#I also have Triple Changer headcanons if enough people give a damn.

[kirisakin]

Y'all want some TFA Rescue Bots headcanons? Too bad, you’re getting them anyways. 

First off is Heatwave, who was formerly a Decepticon named... Heatwave. Very edgy, liked to burn shit down, a little on the short side for a 'Con, and not all that raring for the cause; one could tell his spark wasn't all in it and he was going through the motions on a cyclical basis. He got abandoned by his team and left for dead but was found by Chase, who argued with the council that Heatwave could be redeemed and set out to make that his mission. Heatwave hates feeling like he had to be put on a leash to be trusted and somewhat resents the thought that he had to "prove himself" to a group of people he'd probably never see again.

Then there's Blades, my sweet boy. He's a triple-changer, and (silently) vocal about the misconception that they're all evil and prone to bursts of violence out of the blue. Unfortunately, poor kid's too shy to speak out about it and usually keeps to himself about his own condition, claiming his blades are kibble from his vehicle mode. He works/worked as an IT guy until Chase roped him into his squad.

Boulder's a cool guy. He's an art historian and archivist, working tirelessly to help piece together Cybertron's history by recreating and restoring busted art pieces. He doesn't get a lot of sleep because of this, but he doesn't mind... as long as he doesn't drift into the wrong lane from exhaustion. Really, really can't stand Sentinel Prime and it took everything in his power to not superglue a strongly worded letter to his face when he proposed a budget that gave less than one percent to the arts.

Chase... is someone I don't really have a lot of thoughts on, but he's the reason they're all together, whoop. He relegated Heatwave the leader when he realized he was a bit too stiff for the humans.

As is the usual case with Animated characters, they crash land on Earth through a space bridge onto the tourist trap of an island known as Griffin Rock. The Burns family (sans Cody) know from the start that they're aliens and go through with becoming the town’s sole protectors from the various daily perils in spite of the cries of nepotism. The Rescue Bots don’t really give a damn; they’re just happy to finally be somewhere that isn’t under Cybertron’s thumb.

It isn’t until that they see the news that Detroit was saved from an “unspecified natural disaster” by a group of similar-looking robots do they begin to worry.