Toasty Ghosty

A soup of junk data preserved in all its triteness I make art and shitposts a lot

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A few months ago I binged through Spawn The Animated Series and fell in love with the character. Despite what he’s become now with Todd McFarlane essentially running the character into the ground, I love the early days of Spawn. So I grabbed a figure, but the articulation sucked and he wasn’t in scale with any 6 inch stuff. So with all of that, I planned on tossing him, but after finding a Killmonger figure that I also planned on giving the boot to I thought, “hey what if I used both to make an actually good Spawn figure.” So I did, after several months of work, I give you, Spawn.

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‼️🚨GENERAL RAINMAKER HEAD CANONS 🚨‼️

Name: Acid Storm

Identity: GenderFae (She/They)

Career: Captain of the Rainmakers squadron under Starscream Seeker legion as well as being a chemist. Their claim to fame being the creator of the Rainmaker’s chemical weapons that would give them their squadron name.

Personality: Self centered and extremely lost within their own world, taking pride in both their work and appearance. Her ADHD makes her pretty easily off task, causing her to have to be guided back in the right direction by Nova Storm.

Relationship Status: Single but has made hints towards Nova Storm

Name: Nova Storm

Identity: Genderfluid (He/She)

Career: Unofficial second in command of the Rainmakers and the Deceptacon’s resident Geologist. He’s able to absorb beam attacks with his special plating and is able to hold onto the heat or discharge it in a heat blast. If he doesn’t discharge it at some point though he risks overheating and risks self destruction.

Personality: Quick tempered but considers himself to be the major brains of the squad. A philosopher of the relationship between lifeforms and the planets they inhabit. Often clashes with Acid Storm as while she’s the leader, he believes that she needs him as her guidance, pulling her back on track if she’s off task.

Relationship Status: Single but hasn’t taken the hints from Acid Storm

Name: Ion Storm

Identity: Cisgender (He/Him)

Career: The last member of the Rainmakers Squadron and a meteorologist who works to analyze the best conditions for potential tactical advantages. His ability is that of using his overcharged spark to conduct electricity during storms, controlling the weather. He’s also able to overcharge the sparks of others on up close contact, but he prefers keeping his distance as he’s a bit of a coward.

Personality: The younger unstable brother of Thundercracker. His spark was malformed and accidentally undertook more energy than the average new-forged. Causing him to be labeled unstable for standardized combat. However, with heavy persuasion from Thundercracker, he was put into the Rainmakers squadron. He’s primarily a quiet guy usually being there for others and showing up but not saying much in the process. He carries a lot of self doubt in himself due to him only often being confused for his more famous brother.

Relationship Status: None, Aroace

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‼️🚨 ACID STORM HEAD CANONS 🚨‼️

Okay so with the Rainmakers essentially being blank canvases of characters I thought “hey what if I turned them into actual characters with personalities and LORE.” So starting this with objectively the most popular one, Acid Storm.

Acid Storm in my perspective is a chemist and understudy of Shockwave, not official understudy but they watch them from afar and take note. However instead of experimenting on their fellow bot they instead focused inward, experimenting on well… themselves. With a love for chemistry she began to alter biology to see if she could make herself into a biological weapon for the decepticons to help gain recognition by many of the higher commanding officers. She eventually was able to convert the energon in her blood into an acidic substance that could be used to melt through Cybertronian flesh.

Due to this, her body is constantly bubbling and melting, leading her to have to take transfusions constantly to keep her from turning into a puddle of green goo. This….biological enhancement? Unfortunately did not give her the attention she wanted, good attention at least, Star Scream as well as the rest of the seekers were utterly horrified by what they turned themselves into. This fear of possibly being liable for the damage they’d bring if brought to fly amongst his ranks, Star Scream gave them their own squadron to command, the Rainmakers. While Acid Storm was ecstatic of the news, Star Scream really only created the unit as a suicide squadron of malfunctioning or damaged seekers at risk of being a danger to themselves or others around them.

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It always made me sad to see how little love the Rainmakers get, their characters as concepts genuinely rule and yet they get nothing. A group of seekers with their own absurd abilities based on separate formations of cosmic factors??? How the fuck is that not cool as hell? There’s so many characters who have gotten overhauled into more interesting versions of themselves and people love them! Like Barricade or Lockdown, I feel like they deserve the same or at least similar treatment and if I have to make that happen so be it

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took them with me on my trip to Italy

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I made a customized version of Fugo from Purple Haze Feedback. I always liked when artists in fanart gave him the scars he gains in the novel as he literally cracked a chemical weapon in his mouth. The process of making the scars was pretty simple using a soldering iron to burn and carefully push around the plastic to give it that scarred appearance. The painting stage was more tricky, I had to look up actual burn scars and using them as reference (thank goodness I had safe search on) but while not perfect I think it turned out.

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V2 is an allegory for Jesus Christ in Ultrakill and I’m not joking.

I know that it sounds odd but I have some ideas that kinda back this up. In her first boss fight you have to gain 3 skulls to open the door, these could represent the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All of which in Ultrakill, are gone, the Father (God) is dead, the son (Jesus) never came, and the Spirit has virtually died out.

V2 was created as a protector of mankind and a representation on the reformed good that can come from humanity. Her name spelt in Roman Numerals is VII or “7” seven being the holy number while V1’s name is spelt out as VI or “6.” V2 represents the Christ and V1 represents the Anti-Christ, at least maybe in her eyes. She hunts down V1 for his actions but still does so with respect, bowing because they are equals with an inverse in purpose. She also flees and returns later, dying whilst trying to destroy humanity’s final sin.

