Have any Quintessons (specifically the five faces tentacled ones) ever displayed the ability to transform into an alternate mode like their Cybertronian cousins?
Dear Tentacled Transformer,
I remember when Quintus first showed me his design for the Quintesson Judge. He claimed it had a base mode, with a tower and a holding cage for defendants—but I’ll admit to thinking this seemed something of an afterthought.
To my knowledge, only a select few Quintessons, such as their High Commander, have a vehicle mode of any kind—you see, some of their cruisers and scout ships are in fact alive. And of course, many other natives of Quintessa have beast modes; you’re no doubt familiar with the Sharkticons and Allicons.
To answer your question, then, Quintesson Judges are rarely if ever seen to change forms—but the spinning of their faces is sometimes considered a kind of transformation. From a Cybertronian perspective, this is perhaps the most uncannily alien thing about them.
And tho she be but little (even compared to a normal shark for reference lol), she is fierce. 💅
She has never done anythin’ wrong, ever, in her existence.
We know this, and we love her.
*Gives Shanix*
(Why is Shanix capitalized it’s a currency—)
Somethin’ tells me that some writer 40 years ago had it out for aquatic animals.
Thus, we got squid colonizers (in which one is referrin’ to the Cybertronian they abducted as their “brother”? And not anythin’ more demeanin’? Huh...Interesting…) and their piranha-anglerfish-shark hellhounds.
(And also their non-hybrid alligator bailiffs)
Yes, that’s what we’ve finally concluded after readin’ this issue 3 sparkdamn times, to try and figure out just what the actual frag’s goin’ on here.
‘N nothin’ else. :)
*Awkward silence* :)
*Awkward silence intensifies* :)
God, they really might be basin’ all of their designs + lore off of G1, are they? 🫠
(I’ve read some opinions regardin’ that, and they are understandably not very positive. I get it. G1 is honestly just pure source material, and should only be seen as such, if we’d all like to keep the remainin’ sanity we have left
Therefore, you can interpret whatever the frag happened and the way things worked in it however you’d like, and adapt whatever you like into your own fan continuities. That’s what DWJ’s been doin’, and doin’ good…ish. That matter can be a separate post)
Well, if they really do go through with it, at least they can finally acknowledge (and dare I say address, if they have the page time of course) the one origin for Megatron that I think I can actually get behind so far.
(K*rwa, make this former Pokémon fan look even more like a geewunner, why not? *Bangs head against wall* Why. Fraggin’. Not at this point?)
It’s not like I made an entire scrappy post about it that I deleted later or anythin’.
(Although the points I made in it still stand, no post here is safe 🙂🙃)
✨ Anyway— ✨
Let’s review our notes:
. Megs has a clan, and by clan I think he means his warriors (“You will turn from my enemy…into my kin”), which means he’s been fighting before his abduction, which means that I’m still allowed to hate him yay—
. And his fusion cannon (so we have yet to learn how he acquired it)
. And that cathartic defiance of his that he has in common with Starscream (a major reason why I love ‘em both equally)
(I really need to stop makin’ Megatron centric posts to prove that)
. Oh, he’s a triple changer after all—! 😮
Wait, what is he doin’—? 😶
（・口・）
You guys
That was f**king AWESOME (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
NEW FAVORITE ISSUE I LOVE DRAGONS— *Flashbacks to Beast Hunters* 😍
. Imagine, instead, if he had to start over every time he died, and what I mean by this is that each new part of the trial is the next trial. So if he dies on the 500th trial he has to restart from the 1st trial and fight his way back up
(I think I’ve spent a little too much time with Shockwave—)
. Wow, there really is an evil matrix. Is that how he got all these new powers (e.g. revivin’ Ravage)? 😂
. Yes, this is Hell Megs (don’t ask how Cybertronians know what Hell is)
And in the future you are going to the 9th Circle. We call it Earth ❄️
( 〇□〇）
. Not to rip from that deleted post, but like—
*Pretends to insert Smokey and Craig’s “Dayuuuuuuuum!” cuz of the 10-image-per-post limit*
You guys don’t know how much I’ve wanted a character to talk to Megs like this. About this. In canon
And that character turning out to be a Quintesson is f**cking perfect
(*Gets unapologetically sidetracked* Other than, firstly, Optimus. Or Kiloton. Or Impactor. Or even a human in a scenario where they desperately try to get Megs to understand that he doesn’t have to be a gun à la Iron Giant
Yes, he has a literal gun as his alt mode but that’s not what I mean hear my pretentious ass out—
He doesn’t have to be a literal weapon programmed to serve the misguided or oppressive interests of individuals, who might not even be online at that point in the war—along with Optimus, Elita and Magnus. Oh why link them together, you may ask? Cuz they are all in the same boat!
