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8, 9, 11 and 19 for nightpurr and havoc 👁💖

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Wooo thank youuuu! I once again have to mention that I shamefully have not read the comics so I am doing my best 👍

8. The Empyrean Suite starts playing out of nowhere. How does your OC react?

Nightpurr might not even recognize it. They live pretty cut off from everything that's going on with Cybertron and their fellow Cybertronians and very much tend to be out of the loop with these things. Probably just starts kinda vibing to it until someone gives them a mortified look. Not their fault if it's a bop.

Havoc does not like it. Full-body shudder (or whatever the bot equivalent is). Turn that shit off. It's not even because of the connotations it's got now; there's already a whole bunch of bad memories attached to the damn tune from before all that. I imagine she used to hear it all the time back in the good old days. To her, it comes with an expectation of obedience. Fall in line. Good soldier.

I only have information the wiki gave me, but it seems like that kind of song, given that Ultra Magnus likes it. It was already bad enough for Havoc, there was absolutely no need to go and Make It Worse.

9. Imagine your OC somehow ascends to Primehood. Do they take on a different name? What sort of Prime would they be?

As if naming these fuckers once isn't hard enough, my god /j

Nightpurr: Nightpurr would hate the responsibility, but they'd probably be a somewhat good Prime. At the very least, they would always try to be kind and just. It's when others aren't that it gets tricky, because Nightpurr does not want to cause harm, and wants to see the best in people, so they'd have difficulty making the hard decisions. They would hate to be a Prime. So long as there's no terrible repercussions, they'd more than likely run away to live among animals somewhere, away from it all. Hakuna Matata goodbye.

As for a name, I don't have a specific one because I'm terrible with naming actually, but it'd have to be something cat related. Felidae Prime? Felinus. Felidaemus. Hmm that looks weird. Whiskers Prime. Idk.

Havoc: Oh Havoc would be decent at it actually. She's gentle and soft and her whole philosophy is "everyone should do whatever they want forever", along with being a trained medic, but she's also assertive and strong and can defend herself and others if she has to. Unlike Nightpurr, while Havoc may also not necessarily want the responsibility of being a Prime, she'd still take it as an honor and vow to do her utmost best.

Whirl would never shut up about it if Havoc became a Prime btw. Just fucking imagine lmao.

Totally stumped on names though. Prime names are hard. It'd have to be a complete change, considering that "Havoc" doesn't suit her at all in the first place. Her humansona/holoform is named Mercy, but that feels a little too on the nose for a Prime name. Taking suggestions.

11. Are there any bots they really clash with? (This could be the pettiest of squabbling to full-blown nemeses!)

Nightpurr: Blitzwing lmaoo! If it wasn't for Ratbyte they would have murdered him on sight (not literally but. Grrrrr). They do not get along. They are arguing constantly. Nightpurr is gonna kill a man for that stupid fucking accent. But alas you cannot choose your in-laws. He is family. Whether they like it or not. Ratty ily but you have the worst taste in men.

(This is affectionate I love my husband in law)

Havoc: This is another question that'll be easier to answer once I'm familiar with the comics, because I just don't know enough about all of the characters to really be able to tell. Right now, I can't think of anyone. There's enough bots that have issues with Havoc, like Functionists or the DJD obviously, but none of those are personal.

Funny thing is, if you asked anyone else, they'd be likely to tell you it's Whirl. Which isn't true, and anyone that knows Havoc well enough can plainly see that she likes him, but those that don't know her are definitely going to assume the opposite. Havoc is known to be kind and gentle, and have good bedside manner, and always try to make herself seem smaller than she is, and whenever Whirl shows up it's like a switch gets flipped. The moment he enters the med bay she's cussing him out for wasting their resources by getting his aft fucked up again, and they'll be nonstop arguing the entire time she's fixing him.

But she's still fixing him, every time. And the thing is simply that Whirl would hate to be coddled, and Havoc knows this. Plus, it actually says a great deal that she's comfortable enough to be like this with him without being worried about being judged and mistrusted in her field. She knows he can take it.

But yeah, if you don't know her that well, it definitely just looks like those two are constantly at each other's throats.

19. Oh no! We've jumped universes, and now everyone's all weird and Wrong! What is your OC's Shattered Glass counterpart like?

Nightpurr: Impatient, energetic, sadistic. Nightpurr is neutral, and will remain neutral, but it's always been because they prefer solitude and peace over all the dramatics of the war. They like to sit quietly for endless hours and just look at animals, they love nature.

SG Nightpurr therefore would be the complete opposite, but I think they should still be fond of creatures, just in a different way. Perhaps instead of just respecting and studying them from a distance, this Nightpurr forces them to do their bidding, or catches them and keeps them in cages so they can look at them any time they want. They don't have the patience or introspection to befriend any critters, but they're going to be known as the Animal Guy whether the animals like it or not.

