#swiftwire

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Swiftwire: Updated Appearance

..... She really needed a fresh new look, due to all the shit she's gone through, and just generally smooth out the rough edges of her lore, which I'll do as part of a full bio later, since it's gonna be a long post.... So I'll just do her main details here for the sake of putting only what's important here. XD But also JUST LOOK AT HER!!! 😭 SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!

This was done by the amazingly talented and legendary Torrent/torrentarts on Tik Tok!! So if you ever see this, THANK YOU AGAIN, HONEY!! >w<

(Also a version of her without her kanga/scarf, her flags or her earring~)

Swiftwire Asya Zahara Mutheru of the Maasai Tribe

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Her story is still generally the same, but just added a few tweaks to make her blend in better with a more canon aligned world (i.e; Earthspark and a little bit of IDW/Lost Light), but I'll reveal it at a later time, once it's fully fleshed out.

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In short.... Swift is still a former human (originally named Asya Mutheru) that was turned into a Cybertronian, doing so by having her body digested by the Energon within a Cybertronian protoform's hollow spark, burning away her corpse to pluck her soul out and turn it into the spark that brought Swiftwire to life, all thanks to her birth father, Jeremy Omari.

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Personality wise, Swift is still as maternal, goofy, vain but kind, and as flirtatious as ever, and is generally the "Mom Friend with gremlin energy" within any group she finds herself a part of.

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Deep inside her psyche, however.... the monster that Swift's body was supposed to become is still alive.... He's just taking the backseat instead of dominating and controlling the body fully like Swift is now. This is purely because Asya was supposed to die and pass on when her human body became the cadaver powering her spark... But instead, her soul took over and changed the Cybertronian husk into her new body, one that became female presenting instead of male.

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That monster is Talos, a Beastformer designed by Jeremy to take on the appearance of a blue Minotaur Spartan Hoplite soldier in the form of a manmade Transformer.

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Talos's presence is still inside Swift, and only truly comes out when she is angry and starts to "see red". That saying, in her case, is literal, as her eyes change and her jaw elongates to show who is slowly taking over her (as seen in the image above Swift~).

This change is known as 10% Corruption Mode, where Talos takes over only a small part of her and dominates only her face and her instincts. The more of her body that changes, the more the "corruption" reaches 100%. When it reaches that mark, Swift will no longer be in the driver seat of her own body and mind, and both will then be fully under Talos's control.

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Talos and Swift are like Jekyll and Hyde, but instead of them simply sharing a mind, Swift and Talos are both Transformers with their own root and alt-modes, existing in the same body. Talos has his main form (the Spartan Hoplite) and his Beast alt mode (the Minotaur), while Swift has her main form/root mode and her jet alt mode. So Swift isn't really a Triple or a Quadruple-Changer.... Talos exists within her with his own root mode body that takes over Swift's, and her jet form becomes the Minotaur form he transforms into.

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When Talos takes over Swift's body, her frame colour changes from glittery orange to a dark midnight blue, starting from the head and bleeding down her body. It is a painful process each time, as it feels like she is being ripped apart from the inside out, especially when she tries to keep Talos locked inside, but before this happens, the first two things that change are her eyes and her jaw, the 10% Corruption stage....

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Her eyes are always the first to change before the colour of her frame switches. Usually, they are blue with black sclera, and white slit pupils that were once round, before Talos first emerged and forced her to change. They remain slit to this day as a remnant of his presence within her, and so when he emerges.... They turn from white to red. The blue of her irises then vanish into the sea of black of her sclera, making her pupils the only thing that stand out in her eyes, and show that Talos has now taken over her mind.

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The next to change is her face.... Her cheeks bear a line across them that is another permanent remnant of Talos's influence, and so that line opens and forcibly stretches and exposes the metal muscles and sinew that connects her jaw to her skull, but it doesn't damage her jaw or skin in any way. Her cheeks heal every time she returns to normal.

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If the changes progress any further from here and reaches above 40% Corruption, then Swift will be locked inside herself and Talos will fully front without any further resistance, and assume full control over the body. If Swift does manage to resist and stop Talos before reaching 40%, then she can regain control and revert back to her own body.

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If not..... Then her body will fully turn blue, her Seeker form becomes masculine and beefier, and Talos will then stand in his full, armored, Spartan Hoplite form with split-hoof bipedal legs, Swift's dreadlocks now forming the iconic mohawk of his helmet (also turned black and blue in hue) and her wings flat and fused together to act like a cape, with Talos's split-mouthed face hidden in his helmet, as the body now presents itself as his.

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As his Minotaur Beast alt-mode..... The wings and dreadlocks are packed away, and his upper body becomes that of a bull with long, curved horns pointed forwards, a thick silver ring in his snout, and his maw still filled with fangs and his arms bearing Swift's claws... Which become blacker and travel further up her arms the more she allows Talos to take over.

The only way to bring Swift back is to knock Talos unconscious.

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It should also be noted that Swift's height is 17 feet... Talos's main/Spartan form is 25 feet tall, while his Minotaur form is roughly 22 feet. (All using Earthspark heights for comparison)

Also..... This is his voice claim.... Everything he says is canon to what Talos is like and how he speaks to Swift in their shared headspace~

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[cuppajj]

I haven't talked much about her yet, due to her still needing to be fleshed out, but I'd love to know what Drillburst and Scotta/Pimpernel would think about my OC x Canon bebe, Sira. She's a Seeker like her Mama Swiftwire, but has the looks and slight frame design from her Dad Knockout, but she has none of the sass or warmth from either parent. Instead, she's very quiet, stoic and damn near expressionless when she talks, but she does carry with her an aura of wisdom and strength from such a tiny Seeker. She will bop you on the head with her sword hilt if you call her small, though. The weird thing about her, beyond the short wire dreadlocks she inherited that has bands that flash when she speaks, is the fact that while her mouth is covered by a mask, her voice does not come directly from her. Instead she will at first sound like she is whispering when you first meet her, and if you were to spend enough time getting to know her and talk about your hobbies, including her passion for reading classic literature, pop music (her guilty pleasure) and philosophy, they'll soon realize that her voice comes from her EM field, and the more she trusts someone, the clearer and louder her voice becomes. And if either one were to ask her nicely enough, she'll reveal that she in fact was born without a voice box, and the mask merely hides the fact that she does not move her lips when she speaks. She's very self-conscious about it, which is why she is so stoic, attempts to be as emotionless as possible, and often keeps to herself in fear of freaking people out with her dreadlock-based telepathic ability. She just wants a friend who isn't her big cuddly brother, Conduit.

Going off of appearance, I’d say Drillburst and Pimpernel would find her equally interesting, though how well they’d interact depends on what Sira’s personality is like. Drillburst would be the one less inclined to talk with her all the time (esp because she’s a kid and he’s usually less comfortable with kids), but wouldn’t judge her for her voice sounding different. Pimpernel meanwhile would be outwardly approachable and friendly toward her, but Sira would be confused by how the mechanic would speak, stare at her in confusion, and shrug… as it turns out, Pimpernel can’t read EM fields (due to being a headmaster but that’s known to no one but her and her father figures), so she can’t hear her. They’d have to find some other way to communicate, like writing things down on a screen!

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Some OC Facts to Fill the Void...

.... Still figuring out if I wanna give Swift a new bio or not, so have this for now.....

