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So how ‘bout some… Prowl…
Largely I just wanted to get some sort of design ideas down for him and didn’t have any refs while sketching these out so all of these vary wildly on basically every aspect aside couple defined constants but I also think that mechs with more common car alt-forms will update them more than say, tank/construction vehicle altmodes and are thus tad more advanced in shapes.
I just wanted to see RB Ratchet (:3 J
Lazy animatic featuring Elita and OP huehue
big rig flamewar (à la AOE optimus)
miniratch is so good i want him cuddled relentlessly
iceberg of obscure transformers knowledge
I made a list of sources in case anyone wants to read more :D
just adding because I love the old brazilian transformers part, Toyarchive has pretty much all the info and pictures abt the toys released at the time including other stuff like a board game and other novelty
“Some wonder what would happen if robots had emotions. They are fools. Many robots have emotions. Cybertronians are examples of what happens when robots have too many emotions and no idea how to deal with them in a healthy manner. Usually it involves wars, drinking, and pop music.” “You’d think being incredibly long-lived robots that can turn into all sorts of cool shit would be really awesome, but as most Cybertronians can attest, it’s often more trouble than it’s worth.”
“Much like any other race, Cybertronians are usually friendly…after you’ve given them something shiny. Or have gotten them extremely drunk.” “Many Cybertronians thought of their race as superior to other species, particularly those of organic composition, who they believed to be violent, backwards, and really quite stupid in general. After several wars lasting millions of years, they realized they were actually quite mistaken, as organic species may be vicious, bloodthirsty, amoral, selfish, and enjoy slaughtering each other for slightly different ideals from time to time, but at least they know how to do all of that without driving themselves to extinction, which Cybertronains quickly realized they did not.
Organics 1, Cybertronians 0 there are certainly disadvantages to being an ancient, mentally and emotionally static species with no sustainable reproductive cycle and a tendency to not live out that incredibly long life span to it;s fullest.“
“Some turn to their god, Primus for answers. Unfortunately, he’s been taking an obscenely long nap and his body is currently being used as their home planet, or so the story goes. others think this is ludicrous, that there is no Primus, and that that deep dark cavern that supposedly leads to a chamber where one can communicate literally face to face with their god isn’t worth checking out in the slightest. There have naturally been many wars about this also.”
Apparently Ratchet gets yet another Decepticon bf in the form of Ramjet in the new Forged to Fight event agshshshsh
Ratchet runs out of Decepticons to woo so one day he just shows up to Megatron’s HQ posing in a crop top with the Decepticon logo that also says “slut” on it. Cut dramatically to all of Cybertron hearing on the news that the war has ended.
colored this bullshit
say hello to my boy “Soft Serve”,,,, his alt mode is an ice cream truck. naturally
I’ve been thinking about how’d I portray the decepticons and their revolution origins. On the one hand, the revolutionaries gone bad idea has unfortunate implications. On the other hand, I’m a total sucker for moral complexity in my fiction. Here’s my idea: The decepticon revolution has parallels to the American revolution. People fighting against an oppressive government only to become an oppressive government all their own.
Mmhmm I agree that could work, especially if it’s left in that past tense -- Megatron was once a revolutionary who rose up and overthrew the bad former government, but by the time the narrative picks up, the Decepticons are shown to be solely the oppressive power in charge and we watch as the Autobots rise against that. I think the biggest flaw with TF’s narrative so far is that the Autobots have themselves never really been shown as a revolutionary cause in their own right -- they’re always remnants of the status-quo or the former power structure who rise up to overthrow the Decepticons in response to the revolution the cons initiated, which is where it becomes hard to root for the Autobots. It doesn’t help that so many of them are cops. IDW only got away with it because by the end of the series, we weren’t expected to root for Optimus anymore -- the narrative acknowledged his flaws and condemned his actions, and left room for us to not like him without being punished by the narrative for not liking him.
Let Optimus be a dockworker again Hasbro
Mini Drift meeting Mini Ratchet
