#atfauomo

[rinovarka]

So I've been thinking of story ideas for some bois so I thought if I doodled dem bois down I could live my life but all I want to do is make more WIPs and write drama and angst and that's true living honestly

[atfauomo]

Its ya bois Rumble and Frenzy! I just love garbage characters, okay? Absolute twerps. That scene in G1 where they petty fight Skywarp while Thundercracker watches? A classic honestly.  Skywarp, Rumble, and Frenzy are three characters that have the collective smarts of one whole brain cell. 

Like other Destics, Rumble and Frenzy dreamed of a better life, of peace and freedom.  However, like other Destics, they were a bit too far gone for that. The sparks that would be known as Rumble and Frenzy were two of the many stolen from Cybertron during the When the Stars Screamed invasion. Their sparks were assorted to be used as repair bots for ships, Frenzy being MF-127, Rumble being MR-122. MR took a good brunt of abuse due to being the weaker of the two. The two eventually fought against their alien captors and escaped, but not without extensive revenge. They became criminals, and hoped the newly passed Jetfire Act (which had protections for Destics and Cybertronian criminals abroad) would protect them and allow them to live in Cybertron. However, they were outfitted to be miners in the desolate mining prison planet known as Messatine, with the ability to turn their arms into piledrivers or drills. And there they established themselves as vicious and proved all wrong when mocked their diminutive appearance. And it is there that they meet who would be known as Megatron and infamous Tesarus, and help lead a revolt that would allow them to crash into Cybertron, whether Cybertron wanted them or not.

Frenzy and Rumble are close bros. At first appearance, their personalities seem pretty identical. Both are short-tempered, sarcastic minicon jerks who get into fights and are surprisingly tech savvy. Not exactly the image one gets when thinking of leaders of a revolt of the oppressed, really. Frenzy is the more skeptical, calculative, unsocial, hardheaded one, Rumble is the more sensitive, dim, slow, sociable one. Both are protective of another, if a con messes with one, they mess with both. As with most Destics, they don’t talk about where they came from, pretty irritable at the mention of anything before Messatine.

They are commonly seen around former stealth-dependent gladiator Soundwave. Its a real mystery to all as to why they get along so well, given their brash joking nature and Soundwave’s relatively reserved, serious nature. Ravage and Laserbeak, Soundwave's other cassettes, lean more towards Soundwave's personality in seriousness, and secretly find the two quite amusing.

As far as work goes, the two are either seen helping out with mining for material or making repairs. They arent spies like Ravage and Laserbeak, too loud for that. On Earth and other planets, the two tend to sneak off and have too much fun.

[atfauomo]

(ooof its my first attempt to digital art soooooo)

Primus was a colossal metallic being in the early days of existence, who wandered throughout the galaxy in the form of a metallic planet. From vis position, ve was able to engage in a plane indescribable called the infraspace. It was from here that ve observed developments in the universe and saw life begin. Being too large, ve used infraspace to interact with them in an invisible way or by a holoform. Ve became known as a god to these civilizations and thus has many interpretations.

However, one day while on the astral plane, Primus sensed a great evil, and that evil was Unicron. Unicron was a mass of dark energy, whose movements annihilated solar systems, whose ferocious appetite engulfed entire galaxies.  And the two were fated for battle.

In the fight, Unicron's blood touched upon a planet called Iso. The inhabitants were affected, and either were dissolved or their proteins denatured. They were given a state of hapahazardness, with ambiguous blob forms. Primus, feeling sorry for what ve had caused took the inhabitants in as their planet fell apart, and collected them in a protective orb and called them Insecrae, or Insecticons.

But Primus could not avoid the cursed blood.  For whoever touches the blood of Unicron is doomed to be a being trapped in eternal chaos and destruction.  So, Primus valiantly sacrificed verself and sealed the blood inside of ver, in an indestructible chamber.  This cursed blood weakened ver greatly, rendering ver unable to transform or return to deep infraspace.

Ve in vis dying moments was able to make a way. Through infraspace ve spread vis spirit of knowledge, wisdom, exploration, and curiosity of technology. Ve also began to create vis own life.  Ve created 13 tiny mechanical beings in vis likeness, with vis memories whole as if their own.  These beings would coexist with the Insecrae and create more beings, and they would all traverse the universe, help band together the different alien civilizations, and one day figure out how to defeat Unicron without vis chaotic remains tainting life, as well as spread ideas of peace and community as ve once did. And sometimes, ve would reach infraspace them talk or work through them, especially the one who owned the Matrix.

