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some tf x mlp nonsense

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Prowl in jp es:

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I recently found out about Ballpoint and I already know how he would fit into my lore. First off, I don't think he's the worst bot ever. I just think he's in the wrong faction with the wrong role. He may not be fit to be a Decepticon, but he would do well as the leader of the Botbots because as cute as they are, they need structure, discipline, order and to actually do something with their lives other than party.

Ballpoint would shine in the role of a leader because he is all those things and I think the Botbots would appreciate it because it is in every bot's code to have a sense of purpose. Partying is fun and all, but a life well lived is a life where you actually do something.

With that said... In Pretenders, Ballpoint would be the first example of what even a shard of the Matrix can do which is turn an inanimate object into a Transformer. Ballpoint was originally one of GI Joe's pens.

Ballpoint's special ability is that he has infinite ink, he is one of the few bots who can actually write, he is artistic and he is an eloquent speaker as well as amazing at writing documents like speeches and such.

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Soundwave is THE owner of the one and only 24 karat gold cassettling 😻 obviously he would have them all because of the way that he is, he just needs ten million cassettes or he won’t be complete (feeding his addiction will lead to him trying to stuff minibots in his docking system because there’s only so many cassettes out there)

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The thing about jazzprowl, from what I understand, is that they're the kind of character who makes the questionable but necessary decisions so that no one else would be unable to look at themselves in the mirror. They don't bleed over it like Optimus would, but it still puts a crack in their metaphorical plating in opposite directions, but they still have to move on and hold themselves together so that no one else would. It isolates them in multiple layers, and that's fine, it's fine—there's work to do to win this war, to stop the Decepticons, to not lose sight, or have they? It's hard to tell; it's been too long. But in that isolation, they look across the room and see a mirror underneath the other's armor. I know what you are. You know what I am. I know that you know that I know. You know that I know that you know. Let's pretend not to. There's work to do. I'm still holding up. You're still holding up. There are cracks in opposite directions. Let me hold up yours, and I'll let you hold up mine.

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(part 5) happy father's day :)

me when characters are so doomed by their love but they love again anyway they love again anyway

if you're wondering what frenzy's listening to, i tried to find the angriest screamiest song to have a crashout to :D

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We Were Brothers Once!

Op sliced Megatron’s fusion cannon earlier with his axe, that’s why Meg’s is fighting with his hands!

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Got inspired by @madamadamiu 's Lost Light Cat Shelter AU and also @cryptid-stuff's addition to it, but since my introduction to LL was the Christmas special, I have a certain soft spot for Whirl and his scraplet, so even though I loved cryptid's "nest" for whirl, I thought it'd be funny if Whirl somehow aquired an actual egg of some sort with a living being inside and adopted it.

At first I thought I'd have them be some bugs (red velvet mites) on his rock "egg", but it wouldn't have made much sense from the adoption standpoint, so I started looking into brood parasites.

Turns out that sometimes canadian geese lay their eggs in the nests of other geese! And though it would make so much sense for Whirl to be a canadian goose (I've heard they're rather aggressive) this AU is not completely accurate to irl biology so it's kinda whatever anyways.

In addition

Whirl and his scraplet (+ a concerned and slightly scared Rung)

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⚢ wavewave smut full pic twi / blsk

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//Observation Report #1010 Part 3 + 4

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The Suitors’ Trials

An AU about way too many Bumblebee Ships

“Dear suitors, you wish to ask for the hand of my precious son? Then you must first prove yourself worthy by passing the following trials.”

Based loosely on a string of different fairytales like The Princess on the Glass Hill, The grateful Beasts, Clever little tailor, how Six made their way in the world and this tumblr post

In this AU Bumblebee is the son of King Megatron of Kaon and his Conjunx Optimus Prime. He is also the younger brother of crown prince Hot Rod/Rodimus.

Being the youngest he is obviously the apple of his family’s eye, and especially his sire Megatron tends to be a bit overprotective over him at times.

So now imagine if you will, Bumblebee just being swamped with suitors from all sides. Knights from the neighbouring Autobot federation like Blurr, Prowl, Smokescreen and Windblade and even some of his sire’s own knights like Blitzwing and Breakdown - Heck even his sire’s chief advisor Starscream - start standing in line to ask for the prince’s hand in marriage.

Megatron had nearly died of a sparkattack when the king of the dinobots Grimlock knocked down the door to the palace with a ridiculously large Bouquet of flowers in his hands to join the long row of suitors.

Or that time the former Autobot turned traitor Wasp sneaking into the palace at the dead night just to wake up Megatron and Optimus to demand they’d let him marry their son.

Not to mention that time Steeljaw attempted to break into Bumblebee’s room through the balcony (from which the prince swiftly threw him off of mere moments later) to ask the prince directly to rule by his side.

Megatron had nearly cried of joy when the rescue bot Blades had simply sent a letter to formally ask for Bumblebee’s hand in marriage instead of sneaking (or breaking) into the palace like the last few suitors.

But the situation remained the same. His precious son was swarmed with suitors and him and the guards could only hold them off for so long as the suitors were starting to grow impatient waiting for the king to make a choice.

But of course as any loving father would, Megatron wanted to make sure that his son would marry no one but the best bot among them.

