#Bug (clone OC)

[omaano]

Pre-emptive medicine (Stay Hydrated guys!)

Wolfpack clone medics Mirshko and Cure (OCs) belong to @kyda-atshushi who kindly commissioned me for this drawing :3

[moderator-monnie]

Challenge for artists for fun! (Create A Slammer Clone Oc!)

Create your own 'clone' copy for Slammer.

What Is A Slammer Clone/How to describe one?

1: It can take the form of any character. (Not limited to the Sonic Series.)

2: It can take the form of any insect that, (lays eggs and has a larva stage at some point.)

Rules:

1: They must have empty eye sockets on their face, however they can have an eye or eyes. Somewhere else on the body.

(You can decide the placement on the body.)

2: These Two Colors Must Be Used Somewhere In The Design.

3: Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Amy and Mario already have Slammer Clones/an insect assigned to them, so they can't be used.

4: have fun!

Slammer Sonic for reference art by lazy-charlie

[jedi-clone-appreciation]

Clone OCs of the 314th Battalion with their armor!

[mwolf0epsilon]

Revelations

Carno: Do you ever feel like you've been wandering around in the woods your whole life? Lost and unsure of where the path back home is...Only to one day see a particular landmark and realize you've finally found the way out? Clearcut: ...I suppose that's a feeling we've all gone through. One way or another. Carno: ... I think I've felt like that my entire life. But never knew how to explain it. Or what it was that I was feeling at all. James: I don't think Krell made it easy to explore that feeling all too well. But eh, the karking bastard is dead now. Bon, gently petting Mutt who licks his hand in appreciation: And we're still here... Still uh, dealing with the consequences of his actions. Carno, taking a deep breath: ....... I think I.... I think I might... Clearcut, encouragingly: Go on. James, glancing over: Yeah? Bon: ... Carno, hiding her face in her hands: I think I might be a girl... James, grinning: Yeah? Bon, smiling: Clearcut, snorting in amusement: Of all the places to figure this out, I suppose a brothel full of very positive female role models isn't the worst of them. James: Damn... So like, we calling you sis now? Carno, rolling her eyes: I am your captain. Address me as such. James, teasingly: Sure thing Captain Sis. Carno, huffing in fond annoyance: You're insufferable...

[bmpmp3]

tomodachi life really went off with those bonzi buddy ass voices. win xp type text to speech. all character creation focused games should have this.

[flashthescalesian-art]

Kit sees her master flirting with Satine and just immediately starts waving red flags around frantically. No you cannot change my mind on this.

[rabid-bat]

Clonetober day 6, fear factor. Plato is pretty used to stuff like bugs and tarantulas, you have to be especially when you have a sister like Locusta.

[omaano]

🎨 Art Summary 2024 🎨

I did the thing I missed out on last year and picked a clone to represent each month :3 it wasn't too hard considering how I've spent the majority of my time drawing them (finally with some OCs - mine and others' - hell yeah!).

In 2025 I really want to wrap up the Hades AU, finish up the poly sketch requests for good, and play around with my art style: simplify a few things and work on my fear of empty spaces. Gotta learn how to hit that nice balance between noise and calm spaces in my art 💪

Thank you everyone for supporting me this year, through commissioning me or leaving very nice and heartwarming comments in the tags ❤️❤️❤️ (I do read and often save many of them for future support ❤️)

[voidendron]

h i m 💞

I wish the game showed his sad puppy eyes better, but- it he <333

[homemade-clones]

When Cheese, Tooka and Charm sit down, their thighs do ✨ The Thing ✨

[vodika-vibes]

Corrie quotes ~

Thire, texting Dusk: Dusk there’s a moth on the outside of the bathroom door can you get rid of it?

Thire: Pls hurry because I’m going to cry

Thire: Dusk

Thire: Dusk

Dusk: Dusk is dead. You’re next. Love, Moth.