In the modern day, Cybertronians do not really follow this mythos too much.  However, if the situation would arise that Unicron might exist, most Cybertronians would fall into this line of thought than with what the Insecticons say. The Insecticons, who are for the most part strong in believing their mythos for Unicron, strongly disagree with the Cybertronian ideas. However, neither group is definite on the true nature of Cybertron or Insecticons, despite what they may say.

Formalities aside...Primus has the personality of a tired old bot who means the best. Most of vis personality and energy went to vis creations. Most of said creations would find Primus really boring and wouldnt remember ver even if ve talked to them.

This is one of the more famous images and I interpretations of the god. It's of Primus holding the Iso Orb. It's a motif of goodwill and help.

[atfauomo]

Decided to just go wild with cheap ballpoint pen and watercolors. The lack of erasing makes it look busy enough in my eyes and forces me to DEAL WITH IT. Yes my penmanship is bad. Skywarp legs too short lmaooo.

So yea atfauomo seeker bois. I love them, wished they were portrayed as a brotherly trine. Its WHACK that they arent, also WHACK that Skyfire and Starscream never show up together in any series beyond g1.

[atfauomo]

Im sorry Im barely on here anymore hghghghh

Backstory: aTFAUomo Tesarus in a Messatine mine shaft, now colored! Soooo, not super satisfied with this piece. And so, after hours of working on this, Im done. Just going to take the L and move on. I don't care enough to not post it, I’ve been taking a lot of L’s this year already, it just this one has a tangible reward sooo lol. There was a good idea behind this, its just I have a problem with bringing it to life.

Yes there are problems with this art and story but idc. Im so burnt out it doesnt matter anymore lol.

So basic premise? Time is right before “The War”. Tesarus is a Destic, or a being created using a stolen Cybertronian spark, with vis purpose being to the will of vis imperial creator without agency. Ve was given sapience if ve took part in a revolt, and after so was betrayed by those ve saved, and sent to the miner prison planet Messatine. At this point, ve had made an unlikely reliance with criminals Rumble and Frenzy, and has good standing with the other miners, Cybertronian and alien alike. The planet is being attacked, so all the prisoners decide to make a break for it, Tesarus trapped in a cave.

Characterwise, Tesarus thinks a lot more than talks, as a good chunk of vis life ve had no ability to talk. Ve actually thinks quite eloquently, but ve never seems like it and always seems absent. When not depersonalizing, ve comes off as simple minded and crude with a dark sense of humor. Ve is mostly just unsure about vis place as a Cybertronian, and whether ve counts as one, or if anything matters.

Story:

Shards of crystal and stone showered down throughout the entire cavern, careening off of Tesarus like hail.  The shards’ impact created little sparks and scratches all over vis body, but that was the least of vis worries. The ground shook and heave with every boom from the surface, threatening to crack the entire planet in two. Sparks of light shot down from above, incinerating several crystal clusters into toxic ashes. Tesarus stood stiffly, gazing up and down of the cavern.

A sharp metallic noise went through vis communication waves, audibly assaulting ver with a painful sound.

“You MORON!” a voice weezed.  “This whole planet is collapsing into itself and you are actually trapped? Did your heavy tank self broke the floor or somethi--”

“Pipe down you slagging piece of minimetal! Just help me out here!”

“What’s the problem guzzler?”

“Well, there is a war on this planet, I'm stuck in a cave, I'm stuck talking to the squeakiest bot of all time--”

“You dumbass just tell me what is the color of the crystals in the cave right now!”

Tesarus scanned the area.  “Okay, there are faded...pink?...clouds and dark purple gas flowing…crystals are of the same color...”

Groans filled the other side of the com. “Those are unstable unnutrium-energonistic--”

“Enough babbling Frenzy how do I get out?”

“I was talking! Yeesh, anyway, just...I know this is hard for a bumbling buffoon as yourself, but do your best to lightly step towards your northside. Try to avoid the purple gas--”

Tesarus looked to the gas clouds that filled the cave.

“--as that will slowly dissolve different tiny pieces in your frame, worse so if you have small cuts.  Naturally, avoid the crystals, especially prolonged contact. They burn.  But whatever happens, don’t mix the affected area with the opposite color of gas.”

“....what?”

“HURRY UP IDIOT!!”

Tesarus slowly stepped from step to step. All the sudden, a large blue flash exploded into the cave. As flash dissipated, the cave filled with a sparking magenta light. Sparks appeared, as Tesarus could feel tiny prickles of static upon his frame. Tesarus saw an opening to the chaotic scene above.