Havoc: Havoc's regular lore is that she's a gentle warframe who wanted to heal instead of hurt. So I'm imagining Shattered Glass Havoc's lore to be lowkey so funny. Just. Assigned to be a medic but she craves violence.

Since Mayhem was the one of the two more okay with being a soldier, and he was always Havoc's rock, so to speak, helping her keep going and do thing she did not want to do, it should be flipped in SG. Mayhem is the sweeter, soft one, and Havoc is angry and violent but holds herself back because of her friend. Until he dies, because Mayhem's death haunting the narrative is always going to happen, and in SG it's what frees Havoc from her last shackle and unleashes her. There will be carnage.

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I just know that if Dustspin and Blades ever got human married, Blades would be the one to wear the dress. Dusty is a practical-minded tomboy Wrecker gal. Blades enjoyed playing dress-up in Dani's body way too much. I rest my case.

Also imagining a scenario where they get turned into humans for whatever reason and get presented with clothes to wear since they don't have any of their own, only Dusty gets a pretty, feminine dress and Blades gets loose-fitting cargo pants. And they take one look at their outfits and at each other and both simultaneously decide to swap. Ain't no way she's wearing that. He looks better in it anyway. They just pull a team rocket every time. The humans aren't sure if they did this on purpose or if they misunderstood the intent.

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Imagining Blades meeting a Decepticon for the first time, and it's the most terrifying-looking bot he's ever seen. Only for Dustspin next to him to go "ugh, it's my ex."

Just. Imagine his face. What do you mean that is your ex?

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Thinking about Dustspin finally telling the rescue team about her history. The bots slept through the war, and the humans never had any connections to it, so none of them would know about her past. Optimus would've left it up to her to tell them if she chose to, and it'll take her a long time to finally do it. First, because it's none of their business, then, because she's too ashamed, and afraid. But she doesn't want to lie to them. They deserve to know who they're living with.

Thinking about her being worried that Blades especially will reject her for it, while also fully believing he should. He'd be an idiot if he didn't, but then again, he's too naive, they all are, even if they don't realize it.

Thinking about how they would feel betrayed to find out she used to be a Decepticon and a traitor, even if they do eventually move past it like everyone else did. It's quite a lot to take in, after all.

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All the information I have so far on my girl Dustspin ✈️✨️

Dustspin is made primarily for the Rescue Bots continuity, which automatically puts her into TfP, RiD and RBA as well. She's shipped with Blades because he's my sweet pookie and I must bestow so much love upon him.

She's formerly been mentioned here, here and here.

Dustspin is an Autobot and a member of the Wreckers. Her alt mode is a stunt plane (I have not decided on a specific model as I'm unfamiliar with the breeds) and she loves pulling off risky high-speed maneuvers mid-flight. It helps her clear her head.

Personality wise, she's your typical Wrecker: tough, battle-hardened, and a quick thinker, and she has a playful side that only comes out once she feels comfortable. However, she also carries a lot of trauma from a dark past, which she's never fully healed from. Lastly, she also develops an interest in Earth media.

Backstory under the cut

> Cybertron, the War, and its impact

When the war first broke out, Dustspin sided with the Autobots. Thanks to her ability to outmaneuver enemies and other dangers in flight, she was often utilized to fly into Decepticon-claimed spaces to gather intel, or to aid with aerial attacks. Which is how she first met Hazard – a handsome, intelligent and skilled bot, who seemed just as smitten with her as she was with them. Only, unfortunately, Hazard was a loyal Decepticon.

At first they would meet in secret, cross enemy lines for dates or even sneak away from the battlefield to see each other. But Hazard was always committed to the Decepticon cause, and though they did have strong feelings for Dustspin, they failed to understand why she would stand with the Autobots.

Loyal as they were, the opportunity presented to them didn't go unnoticed. Whether they thought of it themself or if someone found out about their love and coerced them, it doesn't matter in the end, because they saw no issue with the plan: Dustspin was an incredibly valuable source of inside information on the enemy.

Dustspin never truly meant to cause harm to the bots that trusted her, but she was young, and foolish, and she loved Hazard. She loved them more than any stupid war trying to come between them, more than pointless factions. And if they were so deeply, utterly and truly convinced that the Decepticons were right... then maybe it was Dustspin who had it wrong.

The fallout was drastic. The impact of Dustspin's betrayal left those she'd fought with reeling, struggling to take back any semblance of control after the breach of security she'd left them with. Many plans now revealed and far too many crucial details known to the Decepticons, the number of consequential casualties exceeded more than a few.

But it was fine, right? Hazard assured her that she'd done the right thing. And they were together now, finally on the same side and no longer having to hide.

Dustspin never felt quite comfortable among the Decepticons, but she loved Hazard, so she willed herself content. Even when their true colors became more and more blatant, she continued to turn a blind eye to them. How could they possibly be bad, after all, when they loved her so much? They were cold, and unkind, and hungry for power, but they did love their sweet little Dustspin. They never laid a servo on her, even when she misbehaved or spoke out of turn, even when her thoughts veered back to the Autobot propaganda she'd been fed, no matter how hard they tried to show her the truth in the way of the Decepticons. Still, a part of her, somewhere, was never fully convinced.

