#tfp MECH

[tfp-is-my-lifeblood-lol]

I saw a Youtube comment talking about how, in the episode "Crosscross," Silas was able to track Jack's location and personal info via social media, so why didn't the Decepticons just do THAT all this time, so they could track the humans/Autobot base?

Then all the commenters agreed that it's because the CAPTCHA "I am not a robot" thing actually works on Decepticons, because they are, in fact robots.

I love this and it shall now be my crack headcanon.

(In all seriousness, I actually don't think it's a plot hole. I think it's a great example of the Decepticons' characterization.

The real reason Decepticons never tried social media tracking is because they're too proud to use human technology. To them, it's considered "inferior."

I'm fascinated by the idea that, if they hadn't underestimated human technology, they could have found all these Autobot secrets, like the location of their base and humans, EASILY. But they never bothered, because "oh, that's worthless human tech."

Keep in mind, in one episode, Starscream actually did explore the human internet, and almost located Bumblebee that way, but the others made fun of him for it (the tap-dancing monkey incident) so we can see they don't respect it enough to give it their time.

It also kinda shows how MECH, to some extent, has an advantage against the Autobots because they're all humans, and are therefore better aquatinted with Earth. Even Airachnid didn't realize social media would be a useful weapon until Silas explained it to her. The Decepticons are obviously more powerful since they're giant aliens, but MECH uses their humanity and Earth knowledge as their greatest strength. It's kinda neat.

[dat-lil-shark]

Very funny that the evil human organization in TFP is called M.E.C.H when it’s given that, in universe, “mech” also apply to a transformers with male characteristics.

Imagine landing in an alien planet of little frog pixies, and a group of them is hunting you down to dissect and deform you. And what is this group called?

“The Boys.”

[asimp4bee]

I feel legally required to request Mea punching Silas in the face

-🔬, rewatching Prime S2

Fowler calling Mea in for backup ❗❗

[dragqueenstarscream]

I was thinking about this artist who made fan art of MECH thirsting after Starscream. Now I'm imagining naughty things they could potentially do to Starscream and I want to share it with you. 🥴

With the power of friendship they could use some heavy weight wires to tie that twink down and do whateeeeeeever they want to him.

Starscream just has to lay there as multiple humans tease and stimulate him in every way possible. Some are biting his neck wires, others are climbing under his plating to play with his circuits, and most are at his valve and spike going to town. When multiple hours have passed already and Starscream is crying a mess with a vocalizer with so much static you can barely understand him he only shouts out various begging and pleads. He's not sure what he's even begging for but he desperately wants it and by ao3 is MECH going to give it to him.

In conclusion:

I don't like MECH in smexy context with Starscream but the PARASITES in me want to like MECH in smexy context with Starscream. I don't want to think about MECH in smexy context with Starscream I don't like MECH in smexy context with Starscream but the PARASITE- the DEMON in me wants MECH in smexy context with Starscream.

is it bad that i read "fan art of mech thirsting after starscream" and i knew exactly which fanart you were talking about? idk what that says about me lmao

it's kinda crazy how i haven't seen any ideas surrounding this premise (outside of this ask anyway) when we know full well what mech does to cybertronians. they captured breakdown to experiment on him, so i can see this being given a sexy twist.

maybe silas decides to try and subdue starscream to experiment on him, but an accidental discovery of how sensitive starscream can be leads to him taking his experiment in a different direction. cue mech working to find which spots turn starscream on the most, under the guise of studying cybertronian biology, all while starscream's begging for them to either have mercy on him or just let him overload already, primus damn it!

[transformers-spike]

The tender Silas idea…. yes. I agree.

(Ignore my stupid name I cant send gifs from my side blog)

Oh my god thank you I'm so happy I can info dump about this bitch without getting shot. I may not have the energy to write a whole dissertation on the bitch (i have -20 energy at this point), so have screenshots from my convo with @drunkeninlovesailor (mostly her stuff because I like the way she explains it)

[yume-writes]

MCB x TFP crossover

I want Dexter to meet MECH so badly!! Mostly because he was distrustful of humans to the point of being hostile towards them and I think it would be fun to see how that becomes even worse because of MECH

It would be so much harder to get Dexter on Jun's side because of this. I think even after he gets sealed he won't be so easily accepting of it. Just imagine Jun being like, "Not all humans are bad!" And Dexter just gives him a glare like "Really? We're just forgetting about MECH? The humans who tortured me?" Jun just is like, "W-Well, not all are bad.."

