Idk how yall do it bruh, I am not gods strongest soldier bc how tf do you even draw mechs🗣️🗣️🗣️💀😭🙏🏽I rly struggled and wanted to be fun with giving OP some detailed helm pieces/mods but about halfway through I gave up and just did whatever with no sketches or references. I tried to draw his tfONE design but with elements of his prime design
‼️⬇️Yapping below⬇️‼️
I have been trying to make some hdcs for an au I’m working on for them. One of them being that Optimus gets modded to all hell for temple visits, it takes about let’s say the equivalent of at least three earth days of preparation. Everybot that is able to makes him pieces and armor just for him to wear on these visits, like they’ll be stuck in the forge until they make something they think is worthy of being worn by him🔨. These pieces also take a long time to put on him, since he takes off all of his original armor and some parts are more intricate than others. He also keeps his chest bare and the matrix visible.
Since he’s the closest being to primus and the only current prime, he puts a lot of pride into his appearance within the temples. He also does not wear his battle mask at all within the temples or other settings that have any sort of religious/sacred semblance. He considers himself to not be the biggest presence whenever he’s in these places so he feels comfortable enough to let his guard down and present the scarred and damaged parts of him as they are. As if he were also one of primus’ sparklings. It goes without saying that bloodshed is forbidden within the temples, and he allows any decepticons (who wish to do so) to attend or be present for events, though neither except for a handful have taken advantage of this act of sincerity.
I have so many headcanons about sparklings for this au as well, one of them being that there’s not really any “infant” stages in most instances of their “births”. In this au there is more than one way for a bot to come into existence, but one of the main points I want to make is that no bots actually go through a pregnancy type phase as I want to fully go in with their asexual reproduction methods. Optimus is the exception to this but even then he can’t carry an actual form within himself, rather, he creates sparks that will later on inhabit bot forms. Hence the bee sketch I made here, he is giving his form its spark. (More on bee later though, I have more details on him)🔊. Optimus does manage to create shells which ig you could say are “eggs” at some point, and technically something he created/birthed, except in order for these shells to develop proper protoforms and develop enough to be transferred to a second location for further care, the caretaker(in this case whoever cares for them would be a mentor/parental figure) would have to “feed” it parts of themself and portion energon fuels to it. This is probably one of the more tedious methods but it does allow for the new generation of bots to directly inherit traits and appearances from whoever cared for it.
There are many methods but they all occur at different points in time in accordance to the planet’s current state or how Optimus is feeling and ultimately decided by primus. He usually feels a calling or instinctually does some odd things in order for there to be a mass of bots being brought online. He didn’t even know he was building bees form until he was almost finished🗣️, but further on that, Bee is the only bot he has ever personally built piece by piece and brought online all by himself. It is also why he is so precious to him.
Many assume that it’s bc he made Bee in primus’ image, but Bee was made with so much care and hope and was created with everything Optimus had in mind for him, he was made in Optimus’ image not Primus. Bee is the closest Primus has ever allowed Optimus come to being an actual god, as he fully created him from scratch and even protected the spark he made for him for centuries until he finally brought him online. I thought it’d be a nice contrast to have the bots/sparklings all have a colorless form before they’re brought online, like how they lose all their color after they die. So, Bee here is gaining his frame color. His birth is also witnessed by nearly all of cybertron when Optimus brings him online.
As for cliffjumper and hot rod, they come from other instances/ clutches of sparklings and would literally be Optimus “pick of the litter” if we’re being real. Even then he usually feels a connection to them before they’re brought online are even brought online. They are his protégés basically and are considered to be Optimus’ heirs in a way. Optimus also has many “bastards” that he procured among his high command. Though most of them have no clue that they are. In this instance, Optimus gives a spark for the bots amongst him to protect within their chassis and that established their direct link to them. Ik it all sounds complicated but I’ve been hallucinating all of these scenarios at work for months, so it makes sense to me💔
I have a lot more on their personalities and how Optimus, Bee, CJ, and HR operate as a monarchy but this has already been such a big yap. I’ll save the rest for later for when I have more energy to do another TF post bc why are they so hard.
