HI SO a while ago, well, more like earlier today me and my buddy @vuullet were talking about pre-triple changer blitzwing headcanons and so i decided to draw mines
basically the headcanon i have was that blitzwing was a seeker before he became a triple changer, he had a seeker trine (does TFA have seeker trines? well it does now) consisting of Blitzwing as the leader, Astrotrain and Octane. they had a very close trine bond that was hard to shake, they basically trusted their lives with each other. sometime during the war the trine underwent the triple changer program that made all three into triple changers, but with many side effects. in the process of implementing the triple changer code blackarachnia, whether by accident or on purpose, severed their trine bond by creating a block between them in their processors. with their bond broken, they couldn’t connect with each other like they used to and slowly just drifted away from each other. they were sent to their own missions and never really talked to each other after that.
oh, and blitzy is shorter than the rest of them pre-triple changer 😉
I’m just going to go ahead and throw up a warning that if you’re a Blitzwing fan, you might not want to listen to this one since its fairly critical, though I do praise the other Decepticons of TFA a fair bit. Anyways, I genuinely don’t want to offend anyone, and I’m very sorry in advance.
YES, someone who agrees with me on Blitzwing! Lovely day!
The thing that annoys me the most about Blitzwing is that there’s potential for him to be a great character, which the writers… really don’t live up to. I hate how the shows writers handled his character. Literally every single fanfic I’ve ever read with him in it I think handle his character better than the official writers handled him (granted, I’m pretty good at finding good fanfics, but still).
That’s the same problem I had with Sentinel, to be honest. There’s nothing to his character other than to be a nuisance, but there’s potential for so much more! AUGH, don’t like it.
This discussion is about Blitzwing, okay. Gonna tear into the character now. Random’s obviously the part of his personality that’s supposed to get us to laugh the most, which is a shame considering his jokes aren’t funny. They’re just random. Hothead is… there, I honestly can’t think of anything about him aside from ‘he’s angry and likes fighting’. Icy is- okay. I’ll admit I sorta like Icy. If Blitzwing were just Icy, I’d probably like him, if only because I got a weakness for calm, controlled villains.
But as it stands, yeah, you’re right, Blitzwing is a shallow character. Which is a dang shame, because he’s just jam packed with potential! He could have been a legitimately scary guy, because hey- you’re fighting a powerful dude with three personalities! One wants to tear you to scrap, the other finds it beneficial for you to stop existing, and the last would probably find it hilarious if you caught on fire. Can you imagine being at the mercy of such an individual?
One thing I sometimes see in fan fiction is Random acting more like a small, hyper child- he’s still dang dangerous, but it adds a level of vulnerability to him, and Icy and Hothead have to compensate. And the prospect of all three of them acting like brothers in the same body is great.
And Blackarachnia- wasn’t the whole reason she joined the Decepticons was because she’d get experimented on if she was captured by the Autobots? What if that’s the reason why Blitzwing is fighting the ‘bots, because they’d do the same thing to him? Or worse yet, they’d try to ‘cure’ him (another idea stolen from fanfiction. It was marvelous). And for crying out loud, if you’re going to use him so much, at least give him a backstory!
Apologies for the rambling, but I wanted to give a few examples for how he’d could be improved, instead of just saying what was wrong with him. Just some thoughts.
Another wonderful purple triplechanging commission for a client! Love these nerds. (Yes, I did sample directly from G1′s color palette. yes, I should have thought that out more.)
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