#and he does this while Jazz is completely blindsided

[quibbs126]

I had a funny thought earlier for something, but I need to wait until l have a design for one of the characters, so I can’t do it now

I suppose I can explain it here, given it probably won’t get much attention beforehand anyways. Though it’s not gonna sound as funny in my poor explanation though

Basically I thought it’d be funny if my AU’s Prowl (he’s half thought up in my head), who doesn’t really talk much, just goes up to Jazz and kisses him full on the mouth, and then just walks away, leaving Jazz in complete confusion

Just because you know, there’s a way to have jazzprowl in there, even I personally am generally neutral on the ship. I don’t know if it’ll be in the AU, probably not, but I thought it was funny

[maddascanbe-blog]

Ladies and Gentlemen. I give you Little Vesperia. She's a powerful punch in a petite package! I posted her design in sketches ages ago but I was SO jazzed to finally do it digital. And I finally could do Teen Zoé and Vesperia.

Buckle up folks this is a long one.

I won't go into too much detail on Teen Zoé's fit, since I already talked about it in here. But Vesperia is where things get more interesting.

Little Vesperia obviously takes more inspiration from Queen Bee since in my rewrite Zoé idolizes Chloé so much. Zoé's father couldn't really be bothered to care about Zoé, she's been at every boarding school and summer camp he could afford while still keeping most of the money Audrey sends him. She rarely sees him, and when they are stuck together he wants her out of sight and out of mind.

Then Zoé is uprooted entirely when Audrey's infidelity is exposed. To save face she gets brought to Paris, to play at being one big happy family. She may be young, but she's wise enough to know this is just another person using her for their gain. She did face bullying at her schools, and a whole lot of nothing done about it from the teachers.

She also does not speak french. Which means that a good 70% of people have no idea how to communicate with her. And Audrey was no help. Zoé vas given so little information she didn't even KNOW she had an older sister when the was taken to France. Chloé was a complete blindside to her.

And she especially doesn't expect this intimidating teenager to kneel down to her level, and in perfect english explain that it's okay to be scared and she'll make sure Zoé won't be stuck wondering what's gonna happen next.

They spend the rest of the day learning where everyone is, and what certain things are called in french so that Zoé has a better way to communicate. They also sit down and order decorations for Zoé's room.

Zoé fully anticipated André to ignore her, but he is kind like he is in cannon. Just very busy so can only get in small conversations with her. Still, he's shown her more care than her own father had in the 9 years she's been alive. Since he'll ask her about her day, anything she may need, how school has been, etc. He also manages to get a free day to show her all the cool things in the hotel that most people don't know are there. He tries to have dinner with Chloé and Zoé as often as possible and they eat lunch together at the hotel at least once a week.

Now to Teen Zoé. I'll probably write this down in a separate post but my Idea for her is because of the limits I put on the rabbit miraculous Bunnix is no longer able to fight Timetagger, but she IS able to bring someone from that point in time to help instead. And since bringing anyone that could be recognized could potentially cause a paradox, the best solution is to bring in someone who they haven't met yet.

Design wise I like Vesperia's cannon design but it does look more like a wasp than a bee. I based her top on these biker jackets that had segments on the sides and just made the segments alternate black and yellow. I originally planned to keep the black top and yellow bottoms, but it just didn't look the way I wanted it too. I think making the jacket yellow makes it look much more like a bee. Also black mask because I like how those look better.

I think Little Vesperia looks good too, different enough from Queen Bee while still looking like she took inspiration, my favorite part was making it look like she had striped socks. While Teen Zoé looks like a logical progression while also dipping into badass as opposed to cute. Also her pupils turn gold to further differentiate her from Queen Bee.

(Bonus- Verpseria with colors closer to her originals)

[radiance1]

Mechanical eastern dragon.

Danny, ever since he was a wee little lad, about 5 or so. Really liked eastern dragons since he found out about them, so much so that he even tried to make his own little eastern dragons!