And so Megatron one day gathered all the suitors together and told them they’d have to pass a certain set of trials and tests and whoever succeeded at them all would be allowed to marry his son.

The first task seemed simple enough on paper: Try to climb up a slippery glass hill and gather one of the keys at the top. But the number of keys was limited. So you not only had to manage to climb up the hill, but you had to make sure you were faster than the others too or else there would be no more keys left. This trial already eliminated a few of the suitors.

And this song and dance continues with each trial essentially having an increasingly smaller number of keys the suitors must obtain until the very last trial where only one key remains.

For the last trial Megatron puts the last remaining key around the collar of a cat (or some other small animal or a Bee even) and the suitors must try to catch the animal and grab the key from its collar in order to win the last trial. The catch? Well this small animal is actually Bumblebee himself using the power of fairytale magic to turn into a cat. And the only way to catch the “cat” is not by chasing him but by simply being nice to the cat to gain his trust. Or alternatively gain the trust of Bumblebee himself. I imagine that inbetween attempts to catch the animal and even inbetween the earlier trials the remaining suitors would all occassionally spend some time alone with Bumblebee.

So the remaining suitors, unknowingly are being tested by the prince himself on their personality and compatibility each time they are alone with Bumblebee and whenever they try to catch the cat. So depending on how the remaining suitors treat Bee in his normal form and whenever he is disguised as a cat, Bee decides which suitor is trustful/someone he'd want to be married to. And once he choses he'll allow that suitor to catch him willingly and get the final key

So Tldr, Bumblebee in a sense is allowed to make the final choice himself by seeing how the suitors would treat him/the cat.

I personally have no idea though what the trials inbetween the first and last trial would be or who the final suitor would be and in what order the suitors would be disqualified. If you have any ideas or suggestions hit me with them.

If you have thoughts, questions or ideas for this AU let me know. Or heck you can post your own version if this little post of mine has inspired you in any way - and if you do please tag me in it, I would love to see more Transformers Fairy Tale AUs.

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actually would have loved to see more of elita's introspection after the "sentinel took everyone's cogs" reveal in tfone. like we got some good elita moments (e.g. her speech to orion showing that she too is an optimist despite having built a "tough it out" personality in order to survive the mines; the fact that she immediately turned to helping pax/dee/jazz during the cave-in after evacuation orders didn't work, showing that she's also one to instinctively break protocol if it means saving other bots from harm), but it would have been great to see elita's reasoning and emotions at learning about sentinel's betrayal. like yeah, ig d-16's crashout made sense given that he was physically attacked by darkwing and arguably had a stronger emotional attachment to the status quo/the "heroism" of sentinel prime, but elita is also the one who was insulted/belittled by darkwing for not having a cog and for breaking protocol, and the one who got dumped to waste management despite being so close to her goal (and she probably would have stayed there if she hadn't been on the train with orion and the crew). cave-ins don't seem unusual in the mines (everyone seems familiar with the emergency protocol), and elita as the team lead is probably the one who had to bear the responsibility of reporting dead or missing miners. after finding out that sentinel is the one who created this situation, elita should be seething just like dee: how dare the likes of sentinel prevent her from reaching her full potential as both a leader and citizen? how dare sentinel place the burden of carrying the very lives of other bots in the hands of those who have been rigged to fail? how dare sentinel set her up to chase after false hopes to improve her life and believe that it was ever a "good thing" for her to have wanted to try and "rat out" orion and dee when they first got on the train? who is to say that mechs with existing cogs, like darkwing, won't keep bullying those with newly-given cogs after sentinel is exposed? and elita didn't seem to have anything against dee before they went to the surface--if anything, dee seems to be the more reliable one compared to orion, so it would make sense if elita initially sympathised more with dee's reaction to events.

but she ultimately doesn't side with dee, even though she has a lot more invested in the system than orion. and i think tfone should have shown us more of elita's specific thoughts and reasons for why this didn't happen, to establish her as a major player in the ensuing conflict. the only other series that im familiar with outside of tfone that has elita is g1, so in my mind she's one of the "big three" in that she's established as a leader capable enough of keeping together the only major autobot resistance group against the decepticons after op leaves cybertron. if tfone's story was extended to the civil war, then the foundation for elita's later development should also be well-established.

right now it feels like she was largely relegated in the movie to "punch and get promotion" and while that's cool, i think she should have had more screentime than bee (im sorry but imo elita and bee have become kinda conjoined both in their function within the movie and in fanworks---i get the writers were pressed for time and chose to focus on the orion-dee relationship, which makes complete sense, but elita and bee were just kind of left to stand next to each other and give audience reactions when something happened shocking in the orion-dee dynamic. and elita has become b-127's mom in fan stuff ig. which again is fine and great and i love it, but what about her preexisting relationships with orion and dee? like orion was confident enough to trust elita to have his back when the cave-in happened even though elita tried to keep a hierarchy of sorts between them, dee seems to respect elita's leadership when they're on the surface and doesn't immediately shoot at her when she fights him at the end, elita even seems envious (at least to me) at orion and dee's entry into the iacon 5000---we should have had more of the push and pull among the trio's dynamic, with elita being a sort of "wild card," in that she had valid emotional grievances that would push her to side with dee, but an equally strong set of beliefs that would lead her to side with orion).

anyways more elita character development pls she's such a good character