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The fact a lot of the characters canonically do dumbass things like not check to see if Mandroid is dead after Age of Evolution comes into play in my Lotus AU.

GHOST tries dissecting FF Mandroid's corpse but can't so they just chuck him into a storage unit. No security, no sort of tracker on him, nothing. They think it's not needed since he wasn't resurrected along with the rest of the TFs. Him going missing isn't even discovered until almost a week later.

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I feel like Armada/Micron Legend Starscream and Jawbreaker would be unlikely kindred spirits of sorts because they share a desire to prove their worth.

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Appearance wise, my OC Tara is based on actress Lily Collins. However, Tara has blond hair and blue eyes while being more fit since she's into outdoor activities like hiking.

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Thinking more about how the Terrans interact with the public more thanks to GHOST's PR events and wanting to expand their social circle in my Lotus AU:

-Twitch ends up being the most popular because she can pretty much get along with anyone. She likes participating in nature related events.

-Thrash is seen as standoffish because he doesn't even want to do them. He doesn't bother with Witwicky outside of PR functions.

-Hashtag kind of has a rough time because of how pushy she can be. Her insistence on pushing her ideas for Witwicky's long standing traditions like holiday displays almost results in her being run out of town. The other thing is that a lot of people are aware of what happened in Philadelphia. Most of her social circle is online.

-Nightshade finds the PR functions to be taxing at times because of their introverted nature. They do find a few people they can talk science with, but most people don't want to be in the vicinity when they're trying out new tech. As a side note, Schloder constructs a separate building for Nightshade and Wheeljack scientific pursuits.

-Jawbreaker's standing in town starts out mixed. Some think of him as a hero for what happened with Grimlock in Stygii Situation. However, a lot of people are pissed at the damage that was done to the town. Him having a dinosaur altmode makes him popular with the younger crowd. Hanging out with my OC Tara gets him points with the locals since he becomes known as a dependable for helping out with odd jobs of his own free will. People also enjoy his sweet disposition. He ends up preferring to spend time in town since people treat him better than the majority of his family.

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Imagine you tried so hard to work with the native species and create a good image for your faction, but your whiny ass friend still thought it was for naught and believed they should have given up...

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The Malto Terrans' jobs in Witwicky Town post-events of Book 1, Family:

Twitch - She'd work with the town's postage. She likes to fly around, and getting the parcels delivered safely on time improves her speed and agility. She even gets to know every townspeople.

Thrash - He joins the park rangers. Thrash is the best out of his siblings in trekking the woods and managing wild animals. His white paintjob is also easy for people to spot him.

Hashtag - Joins the town's radio station for obvious reasons. There, she learns many other ways to communicate with others by other means besides the internet and improve her social skills.

Jawbreaker - He helps out the farmers, mostly his neighbour with the cows. The farm animals see him as a friend and protector. His favourite time is basking under the sun with them. Sometimes Grimlock would join in.

Nightshade - Joins the town's high school robotics team and a storyteller for the town's library. The team wants to build a real DeLorean time traveling car, but every one of them, Nightshade included, caused a small fire in the lab at least once. The town's fire station is keeping a keen eye on them all.

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Headcanon that Mandroid had some sort of escape pod in his Moving Lair which explains how he survived after it was destroyed.

Still can't believe no one thought to check for a body after that shit went down.

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Prowl could've been such an interesting element in S1. Some possibilities:

-Educating the Terrans about the War and especially Megatron because he'd 100% have an issue with how ignorant they are.

-Being in a secret alliance with Croft to try and kill Megatron. Obviously he doesn't trust Croft, but he's pissed at OP with how he's handling the exwarlord.

-Investigate the weird shit happening around Witwicky along with Schloder and eventually realize that there's a connection with Mandroid and Croft

-He'd be pissed about getting partnered with Schloder for missions but the two grow to respect each other.

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Commish for @dynared that’s a commentary on current Transformers hullabaloo with ES, CyberWorld and Skybound in particular.

As a reminder this is based on EarthSpark fanon, where Megatron has upgraded into Galvatron via the Cyber Sleeves during a critical battle against his past self/Clone Megaplex, the current leader of the Cybertron bound Decepticons.

Termagax has a role in this as well, one of the Earthbound Decepticons and a member of GHOST.

