Day 16 of posting art of Transformers couples everyday for February: BurnSwipe
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Day 16 of posting art of Transformers couples everyday for February: BurnSwipe
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Sideswipe x Sideburn Headcanons
I got stupidly attached to this ship that only me and like 3 other people like, but it's fine bcuz I can make all the content I need for it
Introduction Episode
(I'm only halfway through season 1. Bear with me here)
Sideburn actually DOES appear as a cameo in the aligned continuity, so I DO have stuff to work with here :DDD. In this version; him and the other Autobot brothers (X-Brawn and Prowl) spent time on Cybertron hunting down Predacons but they ended up being sent to Earth to capture some of the Predacons there, as well as some other escaped Decepticons. Their main base is in Japan and, like the Rescue Bots, they're secret, so Bee's team doesn't know about them until later
At some point, the Autobot brothers get sent to Nevada (I think RID2015 takes place there) to track down a Predacon. The three go there separate ways to patrol the area and look for the predacon. Sideburn does that for about 10 minutes before he gets bored and starts driving off and doing his own thing (it's Prowl's fault for not going with him to make sure he does his job ✋️🙄)
The two met on the road. Sideswipe was on watch for the same predacon that the Autobot brothers were after. Sideburn, being the hormonal bot that he is, immediately saw Sideswipe and started flirting with him, not knowing that it was another Cybertronian. Sideswipe was EXTREMELY confused bcuz he thought it was a human in the car and was just like, "🤨🤨😟😟" (his cameo in Rescue Bots reveals that he thinks humans are creepy, lol. This interaction here isn't helping)
Eventually, he sees the Autobot logo on Sideburn and realizes that the car is a Cybertronian. He transforms and asks who Sideburn is and where he came from (more curious than accusatory). Sideburn does a full stop out of shock before transforming and being super excited that the car he was flirting with was ACTUALLY sentient this time
Sideburn continues flirting and asks Sideswipe out. Sideswipe is amused and lowkey into it (he's arrogant and seems the type to like it when people have crushes on him), but he says that he can't because he's hunting down a predacon. Sideburn tells him that they're hunting down the same predacon, and they decide to team up.
Sideburn asks if they catch the Predacon if it means he'll go on a date with him and Sideswipe just laughs and says "maybe."
The rest of Team Bee meet X-Brawn and Prowl at some point during all of this and have their own B plot where they're also hunting down the Predacon and Strongarm is being a Prowl fangirl, but that's not the focus right now 🤫🤫🤫
Sideswipe and Sideburn bond as they look for the decepticon and also have really gross flirting that would make Strongarm yell at them to "GET A GARAGE!" if she was there. Sideswipe doesn't know how to react to Sideburn's obnoxious flirting, but he tries really hard to be cool and match his energy
It'd be funny if Bumblebee coms Sideswipe to see how he's doing and after he tells him what's going on, he goes back to flirting with Sideburn but he forgot to hang up and Bee's just like, "I'm still here btw 😐" and Sideswipe is just like "😶" and quickly hangs up
Blah blah blah, other episode stuff, Sideswipe and Sideburn team up and defeat the Predacon together. Basic stuff where Bee team says goodbye to the Autobot brothers. Sideburn slides in and is like, "Sooo... about what you agreed on..." and Sideswipe says that they can go out next time. Sideburn is extremely happy and excited bcuz this is the first time someone has liked him back
Relationship Headcanons
THANK YOU TO "THE BUZZ ON WINDBLADE" FOR SHOWING ME WHAT SIDESWIPE IS LIKE WHEN HE HAS A CRUSH <33333
When they first go out, despite their bravado when they first met, both Sideburn and Sideswipe are incredibly nervous. This is the first time Sideburn was successful in actually getting a date, and this is also Sideswipe's first date. They manage to loosen up though and they have a lot of fun
A lot of their dates include racing or dancing (not slow dancing. Club dancing)
They're rebellious teenagers in their first relationship so they really fit the vibes of "Young, dumb, and in love." First relationship so they're dramatic about everything, giggle and kick their feet when comming each other, sneaking off to go make out, etc, etc
Sideswipe likes to show off a lot to Sideburn. Sideburn EATS IT UP every time
Love languages are fake and were made by a guy who wanted to force his wife to do chores for him and have sex with him, but Sideburn's love language is 100% words of affirmation. Sideswipe is really flattered by this and gets flustered really easily from it, but he hides it by laughing and trying to flirt back
Sideburn is really touchy with Swipey and will do things like walk his fingers up his arms or chestplate
When the two became exclusive, Sideburn still chatted up red Earth cars bcuz he knew they wouldn't respond. If they were somehow revealed to be Cybertronian, he'd be like, "Sorry, I'm already going out with a sexy red sports car :/"
Sideburn is completely smitten and tells Prowl and X-Brawn all about Sideswipe
Despite Sideswipe and Sideburn having really gross flirting in public that makes this show almost become PG instead of G, Sideswipe still has the AUDACITY to make a gagging motion anytime Bee and Blades so much as SMILE at each other in public
thought about a line from the show
[inserts my rarepair]
(s04 ep06)
So glad there’s someone else out there that sees the Sideswipe x Sideburn vision :]
im also glad to see more people enjoying the ship
freind said I should draw something for this ask but I also wanted to yap a bit
its funny, I never even saw it anywhere- but after I started watching the og rid show I was like
wait a minute, this guy likes red cars... and this guy is a red car!
and their personalities even work well together, a match made in heaven
technically not even a cross continuity ship depending how you portray it, since side burn got a design cameo in rescue bots academy
Tbh I was never big on other rid15 sideswipe ships, wasn't a fan of how they switched up on their more sibling like relationship in the later seasons (ship what you want of course)
funnily enough though it seems like rid15 sideswipe might also have a color bias too (lot of blue there)
peak red x blue character ship lmao
also just a side note(no pun intended)
I only ship this with rid15 sideswipe and like, as I see it he's not really the sideswipe
considering he was originally going to be named fastlane and the whole two aligned sideswipes thing
its funny to think fastlane is just committing identity theft
also I do hope to see more content of them, but I havent really seen anyone else draw them together (the struggle of shipping a rarepair, having to draw all of your own ship art lol)
also didnt mean to take so long for this my executive dysfunction has been bad if you cant already tell by my sparse posting schedule
Love wins! Sideburn from RID 2001 finally found a red sports car that's into him!
I saw clips of Sideburn online and I fell in love with him when I actually watched the show bcuz he's a chaotic pansexual sports car with a cool design, is Prowl and X-Brawn's annoying younger brother, flirts with every damn red car he sees, and legit tried to go on a date with Megatron. What's not to love about him? Got attached to the idea of him having a one-sided crush on Knockout from TFP bcuz he is EXACTLY his type, but I liked the idea of it being reciprocated, and since the only red teenage sports car I could find in this franchise was RID 2015 Sideswipe, I just went, "Why not 🤷♂️" without even giving it a second thought, lol.
Then I ended up actually thinking about it seriously and realizes that they would work HORRENDOUSLY well together bcuz they're both chaotic teenagers who like to flirt and do dumb shit and they also have a lot of similar behaviors and interests. Anyways; que the six and a half hours I spent working on this bcuz robots are hard to draw 🫡. Sideburn's design is just a combination of his design from RID 2001 and his cameo appearance from RBA.
Bonus:
I think we should use this spam DM I got for our OTPs
They'd love each other and be insufferable about it
I dont have alot good to post atm
been brainrotting over my rarepair though
thought id try drawing their rescue bots designs (i still need to finish the show though)