A list of what Swift would be like with the other Transformer OCs of my mutuals~

Swift with Starhawk, on the Lost Light: (@dimorphodon-x)

.... Siblings. They got that sibling vibe, for sure~ ~*~

Her nickname for him is Hawkie or Ndugu (Swahili word for Brother) ~*~

When they first met, her first impression on him was... memorable, to say the least. She joined at the start of the quest to Cyberutopia, and when she entered the bar for the first time and was about to greet Hawk.... She immediately tripped on the much shorter Rewind and fell face first, Blitzø from Helluva Boss style, right in front of him. Never one to feel ashamed for such things, Swift simply laughed and rolled over onto her back, apologizing to Rewind.... before simply offering her hand to Hawk from the floor and introduced herself in a playful tone, "Nice to meet you, darling. I'm Swiftwire, but people call me Swift.... The floor is surprisingly comfy." ~*~ But in due time, after a few shared drinks with him and exchanging trauma stories, she'd see him as a big brother she loves to annoy... But she would 100% protect him from harm and be there for him when he needs her, especially as a babysitter. ~*~

Her main expression around him is a smug grin... She definitely pranked him somehow. He doesn't know what it is yet, but he always knows she did something. It's ALWAYS something with her~ ~*~

Swift's accent is something Hawk would definitely try to tease her on the most, for the first half of their prank wars~ Purely because her Kenyan accent makes her pronounce Rodimus as "Roddy-Moose" with a rolled R, and Starhawk's own name as "Star-Huckoo". And thus, the nicknames began... with Rodimus becoming Roddie and Starhawk being Hawkie. ~*~

Is Rodimus innocent in their pranks? Naaahhh~ He's the one who plotted half of them, at least, allowing Swift to carry them out in his stead, when captaining takes up most of his time. But the pranks are never big or humiliating, only silly~ ~*~

The common types of pranks she'd most likely pull would be to put big chunky eyebrows on his baby/babies or dress them up in funny costumes to surprise him, jumpscare him by popping out from the vents above his head and dangle from her dreadlocks Spiderman style, or switch his drinking glass with an empty one to make him think he drank too much without realizing it.... like stealing a toy from a dog without them noticing~ She mostly loves to confuse him. ~*~

Thunderclash is the mediator to Swift and Rodimus's pranks. He makes sure they don't give poor Hawk a heart/spark attack, and he mostly does this by plucking Swift out of the vents or holding her up like a cat in air prison to carry her away and scold her. Megatron is the main one to do this when Thunderclash isn't around. He is immune to her pranks towards him, when Swift wishes to make Hawk laugh.... since she knows her pranks towards Megatron always end in a chase or her being plucked and tossed out of a room~ ~*~

The moment Swift hears an inkling about children, she'll be giddy and eager to provide her services and aid to Hawk and the papa trio. If she meets Elbent and Verglaust in this AU with their own kids, Ferrous and Indicolite, then Swift would definitely be taking notes on how to be a Mom and Aunty from both families and eagerly offering to be a babysitter to ALL the kids~ She's surprisingly good at managing a whole hoard of them, and thus would easily become the Lost Light's daycare person.... ESPECIALLY after having her own daughter, Sira. ~*~

Speaking of Sira.... Since Swift would technically die for a short while after the birth, I have a feeling she would have Sira after the birth of Flareblaze, once she's gotten to know the full depth of child rearing from Novabird's experience and getting to babysit him. The day that happens, and Swift dies from the pregnancy becoming ectopic but allowing Sira to be delivered safely at the cost of her voice.... Yeeaaaahhh Hawk gonna be traumatized seeing Swift all bloody and grey, only to come back after being patched up and healing a bit. But...... If Cybertronian births occur through the spark chamber.... This would be the day Swift's secret about her spark would be revealed~ And here, if Hawk was present or came after the birth of Sira.... He would see Asya's brutally destroyed corpse within Swift's spark, the only true sign to show that Swift is dangling between the edge of life and death. ~*~

And finally.... If Swift was around after Hawk's death, she would be there to help raise the kids as a supportive family friend, or Auntie/Shangazi Swifty to the kids. But because of her past brushes with death, Swift would DEFINTELY have a weak but consistent ability to sense Hawk's ghost~ She would mourn him massively and paint her plating white (the colour of mourning in most African cultures) for a full month. In turn, Swift would happily babysit little Nova, and through the constant presence of being there for the family, she'd be able to tell where Hawk was.... And perhaps see him like a flickering shadow when he interacts with objects. Due to this, she would keep it a secret and subtly help him out using her dreadlocks when anyone is around, until either Hawk assures her that it's ok to know his secret, or Thunderclash tells her himself. ~*~ In turn...... Hawk would most likely be able to see a small, lingering light in her chest constantly only after his death, like a ghostly presence that embodies Swift's spark. This white light would flicker weakly like a star in the distant night sky, but would grow brighter subtly when Swift becomes nostalgic of her human past or is encouraged to teach the kids or anyone about her culture and mother tongue of Swahili. And should Hawk ever touch this light....... He would experience a very quick but brief flash of her memories as a child, of her time spent with her mother Gasira. All Hawk would see is her mother's face, maybe a whisper of her gentle voice praising her and calling her "my darling rose", before he'd jolt back into the present.... Both him and Swift shivering from the sudden chill up their spines. She'd have some trouble explaining THAT to Rodimus~

................. Will update when the brain decides to brain properly... For now, THIS is what I mean by Swift falling when meeting Hawk:

Just immediately.... plops. XD

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.... I HAVE FOUND SWIFT'S ACCENT!!

I just made this realization after joking with @tigracespace about how Swift would say Rodimus and Starhawk's (@dimorphodon-x's baby boi) names in her Kenyan accent, and I just.... I can't unhear it!!! XD SWIFT'S ACCENT SOUNDS SO SIMILAR TO THE UGANDAN ACCENT!!! 🤣 WHY?!?! I FEEL SO CURSED WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE!!!

..... All I can think of, now, is Swift just annoying Starhawk and Rodimus, whenever the topic of the Lost Light quest comes up, and when someone asks about where they're going, she just smirks and asks this to the two poor feckers:

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😏 I finally have enough OCs for people to pick from to do this, so......

Transformers:

Swiftwire/Asya

(Adult) Sira, daughter of Swift and KO

(Adult) Conduit, eldest adoptive son of the poly gang

Orion (who's name I'm planning on changing soon), son of KO and BD

DnD/Law of the Valiant OCs:

Maddie Bronzemoon (Dwarf from Hammerdeep, Silverthroat Mountains)

Calder Diazerae (Tiefling from Ayseir, Khanaran Desert)

Beatrix Grenville (Human from the Valian Empire/Valia)

Enoch Harold Bennett/The Raven Killer (Human from the Valian Empire/Valia)

Daisy Bronzemoon (High Elf (Erikean Ancestor Elf) from Alentou, the Emerald Valley)

Take your pick, no question limits here!!!

More headcanon and drabble prompts:

For characters:

🌱 for a nature or outdoors headcanon

🖤 for an angsty or dark headcanon

🏳️‍🌈 for a gender or sexuality headcanon

🐣 for a happy or lighthearted headcanon

🧶 for a clothing or fashion headcanon

✍🏽 for an education or learning headcanon

🎈 for a childhood or family headcanon

🌷 body part or appearance headcanon

❤️sex or intimacy headcanon

🍄food or cooking

🫧 for a random headcanon

💙 for another specific question

For places or societies:

1. One aspect of their diet or food

2. One aspect of their governance or hierarchy

3. Climate or weather

4. Environment or landscape

5. Natural history

6. Architecture or buildings

7. Cultural wear or items

8. Traditions or ceremonies

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... I'm Wheezing X'D I'M SORRY, DIM!!

