#Remora Merform

[disclaimeryikes]

please please please tell me about the mermaid AU 🙏 I love mer AUs

what type of shark is Soundwave? I always think of him as either being a nurse shark or a seahorse, are the cassettes like little remoras? Or are they (mainly lazerbeak and buzzsaw) like Scuttle from the little mermaid? 👀

Hi hi!!!

For soundwave I was thinking either a white tip shark or a nursing shark like you said

White tip propaganda

White tip shark for soundwave because they are rare sharks and decently aggressive. They have been reported for mainly preying on shipwreck survivors and accidental cases.

Rare: possible backstory. They're preyed on by commercial fishers which lends to Soundwave distrusting humans and/or why Soundwave is such a good (fish) gladiator. So he has scars from close calls.

Aggressive: I do imagine Soundwave will be a siren so preying on ships (and wrecking them lol) would make sense! The accidental cases also lend to Soundwave's "means to end" type thinking. He doesn't want to but food is food.

They're also constant movers/swimmers which is funny considering Soundwave is always working for the cause

Nurse Shark Propaganda

Nursing Sharks are seen as rather friendly and Soundwave is creepy but overall friendly(or at least professional). So while he'd have the unnerving factor of a shark, he would still be overall friendly.

Nursing Sharks also have some of the most human bites because humans miscalculate how friendly they actually are. I think this works because of the loyalty factor of Soundwave and then his ability to stand up for himself when others realize he's not that loyal. (Not to say Soundwave isn't the epitome of loyal to megatron).

Cassettes

The cassettes are a bit tougher, specifically ravage (but I guess if it's idw I don't have to make her a design o_o;). There are also 2 ideas I've been rolling around with. Laserbeak and Buzzsaw would most definitely be seagulls. Rumble and Frenzy, I'm split between remora sharks or cleaning wrasse

Remora Shark Propaganda

Remora sharks latch on and follow sharks around very similar to the cassettes! They also have a tendency to share food between Shark & Remora.

Cleaning Wrasse Propaganda

Cleaning Wrasses hang around a lot more fish so Soundwave could argue better that they're more useful for the cause to keep around. They're also much sillier looking.

TLDR: White tip shark/Nursing shark Soundwave, Cleaning Wrasse/Remora Twins, regular seagull Laserbeak/Buzzsaw

[sourkilko]

@archie-sunshine your remora Minimus spoke 2 my soul

Merformers Minimus immediately had me thinking how the Magnus armor would work and the only answer was whale fall loot

Not a whale though, Ultra Magnus is/was a thresher shark, Minimus is actually just wearing a corpse now. Least it'll scare off the big fish

This is nowhere near accurate to robot, mermaid, human, or shark anatomy but it's fine we're having fun it's fine and also

He's a lot to get used to, get over it Rodimus

[mychlapci]

Hear me out on merformer soundwave, as a shark of some sorts, and his cassets are the lil remora fish that attach themselves to the shark ❤️

ooOoh i love that, that's adorable.

[robot-rarepairs-dotcom]

so minaid Merformers idea

First Aid is a remora and Minerva is a nurse shark. Instead of sticking to her, he's small enough compared to her to ride on her back as she swims. He also collects seashells for her.

STOP THATS SO CUTE

Lil fishie medics omfg and first aid collecting shells for her😭

[badlydrawntransformers]

So we gots some more mers

Spider Crab!Airachnid and a littol Remora!Laserbeak

[my-writings-and-musings]

Do you write for tfa skywarp? I was wondering if you could write something with him as a merformer with a really sweet and small remora mer S/O who will swim up and like- attach onto him and comfort him when he gets spooked or clean his scales? Idk it’s a cute idea to me, a small partner to look out for him < 3

Thank you!

I haven't before but what a great time to start and what a great idea to start with! It turned out a teeny bit angsty but it's mostly hurt/comfort and I hope you enjoy!

You didn't know what had scared him today, but as always, he'd tell you when he was ready. In the meantime, you kept the tiny buffer attachments on your arms running at full speed as you swam along his much larger frame, polishing his scales in a soothing massage. The bigger bot hadn't moved from his spot at the very back of your shared cozy sea cave since he'd swum inside in a panic half an hour earlier, but you didn't mind, and happily allowed him all the time he needed to calm down as always. More than anything, you sympathized with the poor bot as he trembled in his tightly coiled ball of fear.

When he finally calmed down enough to lift his helm for a peek in your direction, you smiled and greeted him with a little wave, buffing the scales around his shoulders to keep encouraging him to relax. The soothing stimulation worked, but as always, he moved slowly. Whatever had scared him this time must have put the big bot on a very precarious edge.

"Hey big bot." you greeted affectionately as you swum around to his helm, buffing his crest just the way he liked. Big red optics continued to keep a close watch on you, but more because knowing you were so close gave him a great deal of comfort. Seeing sadness beyond the fear in their depths, you frowned and allowed your frame to bump against as a gesture of support, hoping to entice him to unfurl and speak to you at last. "Are you okay? What happened?"

