#tf pine and priest

[featherglum]

Silly transformers ocs that came to me in a dream (except I heavily altered the designs and lore from the original vision)

In the dream, I was browsing a website similar to artfight and saw a transformers oc named Priest ( @sonia-aquamarineson 's oc Gusty was on there too, but he was called Herring. This has no bearing on the rest of the lore, it was just funny). Priest's original design was a bit different from the current one and looked more like this:

(Made with this picrew and edited a bit to be more accurate. I didn't draw him because I wanted to get his design down ASAP before forgetting everything + I wasn't very confident in drawing tf characters yet.)

His lore was very inconsistent. A picture on his page implied that his alt mode was a speaker, but the first line of his description said it was a set of silverware. But that was contradicted too at the end where it said he was "a book with pages as brittle as his trust". There was also a mention of how someone cursed him and since then he just stayed at home.

There were also these 3 pictures that were, (allegedly) related to his backstory:

(Some nun looking with disapproval, Priest's human version looking sad or scared and finally, a weird Christmas tree with a face [what])

So yeah. Priest's backstory was pretty nonsensical, but thankfully after sharing the dream with Sonia (because Gusty was there briefly) we were both so normal about the guy that we decided to make his lore make sense.

Basically:

Pine was a cringefail scientist fed up with having his lab at some abandoned, rusty old base next to a junkyard in the middle of nowhere and wanted the other cons to finally respect him. So when his inventions weren't impressive enough, he had a different plan

He was going to kidnap some autobot and then contact their friends with a typical "grr hand over the secret info or your friend will die >:-[" message. But here's the twist! Before that, he would put a bomb inside the bot's chassis, which would activate when they leave the base. So even if the friends showed up to heroically rescue their bestie, they would still die anyway! Yippee!!

He managed to catch an unsuspecting bot, which happened to be Priest, and all seemed to be going well...

.. Until it turned out Priest was about as respected by the autobots as Pine was by the decepticons. When contacted, Priest's acquaintances couldn't care less about him possibly dying. They didn't seem too keen on heroically rescuing him, but didn't hand over the information Pine wanted, either.

Pine wasn't sure what to do. Sure, the bomb was already there, just waiting to be detonated. But on the other hand... was it really worth it? What's the point of this kind of murder when no one is watching?! When there's no one the lament the loss of their loved one?! And as much as he hated to admit it, he felt some sympathy for Priest, who was as much of a loser as he was.

Pine was like "ok, kidnapping's over, your murder is cancelled. Lemme take that bomb out of your chassis real quick. Then you can go wherever you want and forget this ever happened. Sorry for wasting your time". And yeah he took that bomb out but there was another problem.

Priest didn't really have anywhere to go and didn't want to come back to the autobots, considering how little they cared about him.

And so, he ended up staying with Pine and joining the decepticons (which had little to do with the actual ideology and more with wanting their partnership to look less suspicious). Priest spends his days helping Pine with his inventions and digging through the junkyard for any interesting devices he could use as an alt mode (since there isn't much else to do there, really). As such, he changes his alt mode very often and it's a bit hard to keep up with sometimes. However, one form he often comes back to is an arcade machine (which is the design pictured in his ref!)

Also don't ask how an arcade machine ended up in space. This is a ridiculous little story about a pathetic pine tree robot and and a guy named Priest. And it was based on a dream. Weirdness is unavoidable here.

Oh that was long. If you're still reading say. Uh. Idk just say something.

And shoutout to @sonia-aquamarineson yet again for helping me figure out the lore and her contributions to Pine's design!!

If anyone has questions about them, my asks are always open

[nixii-sabre]

Play deltarune by the way. It's so good.

-Staze

P.S. If your ocs were n real illife what real life jovs would they havr

Ive played part of the first chapter and gave up at the car part its so fucking ANNOYING

Also., I like this question

Most of my non-rainworld OC's *HAVE* jobs, so I guess ill just do the rw blorbos

A while back me and Chaotic actually had an idea of an au- a modern version of Windtooth

They're jobs I think uhh

Endless was an engineer (obviously)

Niche I think was a fashionista? I could be wrong

Pines (chickens character, but still) had a cat foster home going

I think Chaotic said Clock would be a teacher

Chime would probably work alongside Endless

And the others? Not entirely sure. Angel might be a priest, Macaw would be a pole dancer, Witch wouldn't hAve a job, Macaw would be a pole dancer holy shit he'd be a pole dancer what the fuck I just realized that

He would enjoy tf out that job imm be hones

[anyu-blue]

Tag game

Answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you wanna know better :)

Tagged by @opiate-priest

Nickname: Meek

Zodiac: Aquarius/Pisces (long story)

Height: 5'5"

Last Movie: Mune: Guardian of the Moon

Last thing I googled: Scrabble Word Finder 😅

Favorite Musician: uh... Chester Bennington.

