((Due to the fact that shuttles are programmed to spend a lot of time isolated, they don’t form very many strong connections. Instead, they make up for it with a lot of ‘weaker’ connections. I’ll be going into it a lot more in depth when I do my Seeker Headcanon, but the short version is there are a lot of mechs Skyfire wants to shove under his wings like a mother hen, and a couple others he wants to keep an optic on so they don’t hurt themselves))
You can’t fly with “Praxian Wings” because they are actually doorwings.
The phrase “Flying with Praxian wings” roughly translates to something both absurd and impossible. If someone is “trying to fly with Praxian wings”, it means that they are going YOLO and about to do something very stupid (i.e. drinking a cylinder full of industrial-grade energon, bungy-jumping into a smelting pit)
The feeling when you post things on the wrong blog…..
When a new transformer comes to life, their Spark is created first. Then, their body is forged around the spark so that they can become a whole bot. ((You may suggest how the details should work because honestly I have no idea))
Sometimes their spark does not match with the frame they are built with. For example, a Race car’s spark might end up inside a frame of a Van. Or, a Bomber may get an Aerobat’s frame. If it happenes between grounder-grounder or aerial-aerial, then most cases it’s not really a big problem. They might feel ‘misplaced’ and sometimes have trouble with controlling their body at worst, but in general they adjust to what they are given and live a normal life.
However, if it happenes between grounder-aerial, then one of the folowings will happen as soon as the forging mechanism detects something is going south:
Newbuild dies. The mechanism decided to go “frag it” and aborted the project. The frame will cease forging altogether. If the newbuild does not get the help they need in time, then the spark will wither away.
Newbuild is born with deformed frame The mechanism decided to go “frag it” and built the frame anyway. The end result is a train wreck. Newbuild survives, but not without varying degree of bodily mutations. Sometimes the mutation only limits transformation ability. Sometimes the mutation is so severe that the Newbuild may not be able to walk at all.
Triple Changer The mechanism decided to go “frag it” and built the frame anyway. the end result is a miracle. Most common case is a Car or Tank & Shuttle or Bomber.
Do you think being a Triple Changer is a good thing? Ask Blitzwing, and he will tell you how suck it is. Cybertronian society in general requires you for one specific job that you are built for, so it is better to be really good at one thing than being okay-ish with several things. Blitzwing is a Tank Bomber. Until he figured out how to use his special build as an advantage, he used to be called by numerous harsh nicknames from both sides because he was too heavy & slow for a bomber and was too light & delicate for a tank.
For such reasons, Triple Changers usually prefer one alt mode and will rarely use the other. They tend to choose to be a grounder because cars with wings look less ridiculous than planes with wheels stickig out.
One of the Decepticon scientist the cyclopse one with huge boob tried to artificially create Triple Changers out of already existing bots. He scrapped the idea because he saw no point in creating a bunch of winged tanks or wheeled jets.
Triple Changers weight quite a lot more than other bots with similar size.
Seekers are hard to repair, but not as nearly as hard as a Triple Changer. At least Seekers look all the same, but these ones? How the heck do these wings work?? Where does this kibble go when they transform??? WHY THEY HAVE THESE AND THAT WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE EXTRA SPACE??????
@radio-cybertron TFA BOTS WITH NON-STANDARD EYE ARRANGEMENTS but Autobots especially are super strict about ensuring that there’s conformation, especially physically, so any… “non-standard” features shall we say are either done away with or disguised. Optics are simply easier to hide than they are to replace.
Jazz’s eyes are based off Lugnut’s. I assume that’s Sentinel, who didn’t know Jazz didn’t have the basic “two optics” arrangement and then Sentinel proceeds to make an ass out of himself over it by getting weirded out, and invasive, and then not making eye contact with Jazz for a while. Jazz pretends he’s used to it, but it really pisses him off deep down.
Perceptor’s big shiny head-thing? Actually a third eye, although it sees in a wider spectrum and can’t focus on near objects (his main eyes are nearsighted, however- it’s likely that he’s supposed to “naturally” compensate tho he just wears glasses instead). I also dug up my pre-empurata Shockwave designs because Shockwave being used to not two optics, but three!
Also Cycloptic First Aid I dont’ have a reason or excuse for this one just
very cute.
…Now I’m wondering if one of the Decepticon Sympathizers might have not been Perceptor all along. But, dude, those arrangements are awesome. Shockwave is strangely hot. Like, in a way he should not be. And now it makes me wonder if he doesn’t still have the three-eyes, but only uses them for night vision now. Imagine he could shut the third big one down and go incognito with the other two. They don’t give him as good vision, but they get him around.
