#idw codexa

[evetronia]

Happy Mother’s Day

[earthstellar]

One thing that I really liked in IDW 2 was the concept of Going Immersant.

Given the immensely long average lifespan of Cybertronians, it makes sense:

If nothing kills you, and you live long enough to have experienced all of what you feel you reasonably can in this lifetime, and you feel content with the life that you have had, and it seems time to retire--

--Why not return your knowledge and the entity of your self to the core of your planet, where your energy and your components can be reused and your memories and knowledge can be subsumed into the greater whole?

Plug in with the stray cables that stick out of the cavernous expanses deep beneath the surface of Cybertron, let yourself get situated, and allow yourself to daydream as the crystals grow around you and gradually consume you. It is not painful. It is a process of sharing.

Each daydream then enters the great memory bank of Primus, at the heart of the world, the core of life itself for your species. Your experiences become part of the eternal record of experienced Cybertronian life. You join your God himself, frame and processor, as you combine with him within the physical form of your planet.

Primus created you, and as you are subsumed into the crystalline forms that surround you, you will go on to sustain Primus in some way. An unending cycle.

Perhaps you feel something, leeching up from deep within the crystal mass, some unique energy meeting you halfway, the cables that snake their way into your ports like vines carrying some ancient data, older than yourself, older than the Rust Sea, older than the Hydrax Plateau, older than the Titans.

Maybe you cannot decipher it, yet. But it comforts you. It reminds you that you are not alone, after your visitors have gone. Where there is digital noise, there is something to produce it. You will meet it soon--

--After countless years of a peaceful rest, knowing that at the end of your endlessly long existence, your life will go on to benefit others.

And for as long as you are able, you still remain present, as well. Just not above, on the surface. For some time, others can still come and visit, speak with you, consult with you-- Although as your memory banks purge into the greater whole, you begin to falter in this waking realm.

And that is OK; To rejoin with Primus and re-enter the Well of All Sparks as an ancient elder, a repository of experience and wisdom, is to become a teacher to all. Even in peaceful, gradual death-- And even then, your energy and materials and thoughts remain somewhere, deep within the planet.

Returned. Recycled.

Eternal, in some shape or form.

It's just a really beautiful concept.

Without any natural death, Cybertronians have the option to simply return to Primus, return to the core of the planet, in a half-waking state.

At peace, gracefully and with intent.

All of what they have experienced and all that they are, all of their memories and feelings, all of the metals and compounds that make up their frame and armour and protoform, all of it can be taken in and absorbed.

The option is there, to emerge once more.

But for most, this is the final calling.

To go immersant is to enter peace, to become a living state of meditation until the very end for you as an individual. To have full agency over how you pass on, to make the decision and consciously know. To be happy with that. To relax into your fate, as you see fit.

To make the decision to be recycled, to contribute all that you are, to return your energy to the crystalline matter that fuels your world and your people and your God, who in turn fuelled you and will thus go on to fuel all those subsequently churned out by the Well.

To merge with your living planet on an atomic level, on an esoteric level.

I wonder if the fully immersant aren't dead in the traditional sense. Perhaps they are offline, to those in this world. Perhaps their frame is vacated as their data is absorbed. But that data is not lost, necessarily.

It's just a very beautiful end of life option for Cybertronians, and I do hope the concept is revisited in some form in the future.

[cosmic-orange-milkshake]

hiii... umm.. mothers day... or something.. yeah

(hehee i actually really like the relationship shown between orion and codexa! very cute! he still runs back to his mum when he's scared hehe!)

[prince-toffee]

Son Asking His Mother For Guidance | Orion Pax and Codexa | Transformers (2019) | #3 | Lineart by Cachet Whitman | Colours by Joana Lafuente | Lettering by Tom B. Long

[transfrmrs]

Optimus: How do I go about meeting new people? Codexa: I haven't tried it in a while, I'm retired. Optimus: From… meeting new people? Codexa: There's no new people for me to meet

[physzoo]

i was rereading idw2

oh my god

i cannot put into words how much i love codexa and op's mother son relationship it actually makes me cry

this is so sad to me hes literally like "you're still set on going immersant"???????????????????????????????????????im bouta tear up

i love her so much oh my god

[nazrigar]

what happened to codexa in your au?

