#whirl

[decepti-thots]

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

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

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

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

#idw #whirl #meta

[archie-sunshine]

WHAT DOES KF WHIRL LOOK LIKE UNDER THE SCARVES- IS HE BALD? IS IT JUST VOID? I NEED TO KNOW- (and mayhapse need to give him a wig so i can snatch his weeve)

he's just a shadow under there actually... kinda looks like this!

#archie answers #transformers #my art #my requests #mtmte #knightformers #whirl

[wildpiercy-art]

Mutual detailing day

#Whirl already agreed so if he isn't a brat Somehow he'll literally die #Cyclonus refuses to move because that would mean letting Whirl win #Tailgate's just trying not to laugh #my art #mtmte #maccadam #lost light #cyclonus #whirl #tailgate #cywhirlgate #alcohol markers #traditional art

[keferon]

Okay ahaha so, I designed Whirl.

Does…does this look right?

#transformers #maccadam #mtmte #whirl #tf whirl #idw whirl #tailgate #rodimus #drift #snow bots au

[rotbo]

#transformers #maccadam #mtmte #whirl #my art

[fjordline]

Ultra Magnus has to step in to be like 'the right to trial by combat was removed from the constitution 10 million years ago'

#transformers #maccadam #galvatron #cyclonus #tailgate #whirl #tf idw #my art #rodimus is like 'ok galvatron you may sit in the captains chair. for 10 minutes. if you promise you wont steer us into a wormhole or smth' #galvatron is like 'yes. of course :) i promise!' while crossing his fingers behind his back #i am not spending 40 hours painstakingly rendering this comic out sorry guys it got a little too long! #i simply love it when cyclonus suffers >:)

[chrometheraptor]

This is my answer to the how does Whirl drink with no face question

#chrome draws #he just sticks his whole head into the glass and the drink starts to go down #transformers #maccadam #mtmte #whirl

[ihatebrainstorm]

[New Years]

Be firework safe! But also just don't let Whirl set up fireworks

#back at it with the low quality speedrun comics lmao #transformers #mtmte #maccadam #maccadams #tf idw #transformers fanart #more than meets the eye #frootertooter archive #lost light #swerve #mtmte swerve #tailgate #cyclonus #rodimus #whirl

[leafy-yezi]

Who win?

#transformers earthspark #transformers #soundwave #shockwave #whirl #mtmte whirl #optimus prime

[eph000000000]

Happy holidays :-)

#transformers #maccadam #my art #mtmte #tf mtmte #rodimus #skids #perceptor #ultra magnus #ratchet #whirl #megatron #cyclonus

[ufolliegy]

scamming children on roblox

#transformers #whirl #tailgate #cywhirlgate #implied. cyclonus is taking a nap or something #mtmte #lost light #maccadam

[decepti-thots]

while i'm talking about Whirl, one thing i've been meaning to talk about for ages just in a 'i am aware some people may not actually know this, and it hardly gets mentioned in fandom' is that Whirl in Interiors talking about briefly trying to change his name when he was a flight instructor at the flight academy is a reference to a passage in Bullets, which is in retrospect very obviously him:

Jetstream had taught him to recognize his inherent worthlessness. In front of the other cadets he'd always been supportive, but in private he would berate him for showing off and for getting ideas above his station. “You think you're something special?” he used to say. “You think you’re better than the rest, better than me, just because you can turn a few tricks? On a good day - on your best day - I’d say you were unremarkable.” Rotorstorm’s only response to Jetstream’s verbal abuse was to make jokes. If you can make light of the situation, he'd think, it can’t be as bad as it seems. Over time, Jetstream’s verbal abuse... evolved. On one occasion, Rotorstorm was pushed against a wall. On another, he was punched to the floor. Before long, he was on the receiving end of sustained and entirely unprovoked beatings. The worst day of Rotorstorm’s life - worse than the day war was declared; worse than the day of the Simanzi Massacre - was the day the IAA installed a Cryogenic Regeneration Chamber. He couldn't remember what he’d done to deserve that night's battering, but as he lay on the floor of the aircraft hangar, his torso freshly pummeled, his spinal strut bent at a right angle and his face reduced to a shallow bowl of oil and splinters, he saw something he would never forget: Jetstream was standing over him, fists clenched and head cocked, coolly appraising his options. And the look of exhilaration on his face as he wondered where to place the next punch had been terrifying. Rotorstorm had passed out before Jetstream had finished shoveling him into the CR Chamber, and had woken up the next day without a single scratch on his body. Jetstream had left overnight; he moved to a training facility in another province and later changed his name. Since then, Rotorstorm had seen him only once: he'd been sitting in the front row when Rotorstorm had been awarded the Novic Medal for Outstanding Valor, and he’d been clapping and cheering more loudly than anyone else.

and this is a really fascinating thing to consider for me because if you just describe the whole thing briefly in the abstract, it's gonna likely sound like one of two things:

whirl tried to turn over a new leaf with a new name, and it worked for a time but ultimately he couldn't and went back to his old life

whirl tried to turn over a new leaf with a new name, but he couldn't and was just as much of an aggro wildcard as ever so gave up

but this is... kind of not either of those, including the last one? whirl IS acting like the violent, bitter, unpredictable asshole we come to meet in MTMTE and know he was during the war, to an extent, but he's also clearly succesfully keeping up something of a facade of really inhabiting that 'not Whirl, nope, i'm a Normal Flight Instructor' in public. it's only to rotorstorm he's not, seemingly. (and even then, the way rotorstorm describes him here is... really cold and deliberate in a way that feels kind of different to what we see later.)

obviously it's. i mean it's SO deeply unpleasant, very effectively communicated in terms of how awful and traumatising that kind of thing is btw a+ but also Jesus Fucking Christ, but it also suggests to me a very specific experience Whirl is having in this period of his life that isn't quite either of those obvious choices. pokes at it. god. what the fuck is going through your head you terrible helicopter you.

#idw #rotorstom #whirl #meta

[archie-sunshine]

Why can i just imagine whirl getting high as shit and running butt ass naked trough the forest at night like a cryptid like

Someone probly thinks they saw a headless guy run around or somth too- the stupidist most crackhead cryptid lmao

fDASGFFDS I LOVE THIS

#archie answers #transformers #my art #my requests #mtmte #knightformers #tw nudity #whirl

[cyclonussexy]

whirlypop

#maccadam #transformers #whirl #mtmte #idw

[noritaro]

his cup size? AK-47

#whirl #mtmte #idw transformers #maccadam #nori art

[energone]

women...

#cywhirlgate #whirl #cyclonus #tailgate #mtmte #idw1 #my stuff #art #tf