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beautiful innocent space angels who maintain a healthy professional relationship <3

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daily koss #29: if we only have one shot… better make it count, right?

Since I started on the 18th of February, today marks the one month anniversary of me drawing these wretched old men every day!!! I wanted to make something special for it, so I tried my hand at a comic (even though I am NOT good at comics—dear god, paneling is so unintuitive for me that I ended up wrangling this into a webtoon format just to avoid it).

Despite the increasing level of render and polish on my dailies over the past two weeks, this is the first time I’ve really, actually tried to flex my art muscles and apply my braincells to a piece 😂 Here’s to hoping my work paid off! I have now, officially, moved from low-effort shitposts to real-effort seriousposts 😔

(Also, if you’ve never read a webtoon before, hopefully the long-scroll format wasn’t too jarring! >_<)

A meta aspect I love about KOSS is that Transformers is a multi-timeline franchise: Knock Out and Starscream exist across multiple different continuities, sometimes alongside each other, sometimes not. But they only really ‘work’ in TFP, despite them both having other characters as constants (Breakdown, Megatron). If this were any other world, and they were any other versions of themselves, they might not even have been coworkers—just ships passing in the night.

And yet, the perfect storm of random events led to them being in one thing together, with a compelling dynamic at that (even an entire episode that puts it on blast!!!). Sometimes I think about how, according to the TFP artbook, Knock Out was originally conceived as something of a counterpart to Bumblebee—another fast, pretty car, except a villain this time—but the writers ended up fleshing out his relationship with Starscream the most. I wonder what the thought process behind that was—did the devs find their dynamic fun to play with as well?—and whether the two would get more moments together if Prime wasn’t cancelled…

But I digress! The fact I discovered TFP in the first place is the cherry on top of the serendipity-cake; I never imagined I’d ever get into Transformers, but one impulsive ‘hey, what if we watched the new Transformers movie’ from Lacuna at 3AM in the dead of January changed the trajectory of my life.

I’ve always been really bad at committing to projects for over a month at a time—I often find myself burnt out and restless after only a few days, even. So to still have so much drive and inspiration to create fanworks—for KOSS, of course, but an assortment of other pairings and properties too—is such a novel and exciting experience. My tune may change at a moment’s notice (I can be very fickle), but for now I’m eager to keep scribbling on 🥰I already have something planned for the next week of Daily KOSS hehehe~

Anyway, things referenced in the comic!

G1 cartoon s01e13 “Fire in the Sky”

2019 IDW continuity Tread & Circuits issues 2, 3, and 4

Armada episode 48

TFA s02e03 “Mission Accomplished” and s03e13 “Endgame II”

2005 IDW continuity “Choose Me,” Spotlight: Megatron, and Annual 2017 “Chosen One”

And it’s probably obvious from the art, but I love the juxtaposition of Starscream being tortured by god in every other universe while Knock Out is either happily married or doesn’t exist.

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The season finale was mostly mid but it did give me the final confirmation that Shauna and Melissa are just Megatron and Starscream in different fonts: Melissa tried to kill Shauna and Shauna let her live even though she definitely would have dropped any other girl who did that.

Yellowjackets (2021-present) // Transformers One (2024)

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Me: haha Shauna and Melissa have Megatron and Starscream energy

Me when Shauna verbally and physically humiliates Melissa in front of the rest of the team to establish her dominance:

Yellowjackets (2021-present) // Transformers One (2024)

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YELLOWJACKETS — S3E5: Did Tai Do That?

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diverging roads

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Here's some of the g1 scripts of megatron and starscream (with weird tension) that I like a lot

(Trying not to appear foolish)

Oh shit they're going through a divorce again

"Personal war"

Here's starscream lying through his teeth too

Cannonicly SHAKING with jealousy I love it

"Our"???

Megatron really forgot about starscream betraying him in 0.01 seconds

Ik hes pretty nice to the other seekers in g1 but I don't remember him complementing Starscream this much lmao

This feels like exhibitionism

"Embracing him" is crazy

What a brat

Bonus from the storyboards

Look at him sliding over

He looks so worried here lol

I like the artstyle here, I mean I like the artstyle in a lot of the storyboards, but the faces here are really nice

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important update:

Yellowjackets (2021-present) // Transformers One (2024)

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They made divorce so expensive because they knew ppl would do it for kink reasons

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TFP writers in the writing room struggling to not include a scene of a character calling Starscream a slur:

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A list of mechanisms whom Megatron has loved:

Crunch, a shift supervisor in shaft 1-b who taught Megatron what it meant to live in the dark, how to sing drinking songs, how to sleep on a healing weld, and how to say goodbye (but not how to mean it)

Impactor, a friend who was too bullheaded to watch his own back, let alone Megatron’s; who, nonetheless, always insisted that he would, until the day he could not

Terminus, who taught him to let go—and then, very admirably, furnished his first practical demonstration in the art

Optimus Prime, who saved his life, although Megatron would not love him until well after Optimus had tried his best to undo that mistake

Gladiatorial Participant of bout 736 cycle 340, Grune, who walked into the arena like one who had seen the steps up to their own waiting guillotine and had decided to wink saucily at the executioner, for, indeed, what else now could be done to him?

Soundwave, who always knew better than to draw too close, or presume too much; who therefore was safe to love, and more importantly, to trust—and Megatron, for all his hubris, understood at least that everyone must trust someone, so you had better make the decision with care

Starscream, who was so many things; bitter, petty, brilliant, jealous, insatiable; Starscream, foremost of all his enemies and dissidents; Starscream, who was the easiest of them all to manipulate, because he cared so much, because he cared so much for Megatron’s regard be it good or ill; Starscream, whose hatred made Megatron feel more God than mech, elevated and electric and invincible—and whose testimony, at the 11th hour, had for the first time in 4 million bloody glorious years made Megatron at last feel small and absurd

Minimus Ambus, who expected so little, and yet was so often disappointed; who was so easy to please with so little effort, and yet who would not have been moved with all the riches or treasures or conquests of the cosmos; Minimus, all right angles in a garbled, tangled world

Rodimus Prime, who lied for him, even after everything; a hot coal star burning in a secret pocket of his armor plating; careless and vain and haunted, lover of losers and misfits, patron saint of the lost and lonely

Was there someone else? He is sure there was someone else. It will come back to him, one moment.

A list of mechanisms that Megatron should have loved, but did not:

This list is long, 5 million years long, a graveyard of blue sparks beneath a mirrored sky; an army of splintered spark cases; today, it has been truncated for brevity to three most dire names

Damus, Glitch, Tarn

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It completely escaped my mind that STARSCREAM was the one to recommend the fusion cannon.

By noting that he had watched and studied every single one of Megatron’s fights, pointing out the weakness in his arm and said the cannon would be ideal.

The ‘my burden’ fusion cannon. Oh my god.

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Transformers One (2024) // various text posts/headlines

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D-16/Megatron, Transformers One (2024) // Taylor Swift, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

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meet the bayverse

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