#idw sharpclaw

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Guess who’s doing Sharpclaw art studies >:3

THIS GUYYYY‼️✨

(p.s. I know I re-designed her a bit, I just wanted to add a tiny bit of that Sphny flare)

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Now that I’m reading The Echo Garden again, my brain has been AUing-it-up since Chapter 7. And now I’ve imagined a TEG AU where they find Strongarm and Sharpclaw from the Last Bot Standing comics… But differently.

I’m in my Strongclaw era okay…

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Strongarm survives the crash that Rodimus caused when he shot her ship down when they were on Donnokt. And she’s been too damaged and too scared to go against Rodimus’s wishes to not make contact with other Cybertronians since.

Sharpclaw survives being shot by Steeljaw when she jumps in front of the Energon fissure. Rodimus tries to take her, presumed dead, body back to her ship with the rest of her fallen clan afterwards.

Then Strongarm ends up killing Rodimus with Sharpclaw’s help. Though they both feel guilty afterwards, even if they’ve already been aware of their nearly extinct species.

What the two do next is to work together to help Sharpclaw’s clan members back into their ship. But they eventually never wake up from stasis when combined, and they go offline in their recharge. Strongarm then—after lots of convincing—gets Sharpclaw to help harvest enough of the Energon from the planet to be able to get the ship running. After that, they can find other Cybertronians and leave the Donnoktians in peace… It’s what Rodimus would’ve wanted.

But they kept running into trouble with sentient organics on the planet, and a lot of them don’t like Cybertronians. They’ve been doing their best to maintain themselves and their ship and the Energon harvesting while trying to outrun those trying to dismantle them ever since.

Eventually they grew close, becoming good friends. It’s practically the end of the world so they’ve been sharing everything with each other; the highs and the lows. And sharing what all they can remember about their pasts—which isn’t that much—but they probably know each other better than anyone else alive right now.

So they’re making the most of what they got.

It’s until that they’re both trying their best to make their way across the desert with parts from Strongarm’s ship for Sharpclaw’s ship—that a Cybertronian originated ship appears out of nowhere. They both make their way towards the place the ship landed—

—only to see Rodimus there with the crew… A very alive Rodimus, to be specific.

They’re both rightfully freaked out—thinking they’re both having the same hallucinations at the same time—and start to panic. Accidentally drawing attention to themselves, the crew along with Rodimus, notices them and they try to play it off saying that they don’t need any help from them.

The crew knows they’re lying, because in reality they both look like shit to the point of being unrecognizable, so the crew insists they come with them. But because Strongarm and Sharpclaw are both panicking, looking terrible, feeling horrible, and their processors are already taking more than enough damage from long-term heat exposure—they book it out of there.

And not before being able to throw a rock at Rodimus to double check if he’s a stress/heat/trauma-induced hallucination.

They get caught for a number of reasons. One being in a chase they collided into each other and they both went out cold. And now they’re being questioned in the Med-Bay about their names, their whereabouts, their health, and most importantly: if they want to join them on the Lost Light.

It just so happens that the universe has an intense preference for cruel irony, that they end up on a ship that’s co-captained by the guy they murdered.

Now we find the two recently rescued individuals as they navigate the Lost Light and it’s overwhelming community of strangers. All the while trying to decipher whether or not if they’re awake or dreaming, hallucinating or imagining, or alive or dead—and maybe if this is their afterlife. Their haven or their hell.

They still think Rodimus is some kind of metaphysical representation of their Rodimus’s spirit seeking revenge on them.

Not to mention they both practically have amnesia with how little they remember their pasts or even their species’ Great War—they don’t even know if it was over. And if it was they certainly didn’t get the memo.

So from now on, they’re apart of the crew, and they’re both doing their best to fit in whilst standing out. Helping each other to find their place in society. Figuring out who they are and what they want to be. It’s terrifying and exciting and neither of them know what’s going to happen.

Just as long as they remain sharp and stay strong, they’ll be just fine.

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p.s. I’m probably not gonna take this too seriously. It’s honestly just really fun to think about my favorite crack-ship being apart of the fic that heavily inspired me storytelling-wise. Which just so happens to be within the crack-ship genre as well. It’s hilarious, I know.

p.p.s. I have not read any IDW/Last Bot Standing comics, I’ve only read a LOT of TFWiki bios—and memes—that I’m very confident that I know the basic-basic gist of the LBS plot line enough to alter a few things for this AU.