#Not sunstreaker and sideswipe stuff ofc

[fiftyshadesofmetal]

Currently trying to work up the money to afford TWO kitties. They r bonded and twins, you guys KNOW what im gonna name them

[transformers-synergize]

Do you have any more stuff for Sunny & Sides? Your designs for them are some of the best I've seen, and I'd love to know more about your plans or headcanons for them!

No pressure ofc, I support you and your absolute galaxy brain :D

Sure, here is a bunch of random stuff about in no particular order, lot of this stuff was just pulled from my notes but whatever lol 

Sunstreaker is egotistical, he knows he is the best and makes sure everyone knows it too. He also has the skills, looks, and combat prowess to back it up. Sunstreaker only really cares about himself and Sideswipe, considering pretty much every bots below him or not worth his time. He often makes sly comments, belittling or cracking jokes about bots whom he deems lesser. His friends are either Sideswipes friends who can tolerate him or bots who think he's cool, which is usually due to factors outside his personality. He's always down for a good fight, being ruthless and downright merciless in combat while still somehow managing to get as little dirt, energon, or other various combat filth on himself as possible, sometimes being nearly spotless after a battle aside from the energon coating his blade. Sunny likes to keep himself in good condition, making sure his paint is perfect and his polish shines, it really helps accentuate how he's the best.

Sideswipe is the nicer of the two brothers. He's outgoing and usually pretty friendly. Sideswipes is always looking for a fight. He loves the thrill of combat. He often treats serious situations more like a game than the high-danger situations he often places in. Sideswipe often can't sit still and always need something to do, and if there is nothing fun to do then he will make his own fun, he is often sparring with his fellow Autobots, trying risky stunts, pulling pranks on other bots and generally just causing chaos. He's very impulsive, often doing the first thing that comes to mind because he thought it might be fun, never considering the consequences. He's kinda like a jock who treats war like a sport with an almost ruthless approach to combat. He often tenses and banter with other autobots, sometimes making jokes at their expense, but unlike Sunny, he usually knows when to stop or when he's gone too far.

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Sideswipe and Sunstreaker both emerged during the Autobot Decepticon war and never known peace times. They are the youngest of the crashed Autobots, both being around a thousand years old, which is very young when your species can live to their hundred thousands.

Twins are what happens when a shuttle-sized spark splits into two, so before Sideswipe and Sunstreaker split, their emerging was highly anticipated because shuttles are rare and extremely powerful, but their spark ended up splitting. When they finally emerged, it was a great disappointment.

they were mentored by Inferno and, to a lesser extent, his conjux Redalert (they are one of the many reasons for Redalerts anxiety). Sideswipe has a pretty good relationship with his mentors Sunny… not so much 

Sunny hates Earth, it's filthy it's wet it's squishy it's sticky it's too hot, at least compared to Cybertron's frigid temperatures, and its dominant species are nothing but a pain he hates he has to hide his existence from the stupid inferior fleshy creatures that rule this dirtball of a planet he hates how often on missions he has to have a fleshy human chaperone to perform basic task that he could easily do himself or wouldn't be a problem if humans just didn't exist. Whichever bot or bots are on a mission with Sunny where human help is required, the other bot will always be the one transporting the human because Sunny refuses to let a human inside of him.

Sideswipe likes Earth, there so much to see it his first time being anywhere without the war consent looming present of the great war, but having to hide all the time on Earth is frustrating, he's been able to seek out and do some street races without Prowl knowing, he likes quite a lot of human stuff human music is pretty good and he like some human tv shows and movies mostly the ones with a lot of actions and explosion, he like interacting with the humans he's allowed to interact with especially Carly and Raoul, thought Sideswipe often struggles to understand how fragile humans are and often can put them at risk without even knowing it. Sideswipe is still a little homesick for Cybertron, even if he's only ever known it as a war-torn mess.

their poses often mirror each other

Sunny tells Sideswipe to smile with his mouth closed because his split beak. 

Sunny is the decision-maker of the two, and though Sideswipe may make destinations for himself on his own as a pair, Sunny always has the final say. 

Sunstreaker hates Sideswipe stickers but gave up on trying to remove them because whenever he tried, he got his claws sticky. 

Sunstreaker and Tracks have a bit of a rivalry going on, though Tracks hates Sunstreaker more than Sunstreaker dislikes Tracks. Also, Sunny usually comes out as the victor of most of their little spats.

