#EXW au

[leafdragon16]

Various TFP AU characters as described by my AO3 comments

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[leafdragon16]

CEDAR. CEDAR WHEN I CATCH YOU CEDAR

THESE ARE SO GORGEOUS OML LOOK AT THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS?? WHEELJACK’S GOOFY LITTLE “ALSO I WANT TO SOFTHACK HIS CIRCUITS” FACE?? ALSO BULKHEAD BEING CONCERNED IN THE BACKGROUND WJ’S LITTLE BANDANNA AAAAUUGHGHGHGH

YOU DROPPED THIS 👑

@leafdragon16 I caved in. Here's some rough catformers doodles as I cannot draw mechs.

[mxnster-soul]

did you ever find out what it was that could've hurt him that badly? i'm glad he's feeling better, but that was like... a LOT of blood by the looks of it. i'm just hoping it wasn't anything dangerous coming after him, whether it's part of our world or not... i certainly hope it ISN'T otherworldly, whatever it was. that'd be a whole other can of worms. please stay safe <3

We had a serious talk today since he's healed up well enough to think (and see) a lil more clearly.

He was trying to get out/away.

But uh, seems that he really is stuck with me.

Also learned that I somehow invoke some kind of fear into him?

I haven't done anything, and even he knows that.

Keeps saying he can't see my face.

I have no clue what he means by that.

Also asked me if i'm actually a human.

Well, I know I ain't a skinwalker. But I'm sure i'm human. (Devulged into some chatter about if i really know what i am. I'm convinced that I know what I am. I've been me for years)

[nenoname]

After finally graduating high school, Ford is ready to put his hometown far behind him, only to end up being abducted on his way to Backupsmore and wakes up on an empty sinking ship with a strange bracelet reading “6” stuck on his wrist… Eight other strangers have met the same fate, all with a different number on their bracelets, ranging from one to nine, and the group receives a message from someone called 0. Their anonymous captor gives them a simple order: participate in a deadly game to escape the boat or drown.

Been thinking about a 999/Zero Escape AU for a bit now! (aka “we may be trapped in a death game with limited amount of time to escape but we will ramble wikipedia articles and thought experiments at you” the game)

Puzzles and quantum thought experiments and digital roots galore! Honestly if he weren't late to college and also the whole. Threat of dying thing. Ford would be having a fun time. Probably.

Participants I’ve thought of so far:

2 - Snakeyes: a self proclaimed professional gambler but is apparently just an old sailor who works on a fishing trawler. Is far too laidback considering this is a death game. He immediately gets on Hex's nerves and seems to have fun doing so.

He’s pretty good at word and number puzzles but he's someone who knows more than he seems...

3  -  Tri: calls himself a salesman, smells suspiciously of formaldehyde (the alleged reason why Snakeyes ignores his code name and calls him Hyde), may or may not be a cult leader/walking corpse from the 50s/a literal triangle. Is also far too laidback considering this is a death game.

Knows too much. Tends to let others take the lead in solving puzzles and prefers to observes as if they all weren't under the threat of death, has fun dropping cryptic and useless hints

5 - Star: This is a child. Who put a child on a sinking ship??? (SE calls her “pumpkin”) Is far too well-adjusted to the situation considering this is a death game.

Pretty smart in high tension situations but otherwise a bit prone to goofing off to help de-stress everyone, and tunes out when quantum talk is happening. With her weird girl powers, she can help provide a well needed unique perspective

6 - Hex: Had recently left behind a dream of sailing around the world, only to end up trapped on a boat. Great. (Snakeyes calls him ‘kid' despite there being a literal child on board who doesn't get called that. Tri calls him "Sixer" which definitely doesn't piss SE off, nope, not at all)

Is a sucker for riddles and can basically blast through any type of puzzles normally, but there's something about the ones on this boat that tricks him perfectly into getting caught up into the wrong train of thought which forces him to rely on the others

Spoilers for 999 and VLR (and probably won't make sense if you don't know the context anyway):

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Maybe I'll come up with more stuff for this au, maybe not

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[leafdragon16]

Hi, another AO3 netizen here! I love Horror Show and it just scratches all the itches for angst!

Thank you!! Angst is exactly what I’m going for so I’m glad to hear that :]

A sketch for you from the draft of the next chapter where Miko gets to check out Jackie’s cool teeth :D

[leafdragon16]

Real quick and shit meme but this is literally their dynamic in my head. Magnus doesn't care what wheeljack is he just wants wheeljack to stop saying and doing crazy shit.