To be fair though, I don’t think she IS a saint, but more a criticism on the idea of a savior mindset. She along with Gabriel portray a false sense of divinity and perfection when in reality they are no better than their own foes. V2 steals the arm off another machine to save herself, she tries to escape with her life twice, she gets enraged, etc. She’s a lying saint, a machine who’s lost her purpose desperately clinging to the idea she’s more than what she was said to be made for.

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Okay, genuine lore question, why is V2 bigger than V1?

I’ve always found it kinda odd that she’s bigger and if she’s bigger than good Lord how big is the KnuckleBlaster???

If I had to guess lore wise, I’d say it’s for something along the lines of cheapness. V1 was a prototype, V2 was meant as the first standard issue model that doesn’t rely on vampire plating. So it can’t regain health like V1 can, but it needed to be both strong and have enough energy to maintain operations. I think that because of these things she was made bigger to allow for stronger plating of armor and to allow a larger blood storage system.

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ScreenShitting this so I can talk about it bc I can’t reblog comments. I absolutely love this expansion of this comment. So I’m going to further add on how this could hypothetically work.

V2 cannot be reconstructed by the new enemy in Fraud because it’s a reference to the meme. But taking this idea and running with it, she can’t be reconstructed because it’s the remains of her husk, if she became a prime soul after destruction then her soul would be separated from her body. The body isn’t what is revived by the enemy, it’s its soul, its blood. This is even seen as MACHINES THEMSELVES can be revived by the enemies, suggesting they do indeed have some semblance of a soul. Their soul and blood remains within the body, V2’s would not for she would have her body destroyed and her soul would carry on to a greater form.

Continuing this idea, that’s why Hakita said she was dead, her body, the machine, the corpse of V2, is dead. King Minos and Sisyphus are both declared dead while having prime souls, they’re their souls, it doesn’t mean they are in fact alive or “living.”

V2 is the test of your growth throughout the game, the literal reflection of you, V1. The Prime Sanctums, are only able to be completed by your skill as a player, and what would be the best and final test than the enraged echo of yourself. Two souls, both of extreme willpower, trying to overcome the other. I feel like it’d be the utter chef’s kiss of V2’s story, and it’s not like it’d interfere with the rest of the game. I’m not saying she should be main story, but more like, a final test of the player that says “hey, good on you :>”



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fugo, to me, is the world's number one music freak, and so is trish. that's why araki had to cut her out if she stayed her and trish would have gotten a psychic mind link due to music autism and their swag would've been too auraful and he had to make fugo leave to prevent it

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I don’t think this should be in the game more like an AU situation but I just thought about this as I don’t see anyone who’s brought it up before.

V2 dies in Act II yes yes haha funny “reconstruct what?” Wow this joke hasn’t been more dead than V2 herself for years, right?

So V2 dies, however, what if IN A WAY she was resurrected. While this is a stretch I think it could be an interesting idea. The Gutterman’s poem suggests that they have been able to live on their own without the need of the coffin on its back. Suggesting that Hell itself has been able to provide energy to them the same is with the Earth Movers. Hell also can be attributed to allowing free consciousness with the energy it provides, consciousness could be stretched and or strengthened into a soul. Almost every enemy in game can become enraged, including machines, like V2.

How do prime souls form? From the strength of the soul and its willpower to survive. What if after V1 left Greed, V2 after gaining a soul from Hell’s energy conjured so much hatred from losing to V1 twice over that it was able to form a prime soul. As for its husk, there wouldn’t be one as she was completely destroyed.

Maybe she’d try to get to V1 but get trapped in Fraud or something. I know that this is a stretch and nor do I think it really could be possible but hey, neat idea right?

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game theory/ headcanon

I like to think that Power(s?) in Ultrakill are extremely young to the point of literally being warriors in training. But due to the severity of everything that happened during Act II heaven was desperate enough to send them to search for Gabriel. Hence why they call out their weapons when summoning them, they’re still practicing how to do it on their own. This is why Gabriel DOESNT call out his attacks/ weapons since he’s a pro.

Mama is unfortunately sulking her pain with her fourth bottle of wine, to help her kids with summoning practice.

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she +disrespect on dat knuckle till I blaster, +groovy

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Look at this, the nature of the modern angel is truly PATHETIC. Compare it to this SUPREME MACHINE, they are out CLASSED. She may have died but died with confidence, she doth not bear the Disney Knees of Gabriel. She has ZERO cock shame but rather, pussy outstretched into the depths of Greed, because she KNOWS you’re feeling jealousy at the thought you could never be her. Know your place, you gold plated hoe.

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tsk tsk tsk, don’t you SEE? She DID die with confidence because she was CONFIDENT she could get away

But yes her sibling is great too, they’re both girlbosses

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Look at this, the nature of the modern angel is truly PATHETIC. Compare it to this SUPREME MACHINE, they are out CLASSED. She may have died but died with confidence, she doth not bear the Disney Knees of Gabriel. She has ZERO cock shame but rather, pussy outstretched into the depths of Greed, because she KNOWS you’re feeling jealousy at the thought you could never be her. Know your place, you gold plated hoe.

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do i need to post the blood pool image

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Listen, my statement holds true even after death, bc she still has her legs spread with confidence

As in literally, chunks of her legs are scattered everywhere as well as the rest of her

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I think that 2001 RiD SideBurn would actively attend multiple car shows in alt-mode and just salivate over every car there till Prowl had to check on him over one of those FaceTime chats they do.

Also after dark he definitely flirts with every car there and sobs when none of them respond.

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Look at this, the nature of the modern angel is truly PATHETIC. Compare it to this SUPREME MACHINE, they are out CLASSED. She may have died but died with confidence, she doth not bear the Disney Knees of Gabriel. She has ZERO cock shame but rather, pussy outstretched into the depths of Greed, because she KNOWS you’re feeling jealousy at the thought you could never be her. Know your place, you gold plated hoe.