It was a long time before Dustspin finally gathered the courage and the needed self-reflection to end it. Far too long – far too many battles, far too many deaths. Each had made it harder and harder for her to even hope she could ever return to her old life, but in the end, even that did not matter. She finally knew that Hazard was a monster, no matter how much she loved them or how much they loved her, and she knew she needed to get out, no matter what. If only to finally no longer be complicit in the slaughter of those who used to be her allies.

She never expected the Autobots to trust her again. But Optimus Prime is kind, and even in the worst of times, he wants to believe in second chances. It wasn't an easy road, and it took a very long time and a lot of hard work, but, eventually, Dustspin managed to regain the trust of those she'd betrayed.

The only one who never truly forgave her was herself.

Fueled by self-loathing and anger, Dustspin joined the Wreckers, throwing herself into danger over and over again in an attempt to prove her loyalty, to make up for what she'd done. She didn't care if it killed her. In her mind, she deserved it, and she doubted she'd truly be mourned anyhow. The primary thing that separated her from the others was most certainly her respect for authority – terrified of being marked a traitor once more, Dustspin follows orders without question. She wouldn't dream of defying them, even if she were to be directly ordered to lay down her own life, she wouldn't as much as hesitate. The Autobots took her back, and she owes them everything, including her own spark, if they ask for it.

> Griffin Rock

Following a multitude of space shenanigans and various escapades, Dustspin wound up on the Jackhammer with Wheeljack, eventually headed toward Earth. Now, working directly under Optimus Prime himself was both an honor and utterly nerve-wrecking. As much as she reveres him, even with over a million years having passed, Dustspin can't look him in the optics without guilt. And, while she respects her Prime, she didn't quite understand his affinity for those tiny natives of this planet. They just looked squishy and kind of gross to her.

Sensing that Dustspin would do well without the pressure of having Optimus breathing down her neck at all times, and could use quite a lot of human-bonding-time, and not to mention non-Wrecker team building (bless her, she's used to being surrounded by tough bastards that can take what she dishes out and vice versa), Optimus took her to Griffin Rock. She was not a fan.

There was no way Dustspin was going to defer to a bunch of squishy alien critters. She begrudgingly takes orders from Chief Burns – because Optimus Prime himself directly told her to – but that's it. And she will go on rescue missions, because she is a loyal Autobot and of course she would never let any living creature come to harm if she could help it – never again – but that does not mean she'll like it. She will be complaining the whole time.

She clashes with Blades by far the most. When Dustspin first met him, she felt nothing but contempt for the copter bot. Everything about him rubbed her the wrong way. His constant whining, his anxious nature, the fear of practically everything... when he'd been in stasis throughout the entire war. He never had to experience any of its horrors, none of the pain, none of the terror. He had no right to be the way he was. He'd never been given a reason to be afraid. To say it quite frankly, his innocence pissed her off to unspeakable levels.

Blades, meanwhile, didn't like Dustspin much better himself. A talented flier and a powerful warrior, she's everything he's not, and while he tries not to let these things get to him, sometimes they do. Especially when Dani managed to befriend Dustspin (okay, maybe some of these humans are pretty alright) and got hooked on high-speed stunt flights, inadvertedly leaving Blades without his partner. Dani never meant to make him feel replaced, of course. But she couldn't deny that she was having the time of her life in Dustspin's pilot seat. So long as she kept her hands to herself and away from the controls, Dustspin even found herself enjoying the enthusiastic company.

Then, gradually, things shifted. Dustspin slowly got used to her new family, established herself as part of the team, and started to soften, just a bit. She also discovered that human television is incredibly entertaining – and suddenly, she and Blades would spend their free time together, binging Cupcake Hoarders, and arguing less and less. And maybe it's not his fault that he was in stasis, and maybe she's really just jealous that he was lucky enough to never have anything truly bad happen to him. Maybe it's good that it didn't. Who else among the Autobots can still say they hold any innocence? He's sweet, and he is brave – despite being scared of just about everything, he doesn't let it stop him – and, above all, he is good. For a cynical Wrecker, that's a rare thing to see, much less to believe.

And it's really not his fault he missed the war. Doesn't she think he'd have changed that if he could have? So many of his friends are dead, his entire planet is gone, and he wasn't even there to help. As much as he knows he likely wouldn't have made much of a difference, he'd give everything for the chance to at least try. And Dustspin doesn't really know how to respond to that.

