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glitchgh0sty · 2 months ago

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*Holds up like a proud parent,* -This is my boy,, this one is mine-,, you may have seen him running around over here,, don’t mind him- he’s on break <33

His name is Zephyr ✨- [and this is the most solid reference I’ve got of him,, see inconsistent references below <33]

And now??? Introducing a passionate rant about the big brother esc goofball no one has seen yet

[passionate rant below cut]

Essentially, what I’ve got going so far is Zephyr used to be a renowned competitive racer before the war back on Cybertron, he lived for the tracks and often received citations for speed racing through civilian streets. That was until his street friend caught wind of a race academy located somewhere near Iacon where they could both learn how to compete professionally

They both entered and on their first official race someone ended up wiping out, bad, so Zeph dropped back to help em out and they gained a third friend that day

As a young upstart Zephyr began gaining some crazy popularity, blissfully [intentionally??] ignorant of the state of the government. [kinda the same mentality as the phrase, “If I can’t see it? Then it doesn’t exist ✨”]. That is, until one day he wiped out on the track, even worse than was considered possible at the time, and he got sent into a coma before the war officially started.

During his time in stasis, Zeph’s friends had a huge argument about the morality of the war and ended up choosing different sides of the fight before they could reconcile. Only one of them openly appeared to hold onto the hope that Zephyr was going to recover [though they both secretly visited after their fight anyways] His first friend later decided that the hospital, the stasis that would never end, the loss of both his friends, was too much for him and he effectively ejected Zephyr from the hospital as an act of mercy, so fate might deal with him as it pleased.

Zephyr woke up from stasis years later after the pod he was being housed in got blown up and some dormant fear based adrenaline kicked in.

What began as a blissfully ignorant coping skill, after running into some friendly [neutral] wanderers, Zeph continued his race training,, determined to compete the second the war essentially “fixed itself” [even tho his engines haven’t been running quite right ever since his wake from stasis] but over time, he trained less and less as the inpermanence of his dream began to set in

He had some misadventures and those lead me to where he is now,, stuck in a war, no idea what’s going on, trying to find his two original friends, both of whom he doesn’t know hate each other 😌🫶

[and once he does- he founds a secret faction, dedicated to drawing neutral territory between bots and cons after he got his friends back together/ and everything was good for a bit until one very bad day, his faction got exposed and practically everyone he had instilled hope into got ripped to shreds- [including one of his friends[they died]]]

He wanders around kinda aimlessly nowadays as a husk of who he once wanted to be. His only friend rejoined the Autobots. -And he gave up any hope for peace ever :D👍

… until-

#transformers #tf oc #tf Zephyr #my littlest little boy-#*immediately dunks in character development*

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blufblucake · 23 days ago

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Hi!! Can I ask for a resquet of romantic Hc's about Rumble x Cassette!F!Reader? I saw this idea before and loved it (especially because I love Rumble)

The reader can be a Decepticon or an Autobot, whichever you like best is fine ^^

✧˖*° Headcanon: Rumble x Cassette!F!Reader

Warnings: None, I think.

Word count: 1,1k

Author’s Notes: I was really happy to get this ask because I love Rumble too. I have to admit I’m a sucker for that whole Romeo and Juliet vibe, rival families and forbidden love, but I decided to write both scenarios because I think it’ll be fun. I really hope you enjoy it! :)

⋆ 𐙚 ̊. 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫:

✦ Rumble definitely wasn’t looking for love. He was happy the way things were: helping Soundwave when needed, causing trouble around the ship with Frenzy, bothering Skywarp now and then… In his opinion, it was a pretty good life. The idea of getting romantically involved with someone had never crossed his processor. Until one encounter with the Autobots changed everything.

✦ In the middle of the battle, there you were. In a quick move from Blaster, you were ejected and launched into the fight, attacking fiercely. You were beautiful, the most beautiful femme he had ever seen. Without any trouble, you knocked Frenzy down with a single blow and charged straight at him.

✦ He couldn’t even bring himself to care when you struck and knocked him out. When he hit the ground, he stayed there, unconscious but happy. It was the best punch of his life, a true punch of love.

✦ Ever since then, he hadn’t stopped thinking or talking about you. His brothers couldn’t take hearing about the Autobot cassette who had captured Rumble’s spark anymore, and every time he went on a mission, he secretly hoped he’d run into you again, even if it meant getting punched again.

