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thanksjro · 4 years

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Dark Cybertron Chapter 7: Simon Furman and His Lack of a Relationship with the Singular They

The Lost Light is still being attacked by Ammonites, like it has been for the last few issues. Hound’s taken over as acting field commander and is calling all the shots. Chromedome uses his stupid beefy arms to punch things. Trailcutter is screaming. Swerve’s got his My First Blaster™ strapped to the top of his alt, and saves Crosscut.

Crosscut is our toy tie-in character for this issue. He’s a senator, and drafts play scripts. Arguably one of the more interesting tie-in guys, at least in theory. In practice, all he’s doing is forgetting Swerve’s name, which isn’t going to help the guy with his through-the-floor self esteem.

Crosscut points out that Swerve’s communicator is flashing, and while he’s checking his voicemail, all the Ammonites seemingly vanish… at least, until the gang realizes that they’re instead heading for Metroplex.

Inside, it would appear that the Rod Pod Squad aren’t actually dead, though their ride is probably toast. Before everything went to hell, a wall slammed down from the ceiling, protecting everyone from being utterly destroyed. Skids has figured out what all the arrow graffiti is about, earning himself a BOMP from Getaway. Looks like the internal structure of Metroplex has been shifting, and that’s why they got the runaround last issue. Also, Whirl’s gone missing, but we don’t have time to worry about that, because Swerve just called back with some bad news: the admium flakes they saw earlier mean that Metroplex has an alchemical virus.

Don’t you look at me like that, I’m getting to the explanation.

Alchemical viruses turn the metal of the body into admium, a rare, incredibly soft metal that will break down very easily and also kill you. It’s pretty bad to have. Also, contagious. Fellas better get outta there, posthaste.

The Ammonites are also storming Metroplex, so that’s an additional issue. God, it just never stops, does it?

Over in the Dead Universe-

Is that a fortress of evil in the shape of Nova Prime’s head?

Is that a goddamned fortress-

Anyway, the center of Nova Prime’s universe is Kup, who was the guy who got oh-so-dramatically revealed at the end of the last issue. Unfortunately, Orion Pax also considers Kup to be very near and dear to his heart, and the whole “being turned into a space bridge” thing is going to be an issue.

This is the weirdest love triangle I’ve ever seen.

How the hell did Kup even get here? Well, in order to know that, you’ve have to had read Infestation, the bullshit zombie crossover comic miniseries that ran in 2011.

But I’m not going to do that.

Because I don’t want to.

After a bit of showboating, Nova Prime orders Nightbeat to take Team -Imus to their cell.

Over on Cybertron, Shockwave is getting real sick of Galvatron’s shit, but Galvatron is too busy posing dramatically to notice. Waspinator, Metalhawk, and Dreadwing float in the air. I’m not sure what they’re up to, but I’m sure it’s important. Jhiaxus shows up with a gaggle of goons, one of which seems to have forgotten his face in the jar by the door.

Galvatron gets shamed for tearing Megatron in half, since that sort of broke the space bridge in his torso, but he’s too busy being classist to care. Waspinator floats in the background. What are you doing back there, pal?

Shockwave orders Waspinator to carry Megatron to his quarters, but Galvatron’s decided that he’s going to be an asshole about everything today, even when he’s being helpful.

…Okay, Boomer.

Waspinator still ends up hauling Megatron’s ass away, and Shockwave and Jhiaxus have a little chat.

Back in the dead universe, Team -Imus are in their cell, as Nightbeat double-checks the locks or some shit, I dunno. They’re gonna get their sparks ripped out later in the day, so that the space bridge Kup’s got running in his torso finally has enough juice to actually friggin’ work.

Then Rodimus flashes his mystery hand at Nightbeat and makes him fall down. In order for the whole brainwashing thing to work, Nightbeat’s true nature had to be suppressed; however, whenever Rodimus shows off his mystery hand, it makes his brain kickstart back on, messing up the brainwashing.

Well, you know what, Cyclonus? That’s not my fucking fault. Blame Roberts and Barber. I certainly do.

ORION PLEASE.

We finally get a look at what Rodimus’ hand mystery is, and if you read Eugenesis, you might know where this is going. It would seem Nightbeat has not- which is for the best, really, given what happens to him in it- but he’s still a pretty smart cookie and can suss it out through the power of deductive reasoning. Here’s what he’s working with:

After a moment’s deliberation, he asks Rodimus, who he knows to be the captain of a ship, how many folks are riding around in the space yacht. Rodimus tells him 190, and shows off that he’s got his lipgloss on, and it would seem that Nightbeat’s a free man again. He lets everyone out of the cell, and they gear up to go pick up Kup. Orion Pax is confused as to what the hell just happened here, and Rodimus promises to explain why he’s carved a division problem into his palm once they aren’t in immediate danger.

Back on Cybertron, Galvatron and Waspinator are dragging Megatron’s halves towards Shockwave’s quarters, when Bumblebee pops out of nowhere with a gun and a mouth full of swears. He’s here for Megatron, and he’s not taking “no” for an answer. Galvatron thinks that this is super fucking funny, and tosses Megatron like an empty soda can into the wall so he can squash a bug.

It looks pretty grim for ol’ Bumblebee, but suddenly Galvatron realizes he left the oven on that Megatron’s gone missing.

Oh, there he is!

Megatron blasts Galvatron in the torso, then- in a surprisingly polite manner, at least for him- tells Bumblebee to grab his legs so they can get out of here. As the two of them traverse the burned-out husk that is Cybertron, Megatron decides to be a complete bastard, as he smiles at the idea of Starscream suffering. Like, dude, I know he kept you in weird hamster ball jail and spouted soliloquies in your general direction every single day you were there, but folks are dying right now.

Speaking of Starscream, he’s having a moment, as he sits on his knees and stares at the sky in abject horror while the world burns around him. Scoop comes by to yell at him for being a harbinger of death, and generally being a less than stellar leader, and Starscream halfway calls himself a dumpster fire.

Back inside Metroplex, the Rod Pod Squad are fortifying their defenses against the Ammonites, even though they really need to be getting the hell out of there before they get turned into talcum powder through the power of alchemy. Whirl shows back up, the Ammonite hanger-on in his grasp, and we get the skinny on why the hell the Ammonites are involved with this whole debacle anyway.

The answer is Shockwave.

The answer is always Shockwave.

Then the little dude explodes. It’s fine, they do that sometimes.

Before he went kablooey, little dude uttered the phrase, “if the dead are not enough.” We’ll get to what all that’s about later. Right now there are far more important things going on.

LIKE MOTHERFUCKING LADY ROBOTS.

But why is this such a big deal? Why is it that non-male coded robots who aren’t Arcee haven’t been seen up until this point? What’s up with that, huh?

Well, in order to understand IDW’s complicated relationship with gender, we’re going to have to do some digging into the history of Transformers as a franchise.

We’re going to have to talk about Simon Furman.

We're going to have to talk about Prime's Rib.

And we’re going to have to talk about Spotlight: Arcee.

Simon Furman wrote a lot of Transformers. You cannot get away from Simon Furman, because the man is so ingrained in the franchise. He was there for Marvel UK, he was there for the back half of Marvel US, he wrote for several other publication runs of Transformers, he worked on the Earth Wars mobile game-

-and, of course, IDW publishing.

Because Furman is so very well established and known in the industry, he gets the benefit of not being questioned on a lot of the calls he makes.

Which is a problem, because the man is a massive misogynist.

In 1989, Marvel UK #234 came out, containing the story entitled “Prime’s Rib!” in which the Autobots built Arcee in order to appease a group of strawmen feminists. Of course, one female Transformer isn’t enough for them, and they yell at poor Optimus Prime for trying his best. This is the point where Hot Rod is used as a writer avatar to try to smooth things over with the reader, because you see, the Transformers don’t even know what sexual dimorphism and gender identity even is, so of course they wouldn’t have female members of their race! Jazz is used for a breast joke. Arcee acts like a massive, stereotypical bitch the whole time, despite not having been written like that at all in the other issues. It’s a bad comic with hideous ideology leaking out of it, and I'm halfway sorry I read it, so I’ll just give you the essence of this nightmare.

Oh, those big, mean, scary feminists are bullying the robots for living their lives, huh Furman? Life is just so goddamned unfair when a woman exists in your fucking line of sight.

Furman has gone on record saying that he doesn’t see the point in including the concept of gender in a race of non-sexually reproducing robots. He sees them as “genderless.” Which, if that statement existed in a vacuum, I could perhaps see where he’s coming from.

But Simon Furman does not exist in a vacuum. He exists in a world where sexism exists, something that he’s willingly participated in.

Let me back up that little tidbit with a bit of a disclaimer: I’m not in any way an expert on gender. I didn’t study it in school, I’ve not read an obscene amount of pieces on the topic. I’m not even sure about it on a personal level.

Maybe some of y’all have noticed the whole other set of pronouns I slapped into the bio in the last month or so. It doesn’t really matter, 90% of people don’t read the FAQ/About, I know that, and then 95% of those people only read it once, and this has been a relatively new self-revelation.

BUT ANYWAY.

Let’s be… fair about this. 1989 was a while ago, a lot of research on the concept of gender has taken place, maybe he’s ch-

Oh, what’s that?

Misogyny?

Transphobia?

Transmisogyny?

Treating women as an aberration being forced on Transformers as a whole?

And the writing is clunky and overstuffed?

Well, that’s just fucking fantastic, Furman, thanks so much.

This was in 2008. Because Furman established that female Transformers weren’t something natural, but rather made, and forcibly at that, and nobody fucking smacked his little hands away from this terrible idea, AND nobody tried to fix it for years, there was a lack of gender diversity within IDW until 2014, with the release of Dark Cybertron Chapter 7. Because we waited six years to fix this nightmare, things couldn’t be done quite the way that Roberts had been hoping, in that he intended for our female robots to not have the whole… fembot build happening. IDW wanted them immediately clockable, because this was very clearly a problem that needed rectifying.

So, in short: because of boys’ club mentality and a lack of understanding of what gender means or why it’s important for roughly 50% of the world’s population to have representation in media, Nautica and Chromia are here now.

And despite the convoluted road they had to take, I love them very much.

#transformers #jro #dark cybertron #issue 7 #rid #exrid #issue 25 #maccadam #Hannzreads #overthinking about robots #incoming analysis #text post #long post #comic script writing

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transformersimagines · 5 years

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So you say your ask is open and hopefully Tumblr not being an ass and hiding more of rules from me cause mobile but how about soulmate headcanon or drabble (whatever you feel like) for starscream.

I was looking through some of my favorite soulmate au ideas and found one that is along the lines of you being able to communicate with your soulmate in your dreams. I’m going to tweak this in the way that you see them as a clouded figure till you see them in person (cause we love our surprise robot boyfriend reveals lol).

Also decided to go with TP Starscream cause I’m binging Prime ATM.

For years you had convinced yourself you didn’t have a soulmate, you where going to alone forever. Every time you went to sleep there was no one there, no one to talk to. The only thing that was ever there was a small dim light that was always out of reach. But a few months ago you noticed you could finally touch it.

That when you first saw him, he was ranting about someone called Megatron, nothing you really understood. Even though you were excited to finally see and hear someone, he seemed very stressed and you didn’t really know how to introduce yourself. Looks like he didn’t really notice you either, too wrapped up in whatever he was talking about. So the first week you just sat and listen, waiting for a good time to cut in.

That how you learned his nickname must be Starscream (cause that couldn’t be his real name right?). Turns out he was a little cocky. He had the aspiration of being “the leader of the Decepticons,” whatever that meant. You could admire he had a dream, though the way he went about it wasn’t the best, at least from what you gathered from his rants.

“Not one bot in this miserable universe will ever stand by my side! As is evident in this empty place, the universe is always against me. ” He screams into the void. This particular statement stuck out, maybe this was a good time to cut in. You slowly inch closer to his clouded silhouette.

“The universe isn’t always particularly fair, I know that from experience.” You offer meekly. The figure twists around and faces you. You stand in a really awkward silence, “Umm… Though it sounds like you have the shorter end of the stick then I do hehe…”

“How long have you been here?” He asks flatly. Not exactly the reaction you expected.

“Maybe a week at most, I just didn’t want to bother you. Every time I came here you were always ranting away and I didn’t know a good time to step in and say hi…”

“Who are you?” He asks, a little less bite to his words. You tell him your name and wait as his form walks closer to you. “That’s interesting…”

And that’s how it all started. Turns out Starscream was his actual name, though you still found it hard to believe. But now you both talked every night, he mostly talked you through his next plans to overthrow this Megatron person and fight these other people know as the Autobots. He’s apart of this big war that’s been going on for a very long time. You never had anything as extraordinary to say to him but he was still a good listener and did seem slightly interested or at least liked the distraction. The only thing he would never tell you is where he was. Any time you would bring it up he changed the subject or just flat out ignored you.

Only later would you find out why.

The government came in suddenly and started evacuating everyone out of their home, no warning at all. Apparently, some government weapon went haywire and it could potentially land here and kill everyone. You gladly went along with the evacuation, that was until you saw some poor dog bolt into a nearby alleyway. What compelled you to run after it you have no idea, but you did. You searched for a while but couldn’t find the doggo anywhere. You decided to head back towards the evac group but find that extremely hard when the buildings start the explode around you.

There were giant robots fighting each other, transforming into cars or planes and just destroying everything in their path. You had to run as buildings were falling around you, it was getting a little dicey. Eventually you had to jump into the open street. You were safe from the falling buildings, but not from the giant robots.

“Wonder if it’s one of the Autobots pets?” Two purple and silver robot tower above you red visors staring down at you.

“I-I-I have n-n-nothing to do with A-a-autobots.” You manage to get out. Would you be able to outrun these things? Would they let you go?

“Then there’s no need to keep it alive.” One states, its arm shifts and it starts to glow brightly. Luckily they seemed to have terrible aim as a lazors explodes on the ground to your right, causing you to go flying to the left, tumbling across the pavement. You pull yourself off the ground and run as fast as you can. You could hear those robots catching up, your last chance would be to somehow get help.

“HELP!” You scream out as another blast explodes in front of you. You dart between some builds, maybe you would be able to lose them. They can’t fit behind these buildings right. Thankfully you were right and lost them between buildings and got to a kinda safe area.