I just think it would be something

[rosaharazu]

*GASPS*

Is it really normal for Transformers Prime to get my jaw dropped with the most subversive turn of events?

Cue : Episode 4 of Season 2

Oh look, Bee found the thing! Already?

Oh yeah, the Decepticons shoot him- NO MY LITTLE BEE!!

Me : Sees the MECH guys.

*JAW DROPS*

THAT'S EVEN WORSE

[cherryplasmids]

starscream also has a laundry list of fucked up shit he’s done, but to me his embarrassments trump all that—like the time he got his tcog stolen after getting jumped by HUMANS

[ultra-phthalo]

Energon splatter practice.

[whatudottu]

Something about Altered Loyalties CYLAS just really makes me want to include him in the first place but also makes me really really REALLY think that with the more supernatural elements of AL based off of the original TFP pilot (or just first episode/s?) that CYLAS as a ‘dead man walking’ would actually let him stay around longer AND also be a very significant contributing factor to Megatron’s downfall in Decepticon favour!

Of course it’s not as if I have the pieces of the TFP rewrite au firmly put into place, CYLAS in canon shows up just over halfway into season 2, and many of my most established changes occur in the first like… including all the parts of ‘Darkness Rising’ 8 episodes of season one; I have no idea if the environment CYLAS presents himself in is the same one canon CYLAS does.

But with the dubiousity between s1 e8 all the way to s2 e19, I’ll establish the basic context… I think in story mode maybe…

Looking at the general timeline for the Aligned Continuity, it says that the first contact of cybertronians on Earth is dated to about 500 years before the show, give or take a decade. I’ve been listing Skyquake’s little EHP pitstop to have existed at least 50 years before the war reached our planet, but what if I pushed it all the way back to 500; if a vorn is 83 years, that’d be about 6 years on an entirely different planet not knowing truly if your twin is going to make it, a planet which by the way presently has no established radio systems that it’s horrifically quiet for a terrestrial environment.

That means that Skyquake’s EHP Comms Array has been transmitting a signal long before humans had developed radio, which also means that what might’ve been blatantly an anomaly in the system if discovered 50 odd years previous to 2012 (which would’ve been in the 60s give or take which would not have been good in the literal middle of the cold war era) has been going for centuries because it had always been there, there is no anomaly because it is a signal that has existed ever since humans were able to manipulate radiowaves into sending messages and translate them into detectable noise. It helps that cybertronian language and code (both code lang and like literal programming code) is a system unknown to humans developing their own language.

And you may be asking, why did I divert this post from talking about CYLAS and how he’d outlast his canon alternate to radio shit? Well, if you were a paramilitary organisation who is pretty good at erasing signals and you discovered a signal that has been actively running for the entirety of human radio has suddenly been silenced, what would you begin to suspect at that?

Aliens may potentially be a stretch but MECH didn’t just name themselves after the cybertronians fighting war on their planet, and once the cybertronian conflict touched down on Earth, the Decepticons hadn’t a need for an intergalactic communications array and in fact was specifically instructed to switch it off in an effort to prevent the Autobots from using it. That would’ve been about maybe 6 years ago for the show (wow just enough equivalent time to match what Skyquake felt he spent grounded to one radio tower look at that) and though MECH would not encounter their first cybertronian until ‘Convoy’ (haha wait that’s s1 e9 the next ep to cover - if necessary - for Altered Loyalties lmao), they would’ve had 6 years to find that missing signal and stumble across some very definitely alien technology.

That is one of the reasons why the rewrite of ‘Masters and Students’ which is less masters and students focused - rather the point is Skyquake, a team of Nemesis stationed vehcions and Starscream investigate the comms array and set it up manually - why the radio tower wasn’t switching on from a remote position.

The other reason was because the Guardian unit stationed at the comms array - the very ones that had accompanied Skyquake all those stellar cycles ago - had gone missing. Why?

Because of Megatron’s flagrant use of Dark Energon.

