#many au thoughts

[bloodonmysqueegee]

Various marks au doodles

3 guys and the one they're going to try and murder

bonus copia below

[karlyanalora]

First Aid and Shockwave for the character breakdown!! —cmo

(From this)

For First Aid I'm giving my general thoughts, unbound by continuity and influenced by my favorite fics featuring him.

How I feel about him: He's a sweetheart. You know how the fandom insists Ratchet will treat anyone? They're thinking of First Aid. He's a kind soul who deserves more screen time and love in the fandom.

Who I ship him with: Nobody. He doesn't strike me as a character interested in romance. I think he's pretty fulfilled by being part of a combiner.

Platonic OTP: His brothers in Defensor. @playswithworms Protectobots AU has greatly influenced how I see their dynamic and I adore it.

I do have thoughts of him trying to draw Ambulon into the gestalt (and scaring the crap out of command when it works.) The Protectobots have always been this way and shared this gestalt bond. Ambulon brings a needed dose of the outside world.

I love the fandom concept of combiners following one member of the gestalt into death, unwilling to let any member be alone. (I further propose you have to kill two and have at least two alive to prevent this.)

Ambulon would not be okay with that. He'd fight tooth and nail to keep the rest of the Protectobots rooted in life. I just think that while Defensor is pretty healthy as a gestalt, there are some unhealthy things in the gestalt they just don't realize are bad, and Ambulon as an outsider made insider could point out.

Unpopular Opinion Time: He's kind of boring in canon? Like there's tons of potential. But most of it is wasted. I feel like I love him, but it's hard to remember what parts of my love for him are based in canon fact.

I wish...: So we know when the Comabticons combined with a comatose Swindle in IDW, it was super freaky for them? I'd loved to have seen similar comic panels of what it was like for First Aid to be in a combiner with a dead body. Were there echoes of Ambulon?

For Shockwave

How I feel about him: Senator Shockwave my beloved. I will never not be obsessed. I know he's only canon in IDW, but I project him into all my favorite continuities. It just adds such depth and tragedy.

Who I ship him with: Self-indulgence time. I'd ship TFA Shockwave with a Senator Shockwave background with TFA Red Alert. A senator secretly courting a medic. And then Shockwave disappears.

For Red Alert, she knows medically what has happened to her love. That what they had is gone. But it hurts to see him on the opposite side of the war. You know how in canon she lost an arm? Yeah, Shockwave did that.

And then the War is over and she's growing close to the young Longarm Prime. She reminds her of her dear Senator so much. And it's like Longarm has always known her.

Because he has. And her heart gets broken all over again.

(I blame the fanart.)

Platonic OTP: @novafire-is-thinking has given me Soundwave and Senator Shockwave brainrot. Something about working with and knowing Shockwave before and after. It only works in AUs, but they are such delicious AUs.

The urge to fix Shockwave but also the struggle of knowing he will never be the same. How does it feel to know people care about a version of you that no longer exists? Does Soundwave even care about what you are now? Do you care?

Unpopular Opinion: The boobs are weird and should die.

I wish...: TFA Shockwave is clearly very intelligent. I would really love to see the canon explanation for why his brain cells all disappear when it comes to pleasing and obeying Megatron.