Instead, she shows him how to fly. Sure, he knows how to get off the ground, but he doesn't truly understand it. Doesn't see the motivation, the freedom, the beauty of it. Dustspin coaxes him into going on flights with her, to try to show him that it can be fun if he lets it. Blades is never going to love flying, but he learns to at least appreciate it. Especially when Dustspin manages to get him high enough to go over the cloud cover, where the clouds right beneath you make it feel like you're not even that high up, and the view is downright breathtaking. He still prefers staying on the ground and watching movies, but, alright, maybe it's not that bad. With a friend.

> What comes after

Dustspin doesn't live in Griffin Rock permanently. Rather, she visits periodically, always showing up unannounced and then staying anywhere from a few days to a couple weeks at a time before moving on again. Sometimes she travels around with Wheeljack, looking for trouble; other times she joins up with Team Prime to help them on their missions, as, unlike the Rescue Bot team, she's more than experienced enough to handle Decepticons. Sometimes she's just by herself, exploring the planet she now calls home. Being alone is the only time she can feel at peace, away from all the pressure of proving herself and yet never feeling worthy of anyone's approval. But even so, she always comes back.

Everyone knows when Dustspin and Blades begin to develop feelings for each other. Blades especially is just painfully obvious, it's almost embarrassing to watch. Dustspin is far more subtle, but her visits become more and more frequent, and she's noticably less feisty around him. Nobody is surprised when the two of them start sneaking off inbetween missions (except maybe Heatwave, who really didn't think Blades could pull that).

There's a whole lot of healing that needs to be done though. Neither of them believes themselves to be worthy of the other. Blades is too sweet, too innocent to be with someone broken and blood-stained like her. Dustspin is fearless and competent and could do far better than an aerial bot with a fear of heights. And yet, somehow, it works just right. Dustspin, for the first time, finally gets to experience what love is truly supposed to be like; and she will protect it with all that she has to give.

Which she's going to have to prove when Hazard makes an appearance on Earth.

I haven't seen RiD or RBA yet, but Dustspin is going to settle down permanently on Griffin Rock to be with Blades, so she's going to be involved in the Academy stuff too. Good luck to those kids!

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I also really want to make an oc who's an Autobot who has a forbidden relationship with a Decepticon, and instead of the con being magically changed by love or whatever and turning good, it's the Autobot who changes sides to be with them. And to be clear, I do not want this to be healthy. Manipulate the hell outta that poor thing. Force them to do evil things to their former friends in the name of love. We love pain and suffering.

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Morbot x Galatea doesn't make real sense bc that thing isn't alive afaik but you can't take it from me. The whole competition episode Galatea is just kind of looking at him like "ok but hear me out".

All the other bots and their humans are trying to prove that they're the better rescuers instead of this clearly evil robot meanwhile Galatea's all "I'm with you but he do be kinda fine tho"

Galatea (created for evil purposes but gained sentience and chose to be good) and Morbot (less sentient but Galatea is trying so hard to appeal to him) (she doesn't quite grasp that he's not a person)

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Fellas I was trying so hard not to make any new ocs before I even watched the show. And what can i say except ✨️i failed✨️

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Re: This OC

I think I'm gonna call her Dustspin, it suits her better than the other options I had. Plus Blades can call her Dusty, which annoys her greatly and she corrects him every time, until that memory loss episode where fake Blades calls her Dustspin and she gets downright offended because it's Dusty.

I'm probably gonna keep her being a Wrecker, because that dynamic with Blades is so good (me and the bad bitch i pulled by being autistic). Plus it's the best way to explain why she's new to Earth - she just showed up with Wheeljack. Wheeljack also calls her Dusty, but he's allowed to because, well, you try to stop him. It's cool. After all they've been through together, he has nickname privileges (as does Bulkhead). They're bros. They should hang out more. Miko included.

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1, 3, and 6 for the ask game?

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Tysm you're so nice to me <3 yippie i get to play!!

1. What is your OC's full name, if they have one? (as in Rodimus of Nyon, Getaway of the Corcapsia Incursion etc.)

None of my OCs really have a full name that includes their place of origin, mainly because I'm just not familiar enough with that specific part of lore to be able to reasonably decide where they should be from. One day I may win the war against adhd and read the comics and then I shall update you! Sorry I don't have a cool answer for you.

However, one guy whose name I shorten is Stratos, whose full name is Crux Stratos R3. Honestly it just uhh. Sounded good. That's pretty much it, lame as it is. The R3 is actually a little reference to my cat Aria (Ari/Ri/Ree). Stratos doesn't know they're named after my baby <3

And of course there's PHANTOM 2918-4, who doesn't even have a proper name, just a frame number. Everyone just calls her Phantom, but in TF1!Verse specifically, there's just. A bunch of Phantoms. She doesn't have her own name until she renames herself Bird.

3. What's the earliest significant story event they can remember/were involved in?

Skyline: Skyline was "born" just after the demise of the 13 Primes, though she was lucky enough to have kept her cog. She never saw the Primes or the original High Guard with her own optics, but she "grew up" hearing countless first-hand stories of them.

