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sorry, still thinking about whirl. imo the most important characteristic whirl has in MTMTE isn't the obvious ones. it's not that he's an asshole, it's not that he's funny, it's not that he's violent, it's not that he's done terrible things, it's not that he hates himself. all of those are important, and they're usually the immediately obvious traits that stick out panel to panel. but they're not what drives the narrative function of the character most across the whole run of the comic.

imo the thing that most defines the engine driving whirl's narrative function is that he is astute and perceptive. it doesn't come up in obviously quotable panels moment to moment, but the way his arc interacts with the overall arc of the comic is that whirl is the one who sees through a lot of the bullshit that's going on and the way he acts and the decisions he makes overwhelmingly rely on that knowledge. unlike most characters, his decisions are rarely defined by the emotional intensity of his own investment in this or that thing (an interpersonal relationship, an insecurity, a need to prove something) but instead by his sharp awareness of the dynamics of the people around him.

whirl knows the score with rodimus and what the whole mess that is their 'mission' is really about- or rather, what it isn't about, not really. he does not take it seriously because he understands in a very real way, it's just not serious, it's an excuse. whirl knows the score with cyclonus and tailgate and when to intervene in that whole mess instead of being kind about it. whirl understands what getaway is doing and where it's leading and that both makes his decision to initially back getaway's plan both an asshole move but also a decision made with total clarity, in contrast to almost everyone else who makes that decision. whirl knows how to get past drift's act and gets a punch in the face for it, because he smells the bullshit there immediately. whirl is not unaware of the social dynamics on the LL at all; he is choosing to be as abrasive and inhospitable as he usually is on purpose with full knowledge of what he's poking at. whirl gets to the supposed afterlife and immediately knows it cannot possibly be real!

unlike basically every other major character, there's really no point whirl makes a decision with his judgement meaningfully clouded by something. he has a strong interiority and motivations, absolutely, but above all else he is making every decision, no matter how bad or self destructive, with a level of genuine awareness and clarity that is pretty much unique, and his assessment of everyone and everything around him is pretty much unmatched if you read between his constant pisstaking. it's fantastically good, and what makes him a completely essential part of the ensemble all the way through the comic's run. nobody else can be so consistently relied on to respond to the situation presented to him as it is. (cyclonus is really the only person in the cast who recognises this, i think, and it explains why they wind up perfectly matched. see again: whirl's interventions with him and tailgate.)

#whirl

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Hi all :') It's my birthday, and I made a silly low-effort dating sim about being on board the Lost Light

You can *totally* date Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, and Megatron in this game ahaha, trust...

#transformers #game dev #rodimus #ultra magnus #megatron

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wreckers

#springer #kup #prowl #arcee #hubcap #roadbuster #impactor

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Roddy the Hotty…

#transformers #rodimus #rodimus hot bodimus

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holy fucking fuck your body is absurd

#STARSCREAM #TRANSFORMERS #TRANSFORMERS ONE!!!!!!! YEEEEAAAAHHHHH

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#OPTIMUS PRIME #WHATT #HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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#PROWL #GOOD LORD WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM HAHAHAHHA

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I know autobot high command changes depending on the writer and continuity, but I'm just going with the commonly listed bots in IDW.

part 2

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Engineer: The term 'laws of science' implies the existence of science crimes.

#brainstorm #perceptor #simpatico

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enjoy this video that i cannot be bothered to finish lol

#swerve #ultra magnus #Lololololololol

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#prowl #constructicons

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I’m back with quick edits.

#prowl #constructicons

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une danse

#dratchet #ratchet #drift

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📚overtime

#ratchet #velocity #first aid #ambulon

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The thing I find hilarious about people freaking out because Optimus Prime has been acting ruthless and underhanded…

What did you think would happen after Prowl got kicked out?

Blackmail, assassination, coercion… All terrible, immoral things. Terrible immoral things Prowl used to deal with in secret so that his Boss could keep his hands clean and remain the pure and inspiring and heroic leader people wanted to follow.

But now Prowl is gone, and it turns out those terrible immoral things were done for the very good reason of preventing genocides, so the Autobots can’t just refuse to do them because the blood-dripping price would be devastating.

And so we have OP blackmailing Soundwave and executing a surrendering and pleading prisoner, and people are like HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN???

Because Optimus is a good person, and good people never do terrible immoral things, right? The only reason anybody would ever do terrible immoral things is because they are a monster. Like Prowl, who must be a monster because he did terrible immoral things while trying to save as many lives as possible during the bloodiest war in the universe where the enemies literally destroy entire planets and turn prisoners into living mines and torture people to death as punishment for seeking comfort in faith and experiment on their own to create cannibalistic abomination so on and on and on and on and on.

#prowl #optimus prime #yeeeaaahhhh

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Someone asked for a tiny prowl ~(˘▾˘~)  

#prowl #optimus prime #prowlop #??? YEAH!

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Based on the series of headcanons about Rung being covered in UV tattoos like an avatar of Primus

#Rung #holy moly #wowowowowow