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Murder Is A Money Game Concept Art/ Character Masterpost (Up To Ch. 13)

Hi There! It's me, the author of Murder Is A Money Game on AO3. There's a lot of characters, but thank Primus, my wonderful Co-Author/Writer/Generally Insane Auteur, @f1shbowl. There's no words to describe the perfection of the art, but hopefully over the past like 2 months of the fic you've seen my incoherent screams of love 🤗

So, I decided to make a bit of a Major character and Concept art Masterpost, with a few little drawn scenes in between, because all of it is Peak. So, Onto the beautiful art!!! Characters will be here in order of appearance <3

First: A Scene.

The opening scene of a detective fic wouldn't be very good if it wasn't the murder, now would it? Alpha Trion dies, and so a grand plan begins to unfold... You don't get to know who the murderer is yet though...

Next: Prowl's Morning

We open with Prowl on his morning, a wonderful little interaction with his cousin to follow, and soon the rot of murder shall touch him, too. He is a calculating mech, one who would prefer nothing but the cold lines of logic to analyse, but has had to adapt to life with other mechs, like his cousin;

Another: Smokescreen, Prowl's cousin and Business Partner.

Here, he's thinking of Prowl's, well, Habit. You know. He's an obsessive gambler, a concerned family member, and a competent detective, but nothing compared to Prowl

A Scene: Prowl and Smokescreen argue over Union harm statistics and business financials.

I really love this one and the Alpha Trion death, simply perfection and the framing is everything, the two colors the only ones there, RAH. So good.

Here, a mech: The Chief of Enforcers, Ironhide

He's a calm and considering mech, one much like Jack Crawford from Hannibal. He does whatever he can to help the mechs of Iacon city, but he can't do everything, and sometimes he has to turn to previous employees, Prowl and Smokescreen.

Jazz, the musician.

He's a war vet, a competent hacker, and claims to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Is he telling the truth? His friends certainly think so...

Orion Pax: A minor Major Character

He's tired, the death of his archival mentor Alpha Trion and working with his friend D-16 to further the efforts of the Union have taken their toll on his frame, gears grinding as he travels under the city to find its' hidden power. His friend is accused of murdering his mentor, and all the evidence appears to point in that direction too...

Bismuth: A cousin of Prowl and Smokescreen

An OC of @f1shbowl's, this pesky little speedster wants nothing more than to impress Prowl with his work in Ironhide's Enforcers. Maybe his impulsive streak can help him, or will it lead to his downfall?

A Mech of no Renown: Drift

He is known only to Ratchet, the medic in the Kaon region of Iacon City. He comes to the medic's clinic every night with bleeding wounds and a struggling frame, trying to survive on the streets. What is his purpose? Why does Ratchet hide him?

Scene: Jazz sings while Prowl pretends to recharge

Freed from overt custody by Orion's legal prowess, Jazz sings instead of attempting to recharge, not noticing his Temporary Probation Officer Prowl on the other hotel balcony. They talk, and they argue, and they learn about one another. The lights of Iacon reflect their feelings.

A Union Officer: Soundwave

A mech who is both dedicated to the Union, its leader, D-16, and his cassettes, the telepath knows of Prowl's secret. He tries to help Orion with his research, but even with the help of Senator Shockwave, cannot parse the important texts...

Jazz's friend: Blaster

A loyal mech who babies his cassettes Rewind and Eject, he tries to come to Jazz's rescue only to find him supposedly safe. He wants to help wherever he can, but the politics and Rot of Iacon are no place for a musician.

Scene: Jazz Remembers

The war weighs heavy on the helm of the mechs in it, the death of Zeta Prime a secondary concert to a mech who lost half his limbs and his eyesight, hiding his optics from the world once the outside tried to get in. His gaping wounds are barely patched over, and another world tries to peek through.

THATS ALL!!! Ch.13 of Murder Is A Money Game will hopefully have a scene or two that is much more fun to draw, since all this art only goes up to about Ch.8, which makes sense. These past 5 chapters have been real talking heavy, which isn't at all the kind of introspective artsy scenes I love to write, but there's only so much I can do lol. The plot goes on!!