The first significant historical event she witnessed herself was Sentinel Prime's betrayal. She was directly involved too, being present when he'd captured the High Guard alongside D-16. Defending his life is what cost her her wings, and since Skyline lost consciousness shortly after, she didn't get to witness all that happened afterwards. All she knows is that when she woke up, Sentinel was dead and D-16 was gone. Also Orion was Jesus now. World's most disorienting nap.

6. What is their relationship with their alt mode? Are they content with it? Do they use it whenever they get a chance, or only when absolutely necessary?

Stormwind: Very mixed feelings on a good day. I'd really say she's not fond of it at all, but the thing is, Stormwind herself doesn't even mind it. What she hates is just how society treats her because if it. Stormwind's alt mode is a large dog, which back in the Functionist days was, as one can imagine, not very fun. By now she's legally no longer being discriminated against, but that's just on paper; people are always going to be assholes sometimes. She gets a lot of inappropriate jokes and "dog" comments on a regular basis.

The part that's really annoying is the instincts that come with it. In my mind, beast mode bots will always have some remnant of animal behavior from the species they're modeled after (because otherwise where's the fun in that), and it really doesn't help beat the allegations. Stormwind tries to surpress that side of herself to the best of her ability, because she's already enough of a societal outcast without actually behaving like an animal. Deep down though, she'd love to just get to be herself. But in the world she lives in, it's not really an option.

She uses her alt mode when it's necessary, like in battle or when she needs to run fast, but otherwise she prefers to avoid it. Though, once again, she personally does not dislike herself, she'd still change her alt mode to a more "socially acceptable" one if she had the option to. She really just wants to live a normal life.

Havoc: Havoc never felt right with her frame. It doesn't suit her. Being an armored vehicle doesn't suit her. It's less of an alt mode issue and more of a frame type issue in general, but it still applies. Girl's got the whole package of frame dysphoria.

That said though, she also does not want to change it. She thought about it, but the thing is - she wants to be seen as who she is on the inside the way she is now, without having to change the way she presents herself. She felt differently in the past, before change was ever within the realm of possibility, but now that it is and she's been allowed freedom of choice, her past is a part of her. Even the frame that she hates is a part of her, and she wouldn't be herself if she freed herself of it. Wouldn't it be a disservice to all her past struggles if she were to simply erase proof of them? Maybe she's just stuck in the past. Or maybe a part of her just likes to resemble her brother. But Havoc is fine with who she is – it's other people that have the issues.

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I can't think of anything here for Stratos or Havoc, but hello hi Livewire. This is THE Livewire question. And you did say anybody. I'm gonna take this and run.

Livewire: Heehee oh boy. Rat, ik you already know this, but shush. I wanna answer it. Livewire's backstory is so juicy (horrific).

I never actually made a proper post about her, so. Livewire went to boot camp along with Bumblebee and Bulkhead, so they marginally know each other, though they weren't in contact until she joined the team on Earth. But, she did make friends with Longarm. He was her best friend, even - his quiet, kinda nerdy demeanor perfectly balanced out her hotheaded self; they got along from the start. So much so, in fact, that they remained best friends even after graduating. A lot of bots around them even assumed they'd end up a couple, but honestly he was like a brother to her.

Longarm supported Livewire throughout her career, and she was the first to congratulate him when he became a Prime. There's no one in the world she was closer to than him - or so she thought.

Her world came crashing down when it was revealed that Longarm, as she knew him, had never even existed. When she found out about him - caught him red handed, saw him for the first time as his true self - she held a gun, had it pointed at him. He did not even seem remorseful. The most he did, instead of simply killing her outright, was making her the offer to join him. He gave her that one chance, though he must've known she'd never take it. Perhaps that in itself was a brief show of a remnant of care he might've actually held for her, but it was less than insignificant when faced with the truth.

Livewire knew who he was now, and she had him at gunpoint. A real Autobot would have taken the shot. But she'd loved him. Her brother, she'd loved him too much, that even now that she saw the monster she could not being herself to pull the trigger. She let him go - and she knows full well that the blame for every death that followed is on her.

Comet: It's not quite the same as Livewire, though Livewire does set the bar quite high, but Comet did think she could trust her team. She'd have never hesitated to entrust her very life to any one of them, not before it all fell apart. And then, the war began, and Whiplash joined the Decepticons out of her own volition. Skyline left as well, though her case was a bit more complex, and Comet didn't blame her initially. But still, millions of years later, they both paid the price.

NHG: The New High Guard as a whole have also, obviously, been betrayed by Sentinel. I'm putting this as its own thing rather than listing each of them individually, but as Sentinel Prime's elite force, one can expect that they took the reveal rather hard.

Comet was never all too fond of him, she always felt that something about him was off, but she never would have expected this. And either way, she was loyal to him, or else she would've never been granted her position. He trusted her not to question him, and rightfully so.