Sideswipe pulls pranks but doesn't dare prank Sunstreaker because he knows there will be hell to pay if he messes up his brother's paint job. 

sideswipe loves to cause chaos, Sunny often help

Sunny has some artistic talent, though he doesn't use it much

Sunstreaker always makes sure his frame is clean and in near-perfect condition. Sideswipe doesn't care as much but Sunny, make sure Sideswipe keeps up to a certain standard.

Sideswipe is very extroverted, loves interacting with other bots, and will talk to basically anyone. Sunny is more introverted and prefers to keep to himself and select bots. Sunny tries to encourage his brother not to hang out with bots he considers not good enough to be associated with them which is most bots.

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As for plans for them, I like keeping what I share plot-wise pretty vague. They appear pretty early on, and they both are pretty plot-important. I don't really care about spoiling characters who appear in the first seven chapters. After that, I'm a little more sneaky and vague about who will appear.

[skelemoonz]

Is sideswipe and sunstreaker going to be in the AU?

Yes! Sideswipe is a main character in the first half of the au, as that’s when rid15 takes place ☝️😼

His life starts on Cybertron ofc, but quickly moves to Earth with Team B as…he decided to lead Bee and Strongarm on a wild goose chase that got them all to trip into a space bridge, all because he didn’t want to get lectured by Bee again 😭🙏

crazy how this stuff works out huh

However his brother…not so much, this being a rewrite of rid15 in a way I didn’t want too much changed? Ig? …. I decided to make an explanation for why he might not be there to begin with. my bad in advance

They were created near the beginning of the war, and subsequently almost immediately after their creation the city they lived in was attacked. This cycle had continued as they moved from home to home, till eventually they had nowhere to go.

At some point though Sunstreaker had an idea to get help, he knew a place, he just needed to make sure it was safe enough to go. So Sideswipe stayed behind, and waited for him to come back

And he waited

And waited..

…He never came back, and Sideswipe never really found out why he left…but Sides was found, so I guess it worked? Maybe?…..He ended up staying in stasis throughout the war, waking up only once a few cities on Cybertron were rebuilt.

[mgarmagedon]

How are you and your au co-maker friend doing? Any new ideas?

She is fine, for now she is really busy and has really hard time, so she wouldn't have time to even make anything with me. Wish her luck guys, because she is doing her best ❤️❤️❤️

And she isn't exactly co-maker, because she is from time to time making random content about transformers prime or rid15, I'm mainly creating content here, but thank to her Sideswipe is tampon now. :D

But i can tell off what we were talking about last time:

Like lately we chosen to add that after Starscream almost died in explosion, when he was still mainly into scientific stuff, not only making Megan angry (when war was still active conflict and 90% of the population weren't dead), he met that time KO (when he was still teenager) and without getting licences, because how he could get his licence while the war, when practically all schools were in ruins XD So they met that time, KO helped him in coming back to better shape. This is why KO came to Nemesis in TFP with his husband Breakdown, because Starscream saw him as a trustworthy doctor. I don't need to add that they fucked AS ADULTS ON NEMESIS, when Breakdown was still around, because he was fine that KO wants to life in open relationship. They were still happy together :DD

We talked about the fact that Bee couldn't look at Sideswipe optics at the beginning, because he has Smokescreens optics and after all this shit that happened, it was really painful for him. He drank himself into unconsciousness, Ofc Grimlock and Danny were trying to comfort him as much he could (at that time Drift wasn't around yet, he joined with his sons team after 8-9 months Bee, Strongarm and Sides came to earth). He felt terrible, because it wasn't Sides fault that he born or that his best friend, which he treated like his older brother and first love in his life, made children when both of them was drunk. He didn't won't to hurt him or take revenge on the poor teen, which also had hard childhood like Bee and slowly but surly start to get close with. Sometimes he even thought of if he didn't leave him that day they told him about the protoforms, he would be now Sideswipe and Sunstreaker's father and maybe even marry KO. But those are only his thoughts. I was thinking of making black and while comic of it, but in his bot form not human. XDDD

