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Hi, hello, it’s @gay-and-random-shit-i-can-find but this is my art alt! I did!! Poor phone doodles for u!! (High chance I may draw this boy’s color palette later onand I WILL make him the Emo teenager he is mark my words)

Trapped (yautja x human)

Part 5

[And to think this started as a silly little prompt 🤭 can’t wait for your reactions on this one!!! Can you guys guess the characters intentions for each other? 💚]

Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 💚

You looked at the Yautja, unsure if it actually expected you to come closer… maybe even help it.

You gulped, still anxious, still wary of the closeness. Let’s not forget, this thing had every intention of hunting you before the Xenomorph showed up.

Clutching the container of salve you had grabbed from the cabinet, you took a step toward it, avoiding its piercing gaze.

Its eyes were already on you. You could feel them, watching. Scanning. Maybe trying to figure you out, what kind of creature you were and why weren’t you attacking like the rest of the humans. You had no doubt it was still deciding whether you were a threat or not. Humans were the ones who captured it, after all. You couldn’t imagine it had any fond opinions about your kind.

You sighed, maybe louder than you wanted.

The Yautja tilted its head slightly and let out a soft clicking sound, as if wondering why you had frozen up, standing there with the medicine in hand, like a lost kid.

You blinked at the noise. It pulled you out of your spiraling thoughts. It was studying you again. The slight head tilt, the narrowed gaze… unmistakable.

You finally opened the small container. Inside was a blue, slimy substance. Strange, slick, almost glowing faintly. You hesitated, then slowly held out your hand, offering it for the Yautja to decide whether it wanted to take it and use it itself.

But it didn’t.

Instead, it looked you right in the eye and then, oddly, almost proudly, pushed its chest out, like it was presenting itself. Like it was… expecting you to help.

You blinked again. That wasn’t right. From everything you had read or heard about them, Yautja were loners. Fiercely independent. They didn’t want help. They didn’t need help. But this one…

It was just waiting for you.

Did it… somehow know you were the one who tried to treat its wounds when they first brought it into the lab? You hadn’t done a great job then. There were scars along its arms now, stitches that healed badly (you partly blamed yourself for that). Human medicine hadn’t worked, you hadn’t even thought to use this balm at the time.

But now… now it was letting you try again.

You dipped your fingers into the gel and instantly jumped back, gasping. It was freezing! So cold it burned. You dropped the container in surprise, your fingers stinging.

The Yautja growled. A low, amused kind of growl… almost like a scoff.

You frowned at it. “Was that a laugh?” you muttered, annoyed but a little thrown off.

You bent to grab the container from the floor and spotted a nearby lab spatula. That would have to do. You didn’t trust your fingers to survive another dip in that blue stuff.

You approached again, slowly, and for a second you considered asking if it was okay to apply the balm, but what was the point? It probably didn’t understand you anyway. So you dipped the spatula in the gel and brought it toward its bleeding arm.

The Yautja didn’t move.

You took that as permission and carefully spread the salve over the deep slice in its right arm.

The reaction was immediate. It let out a sharp roar, head thrown back, mandibles flaring. The sound made your chest rattle.

You flinched hard, stepping back, your heart racing.

Was that pain? Had you messed up?

Then you noticed. The green blood had stopped oozing. The wound was frosting over, the salve turning dusty and hard on the surface. It was… working.

There was another gash near its chest, and you figured you should deal with it fast, before the Yautja had second thoughts and ripped you apart.

You scooped more of the gel and applied it quickly.

Another roar, louder this time.

Its hand, gripping the edge of the operating table, crushed the metal like it was tinfoil… You shifted back, staring wide-eyed, caught somewhere between fear and awe. That grip alone could have turned your bones to powder…

But the grip slowly loosened. Its chest rose and fell. Its breathing slowed back to normal.

You wanted to ask if it’s okay, but it wouldn’t understand anyway, so you ignored the urge.