The others had varying reactions. Skyline's was expectedly the worst, given what he was doing to D-16, but then he crossed yet another line when he broke her wings in front of the eyes of her team. Even if Orion hadn't revealed his true face to the rest of Iacon, he would not have come back from that one.

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For the ask game thing!

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22. Do they have any disabilities? How does it impact them on their job?

Havoc: I wouldn't say she does. I mean, she's probably got some flavor of neurodivergency going on, but I think that's mostly because I can't seem to make a neurotypical character, they all end up with a touch of my tism. But aside from being a bit socially awkward, it hasn't affected her much; neither of her jobs have required that as a skill.

Thankfully, Havoc doesn't have any physical disabilities. Poor girl's already going through enough.

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Behold,

Stormwind 🐕

my ouppy

She has a root mode, I just. Okay, I'm gonna level with you guys, I just really don't like drawing bots. Even if sometimes I manage to make them come out looking halfway decent, it takes days and I'm just not having a lot of fun. But I love drawing animals, so. Dog mode. Enjoy it. Imagine her regular bot mode in your mind. Thank you.

Stormwind's primary verse is IDW/MTMTE, but she'll have a TfP version too, and maaaybeee TfA as well - she's shipped with Ultra Magnus, and I can't resist the au potential. She'll have different variants just as he does for each.

I don't actually have a lot of info on her yet, because my brain is refusing to cooperate, but hopefully the universe will beam a vision into my mind soon! The general idea was "Ultra Magnus's guard dog" and it spiraled from there. But, as in, she's loyal to him and sorta follows him around, and she got that title as a rather insulting reference to her alt mode.

More info under the cut because I have received the universe beam while making this post!

Stormwind has been facing discrimination for her alt mode her whole life, but in pre-war times she was generally tolerated for being useful. Though higher caste bots would often treat her as little more than an actual dog, she's really quite intelligent - perhaps not genius levels of smart, but she's certainly not stupid. Basically, she's just a normal person, who just happens to turn into a dog.

Enter Ultra Magnus. For reasons Stormwind can't quite understand, she clicks with him. He's always treated her with a sort of base respect that she does not usually receive, even from the most well-meaning of bots. She can't quite put her finger on it, but it's as if he just... gets it, somehow. And so, in turn, he's earned her respect - and a loyal soldier who stands at his side. Whether he asks her to or not. (He did not ask. Congrats on the dog buddy).

And yet - however much of a person she may be, she cannot ever truly escape her base instincts. You can take "bots with animal alt modes have animal behaviors" from my cold dead hands. And the instincts of a dog are simple: to chase, to hunt, yes, but also, to follow orders. Loyalty. But there are few she can show such loyalty to, without taking the risk of being taken advantage of. Few who would still see her as an equal even if she allowed herself to follow her true nature.

The paradox lies in the duality: Stormwind desperately wants to be seen as a person, an equal. And yet she has the cravings of a dog on a deep, instinctual level.

He's meticulous, but it works for her: she likes clear orders. She's good at them. But really, Stormwind isn't quite as high-strung as Magnus is. She can be fun, so long as he's not around. But better be careful, because if you ever try to mess with her, she will tattle. Plus, she's got a bit of an anger problem, especially if you make any offensive dog comments. As embarrassed as she may be about having this reaction, she's going to bite, and it will not be fun.

As the mechanimal species her alt mode is based on is typically used as a hunting dog, Stormwind possesses above average endurance. She may not be the fastest beast around, but she makes up for it by being able to run for days without tiring, so long as ample fuel is provided. This is an advanced pursuit predator, able to run nearly anything down. On top of that, she also possesses great physical strength - though, not to insane levels - and a bite force so strong she can easily rip through metal. So, again, it's best not to piss her off, unless you're looking to get a couple new piercings in your armor.

Bonus: Her holoform is a dog. Just a normal dog. She is not pleased with this, but it does look strikingly similar to her actual alt form, and though she won't admit it, it feels a lot more comfortable to her than a human body. Plus, it has the added bonus of being inconspicuous, because who'd ever suspect the dog?

[childrenof217]

Let me tell you about Galatea

Thanks @mega-byte for asking about her and motivating me to finally type it all out. I've been wanting to do it for months. Seriously I made her in November.

HEEHEE okay so

Galatea is originally a TFA oc, but then I watched TFP and it just worked so well that I HAD to give her a TFP version too. And since Rescue Bots takes place in the same universe it now works even better.

I technically have art of her but it came out so so bad and I've been meaning to re-do it for months. Galatea is large and white, with a few pale purple details (her TFA version is either a white van or a camper), with purple optics in her TFA form and a screen-face in TFP. She talks with a rather monotone AI-voice.

You can have this. I don't want to talk about the rest of it lmao

Let's start with TFA because that's the original. In the first season especially, the humans celebrate the Autobots as great heroes, even when the danger they protect the city from is only there because of them. Like Starscream attacking in the very beginning. Somehow nobody acknowledges that that would not have happened without the Autobots being present in the first place (they sort of start to in later seasons but still, nobody is even remotely serious enough about it).