“I shouldn’t have gone after that damn dog.” You curse yourself. The sound of a jet zips above, you watch as it changes above you into a different robot that land right above the building you were hiding behind. It was looking directly at you.

“Can’t hide from me human.” It sneers. But….. that voice.

“Starscream.” You exclaim breathlessly. He stares at you, mumbling your own name in reply.

#transformers prime #soulmate au #starscream

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writingpaperghost · 5 years

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Broken Mirrors and Broken Perceptions (Part 2)

With the idea that there is infinite worlds with infinite possibilities, there are some that never truly occur to us. Sometimes thinking and viewing those windows is like looking at a mirror. You expect it to be so much like the world you know. Once you learn of certain worlds, it’s like the glass of the mirror has been broken. You now perceive the world much differently than your own.

Jack Darby’s life had become weird enough over the past few months. But despite being enthralled in an alien civil war, he was happy with his life. He wouldn’t change it, he wants it to become better, but the past should stay the same. After a experiment with a dangerous scientist has gone wrong, Jack finds himself in a world that’s both similar and different than his own. Good has become evil and evil has become good. In a world like that, he doesn’t know he can trust. Those he had already trusted before, who are now out to kill him, or those who he learned not to trust, who now are the only ones who cared for him?

This is not the world Jack thought he knew. It was a honestly terrifying realization. He had awoken in a strange, unfamiliar place, surrounded by Cybertronians he’d never met. Except, he was pretty sure he’d seen them before, the names his mom called them ringing a bell. The slim blue and pink one hovering over him, Arcee. But he’d met Arcee before, she was deranged, a hunter with no mercy for the unfortunate souls that were her prey. She was the second in command of the Autobots, though she was ruthless in battle. And now she was hovering over him, within a few reaches of his arm.

He was terrified, to say the least. His mom seemed fine, so he highly doubted that they’d been kidnapped, not to mention he was pretty sure Arcee didn’t look like that. Still, he was nearly froze to his spot, stuttering out a “What?” that sounded far more confident than he felt.

“Is something wrong, Jack?” Arcee asked with a worried tone. Jack found his voice left him for a moment, because she knew who he was and said his name with familiarity.

Jack quickly found his voice, “Who are you?”

Arcee frowned and so did his mom, “Jack, you know me. We’re partners.”

His mom spoke next, “Did you hit your head after that explosion?”

“What? No!” Jack looked to June with a shocked expression, “I didn’t hit my head! Why are we here?”

“This is the Autobot base,” June said in response, “We’re here so the Bots can protect us from the Decepticons.”

Protect? From the Decepticons? Either the Autobots learned brainwashing and fed his mom lies, or something wasn’t quite right here. Jack honestly found himself thinking it was the latter.

“No...” He mumbled, “This is wrong. All of it’s wrong. The Autobots?”

June placed her hands on Jack’s shoulder, “What’s wrong?”

“All of this.”

Before Jack could elaborate, thundering footsteps cut him off. A large Cybertronian walked into view, red and blue and as tall as Megatronus. As tall as a Prime. That had to mean something. The Cybertronian reminded Jack of Orion, the leader of the Autobots, but while Orion was tall, this Bot was slightly taller, really more equal to Megatronus than Orion himself.

“How is Jack?” He asked, a voice that Jack nearly jumped at. By Primus, that was Orion! They shared the same voice! Jack was looking at the leader of the Autobots, And Jack was pretty sure his shock - and a certain degree of horror - was apparent on his face.

“Is something wrong?” The strange version of Orion asked, clear concern in his voice.

“I’m not so sure, Optimus,” June said, “He keeps saying that ‘everything’s wrong’. I’m worried.”

Orion, er, Optimus, looked to Jack, “What do you mean by that?”

Jack once again found himself unsure of what to say, “Uh, well, uh... You see...” There was an overwhelming urge to book it and run away, but that would probably make them question his sanity more than what he’s about to say would.

“I don’t think I’m your Jack.” He quickly blurted out.

The three around him looked at him in shock and confusion. “What’s that supposed to mean?” Arcee asked, sceptic.

“I think I’m from another dimension, a parallel universe.”

Optimus spoke next, “Why do you say that?”

“Because in the world I know, the Autobots aren’t very keen on humans.”

“What do you mean by that?” June asked clearly concerned.

“While the government might be on their side, they have caused the deaths of countless humans. They want to turn the planet like Cybertron.” The three around him listened in horror and morbid fascination as he spoke.

“One moment,” Optimus said, then called for Ratchet. He asked Jack to repeat what he told them to Ratchet, “Could such a thing be possible?”

“Since we know the Shadowzone exists,” Ratchet began, though still thinking, “It wouldn’t be surprising if it were.”

“Then what of the Decepticons?” Ratchet then asked Jack, “Are they the good guys?” The way he said the last part made it clear he was skeptical of such a possibility.

“Actually, yeah.” Ratchet looked at Jack like he was crazy, “Megatronus leads the Decepticons, who generally try to keep the Autobots from destroying he planet.”

“Megatronus?” Asked Optimus, an unfamiliar curiosity in his voice. It was a tone that Megatronus would say that Jack always had. Maybe that was part of why he always compared Jack to Orion Pax, back when he was a data clerk. “He still goes by Megatronus?”

“Yeah, I guess he never changed it after he became Prime...”

Arcee was the one who spoke now, clearly shocked, “Megatron became Prime?”

Jack looked to her with the very curiosity he often looked to the Decepticons with, the curiosity he always had when the Cons would talk about Cybertron and their lives before the war. “Yeah, why do you seem so surprised?”

“Because it was I who became Prime in this world,” Optimus replied, clearing up several details.

“Oh,” Jack found himself saying, “That would explain the name change.” At the curious looks of the Bots, Jack continued, “In my world, the Autobot leader is just Orion. I guess he dropped the Pax part once the war started.”

After a while longer of back and forth, Jack answering the other four’s questions and vice versa, they soon were all caught up. Jack found that these Autobots are far better than the Autobots in his world. He found Miko and Raf were here too, with Autobots of their own for guardians. All the talk did make Jack feel sad, it made him miss the Decepticons of his world. Starscream, with all his esteem issues, Megatronus, with his wise words, always knowing what to say, Soundwave, with how he always could help Raf just right, Breakdown, with how much he cared about Miko, Knockout, with how he cared for the human’s safety, despite knowing little of how humans worked. He even missed Skyquake, who he hadn’t known very long, and Shockwave, who’s inventions had a habit of not always working quite right.

That also made him think of another small detail, “What about MECH?” Jack asked, catching the others off guard.

“MECH want to use Cybertronians to create a human and Cybertronian hybrid. Monsters,” Ratchet scoffed, “What? Were they heroes in your world?”

“Not exactly.” Jack groaned, “More like an occasionally insufferable human resistance. Sometimes they helped, sometimes they made everything worse.”

June checks her watch, “It’s about time we head home,”

Optimus spoke to Jack before he got into his mom’s car. He was stilled a bit uncomfortable riding Arcee, since he’d never touched a motorcycle before. “Jack, I hope you will feel welcomed here.”

“You’ve all been really nice, I’m sure it will be fine.”

“Still, you are stuck here until we can find a way to make things right and send you back and bring our Jack here.”

“I know you all will do you’re best, if you’re anything like the Con’s of my world,”

“Your faith is appreciated.”

#transformers #maccadam #jack darby #Transformers Prime #optimus prime #june darby #tfp optimus prime #broken mirrors and broken perceptions #bmbp #my writing

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overlordraax · 5 years

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Crazy Conspiracy Theory Time featuring Thundercracker!!

Prepare for a wild theory that I have absolutely no basis for other than minor circumstantial evidence!

So here’s the theory: Thundercracker was originally meant to have Starscream’s colour scheme, and vice versa. AND! If that had been the case then Thundercracker would have ended up joining the Autobots.

Okay, so here’s the idea:

If you look at the original opening sequence and the very first commercial it’s not Starscream leading the charge, it’s Thundercracker:

In fact in the very first commercial Starscream is actually nowhere to be seen:

(Oh wait he might be that one in the back that gets absolutely no screentime)

This suggests to me that it was originally planned that Starscream was going to have Thundercrackers colour scheme but they changed it later, hence why the opening is the way it is.

So that’s all quite reasonable for a theory, but what’s all this about TC being an Autobot, you might ask? Well, it goes a bit squiggly from here but I promise we will get there eventually.

In ‘Fire on the Mountain’ there was a originally going to be more of a focus on TC having doubts and planning to leave the Decepticons:

"The Autobots arrive to stop [the Decepticons], and Jetfire tries to convince a beleaguered Thundercracker to switch loyalties and join the Autobots. He is caught and wounded by Starscream. Spike, with the help of a local native girl, goes to his rescue, and Jetfire--with a little assist from Thundercracker--turns away the Decepticons and destroys the "Crystal of Power." [source: TFWiki]

There’s also a copy of his character bio that suggests he was originally planned to be something of a conscientious objector which could have been used in that original ‘Fire’ synopsis:

‘A Decepticon jet, Thundercracker’s heart is not always in the job. Sometimes he finds the warfare and cruelty of the Decepticons forces too hard to stomach and only obeys Megatron for fear of the consequence of not doing so.’ [source: the original character bios but I got this off a Transformer top trumps card]

So my theory is if they had kept the colour schemes the way they were (TC being red, white and blues) then TC would have gone through with this plot and TC would have ended up as an Autobot.

There is literally no basis for this part of the theory other than this thinking: In G1 the characters are all very clearly colour coded to what allegiance they have: Autobots are normally reds, whites, blues and bright/primary colours. By contrast the Decepticons are more greys, blues, purples and blacks. You can often who’s on what side by the colour scheme (as a result, you can immediately tell Skyfire is going to end up an Autobot just by his colour scheme alone).

So one thing that really bugged me about Starscream’s colour scheme when I first got into the series was that it felt to me like he was an Autobot. He really stands out as the only Decepticon with a primarily bright red colour scheme (which is very Autobot). So basically in an alternate universe where TC had Star’s colour scheme it’s very easy to imagine him defecting and then just fitting right in with the rest of the team.

I just think that would have been really cool to see in a G1 setting. Maybe could have shown a bit more depth to the Cons. Obviously it’s cool that IDW eventually managed to do something good with TC’s character but it would have been so fun to see this all unfold in the goofy badly written world that is G1.

I can only dream...

#Transformers #If there any G1 TC Autobot fics out there I'd love to read them #I wonder if the defection stuff got cut after Fire in the Sky and they maybe felt they'd be repeating themselves?#Who knows #Thundercracker #Starscream #G1 Transformers #long post

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spockandawe · 5 years

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Rodimus for the character ask meme?

RODIMUS! My boy!

First impression: I dove into mtmte 1 as my transformers starting point without any knowledge of the characters taking center stage in that series. I was starting from ground zero. So at first, I pretty much took Rodimus at face value, as he presented himself. That started to come apart later, probably around the tyrest arc, but it was still a little while before I had all the character context to look at Rodimus and see exactly what he was performing and what he was covering for.

Impression now: Oh, this is a complicated one. He’s a complicated character! There’s layers to him. There’s his hype, there’s the way the hype is a front, there’s a way the hype is exactly what it looks like, all at once. But it’s interesting, my first impression was pretty much exactly the way he presented himself at the start, and my current impression is basically... the way he describes himself later. ‘I’m heart over head, every time.’ I’ve got all kinds of feelings about the way he approaches leadership and responsibility and the validation he seeks, but that’s the biggest core element in my perception of him. ‘Heart over head, every time.’

Favorite moment: Oh my god, DOTL when he’s holding his hand out to Megatron and for a moment, it looks like Megatron isn’t going to take it. Rodimus is... so, so good at forgiveness and compassion, even if he’s not consistent early in canon, and despite occasional vindictive streaks even later on. What he says to Minimus Ambus at the end of the tyrest arc, and the way he takes Ultra Magnus back despite everything that went sour there. And later on, the way he tries to even extend that compassion to Getaway. That’s all golden. But the DOTL moment with Megatron, where this is Megatron, where they’re all there because they were too forgiving towards Megatron, where at first it looked like Megatron was leaving them to fight alone, and then when he went to sacrifice himself for them. And Rodimus still scrambles to help him, and he jumps into the middle of this (post-)fight despite the danger and extends that hand. And Megatron’s pretty much ready to give up on himself, but Rodimus still hasn’t given up on him. That moment destroys me.

Idea for a story: I’ve written a number of short sexy stories for them, but there’s something about that format that just lets me explore their dynamic in ways that I love. And I’d love to do something short and sexy for them where it’s after the return from the functionist universe, where it’s after Rodimus thought Megatron abandoned them, and where Megatron has gone centuries thinking he’d never see them again, and somehow they’ve managed to reunite. Something sexual and intimate, because sex feels like a safe physical distraction, more than anything, an excuse for Rodimus not to talk about feelings, but the feelings bleed out anyways and however much they are/aren’t talking, the sex becomes about how they value each other, missed each other, thought the other one abandoned them, and thought they’d never see each other again. Either that, or I’d want Rodimus jailbreaking Megatron in the non-quantum-duplicate setting, but I have no idea where I’d go with that one, I just want it to happen :P

Unpopular opinion: Hm. Hmmmmmmmm. Hm. I don’t know what the unpopular Rodimus opinions are :P Is it unpopular to say that OP should stop prime-ing and Rodimus should prime instead, where instead of matrix of leadership it’s a creation matrix? Or what about that Rodimus should’ve managed to save Getaway? (not that he did anything wrong, but that the story balance should have shifted so that Getaway survived and Rodimus had to deal with more direct aftermath) I don’t actually know what the opinions are. Ultra Magnus is one of the few bots Rodimus defaults to a dommy role with?