✦ On your second encounter, Rumble made a point of using all his charm, shamelessly flirting with you. However, nothing seemed to work, as you stayed serious, focused only on the fight. That day, once again, he got beaten up — and apparently, the more you hit him, the more he fell for you.

✦ The next encounters followed the same pattern: him flirting, you hitting. Until finally, one day, you responded to the cassette’s flirting. You had to give him credit for his persistence, and let’s be honest, he was actually kind of cute.

✦ Slowly, a connection began to form between you. Your fights became just an excuse to talk, since you knew there wouldn’t be many other chances. You’d talk about the war and your views of the world, always trying to convince the other to switch sides.

✦ One day, the opportunity finally came, and you were able to meet outside of battle. A secret meeting in the middle of the night, you both knew full well that if your factions found out what you were doing, there would be serious consequences, especially for him.

✦ That night, you connected in a unique way. The Autobot infiltrator and the Decepticon saboteur — a forbidden love, yet one that felt so right.

✦ You gave yourself to Rumble, surrendered to your desires, and allowed yourself to enjoy those feelings and sensations, even if only for one night. It was the most passionate night of your life, and you stayed wrapped up in each other, exchanging caresses until it was time to return to reality.

✦ After that, nothing was the same, for either of you. You knew you had to complete your duties, and your loyalty to your respective factions was unquestionable, but you could no longer bring yourselves to hurt each other.

✦ One day, distracted by Rumble, you ended up getting attacked by a Decepticon. You would have been captured and eliminated, he had no doubt about that, and he couldn’t let it happen. Using his seismic power, Rumble created a crater that took down many Decepticons and Autobots, but at least gave you time to escape, and your team scattered.

✦ He’d have to use all his charisma and persuasion to convince the others he didn’t do it to help you escape, but it was worth it. He’d never forgive himself if anything happened to you. He still had time to convince you to join his side, so the two of you could live your love without restrictions.

⋆˙⟡ 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫:

✦ In the beginning, you didn’t belong to any faction. You watched the war from a distance, trying to stay out of it, but by that point, such a thing was no longer possible. You lived on the margins of society, surviving on scraps and never knowing if you’d live to see another day. In your eyes, both Autobots and Decepticons were dangerous.

✦ But everything changed when Soundwave found you. He offered you shelter and safety, and that was more than you could have asked for. From that moment on, the choice was easy — you joined the Decepticons not out of belief in Megatron’s words, but for self-preservation. After all, it was better to be a predator than prey.

✦ You didn’t open up easily to any of the other cassettes, at most to Ravage, whom you spoke with more often, but never to the point of revealing details about your life before them. And that intrigued Rumble.

✦ Rumble’s loud, commanding personality clashed sharply with your more reserved nature. He always tried to pull you into jokes and get some kind of reaction out of you, but it was always in vain. Whenever he started, you pulled away, and that frustrated him.

✦ Noticing the situation, Soundwave made a point of pairing you two up whenever he could, forcing you to get along so things would go as planned. Little by little, you began to accept each other’s presence and learned to appreciate the traits each of you had.

✦ You taught him the importance of balance, not doing things purely on impulse, while he showed you that life wasn’t just about strategy and survival. He fell for your cold composure, and you, for his fire.

✦ There was still competition among you and the other cassettes, everyone trying to prove their worth and avoid being underestimated. But over time, you and Rumble became inseparable.

✦ Even though arguments happened often — fights that could sometimes cause more damage than fighting Autobots — everyone knew you worked better together than apart. You were each other’s balance.

✦ Most of your nights were spent together, alone in some hidden corner of the ship only the two of you knew about. Over time, you opened up to Rumble about your past, and despite his arrogance and immaturity, he had the sensitivity to listen and not judge you, choosing instead to simply offer a shoulder to lean on.

✦ You had a private frequency. You shared music, jokes, and secrets not even Soundwave knew. And despite everything, life was good by the troublemaker’s side.

✦ When you fought together on the battlefield, it was like putting on a show. The soundwaves you produced combined with Rumble’s seismic punches created chaos for the enemy. And he was proud of you.

✦ In the middle of the night, while you recharged in his arms, he wished with all his spark that the war would end, that you’d come out victorious, and that one day, you could finally relax together — maybe even build a family of your own.

#transformers #transformers rumble #transformers x reader #rumble x reader #transformers headcanons

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savvymantis · 4 months ago

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Blinded By Love?