Tesarus jumped to the surface. As if on cue, the whole cavern turned bright and caved in. Tesarus gathered vis wits and the wheezy voice spoke.

“Hey you jumped too close you guzzler!” piped out a tiny red and black minicon.

“Shut up Frenzy you know that I hate--Wait Frenzy?” Ve cocked vis head and smirked. “Which one is Rumble? The geeky black and red one or the not-that-bad blue one?”

The minicon’s hands turned into drills. “Oh SHUT UP TESARUS you KNOW WHO THIS IS! I OUGHTA JUST LEFT YOU THERE YOU OVERGROWN GUZZLER PIECE OF--!”

“You BOTH come ON we don’t have time for dumb metal smacking!” yelled a blue minicon.

Tesarus grumbled and grabbed both minicons and ran as the ground rose and fell under battery fire. The once desolate planet was now a rising sea of explosions and rocks.

“There it is Tesarus, the shipping dock! Head to it!” yelled Rumble.

From the chaos, an imposing sleek building held its ground. Avoiding various chasms, Tesarus took a leap and made it to the building’s entrance.  

Ve waved vis huge fists in the air, wiping out the security drones without so much as a glance, tearing through the fortified strongholds of the ships as easily as air. Ve felt a sick rush from it all, despite vis own ligaments disintegrating bolt by bolt.  

Frenzy screeched. “Hey! You almost threw that crumpled up drone at me!”

“Oh shit well sorry that there is toxic gas seeping through my systems!”  

Frenzy directed the two to the largest ship possible and ran.

Frenzy made quick work of the ship’s security measures, and soon all the ships were up and running. Ve ran inside and Rumble followed suit, Tesarus thankful for not having to bend down for once.

The minicon ran to the front of the ship, pressing all kinds of buttons and speaking all kinds of languages over the intercoms.  Miners from all over were piling into the now open ships, lifting into the air. It was a sight, the ships that took them in suddenly lifted into the air ina spark stopping speed, as beacons of light, the night sky filled with dark blue and orange streams as they raced away from their prison.

Tesarus was in awe. Various ships did complex turns and strikes against enemies, the world filled with a destructive yet freeing light. Ve had never seen anything like it.

Rumble cackled, breaking Tesarus from vis trance. “Okay you easily impressed trash heap, stick out your arm.” Tesarus did so, vis hand easily being larger than the bot and vis twin combined. Rumble took some mental notes and rummaged around the ship and returned. Ve stuck vis tiny hands with all kinds of attachments, of tiny lasers and tiny drills and other tiny things. Rumble swiftly moved from various sections of Tesarus’ frame, lastly hopping to the side. “So move around Tessy and see how ya feel.”

Tesarus stood, looming over the makeshift mechanic.  “Holy shit you two really do know things!”

“Well, I knew a bot….” Rumble’s voiced trailed off, and for a second ve seemed to be somewhere else. Suddenly, ve straightened verself and smirked.  “Well, I need to make a few more adjustments. But this should hold for a bit until we can get some more experienced hands here. I am actually suprised that Frenzy here actually was able to fly this thing!”

“I told you morons that I was hella smart! Why did you think I got locked up here in the first place? Where else would they put the finest decoder in all of Cybertron? In the dirt!”

Frenzy dramatic took a deep lean into vis pilot’s chair and sighed, putting vis dusty pedes onto the dashboard.  “Technology such as this is mere sparkling play for me!”

“This is the opportunity Megatron couldnt even dream of happening! This is even better! This is the perfect chance! ”

Tesarus tiled vis head. “What is that supposed to mean?

Frenzy lept form vis chair and went up to Tesarus. “ You dumbass! WE did all of this, all on our own! WE are a part of this epic story! Dont you see? WE heading back to Cybertron!”

Frenzy smirked. “Rumble you stupid ass Tesarus boyo here has never been to Cybertron!”

Tesarus wrinkled vis face. “...Cybertron?”, ve said uncomfortably.

Frenzy got up from vis chair and looked to Tesarus. “Uhh...Dont you worry too much! Bunch of weird bots from other places like you escape and go to Cybertron and dont get deactivated!”

The giant tensed at the last word. Ve thought ve felt that ve wa being deactivated on multiple occasions, but ve never felt so close to it as ve was heading towards vis home planet.

All the sudden, Rumble sheepishly grinned and looked to the side. “Or at least thats what we’ve heard!”

Frenzy butted in” Im sure you arent the biggest piece of scrap theve ever seen--Though with your track record??” Frenzy quipped. “Hmmmm. You are on your own for that one!”