The Yautja shook its head, dreadlocks swaying with the motion, and then looked at you again. Directly. Expecting.

You held its gaze, confused. Was it angry now? Offended? Or just enduring the pain?

You took a hesitant step forward and the low growl that rumbled from its chest made your human instincts scream. Like a lion warning you to keep your distance.

“Okay,” you muttered under your breath. “Message received,” you lied.

Ignoring its warnings, you moved fast, hoping maybe the last scratch on its forehead wouldn’t sting as much if you applied the salve quickly.

Bad idea.

Its hand shot up and gripped your wrist, tight enough to hurt, but not enough to break. You made a pained sound. Its claws pricked your skin. It was letting you know, it could hurt you. It was a warning.

Your breath hitched.

“I just… I thought if I did it fast, it wouldn’t hurt as bad” you said, voice trembling. “I just wanted to help…”

The Yautja didn’t move for a moment. You could feel it calculating, its grip flexing and relaxing slightly over your wrist, as if testing how easy it would be to crush you.

But then, slowly, it let you go.

It took you a second to gather courage, before you decide to help again. Carefully now, you spread the salve across the scratch near its eye, this time without breaking eye contact. Neither of you flinched. Neither of you looked away.

You were too aware of it now.

It just breathed. Heavy, steady. Taking the pain silently.

Then its eyes shifted, not to the salve, not to the next wound, but to you.

Specifically… your head.

You noticed the way it looked at you, just a little sharper than before. Its head nodded slightly, and it let out a low growl.

You blinked. “What?” you mumbled.

It’s eyes dropped to the side of your head.

Instinctively, your fingers went to the spot.

You pulled your hand back, blinking at the smear of blood on your fingertips.

You hadn’t even realised, not until now. The pain had been buried beneath adrenaline and noise. But now, as you touched the torn skin again, you remembered. The Xenomorph. Its clawed grip, fisting a handful of your hair before the Yautja intervened. The skin must have torn when it pulled. You hadn’t had time to notice. Until the Yautja did.

You turned away quickly, grabbing a bottle of antiseptic from the nearby shelf and pouring some on a gauze.

A sharp burn bloomed beneath your skin as you pressed the soaked cloth against the wound. You sucked in a breath between your teeth, muttering curses under your breath.

The Yautja observed in silence.

Its eyes lingered on the wound, then the blood, then the way your body reacted to pain. You could feel it watching, dissecting the moment, trying to make sense of it… of you.

And then, it’s eyes darted to the small container of the blue alien medicine, and then back to the blood on your fingers.

Unlike its own, your blood hadn’t crystallized. The antiseptic hadn’t frozen to your skin. Your biology worked differently. Messier.

You glanced at the container and let out a dry breath, half a laugh.

“I wish I could use that stuff,” you said softly, nodding toward the blue gel.

The Yautja didn’t move, or made any noise. Still studying you like some strange creature it didn’t quite understand yet.

That made two of you.

God, if only you could communicate. This would be so much easier. But then again… maybe you didn’t want to know what it thought of you. What if it was just weighing when to peel your skull off?

Then it hit you.

“The helmet…” you muttered “it has a translator, doesn’t it?”

You stepped forward, almost too fast, a little more excited than you intended. “I know where your armor is. The helmet, it can translate, right?”

You saw no recognition in its eyes. Not yet.

You then decided to motion over your own head, trying to mimic the shape of its helmet. When the Yautja didn’t react, you used your hands to gesture around its head instead, hoping it’d get what you meant.

The Yautja tilted its head again, like it did whenever it was studying you.

Did it understand?

“If I help you find it,” you said slowly, “will you help me get out of here?” You didn’t know what else was crawling outside of this lab, you definitely needed some help to survive.

It stood up. Towering over you.

You held your breath by the sudden move. You noticed your head barely reached its chest.

You felt small, fragile, completely exposed in front of it.

