leafdragon16

[leafdragon16]

Doodles for an AU of Horror Show created by a friend on CharacterHub!!

The premise is that in the future, during RiD2015, Jetstorm is kidnapped, brought to Shockwave’s lab, and forced to undergo a similar experimentation process to Wheeljack that turns him into a Predacon (I think. Recent chapters are making me think it’s something A LOT different).

Due to the trauma he is unable to remember his name or past and, through time travel shenanigans, shows up during the beginning of Horror Show, immediately runs into Wheeljack, and takes the name Raptor. The two recognize each other as fellow experiments and Wheeljack mentally adopts him instantly (although he’s in denial about it for a while bc he’s less emotionally available than a brick). So now Wheeljack has a child minicon attached to him wherever he goes and Dadjack shenanigans ensue

If any of y’all are craving more unhinged experiments running around (and aren’t sensitive to child angst because JFC SHOCKWAVE) and Dadjack, I’d recommend you give it a read! It’s very cute :)

And make sure to check out AdmintheWatcher on CharacterHub here! The fic belongs to them and the doc can be found on their account.

Closeups below the cut:

(Last one is included because it might be my favorite drawing of Ex!Jackie ever

[leafdragon16]

Big Transformers: Mercy piece for @emperor-kumquat in which Pipes has an extremely bad time :]

[leafdragon16]

Spoilers for Horror Show Chapter 30

ya know i had to do it to em

I mean he had to get the smoothie from somewhere right

[leafdragon16]

MY SHAYLA MYY SHAYLAAA

Sorry man he’s dead

[leafdragon16]

I SAW THE UPDATE EMAIL THIS MORNING I AM SCREAMING AND CRYING IM AT WORK AND THEN I HAVE CLASS WAAAAAA LEAF WHEN I GET YOU LEAF. LEAF WHEN I GET YOU.

🫵👁️👁️

[leafdragon16]

chapter 1 of horror show be liek:

i made this in powerpoint

I AM SO OBSESSED W THIS. THE FORMATTING. THE EDITING. THE DIALOGUE. WHY DID YOU DO THIS IN POWERPOINT

[leafdragon16]

So another idea came to mind just now

For Wheeljack's facial mods I heard you're still working on their structure and such. May I present my reference? I've been using a wasp mandible reference for the the way I've been drawing your wheeljack. It also reminded me of preying mantis and tiger beetle. Thought about how his jaws were supposed to split apart, and it gave me an idea.

I did a few concepts of my own and settled on this for his jaws. It's not exactly canon to your design, but I wanted to do my own take on it and wanted to know your thoughts! Just thought this was pretty cool :D Here's a little bit of what I had in mind!

This fic just has me locked in and has given me so many ideas and I love it so much

NECRO. GRIPPING YOUR SHOULDERS. NECRO OH MY GOD THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE

Ok normal for exactly 2 seconds because I started rambling and drew some small diagrams so I’m putting it under the cut because this got LONG (and it also is looking like it won’t initially post with the readmore TUMBLR so I will probably go back and edit this post a few times upon posting it lol)

EDIT: Okay it is not posting the readmore for some reason so apologies for any nuked dashboards lol

I WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION BUT LET ME FREAK OUT ABOUT THAT ART REALLY QUICK BECAUSE I HAD TO SIT DOWN AND PROCESS IT FOR A FULL 30 SECONDS BEDORE I COULD EVEN BEGIN FORMULATING A RESPONSE. I KEEP SCROLLING BACK UP WHILE TYPING JUST TO STARE AT IT

THAT IS TERRIFYING. HE IS ALL TEETH!! THERE IS NOTHING BUT TEETH IN THERE!!! THERE IS TOO MANY TEETH FOR ANYONE TO RIGHTFULLY HAVE WHICH IS EXACTLY THE AMOUNT OF TEETH EX!JACKIE SHOULD HAVE!!!