Points 1 and 2 listed above leads to the explosion of the comms array, the death of Skyquake, and MECH either being alerted to the point of alien contact or just in general going to the site for more study only to find a dead specimen. After the discovery of the Autobots with the body of Skyquake, MECH begins their initial study and dissection of cybertronian physiology, though without a live subject they couldn’t exactly see what parts function in what way, especially the t-cog.

The discovery of Skyquake led to the discovery of terrorcons which lead to the discovery of how to take down a cybertron and how to take it apart without it screaming. MECH would learn the programming of a cybertronian through vehicon terrorcons since, even with DE corruption, their processors are still somewhat being maintained. While probably not able to access memories (they are fickle things, memory centres, easy to damage storage or to corrupt files) there are still systems responsible for pain and other more processor based responsibilities that aren’t centred in a physical organ that reads in fine print it’s function.

Breakdown being MECH’s first fully functional living mecha for their study is so exciting for them (even if Breakdown is very much less enthused) because they can put what knowledge they’ve pieced together to be far more efficient with their time and focus on the elements they could not decipher from either corpse or zombie and potentially try and prod at Breakdown’s brain for some cohesive coding. Good think Bulkhead still shows up when he does even with Breakdown walking away with the dreadful thought of ‘how the hell do these fleshies already know so much’ boring into his head… mainly through the optic that was still drilled out-

Whether or not MECH needs to get another living cybertronian to get caught up in their understanding of the biomechanics of them (aka would 'Operation: Bumblebee' take place as it does) or they skip right onto making a remote control Prime having gotten a headstart on their knowledge and scaring the scrap out of any bot unlucky enough to be unconscious around them, eventually Silas gets smooshed and MECH scientists are reliant on their alien dissections to get the human puree back to the land of the living.

I'd assume that this was the case in the original since if Silas' biomatter was able to be collected from a pile of robot drone induced rubble the RC truck would've been able to be recovered as well, but MECH discovers that using Nemesis Prime as a lifesupport system does not work given all it's functionality is focused on visually replicating another cybertronian, rather than using it to create life. There's a lot of parts and systems to a cybertronian's biological ecology that wasn't put into consideration for a mimic toy that prove detrimental to creating a suitable ah... skin suit essentially for Silas' blood pudding, but MECH has an abundance of corpses ready and raring to be used just so long as they piece them back together again.

Amid MECH's collection would no doubt be a mass of vehicon bodies - some untouched by energon others taken down explicitly by MECH because they were terrorcons - some terrorcons made up from the bodies of the previous conflict pre-show (and not just a hypothetical ancient war, but explicitly the conflict that culled a lot of Autobot and Decepticon officers amid the show expected vehicon death), and the very first cybertronian sample they started studying, Skyquake himself! Being at the origin of the blast at the EHP Comms Array he wasn't kept in perfect condition for one, the arm he loses as a terrorcon in the Shadowzone is still lost - it's been buried under rubble after being severed with radio tower pieces - and the monochromatic glass over his optics has long since been shattered so you can see the 'pupil' aka sensor, but seeing as how CYLAS makes Breakdown's corpse somehow look worse than what Airachnid left it as MECH probably has to suture that fucker back up because there's not way his organs have been left untouched!

And once CYLAS has been successfully integrated into his new cybertronian shell (some sort of arm, either being a loaner from another corpse or straight up just one MECH invented, it could even be a copy of the missing arm but where's the fun in that) instead of getting all high and mighty about 'being of a superior species' Silas actually bloody thinks on MECH's plans going forward. With a literal army of paramilitary personnel, from the scientists that melded human flesh with cybertronian wires to the average grunt soldier fighting between the battles of iron giants, CYLAS has something that Megatron (at least the Altered Loyalties Megatron I have written previously) has wanted from the start of the series...

An undying force.

For as large as cybertronians physically are their numbers can never match the scale of humanity, I can't remember if the books mentioned only thousands of the dead or up to a million over the course of like... a long fucking time but, that's not even the number of the human population if you're caught up with the number (nearly 8 billion alive today). And with the dead of previous battles already roaming the Earth, in a world where Megatron still being only like one dude can't command a planet wide population of zombies, the only reason he doesn't turn his blade to the weakest denominators of his forces in his plagued state is because their conscious decision to serve him is worth more than mindless servitude.

