#idw mesothulas

[transingthoseformers]

"Come. I want to show you something naughty" is such a line though

[novafire-is-thinking]

An individual in a powerful position teams up with a mad scientist to carry out their grand plans x2

The main thing that sets apart these two pairs are their motives.

Prowl wanted to speedrun the war to [hopefully] prevent more deaths in what was turning into a massive conflict while Mesothulas was merely obsessed with the intellectual challenge and inspiration.

As far as I can tell, Agent Croft desires control over Cybertronians for the sake of gaining more power while Dr. Meridian just wants to get rid of them.

But still. Color Theory says a lot:

Also, Mandroid has the whole spider theme going on with his Arachnamechs.

Reminds me of a certain scientist who liked spiders…

[captainremond]

Draw with my friends.

[ratrocity]

icon comms for @tsuki-here

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

[they-hermes]

heres an old comic i semi abandoned bc i got frustrated on, but the idea was what if mesothulas, freak that he is, modeled ostaros’s face after prowl. since he is the muse. and also the horrors of fatherhood and seeing yourself, a terrible person, onto ur weird son who literally is the most innocent being ever since he has no conscience yet to do right or wrong.

for the missing dialogue imagine mesothulas gushing over his baby and prowl going huh this guys weird af.

[falliay]

I love how you draw Prowl

Thank you!! He’s my favorite

[brilliantyears]

[thewiglesswonder]

A question:

[transingthoseformers]

It is a Prowl Day, so I feel like I should mention him in Propagate. I mentioned briefly that he is also carrying and in denial. Basically, most things follow Canon, but Prowl after the Tyrest Incident when he almost died and wasn't found by the Autobots sought to comfort and comfort from them. It ended with him carrying, which he didn't think was possible due to how CCs were constructed given how rare it was with a governmentally steralized species.

He isn't fully aware of it, just experiencing a lot of high stress needs to den and avoid thos ehe doesn't trust behaviors and even more wary of others.

The Dark Cybertron Arc occurs, and Megatron's Trial, but when Optimus invites him, Prowl declines. He has genuinely lost trust in Optimus in a lot of ways and is noting his instability, and his entire body screams DANGER, though he isn't consciously recognizing it.

Now Cybertron has to deal with an increasingly shut in devstated Prowl who is convinced he's dying while the Constructicons are trying to figure out a delicate way to get him to admit the obvious (to them) because the Carrier is the one who announces it culturally and him not doing it yet is semi rejecting them so they are trying to prove their worth and get him to acknowledge them. He's giving them mixed signals as he is responding well to things, but then catches himself. He blames his instinct to trust them on the gestalt bond and it upsets him more.

Society takes a sharp left turn when Phase Seven is announced, and there is a confusing reaction (for those not in the know) from the Decepticon Populace who, accept this as the reason Megatron went Autobot and immediately start being more actively courting Autobots and Neutrals. Even more its working and everyone is dealing with a baby boom.

Tarantulas eventually still happens and kidnaps Prowl, forcing him to accept what is really happening. Due to changes though the Constructicons are the ones who come running and Prowl hesitates when Tarantulas asks and is emotionally compromised enough to admit Ostaros/Springer lived and he has been keeping an eye on him since. This changes the direction of this conversation and when Arcee and the Wreckers and Kup (who got pinged by panicking Sires) arrives Prowl gives it away and there is a whole messy family reunion and everything takes on very different tones with Verity just judging the entire time. The Constructicons are bristling and holding Prowl who accepts it and very quietly informs them he is carrying and they are over the moon.

Prowl cannot make himself go back to Cybertron and Starscream's rule, and the Constructicons don't blame him. He considers going to Earth but sees Optimus decide annexing it is a sane reaction and turns away. They head towards Luna-1 because Prowl is still needing to eliminaye threats and he leaves Tarantulas a contact and does not order he be eliminated not that it would work.

On the way a situation occurs and Prowl gets separated from the Constructicons who are freaking out and runs into the Scavengers who end up delaing with him giving birth while being attacked by slavers who want to sell the baby Cybertronians. Grimlock and Spinister help him with Grimlock specifically carefully carrying one, the future Grimlock II, back to Prowl.

He names them afterwards.

Sentinel happens with the addition of the Constructicons and commentary on Prowl’s "abominations" (babies) and Prowl dens down on Luna-1 making awkward friends with the Moon Husbands who think he is just enough of a sad sack to pity and is covered in children.

Tarantulas eventually ends up calling up Prowl instead of Overlord and they reminisce and Prowl thinks up a reciprocity since Mesothulas didn't get to raise a child Prowl should give him one so he attempts to seduce and babytrap Tarantulas who sort of bluescreens about it. Fort Max is the one who sits Prowl down and goes hey body please use words after the third time he catches Prowl in the closet with the "spider monster" that Red Alert warned them about and Prowl explains the logic. Fortress Maximus has become that friend who helps Prowl be less an asshole and articulate his feelings and forces him to verbalize them.