You looked up and it suddenly roared, a sound that slammed into you like a wall, mandibles flaring and mouth wide open.

To your surprise, you didn’t back down. Didn’t flinch. Maybe you should have, but something told you this was a test. A show of strength. And maybe… just maybe… it respected the fact that you didn’t fall over yourself.

Its mandibles relaxed, and its gaze softened… or maybe that was just wishful thinking.

Then it turned to the dead Xenomorph in the corner of the lab.

It walked over and ripped off the end of its tail with both hands. A clean, brutal snap, like most of its movements.

The Yautja kneeled, nodding towards you, like a command. You followed, kneeling beside it without a question.

The Yautja pressed the tip of the tail to its own forehead and growled low, carving a mark into its skin.

You winced at the sight of its flesh burning. But the scar it left behind, you recognized it. A rite of passage. It had marked itself as blooded. As worthy. As a survivor.

You stood with it, still stunned. Had it… shown you that on purpose?

Maybe.

It glanced at you, then puffed its chest slightly. Almost proud looking.

It had let you witness the ritual. That had to mean something. Right?

Then it looked past you, toward the door. A silent command.

Time to move.

Time to get its armor.

Had you just made an alliance… with a predator?

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Insatiable I am, I have made More art (also added an Ani, though it’s not a solid OC just yet)

Also: some joke art bout the reception Danny got on the cos discord

Plus, a meme about how I Keep forgetting that Meorlark cannot. In fact. Fly!

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Was thinking about my Creatures of Sonaria au, and realized the best remedy to start working on it again. Making more OC’s!

Though, when posting about this doodle (the Dantenos (giant fire shark thing with 4 eyes for non-cos players)) someone had an,, interesting reaction to the art

Which, inevitably, lead to me making a meme post (and solidifying Danny the Dantenos and Hummingbird the Dalitil as OCs of this au)

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I had an idea, forgot the idea, but still Really wanted to try my hand at drawing this. So have some colored doodles!

Brain went overboard on What the amulet is, considering it wasn’t super talked about. So my brain went “lil creature!!” And I’m justifying that that’s why Shen Yuan recognized it lol. Anyways itty bitty parasite dragon that kills its host to then reanimate it (so it fully integrates as host’s primary nervous system (maybe))

Also a lil doodle of shen yuan after it’s been fully integrated. Little corpse looking but not overtly like when it First happened lol.

Girls I have this one AU idea that won't leave my brain so please walk with me for a little bit (TW: BODY HORROR)

AU where SY transmigrates early into a street kid and becomes friends with Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, and since he's a bit older than both of them, he eventually becomes more or less their protector.

Unfortunately, fate's pull is stronger than SY would like and they still get taken to the Qiu household. Luckily, since SY is actually an adult hiding in a pre-teen's body, he manages to plan around Qiu Jianluo's temper and prevent Yue Qi and Shen Jiu from being targeted too much (which falls back on him, but it's fine. He's not actually a scared teen, so it's fine)

Eventually, he is the one that urges Yue Qi to try his luck and go get stronger, preferably in Cang Qiong Mountan Sect but ynow, he's not that picky– anyways, meanwhile SY and SJ would stay behind and try to secretly nourish SJ's own budding qi and, if possible, escape early and meet Yue Qi at Cang Qiong.

The slight problem, you see, is that SY had absolutely zero aptitude for cultivating; his spiritual veins are barely non-existent and he's way beyond the age to start cultivating by now– of course, he doesn't say that to either Yue Qi nor Shen Jiu, keeping it secret.

History goes as it should for a while, Yue Qi still gets trapped in the caves, SJ still has a qi deviation and murders all the men, but hey! At least SY and SJ have now escaped! Unfortunately, it doesn't take long before they meet Wu Yanzi.

