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i love the idea of targetmasters…

interesting topic of choice for a first ramble, but i’m very serious. someone please match my freak about these things :(

anyway g1 targetmasters are really gay, and so are headmasters but i’m focusing on targetmasters. there’s something so inherently intimate about binding yourself to someone else, serving them with your body for both of your protection. like, your partner has to hold and use you, and you have to have full undying trust and love and respect for the other person to not be mistreated. your partner is a weapon of mass destruction and they trust you to protect them and yourself. that type of dynamic in a war setting is just so tragic yet so good for writing.

for the past year and a half since i got back into transformers, i’ve been hyper focused on specifically the crosshairs and pinpointer/pointech partnership; drawing art and collecting their figures and studying their designs.

[drawn- dec.2023-jan.2024]

earthspark concept [drawn- idk mid-2024]

out of the original g1 guys that weren’t pre-established main characters or were paired w/ main characters— sureshot, pointblank, crosshairs, pinpointer, peacemaker, and spoilsport— crosshairs and pinpointer are said to have a good relationship. out of the entire gang, these two are the only ones who actually work together and stick together. willingly. sureshot and spoilsport are butting helms because their egos are too big, and pointblank is completely depressed with peacemaker trying to make, well, peace. I’m sure the japanese headmaster cartoon works off this very well, but i haven’t seen it yet. it’s high on my priority list, so please no spoilers.

yeah the characters were made for a gimmick and were introduced in a pathetic season 4, but i liked it. the cybertronian characters went off to become their own things, but it feels like the nebulan/partner aspect of the headmaster/targetmaster dynamic is terribly underutilized in storytelling. the closest thing I can really think of to a modern story including a targetmaster-like dynamic was rid-15, but then that comes into question of “is it a targetmaster or just a minibot/con?” and i’m not too sure how to think of it.

i just want a story where a cybertronian meets and pairs up with an organic or a smaller cybertronian and they become targetmasters. but the entire time, they’re both grappling with the fact that their entire dynamic hinders on war, and they both grow exhausted from fighting. they can’t break the bond, because it’s too ingrained by the time they both are sick of war, and so they both have to heal and fight together, side by side, while trying to keep each other safe and healthy. because why would they want to die now? they made it this far, they could go further, could go until the war ends and they can retire to the countryside and finally get married or whatever.

anyway, TL;DR— big robot hold little robot/organic like a gun makes my heart hurt and brain explode with angsty story ideas.

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Transformers: Mosaic #444 - "Learning Curve"

Originally posted on December 31st, 2009

Story - Franco Villa Art - Ed Pirrie Colours - John-Paul Bove Thanks to - Juan Pablo Osorio

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: Why the connection between Crosshairs and Wheeljack? Per Villa on deviantART: “I just thought they were "related" because of the similar faces and the engineering interests”. Ed Pirrie often takes inspiration from Geoff Senior for his artwork, and this strip is no exception. On deviantART he noted: “I based Wheeljack's robot mode on his design in the War Within comics, only less bulky.” That robot on the very right in the first panel is actually Afterburner, recoloured as an original characters because technically speaking in cartoon continuity Afterburner wasn’t built yet at the point of this flashback! The revised version of this strip would take this idea even further by recolouring Wideload as well, who first appeared in the cartoon’s fourth season. Preview, clean inks and Italian verison below.

Dear, Vector Prime.

How did Megatron acquire Pinpointer and Lionizer? What happened to their partners Crosshairs and Rad?

Dear Battle Befuddled,

The Megatron of that universe was typical of many Megatrons, believing Decepticonism was the only philosophy that could and should exist—even if he'd have to warp the minds and sparks of others to make it so. You may recall his fiendish plan to reformat all Autobots into Decepticons, but that was just one in a long line of schemes. The Battle Masters arose from a previous plot of his, which saw him abduct several Micromasters—including Pinpointer and Lionizer—in order for Shockwave to create a type of weapon which could be powered by a living spark. The experiment was technically a success, but to Megatron’s disgust, the so-called Battle Masters retained the ability to transform—and with it, a degree of autonomy he viewed as unacceptable.

Naturally, the Autobots fielded a strike force on a rescue mission. When Megatron knocked away Crosshair's W-35 LR Doomblast Forge Launcher with his HPR Telescopic Laserstrike Launcher blade, Pinpointer leapt into the fray, transforming into his new Dual Rocket-Propelled Grenade Launcher mode to grant Crosshairs some heavy ordinance. The blasts' effect sent Megatron reeling, enabling the Autobots to escape with their rescuees, and return to the Ark.

Optimus Prime saw what Megatron had done to the Battle Masters as an atrocity, and sought a way to reverse the procedure, but most of the Battle Masters instead wanted to follow Pinpointer's example in using their new power to fight back, eagerly partnering up with Autobot soldiers. Lionizer teamed up with Rad, adopting a new color scheme, and the two joined Prowl's recon mission to Praxus in the waning days of the Siege on Cybertron. Rad had actually started out as a researcher in Praxus, eventually reaching the rank of Space Command Engineering Sergeant, but he got along with the short-tempered, brooding Lionizer surprisingly well.