He, Tarantulas, and the Constructicons discuss their future and plans and the Constructicons explain yeah they love Prowl and he's Gestalt and theirs but they can tell he has some weird complicated feelings he needs to resolve and they are fine with the spiderbot and appreciate the warning because they've been having some weird sex dreams lately.

Blackarachnia happens by the time anyone finally realizes where the "missing" Prowl ended up.

Of course he's carrying and in denial about it yep yep, typical Prowl move

yk Prowl under more stress is probably something nobody needs, goddamn he's gotta be terrifying

A lack of Prowl at the trial has gotta lead to interesting consequences! Makes sense he lost trust in Optimus, Prowl isn't doing so well

So Prowl's losing it and the constructicons are trying to help but they kiiinda don't know what to do, makes sense the gestalt bond would register them as safe™️

I cannot properly explain the sheer sound I made when I read "when phase seven was announced"

My godddd is that gonna cause fun results because all the other phases were rather unpleasant, but this part? Oh dear Primus is this gonna cause so many funny interactions between decepticons who Know and the autobots and neutrals who Do Not Know. Megatron did not intend on this when defecting, but ykw it could've been worse. It could have been worse. I mean, this definitely changes how mecha are gonna see the moderately confused Megatron and the far too elated Tarn. Tarn, such a force for horribleness, endorsing creation.

Ooo on the Tarantulas event still happening and him immediately noticing Prowl is carrying and well Tara Mc No Filter is definitely gonna bring it up. Makes sense in this case the constructicons are the ones coming for him this time, which has gotta cause interesting results.

FAMILY REUNION TIME

Verity is judging so much

So so much

Prowl: fine I'm pregnant

Verity, who has eyes and can see this: nice to see you've caught up with the rest of us

So Cybertron is a no go, Earth is a no go, so off to Luna-1 they go time to have some babies on the moon. Moon babies yet again

[this action will have consequences later on]

THEVAFVKJXX

THE SCAVS

So the scavs 100% help, Prowl babies love being born at the exact wrong time don't they. Aw on Grimlock with just a tiny little constructiprowl sparkling.

SENTINEL YOU ASSHOLE, YES

The moon husbands have several opinions about this but those opinions are somewhat in the positive, "nice to see someone loves Prowl, must be lonely to be the only ones" just.

A sad sack of pity and covered in children

oh Prowl.

Tara:

Tara: ykw I'm gonna try the whole parenthood thing again and Prowl did give me his number after all

Poor Red Alert, he probably thought he was losing it again but nope nope it's real, the "spider monster" is real babygirl and don't worry destruction is the opposite of what's on his mind right now

I like to think Fort Max gave them the most tired stare after catching Tara and Prowl. Just. MN YES, HE'S NOT SO SURE THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BEND LIKE THAT. The idea of Fortress Maximus actually helping Prowl be a better person is amazing, because fuck knows someone's gotta do it.

They do honestly need to have a thorough, thorough talk, and I like to think the moon husbands are lightly but consistently pushing them to talk about figuring stuff out. This actually brings up cool things regarding how being in a gestalt affects having a non gestalt partner, I'm stashing this away for Broadwings Universe KOBD and Stunticons reasons.

And all of this went down while only two large handfuls of people knew where Prowl was

[tsuki-here]

Currently obsessed with whatever these two had going on in the same sense of morbid fascination that one has watching a burning building. They're fun to think about and I put more effort into this shitpost than I originally intended because I liked how it was turning out 😔

[model-spaceships]

a spider in light of his recent showing.

that earthspark tarantulas was nice, but i do miss the gross spider scientist.

[starscreams-crown]

Tarantulas: "It makes all this possible -- the Tor, the Noisemaze, the Chimeracons; everything."

Prowl: "There's so little of it... comparatively... it shouldn't be possible..."

Tarantulas: "I make the impossible obsolete. I'll never forget the day you said that."

[k4r4ss]

did an art trade on our server! here s my for @cyber54prime

[ikkosu]

speaking of ostaros, instead of mesothulas meddling with the matrix or whatever (I don’t remember) imagine human reader is the medium instead. Meso trying to conjure another method of Cybertronian reproduction via human bodies. Prowl’s unaware but he’s given him the signal to proceed, wary of why the scientist is suddenly so enthusiastic. Then after a week he comes back to the lab and finds human cradling a sparkling in their arms. Ostaros. Now he definitely has to pay for child support.

[pocoslip]

Apparently Tarantulus' Robow Claws are meant to be Bug Extra Mandibles for his Spider Mode, yep

(i'm impressed that spider can stand on their legs and doesn't lay down on their body)