SJ is still Wu Yanzi's 'main diciple' because of his natural talent for cultivation, but the man quickly realizes he won't be able to get anything done with SJ if he doesn't take SY long, so he comes up with a different plan for the older boy: SY is to become Wu Yanzi's personal lab rat for experimental demonic cultivation techniques and miscellaneous magical items.

Nobody is really happy with this arrangement; SY is already quite fragile, and his spiritual veins barely do anything for him, so WYZ can't actually use him for his whole lab rat potential unless he kills the boy in the first experiment. SJ of course feels absolutely horrible, having to sit back and watch SY agonizing again and again, and SY rates the whole experience a 0/10 (it turns out demonic energy hurts, who would've thought)

It eventually culminates in WYZ getting sick of having to 'look after' SY, the boy more of a dead weight to him than anything, so he tries his harshest experiment yet: he'd gotten an amulet that promises immortality for those who wear it, but it demands some sort of exchange for it to work, or else it'll just doom you to living in eternal agony, dying over and over again.

He wants to be Immortal, of course, but doesn't want to risk using it without making sure what conditions the amulet needs, so he turns to his broken lab rat once more. SY, of course, knows what the amulet does, and absolutely refuses to try it on, but his rare act of defience becomes the final straw for WYZ, and he tries to force the amulet on SY, which escalates into a fight.

SY obviously could never win on a physical brawl against a man twice his height and weight, but he puts enough of a fight to deeply anger WYZ, who loses all his patience and attacks SY, clutching the amulet in his hand and pushing it into SY's left eye with a burst of demonic qi. Whatever he does, it seems to activate the amulet, and it begins to fuse itself into SY's body; it leaves a bloody mess in its wake, and when it's finally settled into the eye socket, SY lay on the ground, unmoving.

The other two stand in tense silence for a few minutes before WYZ goes over and checks SY for a pulse, confirming the boy has indeed died. Pity.

As expected, SJ does not handle the situation well in the slightest, and almost immediately goes into a qi deviation and attacks WYZ, which only leads him to almost die himself and still be forced to follow the man for a few months before that fateful reunion with Yue Qi, and fate going back into motion; SJ joins Cang Qiong, SJ and YQ's relationship still gets strained, and they eventually become Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu.

Fate goes back to its rightful tracks not considering the small bump along the ride, and SQQ and YQY eventually settle into a life stuck in an eternal cycle of grief, regret and bitterness. That is, until SQQ is sent into a mission and bumps into a strange man: a rogue cultivator with barely any qi to speak of, and left eye that seems to be made of copper.

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I need fics, I need 'pool have the biggest crash out after he realizes who he had killed

Pic on the phone makes all of this more painful 🥲

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@yknow-fuck come look it’s ur boy

ready to #die abt that #decepticon life

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Unsurprisingly been drawing Bayverse stuff again. Specifically however, instead of doing stuff for my AU (I Need to make a tag/name for it), I’m currently working through figuring out how to Actually draw the bayverse designs (rather than coping out and making them nigh unrecognizable as bayverse)

Specifically first up was Ravage (technically it was Shockwave but I haven’t really sat down and figured out how to accurately draw his body. Only figured out the head and vaguely the fact he’s got a skeleton torso texture). First page is without reference at all and the second is With reference

Also used my special power of “idk what that is near the mouth but it’s Tusk Like Enough for me”

Anyways, next up on the “to draw” list would be soundwave and lazerbeak, I should check to see what lazerbeak looks like-

OH HES UGLY UGLY

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Also I may have fallen into a Star Wars shaped hole. I need help yall. Specifically I need anything Darth Vader redemption arc (but he keeps the suit) shaped thing to help me out of said hole. (They always give him skin I want that man Crispy)

Anyways, got dragged kicking and screaming into Star Wars as a whole by, of all things, DarthFett! (Aka darth vader x boba fett). Which is unsurprising as helmeted badasses with more mental illnesses between them than the entire internet is a Very fun ship concept.