After the Great Exodus, Codexa became essentially a travelling space nun that provides counsel, guidance, and occasionally patching up to do when she has time. As an acolyte of Solus Prime, she's also handy in smithing. Wields an ancient Forgehammer, the closest thing to the real-deal Forge of Solus Prime. Is also very depressed, much like her son, perhaps even more so, considering how rough her life has been ever since her hubby got arrested for a crime he didn't do

Because no in the Pax family is allowed to be legally happy :)

[flarunie]

Orion Pax my favorite mama boy and his mama Codexa \(0u0)/

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Transformer 2019

# issue 43

[smoked-salmon-official]

Happy Mother’s Day

[halenhusky309]

Why this Orion Pax is so cute? He was such a soft boi filled with so much uncertainty about the universe, his plant and himself.

Despite being part of literal almost immortal mecha species, somehow this Orion Pax feels himself being small and insignificant to the grand universe. And Despite being a Senator, this Orion Pax still has that average joe to him.

[kurt-rorty]

I decided to give myself a challenge with palettes and Codexa was lucky to be first

1/36

Yes, I will need to do as many as 36 arts 😔

[katchless]

Codexa!

[pluralsword]

And here we have the cover for Chapter 13 of Addendum (an IDW1 Arcee novel fanfic): Gender Diaspora. This cover was super fun to work on with @VansZero (discord) love how it turned out and how they depicted the Everbright (that would be that blocky gray and blue ship in the upper right corner), and he made Road Rage's expression so memeable lmao we adore this piece. Here's the same cover in colors without the title, and in black and white:

Also yes, the symbols on the Delta Leaguer's torsos? That's the Delta Forge (not actually named in the fic) symbol, ie the symbol of the Delta League (also known as the Anti-Vocation League), a reclamation of Solus Prime's forge hammer. cyan=tears pink=blood. Here's a zoom in on Arcee's and our rough draft for it that we gave VansZero:

This symbol was first described in Chapter 2:

"Among the wreckage in the maintenance shed, I saw the agreed-on mark for the rendezvous: a cyan-pink infinity loop with two golden cylindrical hammer ends stylized after Solus Prime’s Forge hammer on each side of the loop.

The chosen transformations of spark and blood… Trans-Mutate sure is good with symbology. I rolled up around the tracks on my treads, stopped at the door, and laid out a tide of slow notes from my car horn."

[newborntransformersfan]

Codexa core

Reject reading social cues!! Embrace collecting personal intel via the mycorrhizal network that connect us all.

[startheskelaton]

I'm not sure if you know this but Optimus and Megatron had moms in the Transformers IDW 2019 comic run. Optimus had Codexa, and Megatron had Termagax. If you wish to learn more about them use go to their tfwikis.

I can’t help but to ask, did they exist in the One Spark AU, if so how did they affect Optimus and Megatron, and are they still alive.

They probably do exist but are kinda different.

Both would be miner bots that were assigned sparkings to raise. And both probably would have met some kind of tragic end that would shape Orion and Dee into who they would eventually become.

Codexa was rather cold but still caring, instilling a strong sense of selflessness into Orion. All or nothing was the code she lived her life by, save anyone you can, and if you can’t? Try harder. I image she died in a cave collapse when Orion was still young. A heroic sacrifice as she shaved other in the process, but also made it clear to Orion that he needed to get everyone out of the mines. It didn’t matter what it took or what he gave up in the process, it was his duty to protect those who couldn’t protect themselves.

Termagax was a bit more warm I feel, instilling a strong sense of self worth and confidence into a young D-16. “No one is coming to save you, so you have to save yourself” was what they lived by. He was killed during a riot between miners and the officers that kept them in line, this instilled a sense of resentment in Dee. The world is cruel and it will eat you up the first chance it gets, if he wanted to be safe, he needed to find out how to control the world.

There is more to Orion and Dee’s childhoods in the mines but that’s all for now

[asimp4bee]

Drawing TF Ladies everyday Pt.1✨

Pt. 1 📌 | Pt. 2 |

Next up are: MTMTE Nickel, IDW Codexa, TF:E Elita-1, and MTMTE Road Rage!