When Jack saw that, it seemed to strike something in him and suddenly Danny found himself having a more experienced hand aiding him in his crafts.

Jack started directing him towards something simpler than a dragon when he was first starting out, then over time gradually let him make certain parts of a dragon instead of all at once, then when they were all complete, they stuck them together and Danny? Well, he found out why his dad liked to build so much.

So, he started to build more and more little things, small yet complex that'll eventually come together to form his eastern dragon.

As he got older, and his parents became more and more focused on their portal project, he eventually decided that, hey, why doesn't he just make a giant version of his little crafts?

An actual dragon.

Of course, such a thing was no easy feat, so he started it just like his dad taught him too, little pieces over time that'll eventually come together to make what will essentially be his masterpiece.

However, he lacks the parts to do so.

Well, not exactly considering there's a lot of household things he could take apart for scrap, but his parents are already doing that, plus he wants way better materials that'll really shape this up to be his mastepiece.

So he took to instead drawing out how it'll look, and creating various minor pieces that'll go into powering it and stuff. He took some of the ectoplasmic batteries his parents' didn't have a use for anymore, and kinda just, fused them together?

Either way, he made a core that'll be the basis of power for his dragon when he completes! Of course, it'll have to go over multiple modifications over the years while he refines the design for his dragon, to make it able to hold more energy, more durable and far more powerful.

He won't lie, he was both extremely suspicious and immensely grateful when Sam gave him a diamond of all things to make a battery out of, because she obviously wanted something outta it. What did she want? Dibs on being one of the first too see his creation when its finished.

Very simple, plus she said her parents could buy another one anyways. Ah, the joys of being rich.

Then he heard from his parents about how their portal works, though he wasn't too interested since he was too busy building the skeleton of his dragon from the parts Sam gave him.

Tucker, who was dabbling in coding, decided that he was going to attempt to create a high level AI for Danny's project, which Danny was all for! Great materials provided by his friend, and then his other one wanted to make an AI specifically for his masterpiece?

Why would he ever say no?

Jazz has been acting pretty weird thought lately, he noticed a bit after the day he was made aware of how his parents' portal managed to work, how he still isn't sure, nor did he actually believe there was a realm of the dead but eh. He would admit, he wasn't terribly close with his sister, ever since he started up his master work, and became a fink, but he could tell something was different.

Really only because she seemed to be finally getting off his case about how much work he's putting into his dragon and less into taking care of himself properly, which she usually does by bossing him around. But he thinks she's just busy, and is too busy to even care at this point so it didn't really matter.

He was a bit blindsided by ghosts actually being real but easily accepted it to be honest. Like, he's been using stuff powered by ectoplasm that ghosts are supposedly made of, so it wasn't that much of a stretch.

Of course, a ghost fighting against another ghost was new, different from what his parents had told him, but it was nice to have someone protecting the town other than his parents at the very least.

As he got closer and closer to finishing his masterpiece, and as Tucker himself almost finishing with the AI, his grades weren't receiving that much attention, he would admit. He would look back at them when he completed it, alright? But not now.

Then came a day where he was saved from a ghost attack by Amity Park's hero, and while he was extremely tired, he recognized that bossiness, snobbish attitude and smothering from anywhere. Did he expect his sister to be the ghostly town hero? No, no he did not.

Was he going to tell anyone? Not really, he cared, but he didn't care that much about to go around talking about it. Also, wasn't his place to spill his sister's secret really.

Also, she didn't know he knew, and he planned to keep it that way for the foreseeable future.

Just as he was nearing his completion, only having just a few finishing touches before it was ready for the AI to be uploaded to it, a test popped that he apparently had to study for, with his sister already passing with flying colors (which just proves how much smarter she is than him, because she fights ghosts regularly, he doesn't, doing something much safer and what does he have to show for it?) and urging him to study. Which, with her attitude that got even worse, after becoming half-ghost and a hero, he just, couldn't take.

