#blight rambles

[hollow-blight]

the concept of the second sentinel specifically and eternity makes me feel ill. the sentinel repeating phrases about the eternal citadel, eternal is the duty of the sentinels. relics and needolin dialogue in whiteward speaking of the cogwork creations, saying to serve eternal, the perfect unfaltering voice, that final form in which eternity is sustained. the second sentinel being carefully decommissioned only to be woken up again by hornet, plunging it back into eternal service. how long is eternity, really? does it matter? how often is the sentinel choosing to continue of its own volition and finding loopholes and new definitions that better suit its needs, and how often is it trapped in its own programming? eternity is a gilded lie, and i'm fascinated with how the sentinel might grapple with that.

[blighted-lights]

trying to draw big cybertronians next to very small ones is so hard bc like. what angle do i need to draw in order to make sure Phase Sixer Overlord fits in a panel with glit, an itty bitty cassette?

like??

either glit needs to grow rq or overlord needs to shrink.

[artistkoo]

Me after reading blight X @kpopisthereasonihavenolife why uhuuuuuuuu do this 2 meeeeee pt. 394848388484843. Also, if y/n wanted jk to live a new life in his dream, why did she appear in it? Is it bec JK looked for her again, in every life she made him imagined? 😭😭😭 My heart gudbye-

[hollow-blight]

hey so like. we know for sure that the second sentinel has a silkfly in it. and that said silkfly presumably no longer has an identity. so. i don't doubt a good bit of programming is within the cogwork heart, but i also wonder if the sentinel’s shell/body essentially functions as a mask? by encasing the silkfly in this body it shapes those hints of personality and mannerisms it might retain and gives them a direction to go, with the side effect of making the sentinel strangely lifelike like how hornet notes. is this anything

[hollow-blight]

remembering the final audience fight takes place in a room full of the sentinels dead siblings will never not be a horrifying experience. team cherry when i get you for this i swear

[hollow-blight]

"68.9% of all hallownest citizens are non-binary" and "99.9% of the pale kings heirs are non-binary" factoids actually just statistical errors. The discarded vessels, hundreds of thousands of which lie discarded in the abyss and all of which are genderless, are statistical outliers adn should not have been counted

[blighted-lights]

The ravage clone 😭 I do imagine soundwave would be overjoyed at first thinking somehow she survived. "I knew lord megatron was wrong, ravage is just built different." Then he'd get pissed as hell at shockwave because that is NOT ravage! (He still takes care of her anyways).

It reminds me of this tiktoker who cloned her cat so she could have another one after the og died and she got pissed because the new cat had a different personality. Yeah they look the same and have the same DNA but they do not have the same memories/experiences!! It will never be 100% an exact clone.

Differences like that would make it bittersweet because soundwave would feed her ravage's favorite food to find out they don't share the same tastes and he'd spiral.

HI YIKES!! (referencing this post here, btw, which you all should look at and send me asks about hehe <3)

and i have to say that everyone who's left tags and comments so far on that post (plus inbox messages, thank you <3) has been FAR kinder in terms of angst levels of this idea than what i originally had planned. soundwave initially does have some vague hope that this ravage is the original ravage when he first meets her, BUT this hope is immediately dashed. he can tell from the start that she isn't the original ravage and shockwave outright admits to her being a clone 😔

shockwave's entire plan with cloning ravage was both as an emotional support to soundwave after they lost the original ravage AND, in true shockwave fashion, a bit of a manipulative move. soundwave's work and self-care have absolutely tanked with the loss of ravage. shockwave figured that bringing her back, or at least some version of her, would make soundwave feel obligated to take care of her- and it does! but to take care of this new ravage, soundwave has to take care of himself as well or he risks not being able to provide her what she needs. soundwave's self care goes back up, he starts working more effectively because he's properly fueled and rested, and shockwave considers it a win!

it's,, not a win tho, because ravage's clone is her own individual person and the pressure of trying to live up to the original ravage is suffocating. and since shockwave is her creator, she prefers being around shockwave over being around soundwave, and it ends up being a Mess™️. this cloned ravage also has very vague imprints of the original ravage's personality traits, but it's So obvious to anyone paying attention that she isn't the original at all.

soundwave also has no idea how to process the existence of this new ravage as she is a clone of one of his closest friends- his oldest friend, really. he's going through a lot of conflicting emotions while grieving- and that's not even going into what the other cassettes are feeling

[hollow-blight]

back at it again with the bug robot ramblings. since the second sentinel is capable of recognizing bugs afflicted with the haunting and chooses to attack them, is it possible the other sentinels were also capable of this? considering the citadel was stuffing bugs full of silk and creating monstrosities and gms was up to all of her haunting shenanigans, it's possible either entity could have considered that grounds for decommissioning. in that case, maybe the second sentinel was singled out and disassembled the way it was in the hopes that the logic error could be fixed. all the pieces are separated but still carefully preserved, perhaps in the hopes of study and eventual reassembly and/or replication, to create a new sentinel order that's loyal to the haunted silk.