Maybe you were a little off your rocker. But who could really blame you? Cybertronians were utterly fascinating, and despite their differences, they were still eerily similar to humans. Luckily for you, the Autobot team were rather tolerant of your questions about their biology, some even finding it flattering that you were so interested in them.

However, your friendship with them stopped you from being able to discover your less. . . kind curiosities. After all, with so much of them being similar to humans, did it also mean that their bodies reacted similarly to humans? You were too tiny to really startle any bot to see see if their equivalent of a pupil retracted from fear, and you were too weak to whack them on the knee to see if they had a reflex.

But still. . . opportunities presented themselves to you in the most interesting of circumstances.

Take, for example, the current moment. What was supposed to be an easy drive with Bumblebee led to a surprise ambush by a Decepticon jet. Which then led to you being thrown out of the car and into a ditch.

And now, towering over you with a sharp grin, was the second in command of the Decepticon army, Starscream.

"Any last words, fleshy?" He asked, wiggling his fingers at you.

Your head cocked, your own fingers brushing the fun little toy Wheeljack had snuck you some time ago. 'Just in case.' He had whispered to you with a wink.

You grinned back at Starscream, eager to test a theory that had been brewing in your brain for ages: if optics were like eyes, could they be blinded?

You threw the flash grenade, and twisted around to shield your face, ready to find out.

Starscream had met many a clever foe in his time. Even before the Deceptions were formed, he was known to be brutal and strategic, hard to knock off his pedes.

But even he had to admit, you smiling back at him like you were excited about being crushed did make him pause. Were you defective, he wondered briefly. No matter, you were dead regardless.

But before Starscream could finish lifting up his pede, you threw something at him. Instinctively, his optics followed it as he moved to dodge, only for it to immediately explode into a light so bright it burnt out the circuits of his optics.

Starscream let out a shriek that shook the air around him, vents firing on high as his body seared with heat and paid. He bent forward, clutching his faceplate, and swore to Primus above that he was going to kill you. Oh, he wanted to pick you apart piece by piece, but his anger controlled him, and he stomped relentlessly into the ditch where he knew you were.

But he felt nothing but the sickening earth dirt tamping beneath him. Then there was the rev of an engine and a hysterical laugh fading away into the distance.

You. . . you escaped??

Starscream raged, uncaring of what was around him. His nanites were slowly fixing the circuits lost, so he couldn't see what was there, but he felt for anything living to crush and grind away. All plants, for any animal life no doubt fled at the first sight of chaos, but snapping a tree over his knee did help him feel a little better.

"Blasted human. . ." He huffed, rubbing at his tender optics.

How had you managed to catch him so off guard? Starscream gritted his teeth, furious to have been bested by a waste of space plaguing this dirtball of a planet like a parasite. Oh, he was going to kill you the next time you dared to leave the Autobot base. He'd make it nice and slow for all your little Autobot friends to see.

He'd look at your little face, and you won't be smiling that little smile anymore! You won't be laughing that shrill laugh, no. You'll be begging for mercy, begging for him to spare your pathetic life.

Luckily for him, you left the Autobot base not a few cycles later. He chased down your guardian once more, Smokescreen this time, and ran him off the road to eject you from the seats.

"Your eyes okay?" You asked, breathless and pinned by his hand. He wasn't touching you, not yet, wanting to play with his prey, but you just gave him that damned smile. "Hope I didn't blind you back there, but with how shit your aim, I must've fucked you up."

"I'm going to kill you." Starscream ground out, the heat of anger, the thrill of an imminent victory, causing his circuits to sing. "And I am going to make sure it lasts."

You. . . You chuckled, turning your little head to rest a soft, warm cheek against one of his digits. Starscream froze again, despite the shrieking of his processor, caught by that look in your eyes. Was that. . . fondness?

"You said that last time, Screamer." You said, and suddenly a new device was in your hand. Starscream jerked, but you were quicker this time, pressing the metal tongs to the inner wires of his wrist joint. "And you'll say it next time too."

Electricity lit up his body, so powerful Starscream was forced to fold, landing on his back in his alt form. Over the buzzing in his audials, he could hear you cackling again, racing off towards the worried shouts of Smokescreen.

As his optics once again rebooted, Starscream caught sight of you throwing another little grin over your shoulder, eyes bright and hair wild.