..... I was just mucking about with ideas for how to flesh out Talos, the Hyde to Swiftwire's Jekyll....

And a story suddenly came to mind, involving Starhawk and the Lost Light....

Now I'm legit writing a short horror fic about Talos being unleashed.... Just because. Also I ONLY STARTED WRITING THIS AT WORK IN THE MORNING!!! 😂 ALL THAT WAS MADE IN ONLY 3 HOURS!!! THE HELL??!?!

AND THE TITLE WAS SO HARD TO FIGURE OUT, UNTIL THAT SECOND OPTION CAME TO MIND!! X'D It ain't final, but I'm wheezing so hard at it!!

BE PREPARED FOR TRAUMA, CHASE SCENES, ROBO-GORE AND TALOS FINALLY BEING REVEALED!! Oh.... And I should mention..... THIS is Talos's theme song/the sound of him chasing you.... You're screwed, Starhawk~ >:3 Be prepared for quite the surprise prezzie, @dimorphodon-x

Edit: I HAVE CONFIRMED THAT GRACE/@tigracespace WILL HOPEFULLY BE ADDING ART TO THIS!!! TALOS IS FINALLY GONNA BE DRAWN!!!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED TO BE DOING THIS SILLY HORROR STORY THING NOW!!!!

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I made Polyship OC x Canon memes... Just because... Inside joke included at end

@cuppajj I blame you for inspiring me to do this.... Even with me only having Windows Paint. XD

And for those who know..... this one's for you~ Thank @tigracespace for the link. XD

Entire MnM gang to Swift: (desktop users please be patient if you see white, the video takes a minute to load)

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For the OC ask of yours @cuppajj. Hopefully I don't bombard you with too much infodumping, but if it is a bit much, I deeply apologize. 🤣😅 Swiftwire/Swift (shown in icon <-) is a Seeker transfemme who works as an artist in Harmonix and from her home in Vos, who is also a Carrier/Mama of two (adopted teenage Seeker named Conduit, bio Grounder-Seeker hybrid sparkling/newborn femme named Gasira, or Sira for short). She does, however, have the habit to mother hen ANYONE, including those older than her. She also pet names everyone she meets, but has a slight habit of switching to her first language of Kiswahili, so she may slip and say "mpenzi" more often than "darling". However, ask her about this and she will go on for hours about her old life as a human and her African culture, or even about her kids.... she seriously will not shut up until the subject is forcibly changed.

Beyond her Mom Friend vibe, she is outgoing but gentle, a little bit vain due to her past but she now uses this trait to hype up anyone she feels needs it, and should anyone need her help against danger, she will become a feral Mama Bear (and I mean a literal feral protector, including bearing fangs, growling, using her claws, all that) and she'll protect that person like a mother wolf protecting her pups.

If Swift ever met Drillburst, her first instinct would be to shift into her mom friend mode, but will mostly likely aim that habit of hers towards maternal words of praise and to show her support both during and outside of their performances, and maybe give them a small gift every now and then. She's also really good at mental health support, as someone with gender dysphoria and C-PTSD, so if Drill ever needed support in any way, she'd be there as fast as her jet form can carry her.

Oh and I forgot to mention.... Swift was a theater kid, and will absolutely belt out a song in karaoke, or sing a lullaby to those she hugs during their sad boi hour. She absolutely loves to sing and surprisingly has no stage fright, but her job as an artist and mother keeps her from having too many karaoke nights out. 🤣

Tell me about your OCs and I’ll tell you how my OCs would get along with them

[dimorphodon-x]

For your OC ask, because I've adored Starhawk since I first discovered you on TikTok! I know Swiftwire (shown in icon) would just immediately see him and think "You are the sweetest thing ever!! You're mine now. I'll protect you and make you feel loved." Alongside being a Mama Bear, Swift's supportive, cares about mental health, and will call him "darling" or "mpenzi" as she's Kenyan. And if he has nightmares, she'll be there with a hot drink, a lullaby and cuddles to help lull him back to sleep

Starhawk wouldn’t really know what to do with himself if Swiftwire started mothering him lol. He probably would appreciate it, but he simply isn’t used to being treated like that, not even by his grandpa figure, Slingarm, and certainly not by his superiors, Archangel and Liberator. Hawk is used to dealing with things like nightmares by himself, and to have someone there to take care of him when he wakes up in a panic would be so jarring, but it would also be very nice.

He might actually start crying lol. “Thank you, I didn’t realize how much I needed that.”

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Swiftwire Mutheru Bio (Updated)

... Swift really was a massive Mary Sue, so I'm gonna fix that now!! As I mentioned before, this entire image was done by @sscaredssheep as a commission, so give them a follow to see even more of their awesome work! (Thanks again Nick, for doing such an amazing job on Swift! ;3)

I'll also be doing her backstory in the future as a separate post...

Originally born as Asya Zahara Mutheru, she gained a new life as a cyborg Cybertronian under the name of Swiftwire Mutheru, where she is known by her two main roles that allow her to both blend in and stand out within Cybertronian society;

When working in the capital city of Iacon, she is a politician and the only member of the Council below the age of a thousand years who strives to break the mold of prejudice and old grudges, the kind that rebuilt the Council in its heyday, earning her the ire of the more old fashioned civilians and politicians alike who deem her speeches and promises of "a society built on equity and safety, no matter your past" childish and idiotic. For who could possibly believe in an immigrant politician claiming to do what she does only for the needs and wants of the people, when so many like her have failed and proven themselves mere liars and thieves for eons?

However, when she is back home in Vos, with her three husbands, and her beloved wife, alongside her (currently) five children, Swiftwire works as an artist in her home away from home... her beloved art studio, A Touch of Tera. Functioning as both her side gig to earn a proper income and a way for her to follow her dreams of being an artist, you will usually find Swift growing plants in the studio's greenhouse, containing both Cybertronian and Earth based flowers to mull her paints with (seriously, mulling paint is SUCH a satisfying thing to watch). From there, they'll be used to create anything she can paint onto, be it a canvas, a wall for a building someone commissioned her to do, or even someone's frame. Her four Conjunxes will rarely leave her studio looking the same way they did going in, if they'll let her try out her newest colour recipe on them for a "small" touch-up.

Details/Headcanons:

Half Maasai-Kenyan, half American

Seeker Alt Mode: SU-35 Fighter Jet

Full Height- Roughly 32 feet (Mass Converted/Humanoid size- 7-8 feet)

MtF Transgender (She/Her, Girl, Lady, Mistress, etc)

Polyamorous Pansexual

Wife to Knockout, Breakdown, Elbent and Vernglaust (the final two belonging to @tigracespace) She wears a gem on an earring that represents each lover's frame colour (will update later)

Mother to Conduit, Sira and Starbreaker (Breakie for short), and later adopted Elbent and Vernglaust's children, Ferrous and Indicolite.

Love Languages: Physical touch, giving gifts, words of praise (giving and receiving)

Theme Song: I'm Still Here- John Rzeznik

*Speaking Voice Claim - Okoye (Black Panther)

Singing Voice Claim- Kylie Minogue *(When Swift speaks English, she actually doesn't have an accent at all, due to the training her father forced upon her from an early age, when she learned to first speak Kiswahili (Kenyan dialect of Swahili) from her mother before learning English. So, when she DOES speak her first language, her Kenyan accent will dominate her way of speaking until she willingly switches back.)

When she's upset or overly excited, Swift will usually end up rapidly speaking Swahili out of pure habit, due to her needing to remember that she must speak English to be understood. So if she's visibly angry and starts furiously shouting in Swahili... run.

