#about: insecticons

[tfunity]

Name, Title: Princess Blackarachnia, Triptych Heir

Affiliation: Insecticons, Autobots

Spark Type: Vector

Alt: Hanging Spider

Weapons of Choice: Leg Lance, Venom, Judgemental Stare

ID Number: airaqI778

Covenant Notes:

Princess of the Insecticons on CSS Triptych. She's pretty serious, studious, brilliant and isn't one for idle conversation.

But, as it turns out, we have the same favourite comic. Good way to bond find commonality. I'm not going to say that under all that dark plating is someone kind, but she's a lot more interested in the wellbeing of her people than her Queen.

I hear she's pretty I heard she's rather handy with her Lance. But her Queen puts her on paperwork most of the time. That bug is paranoid as pit.

wait is it okay to call airachnid a bug?? she's mean and scary and I think she's on angolmois. is 'bug' an okay title for a probable cannibal? who is very mean???

Secrets, Lies, and Other Stuff:

Yeah, no surprise there. Like Optimus and Grimlock, Elita immediately reincarnated. Whether or not being born to a colony run by her steed's ex in a position to usurp said ex is happenstance or Chronoarchitect actually having a sense of humor is up to debate.

No concrete story beats yet. She'll leave the Insecticons at some point to join the Autobots, returning to her usual pink paintjob, and take up her position as a Dinobot Rider again. Might kill her Queenmom if Megatron doesn't snap and do it first.

As an Insecticon that refuses to indulge in angolmois, she'd be one of the hundred who doesn't immediately turn into shambling zombies when Unicron wakes up.

Design Notes:

Popped out of an Allspark Pool with riding pads and flexible feet already built in. She usually walks with the pads of her foot pulled up; apparently, she can kinda taste with her spider feet and is not fond of that.

Has a relatively normal amount of eyes for a non-mammalian beastformer. Supposedly.

Like with Elita, her marks are Wastlander based. She doesn't remember much context but likes how it looks on her, even if she has to cover it with her helmet. She doesn't immediately resemble her prior, as Orion does, but there's little uncanny things that make Airachnid very, very uncomfortable around her; the helmet helps.

Not 100% on Blackarachnia's colour scheme. I tried a colder purple and it just looked weird: the one pictured is a pinker purple.

[deskraven]

About AU Chaos Terran Wreck-gar

Wreck-gar was the fourth Chaos Terran to be born. Unlike her siblings, she wasn't born in the chaos of different factions fighting over the embershards, but instead born peacefully in a garbage field.

The chaos energy outburst of her birth powered up all the appliances in the garbage field and they all started playing random programs. But the chaos energy effect was temporary and the appliances started dying out. The garbage field returned to silence with a TV leaving the last words "keep watching and catch the trailer -"

So Wreck-gar scanned a nearby garbage truck and decided to catch a trailer :) The plot of S02E08 would be her stealing Optimus' trailer, and the Maltos and the older Chaos Terrans all chasing after her. The event didn't leave a very good impression on the Maltos, causing them to think Wreck-gar was as bad as her older siblings.

She's actually awfully nice and friendly, though she isn't the best at understanding emotions and words. She's also not also good at telling right from wrong or good from bad. She's just - okay with anything (as long as it doesn't immediately hurt her siblings, in which case she would feel that through the link). While this means she would happily carry out orders that can hurt others, this also means she harbors no prejudice against people or things.

Aftermath adores this little sister. First, she's so strong and even taller than him. Second, she would never refuse to hang out with him and do stupid stuff together. Third, she's so creative at creating chaos. Oh and she's always happy to take out the garbage (though later they discovered she was actually hoarding the garbage).

Spitfire was more worried about her putting herself into danger. She would try to explain things to her but usually just lose her patience within 2 minutes.

Sideways was glad she diverted everyone's attention (including Starscrem's), which gave him more freedom to carry out his research.

Wreck-gar and Transmutate would have a much closer bond with each other than their other siblings. She didn't see anything wrong about Transmutate - nothing wrong that they look like this, nothing wrong that they can't transform, nothing wrong that they don't talk. Actually she's happy they don't talk but instead communicates through the psychic link, which is much clearer to understand for her than verbal communication. She also built Transmutate their first jetpack.