We also lately write A LOT about Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack. Mainly we was thinking what Magnus was doing after the war and becasue he was like this big badass judge, he could just become the guy how almost rule Cybertron. I mean by it, that Cybertron came back to the almost state after the war and that is not a good news XD. "And what about Ratchet?" nothing, he doesn't give a fuck about him. After all, he himself as a guy in new created council vote to send Ratchet on Earth as his retirement and still explain himself by saying " this is last wish of Optimus Prime". I just like the idea that right hand of Prime, makes Cybertron great again, causing fulling prisons by ex cons and not happy with his decisions war veterans. It would also explain WHY FUCKING CYCLONUS WAS IN THE FUCKING FINAL, because he would be rebeliant that wants freedom for his ppl. He also created slums :), idk I think it's cool idea that Ultra Magnus was a villain of the series And I think Arcee would see sense in that and after all those years and ptsd, also got mature, she would fine peace in new worlds order. But she would still take back her father and brother back on Cybetron... at least be too kick his fucking ass. XDD And practically nobody can do anything with, only Bulkhead is living his best life as a worker, it doesn't mean that he is now fighting, he is just tired and like Arcee wants some peace in his life. After they banned contacting with earth and he could talk with Miko, he needed finally some peace. The same with KO and Smoke. He is living now with Wheeljack AS A FRIENDS!!! But from time to time, Wheeljack is showing up at Magnus mantion to fuck him, say hey to his daughter and then disappear for next 9 months. I'm just seeing NeoCybertron as a Gotham City but as a planet XDDD

I can't write more words, so do you have any more question? XD

[izzepop]

I think when considering transformers- especially with a character as old as sunstreaker who’s had the chance to be in a a few (though not to the significant extent as sideswipe ((please has to give us content with both twins in it 😭))) it depends on which continuity you want to pull from, if not a little from everything.

I find that sunstreaker and sideswipe are a bit fandom tainted in that respect- hell they’ve certainly been around long enough- people have pulled from a lot of different continuities and concepts to create ideas of the twins that pretty significantly vary from some of their appearances.

Personally, if you want to look at some fresh takes on their characters- I’d recommend referencing a pretty well known fic on Ao3 called Misaligned Gemini that’s a FANTASTIC twins fic based around their idw2 appearances. It also has some similar elements to what your describing for plot

I myself have always loved idw1 sunstreaker and sideswipe, they feel more real then some of the more tooth-rooting twin stuff that’s written (in my opinion ofc) in the fandom, but they like actually hate each other in that continuity which is kind of sad but a fun idea to play with non the less. Idw1 also has the juiciest sunstreaker baggage lol

Also totally eat up the fannon soup that sunstreaker is a artist and split spark twin stuff

Best recommendation is honestly to just scour his idw wiki (and sideswipes) for some fun stuff to look into (if you haven’t, look into his headmaster arc, sideswipes stuff after the war in the CR chamber, and spotlight: sideswipe for idw1 characterization if you haven’t!)

When you just want to write a cameo...

I'm writing this Transformers fic, fan continuity and all, and I'm 30-something chapter into it and haven't gotten anywhere near even starting the war yet.

But I like writing this arc in which Skywarp has a Seeker-seeking team and travels to different city-states and meets guest stars while they free all the Seekers from secret servility program malware left by Quintessons. Because, yanno all these city-states are gonna be destroyed later (probably, maybe?) so we should know what they were like so we understand the loss.

But sometimes it's the cameo-level guest star that causes me to get stuck.

I want Sunstreaker to make a cameo and I never write Sunstreaker, who, even pre-war, has some kind of baggage I'm sure. Also fans. Fandom has feelings about this character.

How do Sunstreaker?

I guess given the local in quaint The Village at Darkmount near the scenic Molten Pools natural attraction, mural painter?

(I think this place is like Deadloch but with lava and less serial killing.)

And we know Sideswipe is in Vos being local security for some reason. It's implied Sideswipe has a construct body like Clampdown whom he works for.

Does Sideswipe have a twin who wasn't snapped up to be put in a construct body and Sunstreaker was surplus to requirements and is one of these war-forged bots who wandered out of a spark field as a young-bot without a mentor in sight?

Always feeling like something is missing and has no idea who/what that is?

The murals are probably really dark.

Also Hoist and Tracks happen to be at this location at the same time, so it's like potential future Hollywood bots know each other from this time.

But how do Sunstreaker?

[titular-twins-tournament]

LINE UP AND SOME OTHER STUFF

Ok I’m just going to send this out. Instead of overthinking on the inclusion of some contestants. Thank you again to all who submitted in characters!