Enter Alexander Spanos, a local inventor and cartoon villain™. He sees the Autobots as the reason for all the disasters that keep happening and is convinced they are the real enemy, so he devises a weapon to meet them at their own level: his own self-made "transformer", based on Cybertronians but fully human-made and operated with an advanced AI-system. He names her Galatea, after the statue-turned-human from greek myth. Alex calls himself her father, and develops a bit of a god complex about having essentially created life.

Then, through magic key shenanigans or whatever, Galatea develops sentience. She begins to question her father's ideals - he programmed her to "protect humanity", but the Autobots are protecting humanity as well, so why is she told to consider them the enemy? It does not make sense. Alex continues to manipulate her into working for him, making her believe she's doing the right thing, and since he is her father and creator, she initially believes that surely he knows best, but eventually the illusion crumbles. [I have it play out as a funny "slightly insane-evil scientist and his very sweet rebellious teenage daughter" thing, but the more you think about it, the more fucked up it gets]

She finally stands up to him, and then shit goes down because he decides to take her offline, since she's now a "broken machine" to him - despite calling himself her father, he never truly saw her as a person. The Autobots manage to stop him and save the day, and adopt Galatea as one of their own. She has a lot to learn about being alive, and will definitely face a lot of discrimination back on Cybertron for not being a "real" bot, but she'll find her place eventually.

Now, onto her TFP version. I wasn't even thinking about adding her there, until that one episode happens in which M.E.C.H essentially do the exact same thing when they clone Optimus. So. Holy fuck Galatea canon?

In TFP, Galatea is a MECH-made bot, and though there's no magic key in this verse, her AI just gains sentience on its own because this is a cartoon and I can do what I want. Alex is also a good guy in this, because we already have a villain in Cylas. TFP!Alex is one of the MECH scientists developing her, and gets attached to her (referencing him being her father). He's the one to recognize that she is more than a machine, and eventually helps her escape MECH, probably giving his own life for her freedom (I haven't hashed out the details, but Cylas would not let him live).

And even aside from that, TFP!Galatea is a lot darker than her counterpart.

Because, where did MECH get the blueprints for a Cybertronian's inner workings? Breakdown's corpse. Cylas may have gotten the outer armor, but Galatea was built with the inner parts, including a reset processor and spark chamber. And it affects her.

Breakdown is dead. Galatea is 100% her own person. But sometimes, there's just a ghost of him, like a sense of deja-vu. She recognizes places she's never been to, knows things she has no way of knowing. She can read and speak Cybertronian despite not being programmed to. It gets real bad once Knockout changes sides and has to interact with her, because even though they've never met, she can't get over the innate sense that she knows him. And unfortunately she was also built using Breakdown's frame as a base, so to Knockout it's just incredibly uncanny and uncomfortable, especially because somehow Galatea just knows little details about him that he's certain he's never told her about.

Have some screenshots of when I was developing her because that's easier than writing it down again;

I don't think I want to ship them because that would just feel far too weird (I considered it initially but it feels so wrong). But they are family. In a way. She grows on him. My friend called her his daughter and yeah that feels about right.

Now, what prompted all this, is that I was informed that Rescue Bots takes place in the same universe as TFP, at roughly the same time. Which means that there is a very good chance that Optimus would send Galatea to Griffin Rock, so she could train there and learn to be a person, without having to deal with Decepticon attacks on a regular basis, because she's not ready for that.

And literally as I was talking about this with a friend, this episode happened. Which is. Hm. Why does it look like baby Galatea.

And since the robo-baby never shows up again after its one episode (correct me if I'm wrong) I have decided to yoink it. My baby now. New oc. There's a good chance its AI could develop independence too, especially if Doc Greene updates it with some Galatea-based tech, which, let's be real, he wouldn't even hesitate. And so, Galatea adopts a child. I haven't seen Rescue Bots Academy, but the idea of the baby becoming a member once its older intrigues me a lot too.

Only problem is that now I gotta name the damn thing.

[childrenof217]

15 and 20 from the intimacy ask game :)

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Aw yeah!! Sorry it took a moment, my brain is but a fickle creature and it does not always want to work with me. I see your asks and ilysm <3

Peanits under the cut as usual, but the second question wound up being entirely sexless so I'm blasting it proudly

20. besides sex, what other forms of physical affection or intimacy are meaningful to them?

Trixie: I've mentioned this before in this post; Trixie's species practices social grooming! So if she actually likes someone, those instincts are going to come to the surface. It's pretty convenient, considering her organic little claws can fit into all the tight gaps in a mech's armor to clean out the dirt stuck in them. It's very rare for Trixie to care about someone enough to be willing to do this though, and if she does, they better return the favor - or she'll be genuinely hurt.

