#HE'S MY BIGGEST COMFORT CHARACTER YALL IM SO GLAD I CAN FINALLY SHOW HIM OFF!!!!!

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MY BOY!! IS DONE!! Here he is y’all Seaside’s finally come to life!! I’ve been developing this guy for MONTHS and I can’t even BEGIN to describe how happy I am to see him with a real tangible design now!! big BIG thanks to @chieris for helping me through that process drawing up his ref sheet as well!! ;w; big smooch pls commission him, he was an absolute JOY to work with!!

But in any case here’s a lil bit about him!! :0c Seaside’s a very sweet kind of bot, he’s very empathetic and kind and gentle and usually goes out of his way to help another bot out. He’d absolutely give u ice cream to try to cheer u up when you’re sad. Unfortunately though his good intentions and big heart often conflict with his immense fear of conflict and violence and his huge sense of self preservation, and because of this he’s unaffiliated with either faction! He’s very much a pacifist and hates the idea of war or fighting or even weapons in general. He can be a bit panicky and skiddish and gets scared pretty easily. Please don’t startle him for goodness sake, he’ll have a heart attack. He’s a sweet and gentle bit of a nervous wreck but he’S TRYING HIS BEST

He loves listening to 70s/80s/90s classic rock and pop, and usually has his radio tuned to one of those classics station that he’ll jam to on the road. He’s got a soft spot for dubstep as well, usually of the electronic, future bass and indie dance variety. Upbeat and happy stuff! He’ll usually either play Wake Up, The House Is Underwater! or Crab Rave over his speakers when he’s on his ice cream runs to let beachgoers know he’s here!

Seaside has a LOT of theme songs actually so I’m not gonna list em all here but his main ones are Hello Sunshine by Alexander L'Estrange & Ben Parry and Old Friends (feat. Blonde Maze) by Half An Orange!! :0c

you can read his full bio over on his toyhouse page but since it’s kinda long and this post is getting long enough uHH I’M JUST GONNA PUT A TLDR VERSION DOWN HERE TOO AHAHA

Seaside used to work as a star cartographer on Cybertron, where he’d help log maps of star systems and update em as new info came back and stuff!! He wished he could actually go out and see the universe but having a ground-based alt mode in a (at the time) functionalist society meant that it was highly unlikely that would ever happen.

When the war began, Seaside didn’t think much of it at first. He hates getting involved and picking sides in conflicts anyways so he just wanted to stay as much out of the way as possible. But as the years went on and the war got worse and bots began to be forcibly recruited onto either side, he had no choice but to flee the planet, because he knew if he was drafted onto either side he’d most likely be dead within a week. He was able to find a tiny ship to escape on, however, due to his inexperience in piloting spacecraft and his panicked rush to leave the planet, he accidentally triggered the ship’s long-distance flight protocols, which knocked him into stasis and launched the ship straight into deep space with no coordinates logged to guide it anywhere specific. Eventually, by pure chance, the ship had launched itself onto a direct path to Earth, and he came too only moments before the ship crash-landed into the side of a sand dune.

Now on Earth, he travels up and down the east coast, stopping at every local beach he comes across to hand out ice cream for a few weeks before heading out to the next one! :3c