He's thankful that ghost came when they did, because he just couldn't stand her any longer than that. So he just popped over to Nasty Burger instead, removing himself far as he could from that fight, and of course, of course said fight had to end up there.

The universe just hates him, it seemed. On the plus side, he managed to snag the answer sheet to that C.A.T. test his sister was nagging him about, why would he study if he has this now? Besides, he has something more important to do anyways.

Then a while he's confronted by his sister's apparent alternate evil future self after he dropped his knowledge of her secret in attempts to stave off the conversation of him cheating, which, now that he thought of it, was probably better than finding out and subsequently being knocked out by his sister's alternate self.

Thankfully, when he next awoke, he found his project was perfectly untouched, and then had to leave to take the test. He'll figure out a way to deal with his sister's future self later. While later, he finished the test, and was finally glad to be able to add the last touches to his project.

Oh, right, his sister's evil self. He almost forgot about her if he was being honest. So, he took the Fenton Peeler, and was going to go find his sister before he had to be called to Nasty Burger by his parents and, well, his 'sister' was there, and his cheating was already revealed and decided it's literally whatever and shot her.

Weird that he was separated from everyone else, but it's whatever. Sure, the sauce was going to explode and kill everyone, but he believed in his sister to come and save the day, as she always did and will continue doing and he told his sister's evil self that, and was incredibly smug when it happened.

He watched the fight, cheering a bit from the sidelines because, well, c'mon. It's not everyday he watches his sister beat her future self the up, and he might not get this chance ever again so might as well enjoy it while he can.

Unfortunately, he never accounted for his sister being too weak after said fight to help their parents', Mr. Lancer, and his friends, and then he saw them explode.

Then his sister disappeared.

He, very obviously, did not take this well at all. So, after he got back home, feeling both like shit and nothing at all, he stared at the almost finished eastern dragon sitting to the side of his bedroom/workshop, the only component missing being the AI bead, and promptly broke down crying.

He didn't cry earlier, but he just, couldn't contain himself. His parents were dead, his teacher was dead, and his two only best friends were dead too, and his sister disappeared in front of him and he had no idea where she could be.

He then cried himself to sleep.

Then he woke up, took up the AI bead, and inserted it into the dragon sluggishly.

It's completion was a solemn affair, rather than the bright and happy thing he expected and wanted. No one was around to marvel at his genius, too see the end result of what he tried for years to achieve, and no sister that he could rub it in her face about either.

He had nothing. Nothing but the product created from the combined efforts from him and his friends.

So, what was he to do?

Modify it, of course!

He threw all his attention into it, installing weapons, fiddling around with the core (That he had to take out and put back in) and giving it a lot of ghost shields, and other Fenton tech.

And for what? He doesn't know, but this, giant thing, somehow capable of growing and shrinking to his choosing (he still doesn't know how, even though he made the thing), installed to the brim with Fenton tech, is his.

And he'll use it to find his goddamn sister. Sure, they didn't have the greatest relationship, and sure, she wasn't the best to get along with, but she was the only thing he had left, and whoever took her could pry her from his and his dragon's goddamn hands.

Also, who would he rub his genius in the face of, if he didn't find her?

So, he took off to the zone, got lost, fought a few ghosts with his dragon and Fenton tech, and then ended up in another dimension full of heroes and villains. Did he care about that?

Fuck no.

But apparently, being a 14-year-old and fighting people off with his mechanical dragon was not a normal thing. Sure, he may have overreacted by having said dragon through his aggressors, who were normal humans by the way, through multiple walls, but in his defense.

It was their fault for trying him when he wasn't in the best of moods.

[sternerstufftoys]

Aw, Jazz

Well chums, I don't know about you but the current global catastramozzle has left me with an acute abundance of free time on my hands, so what better way to fill it than blather about plastic robot men? Well, there's probably a thousand more productive things I could be doing, but this is what I am doing, so good sense can go do one. And the theme of the week? Why, let's begin a tour of transformers history by looking at characters introduced in the first year of the franchise, 1984. And to kick things off, it's me absolute fave: Jazz!