Oh. . . a fleshbag you were. . . but maybe you were a worthy opponent. After all, not just anyone could escape his clutches twice. He'd need more than brute strength to get you, and you. . . you were worth more than your death, weren't you?

A fine hostage you would make. A fine plaything for him to poke and prod until he understood how your clever little mind worked.

Yes. . . He knew what he was going to do next time he caught.

#transformers x reader #starscream x reader #reader is a little crazy in the way our boy is a little crazy #crazy for crazy yknow #starscream

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blueikeproductions · 9 months ago

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The Quintessons also got cards.

While we don’t know for sure if there’s other members of their race yet, these are a pretty big departure from the original designs, which have remained somewhat consistent.

Most notably the absence of the most recognizable Quintesson Judge is curious. There’s nothing that says they’re not there, but usually the Judge types are front and center for things, so removing them for a new High Command version is interesting.

The High Command and Soldier designs seem closer to some one off Quintessons from the 80’s cartoon.

The Quintessons have a somewhat complex conceptual history.

Their earliest concept looked like this.

A psychic biomechanical humanoid whose psychic abilities were so great they could make a horde of Sharkticons from scrap metal in an instant and probe the galaxy with a simple mind scan. Their head was apparently their true form, as it would eject and fly to another body when Hot Rod tried threatening it. The biomechanical look would persist for their final designs, but more modern media via Aligned and Cyberverse would instead state they’re actually organic creatures that look something like this:

Revealing their robotic bodies as merely being suits they pilot. It’s not clear yet if this is also the case in EarthSpark or ONE, though ONE feels like this is what they’re supposed to actually look like, but more organic this time than robotic as they typically are.

Some further revisions to the 80’s movie scripts and marketing of the time originally cast the Quintessons as working directly for Unicron, their mock trials were to punish and destroy any lingering survivors of Unicron’s wrath that passed by Quintessa. While this idea never made it into the original film, it was used in the Marvel comics and later revisited in early BotCon comics, but never became hard canon. The UK comics would make them into aliens clinging for survival as their home planet was destroyed by a time anomaly caused by the time traveling Galvatron. Running out of options, the Quints attacked Autobot City on Earth to try and colonize it, but were driven off by Rodimus Prime and Metroplex, their fate unknown but nevertheless swearing revenge on the Transformers.

The final version of the Quintessons in the cartoon cast them as the ancient creators of the Transformers, with some media explaining they also created Cybertron by terraforming a planet into a factory world (at least it wasn’t a parking structure planet). The cartoon would also establish them as slimy business men, having their tentacles in the affairs of other species for financial gain. Along with the Transformers starting out as in universe products to sell, it seems the writers might’ve been having a laugh at Hasbro.

The Quints’ primary goal in the cartoon was to push the Autobots aside so they could regain control of Cybertron, often conning the Decepticons into doing their dirty work for them. Where the Quints came from is never clear, as the show implies Cybertron was more their home planet originally due to their sentimental attachment to it. Their supposed home planet, Quintessa, is implied to merely be another planet they terraformed after getting booted off Cybertron.

Due to the more popular Primus origin from the Marvel comics, the Quintessons and their hand in the creation of Cybertron and its people was largely ignored in most mainstream media. While they saw a homage in Alpha Q in Energon (the connection to the Quintessons made stronger in the Energon Dreamwave comics), they didn’t really start resurfacing as major characters again until recently. The BotCon comics attempted to reconcile the two origins, stating the Primus origin was also the case in the cartoon, with the Quints interfering in the process, and this early idea served as the basis for the Aligned canon, where the Quints did the same in Cybertron’s early years, conning the young race into becoming their allies (servants), by bestowing both the futuristic space fairing technology Cybertronians enjoy today, their modern hierarchy (that became the corrupt caste system Megatron fought against) and the ability to Transform. Apparently the robots technically could already Transform as they all had Cogs, they just hadn’t LEARNED to Transform yet. Like the 80’s cartoon, these Quints intended to sell off the Transformers as products to the galaxy, with Sentinel (Zeta) Prime installed as their figurehead leader like in TFONE. Eventually they were chased off like in the old cartoon, but Prime nor RiD15 would ever revisit the Quintessons, though the prequel novels nobody read did claim the Autobots and Decepticons briefly became antagonized by them once more during the hunt for the Allspark in space.

Aligned’s main difference that’s fueled most modern interpretations is the Quintessons are the creations of Quintus Prime one of the newly established 13 original Transformers.