Favorite relationship: Fuck, this is a brutal character to make me do this for. If I had to pick one ship.............. rodimegsmags. I think that would have to be it. It has such delicious dynamics for all three of them, and all the opportunity to bring out the best in them. And Rodimus deserves ALL the love and support I can lavish on him, and if Megatron and Ultra Magnus are both devoted to him, that’s a pretty good start. But honorable mention goes to drift and to thunderclash. And starscream. Even though that only makes sense in my nichey little au XD

Favorite headcanon: This is hard! I don’t know how many headcanons I have for him that aren’t like... shades of nuance on character things. I guess since I’m limited in how many headcanons I have, I like the idea that his flame on thing is an outlier ability instead of just a fancy body mod. Which doesn’t have much application to anything I plan to do.... except my nichey little rodistar au :P Or maybe that I like to think that Thunderclash invited Rodimus to serve on his ship post-canon because he very much identifies with Rodimus’s struggles and worries for him, but is moderately awkward about that kind of outreach and Rodimus is hostile towards him to begin with, so them actually making that kind of mutually supportive connection would be a long, fraught process (which just makes the eventual bond that much sweeter)

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Halloween (2018)

Hello! Night human, hello! Are you playing music, or is it coming from somewhere else? It should be coming from my end. If it's not, well... Ah, good Follow the sound of the unexplicable Halloween theme for a magical adventure. I LOVE magical adventures! I like how some of the whipped cream disappeared mysteriously before they put the nutmeg on Very mysterious indeed. I assume the answer involves licking. The answer always involves licking. Is that considered humane? Just keep them standing around in the sun? I... have no idea what the exact setup is supposed to be, but presumably they're not outside all the time Wuh oh So the mask is supposed to be... a magic artifact now? Good old Pumpkin! It's... un-rotting! It's got things to do! Things to watch! Yes. Things.

The slit between the nose and the mouth kind of weirds me out there. You too? "well, surely they don't mean us" "Not us! We're starting things on a respectful note, comparing her to her almost-killer and a caged animal all within under the space of a minute!" "we've traveled a very long way... we didn't feel like trying to contact you ahead of time or make an appointment or anything, though" unbiased as SHIT "Here's 3000 dollars, now let us make a rubbing of your scar." IKR? "how the fuck should I know" I kinda hope this guy is the first victim. "We did, but we were sort of hoping to snap off a few shots of you crying." Likewise. I have a bad feeling about those mousetraps I hope they go off on Podcast Man's person. Somehow. That sounds like a lie That's Pumpkin's polar opposite, the disgusted one. The one who kinkshames. Kast, I swear to various gods, I will destroy you. Victim #2 Starscream! Hello! I finally beat the blasted thing into working. I did not want to miss the shenanigans. You haven't missed much! And so you didn't! A couple of idiot journalists went to bother the final girl from the first movie I'm glad. Today requires dead teenagers. And upset Michael's fellow patients for no reason. Ah, that is always a good idea. Ah, that is always a good idea. This one is aware she lives in a horror movie universe, isn't she. Yeah. Is *anyone* going to approach her and her very obvious trauma in anything resembling a respectful way? Probably not! Doubtful. wow awww man She clearly is not handling herself well. "It's not like this is a difficult day for you or anything." What kind of person doesn't shrug off a whole lot of her friends getting murdered and nearly getting murdered herself? Shiiiit I mean, we knew it was coming, but "don't get murdered" Who gave that child a rifle? Oh good, the kid has a gun I bet it'll do him a world of good I bet he startles and shoots his own father. cool, cool, investigate by yourself Well, you guessed close, anyway! And who's in the backs....yep That's about right. "And, don't forget, just naked enough for """fanservice"""" Let's see.... known serial killer on the loose on the night he's known for being extra murderous... Yes, maybe you should cancel Halloween. What can possibly go wrong?! Oh, great Lovely! Ugh He's very strong for an older fellow. Maybe should have given him a little less fresh air and healthy food. So, that's four more corpses. Think they will cancel Halloween yet? Says the soon-to-be-corpse Whatever you say, Corpse Number 5. Just think of how squirrelly she will be when her stupid family gets murdered for not listening to her. :( And journalists intrude on her privacy to ask her about it. Does no one in this town lock their door? Apparently not? Ham, never eaten. Oh, jeez He doesn There's no effort needed to get in. Oh, I like this little human. Awww. Yes, leave the door open. Every door in this town must be left open, so murderers can get in. Welp. "If you're cold, they're cold. Bring them in." Wow. What the fuck. I hope he is stabbed nineteen times. Uhh. "a noise like... a murderer?" Oh goody, dry! fuuuuck cue murder ...really, dude So I guess she didn't QUITE check everywhere That kid is going to need so much therapy. Run, sensible child! Run! Again, they know that they have a murderer problem. Why does he have no backup? Backup is for losers I think he wants to be murdered. "Captured" "so in a way, all this is his fault" It is not paranoia, if there really is something out there to get you. If only some shithead hadn't dropped her phone in the punch bowl, or soup, or whatevr that was facepalm . . . . Oh, I've heard that one. oh my god. dude stop Look at that, she managed to not be killed for the moment. ...Well, that took care of that! Double tap. Is it Ben Tramer? .... Well, that's a problem. Damn it. So did he survive that after all? Are there two of them now? Oh, he's not going to be happy about that. Now his mask has old man stink inside it. I admit I don't quite get how he did that through the grate He kicked the grate out. Ohhh His head was...overripe, apparently? I guess? That was a strange plot cul-de-sac ...I feel like taking the van would've been a better bet It's Pumpkin! Well, damn it Oh. No, no it isn't. Oh, no! That guy I hated is dead now! Hopefully she didn't like him too much. I don't like that he gets to survive most of the movie and Fun Babysitter didn't. I feel like it's a bad idea to leave that remote up there. I feel like her just leaving the remote on the counter there is a bad thing urgh I hope she brought it down with her, at least Well, that gave you away. But what do I know? It's not my paranoia cellar. I feel like she should have forced him into a chute, for a clean kill. Oh, crap Don't be impatient... For someone planning this for forty years, she's done a poor job of building a trap house. That is a creepy target practice area Why have a scary mannequin room, if you know one day this situation is coming? Right? For that matter, why not install proper indoor lighting, to see who you're trying to shoot? That would spoil the jumpscares! When you're planning on facing off with your supernatural attacker someday and plotting things out to the minute, but you need to keep the atmosphere Spooky. About time. hey Hello and goodbye, Nude Human. Keep shooting him. I feel like this is a kill that should be confirmed before they relax. No more relaxing for any of them ever. But on the plus side, they no longer think Grandmother is crazy. Now they love Grandmother and her room full of non-jamming guns and canned corn! Grandmother who they all call grandmother for some reason. Why *did* she stock rations? Did she think Michael would just pop a seat down on the kitchen floor for a month on end and they'd have to wait him out? Perhaps she was planning for zombies as well, given she knows at least one creature that refuses to stay dead. She likes to cover all bases. Michael, zombies...got a couple of hobgoblin defenses lined up just in case. If one is going to be prepared, might as well cover all bases. Except when it comes to well lit rooms and moving the mannequins out. Who has time for that? Sigh. My computer froze and I missed everything after the spooky mannequin rom. What happened? They eventually got him into the basement, and lit him on fire. Which he'll almost assuredly walk off. Oh, good. Less good. And we hear his spooky breathing at the end of the credits, so... And Allison has a knife. Of course we do. I haven't been able to pull up a light note to end on, so I'm open to suggestions! Goose game! Goose game it is! How about a fun goose game highlight reel? Beautiful! He's enjoying the moment. Sun hat! put it in the pond! What did this old man ever do to anyone? He dared try to get work done. Tried to keep the goose out of the garden! Unforgiveable! Unforgourdable! I'm having this great idea for a game for you to stream sometime! I'm thinking the same thing! I thought he did too! no, no, it's floating back! Somebody do something! Oh this kid gets TERRORIZED What kinda scam is she running here! Clearly she knows how to make the money. oh my gosh I wonder if you could make him buy back his glasses... His evil delight is infectious. He is having too much fun. What kind of person walks right up to a goose to take a ribbon off it I want to play this, but I don't think it's on steam... yet. That's going to be a beautiful day when it is. Right? Well, that wraps it up, I'd say! I am very glad I did not miss out. Your streams are definitely a highlight. Goodnight, and thanks for the stream! Oh, hush! But don't, of course, never hush. Thank you for coming! Good night!

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G1 Episode 17: Transcript

Episode Show Notes

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[Stinger]

O: No, no absolutely--but I'm talking about--

S:I know.

O: --like, Aliens!

S: I know.

O: You know, and it’s just like--

[Intro Music]

O: Hello, and welcome to the Afterspark Podcast, an episode by episode recap of the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon. I'm Owls!

S: And I'm Specs!

O: And today we're gonna be talking about episode number 17: Autobot Spike. Let's talk about giant robots today, shall we?

S: Mm-hmm.

O: Also a note for, uh, I guess season 2 onwards? Uhh, we are gonna go by the order that's on my DVD set, because that's the set we're using when we're scripting. Ah, it technically, it seems like it's the um, airdate order versus if you go on the TF wiki it's like by episode--

S: It varies though, the page I was looking on for when I was doing the reordering on the fanfic rec document, it has like episode number or airdate number and then like, actual order number on the other side, it was like what?

O: Yeah, it was like the episode internal number for the studio or for the writing staff or something. I'm not really sure I understand it, but basically if you go on TF wiki or at least the page we have initially used to like, make our spreadsheet for things, it uses that number instead of the air date and I think the DVDs are using the air date. So that's what we're gonna go off of just so we don't have to try to keep track of it as much.

S: So yes, some of these may not be in chronological order, I guess?

O: Uh so, if you're like, “Hey why did you do this episode instead of this episode?” that's probably why, we will still get to all of them though.

S: Yes, we will. Just weird order.

O: Yeah. We had to pick something and this is what we did. Anyway, welcome to season 2 of the Transformers, complete with a brand new opening and teasing us with brand new characters. (And by characters we meet toys.)

S: Yes, yes new toys to add to your burgeoning army.

O: [laughs] Today at the Autobot base, Sparkplug is playing God!

S: The Autobots are just fine with this. Apparently, they don't have um, moral or ethical quandaries with this.

O: I mean considering that um, Wheeljack and--

S: The Dinobots.

O: Yeah, I was going to say, Wheeljack and Ratchet just decided to create new life ah, no problem. I guess, yeah, they must not be worried about a God complex.

S: I guess.

O: Uh, Sparkplug’s new creation is called Autobot X.

S: Unfortunately, he's definitely not a looker.

O: Autobot X is a literal Frankenstein's monster uh, made out of a hodgepodge of spare Autobot parts.

S: He's even got bolts on his helmet where his neck should be, it’s um, yeah.

O: He's like--I wanna say he didn't have much of a neck, which is why we phrased that way, but yes. Uh, Spike even calls it a Frankenstein's monster. Which confuses poor Bumblebee but Spike doesn't want to take the time to explain the human pop culture reference to his giant alien robot friend. This is fine.

S: Honestly, he could just direct him to the library.

O: Or put on a movie. [laughs]

S: Yeah.

O: We know a movie exists in this world!.

S: Yeah, as we will um, see later. Autobot X is an amalgam of Prowl, Bluestreak, Sunstreaker, Optimus Prime, Trailbreaker, Jazz, and Hound parts.

O: It's apparently got Jazz's crotch. Uh, to which, all we can say is, he's got a party in his pants.

S: Yes, literally! Especially if he can do that speaker doohickey--if he's got those speaker doohickeys somewhere.

O: Weirdly enough he seems to have a mostly unique face, uh, helm, uh, that kind of reminds me of Ultra Magnus? Which is hilarious, cuz Ultra Magnus doesn't even exist in the series yet.

S: Yeah. Sparkplu--well actually, presumably they know about him and they just decided to make his face look like that.

O: Okay, but if Sparkplug--

S: I mean in uni--I mean in universe not the--

O: No-no-

S: Oh no, you’re right.

O: Because Sparkplug’s the one that made him, and so Ultra Magnus, if he--it does exist which presumably he does--

S: Yeah.

O: He's on Cybertron--

S: Yes.

O: And Sparkplug would have never met him!

S: Yes, the Autobots didn't have any, like contribution to the--

O: The design? [laughs]

S: Unless they just had like, a face that looked like Ultra Magnus’s lying around.

O: I don’t know.

S: Which would be weird.

O: That’s so weird!

S: Let’s move on now, shall we? Sparkplug is gunning for a Wheeljack's job as resident mad scientist.

O: Wheeljack seems vaguely insulted by this, as he should be.

S: Mmm-hmm. Surprising no one, Autobot X begins rampaging around the room destroying things, and Sparkplug can't control it. I'm not sure why they expected any differently, considering what happened with the Dinobots but...

O: This proves that Sparkplug may be at Wheeljack’s level, but he certainly hasn't surpassed it. [laughs]

S: Yeah...yeah. So on the list of powers this abomination has, we have super-strength, force lightning as it combats the Autobots' attempts to subdue it.

O: Autobot X is knocked out and Sparkplug laments that it needs to be perfected.

S: [sighs] Sparkplug.

O: Everyone here makes terrible decisions.

S: They do, they do. Wheeljack and Ratchet offer to help, with Wheeljack wanting to shove Autobots' consciousnesses into Autobot X while their bodies are being repaired.

O: Just put them in stasis! It’s easier!

S: I'm not sure why their minds somehow, um interfere with the repair process but, that's the logic we're going with.

O: Apparently, and Optimus is totally okay with this horrifying idea.

S: Clearly he hasn’t put a whole lot of thought into it.

O: Like, it cannot be an easy process to swap bodies around like, otherwise people I think would do--er, um--robots would do it more often in this series!

S: Well, we do see the Combaticons’ like, does little cube thingies that Starscream steals from robot prison--

O: Yeah, but that’s not their--

S: --later but...

O: I mean, you’re right, but still.

S: It's-it’s very different, that's their personality components or whatever.

O: Yeah.

S: [unintelligible]

O: So, at this point in time, Teletraan I goes off alerting the Autobots to the presence of Decepticons.

S: And as the Autobots roll out we must remember that this is the start of a new season so let's have another toy roll call except--I think, these are--I don't think any of these characters are new?

O: I don't think they are, but they're reminding the kids who have come back you know, presumably after however long since the new season got, you know, uh--

S: Last season ended or whatever.

O: Last season ended, yeah, that’s what I mean. The Decepticons are apparently attacking the *New* Air Force rocket base.

S: And then trained army men try to shoot the Cons with teeny, teeny, tiny handguns. It's silly.

O: It's very silly, and then Megatron fires a warning shot that doesn't actually hit any of humans.

S: Though I must say, I don't think I saw any cannons in this particular base.

O: No, no this one actually looked like, you know it was maybe up to date with the 80’s weaponry!

S: Yeah...those were some really big rockets.

O: Yeah.

S: The Autobots proceed to show up.

O: With Starscream wordlessly pointing as they approach.

S: And then a fight breaks out.

O: As it is prone to do in this particular series. Uh, and to get back on my high horse--fuck you Brawn, uh, he kicks Soundwave into a giant rocket here, which then proceeds to knock down a bunch of other rockets.

S: It's like dominoes.

O: Dominoes! But with rockets!

S: Instigated by a robot getting kicked into them.

O: Yes, that was poor Soundwave.

S: Um-hm, and the Autobots were specifically trying to avoid all of this damage happening which makes it more infinitely hilarious that it actually happens.

O: Brawn clearly didn't get the memo. [laughs]

S: The fighting continues, with Thundercracker and Skywarp destroying the other rockets in the base.

O: Bumblebee and Spike arrive on scene.

S: There will be regrets.

O: [laughs] Just regrets!?!

S: Megatron and Soundwave take off, with Megatron turning it into his gun mode and Soundwave firing him at Bumblebee as a diversion. And then Optimus gasps, “They hit Spike!”

O: No they didn’t! They didn’t even hit Bumblebee! They hit in front of Bumblebee and then he just kind of fell over on his side! I’m not saying Spike would be unaffected, but I certainly don’t think this was--should be life threatening!

S: Yes, but this is like, a bug made out of a giant alien robot that presumably doesn't have fucking airbags and there is no restraining harness, no seat belt.

O: He wasn’t even going that fast though, and it was like, kind of this slow tip over!?! It just--it didn’t look like a--just didn’t look like it should have done that much!

S: It probably didn't do much to Bumblebee but that doesn't mean that Spike didn't hit his head in an unfortunate manner.

O: I-- [unintelligible muttering]

S: I think is dumb but they went with what they went with and we can't really argue with it.

O: [groans]

S: At least I don't think we can.

O: Ohhh, watch me! [laughs]

S: Well, okay, yes we can.

O: [continues to laugh]

S: [sighs] Megatron is very happy at the possibility of having killed a 14 year old boy.

O: Ironhide and the others pull out Spike and load him up into Ratchet. You know, moving someone who might have a spinal injury or a head injury. This is fine.

S: They did not take proper precautions and Spike is apparently in critical condition so...probably the Autobots hurt him more than the fall did.

O: Quite possibly! And then we cut to a doctor talking to Sparkplug and--who says, “If only we could separate Spike's mind from his body!”

S: It's called a medically induced coma, you ass. And then Sparkplug says, “Oh hey, wait!”

O: Alright, I buy that we can move a robot's mind around because machines and electricity or whatever but why on earth can this be possible with a human mind in this series?

S: I don't know, but it sure set up some stuff that fanfic writers use.

O: Oh, did it!

S: Um-hm.

O: And as if we need more Frankenstein shenanigans in this episode, back at the Ark, the Autobots prepare to transfer Spike's mind into Autobot X.

S: Ratchet says that Spike’s mind not being in his body will allow the doctors to operate and I mean how does this help with anything?

O: I don't see how it possibly could.

S: I mean--

O: I really don’t!

S: Unless it's some sort of brain surgery, I could maybe kind of see that. Maybe, maybe.

O: Even then that seems unlikely though.

S: Yeah, I don't-I- don't know. I'm spitballing here.

O: [laughs]

S: Is there a doctor in the house? No, no, we've just got a bunch of mechanics.

O: Surely nothing can possibly go wrong here!

S: This stupidity does indeed work.

O: And by work, we mean Spike begins rampaging all over the lab just like Autobot X!

S: He's a very unhappy camper. Anyway, Spike is ramp--anyway, Spike is rampaging around the lab yelling, “WHYYY!?!”

O: You know, why have I been turned into an abomination?

S: [sighs]

O: Sunstreaker and Sideswipe come in and try to restrain him, but Spike just yeets both of them through the air.

S: That's kind of great.

O: It is kind of great, but I feel bad for Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. They did nothing to deserve this, this episode.

S: Yeah, and then Optimus shoots Spike to stop his rampagey ways. And then Sparkplug is very apologetic for what they've done saying that did the only thing that they could think of. Which was--

O: Which was clearly sneak Spike out of the hospital in the middle of the night because when Sparkplug told the doctor this was the plan, they must have thought he was nuts!

S: Who the heck knows, I think it's--I think the entire plot is dumb but let's move on from that. Autobot X is super freaking tall, he's at least as tall as Optimus so that's kinda…

O: It's really big! Cuz Optimus is like, one of the biggest ones.

S: Yeah, like Skyfire I think, is taller but..

O: Skyfire is way bigger but-but out of a like, kind of normal cast like, Optimus and Megatron tend to be the biggest.

S: Yeah.

O: Surprise though, Laserbeak has been here the entire time recording all of this!

S: He's a good spy.

O: He's a good spy, unlike Bumblebee. [laughs]

S: Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't--

O: I apologize for nothing!

S: Bumblebee, you do not stand up to transform when you are within sight--

O: [laughs]

S: --of the people you're spying on. Don't do it. Nevertheless, he totally did it, and then he got brain tentacled for his troubles.

O: Yep, cuz we needed more reminders of that. Anyway, our good birb returns and reports to Megatron.

S: And then Megatron decides to see if he can use Spike's instability to destroy the rest of the Autobots.

O: With Starscream living on the edge again, ah, insulting Megatron to his face and getting shoved for his troubles.

S: Back at the Ark, Ratchet is still trying to fix Bumblebee and Spike has apparently been left under the care of Wheeljack.

O: Which by left under the care of Wheeljack, that means he got shoved into a room with a TV and you'll never guess what movie is on!

S: Yep, we're being very on-the-nose today.

O: Surprise, surprise--it's Frankenstein.

S: And as Igor shouts, “You’ve created a monster!” on TV, Spike destroys the television set. Which may or may not be part of Teletraan 1.

O: Yeah, he then begins to trash the rest of the room too.

S: That's it, no more TV for you for six months, Spike!

O: To add to Autobot X's weird power list--he also has jet feet.

S: Obviously, we gotta make this body that we're just gonna put people in occasionally very, very useful and let it fly.

O: Uh, Sparkplug decided he was gonna cram in the features here, you know.

S: He just wanted all the features.

O: He wanted all the features.

S: Ratchet, Wheeljack, Sparkplug, and Bumblebee attempt to calm Spike with little success.

O: Spike smashes his way out of the Ark, and we see that Reflector’s been left on surveillance on the Decepticon side.

S: You gotta use what you have and when you have a camera, yeah.

O: Still better at surveillance than Bumblebee! [laughs]

S: Yeah. [laughs] Bumblebee follows on the ground, apparently without a working method of communication back to base as Ratchet has yet to repair his radio transmitter.

O: Reflector’s also following Spike, holding position until Megatron arrives.

S: And Spike is just holding an entire darn conversation with himself basically saying--he's a monster, so no helping humanity for him.

O: I know they keep saying he's unstable but him being evil here is just kind of weird.

S: He's more chaotic neutral than anything, I guess? But I think, he's like--99% of his impulse control was split between Bumblebee and being super tiny and neither of those is currently available to him, so…

O: [laughing] True! He’s currently as big as Optimus Prime and Bumblebee is not here quite yet. Uh, Bumblebee does however, catch up with Spike and warns him that his current body is making it harder for Spike to think but Spike whacks him off a cliff with a tree.

S: I'm going to amend that and say that most of his impulse control was being tiny and not being able to do dumb shit.

O: I could--I can believe that, although Cliffjumper being tiny and doing dumb shit does not seem to be a hindrance.

S: Yes, but the thing is Spike is a lot squishier than Cliffjumper.

O: True. Megatron shows up with other cons in tow.

S: And Reflector’s t-posing for dominance here so...um, take that as you will. [laughs] Spike and the Seekers fire on each other but Megatron lands and tells them to stop fighting.

O: We, uh get a glance at Megs’ apparently trick knee here as an animation error causes some really funky motion with him.

S: Yeah. Bee is able to climb back up and he attempts stealth.

O: He is literally standing behind Megatron with his head perfectly visible, um, from behind some rocks.

S: [exasperated sigh] Then Megatron apparently offers Spike Starscream's job or being second, “Only to me!”

O: Spike seems to agree, as he shakes Megatron’s hand and wants to, “Make them pay real bad!”

S: [even more exasperated sigh]

O: [laughs]

S: Bumblebee escapes back to the Air Force Base, where Optimus and company are currently working.

O: The Autobots arrive to confront Spike, who is wielding Megatron and fires on them. Weird Autobot X power number 4: Boobs slash headlight cannon laser gun thing.

S: Considering but that's Prowl’s chest, that tells me more than I expected the cartoon to tell me about Prowl.

O: Yeah guys, tmi. Tmi!

S: I mean, we never see Prowl do that.

O: [while laughing] We never see Prowl do that!

S: Apparently, he's just very polite so…

O: It is impolite to shoot things out of your boobs!

B: [giggle]

S: The Seekers enter the fray, and then Ironhide fires...oil from his arms at them?

O: I guess we'll just add that to the list of Ironhide’s Swiss Army knife abilities.

S: God, Ironhide can do so much stuff!

O: So much shit.

S: Sparkplug shows up then and gets shot at, but Spike panics and saves him with--

O: Autobot X power number 5! Weird grippy claw, thing.

S: Which apparent--I think that's supposed to be like, Trailbreaker’ss gun, but I don’t know…

O: We don’t know what this thing is, but he uses it!

S: Yup, it’s like...yeah, yeah. Megatron attempts to get Spike to defeat the Autobots, but Spike instead fires on the Decepticons

O: But Spike’s sworry, so he's forgiven.

S: Yeah, um, at some point Megatron and the Decepticons just...skedaddle.

O: Yeah, they just leave. They're done for the day, this plan did not work, bye.

S: Yeah and so, Spike is zapped back into his real body and the transfer device breaks and then Bumblebee wonders what it would be like for a robot in a human body.

O: Sadly, when we actually do get this in canon or in the cartoon it's kind of boring and in my opinion, this is not the best characters they could have picked for the scenario. Just legitimately, I think the entire thing would have been vastly improved if it had been all cons. Involved say, Starscream, Soundwave, and Megatron, yes?

S: There is actually um, a piece of fan fiction by Wayward [Insecticon] that is basically that. All the Decepticons get turned into humans.

O: And I'm willing to bet it is better than the episode where fucking Arcee, Rodimus, and uh-- Rodimus, Ultra Magnus and--

S: Springer!

O: Springer do because that one...the only good thing in that episode was me dead-ass looking at the screen and going, “Rodimus definitely, definitely had sex with that woman the night before and she is bringing him breakfast in bed.” There is another explanation for this and I will say the same damn thing when we go through the episode.

B: [laughing]

O: Regardless, that is it for today. Join us next time for, “The Immobilizer,” or as I like to call it: Hello Carly! [said in the same tone as, “Hello nurse!” from Animaniacs]

S: It'll be nice to see Carly.

O: I like Carly, so I'm looking forward to this, also, we get--Wheeljack cuz this is one of Wheeljack’s inventions, yeah?

S: Um-hm.

O: Alright, so Specs, what fanfic do we have for today?

S: Ok, today we have two pieces of fanfic. There technically could be three, but the third one, it has actually been removed from the internet. And while I could use the Wayback Machine to get you to the author's site. Since they removed it from Fanfiction Net, I don't think that's a thing I should do. Which makes me sad because I really, really like that one and...yeah. And I've got well, I have a copy of it cuz I saved--I saved the mobi back when it was still on Fanfiction Net.

O: Yeah.

S: Um, but since I can't really share it with anyone I'm not going to include that one, though I might mention the name. But, so, I have two that are readily accessible to share. Um, “Chrysalis,” by Ape32. It’s G1 cartoon AU, rated T, for teens, and it's Gen. I've only actually gone through the first three chapters of this one so if there is um, romance in later chapters I'm afraid I don't--I haven't reached that part yet.

O: So none as first we're aware, right now.

S: Yes.

O: Apologies if there is later, however.

S: Yes, thank you, thank you very much. So characters: Spike, Sparkplug, various Autobots and Decepticons. And in summary, uh, “It’s g1 a season two AO. Spike's life is changed forever by his single act of vengeance. Now he must adapt or lose not only his mind and his friends, but his very soul as well.” And so, uh, the reason for choosing this is that this is an alternate universe continuation of Autobot X, where Megatron makes a very cruel decision. I think you can guess what happens, um…

O: Yeah.

S: Yeah, and so this is an incomplete multi-chapter piece of fanfiction that was last updated in 2008. So, it's highly unlikely that it's going to be updated again but it's actually let me...

O: Sounds like a really interesting premise though, like, I'm gonna read it and I normally don't read it incomplete stuff, unless they're like, currently ongoing because I'm like, “Ahhh! It's never going to be finished!” But tha-that's a really interesting concept!

S: Yeah, and let me... it's 15 chapters.

O: Okay, so you know, still a pretty good read.

S: Yeah, sixty-six thousand words, or thereabouts. Mm-hmm, and so, yeah, I'd recommend that so far. And then my second recommendation is, “Hopeless,” by WaywardInsecticon. I...it's actually been a while since I've read this and I'm pretty sure it's Marvel G1, but that's apparently what I put down in my notes. I don't remember. But it's definitely G1.

O: Yeah.

S: I think the reason I chose Marvel G1 was because Mindwipe’s in there. But I've read it (actually several times), it's just been a while. It's rated T for teen, it's Gen. There aren't any pairings. Uh, the characters here--it focuses on original characters but there's also Mindwipe and Flywheels, who are not particularly well-known Decepticons. Though we do know Flywheels from…

O: The IDW comics.

S: Yes, his unfortunate big feet were the only things left off him.

O: [laughs]

S: In summary, “Dark Star is a Decepticon who used to be a 17 year old girl. Now she's trapped on Cybertron with no friends, no idea how to function, and no help but Mindwipe who was the one who changed her in the first place.” And yeah, the theme for this was humans getting turned into robots and--

O: Eyyy!

