#cityformer

[kitty-lennon]

ART COLLAB WITH @cosmique-oddity WITH OUR TITAN/CITY SPEAKER DUO FLASHLIGHT AND HEX !!

Go check Cosmos version, rn, thats an order (idk if he have posted it yet but go check him out anyway)

[cadoodledoodleydoo]

Wips for a Vos titan/city-former design. Trying to dig up canon lore for Cybertron + it's cities gets you itsy bitsy crumbs, which in turn means you can do whatever tf you want. Again, trying to include some more bird like shape language into his design, playing around with the fact that his architecture would be treacherous to grounders/anyone without a flight based alt. mode. A body made up of honey comb like hangars + tunnels, nesting spires, and sheer drops. Vos' central Spire/Citadel in city mode is what makes up the plume at the back of his helm in root mode. Lore rambles under the cut:

Vos Andean is one of Cybertron's oldest titans, still alive, still active. In the present day of Cybertron (pre-war) Vos' current citizens treat him more like a myth than an active/living guardian. Vos' historical archives speak of eras when citizens would freely enter Vos' core to talk/interact with their titan, building the city and culture up together. Now a days Vos is a creature of folklore, most assume he's dead or asleep, locked in a long standing stasis. Outside of Vos the city's history of being alive is unknown. If you're not a flight model mech you have no way of knowing that an entire city/district was/is a living sentient being. If you're a citizen of Vos, even if you believe the titan to be dead, you do not speak of him to outsiders. Vos + his people are vain, prideful, and know their worth. They don't waste words or time on those who do not respect them/their culture.

Vos as a city is all vertical, save for the honey comb of hangars and tunnels that make up the inner hollows of the city's spires. There are no roads or side walks, no bridges. You have to fly if you want to make your way around. The city and its culture are very secretive, its borders are edged with tall spires and deep ravines, keeping anyone without flight out. Other districts look at Vos and generally consider the city to be ugly and deeply unappealing. A mix stemming from disgust over Vos' more organic architecture and offense over the city's inaccessibility to other alt modes. Culturally, Vos' inhabitants spend more time in their alt. modes than their root modes. Some citizens owning only hangars as opposed to habs. Vos as an individual is very classical-dragon like. He takes pride in his city and citizens, hoards and protects them (whether they acknowledge him for it or not). A massive predator so assured of himself that he never second guesses his actions. Earned ego along side deep wells of patience (he's waited this long to obtain a new speaker, he can continue to wait to get what he wants). His people are his fledglings. He would gut Cybertron and decimate the rest of its inhabitants if it meant keeping his own safe.

[kittyocs]

Hex

🔭Hex’s masterpost🚀

Name: Hex (might change)

Age: really old (have you noticed how bad i am at ageing my ocs yet ?)

Height: around 4,000 meters

Alt: Spaceship (titan)

Refs:

Alt mode:

About him:

Ok so Hex. He’s a spaceship, during war time he kind of works for autobots, i mean, he was an autobot yeah. But if there’s a stray mech out there you’re sure he’ll get it known that it wants to rescue them. Then after the war he’s not used for combat at all, rather being an actual cityformer as he has his little mech community inside that he drives around. He has a team of researchers as his crew, And Flashlight is his Cityspeaker ( @cosmique-oddity )

As for Hex himself, he likes to form an hologram of himself to vibe with the others mechs, but still needing his speaker to interpret what he says cause he either speak in way old cybertronian, WITH a broken voice box, or in hands. When he doesn’t manifest like that, it’s like living in a haunted place, he WILL make himself known (door opening, closing, via temps change, lights, cupboards…standard ghost stuff but it’s just the sassy man)

For his personality i would say he’s rather gentle, but very sassy and a bit of a diva if he wants to; as in he cares for people and he will make sure they are taken care of no matter how it happens. He’s chatty in his own way. More fun fact than personality: he cares a lot about his paint job. He will be upset if it gets scruffed, maybe even refusing to move until it’s fixed in some cases.

Before meeting with Flashlight, he was alive during a titan war. Vorns ago. He didn’t have any cityspeaker at the time, and there had been some dire tensions between multiple titans, him included. During one of the fights, his voicebox got broken and he got into emergency stasis when forcefully incased into an ice planet. Flashlight was the only one able to get him back online, eons later.

[lockheed-martin-unofficial]

Sooooo I’ve been getting into Metroplex lately (pun intended) and the whole concept of titans and cityspeakers is so fucking cool. I decided that was how I’d add Razgriz into Aces of Cybertron, and while this sketch is barely visible I like the idea too much to wait before I post.