OKAY BUT THIS IS SO ACCURATE???? ONCE THEY BECOME BUDDIES IN HORROR SHOW THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GONNA BE THEIR DYNAMIC

[leafdragon16]

leaf I finally found your Tumblr! let me just say horror show is my all time favourite fic

First of all welcome to the AO3 gang! And second of all AAAAAAAAAAAA I’M SO SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO REPLY TO THIS

[leafdragon16]

The Darkmount execution scene but if EX!Wheeljack wasn’t afraid of his mods lmao

My buddy @chavah56 and I were joking about how he’d act if he was just a bit more unhinged and I couldn’t get this out of my head

Bonus:

[leafdragon16]

So another idea came to mind just now

For Wheeljack's facial mods I heard you're still working on their structure and such. May I present my reference? I've been using a wasp mandible reference for the the way I've been drawing your wheeljack. It also reminded me of preying mantis and tiger beetle. Thought about how his jaws were supposed to split apart, and it gave me an idea.

I did a few concepts of my own and settled on this for his jaws. It's not exactly canon to your design, but I wanted to do my own take on it and wanted to know your thoughts! Just thought this was pretty cool :D Here's a little bit of what I had in mind!

This fic just has me locked in and has given me so many ideas and I love it so much

NECRO. GRIPPING YOUR SHOULDERS. NECRO OH MY GOD THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE

Ok normal for exactly 2 seconds because I started rambling and drew some small diagrams so I’m putting it under the cut because this got LONG (and it also is looking like it won’t initially post with the readmore TUMBLR so I will probably go back and edit this post a few times upon posting it lol)

EDIT: Okay it is not posting the readmore for some reason so apologies for any nuked dashboards lol

I WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION BUT LET ME FREAK OUT ABOUT THAT ART REALLY QUICK BECAUSE I HAD TO SIT DOWN AND PROCESS IT FOR A FULL 30 SECONDS BEDORE I COULD EVEN BEGIN FORMULATING A RESPONSE. I KEEP SCROLLING BACK UP WHILE TYPING JUST TO STARE AT IT

THAT IS TERRIFYING. HE IS ALL TEETH!! THERE IS NOTHING BUT TEETH IN THERE!!! THERE IS TOO MANY TEETH FOR ANYONE TO RIGHTFULLY HAVE WHICH IS EXACTLY THE AMOUNT OF TEETH EX!JACKIE SHOULD HAVE!!!

ALSO THE CIRCULAR SCRAPLET TEETH FAINTLY VISIBLE AT THE BACK OF HIS THROAT?? OH MY GOD?? I HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PORTRAY THAT FOR SO LONG I AM LOSING MY MIND. I AM STICKING MY HEAD IN THERE

OH AND THE ADDED DETAIL OF THE PLACES WHERE HIS JAWS CONNECT ADDS SO MUCH. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT BUT IT LOOKS SO MUCH MORE RAW AND MONSTROUS AND NOT CYBERTRONIAN AND EGHFGRHGFHSGDHFHBDGRFRGRGRGGRR

Ok I will move on to my explanation now but thank you so much!! This is so gorgeous and I love it so much!! This is the sort of thing that would make someone hide their face for centuries and give their teammates nightmares if they were looking it dead in the face (looking at you Ratchet). This is exactly the level of terrifying that I was going for when I originally started writing this fic. It encapsulates it perfectly! He is an absolute nightmare in the best way possible

I have been having a lot of trouble figuring out how his facial mods would work, and that’s mainly because I haven’t been using any references LOL. When I first tried doodling his face wayyyy back in the first post about this AU I used a few screenshots of Terrorcon Breakdown, but I only used it loosely. I absolutely LOVE the insect references for his jaws, it really helps clarify the structure and when I opened the ask and saw them (particularly the mantis) I went “huh that’s actually really close to what I had in mind!” And the got completely blown away by the concept at the bottom LMAO

I originally based his facial mods (or at least how they unhinge) a lot on Predaking. His jaw splits down the middle and at the sides to create two halves (I THINK), and I thought it looked really cool so I wanted to do something like that. But especially now that I’ve been playing with how his jaw works again, I’ve been thinking that it would be better if it splits into three parts like how you drew it. It is more visually cohesive, and it also just makes more sense looking at it! It allows his lower jaw to drop down much further and his mouth to open much wider and just in general isn’t as awkward. I may have downloaded your art both to keep it forever and also to draw a few diagrams, I hope you don’t mind^^

(I had to take a screenshot of your art bc Tumblr won’t let me download it until I post this, so sorry for nuking the quality LMAO)

While I do like the Predaking jaw, I think it works on Predaking but not on Wheeljack because Predaking’s face is so long and his is so flat. So if his jaw were to split into only two parts it would be very awkward, you can see all the lines in the drawing on the left where I kept redrawing his jaw because conceptually it didn’t make sense. Like I mentioned before it also doesn’t really allow his jaw to unhinge, which is a very important part of his design lol.