[laterreurofficial]

I'm a little confused by what you mean by "If the parent wasn't able to pretend their senti-child was dead"? Is part of the agreement that they can't see the sentikids as living beings? (Not that many of them do that anyway, right? 🙃)

So, does GOSHE keep a close eye on their members? I imagine not very if it takes missing meetings/parties or fees to tip them off to defectors. Like sneaking the senti-kid out of the country wouldn't be easy in the first place, but are there extra hoops to jump through to avoid GOSHE from finding out? Would there be different rules for a senti-clone? (Apologies if I'm being annoying, I just want to make sure I'm as compliant with the AU as possible 😅)

No, as in they fake the kid's death! After all, if you're just letting the kid run amok (HAH!), the more people see them outside of controlled environments and the more likely people are gonna notice how alien they are....*

GOHSE's main form on keeping regular tabs on its members is said parties, but generally a lot of them tend to operate in the same circles due to GOHSE being just as much a networking thing as it is a sentibaby cult. If you want to keep it as complaint as possible, I'd say you want to specify what realm your OC family is in (entertainment? sports? politics? nobility?) because the first people to notice the signs of the family looking to leave are going to be their network buddies in that realm. "Oh you're going on a vacation you say? How long? Don't tell me you'll miss another one of the gatherings, my little Columbine loves talking with your son so much and she'd be devastated if he wasn't there..." etc etc etc. People tend to keep to their own on a day-to-day, but the frequent meetings mean that sentikids often have little friend groups they gravitate to at the parties and whatever speciality they have plays a big part in how those groups form.

You can think of all of it as like, the same sort of insular network as a bunch of suburban WASP stay-at-home-moms in a neighborhood Facebook group together, I suppose. Any fuckup here or there could mean they all miss out on a piece of the world domination pie, so most of them are gonna be hesitantly yet entirely compliant to GOHSE's collective whims at best and actively looking for people to rat out at worst.

I'm not really sure what other hoop-jumping things I could mention because it's safe to assume you're gonna be fucked no matter what? Like, the only scenario in which the family lives is if they somehow escape the heavily militarized "shoot everything on sight" barricade around quarantined Paris while Hawkmoth is striking, and then they get to enjoy their few years of living before Tomoe takes over GOHSE post-Gabriel's death/arrest and sends at least 5 yakuza-affiliated assassins after the family. No happy endings, Scarlet Lady and Bakery Enemies AU took them all so in La Terreur you either die now or later.

The omnipresence of evil and the futility it instills is a feature of La Terreur and not a bug!

I'd encourage you all to make some wonderful Aldi's employees and taxi drivers and insurance agents, god knows they at least have the gift of blissful ignorance to the larger machinations at play.

*No, not like people noticing the non-diegetic pink pupils or spitting acid or anything. Mostly, the big tip-off is the immortality and regeneration factor.

[omaano]

Some casual, post-war and happy Bug and Jesse 🥰

I'm not sure if it's a thing people do on tumblr, but I finally reached 2k followers on Instagram, and so I made this image for a Draw This In Your Style event to celebrate the milestone! So I'm sharing it here as well (and also because Bug deserves to be shared and loved!) and the rules of the DTIYS are under the cut if anyone's interested in participating ;) ❤️

Bug is @insertmeaningfulusername and my shared clone OC

DTIYS - Draw Bug (clone OC) and Jesse (his dog) in your style! You may • change his pose • dress him up in another outfit • just please make sure that you keep his mohawk and septum piercing 🙏 • you don’t have to include Jesse in there (I know that animals are tricky to draw), but it would mean the world to me if you did 🥺 • don't worry about the background, it's there for my own entertainment and enrichment Please use the hashtag #omaanodtiys if you participate and also tag me @/omaano so that I don’t miss your post! (If I don’t reblog it please feel free to send me your post!) 🪲Deadline is April 21 🪲 🏆 Prize 🏆 Winner will get a fully coloured illustration of a character of their choice like this one ❌You may not participate with an AI generated image (I hope this is obvious and wouldn’t cross anyone’s mind as an option) 💕HAVE FUN!💕

[omaano]

“The left side of his face is pretty banged up” had been the understatement of the month two sketches ago already 🤣🤣

Who are Clone Troopers Rain and Prettyboy?

They are my and @omaano's tortured clone OCs (: so far they mostly exist in our DMs and our heads (and hearts), but you can see Rain in this art!

Rain is the trooper on the left giving Rex the stink eye 😂 as a long-suffering medic, that is basically their duty. They are reported KIA pretty early in the war, but post-O66, Prettyboy runs into them after being kidnapped by pirates - Rain was recovered by the crew, half-dead and paralysed from the waist down, but after some TLC and the construction of a hoverchair, they were as good as new and ready for more adventure!