Anyways, take my poorly photo’d sketches

Also, shoutout to the Ao3 fic Armor Black and Beautiful by DaughterOfDungeonBat as it’s what primarily captured me into liking the ship.

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Lil art draft of how I imagine the whole “pushed out of portal” would look. Of course I had to creatur-ify my boy Danny bc why Wouldn’t I

The head operatives of the GIW create a secure message chat to discuss the future plans after having successfully capturing the menace Phantom… not realizing they added reporter of the Daily Planet Clark Kent to the group chat.

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Surprise I am. Alive :)

I am back to give more transformer art bc it is the gift that keeps on giving.

Anyways have a doodle of straight out of my insane crossover palooza mind palace. Aka, I was considering how Shockwave would do inside MHA and came to the conclusion that him and Nedzu would be so violently insane about one (1) other overly intelligent dude that they would be lethal to anyone other than each other the second they’re within 3 meters of each other. So I made a Meme

Course, if yall here for my bay au (bc ngl that’s what it is at this point. I Need to make a tag for it) I got a couple of phone doodles for that too

Aka I overthought how their physical structures work. Also added some bayverse back into it bc the OG concept had diluted so much.

Plus some more of the AU. These are a bit older but I never got around to uploading (why they a lil dirty). Ended up reworking how different types of cybertronians exist and made em a bit more similar to how it works for humans. Also a little corner doodle for a fanfic I’m Insane About (it’s called It’s not the Raptor DNA by SkullsandDuggery on fanfic.net. Highly suggest if ur searching for a good!indominus rex fanfic)

Also @orion-archives I gotta tag u bc I did sparkling Oppy in a little drawing spsppspspspps

Course. My au is wonderful but I Gotta be a lil more insane about the source material. Of course, unsurprisingly, I did that w/ shockwave

I actually have his figurine! The bayverse version! He’s got double nails! A single finger on his gun arm! A total of 5 fingers Including the gun arm finger! He’s got it all. Also ended up doodling some what-ifs for later down my AU storyline for after we hit the human point, aka I want him to steal their nano-tech floating stuff for Things. Also a longarm bc he’s like the Kira yoshikage of transformers and that’s more than enough to make me crazy even if he wasn’t Also shockwave. 10/10 stuff.

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And the Gabriel animation. This one in particular was less of a”how would I?” And more of a “bored and want to draw movement” so it’s less snappy (also why there’s my mini sona at beginning, was testing the copy paste function). Normally wouldn’t post on its own but what can ya do :/

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Whilst I have been in Transformers only era, like all eras, it eventually crumbles (dw it’ll probs be back full force once I start watching Prime and Animated)

Anyways, did some of UltraKill protag V1

Also ended up using V1 and Gabriel for some test animations w/ varying frame frequencies (like the V1 a bit more) (also gonna have to add the Gabriel one in a separate post as tumblr only allows 1 video per post :/ so just follow the Ultrakill tag and you’ll find it posted after this one)

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The ever so illustrious (and badly scanned) sketch page, as promised :3 @orion-archives

Ngl, hilarious to me that every time I do a double full page sketch for these dudes, I basically unlock a new character (this time it’s Bumblebee). Not much planned for him rn beyond “I think it’d be Really funny if Bumblebee got bitches and is the same age as Optimus”. (You can see I Struggled at first with him till I sat down and Stared at some reference pics and then Immediately deviated away from it). Also a bit of Elita which I expanded upon in my fav format, meme :)

Also Ngl, I knew she showed up for like 0.6 seconds before being Blasted, but when using her comic ver. (Used Tfwiki which was surprisingly mean? About her? Felt bad) I realized she looked Very bird like (you can hear me evil chuckling in the distance as I keep infusing more animal traits like it’s my job). Also ended up keeping her ability to move around on one leg bc Ngl having her brandish one of her legs at you while going Mach 5 is Very Funny.

