#tearshot

[raayllum]

this isn't how i'm writing it in fanon s6 bc i can pace things however i want with zero time constraints but this is something i could see s6 doing + i like being self indulgent so

They'd been stupid to trust the Celestial Elves.

It was the only thought running through Callum's brain as he stared in horror, the corona sealed back glass, the Nova Blade a weapon no mortal could wield, and Rayla—

On her knees, the leader holding an ordinary but no less terrifying blade to her throat, his face still a bit scraped up from his and Rayla's earlier scuffle. She'd been the one to catch the elf reaching for Callum's bag when they slept that night; she'd be the one to draw her sword first and engage him, quickly overwhelmed by the time Callum and her parents had arrived.

They were all talented warriors, but rusty after two years in a coin—Runaan unable to draw his bow with only one arm, and something long range was needed here. Some way to kill the leader and give Rayla time, even if he held her in a vice grip, pressing down hard enough on her throat there was thin, scarlet line growing.

"You have something we need, boy," the leader hissed, breathing heavily through a broken nose. "You know what it is."

Runaan's voice broke through, sharp and demanding—"What is he talking about?"—but Callum couldn't tear his eyes away from Rayla. She was struggling to breathe, let alone speak, but gave her head the barest shake. No.

"What are you going to do with it?" Callum says as neutrally as he can, stalling (there has to be a spell or a way out of this) even if he already knows the answer.

What else could they hope to do with something called the Key of Aaravos?

"I'll tell you what we're going to do your elf girl unless you give it so us," the Celestial elf snarls. "On the count of three, I'll slit her throat. One—"

"Stop!"

Two hadn't even left his lips, Callum having an excuse to look away from Rayla's glaring, tearshot eyes now as he digs the cube out of his bag. It feels like it weighs a thousand pounds as he holds it up.

On Finnegrin's ship, at least he'd been able to hide what he was doing—what he was willing to do—in the shadowy depths of the ship. Here, in the light, there's nowhere to hide.

Callum holds it out, taking a few steps closer. "Lower the sword first," he says.

"And have her wriggle free? I don't think so."

"Callum," she wheezes. "Don't—"

"Fine then," Callum snaps. "At the same time—an exchange. On my count of three. One—" He looses his grip on the cube, the ring of celestial elves watching eagerly. "Two—" It's not ideal, him and Rayla in front of where any of her parents could join the fray; there will have to be distance before anyone can fight either way. But then, he's not doing this out of the certainty he'll get the Key back, that it won't end in disaster.

Just for her safety. Just for himself, because he can't live without her.

This was his destiny, what Aaravos was banking on. And he was right.

"Three!"

The Celestial elf takes his blade away and shoves her forward at the same time Callum tosses the cube over. It's caught in one shiny blue hand, the elf towering over him as Callum slides to his knees, catching Rayla as she careens forward before she can hit the floor. She coughs weakly in his arms, bleeding at the throat, but it seems shallow.

The celestial elves make it maybe five five away with their prize before her parents leap into action, swords clashing, but Callum grabs his staff and constructs a funnel of wind around him and Rayla, a thick enough wall of air to keep anyone else out momentarily, as he helps her sit up.

"Callum." She's crying, but alive.

"Let me look at you," he murmurs, lifting up her chin. He uses his scarf to wipe away the blood, relieved when more doesn't follow. A shallow cut just to scare him, but it'd worked. He pulls her into his arms next, just needing a moment to feel her heart beating against his.

She takes a second to hold him back and then does so, tightly, and his heart settles as they sit there shaking. She hasn't forgiven him for it yet, maybe—but she will.

[jhgksixsichjd]

— Transformers OC Infodump !!

( long af w/pictures for motivation to keep reading )

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(( I have no friends who are into Transformers so I'm just gonna share my OC here.. ))

Their name is Tearshot and they are a G1 OC who was created out of my immediate love for Jazz and the need to have a stoic brick of a bot balance out his charismatic personality.

Very early in my watch of G1, I drew an idea I had for a Transformers OC who had a "defect" ( which I later went on to describe as a malformation ) where one of their optics looked like a tear was falling from it. This idea became Tearshot.

At first, Tearshot was essentially this. They were just a normal bot who had a defect and always looked sad. This quickly changed as when I wanted them to be something more unique. Tearshot became much more of an unfortunate bot, an accident happening during their creation that caused their tear malformation and a glitch in their emotional processing system ( I love making stuff up ), this making it difficult for Tearshot to visibly show emotion.

