and are ready to do more harm at any second. The only GHOST member doing all the bad thing is....

...dun DUN...

Executive Agent Croft!

Just her alone.

Now tell me again why does GHOST collapse over a single executive agent? She can't be the only executive agent. And she's definitely not the director of GHOST.

The G for GHOST stands for ghost, not global apparently.

.

Also why did they ditch my man Schloder from the story..... :(

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Pov : you’re trying not to crush the sparklings but they make it really hard

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Should Earthspark been a sequel instead of a standalone? I don’t see anyone discussing this.

In ES, we got Optimus who is the same as in G1, Spike Witwicky exists (or he’s a nobody), we don’t know how they got to Earth or how the fight began on Earth, did they have selected allies, who died, what characters exist in this continuity, what happened during the war on Earth that could play a significant role in the post-war, what concepts exists?? A lot of the story is generalized. Nothing interesting, just ‘post-war inspired by G1; make it vague, fill the minor gaps, add some changes and let the imagination fill in the rest’. I could be wrong. But I love that they borrowed some IDW ideas.

New audiences are not going to understand what’s going on and not get into this story. Only fans can watch this with their existing knowledge from other continuities. Watching a standalone show as a fan kinda feels… unfulfilling, empty, I don’t how else to say it. I’m glad it’s a new idea but it’s less satisfying. We don’t know who or what the iconic characters (Autobots and Decepticons) are in this setting, they have smaller roles and don’t have much depth. Especially for new viewers.

IMO, ES should be separate from G1. Even if it was a sequel, it wouldn't save the show from writing quality issues which I'll get to later.

From what I've seen on other sites like tfw2005 and reddit, one of the only times ES gets brought up is when a person asks if it's a sequel to G1. It doesn't help how much G1 fan service ES has. While it's neat long time fans can have a "I understood that reference!" moment, there are also TF fans that are sick of the G1 pandering and want something new. ES was supposed to be that, but then it added the fan service like it knew some people would immediately reject the show because it strayed too much from the typical TF formula. It's pretty telling that ES S2 pretty much scrapped everything from S1 to the point that one of the staff made a tweet about it:

Budget and time constraints are most likely a factor for how how vague things are in ES. However, most of the vagueness feels intentional because the writing quality wasn't up the challenge of doing actual nuance. It'd be hard to really make the Cons and Megatron sympathetic if they were shown being utter bastards like most of them were in G1 and especially in IDW. The writing across all seasons of ES operates on the assumption/hope that the audience won't question anything.

And I know people are probably sick of me bringing this up, but the show's insistence with focusing on the Maltos as well as the way they're written is a huge reason why ES never realized its full potential. How are you supposed to look at the effects of war when the main humans behave like there wasn't a war most of the time? Wanna see more of the actual TF characters doing something? Too bad, this is the Robby and Mo Show. Sure, the TFs do get some time to shine, but they ultimately take a backseat to Robby and Mo. The Terrans were supposed to be a new subspecies of TF, but being a Malto is the most important thing.

So many people like to cite Nightshade as being THE reason ES failed when the reality is that the show's overall writing turned a lot of people away. It being a G1 sequel might've made more viewers stick around longer, but nostalgia can only get you so far.

If the writing was better in S1, I'm 100% certain that ES would've been one of my favorite TF series as well as one of my favorite cartoons in general.

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It's funny how the story's attempt to make GHOST be Cemetary Wind 2.0 when the actually vibe I get from them is NEST turned into an international police force.

Not to mention the Ghoids always wear masks to hide the fact they are robots. Human GHOST agents show their faces.

My point is GHOST is a *shady organization with good intentions*. Just note how every Decepticon in the prison are notably those who have caused harm and are ready to do more harm at any second. The only GHOST member doing all the bad thing is....

...dun DUN...

Executive Agent Croft!

Just her alone.

Now tell me again why does GHOST collapse over a single executive agent? She can't be the only executive agent. And she's definitely not the director of GHOST.

The G for GHOST stands for ghost, not global apparently.

.

EDIT: Alright, I see another faulty writing in the worldbuilding here.

To make GHOST evil-evil, Croft has to be its Director or at least one of the top positions, not executive agent. Schloder's position is only "Agent" yet so many other agents follow his command. It makes Croft's position merely right above him, not that high above as we thought it was. Croft can be extra intimidating if she became director after doing something to the previous director who wanted to help all Cybertronians return to their home.

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My version of Earthspark

I've been planning to write an AU canon rewrite titled "Firsts to Grow Up" but there hadn't been time, so I want to share some of the story points here.

Story points are not in order.

Robby and Mo are 14 year old twins to reflect Twitch and Thrash.

Dorothy is hesitant on taking the Terrans in.

Alex juggles supporting Dot, protecting his kids, and indulging his own interest in understanding the Terrans scientifically.

