Lathe of Operation: Burning Sky was one of a number of Made to Order soldiers mass-produced in the wake of the Simanzi Massacree and the Forced Flood, though his wheeled alternate mode put him at a severe disadvantage in the boggy, waterlogged terrain that ultimately stymied the Autobot campaign. Like many MTOs, he found religion early on in the war, and his faith in Primus and the divinity of his “Chosen One” ultimately persuaded him to abandon the Autobots and join Starscream’s government, though he did not escape Cybertron before Unicron’s attack on the metal world.
Updraft of Devisiun emigrated to Cybertron along with her combiner sister Downwind. A medic by trade, she was fascinated by the study of mecha-biology and the allopatric processes which had resulted in several notable Cybertronian subspecies—though she was also more than a bit conceited and regarded her modular, energy-efficient body as superior to the “primitive” Cybertronian form.
Sump of Teledonia was an unsung hero of the war: when the conflict moved offworld, he was one of the Autobots under Bulkhead’s command, who battled Dauros and his Decepticons as they tried to destabilize the planet Frellus IV using infiltration protocol. Along with Turbine, Undertow, and Yamada-3, these heroes narrowly foiled Dauros’s plan to exterminate the native Hasmata by inflaming geopolitical tensions and deliberately sparking a thermonuclear conflict. Something of an egotist, Sump assumed that he would be handsomely commended for his cool head and heroism, but was dismayed to learn that Optimus Prime had already left his command post to take care of another situation on a backwater planet called “Earth”—it is unsurprising that he deserted the Autobots at the first opportunity. Despite his newfound faith in the Chosen One, he died during the Iron Ring’s attack on Iacon.
playstationstartupsound replied to your post “[[MOR] star vs has gotten so bad so fast im actually heartbroken”
wait what happened? i didn't watch the new episodes
ah this might get a little rant-y so i will put it under the break
the entire premise of being a “rebel” princess has been completely bastardized. it is no longer about bringing change and overthrowing the system it now advertises following the rules disguised by a trite phony claim of “being different” and punk-ish clothes
the previously thinly veiled racism and white savior themes have become majorly problematic
glossaryck, who was already a racist caricature, was resurrected and is now infantile to the point of being treated like a pet dog
the “knight of the wash” (the laundry man), who everyone looks down upon, is brown
marco. ohhhhh my god. ok so aside from the trans stuff which i’ll get to in a second she’s probably the biggest problem here. she moves to mewni because apparently she’s become obsessed with mewni (despite the fact that she’s been there before) and becomes a squire (a servant) for the laundry man and then becomes a squire for star. there’s a whole episode about marco wanting to be the best squire she can be. the mexican literally becomes a servant to the aryan princess.
the killing of toffee, which was supposedly the first step in star’s revolution, turned out to be her only step. the monsters vs the mewmans being a metaphor for colonialism (as shown in the episode mewnipendance day) was already iffy because they kept pushing the monsters as being the bad guys, but now that toffee was revealed to be the leader of the monster rebellion to reclaim their homeland*, and neither star nor the mewman government has expressed any interest in restoring the monsters’ rights, it’s become alarmingly clear that they are pro-colonialism
also just. everything about star being the ultimate savior. she’s literally blonde with blue eyes. personally i thought they were pushing marco to end up being the actual hero but it seems theyre going in the opposite direction with marco becoming subservient to star
princess marco, who the crew was actively coding as a trans girl, was absolutely ruined in the most recent episode, “princess turdina”.
in the s1 st olga’s episode, she expresses a desire to “keep the dress” and in the episode “heinous” she asks if she can stay in the dress and in the book she says that wearing a dress was “liberating” but now she says that wearing a dress was restricting and uncomfortable
it plays out that she was "lying” about being a girl and she was only doing it for the attention she got
like i cannot stress enough how much it played up marco being a boy. it was so much and at the end they were like “oohohhh boy princess!!” and it was like this big reveal i hated it so much
star says that marco’s rebellious persona is fake because she’s actually super organized; not only once again pushing that everything she did was fake but also that being organized cannot exist alongside or even help a revolution (despite the opposite being true)
the writing is really weird
the new episodes seem to lack real endings and just drag out for some reason
marco becomes really obsessed with mewni despite having visited multiple times to the point where it’s all she talks about, which is really unlike her. and she decides to move to mewni, because that’s going to help somehow. and everyone in her family and all her friends are just okay with it and none of it makes any sense
they’re really pushing the romance drama which imo is bad but what’s really stupid is that they made marco and jackie break up because she was obsessed with mewni. and i already mentioned how the mewni obsession was weird and out of nowhere. but if they were just gonna break up then why have them get together in the first place??
also also they implied that marco returned to mewni in the hopes that she could date star, which is weird,
also also also star and tom are back together again. which is. super weird. because why. they literally were playing up star’s crush on marco so much and she just drops it like it’s nothing Okay
as a result of marco leaving earth all the characters and development we got on earth are basically gone now. goodbye janna and jackie i guess???
the animation quality has dropped SUBSTANTIALLY like WOW did it get bad
and all this happened in basically a week. i’m just really upset
* i’m not saying that excuses toffee’s actions, what he did was bad, but at the same time one could make the argument that he was only really bad because the writers wanted to paint the natives as bad