The child is Ethan Meridian, Mandroid’s only remaining child, and his buddy Triplex, Combined triplet Terrans bonded to him. Ethan is one of several kids that also got captured and installed in CyberWorld, alongside Robby Malto, Grahm Witwicky, Jason Dean, Dan Braverman, Daniel Witwicky, Maddie Witwicky, Nucle-Ai, Meister and more.

The Skybound Decepticons are unique interpretations to make them more toyetic and use lesser known GI Joe and Cobra vehicles besides HISS Tanks.

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Croft and GHOST should've been the ES version of Cecil Stedman and the GDA from Invincible. Both kinda were until the show made them cartoonishly evil because of the black and white moral insanity the writers wanted to push.

And no, that doesn't mean that TFs deserve to be treated like shit.

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Since Megatron's views on organics is still a thing in my Lotus AU, I can see him trying to fight the revulsion he feels as the Terrans start embracing their organic side more than their Cybertronian half. He has to keep reminding himself that they're the hope for the Cybertronian race.

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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Headcanon that Robby has a journal he vents in because doing it online is risky with Hashtag being connected to the internet 24/7.

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I’m glad that some people enjoy the Terrans and maltos in ES- like I’m really glad, they went in a new and fresh direction here which is bold, I’m so glad there’s an audience for it

But honestly the Terrans and maltos range from being boring to outright annoying to me and I enjoy the legacy characters far far more

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I made a meme that perfectly sums up the writing in the show:

Times Earthspark lacks common sense it's so funny, it's sometimes worrying (part 2/?)

Not in order of episode or season

No one is worried at all that Nightshade built the dugout by themselves. The barn could've collapsed and buried them alive.

With Bee not at the farm for most of that episode, it's just all the more reckless of them, and odd for Thrash and JB not questioning or joining their sibling building it.

The lack of environmental interactions as the episode and season goes. An old barn couldn't have been that sturdy to be able to bounce big bulky Jawbreaker off of it.

The lady Nightshade rescued only relaxed when they introduced themselves and admiring the stickers on her bag, not because they saved her from a mugger. (Huh???)

"I only feel safe around my friends and other non-binary people." Dismissing stranger danger. Being queer or have the same gender (identity) doesn't mean that individual is immune from doing bad things or being a bad person.

Nightshade committed kidnapping due to the scene carrying the woman away and putting her down on the rooftop being 7 minutes apart. Kid, you don't need to bring her to the other side of the city to save her from one mugger.

Did they even bring her back afterwards?

The anti-Transformers is told to be widespread yet there's only ONE hate display shown in the entire story.

"Humans despise Transformers." Then why are there new merchandises about them?

Good thing the cartoon doesn't touch toilet issues. Robby & Mo getting stuck in the dugout for 10 hours must be rough.

Why in the world is a ten-year-old attending her brother's middle school for one class? "Because the teacher for her class is absent." Okay, what about her classmates?

Oddly, Hashtag herself never stumbled upon any anti-Transformers stuff online. It'd make sense that Robby is actively hiding them from his Terran siblings, but his Pikachu face reaction at the graffiti says otherwise.

Nova Storm could've sonic boom the Bot Brawl to smithereens but she didn't. Frenzy and Lazerbeak could've ran away but they seem to be having genuine fun commentating on their fellow Cons' misery. It doesn't look like they were trapped and forced to be in there...

Heck, even Bee voluntarily came and stayed there.

In "Bear Necessities", did the family clean up the trashed woods or nah?

The lack of mentioning of past events in further episodes as a whole. Swindle, Tarantulas, school, the S1 finale global death blast, etc -- making the characters' behaviours in further episodes seeming came out of the blue.

Who are the owner of the cows? Do they know the paddock is being used as a playground by giant child Transformers? Do the Maltos tell them they took their calf as their own pet?

With zero mentioning of the cows' owner, the Malto family basically stole Fluffy Ears from her owner and her mother.

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So more about Hashtag potentially getting a new altmode in my Lotus AU.

I can see her picking a Volkswagen Bus:

They're usually associated with good vibes plus Hashtag is all about making connections with people. Having an altmode to shuttle her friends around is in character for her.

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In my Lotus AU, Mandroid learns about Terratronus while on his space bridge journey. Considering the Emberstone's presence and the strange tunnels under Witwicky, he comes to the conclusion that the titan is under the town. He never tells anyone else about it, even my OC Tara.