S: Pretty much, yeah. And it's a one shot so, yeah. I definitely recommend that and then the third one which I...which we won't actually be linking to--

O: We will not actually link to it.

S: For a variety of reasons. Was the, “Starting Gate,” by Korat. Which was a G1 cartoon, uhh, one. It was rated T, Gen, no pairings. The original--the main character was an original character and in summary, “Life has a funny way of throwing things at you sometimes, that you would never expect. Either you learn to run with it or you don't.” It was heavily G1 based, it was never completed and the author took it down, ah... When did I save this? I think I saved it like, a little while before she took it to down--or they took it down. I saved this in...2012. June 29th, 2012.

O: Well then.

S: Ahhhh, the flagfic--the FLAG fanfiction downloader.

O: [laughs]

S: Yeah, so yeah, we're not gonna link to that, but it basically involved Starscream... Starscream basically it was--it sort of making friends with a human and then things go very, very bad.

O: Things go very wrong, very fast.

S: Yes, and let's move on to the art.

O: So, our recommendation for today is Coralus. Ah, they primarily seem to do IDW, at least from a lot of the stuff I saw, but there might be some--a variety of things on there. Their colors are GORGEOUS in everything.

S: They are!

O: Like, oh my god, seriously, some of my favorite colors out of all of the fan artists we've recommended.

S: Um-hm.

O: They have a number of Ratchet/Drift fan art, but there's also a lot of different art from-from various characters from the IDW comics. We linked to a few pieces that I really enjoyed, uh, their Rung one in particular is one of my favorites.

S: I love it too.

O: It's really pretty! Uh, so, I think we've mentioned this enough it should be apparent, but Rung is actually Primus in the IDW comics. And so the piece of art with him is basically him, kind of drawn overlaid with more of what Primus probably looked like in the past.

S: Or, well the general Primus designs--

O: Yeah.

S: --that are considered canon.

O: Yeah, uh, but it's it's really pretty and also like, Rung’s expression is really lovely because it's just very kind. Which is why I think-I think partially why I liked Rung so much of the comics is that like, Primus and a lot of them is like either you know the-the literal center of their planet--

S: Um-hmm.

O: --or kind of a warrior god.

S: Yeah.

O: And so to have it be this very kind, sweet character, is one of my favorite things.

S: Who's not a combatant, and he just wants to help people.

O: It's very sweet. Uh, we also--we did link to some of their Drift/Ratchet art, which is very, very cute. And then the last one we linked to was Sunstreaker, who is one of my favorite G1 characters who I haven't gotten to talk about enough. [laughs] But, yeah, uh, we will be linking to their Tumblr… We are actually posting this on AO3 as well, or at least embedding it. So any artists that make money through other avenues with their fan art we will not be posting links to. I will also not be mentioning it in here, since we have to embed this on a site that forbids it. However, if there are links, uh, you can find them on our Tumblr page, like our Tumblr Episode Notes, uh, at least as far as linking on an AO3 we will be linking to their Tumblr and their... I guess just their Tumblr because all those other ones make money. They're all, like stores and stuff.

S: Um-hmm.

O: We will be linking to their Tumblr and you can also find links on our Tumblr, and you can, you know find the other places where they are online.

S: And that just about wraps up for us today. Remember to check us out on Tumblr or Pillowfort as Afterspark-Podcast for any additional information, show notes or links we may have mentioned. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter at AftersparkPod (all one word) and various other locations by searching for Afterspark Podcast such as AO3, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Youtube, just to name a few. Till next time, I'm Specs!

O: And I'm Owls!

S: Toodles!

[Outro Music]

#transcript #g1 episode 17 #afterspark podcast

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the-energon-hole · 6 years

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Oh! Oh! How about TFP bots headcannons about them and their human s/o rising their hybrid sparkling (let's pretend biology works that way)? Like, their reaction when they heard the lil' bitlets' first words and sruff?

((A/N So this Headcanon request, I took it and I ran away with it-

Basically, I ran under the idea that Cybertronians can merge and create life kind of like Asari can from Mass Effect- it is a child that is both Cybertronian and Human, but the species is Cybertronian just to keep things simple. I also ran with the idea that all the Cybertronians were carriers, just to keep reader in a gender neutral status.

Basically, I like dhow these turned out, even if it took me forever to write them!~))

Optimus Prime

-Optimus likes to consider himself a rather emotionally distant partner, and he generally prefers it to stay this way due to his place in both the war against Megatron and in Cybertronian Society as a leader. He would feel so awful if his enemies or those who oppose him used you as a bargaining chip against him- sometimes those thoughts keep him awake at night as you sleep soundly on his chest without any worry about the closeness and bond the two of you share. His emotional distance seems to lower as his inhibitions seem to fail him when the genetic merge happens- as he has brought in a new life form that is created based off of both yours and his genetic material… your child. The Sparkling is so beautiful that when he gazes upon the young one’s face, he is reminded of why he fights and what he must do to preserve all life- even if will cost him his own life. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot bring himself to be distant from you, or his beautiful baby sparkling.

-You have to come to terms with you may not live long enough to see this child grow and become a full Cybertronian bot, you will at most, be able to witness the little bitlet grow to be in its second frame form- when it is finally able to begin growing into its much bigger form. It was sad, but also heartwarming to leave a piece of yourself to always be with Optimus- even when you have long passed and are unable to be the comfort he needs in this dark and cruel universe when everything seems to be stacked against him. He, too, is grateful that this union has created something he can cherish till the end of his days (even if he projects he will not outlive you).

-Watching the small squishy thing begin to form its outer armor was rather amazing, a formation of its harder exoskeleton as the protoform began to harden to protect the sparkling as Ratchet put it bluntly to you when you asked him the questions about the change. Ratchet also informed you it wouldn’t be much longer than a human earth year that the small things will begin to look more like an individual and form the first pieces of its outer frame, rather than just be a small lump of grey protoform- this change also comes with the formation of the voice box and the growth of its small t-cog and other vital organs. He also said before long you wouldn’t have to feed the sparkling through a bottle anymore and it will be perfectly capable of consuming and processing regular energon very soon- You can’t say you are looking forward to that change happening in the near future.

Arcee

-When you heard the news that Arcee was sparked with a new creation that was based off of both yours and her genetic makeup, to say you were ecstatic was an understatement, in fact if memory serves you ended up crying (which just upset Arcee as she would start to leak if you started to leak). Jack was at first apprehensive about Arcee being a mother, but seeing how well you both took the news- and the fact you were appointing him as a guardian (God Father) of the child, made him change his mind pretty fast. You would have to ask Arcee later how the bond made her spark, when you two have fooled around quite a lot before she was conceived- it was probably different for Cybertronians than it was for humans.

-You would absolutely fawn over the newborn sparkling after it was born- wrapping it up in nests of blankets and pillows when you would hang out in the main room of the base, holding it gently and reading childhood stories (even though Arcee said it might not understand that stuff right now), and even falling sleep with it at night while Arcee was out late on patrol or taking Jack home for the night. Arcee doesn’t mind so much, all the doting and cuddling you do, because before long the little bitlet will be too big for you to wrap up and hold and cuddle- and honestly she enjoy seeing this maternal side of you, it reminds her of why she let the merge happen in the first place. You were always so warm and kind- even if sometimes you try to hide it and be tough in the face of their war, she prefers this softer side, let her worry about the decepticons- you just worry about you and your new child together.

-Everyone in the base would always roll their eyes, and Ratchet would even get a little miffed and huffy, when you claimed you could hear words in the babbling and cooing of your small child. “That’s not possible the vocal unit hasn’t even developed yet” and “its sweet you think you can hear English words but I doubt the little one can even comprehend language at this point.” You don’t care though, you are proud of your little one for trying to mimic your words and voice even if they can’t do it or don’t understand it- maybe it’s the human genetic factor or something else, but it makes you proud how determined they are to speak and be heard.

Starscream

-He would never admit it out loud, but he was a little nervous about raising the new spark that was inside of him- not that he was incapable, as he was capable of anything! No, it was going to be easy raising a little bitlet, he was nervous about what the little thing would look and act like and sure it was going to be a cybertronian inside and out, hybrids just have some odd quirks he has heard about. Certainly he has seen hybrid Cybertronians before- but never ones with these organic humans. He just really hopes it turns out to be more like him, no offense to you and your personality- but you cannot out beat his looks and personality! They can always use many more Energon Seekers on their side anyway, and he wouldn’t admit it to anyone but you- the one thing that puts his mind at ease and excites him is when he gets to teach the new young life how to fly. It was the one thing that made him feel free when the pressures of life stack against him, and he absolutely couldn’t wait to share that with his little sweet spark.

-You did not have much experience with younger children, but even then how much would your experience with human children help you raise one of Cybertronian decent. Damn, thinking about it, your child is going to be about three stories taller than you- it is going to be an adjustment to say the least. You were excited to help raise this new life with your partner Starscream, and it also helps to have Knockout in your corner too- even if the doc is compiling a list of frame colors that would be compliment a new seeker. From your small understanding, the sparkling will not have an outer frame for a very long time. You were most excited to just hold it in your arms while you have the chance before it grows too big to be held in your much smaller arms- and cuddling with it would be it holding you…Yeah, your experience with human children won’t help in a situation like that.

-Once the young one is born, you feel a need to protect it from all the danger aboard the nemesis- not that you don’t trust some of the other decepticons, but you just don’t trust some of the other decepticons. Of course Knockout is trustworthy, you were just worried about bots like Megatron and Soundwave- certainly they would never do anything to hurt the small life, you just did not want your child to be subjected to bargaining and leverage against yourself or Starscream or even the Autobots. You find that most days you just stay locked in yours and Starscream’s room to avoid confrontation from other bots, and that if they need something from you they can come get you personally- you rarely ever seek them out unless it’s an emergency. You hope you aren’t smothering your new child, but really, how careful can you be aboard a ship full of bots that care about nothing but self-preservation and this ideology of doctorial leadership? At least in the confines of this room there is nothing to worry about, between you and Starscream, this new life is going to be safe and well cared for.

Soundwave

-Merging with Soundwave was enough of an experience to make you feel ecstatic, but the news that it has created a new life was enough to make you almost faint from happiness. To everyone else looking into this situation, they think Soundwave is underwhelmed about the news and remain as stony and hard as ever, but you know him better than that. You can read that he is excited and nervous- excited to rear a child with someone he finds most precious in this world, nervous as to how he is going to keep the child safe and out of the troughs of the war that is being fought around them. He has lost so many mini-cons, so many pieces of him have fallen apart and were destroyed by his bitter enemies and those who just seek his position amongst the Decepticon Ranks- he would not allow the destruction of his beloved and his long awaited sparkling.

-You asked Soundwave so many questions, enough to fill a book, too bad you didn’t notice that he stopped responding to you a very long time ago and just silently listened to you gush about human children and what it’s like to raise one. He finds it endearing that you were this happy about this whole situation, and he felt some of those insecurities he held melt away. He was afraid, for some reason, you might not accept the sparkling because it was going to be a Cybertronian- he can now see his view was flawed. He took you as his mate for a reason, and this was one of the reasons why, you always were proving him wrong- you were clearly superior to those around you. He was glad it was your DNA being merged with his to create something unique, as this sparkling is proof of both yours and his intelligence.

-You loved the little life as soon as it was placed into your arms for the first time, as soon as you were staring into those bright blue alien eyes- that was when you truly thought you knew what love was. You were there when Soundwave would feed the little bitlet, and you were there when its protoform began to harden, and you were there when it had to go through invasive upgrades and uncomfortable medical procedures. It was easy to see how easily accepted your alien child was- just as it was easy to see how accepted you were by both it and Soundwave. He appreciated you always being there, especially when he wasn’t allowed to let his sparkling interfere with his important work for the Decepticon cause. He will work even harder to build that better world for him and his small family.

#Transformers Prime #Long Post #Optimus Prime #Arcee #Starscream #Soundwave #Headcanon #Cute #Sensitive #M!Preg