Always smells of sweet scented flowers, due to her working in her studio's greenhouse so often.

Extraverted nature, LOVES being around people

Prefers to be painting in her studio with some music to relax after a stressful day

Has cat like personality, including the "zoomies", purring, hissing when angry or defensive, and the desire to sunbathe. It certainly doesn't help that she has four pairs of fangs instead of just two.

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Her favourite thing to do to relax or clear her head is to fly in her alt-mode during a clear sunset or sunrise. The changing of the sunlight was what inspired her frame colour and why she chose to make it iridescent/sparkly

Is a Switch but mainly a "Gentle Domme" who always gives aftercare

When Swift sings, she BELTS due to her love of musicals, but should anyone play a song from either Phantom of the Opera or The Lion King, she'll find it impossible to resist singing along.

Protective of her friends but ESPECIALLY to her family. So much so, should they ever be in danger, her mental glitch known as the "Guardian Feral Override" will kick in and change her body to become more feral, mindless and with only one motive driving her actions, no matter the consequence... Protect her family, kill the threats.

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Her Guiding Light

I fancied doing something with some BIG feels, so I made something bittersweet and themed around a song. Not exactly a songfic, but something you can listen to while reading this past a certain point, which I'll link when the time's right in the plot. ;3 So enjoy this teaser into Swiftwire's past, her relationship with the MnM gang, and her infamous daddy issues~ Swiftwire and Borealis belong to me

Verglaust and Elbent belong to @tigracespace

Knockout and Breakdown belong to Hasbro

**TW: Self-harm, PTSD, Disassociation, a little bit of cursing, HUGE sad vibes**

....................It had been ten years to this day.

And Swiftwire could still feel the tremors from under the rocky ground travelling up her knees...

Her palm prickling from the searing aura of the flames that engulfed her home...

The desperate grip of her only surviving family member keeping her in place by her shoulders...

The phantom rawness of the scream escaping her throat as she reached out towards her burning home.

Towards him......

YOU PROMISED!!!

Slammed back into her body with an audible gasp, Swift only now felt the stinging pain as she unclenched her claws that dug into her arms and finally picked up on the crackling static of her heavy panting. Her returning sight allowed her to spot the newly carved glowing trickles of Energon from her arms that stained her chest and illuminated the outline of her office desk in the engulfing darkness before her. Letting out a shuttering sigh now clear of static, she blinked away the tears from her eyes as she gripped her headband in both claws.

Shit, it happened again. Why does this keep happening to me? I thought I was finally getting better... Wait, when did it get so dark? Oh stars, what time is it?!

Reaching towards her desk in the dark with one of her bloodied arms pressed against her, the Seeker felt around the desk cluttered with thin datapads containing plans and bills bearing her signature to become new social laws, her claw sweeping carefully around until she felt the familiar and thicker glass surface of her personal datapad and blindly traced her way up with her talon tips towards its metallic framed edge.

Where the hell is that button? I could have sworn this was the top. Wait... don't tell me I put this upside down, did I? Oh for fu- Oh wait, nope, there it is.

White light filled her half of the office as she quickly turned away, her eyes stinging as they readjusted to the light, before she peered down to read the lockscreen's text.

11:48 pm

Well, I'm dead. Oh stars, I'll never hear the end of it from Elbent, will I?

With a long sigh she allowed the datapad to return to standby mode, and as the veil of darkness shrouded her sight once more, Swift flopped down onto her desk with her head landing onto her outstretched arm... A move she immediately regretted when she felt the sting of her open wounds. Cursing under her breath, she rose on shaky legs and made her way through the dark towards the door, knowing the path to take without any need for light as she followed that same blind instinct through the hall of her home into the apartment kitchen. The distant city lights of Vos streamed through her balcony glass door, casting silvery outlines and small shadows of vine leaves from the fairy lights wrapped around the curtain rail, their tiny shadows stretched across the furniture within reach of the city's eventide glow. Looking behind her, Swift spotted the small trail of glowing blue leading back into the office room, their source trickling from the thin lines along the tops of her arms.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" She hissed out loud, rushing to the kitchen to grab three towel and used two to wrap around her arms, stopping the bleeding as she used the third to clean up the accidental trail.

Sighing heavily as she stood back up and turned away from the now pitch black hallway, she tossed the towels into the sink as she ran the cold tap onto them, letting the plugged sink fill as she began to wash her arms of blood before drying and bandaging them. She watched with impassive eyes as the white gauze began to turn blue before they finally stopped before all the white could vanish, the coagulation effect finally taking place under the protection of the bandages.

Three times... Three times this has happened now. And I know Knockout's going to lose his shit this time around. I... I should probably not tell him what caused it this time. I mean, it is the same reason every time, but... I don't want to make any of them worry. It's just a memory...

Swift hugged herself around her chest as she watched the water reach the halfway point within the basin, feeling her sight growing blurry once more as the deep clutches of that gnawing void within her dug its way back up from the depths of her spark and pulled her mind outside herself once again, forcing her back to witness that flame engulfed cave.

It's just a memory... It's just a memory! Don't let it get to you! It's not real!! IT'S JUST A MEMORY!! IT'S JUST A MEMORY!! STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!! STOP THINKING ABOUT BABA!! STOP!!

Snapping back into reality by the pull of her own thoughts, she staggered back unbalanced and quickly released her arms once more as the bandages fell away from where she sliced through them with her claws.

"Oh by the stars!! Not again!"

The feeling of water touching her abdomen drew her attention down towards the nearly overflowing sink, sending a wave of panic through her.

"Oh balls, this again?! "

Latching onto the tap, she stopped the flow and quickly reached in with both arms to pull the plug, letting some of the water out before she once again plugged the basin, keeping the water just high enough to cover her arms up to the elbows, where the cuts stopped. Panting heavily to steady her racing spark, she watched as swirls of glowing blue faded into a dull, darker colour the moment they cooled in the water, filling the sink with a misty lapis lazuli hue as the glowing stopped at her arms, before they too faded.

I can't keep doing this... But I can't tell them. Especially not the kids. What would they think of me, knowing this is what happens when I think of how I lost their grandpa? I.... I wish Baba was here. He'd know what to do.

Slowly but surely, Swift pulled her arms free and began to dry and redress them once more, the bandages now staying white. It finally stopped... And not a soul in the apartment was aware of this but Swiftwire herself, a relief she let out in the form of a long sigh as she drained the sink and hung the towels out on the balcony to dry. Finally, with nothing else in need of doing, Swift returned to the living room and sank into the shadow veiled couch.

Stars above, I'm so tired. I just want to sleep this shitty night off... But there's no way in hell I'm joining the others in bed like this. I just.... Not tonight. I don't have the energy to argue with them... I just hope they don't notice these.

Looking down at her bandaged arms, Swift noticed something under the table in front of her, something white and reflecting the lights from outside. Reaching down with a cautious and slow hand, she picked up a large statuette carved from hollowed out clear quartz, one in the shape of a wolf sitting elegantly atop a metal cylinder.

Oh wow... I remember this! This was uncle Beetlebarb's housewarming present. I was wondering where I packed it away. Stars above, I need to deep clean this place for other valuable knickknacks I might've forgotten.

Placing the hefty carved quartz onto the table, she spotted the small hole on the side of its metal base with a curious tilt of her head.

Wait... Was that always there? I don't remember him mentioning this being anything more than a fancy carving. What the bloody hell did you invent this time, uncle?