Crux Stratos: My man just wants to be held. He'll take a really good, long cuddle session over interfacing any day. Stratos could never ask for it when all his flings were casual, but once he's more comfortable in a proper relationship, he's gonna be so touchy. He's the king of tasteful PDA: never crosses the line, never too much, and yet he's somehow always got at least one servo around Swerve's back or on his shoulder every chance he gets. He's very much the type to kiss Swerve's hand in greeting, even if he has to kneel down to be able to reach it.

Stratos enjoys movie dates especially, because of the prospect of getting to cuddle the whole time it's playing. Even during movie nights when the whole crew is present, he won't hesitate to pull Swerve onto his lap just to hold him to his chassis.

15. have they ever had a surprising (sexual or nonsexual) experience that opened their eyes to new desires or kinks, if yes what was it?

Skyline: Two words. Cog hole. She did not know those things were sensitive and oh boy is she going to make the very most of her newfound knowledge. Sweet merciful Primus, where has this been all her life? She loves that she can bring her little Sparkmate so close to overloading with just the slightest touch of his chassis.

He definitely gave her a size kink too. She did not know she was into having a much smaller partner but now that she's had a taste she can't get enough.

Stormwind: Stormwind always thought she had a thing for bigger bots. And specifically that she enjoyed the thought of being dominated by one. That probably is at least in part why she'd developed a bit of a crush on Ultra Magnus. And then - well. That happened. Naturally, she was too upset about the lies at first for anything else to even cross her mind, but once she got more used to the new reality? Oh fuck I'm still into it.

Stormwind's alt mode being the Cybertronian equivalent of a fox hound did not make the situation better. She was having a lot of revelations about herself that day.

Bluescreen: This one time during some battle or other, Bluescreen nearly got hit by a blast, if not for Lugnut picking her up with one hand and throwing her to the side out of its radius like she weighed nothing. It meant nothing to him and he doesn't even remember this happening, but she hasn't been the same since.

[childrenof217]

oh hi would you like some asks ✨ for anyone you feel fits, or that you just wanna talk about :]

how do they feel about their gender and their body in relation to sex?

do they know what they like? are they able to ask for it directly?

have they ever had a surprising (sexual or nonsexual) experience that opened their eyes to new desires or kinks, if yes what was it?

if they had to create a sexy playlist of sexy songs to have sex to, would they do a good job or would their partner(s) groan and die of cringe?

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3. how do they feel about their gender and their body in relation to sex?

7. do they know what they like? are they able to ask for it directly?

15. have they ever had a surprising (sexual or nonsexual) experience that opened their eyes to new desires or kinks, if yes what was it?

18. if they had to create a sexy playlist of sexy songs to have sex to, would they do a good job or would their partner(s) groan and die of cringe?

[childrenof217]

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Once again under the cut! Somehow all of these ended up funny (of course they did, what else would you expect from me).

if they had to create a sexy playlist of sexy songs to have sex to, would they do a good job or would their partner(s) groan and die of cringe?

Havoc: If Havoc were to ever do this, she'd intentionally make it so that the first couple of songs are genuinely sexy and setting the mood, and then add a song that's utterly ridiculous and out of place. Whirl fully thought she was just wanting to try something new, and he was totally down for it, but just as he's getting into the mood, that accursed song starts playing and he's losing it. Full-on wheezing, if he needed to breathe at all, he'd be unable to. Havoc is also laughing so hard that she's got tears in her optics, which is a rare sight to see.

The mood is definitely ruined, but she doesn't mind at all, the plan was always to make Whirl laugh. Except - hell no, he's not stopping, he's even more into it now! Pulling this stunt just made her infinitely hotter. If Havoc thought he wasn't going to pound her with the strap to the beat of Cotton Eye Joe, she doesn't know him at all.

Skyline: I feel like Skyline might actually be pretty good at this. She may be a bit of a dork, but she's enough of a dork to have a good taste in music. And you better believe Megatron takes the playlist into exile with him. She made it for him, after all.

There has definitely been at least one instance in which Soundwave started playing one of the songs just for his personal enjoyment, and it resulted in a very awkward moment between him, Megs, and Skyline. The most uncomfortable eye contact of all time; the two of them trying to figure out if he knows and is trying to... what? Send some kind of message? Assert dominance?? And Soundwave just confused and also a bit concerned over why Megatron and his conjunx are suddenly staring at him like that.

Crux Stratos: I think if he really tried, he'd do a more or less mediocre job at most, but it's the effort that counts. Stratos doesn't have a lot of knowledge when it comes to music, especially earth music, so he's way out of his depth with this. But if he felt that Swerve might like this, he'd try his best. I think Swerve would love it even if it sucks just because he knows Stratos must've spent hours upon hours struggling with it, and it's really touching, even if the opening notes of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up had him laughing so hard they had to pause interfacing altogether. Instead of sex, Stratos ended up getting a 3 hour long infodumping session on human "memes". Oh well.

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