CYLAS introducing himself and MECH as a solution to this issue, and providing a show of bountiful body horror, makes not even the Decepticon high command quite as safe as they had been; not that it's been proven to be safe standing by Megatron's side given his track record of wanting his SiCs beaten or killed but...

The fact that CYLAS just so happened to have given and then promptly brutalised Dreadwing's hope that Skyquake may have been actually alive, just severely damaged (and, bond weakened from distance and prior injury, clinging to the last shreds of 'my spark didn't kill me with him' reasoning) and broke him out of the spell of blind loyalty to his once great leader.

CYLAS in this version has a little bit more longevity to his existence within the Decepticon forces, not actually a Decepticon soldier as the canon CYLAS pledged himself as but 'The Human Factor' the episode so calls itself akin to the way the American government and the human children are to the Autobots, but being able to physically go toe-to-toe with cybertronians. Megatron might be a little tired of dealing with independents after Airachnid's escapade (I do intend to make her more into a poacher/torturer type character than another Starscream so she might act out a little differently), but Silas isn't one for licking boots anytime soon and as CYLAS, Megatron is no different; you'd think he wouldn't have even done that in the first place given he's already an ex-military 'take-no-nonsense' bitch, but the Breakdown in him probably made him a lapdog...

Anyway that's a whole big post about Altered Loyalties CYLAS... or at least the in depth reasoning behind why he could still integrate himself into the story and why he'd probably have more opportunity to lasting- i prommy it's not bc i like torturing skyquake likers *wink*

I guess this is now a canon event or at least I'll try to make it canon ;)

[sigh-artist]

Do anyone wanna a talk about M.E.C.H ocs? Or humanformers concepts? 18+ plus please, even if they aren’t necessarily nsfw, i would not force that topic on anyone, I would just feel more comfortable talking to another adult. In messages or ask , please be nice and be weary I’m anxious.

[tfp-is-my-lifeblood-lol]

Reasons Why I Think TFP Jack is Underrated:

Welcome to my organized bullet list of why I think Jack is cool. I used to think he was boring too, but now I think he's the goat and here's why:

-He has Main Character Energy, but he's more snarky than most cliche main characters

In fact, he is a petty king:

-He doesn't wanna be on Team Prime at first, but eventually accepts it...

...He then proceeds to BURN Airachnid's ship to the GROUND with a stupid survival kit for babies

-HE DEFEATED THE ALIEN SPIDER QUEEN WITH NOTHING BUT A LIGHTER AND A POCKET KNIFE, BRO

-HE WAS DONE WITH HER BULLSHIT LOL

-Plus he tricked Silas by pretending to beg for mercy, when really, he was stealing his walkie talkie.

-Jack is boring, BUT the fact that Jack has nothing special about him IS his superpower; Miko has the Apex Armor and her brave personality, Raf has genius level computer smarts, and Jack has PURE SPITE. It's beautiful.

-He has zero skills, but he'll figure out how to defeat his enemies anyway, SOLEY because he's tired and doesn't get paid enough for this shit.

-For example, in one of the Titan Magazine comics, Jack literally kicks Silus in the balls

Evidence:

Iconic✨

Apex armor? Cybertronian technology?

Screw that. How about I KICK you in the balls?l

-A true legend

-He's also a mess though, and I relate so hard

-He's so petty he talked two aliens into helping him cheat at street racing to piss off his classmate

-His romantic subplot is treated like a complete joke, and I love that. Normally, the Main Character✨ is awkward, but gets the girl in the end. Not Jack, though. Nope. He just constantly looks stupid in front of Sierra, nothing ever happens between them, and Arcee is just watching with popcorn as his life falls apart. It's hilarious.

Also, if I'm correct, isn't the last time we see Sierra when she sees Arcee's homoform, and thinks Jack has a girlfriend, and then Jack is like "She's my mom😅." And Sierra's all like: "Your mom looks good in leather😐...on your bike😐😐😐😐..." Maybe I'm wrong, but if that's the case, it's funny. Jack is a simp and it gets him nowhere.

-His sarcasm works perfectly with Arcee's sarcastic attitude.

-Also Tailgate is voiced by Josh Keaton (Jack's voice actor) in the flashbacks, so I headcanon that Jack reminds Arcee of Tailgate, and that's why she has such a soft spot for him.