Anyways I decided matchups will be done pretty much at random. There is a total of 64 contestants though, and am releasing just the line up for now so you guys know who’s going to be in it. I don’t have matchups done yet so again, this is just the line up of characters.

Also feel free to drop suggestions in asks for any picture(s) you’d like me to use for visuals in polls when those get released! Looking for stuff in the characters official media source(s) as I don’t want to accidentally take fanart without permission (unless ofc, if anyone wants to submit in their own fanart for characters- I will credit you if I end up using it)

Fandom - Characters

1. Gravity Falls- Dipper and Mabel Pines

2. The Owl House- Edric and Emira Blight

3. Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- Leo and Donnie Hamato

4. The Adventure Zone- Lup and Taako

5. Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina- Vex and Vax

6. Sanders Sides- Roman and Remus Sanders

7. The Locked Tomb- Ianthe and Coronabeth Tridentarius

8. Genshin Impact- Lumine and Aether

9. Star Wars- Luke and Leia

10. The Parent Trap- Annie and Hallie

11. Greek Mythology- Apollo and Artemis

12. Black Butler- Ciel and “Ciel” Phantomhive

13. Bob’s Burgers- Andy and Ollie Pesto

14. Ouran High School Club- Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin

15. Steven Universe- The Rutile twins

16. Danganronpa- Junko Enoshima and Mukuro Ikusaba

17. Masters of the Universe- Adam and Adora

18. How To Train Your Dragon- Ruffnut and Tuffnut

19. Dungeons and Daddies- Lark and Sparrow Oak

20. Pokémon- Emmet and Ingo

21. Avatar the Last Airbender- Lo and Li

22. Twisted Wonderland- Jade and Floyd Leech

23. Final Fantasy XIV- Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur

24. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody- Zack and Cody

25. Highschool Musical- Sharpay and Ryan Evans

26. Liv and Maddie- Liv and Maddie

27. Disney Fairies- Tinkerbell and Periwinkle

28. Archie Comics- Cheryl and Jason Blossom

29. Sky Children of the Light- The Valley Elders (aka Sah and Mek)

30. Lego Ninjago- Krux and Acronix (The Time Twins)

31. MCU- Wanda and Pietro Maximoff

32. IDOLiSH7- Nanase Riku and Kujo Tenn

33. Super Mario Bros- Mario and Luigi

34. Mother 3 (aka Earthbound)- Lucas and Claus

35. Devil May Cry- Dante and Vergil

36. Animal Crossing- Timmy and Tommy

37. Evillious Chronicles- Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche and Allen Avadonia

38. A Song of Ice and Fire- Jaime and Cersie Lannister

39. Honkai Impact 3rd- Liliya and Rozaliya Olenyeva

40. Red VS Blue- Agent North Dakota and Agent South Dakota

41. The Twelfth Night- Viola and Sebastian

42. The Simarillion- Amrod and Amras

43. Percy Jackson- Castor and Pollux

44. The Penumbra Podcast- Juno and Benzaiten Steel

45. Ace Attorney- Dahlia Hawthorne and Sister Iris

46. Dimension 20: A Crown if Candy- Jet and Ruby Rocks

47. Haikyuu- Osamu and Atsumu Miya

48. All For the Game- Andrew and Aaron Minyard

49. Trigun- Vash and Knives

50. Roman Mythology- Romulus and Remus

51. Blue Exorcist- Rin and Yukio Okumura

52. Transformers- Sunstreaker and Sideswipe

53. Legend of Korra- Eska and Desna

54. Mystic Messenger- 707 and Unknown (aka Saeyoung and Saeran Choi)

55. Ensemble Stars- Hinata and Yuta Aoi

56. Obey Me- Beelzebub and Belphegor

57. Happy Tree Friends- Shifty and Lifty

58. Rugrats- Phil and Lillian

59. Don’t Starve- Wendy and Abigail

60. Identity V- Joseph and Claude Desaulniers

61. Dragonlance- Caramon and Raistlin

62. Re: Zero- Rem and Ram

63. Cursed Princess Club- Gwen and Jamie

64. Ducktales (2017)- Della and Donald Duck

[fiftyshadesofmetal]

Errrr uhh i like vore so,,,,,,,, what about your headcanons on it (anybot ofc)?