He twiddled with a piece of seaweed as he considered your question, raising his helm enough for you to see his sad frown before he spoke. "T-there was a boat, I didn't see it."

You remained quiet so he could continue, pausing your buffing so he knew he had your full attention. Uncertainty kept him quiet a little bit longer, his digits seeking out another piece of seaweed to carefully weave around the first so his servos could spend some of his anxious energy. Whatever he'd been through must have shaken him up quite a bit.

"The humans saw me." he explained, and your spark sunk as you preemptively put some of the pieces together. Bumping into the dominant species had never gone well for the two of you, even if you'd done nothing for months but keep to yourselves and never engaged their endless array of shipping networks. When Skywarp deepened his frown and shivered in residual fear you knew your guess was accurate.

"I tried to swim away, but they opened fire. They m-missed." he explained as he whimpered at the memory, curling back up and hugging his tail to his chassis to hide behind the sizable fin.

"It's not your fault." you soothed as you peeked over his tailfin, encouraging the sizable merformer with a winning smile. Though he didn't brighten, your reassurance did seem to calm him, and Skywarp finally stopped hiding long enough to face you completely. You didn't let your limited size stop you from offering a disproportionate amount of reassurance, and despite being small enough for him to hold on his servos you assumed your usual role of protector quite easily. "How about you stay in the cave tonight? I'll handle scouting for a bit, and we can try to move on to somewhere less crowded."

Skywarp considered your proposal before nodding in confirmation, a small smile of his own pulling on his lips as he swam back to the shelves of stone that had been acting as your shared sleeping space. You puffed up proudly as he got settled beneath the woven blanket of seaweed the two of you had made together for his comfort, waiting until he was comfortable before you swam out into the open ocean to do as you'd promised. No one was going to hurt your beloved mech on your watch. If anyone thought your tiny size made you any less of a guardian, they'd quickly learn just what an unfortunate mistake that was to make.

[snlangford]

Merform of Remora! See all of her info at @crashing-into-the-desert if you are interested!

Art by me @snlangford. Do not repost without permission, recolor, edit over, or claim as your own.

[omicrontheicequeen]

🐠 Merformers

Theywere something from the prehistoric oceans, old sea monsters that rarely cameclose to the land anymore. Though for some reason the predacons were coming innow. They were big enough to escort passenger bouts of humans, and now shippingtankers across the two biggest seas and even ‘nudge’ those massive boats bat onsurface.

Thesewere whale eaters, shark eaters, thankfully feral kinds of both as far as anyoneknew. There were plenty of myths above and below the surface about Predacons, oncelarge enough it was thought they did not need to eat, somehow basking energyfrom the sun, or heat from smokers in the abysses. Or maybe they were the oldseas’ magic. It was rare that one would see them, rarer that a predacon wouldbe found dead. Even then the body being pulled back to the deep when no one waslooking. There were myths that the old predacons turned into the lava feeding Titians,the beings that were so massive they were seen as living islands or sea mounts.

 Nowthough, the reef sudden when quiet, all of the feral fish and creatures runningor hiding together, predators and prey alike. Startling the mer-perople to lookaround and then up at the shadows that passed over head.

Itwas eerier in the quiet, the two massive mer-cousins not making any sounds. Radiatingthe air of predator, they were thick inhealth and to protect against the cold of both depths and the polls. The femalewas a mosasaurs breed, modeled in dark blues and greys in colors, but brighterorange markings on the arms, tail, back and the crest on her head. The male wasa megalodon type, being a blue-grey with strips that were a darker black. Theywere living fossils, though were not full sized despite being the lengths of bluewhales from nose to tail tips…and had followers?

Notjust barnacles or clinging feral remoras, but some brighter colors ofmer-people from across the pacific had either hitched a ride. Or were givingone? The closer to the reef, the sound would travel of the smaller, lightervoices talking excitedly as the Predacons dipped deeper, rolling to shed theirpassengers for the night and circling wide to find the sand flats to the north.Perfect places to bask in the afternoon light and be able to rub into the sandsto scratch itches it seemed. At least the feral threats were chased off as theisland and even some sections of the mainland were forced into a peaceful time.

Themosasaurs stretched her arms, wigging for the lake of a better term as she was onher back and sending up clouds of sand. Ramoras skittering to safer places onthe tail while the megalodon lifted up to peer at the surface and mainland.That was when they started to sing. Voices deeper then whales, relaxed but carryingover the reef as the Predacons enjoyed what had to be near hot waters of the ‘shallows.’

[snlangford]

Photoshop being a butt, so I couldn’t fully color Hattie today. So a colored sketch of Remora’s merform so far for OC tober day 5! Here’s a bit of some playing around with getting her design down!

Art by me @snlangford. Do not repost without permission, recolor, edit, or claim as your own.