Wanna listen to me ramble semi-coherently about the blorbos I spin in my head?

The premise is, Razgriz the demon is a Titan, while Trigger is a cityspeaker who HATES her job. For my version of normal AC7 Trigger, her emblem dog is real and is Razgriz in disguise because she refuses to wield the demon’s power directly. It’s a whole thing and I hope you don’t need to know it to understand, because all of it exists only in my brain. anyway.

Let me explain regular AC lore first. In the games, Razgriz is a force of good and evil, chaos and balance. Whenever history encounters a great change, razgriz appears first as a demon who causes destruction, and then as a hero who restores peace and brings prosperity. These things are metaphorical in the game, the hero being several of the protagonists. It’s a cycle that repeats basically every war. While AC7’s protagonist Trigger isn’t directly linked to the Razgriz, it’s implied by the soundtrack using their motifs. Hence why I prefer to write Triggs as someone who refuses to become one with the Razgriz.

Aces of Cybertron Razgriz speaks to her and wants her to merge with them so she can wield their power and carry out their will. Trigger is reluctant, but the demon in her head DOES end up befriending her in the end, gaining her trust and offering guidance. She even does the merging thing a few times, but only when she really has to. I imagine it more so serves to enhance her own strength rather than have her physically control Razgriz, but maybe both will happen. They are probably constantly in her head anyways. Razgriz in this universe can’t be classified as good or evil, they are simply a force of nature carrying out the cycle of change. That’s what makes them dangerous, they only care about upholding the cycle and not the sheer destruction they cause. You can’t appeal to morals which aren’t there, either. You can, however, bargain and reason with them. They are logical, and will do as you say if you convince them it will achieve their goal better.

Don’t give me spoilers on the comics because I’ve only skimmed them! Razgriz in AC canon does have weird eyeliner similar to Caminus’ in Transformers, and I dunno if in TF that’s only a Caminus thing but I’ve decided to give Raz some as well to stay true to the source. Need to figure out how to translate the shape of a cloak into cybertronian back parts.

I like to think Alicron and the Arsenal Bird (need to find it a TF name) are also titans in this AU. Not as powerful as Raz, but titans nonetheless. Or at least something similar, because Alicron has a whole ass backstory idea. Actually, I’ll tell it.

Alicron himself was once Tanager, sporting a battleship altmode and leading the Aegir fleet. My idea is to make Aegir a pre-existing dead character, and have Tanager’s spark transferred to his lifeless frame to form Alicron. Maybe Aegir was the Titan, and Alicron sorta became him. I have to flesh this whole thing out but I wanted to ramble about it. That is all, if you’ve read this far thank you! And have a good day!

[badlydrawntransformers]

I don't think I've shared Copycat with you guys yet weird

also doodled an old Cityformer OC I made a few years ago

[actuallynobutwhynot]

Thinkin about Metroplex again🥺🥺🥺

I jsut... lov him very very much?? I just see him and my heart says ‘and I oop’ like,,,,,, Sir,,,, you are a whole ass TOWN how do I care u so much??????

Me: *looks at a city*

Me: HE IS VERY GORGEOUS TO ME-

And don’t even get me STARTED on his WFC  version,,,,,

gotDAM HE LOOKS GOOD!! And every scene or mission with him in this game was just *chef’s kiss* PERFECTION

just.... the absolute SIZE of this lad,,,,

And that bit in the IDW comics where he straight up SMILES????

HHSCBHHVHHVBVJHBSVDJ HIS EYE IS GONE BUT HES HAPPY AF...

so anyway yeah im simping for a city once again

[saturnsmelliott]

hes an abandoned subway rat

[askvectorprime]

dearest vector prime, are there any girl citybots?

Dear Metropolis Maestro,

The gender of Titans has long been argued over by smaller Cybertronians; it has often been difficult to determine, and Titans have always been reticent to talk about matters close to them. Occasionally even it varies between form. In my youth I knew one Titan who presented as male when in their humanoid mode, but identified as both male and female when in city mode. It is also worth noting that "mother" is a common title for Titans, even those who are otherwise referred to with male pronouns. This may be a consequence of many incarnations of cityformers containing hot spots or other spark-generating facilities within themselves. Alpha Trion would probably know the specifics of the terminology better than I.

Nonetheless, I can assure you that many Titans have seemed to present themselves as female cybertronians, and acknowledged themselves with the relevant pronouns. Just a handful of examples are Airwave, Arachnid, Hydratron, Lodestar, Nana, Quintessa, Tempo, and certain incarnations of Fortress Maximus, Metrotitan, Caminus and Trypticon.