one thing I find awesome is that even though Chuck's car is, originally, called Blond Thunder, everyone chooses to spell it as BlondE Thunder, implying that Thunder is perceived as female by the fandom at large
...which means that transfem Blonde Thunder is the most popular Motorcity trans headcanon which is just..... beautiful. Hell yeah, that car is totally taking estrogen. More cars should be transgender actually
If we do get another season of Motorcity I hope we get to see Chuck in Blonde Thunder again. idk like it feels not quite right for him not to be riding shotgun with Mike, but also I would love to see more “does what must be done to save the day” badass Chuck, especially if that meant he got back into his own car at least one more time.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Motorcity
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chuck & Blonde Thunder, Blonde Thunder/Mutt
Characters: Chuck (Motorcity), Blonde Thunder
Additional Tags: Shapeshifting, Shapeshifting Cars, I feel like I need to tag this Not A Transformers AU
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Summary: Everyone knows if you put enough time and attention into a car, it can acquire a self and decide to take on a human shape. Chuck was not expecting it to happen with his half-built car.
He also wasn’t expecting to end up trapped into racing against the Duke. At least Blonde Thunder is enjoying herself.
I’m gay for my human versions of the Burners’ cars, and the cars are gay for each other, and BoomBaYa by BlackPink has some really rad outfits in the music video
The whole reason I drew some human Burner-cars in the first place was because I saw some pinups and wanted to do my own take on the Burners’ cars as lovely ladies! So I thought it would only be fair to take my designs and do some pinups for my own personal satisfaction. UwU
fattyskeleton replied to your photoset: “The whole reason I drew some human Burner-cars in the first place was...”
hey, can we see thunder before she got all prettied up? Cause i bet that this is her fixed up look. maybe some dirt, torn clothes and fucked up hair?
Hm. Well I mean, she definitely would be the last person to join the group, just by the original show’s plotline. And if we’re paralleling the show, she must have been in pretty rough shape when they found her. OH MAN I HAVE SO MANY BLONDE THUNDER THOUGHTS.
So we never see Blonde Thunder with any weapons systems in the show. All we see is a hell of a turbo-boost--so the biggest theme for a human version of her would be speed! Competition, and speed. Maybe she would have been racing and/or fighting for money, and doing okay but not really breaking even. Since the first time we see the car in the eponymous episodes she’s up on bricks and beat up and missing a major engine component, the human version must have been in pretty bad shape. :(
.......so....Mutt would have recruited her, and then I guess shortly thereafter when she was still settling in and half-starved and recovering from her injuries and still too sick and beat up to really worry about appearances, Mutt gets...kidnapped? By Number One and her enormous bodyguard. And Thunder has to go...run an obstacle course? Drive a race? To save her.
And Number One has of course imposed a dress code of sorts, because unlike the Duke a human version of a limousine is going to have some amount of pretentious “high society” type digs going on. So they (and when I say they I probably mean Whiptail/whatever her real name is WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES) show Thunder how to wear makeup and help her pick out an outfit she likes and help her get the knots out of her hair and put concealer on her fading black eye and bruised knuckles.
Haha shit and I’m sure when she shows up looking all compact and dainty with her hair down everybody’s like HAHA YEAH RIGHT and then Thunder fukkin SMOKES them, like, there’s a reason she gets lightning bolt tattoos at some point. Chuck may be scared of driving (fwiw he’s the AI in the-car-that-is-Mike, and he’s CONSTANTLY throwing up warnings and making a weird high-pitched noise they can’t seem to get rid of, TOO FAST OH MY GOD) but Blonde Thunder was born to race. She’s got the NEED FOR SPEED.
So she wins and rescues Mutt, kicks their mildly interested glances into an overdrive of hardcore flirting, and it’s all car girlfriends from there haha.
It seems a little bit uncharitable to call it a “fixed up” or “prettied up” look though--Blonde Thunder is a beautiful car as soon as somebody takes the time to show her some TLC, and I like to imagine a human version of her would really enjoy looking nice.
Also she puts on some healthy weight, because FEED THAT GIRL. Damn.