Sorry this has taken so long! This has been sitting in drafts for months

Vore HC'S for Cybertronians!

Specifically for Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Thundercraker, and Swoop

So to get my general HCS about cybertronian anatomy out of the way,

They can control digestion conciously. I think because of the control cybertronians have over their own systems, they could turn their digestion on and off!

Adding onto that, I believe that they could make their tanks as comfortable as they wanted: like cooling their insides down a bit, or easing up on the churning of their guts for their prey. So when they have a prey that they want to keep happy, the bots can be amazing preds.

I also like to think that their tanks have biolights in there, running along the tubing stuff that makes up their "organs". I like the idea of their prey being able to see whats happening in there, and I bet it would be fun to just explore and check out whats happening in their tanks. (And they could also be able to see the gut churning them, added bonus lol)

I dont HC bots with intestines or a duodenum/sphincter to the intestines. Things kind of just cut off at their tank. I think that their systems are incredibly effecient, so any fuel or prey that goes in is distributed in whole to the bots frame without any waste (also meaning that bots gain a lot more weight from a meal compared to a human because they put to use the ENTIRE portion of what they eat)

Lets talk about our preds now! There are mentions of weight gain and interfacing with Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, and Thundercracker, so I'll be putting themall under the cut, but enjoy a little bit of SFW Swoop up here ^^

Swoop: I enjoy swoop as a little guy ™ far too much to make HCS about him interfacing lol. But for some SFW vore stuff, Swoop is a very curious pred. The dinobot is like a pelican (pelicans are actually facinating, their oppurtusnitic predators and will literally try and eat anything they can fit in their beak), just kinda of gobbling down anybody he sees when he feels like it. He's also larger, so he can hold two average sized people comfortably, compared to a standard ground frame holding one person (I feel like seekers would be able to take like a person and a half?? Do with that info what you will). He's an extremely touch-based guy so he likes to just have people with him!

Sunstreaker: He's a total cunt. Just absolutely a bitch of a pred. He's taunting you ALL the time, poking and proding at his belly to get you to squirm because he likes how it feels. He definetly enjoys churning someone up every once in awhile, but doesn't indulge often due to the weight gain that comes with it, in order to keep his frame in top condition. That doesn't mean he doesn't eat people all the time. Sunstreaker's walking around the ark with a bit of his gut poking out from behind his torso plating? Someones 100% in there. He just likes how it feels to have someone in there squirming all the time, and thinks he has the right to just gulp down whoever he pleases. Of course, he also uses his tank to hold people in a emergency. Decepticons attacking and he has nowhere to put a random human- their going straight to his gut without him caring how terrifying it might be.

Sideswipe: Of course in contrast to his twin, Sideswipe is a really playful and tactile pred. While Sunstreaker despises humans unless their in his tank, Sideswipe adores humans and their culture. His little pea brain saw a human for the first time and just immeadialy wanted to eat them. When he did he loved the feeling, and refused to let the poor guy out for a day (Sunstreaker had to force Sideswipe to spit the guy out on Prowl's orders). Sideswipe is less of a fan of weight gain and digesting someone (even when he knows they'll be fine because of reformation), but loooves interfacing with someone in his belly. The stimulation from his innards and his valve makes it really good for him, so he often'll hunt somebody down to eat before interfacing (with their consent ofc, he's not evil). He's also inadvertantly TERRIFIED some of the prey he's eaten by just being too rough and excitable though. He's also a big softie and likes to take a nap with his prey if their stressed or keep his systems comfortable for them.

Thundercracker: (I'm talking IDW post-war, he probably wouldnt have cared much about humans pre Marissa and Buster) This guy is a total pushover. He is constantly fawning over his prey, ensuring they’re comfortable and cozy within him. The few times he has digested a prey, he gets really flustered about the weight he's gained and always apologizes to them profusely after they reform. He also eats Marissa constantly, much to her chagrin. The poor women cant get away from the affectionate seeker and finds herself spending far too much time tucked away into his gut. Thundercracker can also be very aroused when he eats prey (Like Marissa, but not every time he eats her ofc). The feeling of having so much power over somone so small the he's enamoured with make him very excited. He'll probably use it to get himself off and help whoevers in his belly off too.

[fiftyshadesofmetal]

People interested in a longer fic from me?

I'm thinking of making a actual lengthy fic revolving around a gay Romance with Sideswipe and Sunstreaker towards a human character I still gotta make up (No incest ofc) .