Prettyboy is Rain's situationship from before they were reported KIA, and he used to live up to his name until he and the tank he operated got caught in an explosion. Omaano is working on a few concept sketches 👀 I do hope they will be posted publicly some day so we can show off our boy (gnc)! The left side of his face is pretty banged up though, and of course it gives them a whole complex - especially since they used to have a rivalry with Bug (yes, another OC) about who could score the most admirers in the battalion... Prettyboy is a mean, jealous, vain little thing, but we love him very much <3 as does Rain.

[factual-fantasy]

Salutations Factual! As is always the case, I was overjoyed to see your recent works- Wall-E is another childhood movie of mine, and as you always do, you perfectly translated them into your style! I was also delighted to see a small peak at some new original OCs in the new meme post! While I assume you don't have anything massive planned for them, I was wondering if you had any info regarding them you'd be willing to share? I'm always a big fan of bugs!

Alongside that, it's been fun seeing all this TF prime discussion the past few days. And as part of that, I also wished to bring out a few more points regarding the Vehicons. You made some good points in your last post- the difference between the Vehicons and the Starscream's clones despite their shared method of creation is indeed a bit confusing. However, a few obscure lore bits and a couple of statements from the show's producers help rectify some of the plot holes- and some of your ideas actually weren't too far off!

As far as we know, at some point during the war Megatron selected one or more disposable Soldiers to be "cloned" using a process presumably developed by Shockwave. Small copies of their sparks were created, and given life through energon after being implanted into protoform molds. The resulting clones were fully sentient, but like the predacons Shockwave later created, their sparks were synthetic, thus making them a step above true "drones" but not quite natural cybertronians, as their sparks did not come directly from the Well. As you put it, Shockwave did what he does best and "played God".

Notably, this practice of churning out Vehicon fodder during the wars long lifecycle became so routine, that, as confirmed by one of the producers, some protoforms were designed to resemble Vehicons before they even had a spark inserted- including the five protoforms which Starscream found, all of which had the Vehicons distinctive visor before being reformated into his clones...

However, like you hypothesized, similar to the clones from Star wars, it is suggested in the lore that over the years the cloned Vehicons declined in quality, like because, as the originals died or found their sparks exhausted, the Cons had to start making clones of clones, which over the centuries degraded the newer batches. This is also likely the reason that the modern Vehicons differ so vastly from Starscream's clones...notably, in the prequel games set on Cybertron, most of the Vehicons sound identical, and generally, they proved to be slightly bigger threats.

But by the time of Prime, the majority of them seem weaker and less intelligent- and some have started to manifest vastly different personalities and voices as the clones become less "perfect" with each generation. However- as many fans have pointed out- it seems there are a few OGs left. You'll remember these two guys from the first episode:

They, and a few rare other Vehicons, were evidently from the earlier batches- as despite being clones they fought on even terms with Bumblebee and Arcee for a good while, only retreating when Bulk showed up and saved themselves. (Where they went after that, is anyone's guess)

This also explains why Starscream's clones were so similar to him- they were a "first generation" of clones copied directly from his spark- to the point it even linked them together (which probably happened because he didn't know what he was doing) and this is also why, while the Autobots occasionally show sympathy to select Vehicons, generally except that they have to destroy them in combat- ultimately, their all just "clones", and despite being sentient, their sparks are synthetic, and thus not as valued as well-forged sparks. hence why they mow down Vehicons, but constantly hesitate to kill Starscream, Knockout, and other "pure" Cybertronians.

Oops. Somehow I ended up rambling even longer than last time- sorry! But those are the conclusions I was able to gather. Let me know your thoughts, and again, you're still totally free to go whatever direction you want in your AU! I can't wait to see it one day! I wish you have a good evening! (Or morning!)

(WALL-E post) (OCs post)

Thank you so much! :DD And I DO have a litttttle bit developed for those goobers :)

I thought that these bug critters could be a team of researchers/explorers or something. They go from planet to planet to study the life there and what not. The main character is the Bee gal. I was thinking she's the team scout and is interested in one of her coworkers.. but alas.. it must be kept secret because that is not allowed ☝

The Crane fly and Dragonfly are meant to be the scientists of the ship..? Not sure what their specific job title would actually be but they wear white lab coats. 👍Not much personality is built for the Dragonfly as I made him just for the meme. Thinking he might be a tone deaf/strictly logical character..? But the Crane fly is meant to be the classic kooky scientist character that everyone thinks is actually insane but he's somehow always right and always manages to fix things.