ALSO THE CIRCULAR SCRAPLET TEETH FAINTLY VISIBLE AT THE BACK OF HIS THROAT?? OH MY GOD?? I HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PORTRAY THAT FOR SO LONG I AM LOSING MY MIND. I AM STICKING MY HEAD IN THERE

OH AND THE ADDED DETAIL OF THE PLACES WHERE HIS JAWS CONNECT ADDS SO MUCH. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT BUT IT LOOKS SO MUCH MORE RAW AND MONSTROUS AND NOT CYBERTRONIAN AND EGHFGRHGFHSGDHFHBDGRFRGRGRGGRR

Ok I will move on to my explanation now but thank you so much!! This is so gorgeous and I love it so much!! This is the sort of thing that would make someone hide their face for centuries and give their teammates nightmares if they were looking it dead in the face (looking at you Ratchet). This is exactly the level of terrifying that I was going for when I originally started writing this fic. It encapsulates it perfectly! He is an absolute nightmare in the best way possible

I have been having a lot of trouble figuring out how his facial mods would work, and that’s mainly because I haven’t been using any references LOL. When I first tried doodling his face wayyyy back in the first post about this AU I used a few screenshots of Terrorcon Breakdown, but I only used it loosely. I absolutely LOVE the insect references for his jaws, it really helps clarify the structure and when I opened the ask and saw them (particularly the mantis) I went “huh that’s actually really close to what I had in mind!” And the got completely blown away by the concept at the bottom LMAO

I originally based his facial mods (or at least how they unhinge) a lot on Predaking. His jaw splits down the middle and at the sides to create two halves (I THINK), and I thought it looked really cool so I wanted to do something like that. But especially now that I’ve been playing with how his jaw works again, I’ve been thinking that it would be better if it splits into three parts like how you drew it. It is more visually cohesive, and it also just makes more sense looking at it! It allows his lower jaw to drop down much further and his mouth to open much wider and just in general isn’t as awkward. I may have downloaded your art both to keep it forever and also to draw a few diagrams, I hope you don’t mind^^

(I had to take a screenshot of your art bc Tumblr won’t let me download it until I post this, so sorry for nuking the quality LMAO)

While I do like the Predaking jaw, I think it works on Predaking but not on Wheeljack because Predaking’s face is so long and his is so flat. So if his jaw were to split into only two parts it would be very awkward, you can see all the lines in the drawing on the left where I kept redrawing his jaw because conceptually it didn’t make sense. Like I mentioned before it also doesn’t really allow his jaw to unhinge, which is a very important part of his design lol.

On the right however, it splits a lot more cleanly! It just all around looks more natural and less awkward and has a lot more maneuverability. I also love the addition of the teeth on the walls/sides of his mouth!! I added a few in my references bc it looked better and made his jaw come together a bit more in it’s horrifying-ness, but the addition of even MORE teeth just amplifies that. It also implies that when he latches on to something, all of the teeth dig in and make it extremely difficult to pull away, allowing him to just drag it into his mouth and shred it to pieces. If he bites down on someone, even if they’re strong enough to pull away they’re not getting their limb back in one piece. The way the teeth are curved in will ensure that they have to rip through their own plating to get away. He looks like a living iron maiden and I am OBSESSEDD

Plus the way his jaw splits is so much more extreme in a way that is so. LOOK AT HIM. When he opens his mouth it’s like a giant tear separates the upper half of his face from the lower half. Horrifying to behold and also looks like it would be painful even though it isn’t, which is exactly the vibe I was going for. He just doesn’t look Cybertronian. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anyway sorry for the long rant, his jaws have been on my mind a lot because I’ve been struggling with the concept so I kind of just dumped all of the thoughts I’ve been having for 2+ weeks plus all of the thoughts I had when seeing your references and art. If you don’t mind I may be borrowing the references because they really do help illustrate how a split jaw would work. And also if you don’t mind this may be the canon design from now on, just because IT’S SO COOL!! And it makes so much sense conceptually, I actually cannot put into words how much I love this. It fits right in with the worldbuilding!

TLDR: Absolutely god tier take on his design thank u Necro

[leafdragon16]

I just wanted to say I LOVE HORROR SHOW SO MUCH!!! IT'S SO GOOD!

I just read chapter 29, and all I could think during that scene with Wheeljack and that damn pipe was:

An alternative title for this chapter could have been "A medic, a spy, and the cybertronian equivalent of a werewolf and his bone"

That scene was just so well written. You could feel Ratchet's doneness and Arcee's intrigue through the screen.