Aligned implies they killed Quintus and stole what they needed from him to become space fairing and eventually go to Cybertron, conquering other planets along the way.

The Quints were intended to be allies to Cybertron, as were other Quintus borne races, but this was not meant to be, due to the Quints’ hubris. EarthSpark’s version says the Quints were the first sons of the Prime, and in trying to discover their purpose, they became bitter and developed daddy issues, going around and killing off their cousins on other planets, attempting to acquire the Emberstone for their own use. The Quints and Transformers are strongly aware of each other, and clearly fought before, but their exact relationship has not been established yet, if at all.

TFONE greatly simplifies it to the Quints being an alien race that attacked Cybertron during the time of the Primes, though the hows and whys aren’t clear. What is clear is the jealous Sentinel made a bargain, helping them destroy the Primes and letting him be in control in exchange for paying them off in Energon to leave Cybertron alone. It’s not clear if Quintus Prime created the Quints in this universe, but there is a resemblance.

Quintus at some point: Sorry guys, you know how kids are!

Despite the Quintus origin, some modern media has gone back to the 80’s cartoon origin. Notably Age of Extinction and The Last Knight returning to the aliens created the Transformers idea, but the movies not directly using the Quintessons. However concept art does suggest the original intent WAS supposed to be the Quintessons…

Instead all we have is an alien hand and later Quintessa to go by.

It’s never clarified if the two are related, with Quintessa possibly being a Transformer and a Prime as well, but she is also called a liar by those formally in her employ so… She IS able to reprogram Optimus into doing her bidding however, so there’s that. She’s clearly inspired by Quintus, but isn’t connected beyond that. Her goal was to restore Cybertron by draining Earth of its life force and destroy Unicron in one fell swoop (as Earth is inexplicably Unicron again like in Prime). The organic Creators meanwhile were responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, deploying bombs that converted organics into cyber matter that made the metal of the Transformers. Lockdown was working for the Creators, but with the abrupt inclusion of Quintessa, it’s not clarified if he was working for her instead/also.

Cyberverse cast the Quintessons as major villains, but instead of the creation origin, they depicted them as trans dimensional entities that travel to other Transformers universes to judge them guilty and destroy them for no other reason other than they can. Truly the best kind of villain: petty. Still this Dr. Who meets The Matrix direction with them doesn’t appear to be at all popular despite the arc being regarded positively. I still think Cyberverse is awful top to bottom, but the general idea they went for is decent. The Primes exist here, as noted previously with Alchemist Prime, but it’s never stated if these Quintessons are related to Quintus Prime.

Netflix War For Cybertron and Skybound Energon Universe also return to the Quintesson origin for the Transformers, though in the former’s case, their connection, if any, to the Allspark is never clarified. Skybound’s Void Rivals is currently the main component using the Quints, and dialog heavily implies the cartoon origin, though some minor Aligned concepts creep up as well. Nevertheless the Quintus origin doesn’t appear to be as… nailed down as Hasbro probably would like.

Indeed despite the resurgence in relevance, Hasbro seems somewhat reluctant to use the Quintessons still. The Quintus origin in the modern era had only been used in EarthSpark, and even then it’s not used… super well. The Steven Universe Diamonds that need a family intervention, never mind the genocide they caused, persists here to much chagrin. With the inconsistency on how the Quints came to be in modern media, it also makes Quintus Prime unnecessary, if some media is treating the Quints as separate beings. Even IDW didn’t do anything with this, despite using a lot of the Aligned concepts, and for now Skybound seems content to ignore it also.

I think the reluctance is due to toys of them not doing well, with the Cyberverse ones doing especially poorly. The High Command guy being able to Transform toy wise seems to be an attempt to make it clear they fit in with Transformers, but their peg warming doesn’t seem to be fixing that.

Along with Hasbro and Paramount not handing the transition from Bee to ROTB properly (like how do we jump from what Bee did to suddenly Unicron attacks?), I don’t have high expectations that the Quintessons will be handled well for a possible TFTWO, if they’re even used at all.

Which is a shame because the ONE designs are pretty cool, they made the Quints more appropriately scary and intimidating vs the slightly goofy looking egg shaped Judges. And I like the Judges but still.

#blueike productions #blueike #transformers #maccadam #quintus prime #quintessons #transformers one spoilers #transformers one

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