Thoughts on her future

She would stay clueless and innocent for quite a while. That doesn't stop her from being cool - the Starscream vs Chaos Terrans fight would have a lot more back and forth now that this giant garbage truck is here. Despite the fight being a lot more equal the Chaos Terrans (except for Transmutate) would still die and be revived later. Her growth would mainly happen after the revival, as the Chaos Terrans now all have to figure out who they are and who they want to be.

I think it would be fun if she goes "Destroy Unicron! Kill the Grand Poobah! Eliminate even the toughest stains!" in front of Sideways...

Past works about her

She's good at tinkering with stuff.

She's an idiot sandwich.

She would have Cosmos as her mentor.

Here's her humanformer design.

And this is her transformation sequence.

My friend @sentinelprimeslowerhalf gave her a girlfriend. (Not sure if Gale would exist in the main AU but hey they are cute and I'm so proud of her.)

[raileurta]

I think the fact Miko straight up murdered a dude at fifteen should be brought up more.

[transingthoseformers]

May I offer tfp Airachnid pegging Soundwave with her ovipositor? Perhaps followed by the insecticons lining up to 'fertilize' them once he's all full of eggs.

Insect queens are the ones who lay eggs for the hive, but obviously Airachnid is a very busy woman who has better things to do than getting passed around just to be stuck laying eggs all day. And who better to take that place than someone with experience caring for smaller things?

I never considered that

Fascinating

Fun

Though I am wondering about the timeline here, because my first thought was "au where they left Megatron in Unicron's core sgsgdgdy" but also... This makes me wonder about a situation where Airachnid's one coup involving the insecticons succeeded. (Though it's also kinda funny to think Megatron's still here but he signed off on the idea lmaooo get bred Sounders)

Soundwave and Airachnid's interactions here could be golden

[quibbs126]

I need me a permanent Optimus and Megatron team-up and alliance

I know Earthspark technically did that, but it wasn’t in the show itself, it’s set years after the fact. And also I know Megatron becomes an Autobot in IDW, but shush, I’m picky and I want it in a show specifically

[snake-author]

I'm going crazy.

[chopprface]

NEW OC!!! and hes a transformer and he has a beast mode wow you guys are eating well tonight

anyway his name is whipside! his altmode is a blue leg centipede. hes the commander (by force) of a unit named after the original insecticons, just newer and more organic as predacons.

ill post his troops eventually, some of them i still have to design, but i do have a story in mind for these insecticons as well as a couple maximals i have to design still as well.. i have so much work to do.

oh yeah heres the shitpost i usually do in my art dump posts. i should make a habit out of this

the other character is also a pred-insecticon!! she will be important perhaps..

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

I swear I'll stop tfp posting. But also i re-watched Armada episode and I am sorry but I Can Not take this episode seriously. Because What do you mean? What do you mean? Nemesis had like three intruders on same day, two of which were assassination attempts on Megatron??? What do you mean the said assassination attempts didn't work specifically because all the groups directly and indirectly involved were tripping over each other foiling their already shitty plans?? What do you mean the only one who did manage to cause substantial damage to Decepticons was the one who end up their own accident?? What do you mean Bulkhead got on the Nemesis on a fucking accident?!????

[thegoldenshi-shi]

Room 814 vs Room 512 ended a little differently than planned.

or

Bob is a very caring roommate.

(Bidh falbh (ye) mosgìoto mòr) basically means go away (you) big mosquito in Scottish. I like Scottish Skids.

[authoratmidnight]

You know. I don't think the Autobots ever learned what happened to the Insecticons and Airachnid.

Like, from their pov, the Insecticons jut straight up vanished from the face of the earth one day. They jsut stopped appearing. And they would have noticed that Airachnid was no longer in the stasis pod in the vault once they got hold of the ship.

Like, they're just GONE with 0 explanation on their end of things.

Do you think they like. Ever *asked*? Cause Knock Out would know what happened (vampire-zombies happened and they got bridged off to a moon somewhere).

Or did they just, wonder forever what the FUCK happened to them?

[skettchyartendevours]

I took Bombshell to the playground the other day :]

Bonus:

The moon! :0

[mychlapci]

so what exactly is the extent of bob's intelligence like is he just an animal or a child on a safety leash or is he just some kind of freak

[seraphim-seeker]

*ahem*

THE INSECTICONS ARE FUCKIN’ HOT

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[yaminalapis]

Some spam bot: sexy pictures that totally won’t give you a virus ;p

Me: SHUT UP IM TALKING ABOUT A CONNSUMATION ORGY WITH MY FRIEND

[brandwhorestarscream]

Is airachnid going to be the insectmorph queen?