Turning it over to examine the bottom of the statuette, she found a small key hidden in a tiny sliding compartment within the metal base, one that perfectly fit the hole on its side. Using the tips of her talons, she wound it up with the key until she could feel the resistance of the gears within, before gently setting it back down onto the table as soft clicks echoed the room from the statuette's inner mechanisms.

Uncle, I swear on Mama's grave... If this explodes like your other inventions do, I'm sending you the bill for the damage, and a foot up your-

The quartz suddenly came to life as a steadily growing soft light filled its crystal core, before it spread throughout the room in gentle waves of pastel pink, blue and green... the colours of the Aurora Borealis from her old home, mimicked on a tail of streaking biolights that guided her in her darkest time, on the night she was found in that forest...

Looking back down at the crystal wolf as its gears hummed with life, fresh tears soon streaked down her cheeks as that cave returned to her mind, its flames now replaced by a white wolf Beastformer, looking back with a fanged smile and a stretched out hand for her to hold...

Borealis...

"Baba... Bori... Why didn't you escape with us? Why couldn't you keep your promise? You could've seen the birth of your granddaughter... You could have met your grandson, my wife and husbands... Their children, who now call me their Mama... Dad, why did you have to break your promise? Why did you have to become a stupid martyr and die like that? You promised me... You promised..."

A click and a sudden hum brought her blurry-eyed attention back onto the crystal version of her adoptive father, the lights surrounding the room starting to move and swirl in a soothing and slow manner as a familiar melody began to play from the music box within the crystal's base. Her breath caught within her throat as the melody's metallic tune latched onto a memory deep within her mind, a memory of Bori's voice humming, his touch upon her back as he gently rocked her side to side, and the same tears she now cried staining his white chest fur as his hum matched the gentle purring of his engine that soothed her in his hold. Laying on her side on the couch, she watch the crystal's glow shift and change as it moved around the room, a gentle talon tracing the shape of the wolf's face...

His gentle embrace, his wise guiding words, his rare laugh that broke his stoic aura, the namesake glow of his tail that always guided her out of a panic episode, just like those she experienced tonight... Never would she feel them again.

Bori... Minerva... Azure...

Taken by the flames...

Along with his promise to always be with her.

Her wails echoed the room as the song continued to play, her eyes now covered by her bandaged arm as the room became filled with her hiccupped sobs and whimpers over the melody's bittersweet tune, chanting the same thing over and over...

"You promised... You promised, Baba.... You promised."

Through her hiccups and sobs, hidden by the melody's gradual end, footsteps made their way towards the Seeker on the couch until they stopped right beside her. The moment the song ended and darkness returned to the room, a pair of giant but gentle claws slid under her back and thighs and slowly she was lifted up into a warm embrace that sat where she once was on the couch, placing her onto a lap with her head guided by a green claw to rest on the chest of its owner, before that same claw reached over to the crystal wolf and turned the key once more, its light filling the room as that same song started up once more.

"Did you already forget that you are no longer alone in this, sweet sunstone?"

Looking up to feel a gentle talon wiping away a stray tear, Swift found herself within the arms of her biggest and more emotionally expressive husband of the polyamorous group, her face now cupped by the green drake Beastformer she called a Conjunx. Sniffling as she attempted to form her response, her sobs only returned thricefold as Verglaust pulled her close to his chest and whispered sweetly into her wire dreadlocks.

"Shhh, it's ok. It's alright, love. Let it all out. You're safe here," He cradled her arm that clutched against his shoulder, turning it over with the softest touch he could offer on her wrist. "I'll have Knockout take a look in the morning. Don't argue, dear. You know he would never be angry with you for something you cannot yet control. It's ok... We'll work together to help you heal, one step at a time."

"I'm sorry, Ver... I didn't even know it was happening until...," Swift whimpered after she regained control over her words, her claw gripping the mech's as the room returning to its quiet darkness once more. "I... I miss him so much. The dreams... They started becoming flashbacks again... I-I didn't want to alarm you guys, so I.... I'm so sorry, Ver-"

Verglaust hushed her once again, cradling her head against his shoulder as he trailed a hand along her back, carefully stroking over her folded wings. "It's ok, sunstone. It's alright. You're ok. You did nothing wrong here, but you know you are perfectly fine to come to us for help. No matter the time or place, we're all here to help. We're here to help you, love. No matter what."

"........ How do you make it stop? How do I stop feeling like this every time I think of him?"

"By remembering the good times you had with him," Verglaust began to stroke his other claw through her dreadlocks as he spoke softly. "Remember your father as the good mech he was. Remember how he made you feel, the times you spent together being father and daughter, the times he made you laugh and feel happy and safe... Remember the good things and know that he is proud of you, even beyond the stars."

Swift meekly looked up at the red eyed mech. "You really think so?"

"I know so. I am a father, after all, and you a mother. And if my instincts towards our children tell me anything, it's that I know pride can live on within the soul, even after it has passed on."

Swift let out a tired chuckle, sniffling as she rested her head on his shoulder once more. "You sound just like him."

"Do I, now?~"

"Mm. You two actually had a lot in common, now that I think about it... He would have loved you like a son, you know?"

"I'm glad to hear it. How are you feeling, dear?"

"Tired... But a lot better."

"Good. I'm happy to hear it," Picking her up in a bridal hold, he rose in the darkness of the room and trekked his way towards the hall once more. "Let's head to bed together then, shall we?"

"Ok," Swift hugged him around his neck as he carried her effortlessly, pausing for a long moment until they reached the bedroom door, where the others slept. "...Ver?"

"Hm?"

"Don't... tell Elbent about this. I don't want to worry her about my... issue."

"Sunstone, it is not a mere issue. It is something we shall help you through, together. One step at a time, remember? Don't be scared to come to us, should it happen again. We can all patch you up together, and soothe those worries of yours out of your mind and bring you comfort once more. No matter how many times it happens, we're all here to work as a team to help each other through every situation we face, individually or as a family. Me, Elbent, Knockout, Breakdown, even the kids... We're all here to help."

"You promise?"

"I promise, my love. Always."

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Huh.... I have no idea who you are but HIYA NEW MUTUAL!! Thanks for the tag! 🤣

Alright, let's try this out!!

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3 ships: TFP KO X BD (obviously), Morticia X Gomez (I THRIVE OFF OF EVERY RENDITION), aaaaaaand... my OC Swiftwire X @tigracespace's OC Elbent. 🤣 You never said the ship had to be canon~

1st ship ever: A LOOOOOOOTTTTTT of self-ships. 😬 I was a very lonely child. The first CANON ship though.... Was Shadow X Amy the Hedgehog.

Last song: Separate Ways cover by Johnathan Young.

Last Movie: Netflix's new Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (fucking LOVE Luke Evan's voice!!!)

Currently reading: The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez

Currently watching: Stranger Things season 3.

Currently consuming: A chonky KitKat bar.

Currently craving: McDonalds sweet chili grilled chicken wrap, maybe some nuggies.

Tag: @tigracespace , @cuppajj or @cuppatwoj , @hyraxas , @dimorphodon-x

Tag 9 people you want to know better

I was tagged by @life-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it :) thanks for the tag!

3 ships: Huh, well, I don’t tend to write a lot of ships myself but they’re certainly fun to read! I’d say Thrawn/Pellaeon (Star Wars) is a favorite, then maybe Sherlock/Watson (ACD Holmes specifically), and Thrawn/Car’das. Honorary mention goes to Thrawn/Nuso Esva!

1st ever ship: Well, it would have to be Steve/Tony (Marvel); that’s the fic I first started reading and that was my friend who recommended all that fic’s favorite, so that’s what I read! It was fun - back in the Avengers-Found-Family days, when I could still stand the movies.