They are able to show some emotion, though it is barely noticeable. Also they can blush, but not too much, because I like blushing yet don't want to disregard their glitch. Essentially, they do feel emotion, they are just unable to show it. And they also have a monotone voice, so they have to rely on body language to convey what they mean.

Beneath all of this, Tearshot really is compassionate, they just tend to feel a bit discouraged as others often misunderstand them.

When I noticed that Tearshot's personality was sounding similar to autism, I decided to make them autistic. ( I'm not sure if I'm wording any of this correctly, but I'm not trying to be offensive )

When coming up with Tearshot's appearance, I struggled. After a quick practice drawing of a basic G1 body, I just went for it. I was drawing up various ideas for what Tearshot could look like, starting with their helm ( head ).

There was no direction whatsoever, I was just looking at various G1 characters and trying to come up with my own thing. I didn't like any of them. Then I finally got something after drawing with pen, something that I thought was going to be a disaster.

I'm not sure how to describe this, but I was pretty satisfied with it at the time. I really enjoyed it. For a bit, like a week, this was what I went with for the look of Tearshot's helm. ( Also for the bottom two drawings, I am referring to @/squidthesquidd's Transformers AU, the squishy baby AU, self-explanatory on what it is. I really like its art for the AU, check it out if you wanna see cool art :3 )

Then I drew up a full body for Tearshot in the style of the squishy baby AU and rambled. ( My handwriting is hard for some people to read, so I'm not gonna scribble any of it out ) I had also figured out an alt-mode for Tearshot: a Lamborghini Countach, except I didn't know that was already Sideswipe's alt-mode along with also being Breakdown's alt-mode. I tried to roll with it and just say it would be a coincidence in-universe, but it bugged me a lot.

By this point I had already developed a special ability for Tearshot. It was originally water abilities ( because tears are water ), I hated it then finally thought of energy absorption to be their actual ability. Energy ( of any kind; like electricity, heat, or even energy from the attacks of others ) can essentially be absorbed by Tearshot and used by them in various ways, mainly for energy blasts.

And for fun, if they absorbed energy but don't use it, then it gets stored in their body, causing them to gain "body fat" because of their stomach-area being made of a stretchy mesh material. ( Mainly because I thought this was a cool idea to imagine what this would be like if there was a figure for Tearshot. Kinda blursed considering what the quality of the 1980's toys was. )

And then I drew a different helm for Tearshot and latched onto it. Been sticking with it ever since and really like it. Also settled on a new alt-mode for them because I refused to have them have the same alt-mode as two other characters. They're a Lamborghini Jalpa now, and as long as it has pop-up headlights, I'm fine with it. ( Insert joke similar to Mia and Tia from the first Cars movie )

( Last image because of the limit on mobile devices )

Remember when I said at the start that Tearshot was created to balance out Jazz's charisma? Yeah, I want to talk more about them and their relationship.

Tearshot and Jazz have known each other for a while, and because of this, Jazz is one of the few who can accurately read Tearshot's emotions. They are both close friends and Tearshot actually likes being around him. ( Another thing about Tearshot: they crave company, they enjoy being in the presence of others. This tends to lead to Tearshot clinging to someone for a while, often without verbally saying so. Jazz is someone who Tearshot mainly clings to. )

Although Tearshot was created by my love for Jazz, their relationship isn't exactly romantic in my version of the "canon" that Tearshot exists in. They are just friends, but I do like exploring the possibilities of where their relationship could go if it was romantic. I think of them having a sun/moon dynamic ( both in a romantic and platonic way ).

Another character Tearshot has a relationship with is Kup, because they are both family members. Tearshot is Kup's ( insert whatever the equivalent of a grandchild is for Transformers ). Kup is also one of the few who can read Tearshot. They like hearing his war stories.

I don't have any digital drawings of Tearshot because I have been mostly sticking to traditional art. The most I have been doing with digital is coloring a traditional drawing to try and find a color palette for Tearshot. A color that I associate with Tearshot is gray-blue, but other than that, I'm figuring everything else out.

That's about all, thanks for reading!

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[dinotreaded-blog]

“I wonder what it’s like to be a homosexual like Johnny ❣ ”

[insatiablelustforpower]

"ey. missed ya."

“Of course you did. I’d miss me too.”

[ballshot-blog1]

tearshot replied to your post: Thinking it over, Gyro did nothing to fight for...

came for the balls. stayed for my gay awakening.