I should preface this by saying that since I was born in 1984, I was a mere babe when the first waves of toys hit shelves. G1 Jazz was long gone by the time I was old enough for transformer toys of my own, but while a lot of the original cast blurred into the background as relics of a mythical before-time, a lost age remembered by the ancient ones themselves (children older than 8), Jazz managed to stand out, largely down to his cartoon incarnation sounding like Hong Kong Phooey, Scatman Crothers lending his distinctive voice to both. Like Chris Latta's Starscream, the voice work stood out a mile from the rest of the G1 cast. Plus, y'know, super chill and relaxed? Jazz was teaching me cool before I even knew cool. This is why I'm so cool today.

But then again, as formative as the movie and season 3 of the cartoon were for me, the earlier seasons left relatively little mark on me, and Jazz didn't have a whole lot to do in the Marvel comic by the time I arrived to it, other than a quick turn in Simon Furman's epic Matrix Quest arc. A shame, as it would be decades before I discovered his starring role in the delightfully weird 'Man of Iron', an early UK story which was written without much knowledge of the tropes that came to shape Transformers fiction in the years to come, and owed more to Dr Who's methods of storytelling instead. I did get to enjoy Jazz's weird starring role as the hero in a choose-your-own adventured book where he faced off against Starscream and Bombshell though. Well, I say starring role. The book did boldly claim that I was the hero. So, you know, you're welcome for everything I did.

So the seed of Jazz being a hero character germinated in my brain for a few decades, and on arrival in the modern day was astonished to find that I absolutely love Jazz. Honest to god, one of my favourite characters, hands down. Cool, calm, collected, and genuinely good at his job? Everything I'm not, of course, and presumably that's why he holds such an appeal. But then, where were all the toys? Plenty of Bayverse iterations over the years, sure, which is reasonably good going for a corpse I suppose, but barely anything resembling his G1 incarnation? Blasphemy.

At the time, this was the only option available Reveal The Shield Special Ops Jazz, and despite Power of the Primes and Robots in Disguise 2015 having thrown their hats into the ring, this prepossessing pile of polymers is still the greatest Jazz out there. I said it, it's done, fight me if you want. Actually don't because we should be social distancing. But come on, how exactly do you expect to top this? It's a perfectly proportioned paragon of peaceful power, looking exactly like Jazz should when you close your eyes. Alright, the door wings might upset some, as they were suspiciously absent in the cartoon and most of the comics, but that's because the cartoon and most of the comics were wrong. Door wings are cool, and even cooler if they come with flip-up stereo speakers. It's so rare that Transformer figures come with accessories that aren't deadly weapons, and having a statement of his good-times attitude makes Jazz all the sweeter. Lucky thing too, as this second-hand model I got my mitts on had lost its gun somewhere along the way. I gave him a spare.

Transforming Jazz is a bit of a wrestle, thanks to some tight and squeaky joints that require more force than usual to get into the right configuration, and by the time you get him into car mode you're left with the worrying sense that he's staying together mostly due to all the joints trying to push themselves apart in every direction at once, and therefore cancelling each other out. Well, whatever works I guess, but it does make me slightly nervous for the future. Still, the car is just nice. Like the robot mode, it just gets everything right, not out there to pull any special tricks or blindside you with fancy gimmicks, it just does what it's supposed to and does it well. There's a complete absence of weapon ports anywhere, which feels strange in the midst of all this War for Cybertron tomfoolery, but instead the speakers fold away tidily into the interior, and the bonnet has a space for the gun to stow away. If I had it, it'd presumably make for a snug fit, but instead I have to awkwardly wedge the substitute pistol in there. It sort of works.

This toy is ten frigging years old, and that's just insane. But truth be told, it has endured due to simply being fantastic. If there ever is a WFC iteration of Jazz, I'll need a hell of an incentive to pick it up and replace this old boy. He's just that cool.