Last song: had one of my somewhat random character playlists on while working this afternoon, so it’s Tell God and the Devil by Solas.

Last movie: Knives Out, which I finally got around to watching while home over Thanksgiving. It was a good one!

Currently reading: Just finished 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann - nonfiction about Native Americans before and after Columbus. I’m hoping to pick up Star Wars: Rogue Planet - I finally found someone who’s read it and they enjoyed it, so I don’t have to worry it’s going to be unreadably terrible and I can finally get the lore I’m using for D&D from the source instead of Wookiepedia!

Currently watching: Whatever episode of Rebels I think will get me through my writer’s block on this one fic. Ezra’s serious voice is so hard to capture!

Currently consuming: a nice herbal tea

Currently craving: nothing at the moment, but I’ve been off and on craving pizza for a few weeks and haven’t gotten around to fulfilling it. Yet.

I love these, they’re super fun! I never know who to tag though… let’s go with: @ele-millennial-weirdo, @handbaskethell, @evarinaandlat, @jedihlaalu, @emp-roar, @nekobakaz, @jewelliffer, @loud-shimo-screes, @grand-admiral-lawn. Only if you want to! But if you want to, go for it, whether I’ve tagged you or not :)

[ezra-iolite]

Swiftwire Mutheru Bio- 2023 ver.

(Original template made by @stuckedwithstarscream, hopefully this will help me not make a SUPER LONG post about Swift for once. ;3; She deserves a proper bio. Original BLANK template can be found here: How to Build a Cybertronian)

Name?

Swiftwire Asya Zahara Mutheru of the Terran Maasai Tribe (Goes by Swift) [She/Her]

2. Age Level? (How long did your character exist?)

Young by Cybertronian standards, so to avoid suspicion Swift will usually claim to be 40 thousand years old, when really she's (currently) 45 in human years.

3. Alternative-Form/Vehicle Mode? (What´s the vehicle/animal they can transform to?)

An S-35 jet, which she most likely believes was stolen to make her body. She is unable to scan for a different jet for her alt-form due to her not having the scanning ability.

4. Where do they come from?

She was originally born in the far north of Maine in America, but has since rejected her birth nationality due to her past and considers herself a Maasai-Kenyan instead (her mother's nationality). She now lives in Vos on Cybertron and calls herself a Terran for simplicity’s sake.

5. Faction?

Autobot, but became neutral after she left her old job as a politician, scratching out her sigil upon belly plate as a symbol of her good faith but proof of her neutrality. She still wears it in memory of her adoptive father, Borealis.

6. Caste?

Mid-High Class: Post-War Politician turned Ombudswoman, but mostly works as an artist for income.

7. Personality traits?

Swift is entirely driven by her moral compass and instinctually follows her heart/spark over her mind, which has often led to her being a bit of an overbearing Mama Bear. However, when she isn't being the Mom Friend, she's usually dazzling the crowd and being a slightly vain “prima donna” the moment she enters a room. From her sparkly orange frame to her colourful Kenyan jewellery, Swift simply adores the spotlight and will happily help and support those she believes deserve to feel it too. Her lack of stage-fright also aids in her being all too happy to advocate for those who cannot voice their problems. Which is why she became an Ombudswoman of the Iacon Council after she quit her old job as a politician representing Vos, due to the racism and bullying she faced from the other Senators.

However, behind the loving, fanged smile hides a deeply rooted shame for what she is and the original purpose for her creation... which is why she is content to have lost her humanity over her sense of agency, even at such a hefty and traumatizing price.

(It's also worth noting that Swift is bilingual and will use any given chance to slip in a word or two of her native tongue, oftentimes calling those she cherishes "mpenzi" or darling, her catchphrase every time for everyone's nickname from her.)

8. What did they do before and during the civil war/War for Cybertron?

(Warning, this is a LONG read, so TL;DR: Swift used to be a human named Asya, but became a cyborg Cybertronian when she was killed to become the battery powering the spark of a reverse engineered protoform. If TALOS had won and Asya died at the hands of her own father, then she would have become Talos Alpha, a mechanical Hoplite or Spartan designed to kill all Cybertronians living on Earth, a dream Jeremy was determined to complete due to his hatred for the alien race, to finally gain his "perfect soldier". By sheer willpower or blind luck, Asya's soul held on and she lived to become Swiftwire, at the cost of her family.)

During the final few years of the Cybertronian war, Swift was originally a human on Earth, an eighteen year old at the time, named Asya Mutheru. Her loving mother, Gasira Mutheru, fell gravely ill and victim to the neglect of Asya's abusive father, Jeremy Omari, who was the head of a scientific-military division known simply as TALOS. He sent Asya away to a military boarding school the moment she was of age, forcing her to stay and be deployed as a soldier abroad, even after her mother died and had a funeral that Asya was forbidden to attend by her father to ensure she focused only on her studies and deployment. After serving her ten years and becoming a commissioned Sergeant, Asya left the army and returned home, now in her late twenties, and confronted her father for the cruelty he put his only child and baby-trapped wife through, before she came out as a transwoman during a shouting match. Their verbal fight quickly became physical and it ended with her beaten, bruised, scarred over one eye, and abandoned in a snowy forest to bleed to death.

That was when she met and was rescued by Borealis the White Wolf (Bori for short) and his fellow pack of Maximals; Minerva the Deer, who patched Asya up and taught her how to be wise and maternally kind, Artemis the Hound, who taught Asya how to defend herself physically and verbally while also teaching her the true meaning of loyalty, the slightly insane Beetlevise the Stag Beetle who taught her how to be silly and have fun by simply being herself around those she trusts, and Azure the Peacock, a proud mech who adored his appearance and eagerly helped Asya through her transition into a woman, and taught her how to love and be proud of herself and her accomplishments, no matter how small of a step forward they were.

They soon became her family, with Borealis treating Asya like a daughter while the rest of the pack became her aunts and uncles, who were soon joined by a pair of Decepticons who originally kidnapped Asya to trap the Maximal refugees as prisoners of war… Only to befriend Asya due to their similarities and learning that life could be better without the threat to their lives by their warlord. Those two Cons soon joined the pack, with Knockout becoming their medic alongside Minerva, and his Conjunx Breakdown becoming their scout and protector. And due to their similarities, Asya fell in love with both Knockout and Breakdown and began a romantic relationship with them both, forming her first polycule~

However, when the Cybertronian war was announced to have finally ended, Asya was kidnapped and imprisoned by TALOS on the orders of her father, who planned on using her as a battery for the spark of his life's work... Project Talos Alpha, the mythological robot of his obsession made real through stolen Cybertronian body parts and technology, including a vat of Energon supposedly from the Well of the Allspark. Determined to finally be rid of his runt of a child, he shot her three times but only grazed her arm and leg, while the third bullet cut open her head from the temple along the side, before he finally shoved into the vat in frustration at failing to kill her yet again and sealed it.

Swift still remembers the burning pain of her body melting and breaking apart, of seeing the world vanishing into a black void as silver liquid metal engulfed her, then nothing. It wasn't until Bori's voice woke her up, allowing her first memory with new eyes to be meeting the gaze of the wolf she loved as a father, sensing something imprinting within her as her own eyes turned blue, and her large, silver hands breaking the vat that held her as she spilled at the feet of her father and her maker. Instead of a first breath, her transformation from a blank, smooth silver shell into a newborn Seeker came with a scream and the ripping of metal flesh to make way for wings and wire dreadlocks. The moment she gained claws for hands, she used them to kill her maker and the one who caused the most pain in her life, the taste of copper still lingering on her tongue when she suddenly awoke back home with her Maximal family with no memory of when she passed out... But from what Bori told everyone, all Swift could apparently see was red, and nothing could stop the hunt until silence and human blood filled the empty halls of TALOS.