Sing stuck in my head: Diggy Hole.

Other Blogs: @my-tf-love @keeper-of-hissrad @nutpuncher-666 @theot3rulesofhyrule @meeksinsp

Do I get asks: uh... Rarely. And even when I do I have a hell of a time accessing them XP

Blogs following: I follow 521 blogs

Amount of sleep: uh. Typically 7 hours? I've barely slept the last few days except for last night (and it kicked my ass getting sleep. I've been a mess all day 😅)

Lucky number: 13? If I do have one?

What I'm wearing: my PJs still.. I should change

Dream Job: Monster maker/builder/designer for movies

Dream Trip: someplace peaceful, beautiful, tucked away, with a lovely spot to swim.

Favorite food: hmm. I'm not sure.

Play any instruments: many, but all amateur/barely

Languages: English- but I can understand basics of Japanese and German

Favorite songs: ones that come to mind rn are- Breaking the Habit (Linkin Park), The Great Divide (Celldweller), Never Too Late (Three Days Grace)

Random Fact: whether you like wine or cilantro is genetic.

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: A stroll in a slightly chill pine forest as blue-white fog rolls alongside you. Slightly ominous, slightly peaceful, but seeps into your bones no matter your take on it.

I tag @dryadsanddemons @drunkcyclonus @antipuff @littleblue-eyedbird @coralus @corvidwytch @uponthemoorsx @ionahi @pangur-and-grim @pearl-likes-pi @skellydun @frolicingintheforest @figmentforms @gunnslaughter @herzspalter @jumpingjacktrash @kokoko-sir @xensilverquill @coconutmilkyway

If you're interested 😅 not exactly 21, but its a few.

[awed-frog]

Yeah, except - I subtitle stuff for a living and wrote my thesis on this, and dubbing teams often do whatever tf they want, up to and including altering the plot and characterization. In Italy, they erased for years any mention that The Nanny’s Fran Fine was Jewish, renaming her Francesca Cacace and portraying her as ciociara (a region in Central Italy). Or, something else Italian dubbers routinely do is eliminate profanity and swap it with ‘less offensive’ swear words, because ‘offending the Virgin’ is something you just don’t do. There’s a researcher out there who wrote her PhD thesis on this, and how movies like Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction were essentially rewritten to mask any mention to the Virgin Mary. Another examples of how powerful the Church is comes from The Big Bang Theory dubbing - one character mentioned he’d been abused as a child by a priest, and they changed it to a random profession I don’t remember now. Changes in dubbing happen all the time - maybe there’s something fishy going on, but very possibly not.

Also, this doesn’t erase anything. It doesn’t erase the fact Cas died immediately after his confession and was never seen again (except in a prank call), or the fact two weeks after his death Dean was like ‘Eh, can’t be sad forever, let’s eat pie and be merry’. It doesn’t erase his appalling death and the destruction of his character’s arc. It doesn’t erase Sam’s blurry wife, his pitifully sad life spent pining for Dean and the fact nobody even mentioned whether Eileen was alive. It doesn’t erase John having a cottage in Heaven without any resolution to the whole ‘abusive father’ narrative that’s been part of the story for so long. And, more importantly, it doesn’t erase literal years of bad writing, queerbaiting, homophobia, misogyny and racism this show’s been guilty of. So let’s keep some perspective here.

Sorry you expect me to believe that a “translator went rogue” and no one caught it?

Sure Jan.

[featherglum]

Aughhhh your OC priest looks so cool…purple swag….I’d like to ask if Pine had a reason to join the Decepticons. *kicks feet in the air* Or was he just a cartoon revolution scientist doing it for being evil mwahahhaah. He’s very cool either way. Love ‘em both.

OK FIRST OF ALL

^my honest reaction to all the nice things you said about my ocs

And second:

I um. Haven't really figured out all the details of Pine's life prior to meeting Priest (other than the basic idea of him being a loser outcast who doesn't really belong and wanting to make some huge scientific breakthrough but constantly failing).

But yeah, I think his reason for joining could've been as simple as "Welp, autobots don't support my silly goofy unethical experiments, so I guess I'll go to the 'cons instead!"