Also, here’s one I like I call “Sentinel screaming at the matrix to pick his son (Oppy) as the next High Leader” (also context: going with High Leader as a replacement for Prime as that’s a frame type here instead of “king chosen by god” archetype)

Also. Some bonus pics from my Discord :). Very little context beyond friend telling me to draw Oppy in Shinji pose and it Immediately devolving into the art (that I made) on their wall (it would be 2 Oppy v 1 Wally darling) and then I made the second at 2am in a fit of inspiration. You can tell it was 2am.

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Dang, tagged Twice? In a row? Now I Gotta respond

Last Song: Harpy Hare by Annapantsu

Favorite Color: Purple and Gold (overall a sucker for good color combos though)

Last Movie: The Predator (the one with the spliced Yautja & Autism Superpowers, got the DVD and decided to watch. Kinda the epitome of “good intentions, bad execution” alongside “too many chefs in the kitchen”)

Last TV Show: Neon Genesis Evangelion (currently watching! Currently at Ep11 and Ngl I feel a hatred toward Asuka that can only be felt toward younger siblings

Sweet/Sour/Spicy: Sweet! Though I like to balance with Salty too

Relationship Status: In a queer platonic relationship that goes by romantic terms!

Last Thing I Googled: “translate: Partecipo al tuo dolore, Leonardo” (from a fic I’m reading)

Current Obsession: Transformers! I dunno how I got here! But I blame Danny phantom (the Drabble community in Particular)

(Also, lil doodle of when I First started getting into it)

Looking Forward To: Spring break! And playing any of my Long list of games to play (like Rainworld and Stray). Also to potentially get the TLK Optimus figurine and/or Nemesis Prime (nothing in the works Yet, but Soon). And Also Also (yappatron over here) sitting down and watching G1, Animated, and Prime cartoons of transformers.

Also, not gonna tag anyone (don’t rlly like doing that unless it’s someone I’m Already bothering (looking at u Orion and Yknow). So anyone’s free to jump off from here :3,

10 people I want to get to know better

Omg thank you much for tagging me! @dearwormw00d :3

Last song: You're not alone, Allison Russel

Favorite colour: dark green

Last movie: Lord of the rings: The fellowship of the ring

Last tv show: The Gilded Age

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet>Savory>Spicy

Relationship status: Single

Last thing i googled: hand holding pencil brush reference

Current obsession: One Piece, Nosferatu, Ethel Cain, my fem erik, Epic, Critical Role, studying the Enneagram again, Castlevania Nocture, The Apothecary Diaries, Witch Hat Atelier

Looking forward to: season 2 of the one piece live action, the oscars ( I want to see my beloved Fernanda Torres win), my necklaces that I've ordered, hadestown live recording, Superman, my next RPG session, Percy Jackson season 2! @insanely-creative-things @lepetitghostcat @fishing-rob @erik-christine @muirin007 @klausscrimshaw (ik it's not 10 but idk who to tag anymore, sorry ;-;)

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!!! Wha!!!! Your ver sounds super cool!!! (Feel free to tag me in the stuff bc I Will scream in the reblogs!!). Also LOVE your Bay Op/Scourge drawing!! I’m still slowly osmosis’ing my way into the fandom so I’m not actually all that familiar with that theory nor who Scourge is, it sounds Super interesting tho!!! (Reminds me a tad of Silver Surfer too, which is Fun).

Also ur comment with Oppy screaming at a wall Inspired me :3

Also titled “When Oppy decides to tell Nemesis his 50 step plan to both kill himself and all the decepticons and how it’ll benefit Everyone while Ratchet and Wheeljack decide how much tranquilizer they need” [fun fact: the halo is actually to show who currently is holding the matrix, as while Nemesis is effectively Optimus Primes worst fears materialized, it is Also connected with the Matrix :) for better and for worse :) ]

Also also! Hit it on the head with the Fallen messing around with Megs mind with the distinction! Though I Am going a slightly different path with it rather then fully possession :3 (which while I have a base idea I need to read the comics (which I found online! Yippie!) to fully flesh it out. Here’s a little doodle to give a hint on what’s messing up Megsy :3 (dw I Will tag u in a mass sketch page as it’ll have a tad more info, as the How is still being worked on)

Back at it, back again. Also Ngl I May need to start a AU tag for the bayverse stuff bc I’m pretty sure I’m starting to hit that line. Yippie.