Her old life as a human, alongside Jeremy's lifetime of work, was now dead and gone, her body nothing but a cadaver with its soul still bound to it, hidden deep within the spark of a handmade Cybertronian Seeker, with all her scars transferred over during the experimental process of her growth, both the physical and the mental kind.

9. Did they experience a moment of great tragedy or trauma that haunts them?

The final attempt on her life from TALOS still haunts her to this day... For even after she embraced her identity as Swiftwire, since she finally looked feminine and had the defining features she always yearned for on the body she wanted as a woman, her past was still chasing after her to take away everything she worked hard to gain.

Only a few months after Asya became Swiftwire and finally learned how to walk and get used to her new height and needs as a Transformer, Beetlevise reported strange readings all around the mountain and underground cave they called their base and home, signals that were the same kind used by the technology created by TALOS. Before Bori could order Artemis to track where the signals were coming from, the tunnels leading to the central command room erupted in a fiery explosion, sending rock, metal shrapnel and flames everywhere. One by one, each pack member helped Swift get to the entrance of the cave before they each fell to the crumbling rock, fire and the explosions of the bombs hidden throughout the cave, before it was only her, Borealis and Beetlevise left alive.

When Swift and Beetle made it outside, the Seeker saw Bori holding up a fallen boulder that would have crushed them had he not stopped it, the flames of the cave slowly spreading behind him. Swift pleaded for him to let them help, but as the fire began to burn through Bori’s fur and he started to struggle against the weight of the boulder above him, her father simply smiled and told Beetle,

“Take her to the stars for me, brother. Our home deserves her spark.”

The flames vanished when the boulder fell and created a rocky avalanche, sealing the cave and their pack’s fate inside. The last thing Swift remembers of that day, and the same moment that haunts her dreams years later, was the sound of her own voice screaming as she pulled against Beetle’s firm grip to reach for the cave, her words echoing the entire forest as she wailed for her father,

“YOU PROMISED YOU’D STAY, BABA!! YOU PROMISED!!”

10. Did they experience a moment of great joy that´s still in their memory as a precious moment?

The happiest moment from her past was the day she had her first sparkling, and forming her now massive family of four spouses and eight kids… (Beware, another long one... there's a LOT of kids...)

Believing that she was infertile due to her being made by human hand, Swift’s dream of becoming a mother lingered in the back of her mind for the first few years she started living on Cybertron with her Conjunxes, Knockout and Breakdown, even more so after rescuing a teenaged Seeker named Conduit from surviving in the ruins of the Hydrax Plateau and adopting him as her son. In a twist of fate, after Conduit settled into his new life and began training under his fathers to become a medic like them, Swift and Knockout shared a moment together in a field of cobalt flowers to escape the chaos of their busy lives. A month later, the two found a second spark growing in Swift’s chamber, and Swift has never screamed as loudly with excitement and tearful joy as she did then. They named the little spark Sira, in memory of Swift's mother, Gasira.

However, when she was only in the middle of her second trimester, Swift suddenly felt a horrible pain as she began to bleed rivers of Energon from between the plates, her entire chest breaking apart plate piece by cracked plate piece. Conduit rushed her to the hospital where Knockout and Breakdown helped to deliver their daughter, but found that she was born without vocal cords, but was otherwise healthy for such a premature baby. And yet… For three full minutes after that, Swiftwire flatlined and became grey. When she returned to life thanks to Conduit’s electrical power shocking her very spark back to full brightness, Swift was left with permanent chronic pain and a scar of thin, lightning-like cracks all over her chest plates…. And the news that she would most likely never be able to have children again.

That was… Until she met Elbent and Verglaust (@tigracespace's OCs). After the miscarriage of Elbent’s firstborn child, Firefly, Swift began to use her political position to help the tiny Grounder in her research to bring back fertility to all Cybertronians, not just because she had fallen for Elbent… But because she too had miscarried a child she never even knew she had, one she named Hyacinth, who she lost only a week before she met Conduit. After that, the two couples became a married polycule that welcomed Ferrous and Indicolite into their family, making the headcount of kids add up to four. Many more came along through Elbent, Knockout and Breakdown as they played the role of the carrier to each child…

For after the twins from Verglaust and Elbent, Swift and Verglaust had Bori, a grey and turquoise dire wolf Beastformer that Knockout was the surrogate carrier to.

Then, after discovering that a child could carry up to four traits of CNA, Elbent became the carrier to hers, Knockout’s and Breakdown’s daughter equally, naming her Alexandrite after her purple frame that bore the blend of their three colours, before another colourful child was born between Elbent, Knockout and Swift; Empyrean, a spoiled brat of a daughter due to her sunrise ombre colours adding to the flawless beauty inherited from her sires, including Swift’s dreadlocks.

Finally, after begging her medically worried spouses, mostly Knockout due to his mother hen instincts, to stop worrying about her and allow her to simply try after all these years… Swift worked together with Verglaust and Breakdown to be the carrier of their final triple-CNA child, a white and blue dragon Beastformer named Grimfrost.

(In case you're stumped and need a recap of all the kids.... In the order of eldest to youngest: Conduit, Sira, Ferrous and Indicolite, Borealis, Alexandrite, Empyrean and Grimfrost) 11. Is your character able to drive a spaceship? Where did they learned it?

No, simply due to Swift having a jet form that’s able to traverse the depths of space easily. But she does take a ship when visiting other planets, simply due to how exhausting it is flying in lightyears by herself.

12. Did your character met one of the Cybertronian leaders? What were their thoughts about for example Optimus Prime or Sentinel Prime?

For a short time, she worked alongside Rodimus when he first became Prime, helping to finalize the details for the new council of Cybertron and attending the same congress meetings as him about the mundane issues across the planet, now that it was settling into a peaceful new era. But, she saw him less and less as he began his plans for his quest, his thirst for adventure and a legacy driving him out of the role of a political leader and into the spotlight of a celebrity seeking a legend. She does miss their playful banter and exchange in past-life stories of their shared experiences on Earth sometimes, but like Rodimus with the crew of the Lost Light, she found her life's meaning in her frame paintjob and canvas art studio, A Touch of Terra, and has never regretted leaving her old job since.

As for the more famous names... No, she has never met Optimus or Megatron or any other past Prime. But she has learned to hate the face behind the emblem she still wears due to the war doing more harm than good.

13. Best Friend(s)?

After marrying Knockout and Breakdown, it was originally Rodimus before he left Cybertron. Then it became Elbent and Verglaust before they formed a polyfidelity married group, or a polycule strictly between all five of them.

Beyond her family, Swift is close to her surviving uncle Beetlevise and is doing her best to befriend Elbent's friends, Nicole and Drillburst.

14. Greatest Enemie(s)?

Her birth father, Jeremy Omari, and all those who survived her mad slaughter of the TALOS group.

