……..so there’s that fic I was speedreading for the last two days haha...
Streetwise looked between all the occupants, getting a read on them. He quite liked his ability for gauging his first impressions of them – it was extremely entertaining figuring out who was all bark and who had the bite to back it up in an easy to read scale that ran from white, through to blue, green, and yellow, before flowing into oranges, reds, purples and black – although he’d only ever seen black once, and that was Optimus Prime. So. To be expected, honestly.
The engineers were pretty standard, the coloured halo around their helms shades of warm yellow and green. The head of Special Operations was purple – as expected. Streetwise looked to Prowl, expecting it to be blue, green at most.
Black.
It was black.
Now..I know all this sounds pretty dark, but trust me, this fic is cute and funny and I love it~
I’ve got a Protectobot/’Protegonauts’ ask sitting in my inbox and my goblin was like DO IT YOU HAVEN’T DESIGNED THEM YET DO ITDOITDOIT and oops my Apple Pencil slipped.
Yet another little family in the middle of a larger Autobot family!
Hassan’s Team Dad and is similar to Bobby from 911.
Blades is the local Rat Bastard who wants out of this rom-com, but a fiercely loyal Rat Bastard who will drop so many bodies for his mates ✨👌🏼
People are talking about rescue bots all of a sudden and I need to express how much I would love if they brought those characters into something else. Like imagine the rescue bots returning for some Transformers Prime level stuff? Or even more mature. Imagine they bring in the Protectobots, too? I wanna see Blades become a giant robot I wanna see defensor!!!
Recently I’ve been watching this series on YouTube called “Transformers the Basics” by Chris McFeely, and have been learning more about certain transformers and some other things about the transformers series.
One recent episode that I watched was about the Protectobots, and learned more about Blades through that. I’ve come to realize that the Blades on Rescuebots is quite different from original version. So knowing more about him and his siblings I want to add that to his background.
When he was young, Blades, a large bot compared to other grounders, was quite reckless and sometimes even violent. He often lashed out, only being calmed by close friends and his brothers.
As he grew Blades learned to control his violent urges, and while he and his brother First Aid went to school to become fully licensed doctors, the five brothers joined the Rescue force. They had a special ability that allowed them to connect and combine into a large singular bit know as Defensor. These five became a special team called the Protectobots, often assisting in large scaled rescues.
Unfortunately Blades recklessness and violent urges grew to a point he struggled to control himself. Then on one mission when the young bot finally snapped, not only were civilians harmed but also his siblings. This ended up scarring the young bot, causing him to close of from the world.
Due to his actions the Rescue force punished him, separating him from his team and siblings. They sent him back to the Rescue Force academy while another bot who had the same special ability as him and his brothers took his place. This caused Blades to be even more ashamed, and out of fear he cut all ties with his brothers completely, finding comfort in his old friend Chase.
When Blades and Chase were assigned to a new team, Blades finally began opening up more, though it was quite clear this was a new bot. Instead of being cocky and aggressive, he was doubtful and skittish, even growing new fears like heights. Though his aggressive nature would pop up in the form of extreme sass.
He never got the chance to reconcile with his brothers before the war began, and he was trapped in a stasis pod thanks to an Energon-Eater. He’s forever guilty about all of this.
Transformers: Mosaic #543 - "The Magnificent Five"
Originally posted on September 17th, 2010
Story - Juan Pablo Osorio, Franco Villa
Art - Ben Pirrie
Colours - Sara Guyon-Gellin
Injecticon concept - Chris Frayne
deviantART | Seibertron | TFW2005 | BotTalk
Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons
wada sez: I’m just going to add some hyperlinks to Villa’s annotations from TFW2005: “The title is a nod to both the notorious The Magnificent Seven movie and the Marvel UK Annual "The Magnificent Six" story. The "Kings of the Wild Frontier." credits are a nod to the homonym Marvel US issue. The ending panel is a vague nod to the Beast Wars episode "Coming Of The Fuzor". The Injecticons concept, created by Chris, is backed up by dozens of the characters that Chris designed. [...] The Protectobots are based on their War Within: The Dark Ages version. The Feudal Lord is based on one of the Decepticon statues seen in TFTM86 (Floron? Devron? Don't remember, sorry!). The Lawless Times were created by Juan Pablo for the Lost Seasons project.” Clean inks and Italian translation below, together with a preview of tomorrow’s strip...
Wanna infodump What I think modern Defensor's personality would be. (Using some of my own headcanons for the individual bots lmao)
Absolutely the sweetest, chill, and level headed bot alive. Blades' gentle kindness, Groove's general chillness, First Aid's bleeding heart, Streetwise just beeing cool, and Hot Spot's commucative and diplomatic nature. He's a sweety.
Utterly ruthless when need be, though. Like he gets restraint from First aid and Groove, but he'll kick the shit out of someone who needs it like Blades and Hot Spot. It was hard to find Streetwise's fighting habits but it seems he'll also fight when needed. ESPECIALLY someone who threatens his humans/ humans in general. Theyre all protective of humans so times that by 5 and put it together you get this dude "Omae Wa mou Shinderu"-ing you before you can lay a finger on one.
Speaking of multiplying feelings. Blades adores Cody already, and I imagine the 0thers learn to like him as well, so that all mixed together Cody is Defensor's favorite human. He might get a little overboard in his affection but he has 5 times the capacity for everything including love, he can't help it.
So yeah, terrifying to his enemies, but to his friends he's like a 3 story tall teddy bear.
Another Transformers Wings of Fire draw. This one was an experiment with lighting, as well as an excuse to draw some other characters. First time drawing Moonwatcher and Winter, as well as an experimental design for Megatron. I’m very happy with how the characters turned out, and this was probably my longest single frame drawing yet.