“Fren--”

“I mean all I ever did was crash the place’s electronic systems, I never like, murdered a whole--”  

“Frenzy!!”

Frenzy sighed. “Well, I mean, you always said that you wished you were deactivated, so this would be perf--”

“Frenzy thats enough!!” Rumble hissed.

Silence ensued.

“Okay okay, sorry my guy Ill shaddup now!!” Frenzy sighed and dropped to vis seat. Ve popped open a tank quality energon cube much larger than verself and drank and immediately passed out.

Rumble slid off vis protective goggles and looked to Tesarus. “Well, I never was the one for niceities but...Dont mind ver, ve’s just an asshole! Im sure that you’ll be...okay?” Rumble went awkwardly back to work as Tesarus placed vis gaze onto the view outdoors, looking at the dtstant stars and galaxies ahead.

Cybertron was just a myth to all Destics.  Cybertron, the homeland, the place from whence their sparks were stolen and sold to do the work of the lowly or corrupt. Cybertron, the supposed paradise that supposedly held open arms to its lost sparks to join back in society. Cybertron, the place had let its arms open for sparks to be lost.

But what did such a place have to do with someone like Tesarus? Ve didn’t even look like ve belonged anywhere, and ve couldn’t play like ve did like Frenzy and Rumble. Ve stuck out as easily as a Guardian Bot, vis own makeshift spark sending out its bastard sparkwaves to all around it.

This wasn’t the first time that Tesarus felt that sense of the unknowing freedom. It happened so long ago back on Tesarui Eva, that moment sealed with the treachery of the one who taught ver how to feel, with ver in chains and crushing torment, waking in the unforgiving Messatine. But now it was actually happening, ve can see as the planet’s surface began to look not as a warzone but as just a cloudy dust speck in the distance of space, and ve began to imagine how vis messed up speck of a spark would appear to those in its sight.

[atfauomo]

Everytime I see a movie, I get really inspired to be one of the names of artists who work on huge projects, SO I felt motivated to get👏stuff👏going👏 and (I hate this word)grind 💪 😤 (ugh). So heres the lineart for atfauomo Primus, soon to be colored. In my au, Primus was an ancient living star, encased by curved, strong metallic, self-repairing layers that *seem* from another realm, surrounded by stuff affected by vis gravitational pull. As far as how ve became a planet afterwards, I'm going with Quintessons. Used the weakened star, used aDvAncEd tEcH to harnest sparks from the star, and created a planet-sized assembly line for robot servants of all kinds, from small domestic builders to city-sized, world destroying ships. And eventually said servants were *somehow* able to revolt and one day the escaped Quintessons and their planet *suddenly* disappeared blah blah. It's all too ancient that no one remembers this or knows Primus was alive at one point lol. If ve was to somehow activate, ve would be tired and boring and no one would get that ve cares about vis creation and other aliens. As far as the mythos behind this picture, THAT comes up in the final stage of this piece 👀

[atfauomo]

So for aTFAUomo, all the Titans have Cybertronian avatars, aka holoforms. These holoforms have different personalities than the Titan mainly has. For example, Metroplex's holoform is naïve and annoyingly worried about others, as Metroplex verself is helpful and wise. Trypticon's holoform is very artsy and musical, while Trypticon verself is like a tired old bot.

Regardless, one thing stays the same: competitiveness. Oh sure, Titans are generally kind and loving to their citizens....but to each other? They keep watch of another's citizen count, keep count over developments, work on advertising to get more citizens, more attractions, all on their own Titans-only social media . Even in the closest Titan friendship, both say nice things but all the while thinking snark remarks.

One big hot thing for them is attracting aliens. However, Cybertron isnt really a safe place for aliens. Doesnt mean they dont try.

[atfauomo]

Inktober Day 8: Star with aTFAUomo Override Prime. So star in the context of being a representative of Cybertron at one point. Ve was top of ver class of Valedron flyers, unapologetically Tetrahexian with ver two juts on ver helm, three wave curves, unfiltered attitude, and rough old Cybertronian singing style. Ve was brash to the point of causing ruckus with the Head Councils of Cybertron and of other civilizations. As with other members of government, ve has ver own set of controversies, mostly with ver tensions with Sentinel, and with the unlikely relations with the head Guardian Bots Kappa Supreme.

No bio today bc because the colors are...bad to me? I feel like I should give ver a color scheme of orange edges, and blue and light grays. Like the red seems like a bad idea hhhhh.