Tailgate and Arcee's dialogue had the same vibe as her and Jack's

Also, it gives more context to why she was so scared to lose him when Airachnid showed up. It would've literally been like losing Tailgate all over again.

-Jack is Team Prime's designated Good Ideas Guy

It was Jack's idea to hijack the spacebridge to send him to Cybertron

It was also his idea to drain the dark energon out of The Nemesis when it came alive and froze everyone

-I'm probably just projecting, he has generalized anxiety disorder vibes

-I feel like he prefers a comfortable, predictable life because he gets nervous easily

-He's always the first to freak out, and overthink, and Arcee always has to calm him down

-And she's so patient with him it's so sweet😱

-I agree the writing behind his existence is meh, and a lot of the cool stuff about him is probably unintentional, but I don't care, so take that!

Anyway, the moral of the story is:

Jack is just an angry little harmonica boy. Leave him alone. He's trying his best😭

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

[dat-lil-shark]

MORE PIXIE AUS CHARACTERS

MORE CHARACTER DESIGNS FOR THE PIXIE AU DROPPED!

It seemed like a lot of you guys are liking it so far!

And if you are wondering what the Pixie AU is, it is basically a (mainly Tfp centered) AU of mine where all the Transformers characters are now humans, and now all the canon humans characters are pixies! SO that most of the plots can stay the Transformer/human relationships can stay the same!

Optimus Prime

Ratchet

Silas and the Mech

And enjoy Pixie Raf working hard to hack the Decepticons

[dailymothanon]

Listen I had a vision of Prime Soundwave but More bat. So I wanted to see if I could do that… and while I was at it I wanted to try doing some G1 sprinkles in there and it ended up as this whole thang… plus Ravage and Laserbeak are included! I wasn’t sure if I wanted to add visible speakers somewhere (like maybe on the wings or smth), I also added some ES in there (still figuring out the colors of his head) BUT I’m very happy about this 😌

Bonus this sketch I did in reference of a bat, I also imagine his pedes and hands are (controllably) magnetic (which very much helps for spying missions) as well as sound absorbent/dampeners; also yes I made it so his horn things can move like bat ears because I wanted to.. and there is also some reference towards IDW but mostly just the horn shape (and yes Ravage does now have spikes just cuz)

Do I have reasons why Bat Soundwave? Yes… laserbeak on his chest like baby bats clinging to their parents even in flying, simply the arm shapes, the long bat ear looking horns, the funky legs he has, his sonic/ultrasonic abilities (bats are ultrasonic, both in chirping and in hearing), having wings, being dark in color… yes… batwave

[chamom1le-t3a]

nahhg im so unfynny 💔 bug anyway opritach animation 🙏

[yume-writes]

HIII YUME!!! its me "OP and Blue bond" anon here. For simplicity sake, call me Shrimp! 🦐 ill leave my asks with the shrimp emoji hahaha, the whole title felt to long. But I'm back for you!

(im supposed to be developing my own TF continuity but here I am)

more MCB x TFP yay!!!

I saw your Cardbot x MECH post and like damm... good Blue Cop angst (thank you for feeding me)

More in-depth for the angst. Silas and his team captures blue cop and straps him down to large berth/table. Id say they take his are as Blue cop's weapon is a big gauntlet and they take it apart to see if by using their own mechanics, they can replicas on how the weapon appears. They would take him apart and put him back to gather while he still alive and aware, feeling all that pain. They'd do it over and over again. Silas would realises that Blue run on energy and pump him full of energy to either stun, temp paralyse or keep him charged up. And it messes with Blues systems, overdosing and making him feel light headed and fuzzy. Makes him super docile and everything. Silas would still want to use Blue so he does something like pacific rim and connects himself to Blue, smth similar to what the metal breath can do. They are mentally linked. Blue hates that someone else is in his head. The team would rescue him eventually but Blue would suffer from Glitches (overcharged), Phantom pains, charging disorder? scared to fuel anymore. A lot more pain for the after er math and everything but I can't really think much about it for now. Breakdown and Blue Cop would find solace in each other after their own incident. Thats it for now!! Shrimp out -🦐

MCB x TFP crossover

Hello Shrimp!!! It's always a pleasure to see you again!!