Anyway, once again, humongous thanks to cowriter and artist @f1shbowl, you know the art is peak, I know it, so go show that and follow! Both of us if you feel like it.

Pretty please if you wanna, do join the Murder Is A Money Game Discord Server, just cause we have little fic moment previews, art streams, and you know about the fic updating first.

Thank you so much for looking! Ch.13 WILL BE OUT SOON!!!!!!!

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Wonky doodles of the. Walking challenge.

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Blue Spring Punk

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Idk what I’m doing hahw

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Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

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Sooo- *cough*- tf portal au anyone?? >:]c

[au by ✨⭐️Keferon⭐️✨]

I’d like to thank all involved parties [*pulls out microphone* -“KEF and their army”] for fueling my afternoon, and granting me a reason to use the ominous audio that’s been hiding in my files for literal months 🫶😌

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Jazz: How are your boobs Prowl: They’re okay Jazz: Can I see Prowl: No Jazz: I just wanna make sure they’re okay

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TOMORROW!!

We are less than 24 hours out from the official start of Jazz Week 2025! As always, you are more than welcome to start posting as soon as it's the 20th in your time zone, even if mod eerian hasn't made the daily prompt post yet!

For those of you who are on AO3, we do have a collection and it is open and ready for your fics!

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/JazzWeek2025

Remember, the official tags are #AutobotJazzWeek2025 and #AutobotJazzWeek and we will queue up your creations as we see them to share throughout the week! (Two years ago, the queue ran for two weeks after the event was over! Let's do that again!)

See you tomorrow!

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged it from the energy to do one (1) chore or maybe many

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Jazz is a cutie, but I think I want to redo his design a little. Maybe make him a little pudgy and incorporate his "horns" lol

So the JazzxProwl 2024 anniversary challenge is currently going on! Lasts until 10/06 11:59om CST!

We have a list of song lyrics as the main themes and some additional subjects as extra.

The song themes are:

1. I write sins not tragedies.

2. Gimme fuel, gimme fire. Gimme that which I desire.

3. I walk a lonely road. The only one that I have ever known.

4. Welcome to the Jungle

The additional themes are:

1. Humanization

2. Gender Swap

3. Beastformers / Anthropomorphic

4. Mirror Mirror

5. Musical (yes as in a musical movie or play)

6. Age of Mythology (ANY mythology)

7. Fairy Tales Multiverse of Madness (as in TFA Prowl meeting Bay Jazz or something like that).

This is hosted by ZombieProwl! You can join their discord for more details about the event. https://discord.gg/kx4VunNMk3

So my brain went wild and I'm working on a humanformers Au (not something I thought I would EVER do but, I'm honestly having fun!) with demons and warlocks! These are NOT my entry pieces but I wanted to make ref sheets so I don't fumble my way through the piece I have planned (I'd like to write a fic to go along with it)! So I introduce my demon!Prowl and warlock!Jazz!!!

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I oughta work on my human warlock!Jazz/demon!Prowl au again one of these days... I should reblog their concept art :3

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The aftermath :)

+ wonky bonus doodles

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portal au jp kiss 👉👈🥺?

Bold of you to assume I still remember how to draw kisses. Tactical hair placement no jutsu!

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I have created something evil :)

Portal AU Jazzprowl angst because why not~

In case anyone missed the context

Me rambling about the code under the cut

DAMN OKAY STORYTIME

So I decided to draw the shutdown scene and I was like okaaaay I need some more-or-less realistically looking code. Naturally I went to look for references and realised I can’t use any of them because I don’t understand anything.

Then. Instead of just. You know. Drawing some vaguely similar abstract lines and calling them code. I went to my friend who knows how to code and asked him for literally juuuust a bunch of cool looking lines. But he got excited and summoned another code-man and together they wrote this freaking fanfic of a code

I. Then. Proceeded to have a lovely thirty minutes of my friend explaining every part of this beautiful monstrosity to me so I could properly understand what is going on in this thing. Which was. My brain was TRYING hahah.

Anyway. I know that colors on those words aren’t realistic. I know. I changed them specifically to help other people understand wtf is going on without getting the same 30min education. All the real cool programmers feel free to laugh at me lol