First Aid’s Mono-optic is perfecto for microsurgery, as he’s studying under Ratchet after all, maybe it has scanning abilities to allow him to see micro-tears and metallo-dermal abrasions that he can fix. 😀
I like to think Perceptor was/is a Decepticon Sympathizer at some point, or at least more aware of how things went so incredibly wrong for both sides in the great war. After all, why dampen down your emotions for a better reason than to stop thinking about what you’re doing? (This comes up in the TFA Lost Light AU, too, because it’s part of why he winds up so close to Drift and is basically Decepticon bait tee hee)
First Aid’s adorable single optic is great for a narrow focus, but he also has no peripheral vision so occasionally he’ll round a corner, underestimate, and walk right into a wall. Oops.
Also I love drawing my headcanon Shockwave-with-a-face in no small part because I also like to imagine him as the bright eager Senator Shockwave at some point, back when warbuilds and civilian builds were equal, because what’s the point of making a beautiful Shockwave if you can’t traumatize him by removing his faaaaaaace
REMOVE THE FACE *cackles*
I swear by all that is holy and half my transformer collection if you start pulling a Vos on Shockwave, I’m going to run screaming. *strokes chin.* Though, it brings a whole wealth of stuff to mind. Like what if they knew Shockwave was Longarm Prime. What if they were just waiting for him to fuck up all these years. What if Blurr was just the cat’s paw the entire time?
Because Senator Shockwave had a thing for pretty, intelligent groundframes.
What if the entire war was an elaborate Autobot set up from the getgo just to get the more dangerous Decepticons (Megatron, Shockwave, Strika, Lugnut) back under control/dead/”rehabilitated.”
What if the Autobots were playing a “Wag the Dog” the entire time to the populace, but in the background, they were systematically hunting down all Decepticon and decepticon sympathizers at the same time.
All Hail Magnus.
I know that my personal headcanon is that Shockwave was a Senator who was working very hard on integration pre-war, and he had a thing for everybody like look at that mech. He’s so tall and handsome as hell, he’s so bad but he does it so well. But he pushed too hard, at some point, and Ultra Magnus made sure he disappeared, or got pushed over the edge- which makes him attacking Ultra Magnus with the hammer all the more intense.
Shockwave doesn’t strike me as the kind to leave something half-finished, or to murder someone in such a messy way (although, it could be argued that an incapacitated Magnus is much more useful, since it destabalizes the power by splitting the population between those that want Ultra back and those that are following Sentinel) but to smash someone apart with a hammer…that feels intensely personal, to me. Deliciously personal. >:3
ggggod dont’ even get me started on rehabilitated Decepticons I just
*lays down on ground*
*stares at ceiling*
*KEENS LOUDLY ABOUT AUTOBOTS FORCING DECEPTICON SPARKS INTO AUTOBOT FRAMES TO MAKE THEM EASIER TO CONTROL AND KEEP IMPRISONED*
*slides blanket around you, rocks with you.* Is okay, you can tell me all your headcanons, and I’ll go back to spark eater mating dances.
Segueing back into the previous conversation, though. The Autobots seriously had the power imbalance on their side from the beginning of this entire travesty. It makes you wonder why did the war really happen and DID the war really happen, or was the entire fucking thing a set up?
There are times I read that in IDW and wonder there as well. If everything was an elaborate ploy to keep the population under control, and distracted.
How do you boost economy: war.
How do you control population: war (and disease.)
How do you control politics: war (and patriotism)
It’s really eerie when you think about it, even going back and watching the Decepticons in other shows. Kind of makes them a little less cartoony, and maybe a little more… desperate?
It really does feel super desperate and spooky. I’m actualy in the process of transcribing “The Great War Board Game” from the allspark almanac because it has some really fascinating bits that imply a LOT about TFA history without saying much, and I feel like it makes for great fic fuel.
I mean, literaly five spaces into the board game, is an Autobot square
simply labled
“Decepticon Registration Act, 2,000 VP”
This is the first Autobot square on the entire board, and it’s worth 2,000 points. Brr.
(The first Decepticon Squares, depending upon which way you go at the first fork, are either “Megatron’s Manifesto Draws New Recruits” or “Cybertron Under Attack!”)
…the fuck.
I need a copy of this, or I need to a scan of it. That’s some serious fucked up.
aerasfsafweralfjsa. You know, during WWII. The guys that made the European version of Monopoly would send certain boards to POW’s that contained tools to get them out of prison. What if in a way to “entertain” their prisoners in Trypticon.
They gave the Decepticon games like that… with a reminder. There’s no Decepticon squares left except “Go to Prison.” or “Executed.”
Except, someone gets wind of this- and mirrors what the British gamemakers did, and begins to put a tiny dot on the board to tell them what to look for, and puts little tools and things to make the their lives a little less miserable.
Because where you have oppression, someone’s going to start thinking that maybe, this is wrong.
Cybertronian Database 