15. Preferred weapons?

Her Seeker claws, her fangs and her dreadlocks. Her dreadlocks have the ability to stretch to unmeasurable lengths and move like snakes, just like Medusa's hair, due to the fact that they're wires coated in a soft, rubbery casing that are connected to her brain. It takes only three of them to lift her up off the ground, and oftentimes she uses that ability to prank others by crawling up to the ceiling and popping down suddenly while hanging upside down. When used in fighting, they can be shot like javelins when kept straight, or like whips when allowing them to bend and move freely. Her main heavy attack is often an aerial one using her dreadlocks, where she will fly in jet form as high as she can go, then go back into her root/bot form and spin in either a curled up (Sonic the Hedgehog) ball or in a circle while standing as she falls back down, becoming a circular saw capable of cutting through armor if she has enough momentum and speed. Another ability they have, due to the Talos Alpha Project's design, is their ability to tap into any and all forms of technology with a computer or terminal, with each dreadlock bearing a port key of every known piece of technology Swift has seen in her lifetime... including the brains of Transformers. The last time she used this ability was when Conduit was kidnapped by protestors who demanded that Swift be removed from her seat in the council. After finding and capturing a protestor, Swift pierced his eye and searched his memories for where they hid her baby boy, lobotomizing him into a frozen but conscious state where his bodily functions were still working but he would be trapped in his own mind, unable to speak or move forever.

Out of guilt from the Mama Bear anger that drove her to such cruelty, Swift tried to destroy the dreadlock that bore the psychic patch needle, but found that if she had succeeded and damaged the interior of the dreadlock, she would suffer major brain damage and possibly die from the shock of the pain it would bring her... so now, under her full mop of dreadlocks, there is one with a tip that is black from fire damage, a dreadlock she has since sworn never to use again.

16. Do they have a team, a partner, or someone that´s often with them?

The entire MnM Gang or her polycule!! Knockout is the one who often spends the most time with Swift, but if it's not him due to work, then it's Elbent. But, no matter what, Swift always tries to spend time with all her spouses equally.

17. Do they have sibling(s)? How´s their relationship to them?

As far as Swift is aware, she has no siblings.... However, one of the few survivors of the TALOS slaughter was in fact Jeremy's son from another lover he had before Gasira died.... Swift's half brother, Zaire Omari. The two have no idea they are related through the same man that Swift killed before his eyes, and Swift has no intention on returning to Earth until she truly feels homesick enough to do so. But so far, she is happy where she is.

18. Do they have a sparkmate? How did they get to know each other?

Again, Swift has four Conjunxes. Knockout, Breakdown, Elbent, and Verglaust. See above for how they all met, but to put it simply here....

As Asya the human, she met Knockout first when he kidnapped her as a prisoner of the Decepticons. During her imprisonment, she stood her ground and was sassy and flirty with Knockout and Breakdown, until the three of them simply started speaking and growing closer emotionally until her rescue. After that, they began to meet in secret where their feelings grew and developed despite their species, until the end of the war came and Asya helped KO and BD to be free of the Cons and join her family. Their relationship soon became romantic, even before she became Swiftwire.

After the death of her family by the TALOS bombs, KO found an old ship and brought the surviving family members to Cybertron to start fresh amongst their own kind, where Swift first travelled around the planet for the sake of her mental health but instead both lost and gained her first child, before she returned to her family and moved to Vos to train as a politician for the sake of a better future for her children, and to help promote her vision of building equity for all, no matter a person's origins. During her training, she was told to hire a bodyguard, and the biggest one there who caught her eye just so happened to be Verglaust, a giant mech who immediately made her spark flutter with familiarity and attraction (cue Moto Moto song~) purely because he was a Beastformer, the only kind who had ever shown her love. Swift, KO and BD soon married, had Sira, and during a gala to promote her vote for becoming a Senator in the Iacon Council, Swift was introduced to Elbent on the day she lost Firefly. After KO and Conduit helped Elbent to deliver Firefly's stillborn body, Swift was finally able to reunite with Elbent and got told of what happened... The grief became their link to forming their bond, as Swift used her Senator position to become a patron to Elbent's research, and soon enough the two femmes fell in love and introduced the idea of forming a polycule.

Thus the MnM gang was born.

19. Overall Look?

(Right here~)

(Her earring needs a minor change, just to represent her spouses: Red for Knockout, Dark Blue for Breakdown, Light Blue for Elbent, Green for Verglaust, Orange for Swift ..... Also heels. She deserves killer heels that can echo with every step.)

20. Bonus: What´s the song that represents your character the most?

¬w¬ You know damn well why this works... We all know why, don't we mutuals?~

[ezra-iolite]

Demonformers AU: The Centi-Lamia

I saw @dimorphodon-x 's worldbuilding notes and the beautiful work on Demon!Starhawk, so I decided to join in!

.... I HAD TO, OK?! I FRIGGING LOVE DEMONS VS ANGELS STUFF!! And I've always wanted to try my hand at doing something horror themed, so.... HERE'S DEMON SWIFTWIRE!!

(I swear to the muses, I am never drawing that many hands AND arms ever again. ;~; My own hands are killing me...)

Shapeshifter Mid-Class Demon (hehehe, trans pun to keep up her theme)

Swiftwire's real form is a centipede-lamia with thin arms for legs and buffer arms for the two REAL arms she has, all of which are covered in freckles.

She is roughly 10 feet tall and 17 feet in length, if she lies down flat and is measured from head to tail tip.

The skinny arms on her torso are used to lock together to form her body, which can open up to reveal her BODY SIZED gaping maw in the place of where her organs would be, entirely filled instead with multiple rows of fangs, with the largest rows growing on the underside of the torso-arms. The rows of fangs filling her "mouth" spans from her split-jaw mandibles all the way down to the middle of her torso, where the arms stop and become scales that are disguised to look like many more arms.

When in public, she dons a human disguise that is ALWAYS masked to cover her lipless fanged mouth, the only part of her she cannot hide in any of her shifter forms.

When she's in the abandoned house she calls home, or when she needs to scare off some curious and idiotic humans or lesser demons, she'll take on the appearance of either a jawless female ghost or, more commonly a drider/Jorōgumo, a half woman-half spider creature that has her demonic plated arms for legs, to help keep up the appearance of her home being haunted and to let her dwell in peace.

However, when a demon of her class or higher does end up finding her den or sniffing her out, she'll sneak and scuttle along the ceiling to hunt them down and either kill and eat them, or simply scare them off.

Because of this habit, she's earned a territorial reputation amongst the demons who live in the city, when in actuality she is trapped and lashes out in order to be left alone.

~*~

Swift was once a human many years ago, and she can still remember her past, even if she can no longer speak without changing her form first to grant her vocal cords. However, when she fell in love with a disguised demon, she woke up after she sneaked away for a passionate night of confessed love to find her body changing, and her lover's true form now revealed as he sneered at his handiwork. Enraged at the betrayal, she fought him using her new demonic strength, each punch changing her more and more as her love turned to hate and helped to further fuel her change into a permanent form. Their battle ended with the shapeshifting demon trapping Swift in the house with a warning that she would be killed the moment she stepped out of that house, before he fled with deep wounds but his victory intact. Now too fearful to leave the city for her safety, and with her being nowhere near powerful enough to keep her human disguise up for more than a day, Swift spends her days keeping intruders out and killing scum demons to help hone her hunting skills within the halls of her "haunted" house.

[ezra-iolite]

.... I know it's not part of the ask meme thing, but I saw the template and KNEW I had to use it purely to show off an OC x Friend's OC ship..... Worth it. ¬w¬ Also MnM = O’Murchadha (Elbent and Vernglaust) x Mutheru (Swiftwire, Knockout and Breakdown)

(Circles were drawn using Windows Paint, cause I'm a broke ass bitch who can't afford anything better...)

i saw this on twitter and honestly it's great lmao

hmu, i am Feeling It at work today and need a distraction