An M4 Sherman crew practices covering and rescuing an injured soldier.
“Hey, we need you to lie down in this desert and let the crew of a 30-ton war machine practice driving over you without running you over. Sound good?”
FRIEND IN TROUBLE, DO NOT WORRY, TANK COME RESCUE FRIEND
A tank making a kill in the wild. It’s graphic but it’s important to see nature in action.
Tag: ref
the idea of medics asking “Can you transform” as being an overall test of consciousness, trauma, and/or fatigue is just really cool to me for some reason
Decepticons Guide to Dating Autobots on the DL.
Don’t show them how dangerous you actually are.
Pretend you want to change sides.
Give them worthless trinkets, because they won’t appreciate a real show of strength. Guns, weapons and health items will freak them out, not impress them. Stupid bit of overgrown crystal? They’ll fall over themselves thanking you.
Send them human emoji’s over a variety of social media.
Pretend to be hurt more than you are so they’ll “comfort” you.
Pick them up and carry them, bridal style.
Write Love Poetry. Steal Megatron’s if you need to, they haven’t read any of it.
Lament often how you Wish Things Could Be Different
Act happy when they buy YOU stupid and useless trinkets. Throw away all but one and pull that one out when need be for emotional gut punches.
Things that work for Both Autobots and Decepticons
Wink at them in battle.
#This has been a PSA #I was writing a con telling Deadlock this#and him being like FUCK #I’ve ruined it #my chances
This has been sitting in my drafts for about 5 months… idk I hope you’re as obsessed with hexagons as I am.
Let me get this straight. Before TFA Ultra Magnus gained any rank of any kind his name was just Ultra?
Probably Ultra Prime
Prime is a rank, though.
// That makes sense though, like calling Sentinel ‘Magnus’ instead of Prime when he takes Ultra’s place. Before that, he was Sentinel Minor (as heard in Autoboot Camp), but as far as we know, that could also be a rank. …What were all these guys’ names before the military…?
Actually don’t quote me on this but most bots in tfa according to lore don’t have a “designation” (name) before they come of age or do something remarkable.
Kup was the one who gave Sentinel his name because he was “superior” and he names Optimus because he was super optimistic and Elita because she was vain and elite.
Also Sentinel was the one who named Bulkhead and Bumblebee as a joke because he thought they were to weak to be elite guards.
So they don’t have names or designations before that I think they are adressed as their forged frame numbers until they become unique and do their own thing.
So yes- his name is just Ultra lol
And, um, to add onto this, Arcee doesn’t appear to actually have a name?? She introduces herself by a super long serial number then says that the class can shorten it to RC.
But, uh, Ratchet does have a name and he was around at the same time as her so make of that what you will.
[[Mun Musing: It occurs to me that the way Arcee’s head opens up seems very orderly- her helm splits along lines of color. Do other bots’ heads open up similarly easy? With the right medical codes, could you make Megatron’s helm open up? Or Optimus’?]]
Things to draw: Other TFA Bots with their helms open. Does Bumblebee’s helm open like this? We’ve seen him take his helmet off, wholesale- is that a feature of his framtype? Could Arcee do that, or is her helmet more attached? SO MANY THOUGHTS???? How many different helm styles are there, for bots?
I ASSUME that it differs for different bots no matter the frame. I think that it could depend on the model and how old it is. Like Wasp and BBB have the same newer frame type but they have difference face shapes and helms. And then Blurr and Cheetor have the same helm and frame but different face shapes. But Ironhide and Ratchet have the same face shape but different helms. Then there are bots like the Autotroopers and Ironfist that look the exactly the same except for the paint job. So each frame probably has it’s own set of face shapes and helm designs but I think newer frames have more variety and probably more features.
Alternatively it could just be that during the War combatant bots have their helms attached to their frames as a safety precaution. So they were able to extend open up/fold away but not come fully off except for a few cosmetic pieces. Then when the war ended the Autobots got more creative with their frames and designs.
Apparently Prowl’s face resembles the face of Primus
[They are not talking about Prowl. I’m just saying.]
In earlier comics, the symbol is referred to as the “First Face.” It’s talked about in Spotlight: Orion Pax. It’s basically the Cybertronian equivalent of the generic yellow smiley face—in the way that the generic smiley face is supposed to represent any/every human, the First Face is supposed to represent every Cybertronian. Which is specifically why the Autobots took that symbol, because it represents “everyone.”
Since the symbol is ancient and well-known enough for the Autobots to deliberately adopt it for its “it’s everyone” meaning, my headcanon is that Prowl, being cold constructed, was designed to have a deliberately bland “looks like anyone else” face. Like those images where a thousand different photos of human faces are averaged together to create a single vaguely attractive but extremely generic face—Prowl’s face is the Cybertronian equivalent of that. Which is why his face looks similar to the face that looks like “everyone.”
Interesting if that means there’s a huge batch of bland-looking mass-produced cold constructed bots wandering around that, accidentally, have godly-looking faces.
Cybertronian Database 