On the right however, it splits a lot more cleanly! It just all around looks more natural and less awkward and has a lot more maneuverability. I also love the addition of the teeth on the walls/sides of his mouth!! I added a few in my references bc it looked better and made his jaw come together a bit more in it’s horrifying-ness, but the addition of even MORE teeth just amplifies that. It also implies that when he latches on to something, all of the teeth dig in and make it extremely difficult to pull away, allowing him to just drag it into his mouth and shred it to pieces. If he bites down on someone, even if they’re strong enough to pull away they’re not getting their limb back in one piece. The way the teeth are curved in will ensure that they have to rip through their own plating to get away. He looks like a living iron maiden and I am OBSESSEDD

Plus the way his jaw splits is so much more extreme in a way that is so. LOOK AT HIM. When he opens his mouth it’s like a giant tear separates the upper half of his face from the lower half. Horrifying to behold and also looks like it would be painful even though it isn’t, which is exactly the vibe I was going for. He just doesn’t look Cybertronian. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anyway sorry for the long rant, his jaws have been on my mind a lot because I’ve been struggling with the concept so I kind of just dumped all of the thoughts I’ve been having for 2+ weeks plus all of the thoughts I had when seeing your references and art. If you don’t mind I may be borrowing the references because they really do help illustrate how a split jaw would work. And also if you don’t mind this may be the canon design from now on, just because IT’S SO COOL!! And it makes so much sense conceptually, I actually cannot put into words how much I love this. It fits right in with the worldbuilding!

TLDR: Absolutely god tier take on his design thank u Necro

[leafdragon16]

Thanks for having me rereadchapter 27 10 times today.

Had me crying most the way

ARE YOU GOOD

[leafdragon16]

* slams head through the wall *

Ok so - stop screaming it's just me - so we know Experiment!Wheeljack can growl and hiss and stuff, but can he purr? And/or does he act animalistic in other ways (territorial, gets the zoomies, etc)? (You explored some of this in the chapter where he's staying at the original Autobot outpost, but I keep having Thoughts™ about our favorite gremlin Wrecker so I came here to chat about him😅) Ok that's all, I'll just be going now

* awkwardly pulls head back out of the wall, leaving a hole behind *

[sticks head through the hole you left behind]

Good question! I don’t think he can purr exactly the same way that a cat does, but he definitely can! Much in the same way he growls via grinding the sections of his throat together + engine noise he could probably also purr. So kinda weird sounding but recognizably purring

He also ABSOLUTELY gets the zoomies. He learned how to control it when he was with the Wreckers back on Cybertron, but it still slips out sometimes (like when June found him on the ceiling). Lights and sharp movements attract him, so he would in fact chase a laser pointer. Shockwave probably figured that one out the hard way while making calculations. He naturally walks very quietly and has a tendency to freeze up and try to stalk anything perceived as prey. He also sometimes has the urge to just get up and walk around randomly (which Ratchet also got to see when he caught him sneaking out to check on Bulkhead)

He’s learned to suppress most of the more animalistic urges around other bots. Back when he was on the Jackhammer alone he was quite literally bouncing off the walls, crawling around on the ceiling, biting the leg of his berth, etc.

Personally I think if he cut loose in the Autobot base it would go something like this

[leafdragon16]

If the goal is to make Wheeljack as comfortable as possible, might I recommend a heating pad with that snuggie? Or multiple considering his size..

Maybe one day I will write a chapter where Wheeljack finally gets to take a nap but right now he needs to suffer <3

[leafdragon16]

I just wanted to say I LOVE HORROR SHOW SO MUCH!!! IT'S SO GOOD!

I just read chapter 29, and all I could think during that scene with Wheeljack and that damn pipe was:

An alternative title for this chapter could have been "A medic, a spy, and the cybertronian equivalent of a werewolf and his bone"

That scene was just so well written. You could feel Ratchet's doneness and Arcee's intrigue through the screen.

I love this fic so much, I can't wait to see what happens to our favorite garbage disposal next ❤️

THANK YOU!! <3

It’s hilarious that you mention that because the summary of the chapter was very nearly “sometimes a family is a medic, a spy, and their weird fucking dog”

That would have been a hysterical alternate title! Thank you again, the Trust Issues Trio are one of my favorite parts of the fic to write <3

Please take this dejected/scolded puppy Jackie and mouth/lower jaw concept doodle as my thanks! :D

[leafdragon16]

i'm furiously spamming the kudos button on your fic (horror show) and i'm very irritated that ao3 will only let me kudos it once

YOUR FIC IS SO COOL AND I LOVE HORROR SHOW TO THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART GHJAKDGHSAGGRKJGFASLHDGFASDGASHFILUHWJV

on chapter 9 currently!!! can't wait to see more of this!!!

i need to draw something for this au (once i have the time lol)

AKAJAKSJSKDKSKD THANK YOU!!! I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!

I hope you’ve enjoyed the rest of the fic, and have a Jackie doodle I made! Still trying to nail down his design lol

If you draw something for Horror Show I will literally owe you my life (but please prioritize yourself first!! I feel you as I am also on the grind rn so make sure you are taking time for yourself <3)