(Also @orion-archives I know there’s no Meg here for u (sorry 😔) but I’d love to hear ur thoughts :3!!!)

Anyways, got caught up in how Nemesis Prime (evil clone of Optimus) would fit into this, and it was uh, interesting. Was originally gonna go base route of black/red coloring of bay!oppy (but with the lines of the flames colored instead of fully) but then it turned into this

Here’s my base pages, the one of the left was my initial starting point and the one on the right is what it ended up being (though Nemesis is still gonna be prone to being redesigned, I can Feel it)

Reason I did this all? Wanted to draw a meme, which was Difficult (not about drawing Oppy, he was easy peasy)

Despite how downtrodden he is, he is Still an Optimus Prime. Living example of unhopeful optimism, would love for the universe to be nice to him for once but he does Not expect it.

Also a piece I did to Really nail in Nemesis vibe, which started as opposite Optimus (upbeat and kinda insane with no chill) and then it turned into religious guilt (how’d that get here)

Some extra doodles and past attempts of the meme (I went through So Many Brushes, and I’m still not happy) underneath readmore

A doodle to show the general vibe of how I felt toward nemesis during this

And the past meme versions!

Also! For those who actually clicked under the readmore, you get a free preview to a comic I’m thinking of making :3! It’s just the rough draft (key panels). It May become a part of a prologue for my re-imagining on bayformers, otherwise it’ll just be a solo comic.

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Back at it, back again. Also Ngl I May need to start a AU tag for the bayverse stuff bc I’m pretty sure I’m starting to hit that line. Yippie.

(Also @orion-archives I know there’s no Meg here for u (sorry 😔) but I’d love to hear ur thoughts :3!!!)

Anyways, got caught up in how Nemesis Prime (evil clone of Optimus) would fit into this, and it was uh, interesting. Was originally gonna go base route of black/red coloring of bay!oppy (but with the lines of the flames colored instead of fully) but then it turned into this

Here’s my base pages, the one of the left was my initial starting point and the one on the right is what it ended up being (though Nemesis is still gonna be prone to being redesigned, I can Feel it)

Reason I did this all? Wanted to draw a meme, which was Difficult (not about drawing Oppy, he was easy peasy)

Despite how downtrodden he is, he is Still an Optimus Prime. Living example of unhopeful optimism, would love for the universe to be nice to him for once but he does Not expect it.

Also a piece I did to Really nail in Nemesis vibe, which started as opposite Optimus (upbeat and kinda insane with no chill) and then it turned into religious guilt (how’d that get here)

Some extra doodles and past attempts of the meme (I went through So Many Brushes, and I’m still not happy) underneath readmore

A doodle to show the general vibe of how I felt toward nemesis during this

And the past meme versions!

Also! For those who actually clicked under the readmore, you get a free preview to a comic I’m thinking of making :3! It’s just the rough draft (key panels). It May become a part of a prologue for my re-imagining on bayformers, otherwise it’ll just be a solo comic.

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I am Back. Once More! In particular been spinning Megs and Oppys relationship at like Mach 5 in my brain and how they’d act like siblings. Yadda yadda the more you show their inherent love for each other as siblings the harsher the fall will become etc etc.

Also @orion-archives hope you’re happy to see I Did add tusks to Megs :3!

Also ended up expanding a bit on some other stuff, like how sparklings are kinda dangerous as their spinning balls of shredded metal going fuck-you mph’s alongside some frame stuff!

Also some bonus headcannon stuff!