#BW: Hero Swap AU

[zuala-bear]

So I made this random swap au and now I'm obsessed

[raptorfae53]

Beast Machines swap au ramblings:

I had a really interesting idea yesterday for a beast machines au where optimus,cheetor,rattrap and blackarachnia are instead captured by megatron,and it's up to rhinox,silverbolt,dinobot 2 and tigerhawk (who survived bw season 3 in this au) to do what those captured did in OTL.

Among these thoughts included:

Alongside the nature vs technology theming of OTL beast machines designs,each of the maximals are based on mythological beasts,with rhinox being a unicorn,tigerhawk a gryphon, dinobot 2 a dragon and silverbolt a thunderbird.

As for the vehicons, I get the idea of megatron seeing the vehicon shells as an ironic and humiliating punishment for the four of them.

For example, having the sneaky,wisecracking rattrap become the enormous and slow witted tankor, and cheetor the young but mature hero into the psychopathic jokester jetstorm. As for Primal and Blackarachnia, I'm not too sure yet.

Meanwhile the surviving maximals are ripe for character exploration too. For example silverbolt in this timeline questioning his own values and becoming a more vengeful character because he feels he's failed Blackarachnia.

And arcs like rhinox grappling with loss and leadership and dinobot and tigerhawk trying to figure out who they are as people.

As well as the question regarding why megatron took those four (I'm thinking it's along the lines of it being down to him having a personal grudge with all four) and how he conquered cybertron.

Idk what do you all think?

[zuala-bear]

These guys

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Rät - Penelope Scott

[zuala-bear]

The BW: Hero Swap protag(?) designs. The AUs still pretty much a WIP so some things may or may not change, but so I'm happy w/ their designs. (Although- I might redo Hilbert. And keep this 'fit as something more casual than usual).

Alt designs under the cut^^