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bruhmoment69me · 3 years

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Transformers Blaze of war: chapter 1 power of the allspark Part 1 *The sene opens up with Hoist and Grapple battered on the ground. Starscream has beaten them up.* Starscream: It's a shame you Autobots die so easily. Maybe there would be more satisfaction if you put up a decent fight. Grapple: (Gasping for air) You... you talk to much. Starscream: Silence fool! I'm taking in the air of victory. Hoist: And the smoke of my barrel! *Hoist shoots Starscream.* Hoist: Grapple, can you move? Grapple: I've had worst, let's go. *Hoist and Grapple jump off the platform and transform. As they drive around the corner, they are greeted by Astrotrain.* Astrotrain: Hello Auto-brats! Hoist: Everywhere we go there's Decepticons. Grapple: Hoist, call for back. *Grapple Transforms* I have a feeling we're going to need it. Hoist: And what are you doing? Grapple: Holding them off. Hoist: In your condition? Starscream nearly killed you. Grapple: 'Tis but a scratch. Hoist: A scratch? Grapple: Just call for back up. Hoist: If you say so. Hoist to Optimus. I repeat, Hoist to Optimus. (At base) Optimus: Come in, Hoist. Hoist: We are in dire need of help. We're being over whelmed. Optimus: Say no more, I shall send in Springer and Hound. Just hang on tight, old friend. Hoist: I will, Prime. *Hoist and Optimus end the call. The camera shifts over to Grapple and Astrotrain fighting.* Astrotrain: Your life is over, bug! *Astrotrain kicks Grapple in the stomach, knocking him over.* Grapple: I'm not to sure about that. *Grapple gets his hand gun and shoots Astrotrain in the shoulder. Grapple gets up and starts punching Astrotrain. Astrotrain transforms into train mode which causes Grapple to collapse. Astrotrain transforms back into robot mode.* Astrotrain: (Pointing his gun at Grapple) Any last words? Grapple: Yeah, you forgot about Hoist. Astrotrain: (Confused) Huh? *Hoist jumps and Astrotrain and kicks him in the head.* Hoist: Looks like I saved your life again, Grapple. Grapple: It would've been different if I called for backup. *Hoist gets shot in the back by Starscream. Grapple catches him.* Starscream: Did you really think I would be destroyed that easily? Grapple: Where's that back up you requested? Hoist: Any second now. *Astrotrain gets up and stands along side Starscream.* Grapple: Do you want to go for the stupid one or the loud one? Hoist: Do you have the slightest idea how much that narrows it down? Grapple: Just pick either Screamer or Astro. *Shockwave lands to the side of both the Autobots.* Shockwave: What about me? *Springer and Hound arrive.* *Hound jumps ontop of Shockwave. Springer grabs Starscream and throws him into Astrotrain. Starscream looks at Springer in fright.* Springer: Leave. Starscream: Or.. or what? Springer: Something I will regret. Starscream: (Running out of options) Decepticons, retreat! *Starscream transforms and flies off with Astrotrain and Shockwave.* Springer: (Turning around to Grapple and Hoist) Are you tw okay? Hoist: We're fine. Springer: Good. But what were you doing here? Grapple: We were looking for a cube. Hound: The Allspark? Grapple: (Pointing a Hound) Yes! The Allspark thingy. Springer: Primus save us all. Grapple: Springer, why did you say that? Springer: If the Deceptions want the Allspark then we must act fast. Did you search the building? Hoist: We were about to open the door until Starscream swooped in. Springer: And you were going to leave without searching? Grapple: Indeed. We thought that our lives mattered more. Hound: (Chimming in) If Starscream got a hold of the Allspark then the entire universe could've been wiped out. Hoist: Oh... We didn't know. Springer: It's okay. We too only just found out before this rescue mission. Let's find this Allspark. *Springer, Hound, Hoist and Grapple open the doors to the ruins and walk in.* (Scene transitions to the Decepticons) Megatron: Starscream, did you locate the Allspark? Starscream: Not quite. We have located the possible building that it could be in. Megatron: Then why didn't you go inside? Starscream: We got ambushed by Autobots. Megatron: Then why did you leave when you could've overwhelmed them with fire power? Starscream: Well, you see- Megatron: Enough excuses. Shockwave, you shall return there as commander of the operation. I know you won't fail me. Shockwave: As you command, Lord Megatron. Decepticons, follow me! *Shockwave, Starscream and Astrotrain transform and fly out of the shot.* Megatron: Brunt. Brunt: Yes, Lord Megatron? Megatron: Go and find all the routes from the ruins that go to Iacon. There you should ambsuh the Autobots. Brunt: But what if I fail? Megatron: Then matters will be put into my hands. Brunt: Got it, my lord. *Brunt walks off out of the room. The camera cuts to Megatron's face.* (Transitions to Springer and the gang) *The Autobots are walking around but they can't find anything.* Hoist: It seems like this isn't the first time people have died looking for it. *The camera pans at dead bodies.* Grapple: I just want to get out of here. Just the thought of these guys gives me chills. Hound: Not to worry, we will be on our way very shortly. Grapple: Do you even know what this thing looks like other than it's a cube? Hound: No, but Springer might know. *Everyone turns to Springer.* Springer: I don't know. Just look for a cube with a mystical aura. Grapple: I would believe that the creepy aura of this room cancels out any mystical aura. Hoist: Everyone be quiet. *Everyone falls scilent.* Hound: What? Hoist: Do you hear that? Grappel: Hear what? *The wall explodes and Starscream is there.* Starscream: Us!!! *Shockwave and Starscream start to open fire as Astrotrain punches Hound and throws him into a wall. Springer jumps towards Starscream. Springer roundhouse kicks Starscream in the face, causing him to fall over. Shockwave goes to shoot Springer but Grapple hits his arm which makes him shoot Astrotrain. Hoist then shoots Shockwave.* Hound: (On the floor) Seems like you guys had all the fun. Springer: (Helping Hound up) Yeah, but it doesn't look as fun as the ride you went on with Astrotrain. Hound: (Sarcasticly) Haha, very funny. Ouch. Springer: What's the matter? Hound: When I landed on all this scrap, I got scratched by the corner of this cube thingy. Grapple: Could it be the Allspark? Springer: I don't know, but we better get it out of here just in case it is. Hoist: Alright then, it's time to transform and roll out! *Hoist, Grapple, Springer and Hound transform and drive away.* Shockwave: (On call with Megatron) Lord Megatron, they got away with the Allspark. Megatron: Don't worry, I have a plan.

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frecklystars · 3 years

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Can't help but wonder if your AU is for you or for Starscream? 🤔

how bold of you to assume that it cannot possibly be BOTH,,,

#anonymous #asks #saving starlight au #im not sure if i 100% understood this question #if the au is for Starscream it's... yeah yes it's for him #it's so I can fix whatever the hell endings he had #in the third season and the movie and the sequel series #that shit is ERASED that shit is a BAD TIMELINE that gets FIXED #and the au helps me personally bc... not to get heavy on main #but i find a lot of comfort in the idea of someone missing me if i disappeared #the idea that starscream would. maybe. destroy universes looking for Me...#idk... helps me feel a lot better when im having a rough night that's for sure #and not just starscream!! but all the bots!! all the cons!! everyone spends at least two years searching!!#bee keeps looking for three or four-ish years #starscream looks the longest even when everyone insists she's gone #he never stops looking even when a big part of him feels rly hopeless about it #he's stubborn and bitter and JADED #if i disappeared into a cloud of stardust i'd want ppl to miss me #they wouldnt have to look for me forever but i'd want someone to miss me #that wasnt my original plan for this AU tho #it was just gonna be about saving HIM not ME but here we are #im the original starlight after all!! the title goes both ways

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rurounidrift · 7 years

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Aug 23 Blurr’s Horror Stream - Little Shop of Horrors

In honor of the eclipse. In a shocking twist, even Blurr prefered the domestic ending to the monsters-destroy-humanity ending.

Missed the very start. Frenzy wrote “WASH ME” in Blurr’s leg dirt.

