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Already extremely obsessed with Royd from Dispatch btw.

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First of all I definitely have to thank @elfdragon12 for selling me on the G1 humans and the potential they have for good storytelling!

So here are Spartacus 'Spike' Witwicki, Carlita 'Carly' Castellano and Charles 'Chip' Chase as they appear in TTB! Spike mainly works off-base with his father Stanislaw 'Sparkplug' Witwicki as mechanics on Autobot missions, while Carly and Chip are mainly on-base working in R&D and tech respectively. Witwicky is a name that exists IRL, and it's specifically an Americanised version of Witwicki, which is Polish, so Spike is a second-generation immigrant to the US with Polish---specifically as a member of the Lipka Tatar minority---ties through Stanislaw, and Turkish ties through his mother. Lipka Tatars are predominantly also Muslims who usually keep to a Polish naming convention/don't usually sport Arabic names, so Spike here also joins the the rising ranks of Muslims on the Autobot side!

Mexican-Italian Carly is a bottle blond who goes back to her original brown tresses near the end of the war. She runs on coffee and Monster Energy, and is what one might call a Type A personality. And for good reason—she’s a scholarship kid from an impoverished barrio, the first to ever get into MIT, and she’s determined to make a name for herself to bring back support and funding for her community so other kids like her have that opportunity too. She was a student in Dr. Harding’s lecture classes, and interned under Harding before graduation—the two still keep in contact with each other across the Atlantic. And Chip. We gotta talk about Chip (and the other two) under the cut.

Chip got the bad end of the deal here and his background is as messed up as his general health is on any given day. Energon hotspots exist in TTB and they’re still being studied and often irradiate local wildlife and extremely unlucky scientists conducting field research; one of them was Chip’s mother, while she was very early into her pregnancy (she believed she was properly kitted out, but this hotspot was more potent than the others).

He grew up sickly, but still relatively active and as Spike’s childhood friend, would still be able to play football with Spike. Spike and Chip’s relationship was extremely tight when they were children (Spike protected Chip from bullies and played with him since other boys avoided involving him in their games as he had problems keeping up due to his health issues, while Chip would help Spike with schoolwork and stood up for him if someone decided it’s pick-on-the-immigrant-kid day). It was to the point that, when Sparkplug was imprisoned for a short stint after being charged with inciting a riot (he was spearheading a workers' protest), Chip's residence was a second home to Spike, while his mother picked up extra shifts to make ends meet. However, when Chip was around 10, the radiation flared up/became aggressive in both him and his mother, and while his mother's condition deteriorated faster than his, it still wreaked havoc on his body and caused paraplegia through spinal metastasis. When his mother died, he had no blood family willing to take him in (as a child born out of wedlock who was piling up medical bills and was not expected to see his 18th birthday). The Witwickis, who saw him as family now, wanted to adopt him but could not pay for the care he needed as lower class blue collar immigrants.... at which point Zeta Prime stepped in as a benefactor who wanted to sponsor the child prodigy. This however, meant Chip had to be moved to New York, ostensibly for better treatment, and he and Spike last saw each other as children when they were 12.

They’d promise to write to each other, but Spike never received anything from Chip no matter how many letters he sent (Zeta had been intercepting them since he wanted Chip to be fully dependent on him/cut all ties to his past, and to focus on his tutelage under Dr Alcazar) The two reunited as adults when Spike and Sparkplug were enlisted as part of the team working on a top secret government project (Metroplex) on which Chip was the lead programmer and Carly was head of the R&D division. Chip however, started having doubts about Zeta Prime's motives for Metroplex's creation, and feeling both helpless and terrified for what he'd gotten himself into, confided his concerns to Spike that what they were building was not a space research titan, but a weapon and the US' largest mobile base capable of levelling small countries--which is exactly what Zeta plans to do with it. Carly eavesdrops, and is drawn into the situation.

All three of them struggled with breaking off their relationship with Zeta Prime, whose project brought the, together:

Chip knows that going against Zeta means he likely loses all access to the medical aid and experimental treatments keeping him alive. (He is lucky that he kept notes and an extensive medical record of himself, and that them fleeing across the Atlantic brought them right to Ratchet and Co.),

Spike knows going against Zeta means burning the olive branch of government acceptance Zeta held out to his father and their diaspora after their lifelong struggle to get the same compensation for their work as native-born workers, and better/safer projects.,

Carly knows going against Zeta means a stain on her record as a ‘model minority’ , and it will destroy Zeta’s promise of a scholarship fund for her community as well as government goodwill for them.

All three decide that they have to take a stand against him regardless, and they managed to sabotage Zeta’s control over Metroplex and allowed Metro to escape into the Pacific. Fleeing Zeta’s wrath across the Atlantic put them on the collision course with the Autobots via an SOS signal from Prowl which Chip decoded and answered, and this set have been stalwart allies since Chip still has a close relationship with Prowl here over many similar aspects of their life, quiet companionship and a love for strategy games. He is also rebuilding the relationship he had with Spike and Sparkplug, and Spike and Chip see each other more as brothers than friends these days.

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Updating my OCs feat my very first official Pokemon OC, Haylene ‘Hale’ Callahan! Full-blooded Irish and ready to throw the fuck down on all occasions, she’s definitely had a bit of a glow-up. She’s Meirion’s bodyguard in the Pokemon group I’m in with Tia and Ardy! And can absolutely carry him like she’s bridal carrying Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard.

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Marine life lover Shockwave

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These characters have names now! I'll be expanding on them in my patreon🥰

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Hey, y'all. Just wanted to say that m'probably gonna be offline for a while. One of our family friends died out on his ranch in a fire 'n we're helpin' do stuff for the old cowboy's funeral.

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Happy Pride 🌈

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Darkwing is totally homophobic.

(Also experimenting with some new art styles. Let me know if you like it and want to see more of this art style.)

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Should I start doing more lore for my Arcane actor AU?

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A story in two pictures

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Gone fishing.

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For the Represent Zine on @allsparkzines, I was given the honor of creating one of their stretch goal goodies, and I’m proud to reveal this piece featuring Praveen Satvinder/Perceptor and Sun Byeong-Ho/Brainstorm to that end!

You can pry these magazine covers from my cold, dead hands, and you can get this piece as a 5x7 print if we reach the goal of 75 physical copies ordered, so go go go, don’t let these science lads down! (PERCEPTOR ESPECIALLY they had to bribe him to get him away from his research—Brainstorm JUMPED at the chance).

Featuring also my personal designs for Turbofoxes!

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I♥YOU

Spent a couple of days trynna tween it 'n havin' an extitnintial crisis. got halfway through on capcut before deletin' it cause I didn't like how it looked, went to Alight motion 'n redid the whole thing. (Ain't t been able to draw for a while cause while I was editin' it caused my tablet to freeze up for almost two whole days)

(link to YouTube attached)

Holy shit-

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Drawing Sparkplug as a Mexican baby in order to feel something

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Catch a wave and you're surfing on top of the world!

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You should totally do the lambo twins 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I WAS HOPING FOR THIS ASK!!! BEHOLD, THE BEAUTIES!

This one is definitely getting turned into a full piece at some point (: