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[mmilhoja]

what the hell sure

[wistsandmagic]

Found a Picrew that lets you make robots~ It's called Mechanoid Maker. SO, been playing with it. Have some of Blurr, Vortex, and Override's kids! (No Gyre because Glyph's still hashing out her design) BUT! You get Drift and the Triplets! In order: Drift, Windblade, and Sunstreaker and Sideswipe! Both the blue and white and the gold/red versions are the Sunnyside boys, they're just both currently blue and white because they're mimicking Blurr and teasing him with the fact that they are basically little clones of him. Windblade's 'jealous', she's their fraternal triplet and didn't wind up being a virtual clone of ANY of her parents. ...not sure how in the world Drift turned out to look so incredibly worried, but as that's rather accurate, because his younger siblings are gonna turn him grey before his time, I left it as is. Oh, and Sunny and Sides have City Speaker markings because they're matching their triplet...aaaand because there's a very long and intricate con-game going on to keep the Mistress of Flame from taking Windblade back to Caminus and separating her from her family. So the parents have City Speaker markings too, not just the kids. And then the little purple thing down on the bottom? That's Proxima, Megatron's spicy sparkling daughter. They have 3 eyes under that visor but the picrew maker doesn't have the option for that, so no visorless look for you! They wear a visor anyway, light hurts. (Also they have very sharp shark teeth but again, no option, so no BITEY look for once. Just a scowl!)

[colour-me-robot]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Transformers Animated (2007) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Shockwave (Transformers), Skyquake (Transformers), Wildbreak (Transformers), Transformers OC Additional Tags: Blurred Lines AU, Mention of Gore, Part of a greater plot, Warning for momentary violence, Shockwave is a good uncle, he's just very mad, What would have possibly happened if The Cube DIDN'T happen, or at least part of it, no beta we die Series: Part 1 of Blurred Lines and Shifted Sparks Summary:

(Eventually) a collection of smaller one-shots set within the TFA: Blurred Lines and Shifted Sparks universe, where Blurr was never cubed and Shockwave...winds up being a traitor, but for the other side. If friendships had remained, had turned into something MORE, and Suddenly There Are Going To Be Some Serious Changes Around Here. These are the side-bits that don't fit into the main plotline, though they are definitely part of it, and involve multiple characters and multiple viewpoints. Not necessarily Blurrwave.

Just FYI, as more one-shots get added, the rating WILL more than likely go up, very possibly to Explicit. Warnings for any explicit or chapters will come at the beginning of the chapter, so they can be skipped if that's not your cup of tea.

[override-skyfish]

It's a Set! In all his skinny young teenaged glory~

[wistsandmagic]

Print I'm taking to BotCon to hopefully get signed by Gregg Berger. *fingers crossed*

My own take on G1 Grimlock, and yes I did add some Earthspark elements to it BECAUSE HE'S CUTE OKAY.

[wistsandmagic]

Any Perceptor headcanons? Also Ark/Teletraan or Metroplex. :P

Heh. You talked about how your Brainstorm doesn't believe when people flirt with him?

Perceptor, for both Eterna and TFA doesn't know how to flirt. Eterna Perceptor understands the existence of flirting, but despite all his brilliance, that is a skill he has never quite managed to master. To him, 'flirting' consists of intense mathematical debates or very deadpan sarcasm, so...it's somewhat difficult to tell if he's being normal or if he is trying to make someone realize he is interested in them. The one true 'tell' he has is if he starts talking in-depth about the stars. He may be a microscope, but he is an astronomer, and it is his first passion. He doesn't share that passion easily.

TFA Percy, on the other hand, does not even understand the concept of flirting. He understands love and lust, despite what some people may think, but flirting does not exist. It is not a skill to be developed, the very concept is so alien as to be nonexistent for him. (Yes, even after Brainstorm 'fixes' him by putting his personality back into place. It didn't exist as a concept before Percy removed that part of his own processor.)

Going back to Eterna, Perceptor very, very rarely uses his alt-mode. He only does it when someone asks him to, for his degree of precise magnification and focus as a microscope is unparalleled, but he does not go into his alt easily or, truthfully, all that willingly. Spending more than 10 minutes in his altmode gives him crippling back pain and a migraine with such intense light-sensitivity that he can't function for the rest of the day afterward. He also has not told anyone this. It used to be bearable, until the Decepticon boarding party on the Ark that shot him in the face and made him lose his eye. Now it is not, and if he can get out of transforming, he will.

Ark and Teletraan, huh? Well, first off, for a very long time, not many people realized that Ark and Teletraan were actually two separate bots. It was 'common knowledge' that Straxus of Darkmount had commissioned hotspot Sparks to be nurtured into Vanguard-class Titan frames, to create an army of spaceships that would carry him and his elites of Praxus off of Cybertron with all the wealth they could carry, leaving the planet to its fate. These bots were supposed to be held as slaves via a computer installed in their bridge, which would allow them to communicate with the much smaller bots that would crew them. For most of the Arks, this was true.

For Ark-23, named Arcturius (though he just goes by Ark, honestly), this was not the case, as a rogue hotspot Spark landed into the frame of the computer that was supposed to enslave the newborn Vanguard Titan, and became another bot entirely, named Teletraan-1. This nullified the slave-coding, and Teletraan became Ark's City Speaker, so to speak, and grew alongside him as a constant companion that no one knew about. Everyone assumed that Ark-23 had designated himelf Teletraan, as all the other ships had given themselves names to differentiate between them, and this was allowed by the slave-coding. Teletraan and Ark thought it prudent to not correct anyone...until Straxus, an active Decepticon sympathizer (because it served Praxus's interests) BUT more interested in saving his own skin than helping any 'cause', began actively planning to leave.

They were going to run away, until a small contingent of Autobots managed to sneak through the Praxian security in Darkmount and stole Ark and Teletraan out from under Straxus' nose. Unfortunately, the Autobots didn't know that Ark was a sentient ship; they thought he was a regular ship with Teletraan being an enslaved Cybertronian bound to the ship. They thought all of the Ark ships had been such, as a Titan-class Cybertronian had not been naturally born in millennia. Eventually Ark and Teletraan told them. Uh. Via...waiting on everyone to leave for the day and having Ark transform into his bot mode to wait on them to get back, while Teletraan waited on his shoulder.

Needless to say, THAT was an interesting conversation.

As for Metroplex, you get a shortie because I have done WAY TOO MUCH RAMBLING ALREADY. How did this get so long?

Anyway. Metroplex has synesthesia. Diagnosed by medics, and that is one major reason the tiny sparkling, not even old enough to be a youngling yet, named Windblade from Caminus was assigned as his City Speaker when Cybertron made contact with Caminus, as she also has synesthesia. The other major reason is that Metroplex and Metrotitan, the Elder Twins, were and ARE the largest of the 13 Legendary Titans, and Windblade is such a strong telepath, that despite her age (or perhaps because of it, as she was branded as a City Speaker at the equivalent age of four) she was the only one that stood a chance of being able to interpret Metroplex's speech without immediately having her brain boiled from the sheer immensity Of Him.

Metroplex honestly prefers communicating via colours and sounds and moving shapes, as actual speech and letters for text communication is still incredibly difficult for him, even after he's managed to heal as far as he has. He still has a long way to go, and straining himself slows down his recovery. Thankfully, his incredibly young City Speaker understands his 'colour-language' just fine, as do both of her triplets, thanks to their connection with her, and Metroplex does not have to strain himself to speak to his charges very often. It's genuinely helping him heal much faster than projected, to the point that he is able to actively look outside his own Speaker Chamber now to watch his charges (the bots living in his cityscape) as they go about their daily lives. He takes great pleasure in watching the tiny cadre of children get into mischief, and, unbeknownst to any parents of said children, sometimes actively encourages their mischief himself via a message sent through Windblade, Sunstreaker, or Sideswipe, depending on which of the triplets is closest to his Speaker Chamber at the time. He enjoys watching the kids get to be kids.

[wistsandmagic]

Hullo!! 🌹 and 🌻 for Soc? And 💫 for you? :D

Hiii! *waves* Thanks for the muse ask! THIS GOT LONG IT'S UNDER A READMORE!

🌹 Where in the world does your OC feel most at home? Is there any reason why? If it’s not the place they were born, where were they born? Is there a certain somebody that makes them feel at home where ever they may be? What does home mean to them? Oooh that's honestly actually very, very easy. Soc is most at home wherever his big brothers are. Usually that means in the house at Knossos with Tex, since Tex is his legal guardian, but sometimes that means in the Capital with Rel -- another of his big brothers! -- and Circe, Rel's wife! He's close to home when his kids are babysitting him for the weekend, but he's MOST at home with his big brothers, since they are the ones he was separated from for so very very long. Soc was born in University Hospital in the Capital, and then transferred to Greystone House when he was 10 years old (the equivalent of about 3 months old for him) where he stayed until he got put into the foster system. He has ZERO memory of this, and the Capital was home for a very long time because it is where he and his brothers lived. Now it's only home some of the time, whenever he's staying with Rel. No shade to Rel or Odin, buuuut if it comes down to it, wherever Tex is is where Soc is most at home. Soc bonded to Tex when he was even smaller than he is now and Tex is his. He's...ah...a little clingy. The autistic-toddler separation anxiety is REAL sometimes, but if big brother Tex is there it is eventually okay again. Which means, really, that 'home' just means his family. He's safe there, and with so much of his life spent being so very not safe that it's a Very Large miracle that he's still alive? Yeah, that's kind of a big deal.

🌻 What little things do they notice about people or the world around them that make them happy? What tiny little treasures do they find in the normal every day that makes the world seem a little brighter for them? Soc. Loves. Kitties. Any cat he sees he wants to touch, any person he sees that has something cat-related on them and he gets so excited that he starts stimming -- which sometimes causes seizures, but we try to prevent that -- and squealing like any 2 year old would at seeing something they adore. It makes him very happy to see cats, in any form. He also does other babies the exact same way. He loves babies and 'anna hodda babieee' in his words. XD

He also loves purple and sparkly things and there is almost nothing more magical than seeing purple flowers or a pretty sparkly rock that he can touch.

Also. Honestly. Probably the thing that makes the world the brightest for him is being picked up by a family member and cuddled. Even when he's in immense amounts of pain or is so overstimulated that he's having a meltdown, being cuddled is a sure-fire way to make things a little more okay. Just the reassurance that he's loved and he's wanted, and they're not going to go away and leave him alone again.

💫What is your favourite fact about this character and why?

Not gonna lie, I love the fact that Soc is an autistic toddler with the hyperintelligence of an adult astrophysicist, even if he leans more into the mechanical engineering thing than anything else. He is the equivalent of TWO and holds some 70 patents for inventions -- including a bio-computer system that the Kaberonian military uses -- and NOBODY BELIEVES HE IS A TODDLER.

At least until they hear him speak. It's kind of hard to deny he's a two year old when his speech is mostly baby babble. He's much more fluent with sign language, but he's a baby. He's still in diapers and goes to daycare, for pity's sake. XD

[wistsandmagic]

Aaaand the Empurata redesign for Shockwave is INKED. Stupid security-camera mask....

ANYWAY. My redesign with the 7 layers of welded-to-skin armour over his frame. And that damned gun arm. No wonder Ratchet had such a fit getting all of this off of him.

This goes with the protoform and current armour set HERE