Along with bad jokes.

[seasaves]

tearshot replied to your post “Oh, who’s this person sending an IM at me..? …Huh? Just a greeting?...”

Watchout for them.

I know. Thank you for the concern.

[jhgksixsichjd]

— Big drawing post & ramble

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Haven't posted in a while because I've been on the crochet grind. Finally finished the composition notebook I've been drawing in. Took me 4 years to fill out under 100 pages, I don't know how either.

Here's all of the drawings I haven't posted!!

I'm just gonna ramble now.

I watched season 1 Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in essentially a day and I really enjoyed it. Like every media I watch, I of course make an OC for it. I have a turtle mutant OC and her name is Phoebe, she's the very secret forgotten youngest turtle sibling who was raised by Baron Draxum. She's a spotted turtle and she just loves swimming. That's all the lore I have for her because I haven't seen season 2 or the movie yet.

I got bored and drew what I thought Optimus' and Tearshot's sparklings would look like because I wanted to see how I could mix their traits together to make new designs. They have no names but I would like to expand on them in the future.

Merformer Tearshot is also something I drew up when I remembered that merformers are a thing in the fandom. I tried to go for a more organic design rather than "Cybertronian who has a mechanical fish tail" because I found it more interesting (also drawing a mechanical fish tail is intimidating and I envy those who do it). Tearshot has an average fish tail, but I do think it would be interesting to base them off of a sea creature. I did draw a dumbo octopus Tearshot, but I didn't think it made sense because they aren't a minibot or small enough to make short little tentacles on them make sense to me.

I was also using pens a lot and experimenting with more color in my art. It quickly faded out and I definitely want to try again with color in my next sketchbook.

That's all I really have to say, I can only hope it doesn't take me another 4 years to fill up my new sketchbook lol

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[wretchedstar]

tearshot replied to your post ““ Four words for a loser like you all——— Santa, is not REAL. ””

Who hurt ya

" Hurt? What do you mean? "

[ballshot-blog1]

g4y

[eraserxhead-blog]

tearshot replied

“Thanks where can I sit.”

         “The ground, because we can’t afford chairs.”

[jhgksixsichjd]

— Sketches and tortillon test

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I bought a tortillon pack from the store and have been trying it out. I really like it and think it could make shading more interesting, but I still really like whatever hatching method I was doing. I've also just been wanting to use more color in general in my art. I used color pencils to try and come up with a color palette for Tearshot, but it was a failure.

Finally got around to drawing a Lamborghini Jalpa ( my Transformers OC's alt-mode ), but it looks kinda weird because of the perspective my reference image was at.

Also found out the meaning behind the numbers and letters on my drawing pencils. It's more so a rough idea, but I think I know.

Close ups ::

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[k-star-holic]

"Memories" BLACKPINK JiSoo, 'Snowdrop' Actors and a Tearshot Certification ..

[virgilantejustice]

The music in the leadup to Virgil's big reveal tho!

I couldn't breathe!!

And the acting! With the tearshot eyes!!

I can't!!

[findingserendiipitii]

the checklist.

describe for me the instance in whichyou knew you were human: the day you learned what hatedoes to a man, what love doesin return. the day you learned that lifeis not equal, that warriors couldturn the tides. the day you bled, shed tearshot and quick, the bandages thatdidn’t quite work. the day you walked out andwere lost, the stranger that pointedyou home. describe for me the instance in…

[full-timefaggot]

Johnny Joestar aesthetic for @tearshot

[enchantehq]

accepted!

welcome, jay ! odette rousseau is expected at l’académie bonaccord for the upcoming school year. madelyn cline is now taken.

madelyn cline / cisfemale / she-her ┆ there’s that PUREBLOOD, ODETTE ROUSSEAU. i hear the BEAUXBATONS alum is TWENTY-ONE and in their THIRD year studying WIZARDING LAW AND DIPLOMACY at bonaccord. honestly, i’m surprised they managed to make it this far. i always thought they were INSECURE and CYNICAL, but apparently they’re also LOYAL and ALTRUISTIC. they always reminded me of ink splotches and teardrops scattered across unsent soulful letters, cigarettes lightly dangling between two perfectly manicured nails, flirty smiles exchanged between shots, the glory of secretive giggling after mischief is managed, warm hugs on a rainy miserable night, tearshot eyes rimmed with black mascara. ┆ ooc: jay, 21+, est, she/her.