And once again Blue Cop is next on the chopping block, poor guy

But just think about the amount of terror Blue Cop would be feeling. Whenever the cons hold one of them hostage they just have to find the Nemesis, which is difficult but it's still a giant alien ship. But MECH is a different story. This is their world, they know the best places to hide, places where it would take the bots months to find them. And they know how to hide their tracks, they aren't as strong as the cons so they're more cautious, they have multiple hideouts and bases

On top of that, they aren't taking any chances with Blue Cop, they don't want a repeat of the Breakdown situation. Anything they think the bots can use to track Blue Cop has been destroyed or blocked. Blue Cop is chained down to the table extremely well, he can't even move a digit. And in order to make Blue Cop cooperate, they threaten Jun. They don't have him, but they tell in detail what they can do to him if Blue Cop doesn't do what they ask. This is how they get Blue Cop to reveal his gauntlet

The gauntlet is ripped from his servo and they get to work taking it apart and seeing how it works. Blue Cop, at first, thinks that's all they wanted. He's never had to face humans like MECH before so he doesn't know what's in store for him. When they turn their attention to Blue Cop, he realizes what's going to happen and starts to struggle. Of course, this is useless

If I remember correctly, MECH could, for some reason, turn off Breakdown's pain receptors. This was done so he wouldn't struggle, but they can't do that with Blue Cop. They do try, but eventually give up and get to work. As they take him apart Blue Cop can feel everything. They saw open his chest, and start to tear out his organs. They want to see how he works, they take care of seeing what every organ is and what it could do. They're also looking for similarities between cybertronians and cardbots

He can feel them moving inside him, he hates it. He screams the whole while, struggling and struggling, begging that the bots come. They keep taking out and putting the organs back in, it's torture to the highest degree. Eventually during this they figure out he can take any form of energy. So they drug him, overcharging him with electricity, maybe even energon. His head hurts, it feels like he's trying to wake up, but is so drowsy he can't cross that point. He has stopped screaming by this point, just making small noise here and there

MECH does eventually put Blue Cop back together, and this is when Silas wants to control Blue Cop. He has seen how powerful he is and he wants that power. When they manage to do a mental link between the two, horror fills Blue Cop. A mental link to him is something that gives him strength from his friends, it allows him to get going knowing he isn't alone

This, this is the complete opposite. It's disgusting, a violate. Blue Cop can't even do anything thanks to being overcharged. But this is how the bots find him. Due to the mental link it causes the Metal Breath to freak out, alerting Jun to where Blue Cop is. They get there and stop the mental link, but the damage is done

Blue Cop seems more like a shell of himself now. He mostly stays to himself, refusing anyone to touch him. He doesn't even want to recharge anymore, sometimes it gets so bad Mega Ambler and Ratchet have to force him to unless he starves himself. Sometimes Blue Cop thinks he hears Silas still in his mind, he can't tell if it's true or just paranoia. And one of the worst things is the fact he flinched away from Jun, from any human for that matter

The first time it happened everyone stopped in shock, Jun had a look of hurt on his face and Blue Cop left quickly afterwards. Wild Guardy is the one that stays with Jun for most of the time now, taking Blue Cop's place at least until he's better. Wild Guardy always wanted to be better than Blue Cop, but not like this, never like this. Blue Cop spends a lot of time with Optimus, Mega Ambler, and Ratchet during this time, going through the healing process isn't easy, but one day he'll get there

The next time Blue Cop is out in the field he encounters Breakdown. They're fighting normally before Breakdown asks what's up? Even he can tell Blue Cop is off his game today. Blue Cop, who has been having a terrible day, the memories and phantom pain are haunting more than usual, just breakdowns (hah) Breakdown is extremely confused, but awkwardly goes over to Blue Cop and asks what's wrong. Blue Cop just spills out of everything, he wouldn't do this normally (especially to an enemy) but the day has been too much

Breakdown listens, a bit shocked that Blue Cop went through something similar, and does tell a bit of his own experience. Blue Cop is shocked as well, and the two talk for a bit. Both of them feel a bit better after the talk, knowing that someone knows what they went through. They do go back to their respective teams, but don't really fight each other anymore

Woah, this is dark but I blame MECH for that, you saw what they did to Breakdown's corpse

Anyway! Thank you Shrimp for the amazing ask! I hope you have a wonderful day and I wish you luck on your TF continuity!!