I haven’t made a colored pic of the Crocodile Kiss Plugs yet so here you go! Of course I chose characters who have very different chest types for this. I tried.
So against all odds, I wrote a sequel to the RiD2015 MegOP drabble disaster. Takes place in the crack AU constructed by @darklordofcutlets and myself, which disregards most of the RiD canon at this point. Fun fact: this is also a loose homage to another fic from a different fandom, Naruto this time, which is tragically lost to the internet, but left a great impression on me regarding the power of portraying a hot mess of a relationship from the POV of an unimpressed third party. Just a heads up, there is some slightly more than implied canoodling, but it doesn’t really do more than brush up against the “T” rating. Enjoy.
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If you’d asked Sideswipe whether or not acquiring two living legends as roommates had changed life on Earth, his answer would have been: ‘Not as much as you’d think’. Yeah Bumblebee and Grimlock were twice as twitchy as usual, Fixit’s stutter was twice as bad, and Strongarm alternated between this starstruck expression and smouldering disapproval whenever Megatron and Optimus walked by, but otherwise there wasn’t much difference. Steeljaw and the other Decepticons were still cowering somewhere in the mountains, probably scared witless to come near after witnessing Megatron tear the limbs off that Megatronus guy–when Megatronus had made the mistake of trying to separate Optimus from some parts of his anatomy to which Megatron was apparently attached–in a display which Sideswipe was torn between describing as ‘disturbing’ and ‘really slagging cool’.
((Been wanting to do this headcanon for a while. Pretty much a compilation of the various methods on interfacing used in the Transformer’s universe, as I know some people are a little confused on how some of them work.))
As promised, here’s my interpretation of what Plug and Play might look like! I didn’t look up any references, my only knowledge about PnP are the very basic idea of it (cables, plugs, non-sticky) and one or two pictures I’ve seen at some point. But this is what my idea of it was when I first heard the term. Now, because I don’t know shit about PnP, I don’t know how common this interpretation is and/or how similar it is to other ideas (I do remember one of the few pics I saw had the cables around the chest area, which was basically my thought of it as well).
This thing basically consists of four cables, two with plugs and two with receivers for each bot. They’re kept inside the chest, the smaller two can be extended through two small openings on the underside of the main chest plate. The bigger two cables can only be used when the whole chest is opened, which only happens for the more intimate spark interfacing. In that case, the main chest plates either fold back into the side of the chest or can be disassembled and reveal the inside which is made of several, insect-like platings that are usually intertwined and shield the spark. These platings now fold up and intertwine with the partner’s to resume a shield for the sparks so nothing from the outside can hurt them (there’s gaps for the cables to extend on the underside). I’d have to draw some variations on that too, you can choose how snug together the chests are for this.
Yeah that’s basically it, I don’t know how basic and common this interpretation is but this is my pretty much non-influenced take on it :’D
y oooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh man would you mind if others drew this???
OH SHIT no I wouldn’t mind at all!
Feel free to use this headcanon as you please, I am very honored if you like it enough to do something with it! By all means, go ahead and have fun with this!
im not good at teaching so im just gonna throw stuff that pops in my head
You can either apply shine based on the colour of the metal, or you can use a single colour of shine for the entire thing
It is safer to go with hard shine than soft shine, because hard shine is easier to draw and looks better in most cases. But if done proper, can be used together.
.You can have normal, decent highlights oR YOU CAN GO INSANE W/THEM
There’s no strict way on how you should apply highlights. General rule of thumb is to place them on areas of plating facing most toward the light source, and on edges of plating. But you can also place them in random spots like this and it will still look good!
Well technically, it’s not random, it does occur in real life, but someone else would be better at explaining this phenomenon than I . You can see it kinda happening here. Refracted light causes the bands of highlight, though less bright here.
edit: ok here is a gif i just saw that has this same kind effect, but in motion
Most importantly, study other artists’ work and experiment with your own. Gold is a great reflective material to study highlights from, as there’s little risk of other colours infecting it, as silver would. And there’s a lot of reference images on google! As you can see, there isn’t a surefire way to teach you the intuition of “Where should I put the highlights”. don’t place them in shadow areas and you should be good EXCEPT
metal REFLECTS SO YOU’VE GOT HIGHLIGHTS IN SHADOWS TOOOO
ahhahahahahahaha
Warning tho: Don’t use colour dodge or other filters to do the shiny for you. make it with yer own colours.
I SO enjoyed working on this >w< Really good idea for the pic and as a plus I got to work with Motormaster whom I had never draw before. w0/
I also tried a bit of a variation in my usual technique for polished sketches, which made it quicker to make an kinda look closer to my illustration style than previous works.
Thinkin about plug and play/tactile interfacing toys.
Data chips which run simple sensation programs, which can be inserted to give the feeling of ticking all over your frame, tingling jolts in set and random patterns, the experience of overheating without the danger.
False firewall programs, entirely separate from actual security, for those who get off on the idea of their partner overpowering their systems but don’t want to actually risk getting viruses.
Socket adapters for interfacing multiple partners at once.
Switchboards with different voltage and current for electroplay.
Adapters that magnify, reduce, distort, delay the signals from your partner.
Programming data chips with specific sensations, emotions, thoughts, etc and sending them to your long distance partners so you can essentially interface them from across the galaxy.
Sets of magnets placed on key locations of the sensornet to disrupt and alter electronic signals, induce temporary paralysis, produce pleasurable hallucinations.
Devices that generate small electromagnetic fields swept over bodies, numbing and restoring sensornet functions.
External harddrives filled with various programs and data packets that essentially work like interactive sex dolls, artificial partners. They come in many varieties for specific kinks: dominant type, submissive type, sensual type, rough type, bondage type, cross faction type. Harddrives patterned off of pornstars or what they think famous cybertronians would be like in the berth.
Programs that simulate “heats” for those that get off on the idea of being overwhelmingly desperate for interface.
Data chips that suppress overload, programs that aid multiple overloads.
Rounded finger caps for cybertronians with claws who want to avoid scratching their partners, sharpened caps for those without claws who want to scratch and be scratched, vibrating varieties of both.
Sensory deprivation programs that allow bots to offline auditory, visual, tactile sensors.
Sound generators producing auditory signals that increase arousal.
Cybertronian Database 