CROW IF YOU SEE THIS DO NOT READ THE LONG ASK ABOUT GOLDSHOT. IT HAS SPOILERS. I DID AN OOPSIE I REPEAT DO NOT READ THE LONG GOLDSHOT ASK
Hi Nonny,
Again, another instance of how long it's been.
While i'm here, I want to answer something about Goldshot. I'm super sensitive about it. Like, I'm literally a little triggered by it. Here's what i mean. Goldshot really pushed a lot of my limits and tested me in a bad way as a writer. I don't think i finished it and I'm afraid of looking at it because I do not believe Goldshot (as it is right now) is my best work at all.
That being said (and seeing a lot of people asking after it), i believe I may want to re-write the entire fic.
Which OC would you ever consider to be your 'favourite'?
Which OC would you consider to have a 'gremlin mode'?
Which pair of OCs would you put into a box together and watch to see what happens?
Which OCs would fight each other for the last piece of cake and which OC would steal said cake while the others are fighting?
Which one would be least likely to sacrifice themselves for another?
Which OC would you consider to be a 'bad guy'?
I had this partly written and then tumblr erased it-
anyway I love talking about my lil guys thank you :3
Which OC would you ever consider to be your 'favourite'? Oh that's my guy Rowan! I made him in 2015 so he's also my oldest OC. He's a bisexual nonbinary polyamorous Catalan paleontologist, born and raised in rural California as a second-generation immigrant, who's also a dinosaur shapeshifter (Utahraptor edition). He's gotten so much depth since I first played him but he's still mouthy, chaotic, and got the baddassery and skills to back up the boasting. Fun dude.
Which OC would you consider to have a 'gremlin mode'? Oh Nox for sure. They said that they wanted their name to be obnoxious and their captain said I think the closest we can manage is Nox, which they accepted because they thought it sounded cool. Their birthday is April 1st because it's April Fool's Day and they are in fact a fool. Plus they're unaware of a few minor social concepts like 1) an inside voice 2) personal space 3) gender. They have a neon pink sidecut. You know how it is.
Which pair of OCs would you put into a box together and watch to see what happens? Hmmm I'm gonna say Kestrel and Goldshot. Kestrel is my ROTTMNT guy, it was one of the two secret siblings that the fanbase was theorising about, and I call it Teenage Mutant Winter Soldier because, well, that sums it up pretty well. Goldshot is an Autobot OC from a Jurassic Park fusion-AU-thing with a red and beige JP jeep as an alt form. When the hurricane happened, she went to the nursery to see if the babies were all right, and a nest of raptor newborns and a month-old dilo imprinted on her and became part of the Autobot squad. I just think they could be interesting and she would befriend it and not be phased by its biting.
Which OCs would fight each other for the last piece of cake and which OC would steal said cake while the others are fighting? Fury and Racer fight over dumb shit all the time (lovingly in the way that two chaotic siblings do). Whisper is absolutely the one who steals the cake while they're up to their shit. Sometimes it's because xe didn't realise what they were fighting for. Sometimes xe decides that you snooze you lose.
Which one would be least likely to sacrifice themselves for another? This is actually a 'thing' with Nihaan. He's the squad's leader so he's typically the only guy that a natborn talks to, because they generally don't care to talk with the rest of the squad. In an emergency, he's under strict orders to not sacrifice himself for anyone. They're meant to die for him instead. One of Nihaan's biggest roles, when things go FUBAR, is to keep the natborn calm and close so they can be most effectively protected. He can't do that if he's dead. It's something that eats at him. He loves them as much as they love him, but he'll never be able to make the ultimate sacrifice for them, like they can do for him.
Which OC would you consider to be a 'bad guy'? Hmmm this is one that really made me think tbh! I don't have a lot of OCs that are like, 'bad guys'. Villainous characters generally don't interest me unless I can see a lot of nuance and layers in there (like an onion or perhaps a parfait). Carno and Shrike could both qualify, perhaps. Carno is a violent freak (love him but holy shit). Shrike is a medic who bluntly tells dying clones that they're fucked and walks away from them to see if there's clones he can save.
And yes. I'm asking about all of them (Nightflash, Stormbrake, Rowan, etc.)
Stormbrake and Nightflash were part of the same group of civilian bots. Leadership got news that the Decepticons were closing in, and sent Stormbrake off with the sparklings to get them as far from danger as possible. They were the only survivors. When Stormbrake later decided to join the rebellion to fight back against the bots who killed his family, Nightflash snuck off after him. He couldn't convince feyr to leave so they both became members of the rebellion.
When Mirage almost stepped on Rowan's bike, Rowan promptly followed him back to the base, bitching him out all the way for his carelessness. Mirage pointed the yelly human toward Optimus so Optimus could handle it (aka so Optimus could get yelled at instead), and Rowan promptly gave Optimus a piece of his mind too. Optimus was what you might call unimpressed. Rowan did not much care.
Goldshot was one of the bots on Optimus' work team, before the war broke out. She was in the last twenty years of being a sparkling when she joined his team, young at the time for such a role but very skilled. She was an even-headed sparkling, besides her instinct to adopt every animal she saw, so they got along pretty well. She was one of the bots to survive the war and arrive on Earth, where she promptly found a whole bunch of new animals to adopt.
*presents each of your Transformers OCs with a very affectionate cow*
I wanna see how they respond to Cow
Goldshot adopts the cow instantly. She loves animals and she adopts everything she can find. If this is post-park, she has a hell of a time keeping the dilophosaurus away from the cow, never mind all the raptors. But she manages it and has a delightful time expanding her menagerie. Optimus is very, very tired but Goldshot is no longer a sparkling that listens when he says not to do things.
Nightflash finds glow-in-the-dark necklaces to put around the cow's neck so they're all matchy-matchy with the lights (kind of, nobody can exactly match whatever it is that Nightflash is doing). Fey is not prepared to care for the cow and eventually Mirage convinces feyr to let Noah take it to a friend in the country. Fey delightedly receives pics of the cow for the rest of its life. Fey names it after feyrself.
Stormbrake is stressed over the added responsibility. He assumes the cow is the pet of one of his sparklings. When it turns out it's not, he calls dibs on the cow before one of them can get any ideas about keeping it. This is just so he can find a way to get the thing out of the city before anyone gets bonded. Fortunately this works. He has fond memories of the moment but he could not keep it and stay sane.
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