I love this fic so much, I can't wait to see what happens to our favorite garbage disposal next ❤️

THANK YOU!! <3

It’s hilarious that you mention that because the summary of the chapter was very nearly “sometimes a family is a medic, a spy, and their weird fucking dog”

That would have been a hysterical alternate title! Thank you again, the Trust Issues Trio are one of my favorite parts of the fic to write <3

Please take this dejected/scolded puppy Jackie and mouth/lower jaw concept doodle as my thanks! :D

[leafdragon16]

So I came with a name idea for the wrecker project!

What about Quadracon? Since Jackie isn't necessarily a cybertronian anymore.

I can come up with more name suggestions, but this is my favorite so far!

OOOOOOOH I really like that! If you have any other suggestions feel free to share, but as of right now I think the official/unofficial name is Quadracon^^

[leafdragon16]

i'm furiously spamming the kudos button on your fic (horror show) and i'm very irritated that ao3 will only let me kudos it once

YOUR FIC IS SO COOL AND I LOVE HORROR SHOW TO THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART GHJAKDGHSAGGRKJGFASLHDGFASDGASHFILUHWJV

on chapter 9 currently!!! can't wait to see more of this!!!

i need to draw something for this au (once i have the time lol)

AKAJAKSJSKDKSKD THANK YOU!!! I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!

I hope you’ve enjoyed the rest of the fic, and have a Jackie doodle I made! Still trying to nail down his design lol

If you draw something for Horror Show I will literally owe you my life (but please prioritize yourself first!! I feel you as I am also on the grind rn so make sure you are taking time for yourself <3)

[leafdragon16]

OUGHH I WOULD BE HONORED IF YOU LINKED MY ART IN A CHAPTER!! IM SO GLAD YOU LIKE THE LIL KITTIES AS I HAVE MORE IDEAS WITH EM!!

OKAY I WILL ADD A NOTE TO MY DRAFT RIGHT NOW SO I REMEMBER!!

[leafdragon16]

CEDAR. CEDAR WHEN I CATCH YOU CEDAR

THESE ARE SO GORGEOUS OML LOOK AT THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS?? WHEELJACK’S GOOFY LITTLE “ALSO I WANT TO SOFTHACK HIS CIRCUITS” FACE?? ALSO BULKHEAD BEING CONCERNED IN THE BACKGROUND WJ’S LITTLE BANDANNA AAAAUUGHGHGHGH

YOU DROPPED THIS 👑

@leafdragon16 I caved in. Here's some rough catformers doodles as I cannot draw mechs.

[leafdragon16]

Real quick and shit meme but this is literally their dynamic in my head. Magnus doesn't care what wheeljack is he just wants wheeljack to stop saying and doing crazy shit.

OKAY BUT THIS IS SO ACCURATE???? ONCE THEY BECOME BUDDIES IN HORROR SHOW THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GONNA BE THEIR DYNAMIC

[leafdragon16]

I don't know why I didn't ask, but does Shockwave have a name for his wrecker project in your fix? Or is it just called the Wrecker Project?

Cuz with all that wheeljack has induced, he's not even entirely cybertronian anymore, so do you have a cool name idea for what he is?

For now it is just called the Wrecker Project! Shockwave seems to prefer simple naming conventions for his experiments, such as Project Predacon.

If you want the truth I have never really considered what to call him or the project 💀 I mean on here I typically call him Ex!Wheeljack as shorthand for Experiment!Wheeljack but I had never thought of giving him a species name or something

[leafdragon16]

I wonder.. if they made bot-sized cat toys, would EXP! Wheeljack use them? He's a feral little gremlin who likes shiny things and has midnight zoomies. You can't tell me they wouldn't at least tempt him. And, if they were the stringless kind, Miko would 100% be the one controlling them!

Oh 100%

The drones are kind of like cat toys if they were being used to control a rabid animal! But if there were bot-size cat toys he absolutely wouldn’t be able to resist them. Magnus would keep one of those feather toys on hand to keep him away from things he isn’t allowed to tinker with

[leafdragon16]

Hi, another AO3 netizen here! I love Horror Show and it just scratches all the itches for angst!

Thank you!! Angst is exactly what I’m going for so I’m glad to hear that :]

A sketch for you from the draft of the next chapter where Miko gets to check out Jackie’s cool teeth :D

[leafdragon16]

Was not able to nail the vibe as much as I’d hoped to, but have some snarly Ex!Jackie