I... wasn't planning to make her the insectimorph queen, no. We already have 2 femme queens (Theta of the civimorphs, and Morningstar [name not final] of the vosimorphs), so I'm kinda leaning toward making the insectimorph queen a mech to keep the balance

[tigirl-and-co]

INSECTICON TIME BAYBEEEEEEEEEE

I like to imagine in Everything Is Alright there was just some poor insecticin that was like "Wow!! I cant believe i finally managed to get some of these human pretties!! Look at how nice and flowy it is, it is like a spidercon's silk and woven so beautifully! This is an art piece, it's beautiful-" "Hm? Oh thank primus you found something!! I think this is exactly what lord Megatron was asking for *yoinks*" "....🥺Yes.... lord megatron, yes.... 😔"

Sure 🤣 we’re getting Kickback in the next Blokees set, anyway.

You (Don’t) Know Me

Insecticons x Reader

• Servos digging through the pile of soft things and separating out the shiny bits, Kickback’s hands still before fisting in the sheer material and bringing it to his face to scent. So much softer than anything else in the pile, translucent and a soft peach color. Finer than anything he’s ever touched, he imagines lining his berth with it. And before he can subspace it, Bombshell is snatching it out of his servos. “Good. Exactly what Megatron wanted,” he hisses, taking off with it.

• Watching Kickback’s antenna droop slightly, Shrapnel digs another soft thing from the pile and offers it to his brother. “Just as soft, soft.” Taking it, Kickback frowns and slides his servos against the material. Knows his brother likes humans, that he’s fascinated by the soft, little things. That he’s been snooping about spying on the Elite Trine, Soundwave, and the Constructicons lately. Dissatisfied with their lot.

• “Don’t you want more?” Kickback growls, venting when Shrapel offers him another soft covering as he absently subspaces the shinies. “Decepticons don’t respect us.” No, they just yell at them. Order them about. And now, cut their rations so he’s always hungry. Reduced to stealing again. “We don’t need the Decepticons.”

• “Decepticons have the energon, energon.” Shrapnel reminds him, toying with a soft woven strip of material, trying to figure out what it is. Do the organics just wrap it about their torsos? Understands Kickback’s frustration, because he’s right. They aren’t respected, most of the time the other Decepticons sneer at them. Treat them like they’re lesser, not understanding that their alt modes are clearly better. They’re the superior Cybertronians, just badly outnumbered. If there were more of them, they’d be respected.

• Antenna lifting as Bombshell returns, Kickback’s head tilts. “We can find our own energon. As much as we want. No more rations,” he hisses, getting Bombshell’s attention. “Don’t need the Decepticons. We can have our own hive. Our own soft mate.” A little human to warm their berths. “Even the Constructicons have one,” he adds knowing how much that little bit of intel will anger the other two.

• “The Constructicons?” Bombshell growls, words hissing. “They aren’t even real Cybertronians.” Made here on this mudball, they’ve never even been to the homeworld. Servos flexing, he studies Kickback’s hopeful expression. He’s right that they don’t need the Decepticons, the Decepticons need them. But a human toy? To be fair, he supposes they could always devour it if it’s not satisfactory. He’s been curious about how the little, soft things might taste anyway. Laughing, he claps a hand against his brothers’s backs. “We don’t need them.” And hunting one of the little humans? That could be fun.

• Flipping on the porch light, broom clutched in your hands, you head around the side of the house. Wondering if it’s those stupid raccoons again or the neighbor’s big dog as you hear the trash cans rattle again. “Come on, you little gremlins,” you mutter, squinting and wishing you’d grabbed a flashlight. And there, a red… glow? That’s not animal eyeshine. It’s too dark to make out what you’re seeing, but your skin crawls. Heart racing, you lift the broom fully aware of how painfully inadequate it is as whatever you’re looking at rises. And keeps rising, your head tipping back to stare at that red glow now towering over you. Hell, no. Sucking in a breath, you scream and throw the broom at it, spinning to run and falling on your ass as another one appears, shadowy shape crouched. Rolling, you bolt away from them both, hearing a chattering laughter as the things chase, herding you into the woods and away from safety.