B l u r r: Oh yeah? /wiggles pede/ B l u r r: There's nothing new there. ItsyBitsySpyers: \\WHATCHA CALL THIS?\\ Drift: *arrives!* ItsyBitsySpyers: *Holds up a grimy fingertip* B l u r r: ... It's called space dust, I assume? B l u r r: /scratches helm finial. Wiggles claws at Drift / Drift: *walks over to Blurr, looks at his leg, snorts, and sits down.* ItsyBitsySpyers: \\'S CALLED YER FRAGGIN' FILTHY 'N IT'S GONNA SLOW YA DOWN.\\ B l u r r: ... Hn? It doesn't slow me down. ItsyBitsySpyers: *But that ain't his business, so he flops with Soundwave and the others after giving Drift a thumbs up hello* Bevel: *giggles* ItsyBitsySpyers: //Yo, Bev. Seat?// Bevel: Sure! B l u r r: Anyway, it was worth getting a little dirty. B l u r r: You wanna see what I found? It's wicked. B l u r r: Never seen anything like it before. K-Kyeheheh. ItsyBitsySpyers: //Sure! What's it?// Butterbun changed their nickname to Starscream. Drift: I wanna see. Bevel: Me too. B l u r r: /holds up a flat, circular object. It has a gold trim and a thick glass center. It looks almost like a monocle in his claw/ Check it out. B l u r r: If you use it, it automatically centers what you're looking at. ItsyBitsySpyers: //...So it moves the thing, or?// B l u r r: K-Kyeheheh. And it helps me keep track of moving objects, too. B l u r r: No, it centers it into the weird... system thing. I don't know, I tore it off a mech. B l u r r: He said it was like a compass. B l u r r: But it can adjust to any system. Apparently it has a data storage in it. Drift: What, do you look through the middle? How's it work? B l u r r: Yeah. See, look. /holds it up for Drift / If you look through the middle, it should start logging whatever you're looking at. B l u r r: And it centers for you and everything. B l u r r: I have no idea what I'll use it for, but it seemed interesting and he wasn't using it. B l u r r: I could also be using it completely wrong. /shrugs a little / Either way, it looks cool. Bevel: How does it center things? Drift: What do you mean, it "centers"? Does it start, like, turning to track whatever I'm looking at? *looks through it at... Bevel* Bevel: *grins at Drift* Starscream: *scoots his pretty little booty into the room* B l u r r: I don't know what it does, really. I mean it will center... ah... hn. /mumbles/ It'll focus on the object in the center. B l u r r: That's what I meant... /scratches finial sheepishly/ B l u r r: I think he used it to track bounties down. Drift: *grins back* So it's like a self-adjusting telescope? *waits to see what it does to Bevel* Bevel: That is really useful. B l u r r: Sort of? I don't know. But, so far, I've seen it logging things. Color scheme, names in databases, and the likes. Bevel: You could use it to find places that are really hard to find. B l u r r: That's what I thought! ItsyBitsySpyers: *Soundwave nods absently to Starscream and watches them all fuss over this strange object* B l u r r: Because he's been plenty of places. Which means he's been to places with valuables. Bevel: *color scheme huh? she'll just slowly shift her colors through a spectrum from her usual dark purple to a rusty red-orange* Drift: *... IS it doing anything to bevel?* B l u r r: / Probably just a name and location at the moment / B l u r r: / Seeing as Bevel hasn't really been with The Emperor long / Drift: ... Oh! Oh, yeah, I see, it changes their color, so they stick out more against the— *looks around the side of the glass* ... Oh. Never mind. B l u r r: K-Kyeheheheh. Bevel: *laughs* ItsyBitsySpyers: //Heh!// B l u r r: But. if you point it at ME. /smirks/ My bounty comes up. B l u r r: Along with where I'm from. Which is interesting. Bevel: Oh point it at Blurr! B l u r r: I guess this mech was using it to hunt people down. But, I didn't give him time to really explain it to me. It's a learn as you go thing. Drift: Ohhh. *looks back at the glass. yeah, he sees the name and location now.* So, what, it looks up a database about the person? B l u r r: [[ is everyone ready ? ]] Drift: *goes to the other side of the glass so he can look through it the other way at Blurr* B l u r r: I think so, but it also seems to work as a compass?I'm not sure. I have to play with it more. B l u r r: / snorts at Drift / ItsyBitsySpyers: ((SO READY :D :D :D :D)) drift changed their nickname to Tydrift. Tydrift: (I made it on time wow) B l u r r: [ yay! ]] Bevel: //welcome welcome B l u r r: The thing is, if it logs, I can try to get someone to hack into it and get its history transferred to our archives. Drift: What do you mean, like a compass? Does it point at the person when they move away from the glass? B l u r r: Which means I'll have lists of new places. B l u r r: No, I mean it has locations in it. B l u r r: I could track mechs back to their universes and get 'em. Drift: The locations of where they live or something? B l u r r: I don't know, I didn't make it. B l u r r: I told you, I'm still figuring it out. Bevel: It can track through the streams? Drift: Huh. B l u r r: Not sure yet. It knows where I'm from, but I suppose if I jave a bounty, that's common knowledge. B l u r r: *have ItsyBitsySpyers: //Bet it doesn't. Where's it gonna get all the data?// B l u r r: And /my/ bounty is higher than my Ultra Magnus. B l u r r: / smirks confidently / Bevel: Nexus? B l u r r: [[ okay so i know neddles is ready. Everyone else? ]] Bevel: //ready ItsyBitsySpyers: //What'sa Necks Us?// B l u r r: ... No idea. B l u r r: Sounds like something you can steal, though. B l u r r: That's not the coolest part, though. Drift: ((yep)) B l u r r: The coolest part is that I managed to secure more supplies! Bevel: Nexus is a universe cluster. It is where Axiom Nexus is. They compile and monitor different universes and stuff. Starscream: ((ready! ItsyBitsySpyers: *Soundwave immediately sits upright* ItsyBitsySpyers: [[They do? How?]] ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Are their records public?]] ItsyBitsySpyers: ((*WIGGLES*)) B l u r r: [[ omfg hold on ]] B l u r r: [[Itunes just froze. ]] B l u r r: [[ there. ]] Bevel: The bots there are waaaaay ahead of any other universe I have ever seen with technology and stuff. Tydrift: That's unsettling... is there a way to see if they're monitoring your universe? B l u r r: Sounds fake. ItsyBitsySpyers: ((It's gonna be tempting to show this on the 23rd of September)) Bevel: It is not fake. I lived there for a really long time. ItsyBitsySpyers: ((call a cop u say)) Starscream: ((do it B l u r r: Well, they're probably not watching our universe. B l u r r: Trust me no one is watching my universe. Drift: You can't know that. B l u r r: Well, it doesn't matter. We travel too much to worry about it. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Soundwave's feeler is already waving. This story amuses the living Pit out of him. Especially considering what's hiding in the storage shed.* Starscream: *..what's in the storage shed?* ItsyBitsySpyers: *A singing, carnivorous plant.* Starscream: *who's shed. where* ItsyBitsySpyers: *Outside Dancitron.* B l u r r: Anyway. I have my mechs tearing apart the idiot's ship right now B l u r r: Maybe we'll find something else cools. B l u r r: *cool Bevel: The data is not really public. Some of it is cause there's lots of travel from different universes in Axiom Nexus and everyone talks but sometimes the Nexus bots keep stuff secret. Starscream: *oh good. not his Cybertron. Attention back to movie* ItsyBitsySpyers: *He wants it. All of it.* ItsyBitsySpyers: *Imagine how much bigger his map could get...* Starscream: ..... Starscream: 8I *this is a movie about Cybertron. Welp* Drift: *you commenting on the quality of your leadership, starscream?* Starscream: *Cybertron is a work in progress* B l u r r: / you're a half asssed project / Bevel: *could tell him where more than a few observation stations are* Starscream: *you're a recycled project* B l u r r: / I sure am. / B l u r r: /snicker snort/ It does look like home. / B l u r r: *. Drift: *yes, it does. :c* Tydrift: Missing a few craters B l u r r: Missing a lot of Empties. Drift: *he's guessing "skid row" is human for "dead end"* B l u r r: Oh wait, there's Starscream. Perfect, the gang is all here. /snicker / Drift: Where—? Ugh. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Might take Bevel up on that later.* B l u r r: ... I love those fly trap plants. B l u r r: I wonder if I could make one... B l u r r: / hums/ Tydrift: [ silent gasp ] Tydrift: ( also I gasp too it's *** cute ) B l u r r: ... He likes odd and weird things? As opposed to the normal? Tydrift: (... it's not gonna stay cute is it) B l u r r: /tilts helm, finials flicking / I like him. ItsyBitsySpyers: ((YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THIS?)) ItsyBitsySpyers: ((omg i won't spoil you a thing, i swear)) Tydrift: (NOPE IM A LOSER) Bevel: //*shakes fist* missed rhyme opportunity and i'm so mad and amused B l u r r: ... What do humans buy flowers for? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Gifts.]] Tydrift: They give them to each other as tokens of affection. B l u r r: ... for whom? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[They're... pleasing.]] Tydrift: Or to make their homes look nice. Drift: Symbols of the ephemerality of beauty and life. B l u r r: ... Ah. B l u r r: Well, that explains why I have never received any. B l u r r: / tilts helm/ Dodge bought me a collection of data texts once. Bevel: My creator says most of the plants humans give as gifts are dying. Starscream: Bribes to soothe over wronged partners. B l u r r: Pit, Dodge always made me apologize. B l u r r: I wasn't allowed to buy him things. Drift: Yeah, that's why they're so ephemeral. They die fast. Starscream: ...so what did you do? Starscream: Bring him boquets of hands? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[They should give them still in pots.]] B l u r r: Pardon? Bevel: I would rather get a live plant so I could plant it somewhere. ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Flowers. Not hands.]] B l u r r: No, I told him I was wrong and he accepted. Starscream: *makes a face. Sounds fake* Drift: *pats Blurr's shoulder.* That's mature. B l u r r: /snort / Thanks ,Drift. B l u r r: I also cooked him dinner sometimes. Drift: ... What kind of plant did he say he thinks it is? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[A fly trap.]] B l u r r: ... /wicked grin / Starscream: Feed it flies. Drift: ... Wouldn't it need flies, then? Starscream: ..alternatively, traps. Drift: Aww, it wants kisses. ItsyBitsySpyers: //Haha!// Bevel: *giggles* B l u r r: K-KYAHAHHAA!! Tydrift: [ it's like a hatchling oml ] ItsyBitsySpyers: *Frenzy's imagining that thing with a bitbear trap in its mouth* Bevel: *imagining a scraplet mouth* B l u r r: / grabs Drift's arm and shakes/i want one!! B l u r r: I want ten!! B l u r r: I want a forest of them! Starscream: ...wait. Isn't this literally that carnacle that Whirl is keeping. Drift: *is shook* Starscream: *barnacle Drift: You'd need to keep organics around to feed it, though. B l u r r: Well, those are easy to get! ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Yes, you would. The barnacle only eats inorganic material.]] Starscream: ..blood seems like a very effective fertilizer. B l u r r: It satisfies most cravings. Starscream: ((i like the street advice girls Drift: (("I want a garbage disposal and my own washer and dryer" is she a millennial)) Starscream: Small dreams. ItsyBitsySpyers: [[He prefers blue, himself.]] B l u r r: [[ she isss ]] Starscream: ((you see where she lives. the answer is yes Tydrift: For a movie called little shop of horrors... there's a surprising lack of horror Drift: ((pine-sol)) B l u r r: ... Are you kidding? Drift: ((millennial whirl)) B l u r r: This is terrifying. Tydrift: This is nice Starscream: That decor is pretty frightening. B l u r r: this is terrifying. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Soundwave just huffs, his shoulders trembling. This poor stranger.* B l u r r: What do they do all day? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Perhaps they're retired from the money the shop makes.]] B l u r r: ... What do they DO all day? Tydrift: Be happy? Drift: *dopey smile. it's all alien but the sentiment gets through.* B l u r r: You know what's terrifying? She hasn't killed that boyfriend of hers yet. Bevel: Eat him. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Frenzy flicks a snack at Drift* B l u r r: Seriously. ItsyBitsySpyers: \\MUSH.\\ Drift: Hey! Starscream: Mush. Drift: *FLICKS IT BACK* ItsyBitsySpyers: \\SEE? AIN'T I - OW!\\ ItsyBitsySpyers: *rubs his visor* B l u r r: She should just kill her boyfriend. Bevel: *titanic night was highly influential on how she thinks one should handle jerk boyfriends* ItsyBitsySpyers: ((wow it's dropping hard)) Drift: *... did somebody eat their boyfriend in titanic* Starscream: ((if someone ate their boyfriend in titanic i am so sorry i missed it)) Drift: ((same)) Bevel: *no but everyone thought rose should eat both dudes as they were rude af* Drift: ((... *points at seymour feeding audrey ii* shockwave.)) ItsyBitsySpyers: ((NO)) ItsyBitsySpyers: //She's one to talk.// Tydrift: Pft Drift: *they're so cute* B l u r r: ... I would have honestly killed this guy by now. Tydrift: Oh Primus Bevel: :| Tydrift: I think I agree with you Blurr B l u r r: Mmmm yes indeed. Drift: What's a dentist? B l u r r: I would have killed him. ItsyBitsySpyers: //So that's how come ya went learnin' medicine.// Rumble nudges his brother. // Heh.// B l u r r: He reminds me of someone... I know. ItsyBitsySpyers: \\PFFFF.\\ Starscream: ..... Starscream: *IS THIS HOOK* B l u r r: A dentist works on teeth, I think Drift: ... That's what humans chew with, right? B l u r r: Yes. B l u r r: I think so. Drift: ... So why would they want them drilled up? ItsyBitsySpyers: \\OH, OH, I KNOW!\\ ItsyBitsySpyers: \\THE TEETH THINGS GET LIL HOLES ALL IN 'EM 'N THEY GOTTA STICK METAL IN TO FILL 'EM. SO THEY DRILL BETTER HOLES 'N GET OUT THE VIRUSES 'N SCRAP.\\ ItsyBitsySpyers: \\LIKE FILLIN' DENTAL PLATES, ONLY THEY GOT A WHOLE BUNCH.\\ ItsyBitsySpyers: \\RATCHET WAS TELLIN' ME. HE HAD PICTURES 'N EVERYTHIN'.\\ Starscream: ..why don't they just replace the whole tooth with metal. B l u r r: ... /cringes a little by Drift / Eugh... Drift: Oh. Huh. B l u r r: He does remind me of him. B l u r r: That's disgusting. Kill him. ItsyBitsySpyers: //Punch 'im.// Bevel: Eat him. Drift: Break his teeth. B l u r r: Kill. Him. ItsyBitsySpyers: //Nah, he'll just fix 'em. Break his nose.// Drift: I was going for dramatic irony, but okay. Starscream: ((I sing this often ItsyBitsySpyers: ((me too)) B l u r r: [[[ same ]] B l u r r: / nudges drift / Hey. Drift: Hm? B l u r r: What if I make one of these plants? Starscream: A wishgranting plant. Drift: You'd have to keep visiting Earth to get it food. B l u r r: That's easier. B l u r r: ... Actually, this plant reminds me of me. B l u r r: /snort / drift: (my wifi crapped out and I come back to this what happened to my cute lil baby) drift changed their nickname to Tydrift. Drift: ((him grew)) B l u r r: ... Yes! Tydrift: (nooo omg please wifi work) ItsyBitsySpyers: *Rumble growls. He hates this part.* B l u r r: Oh yes yes yes, feed him to the plant! Starscream: Ah, yes. The neighbors will definitely not hear this. B l u r r: /kicking pedes / Drift: Yes! Drift: ((i love this scene)) B l u r r: [[ yeS ]] Starscream: ... B l u r r: K-KYAHAHAHAA!! B l u r r: [[ god poor seymour ]] ItsyBitsySpyers: //This is all kinda awkward.// Drift: ((incredibly specific fetishes)) drift: Is he... drift changed their nickname to Tydrift. Starscream: 8S Tydrift: [muttering] Please, just shoot him already... Drift: Yeah. B l u r r: Seriously. Starscream: *the bading of realization* ItsyBitsySpyers: //Primus, he's bad at this.// B l u r r: Really. B l u r r: Really bad. Starscream: I wonder that he doesn't get caught.. but maybe this is commonplace in Skid Row. ItsyBitsySpyers: //Guess it tenders the meat up real good.// Drift: Pff. Drift: Pre-break a few bones so Audrey doesn't have to chew as much. B l u r r: He didn't think to cut it up before hand? Tydrift: What a spoiled plant ItsyBitsySpyers: //With what? A lil' tooth drill?// Drift: I guess he thought it'd eat the body whole. B l u r r: An ax. K-Kyeheheh. Tydrift: (... is this the same guy from ghostbusters??) ItsyBitsySpyers: ((yep)) Tydrift: (EYY KEY MASTER) Drift: ((it always fvcks me up a little when her voice moves down to a normal octave)) ItsyBitsySpyers: ((heh)) Drift: *drift's dopey grin is back* Tydrift: [honestly let the movie end here this is enough for him] B l u r r: eugh... B l u r r: /rolls optic/ B l u r r: what a boring romance Drift: Whaaat? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[He murdered a horrible lover for her and you find that boring?]] Tydrift: He fed her abusive ex's dismembered corpse to a plant B l u r r: I guess. Tydrift: I would have expected you to consider that romantic Drift: He taught her to love herself. Starscream: He didn't bother hiding the evidence? B l u r r: I consider it a romantic gesture. B l u r r: It would have been better if he was soaked in blood or something attractive ItsyBitsySpyers: [[He IS new at this, Starscream.]] Starscream: It didn't need THAT one chopped up. Tydrift: Oh so now the plant will eat a whole body B l u r r: It's bigger now Drift: It got bigger since the last one. Bevel: Way bigger. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Soundwave steeples his fingers.* Drift: *DOPEY SMILE INTENSIFIES* Drift: ... You know, Audrey II never did say that he can't live on anything but human blood. Drift: He only said he needed blood and it had to be fresh. Drift: Seymour could've been giving him dogs all this time or something. ItsyBitsySpyers: [[It would be harder to trap him if it were dogs.]] ItsyBitsySpyers: [[The plant knows what it is doing.]] Tydrift: NO B l u r r: ... Hnh. B l u r r: No one fed someone to a killer plant for me before. B l u r r: I don't think anyone's done anything like that for me. Drift: It wouldn't NEED to trap him, because then he'd have no reason not to want to feed him. Starscream: ..how many people do you know with killer plants? B l u r r: Not many. Drift: ... Do barnacles count? B l u r r: I don't know. Starscream: Those aren't plants. B l u r r: but that must be nice. B l u r r: Just. Killing people for you. /chin claws / B l u r r: That's the perfect sign of affection. Drift: Yeah... B l u r r: / siiiigh / Starscream: ..is that the masochist? ItsyBitsySpyers: [[A new human.]] B l u r r: I've only seen one mech kill someone for me. As a gift. B l u r r: It was beautiful. Starscream: Odd. He looks similar. Starscream: *but lots of humans look alike* Starscream: ((more like the mun is going 'i don't think that's bill murray but it looks a LOT like bill murray)) Drift: ((it does)) ItsyBitsySpyers: ((i still like the play's ending better)) Drift: *on the edge of his seat* Drift: ((that's the alternate ending, right?)) B l u r r: [[ same ]] ItsyBitsySpyers: ((ye)) Tydrift: (what's that ending?) Drift: ((psst find it on youtube we should watch it after this)) ItsyBitsySpyers: ((i'll go look)) Starscream: ((YEAH Starscream: ((i saw the play before the movie so i was very ??? at first Drift: *THE DOPEY SMILE IS BACK* B l u r r: / pouting / B l u r r: / He liked the plant / B l u r r: / sinks down in his seat / Drift: *... tries to tone down the dopey smile for blurr's benefit* B l u r r: !!!!! B l u r r: / BIG GRIN / B l u r r: He's alive!! Tydrift: Maybe this time the plant will stay cute B l u r r: / throws arms up / He'll eat them all again! B l u r r: The monster lived! How exciting! B l u r r: / grinning wide / How perfect. ItsyBitsySpyers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQpDCAWpbs )) Drift: Everyone gets a happy ending. :) B l u r r: [[ lemme try and load it ]] ItsyBitsySpyers: ((enjoy, tydrift mun :) )) Tydrift: (oh dear) Starscream: ...cronch. Tydrift: D: Drift: ... Oh. Drift: *IT HURTS HIS SPARK* Drift: *quietly grabs blurr's arm. blurr. blurr. she wants to be fed to the plant so that she can keep helping seymour in death. blurr. blurr do you see it. blurr.* B l u r r: / Hes TRYING NOT TO / Starscream: ......they set this up for a /pun/. Drift: 8( B l u r r: / but he sees it / Starscream: *burys his face in his hand. Why* B l u r r: / Pats Drift / Bevel: :( Tydrift: Kill the plant B l u r r: Keep the body. Bevel: Bad plant. Tydrift: Kill it ItsyBitsySpyers: [He'll get to that in a moment.]] Drift: And let her sacrifice be in vain?! Tydrift: KILL Tydrift: IT Drift: *grabs blurr's arm with his other hand. blurr. blurr. thEY NEVER GOT MARRIED.* B l u r r: / flickers optic at Drift / B l u r r: ... / pat / Drift: 8C B l u r r: / do u want a hug? / Drift: *yes* B l u r r: / hugs Drift / B l u r r: / Dodge is hugging too/ B l u r r: / Just so u know / Drift: *that's very good of him* B l u r r: / yes / Drift: ... Oh no. Drift: *HUGS TIGHTER* Tydrift: Why not kill the plant first Drift: Because she's living in it. B l u r r: / hugs Drift tighter / Tydrift: She's dead because of it Drift: But that's all that's left of her. Tydrift: If he wanted to keep what was left of her he shouldn't have fed it to a plant Drift: It was her last wish. Tydrift: Her last wish was ridiculous B l u r r: That Drift: So?! B l u r r: is rude to sayy. Drift: It's all she's got left. Tydrift: [YES KILL THE PLANT] Tydrift: You know what would have been better Tydrift: Burying her in an actual garden Drift: If she'd lived. Tydrift: That too B l u r r: Or just keeping her secured somewhere. B l u r r: / picking at his claws B l u r r: */ Drift: Humans rot, Blurr. B l u r r: Not always. Tydrift: It would smell B l u r r: Frames rot, too. Drift: Not as fast. B l u r r: No, not as fast, I suppose. Drift: ... He could've made a mummy out of her, I guess. B l u r r: That too. ItsyBitsySpyers: [[He could bronze her.]] B l u r r: Or frozen her. They don't rot if they're frozen Drift: ... She wouldn't have wanted that, though. ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Yes, she would. It turns green.]] Starscream: *whispers* Mulch. Drift: ... Don't think that's what she was going for. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Frenzy snorts* B l u r r: Well, now he's with her. So, there. Drift: ... At least they're together. :( B l u r r: ..... /has the biggest grin on his ugly scarred face / Drift: *... oh. another apocalypse.* Tydrift: [has just a let it all burn mentality at this point now tbh, let them all die then] ItsyBitsySpyers: ((and that's why that post was called "and peoria")) Drift: *yeah. well. sigh.* B l u r r: Look at all of the monsters B l u r r: /splays claws on face / Tydrift: Is this what she wanted ItsyBitsySpyers: //...How much ya think they gotta eat t'get so big?// Starscream: At least three more humans. Drift: ... Well, at least they're having fun.* Drift: *chinhands. still feeling bad for seymour and audrey* Bevel: *doesn't like this ending at all* Starscream: ..they had quite a lot filmed. B l u r r: Well, lucky for you, it's not the real ending, hn? /nudges drift / Drift: Kinda redundant. Drift: Maybe they wre gonna have trimmed it down if this had made the final film. ItsyBitsySpyers: \\I LIKE IT. LOOKIT ALL THAT DESTROYIN'.\\ Dreamy sigh. B l u r r: I know... B l u r r: All these beautiful monsters.. B l u r r: [[ can we just appreciate this 80s monster plant tho ]] Drift: ((it's a good 80s monster plant)) ItsyBitsySpyers: *Rumble punches Frenzy in the arm.* //Weirdo.// B l u r r: Well, at least the original end is your favorite. /pokes Drift/ So chipper up. ItsyBitsySpyers: *Soundwave vents contently and stands, stretching.* ItsyBitsySpyers: *Perhaps he'll spend a little time looking at the orchid tonight.* Drift: Yeah. S'true. B l u r r: /smirks a bit / B l u r r: Oh! I spent time with Optimus today. / nudges Drift / We talked about you. ItsyBitsySpyers: [[Come. We return home. There is much to do.]] ItsyBitsySpyers: //Awww... okaaaaaay.// Tydrift: [he's in a mood now he's just going to get up and go now] B l u r r: / waves claws at Frenzy / If you're not busy sometime soon, hit me up. ItsyBitsySpyers: \\SURE THING!\\ B l u r r: / omg tydrift ur so emo / Tydrift: (Thanks for streaming this! was a very good one ♥) Drift: *nods as his alternate passes.* B l u r r: [[ ♥ !! ]] ItsyBitsySpyers: *Frenzy 'whispers' a \\WHAT'S THAT MECH'S PROBLEM?\\ * ItsyBitsySpyers: *Rumble just rolls his optics and follows the boss out* B l u r r: / LOUD SHRUGGING AT FRENZY / Bevel: *gonna leave as well mostly because the mun has to be up early* Starscream: *a nod to Blurr. It was.. interesting? Yeah* Starscream: *STARSCREAM OUTIES B l u r r: / throws a snack at Starscream / Starscream: 8U B l u r r: ... /looks around like omg who was that / B l u r r: what a crime. Starscream: *does the 'i got my eyes on you' thing* Starscream: ((thanks for the movie dud! B l u r r: / does the same thing but only with one eye / B l u r r: [[ no problemo! ]] Drift: *JOINS THE EYE GESTURING* Drift: *now starscream's got three eyes on him* B l u r r: / yES / Starscream: ((play one of King George's songs Starscream: ((8DDDD B l u r r: [[ there u go ]] B l u r r: / leans over and hugs Drift again. Comfort squeeze / B l u r r: I liked the first ending better... if it helps. Drift: Really? You did? B l u r r: Mmhm. Drift: Why? I thought you'd like the monster plants destroying Earth more. B l u r r: ... I do. Drift: ((god i love this song)) B l u r r: But, I don't know. Starscream: ((yesssss B l u r r: / frowns a little/ I don't get marriage. I don't know what's so special about it. B l u r r: But, it must be nice. B l u r r: For someone to want to do that with you, I guess? B l u r r: And the plant lived in the end anyway. B l u r r: [[ YES ITS THE BEST ]] Drift: ... It is nice. B l u r r: I wouldn't know. B l u r r: /shrugs a little / Drift: It means you're wanted. It means someone said "I want you forever. Until we die." B l u r r: Where I'm from , we don't have... Conjux...Endura. / see. He did it / Drift: *he did it!!* B l u r r: ...Ah. Yes, no. That's definitely not something I'm gonna learn. /snort / Drift: ... I wanna be your best friend forever. B l u r r: That's different, though. B l u r r: I'd like to be best friends forever, too. /scratches finial / Drift: Kinda different. But not totally. B l u r r: I guess not. B l u r r: I'm lucky to have anybody, I suppose. B l u r r: They're usually uh.. dead or gone by now. B l u r r: Mostly dead. Drift: *nods* B l u r r: So, hnh. Thanks for sticking around. B l u r r: I know it's not easy. Starscream: ((now kiss)) B l u r r: [[ god. ]] B l u r r: [[ weRE FRIENDS ]] Starscream: Presentation Starscream: ((..wow alright GUESS IM NOT LINKING A PIC B l u r r: [[ LOL ]] Drift: ... It's easy because the reward is you. B l u r r: ... /oh wow/ B l u r r: / that's really nice ;A; / B l u r r: / just. Stare at . / B l u r r: W-Well... a pretty beat up reward. Drift: Worth it. B l u r r: Well, you are, too. B l u r r: Worth a lot. Dents and dings. B l u r r: Well, at the very least, at least I'll always have you. Even if the rest of them leave. B l u r r: As long as you want to stay, of course. /snort / Drift: *crooked smile* Always. B l u r r: / leans over and hugs Drift anyway/ Drift: *hugs back* B l u r r: I hope you don't forget me when I die. /snort/ that'd be depressing. Drift: No! Never. Drift: I'd rather you... not die, though. Besides, you've got orders. B l u r r: Mm... we talked about that today. B l u r r: But... I won't be dying anytime soon. Not in my plans. B l u r r: / Right. Pulls away from hug / You know you can always come by. B l u r r: Maybe you can meet Ratchet. He's responsible for me. Er...not like a ... an Amica? He's just my medic. Drift: Yeah, I getcha. Maybe I'll meet him sometime. *and maybe punch him for not putting more effort into fixing blurr's head.* B l u r r: / ruuude / B l u r r: / pokes Drift's nose. There is a sticker there / Chin up, Drift. Drift: *takes his new sticker. is it a star?* B l u r r: / it IS / Drift: *:) sticks it next to the rodimus star on his chest* B l u r r: / smirks/ Perfect. Drift: *gives Blurr another hug.* I'd better head back to the Lost Light. B l u r r: Mm... /hugs back/ B l u r r: My crew and I are taking off. B l u r r: So, if you need us, just comm me. Drift: Will do. B l u r r: / wiggles scar claw / Drift: *wiggles scar hand* See ya.