Not much was developed for the moth because he was made just for the meme- but he's basically a Ratchet clone XD Grumpy old medic that is incredibly skilled in his craft and secretly cares very deeply for all of his crew. 🧡

The Orchid mantis is either going to be the lieutenant or Caption of the ship, I haven't decided yet <:/ Despite his no nonsense vibe he's actually rather chill and usually is doing something stupid with the rest of the crew.

The Rhino beetle is also rather chill. He's best friends with the Tarantula and they show affection by beating each other up and throwing each other off of cliffs 💞

Not sure what the Tarantulas job is, but he walks around with crazy canons/weapons. Maybe he's a guard of some kind..? Who knows- he has a gruff exterior but he's got a big heart in there somewhere. ☺️

Now all of that aside,, reading through all that text about the Vehicons has left me with some more opinions- 💀

The whole thing with Shockwave playing God, Its just. Ugh. It just should not work. I've already got so much beef with the predacons, but now adding the ability to create sparks is way too much.

Think about it. A spark is the heart and soul of a Cybertronian. Those two are one in the same. You could say Shockwave could make an artificial spark chamber, or a "heart" of sorts. But he should never be able to create the living "soul" part of the spark.

Also another plot hole in my mind is this quote- "But by the time of Prime, the majority of them seem weaker and less intelligent- and some have started to manifest vastly different personalities and voices as the clones become less "perfect" with each generation." This seems like the exact opposite of what should be happening as the clones degrade in quality.

How are the lower quality/less intelligent clones more capable of forming new feelings and opinions when compared to the previous generations? Their minds have degraded over time. As time goes on they should morph more and more into mindless servants who are unlikely to create any new feelings or thoughts of their own, then they are to consider their actions and think outside the box and most importantly feel and choose.

Its more likely that the very first generation of clones could form new feelings and choose things for themselves because the first generation is the closest copy of a living and feeling Cybertronian as you can make. As the generations go on they become less intelligent, lose their critical thinking skills and should be much less likely to think or feel anything they aren't meant to. If they even can-

The more I think about it, the more I want to make clones 100% not living creatures. They have no sparks and are basically just an AI drone meant to replicate the Cybertronian it was cloned from. Its "feelings" are not real feelings and they don't belong to the Vehicon. Its all just an AI copy of the real thing. I cant think of any way to make the artificial sparks make sense. 😔

With the spark extractor thing, maybe I can make it so its designed to rip out the spark chamber/heart, which carries the soul inside of it. If the chamber is removed from the body that is a lethal blow and the soul is extinguished/released. When the Vehicons had their "sparks" ripped out what it really did is just removed their artificial spark chamber which extinguished the artificial power source inside of it and damaged the chamber beyond repair. So Megatron couldn't just waltz down their and shove the chambers back in their chests.

Also speaking of Vehicons and clones- the predacons? I have the same problems with them as I do with the Vehicons but way worse. I will either completely restructure them from the ground up or remove them from my AU entirely 💀💀💀

[thisintermezzo]

If you're not reading my OC fic, please consider it!! Things are about to Get Real, as I've said recently. Here is my casual post about it.

Astra Inclinant is about clone angst, space magic, gay people, and the mortifying ordeal of being known, but it's ultimately also about learning to care about yourself. It also has cool things like:

really cool B&W illustrations for some chapters, made by my wife who is good at art

protagonist who is a bug alien clone of the sourest most awful bug alien jerk ever

protagonist is never not having an Inner Sakura Moment

food as a love language

concerning evil bug4bug situationship and gothic space religion problems looming in the background

casual omnicrafter character all my readers love

socially awkward cyborg killing machine

space station that is literally just like if a city-sized cathedral was also a shopping mall and a town

protag is grey-ro + grey-ace and gay, but he doesn't bother trying to realize that because romance is a crime punishable by death if you're a clone :|b

Describing your own work is incredibly hard and I will make a serious and proper post at some point soon, but consider the above!!