Exploring the Terrans' nature, and them learning nearly everything.

GHOST is a visibly international ops unit (to me, they feel like wannabe supernova locals rather than what they're described to be).

S1 finale is "Home", meanwhile the Bot Brawl is a seperate episode.

The triplets are more intelligent than the twins due to Alex's presence when they were born.

Exploring Witwicky town and its local legends that connects to Terratronus.

The Terrans' teachers only consists of: the parents (soft skills & history), Bee (self defence), Elita (alt mode), Megatron (responsibilty), and Wheeljack (biology). No Dad-2.

Megatron and Elita make presence whereas Optimus is often on GHOST mainbase that is elsewhere.

The story and cast will make as though Meridian and Mandroid are two different persons up until the revealation in "Home".

Mandroid and Tarantulas both observe the Terrans in secret. Tarantulas stopped after his near mistake with Nightshade, prompting suspiscion when he admits to the family that it wasn't him who leaves behind energon snacks for them.

In "Mooo-ving In", Bee is being a bad guest; not the kids and family being terrible hosts. [if I were Bee in that episode, I'd leave]

Dot gets a new friend who also fell victim to GHOST's tricks for a park ranger job. He is a veteran medic who's experienced in energon-related ailments on humans. He makes appearences to check on the cybersleeves.

Mo's cybersleeve grants healing because she's emotionally closer to the Terrans than Robby, who prefers his own space and hanging out with his friends online.

Robby's sickness is gradual from the start of the story due to wound infection he got from the fall that lead him and Mo to the Emberstone cave, The cybersleeve covered the hurt arm but did not heal him, instead it's poisoning him bit by bit.

Robby, being an internet addicted teenager, thinks Dot's fear of Cybertronians is unfounded because she's buddies with Megs and had someone like Alex for husband.

After moving to Witwicky, Robby and Dot's relationship are strained due to Robby's hardheadedness and Dorothy's bad mood upon discovering her dream job being a lie.

The Maltos keep the Autobot friendly fire a secret from the Terrans so they won't regard their teachers the wrong way.

Mo is happier in Witwicky because she loves nature and has real friends at school. Robby meanwhile prefers the city life and his old school, hence his bitterness towards his new environment.

The parents dislike talking about the "Autobot friendly fire" because Alex could've been one of the victims if he hadn't visited Dot in the hospital.

Alex teaches the Terrans self defence with Filipino martial arts since they don't have offensive weapons except Twitch.

To be continued in another post...

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Some more screenshots I took when I got those other ones of Terratronus. I have more, but Tumblr has an image limit so they’ll be in a reblog.

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FUCK. QUINTUS. PRIME.

Ranty Earthspark

But for fucks sake, the more I think about him the more he pisses me off. He chose two kids, CHILDREN, one only being nine, to be the 'beacons of Hope'. He put these two kids in danger, putting them in charge of two then five brand new life forms, all while they have to deal with death, near death, war, trauma, assault and a LOT more traumatic shit. Those are JUST KIDS.

Not to mention 'oh you wish you didn't have that sleeve?? While your brother is dealing with a deadly side affect of the sleeves I gave both of you with absolutely no warning this could happen, let me show you him DYING and tell you to heal him through shitty riddles'

MOTHER FUCKER THAT IS A NINE YEAR OLD CHILD

Robby and Moe now have to fucking deal with really heavy damaging things because of him, when they don't have to.

Sorry rant over. Fuck that prime.

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Thinking about the way the Emberstone works reminds me why I'm usually not a fan of mysterious magical relics. It's a convenient way for the writers to come up with a solution to a problem and just hand wave it as magical shenanigans.

The sleeves heavily utilize emotion to function yet Mo suddenly can't use hers because she's understandably upset (aka experiencing emotion) about touching the Emberstone? There's been multiple instances where the kids tap into the stone's powers without being in close proximity to it, but Mandroid putting it in a harness somehow affects this? Despite this and not being able to use her sleeve, Mo is for some reason still able to summon the stone to her location in the astral plane or wherever the hell she was during Prime Time.

The thing that gets me is that Mo says a Prime's power is given, not taken. She even refers to Mandroid as unworthy. So going by that logic, Mandroid wouldn't have been able to fully use the stone anyway. Oh, and now that Mo actually wants to fight the stone is like, "Have this sword so you can beat the crap out of the crazy guy that's currently holding me hostage."

What's worse is that according to Quintus, Mo's had the power to save Robby all along, but her being upset was a problem.

I hope the fact that the stone CRACKED during the Malto Healing Ray comes into play in the future.

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So do you think the the world actually knows that the Terrans are a new species of TF native to Earth and not just run of the mill TFs? Because that's what I've meant this whole time about how no one bats an eye about them walking around. Surely scientists, government, and other people would be swarming Witwicky to find out more about them.