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Strength and Scourge

Scourge is a character who I tend to see as being a bit underrated in the Transformers: Cybertron fandom. While I suppose some of it is the inevitable result of sharing a series with a lot of other great characters (and one of the most successful Starscreams in-universe) which explored quite a few conflicts, but at the same time, it’s been way too long since my last Transformers post, so I’d like to talk a bit about Scourge.

[ID: Scourge, a robot with long, spikey, winglike appendages coming from his shoulders, and a dragon’s face over his chassis, stands framed by Starscream’s leg on the left, and Megatron’s leg on the right. Part of Starscream’s arm, fist, and wing is visible in the shot. End ID]

Surprisingly enough, I don’t have his toy. I’m planning to remedy that at some point. But anyway, in Transformers: Cybertron, Scourge is introduced as the leader of Jungle Planet. He seems largely preoccupied with strength and power, and largely refuses to listen to Megatron until after they fight, at which point he concedes that Megatron would have defeated him. (Though actually, if you check the background of the shot Megatron’s in, you can see that Scourge’s tail is close to hitting Megs in the head, so it might have ended in a draw, even if Megs won’t acknowledge it.)

Even then, Scourge doesn’t entirely trust Megatron. There are some implications in “Search,” seemingly confirmed in the episode “Primal,” that Scourge knows where the Cyber Planet Key is from the get-go, but pretends otherwise because he suspects Megatron’s ulterior motives. There’s a moment in “Search” where Scourge looks off to one side while contemplating Megatron’s offer, and times where he repeats “the Cyber Planet Key” in a way that implies feigned ignorance. At the time I thought maybe he was just thinking, and that he might have called the Cyber Planet Key by a different name.

Tfwiki’s article on the episode suggests that Scourge actually sees through Megatron’s claims and thus feigns just enough ignorance to keep himself out of trouble. While I didn’t think of it before that, this makes sense for Scourge given what we learn of him in the episode, “Honor.” In this episode, we learn that originally, Jungle Planet was a lot worse, and that Scourge got involved because he was disturbed by the conditions people were living under, and that in the process of his revolution, he became increasingly cynical until he had become the Scourge we’re introduced to in the series: kind of a hard-aft who puts way too much emphasis on “might makes right,” is willing to settle for maintaining order rather than actually achieving peace, and isn’t all that willing to listen to things which contradict his ideals. With that in mind, I agree that it would make sense for Scourge to be aware of attempts by others to deceive him. Otherwise it would probably be pretty hard for him to maintain his leadership of the planet.

Throughout the series, Scourge repeatedly struggles with the idea that might doesn’t necessarily make right, and that strength alone isn’t enough, despite it being “all [he has].” But at the same time, we’re also shown that, regardless of what Scourge believes about himself, this isn’t necessarily the case. He’s able to see through Megatron’s ruse, and seems to have a near-Dinobot-level regard for honor, given the emphasis he places on his planet’s traditions. At the very least, he seems to possess some degree of cunning and problem-solving ability. It just takes Bud’s unusual leadership bootcamp (ironically enough, in the episode titled “Scourge”) for him to become aware of it.

Regarding Scourge’s regard for honor, it definitely seems to be closer to Dinobot-brand Predacon honor than what the word might initially imply. Might makes right, but if you believe you’re stronger than the strongest person, you’re welcome to challenge them, just as long as you’re capable of putting your money where your mouth is, so to speak. He’s also shown to have no problem putting down an opponent, which he attempts to do both to Overhaul in “Race” and Snarl in both “Detour” and “Savage.” (Though in Snarl’s case, it’s because he believes him to be a traitor.) On the other hand, he refuses to allow Megatron to do the same after a fight with Leobreaker in the episode, “Honor.” He’s willing to put down an opponent, but also seems to have a certain logic behind when that is acceptable, as well as who is allowed to do so. If you weren’t the victor, you don’t get to decide whether or not to finish off someone else’s opponent. For a time, he even seems to think that his sense of honor binds him to die with the planet, before changing his mind and deciding it binds him to help carry on its ideals even if Jungle Planet is destroyed (see “Homecoming”).

Scourge also concedes that Optimus Prime had fairly defeated him and respects his decision to return leadership to him, but for the most part, opts to remain neutral in the Black Hole Conflict. The main times we see him getting involved are in “Trust,” when he downs Thundercracker for repeatedly burning his jungle, and in the final episodes of the series when the black hole begins directly threatening Jungle Planet. That being said, he does have something of an alliance with Megatron from “Revelation” until about “Ambush,” but for much of that time, this is somewhat tense and kind of a loose alliance. He does what Megs says for the most part, but he makes it pretty clear in “Ambush” that his reason for joining is largely because he wanted the chance for a rematch against Optimus Prime, which is perfectly within the bounds of Jungle Planet culture. (Or at least, it makes sense that it would be with some of the Predacon-like elements of Jungle Planet.) At several points in this alliance, we also see Scourge expressing frustration with the lack of honor among Decepticons, sometimes even abandoning the mission at-hand because of it. In some ways, it almost seems like Scourge uses this alliance as an opportunity to look at other leadership styles as well as to see if his methods work anywhere outside of Jungle Planet.

At times, I’ve also wondered if part of Scourge’s temporary alliance with the Decepticons was because he was aware of Override’s having joined the Autobots. While I do think his primary motivation for joining was because he wanted a rematch against Optimus, in “Ambush,” he also states that he’s wanted to do battle with Velocitron’s leader for awhile, at least partially as a means of testing their worldviews against each other. What’s interesting to me about this point in his arc is that he has conceded that there are types of strength that aren’t just sheer power, and has clear respect for Lori, but still seems to look down on Override’s method of ruling Velocitron. I’d like to look at the ways in which Override and Scourge act as foils to each other, but this post is already getting a bit long, so I’ll opt to make that a separate entry.

In many ways, Scourge’s story is the story of someone who tried to take too much responsibility onto himself, got stuck in his initial methods of dealing with it, and eventually learned how to look at the bigger scope of things and to depend on others besides just himself.

When he wins his duel for leadership of Jungle Planet in “Beginnings,” he’s even given a chance to apply what he’s learned over the course of the series. He’s still shown to enjoy challenges of strength, and still shown to feel a sense of responsibility towards Jungle Planet, but he probably won’t rely entirely on his own strength to lead it. Of course, I really like that he does win the battle for Jungle Planet’s leadership. From my perspective, if he’d lost, it would pretty much have been saying that it doesn’t matter what he’s learned because he already blew his chance before we were even introduced to him. But the way stuff happened in the series, he actually gets to apply all this. It’s also nice to see that while some leader figures turn their role over to someone else (as in the case with Override and Optimus Prime) others continue to learn and grow in their current roles, like Scourge.

[ID: Scourge stands with his hands on his hips, looking up and off to the right in a defiant manner, while Leobreaker, a smaller robot with a lion’s face on his chassis, watches as if neutrally confused.]

#transformers: cybertron #scourge #Space Dragon #rin overanalyzes stuff #also one way or another writing this post has given me the headcanon that in the unicron trilogy universe #scourge is probably among the main ancestors to the predacons #slash the predacons would end up basing a lot of their culture off of scourge and jungle planet #i may also do a comparative analysis of scourge and dinobot at some point but i need to rewatch beast wars first #long post #rin loves transformers #transformers #character analysis #writer is a little rusty #it's been awhile since i've done one of these #rin rambles

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