Recruiting Transformers Roleplayers!
Our IDW Transformers roleplay group (loosely called RoboStars) is currently looking for new players to officially join our timeline. If you’re interested in joining, you can fill out IC applications to join Cybertron or the Lost Light, or OOC talk to one of our mods, Roddy or Puff (me). If you have questions or want to know more about our timeline, read on below! If you still have questions, feel free to contact one of our mods, we’re happy to talk.
Listed below: Why you should join us! Who we’re willing to take! AU details Requested characters Current characters How to join
Why you should join us!
We've got a Transformers IDW group that's been active for two years on Tumblr. While our group has a single set universe, we also roll with the multiverse theory, which lets us interact with alternates, other continuities, etc. So our group has the benefits of formal, closed groups:
a bunch of people who are collaborating in ongoing plots
a community of people you can socialize with
a continuity shared by all the involved blogs
an agreed-upon set of group headcanons for how various historical/supernatural/anatomical things work in our verse
AND the benefits of indie blogs:
you can play with any other tumblr blogs you want, regardless of whether they're in our group or not
you can still make separate verses for your character—if you want one verse that's in our group and a dozen verses that aren't, that's fine!
if you don't like our verse's headcanons, you can say your character moved to our verse from another one and that things work differently in their home verse, so you can make up your own headcanons.
We have two active OOC Skype groups: one for discussing plots, one for both socialization and plots. We have about 1.2 in character movie nights a week: one hosted by Rodimus on Mondays, occasionally one hosted by Whirl on random days of the week, and both of these movie nights are open to people who aren't part of our group. We've also had a smattering of other IC events like movie nights and Cards Against Humanity games, and we're open to more.
We have regular large group plots that span several months, and members are welcome to participate in them as much or as little as they want. We're always eager for new players to bring in new ideas so we can incorporate them into plots the whole group can enjoy, and we're also happy to have people who aren't part of our group join in on events.
Who we're willing to take!
We can and will take:
characters native to our verse
immigrant characters from different IDW verses
AU versions of characters
characters from different Transformers continuities
characters from non-Transformers series
OCs, from any series or no series
Characters who have died, characters who are obscure or unpopular, characters from one continuity that have been adapted for another continuity... Just about anything.
We do require that new players talk things out with our group to confirm that everything is consistent! For example, if you want to play Senator Momus, we're gonna connect you to our Senator Crosscut to get your Senate headcanons consistent, and you'll also talk to the group about finding a way to explain why you're alive. The explanation could be anywhere from "vast complicated Decepticon conspiracy that stretched for four million years" to "he's from a parallel universe where he never died and one day he tripped and fell through a wormhole into this universe." It doesn't have to be complicated. We want to help you get the characters and headcanons you want.
AU details
Our verse diverges from canon at several points. We have a long post with links to some of the threads of all our plot events here, but a much shorter summary below:
On the Lost Light:
After Megatron's trial, he was put in stasis and locked up, rather than put on the Lost Light. The Lost Light is still captained by Rodimus alone. They have a space bridge that lets them visit other universes, and they regularly visit alternate timelines, talk to people in other universes, and let people from other universes come visit them.
Because of the lack of Megatron's influence, they took an entirely different route, and missed out on all the canon season 2 adventures. Instead, they've been having completely new adventures, including a crash-landing on an ancient abandoned colony with a Metrotitan, a long stay on Hedonia (with two weddings!), a short war in another timeline that involved freeing several hundred cold constructed slaves and toppling a Functionist government, and a week-long carnival/party open to all of Cybertron.
The Lost Light is about to head back into space to continue its journey to find the Knights of Cybertron, and immediately get involved in another exciting distraction quest.
On Cybertron:
During the Combiner Wars, Devastator successfully destroyed the space bridge, cutting off Cybertron's access to its colonies. The Constructicons were arrested, Defensor and Optimus Maximus never formed, and Starscream has spent the last year trying to reestablish space bridge contact with the colonies. So there’s no Council of Worlds, and Cybertron hasn’t met any colonies besides Caminus—yet.
Recently, when the Lost Light came home (and threw the carnival/party), Devastator went on a rampage, and Starscream created Defensor to stop him. Now, Devastator—headed by an unexpectedly repentant Prowl—has voluntarily joined Starscream.
Right now, Cybertron is focusing on rebuilding its most recent damage. It's beginning to try to bring the disaffected Decepticons & Autobots into Iaconian mainstream society—and new, undocumented multiversal immigrants as well. The space bridge hasn't been repaired yet, but that's just around the corner, and then Cybertron will be in contact with its colonies across the rest of the galaxy—as well as other universes.
On Earth:
Currently, we have no characters on Earth. Cybertron's space bridge has been broken since Combiner Wars, Jazz and Prowl have been primarily on Cybertron or the Lost Light since then, and Tarantulas is dead, so most of post-Combiner Wars exRID and the entirety of Sins of the Wreckers didn't happen. If you want to play a character that you want to have on Earth, you'll get to have more power to decide how much or little the plot stuck to canon. We encourage being creative and making up new plotlines.
Requested characters
We'll be happy to get any new characters! These are the ones that our current players have said they'd be particularly excited to see join. If you want to join but don't know who you want to play, you might want to check the list below for ideas. The number of people who requested each character is listed after the character.
Blurr
Chromedome
Chromia (3)
Cyclonus (3)
Five Hundred Decepticons (in other words, our verse barely has any Decepticons and we want LOTS more.)
Grapple
Ironhide (3)
Magnus
Mirage
Nautica
Nightbeat
Protectobots (besides First Aid)
Ratchet
Rattrap (2)
Rung
Skids
Swerve (2)
Tailgate
Warpath
Waspinator
Of course, you don’t have to play any of these characters, and if you’ve already got a blog with a character you’d like to join us you’re welcome to offer them.
Current characters
After deep thought, soul-searching, and meditation, I decided that I do not feel like listing all our current characters, on the grounds that some of them come and go, half of them are multiversal, many are inactive, and I am lazy. If you're curious to know if we have a specific character already, contact our mods (I’m one!) and ask about it.
Plus, we don’t want to discourage you from asking to join us with a character that’s already “taken”! Even if a character is taken, you can still play another version of the character. For example, we have a native IDW Blaster, and an AU Blaster from the Dreamwave comic continuity, both living on the Lost Light. We've also had two IDW Drifts, one who was native and one who moved in from another very-similar-but-not-quite-identical IDW timeline. So don't despair if the character you really really wanted to play is taken, we can probably make it work anyway.
How To Join
If you’re interested in joining, contact one of our mods OOC: contact Roddy on rodimusstars, or Puff (that’s me!) on verdigrisprowl, or just apply IC as the character you want to play as at one of the posts below:
Lost Light Crew Recruitment Post Cybertron Immigration & Census Post