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@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.