Gonna try and super emphasize size difference and g/t stuff, and vore is going to show up semi-regularly to serve as a (mostly) non-sexual plot device, with some occasional smut towards the end. Main plot is gonna tackle Sunstreakers ASPD/Sociopathy and how the twins suffer from it and cope with it. Gonna try really hard to not make it cringe and for the main human to not be insufferable special little snowflake :3

[ihatebrainstorm]

I see ur point I see ur point >:)... I think it could work, I just gotta reread some stuff to gauge Sunstreaker's personality a bit more

I don't think I'm gonna put Sideswipe as HQ tho? Largely because in a lot more recent Batman series' the two are a canon couple, and ofc it's a crossover and backstory, relationship story changes n all that but I don't think I'd feel comfortable putting two siblings in that position? Just to avoid ppl taking a glance and assuming ;v;;

Current position for HQ is Whirl.. bc well it's Whirl (HQ is more of an independent rogue in this AU)

see my vision

ooh? Pray tell more? o.O

I think Ivy is one of the last main Batman rogues that I don't have a TF character cemented as so I'm open to ideas for her akksf (Current closest idea is Cyclonus? But I'm still really iffy on it :P)

The other rogues I'm still not sure about are: Manbat, Bane, Clayface, Killer Croc, and Scarface

Plus any other members of the batfam lmao (aside from Alfred)

[izzepop]

I think when considering transformers- especially with a character as old as sunstreaker who’s had the chance to be in a a few (though not to the significant extent as sideswipe ((please has to give us content with both twins in it 😭))) it depends on which continuity you want to pull from, if not a little from everything.

I find that sunstreaker and sideswipe are a bit fandom tainted in that respect- hell they’ve certainly been around long enough- people have pulled from a lot of different continuities and concepts to create ideas of the twins that pretty significantly vary from some of their appearances

Personally, if you want to look at some fresh takes on their characters- I’d recommend referencing a pretty well known fic on Ao3 called Misaligned Gemini that’s a FANTASTIC twins fic based around their idw2 appearances. It also has some similar elements to what your describing for plot and in general is just such a good fic

I myself have always loved idw1 sunstreaker and sideswipe, they feel more real then some of the more tooth-rooting twin stuff that’s written (in my opinion ofc) in the fandom, but they like actually hate each other in that continuity which is kind of sad but a fun idea to play with non the less. Idw1 also has the juiciest sunstreaker baggage lol

Also totally eat up the fannon soup that sunstreaker is a artist and split spark twin stuff

Best recommendation is honestly to just scour his idw wiki (and sideswipes) for some fun stuff to look into (if you haven’t, look into his headmaster arc, sideswipes stuff after the war in the CR chamber, and spotlight: sideswipe for idw1 characterization if you haven’t!)

Sorry for the long winded rambling but I hope this in anyway helps??

When you just want to write a cameo...

I'm writing this Transformers fic, fan continuity and all, and I'm 30-something chapter into it and haven't gotten anywhere near even starting the war yet.

But I like writing this arc in which Skywarp has a Seeker-seeking team and travels to different city-states and meets guest stars while they free all the Seekers from secret servility program malware left by Quintessons. Because, yanno all these city-states are gonna be destroyed later (probably, maybe?) so we should know what they were like so we understand the loss.

But sometimes it's the cameo-level guest star that causes me to get stuck.

I want Sunstreaker to make a cameo and I never write Sunstreaker, who, even pre-war, has some kind of baggage I'm sure. Also fans. Fandom has feelings about this character.

How do Sunstreaker?

I guess given the local in quaint The Village at Darkmount near the scenic Molten Pools natural attraction, mural painter?

(I think this place is like Deadloch but with lava and less serial killing.)

And we know Sideswipe is in Vos being local security for some reason. It's implied Sideswipe has a construct body like Clampdown whom he works for.

Does Sideswipe have a twin who wasn't snapped up to be put in a construct body and Sunstreaker was surplus to requirements and is one of these war-forged bots who wandered out of a spark field as a young-bot without a mentor in sight?

Always feeling like something is missing and has no idea who/what that is?

The murals are probably really dark.

Also Hoist and Tracks happen to be at this location at the same time, so it's like potential future Hollywood bots know each other from this time.

But how do Sunstreaker?