They tell him that he can be so much more [DEZIMIR SAID THAT BUT IN A DIFF CONTEXT AAAAAAAAAH—], but here’s the twist: Megatron’s happy the way he is, and D-16/Megatronus/whatever his former name was consented [with no room for doubt in his spark] to becoming a tyrant—but they don’t know that, and that’s the point
They will always question whether or not Megatron has free will/agency/an understanding of “right” and “wrong” [they theorize that he’s mentally incompetent, but they can’t check his brain chips cuz ✨ ethics ✨ or somethin’], and he of course goes along with that to avoid facing justice [kinda like Joker’s situation but potentially way more complicated I’m trying my best to explain this lol]
Then the Autobots start questioning themselves and each of their mental states [as like I said, they’re technically all in the same boat] and it all just goes to hell
I want a fanfic of that lmk 😂)
(Secondly, Starscream. He could say all of this to Megs as well, esp during a particularly heated interaction, in order to criticize his poor leadership, but, Star’s unfortunate thing is that while he sometimes does have a point, he goes about his dissatisfaction/frustration in such a disastrous way, as to result in his words fallin’ on damaged auditory sensors oof)
. *Gun mode acquired*
. Aw, the dragon got slayed :/ 💅
. Is he puttin’ his servo on an optic? A little confused by that still 🤨
Update: Oh…we’re seein’ his servo through his optic 😶
. Some people are sayin’ the “Master” is Unicron
I mean, if that turns out to be the case, and he’s just lyin’ to Megs about bein’ on the same page screen as him in order to somehow c[REDACTED]e his brother again (wait I forgot is Primus a thing in this continuity)—
(Another update: “Primus have mercy!” *Gets executed by a douchebag and his own future douchebag*)
Well, this is Hell and he’s the Devil so— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I should stop, it’s Palm Sunday— 😶)
As long as they don’t use him in anyway to excuse or downplay Megs’ actions, I’m fine with that
He’s always gonna be irredeemable (so there can’t be anyone written to be “worse” than him right?)
(R-Right…?)
Anyways, let’s go recruit younglings and ruin Ulchtar’s existence lol
PS: Wait, let me test somethin’ real quick: wouldn’t it be really funny if Megs actually apologized to Star next issue as a plot twist
I know that s**t only happens in fanfics, but with the way they’ve been writin’ his dialogue (as others have said, it’s givin’ self-righteous cult leader), and just the way he’s been conductin’ himself (in a frighteningly calm manner)—
Like he’s actin’ very humble/subdued after bein’ in CC’s custody, which I find weird since we now know that he’s been through this typa s**t before, so—
Age of Primes: Which Bots can be traced back to which Primes?
Which bots can be traced back to which Primes?
The Original 13 Primes has been part of the Transformers mythos for quite a while now. Be it in the Aligned Continuity, the Movieverse, the Power of The Primes Trilogy, or even retroactively into G1 via the IDW Comics, the idea that Primus originally created 13 Primes in order to battle Unicron has become an established part of Transformers…
#project hail mary
#lana del rey
