Coming back well rested with ability to draw again. Started with something easy, to remember how to hold pen at all. I wanted to make a fankid for a while now SO HERE WE ARE, SAY HI TO MY GIRL AURORA
Next stop - requests. Thank you so much for you submissions I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS AND YET SO LITTLE ENERGY. I will work it out eventually but yay I'm back
Took many tries but I came up with some human designs for megoplita and skystar(I feel like skyfire could still use some work tbh) so that I could draw them and their babies
And I also made some colour adjustments to the human designs for aries, melody and starburst
Athena's Relationships in Transformers: Prime Pt. 2 ♡
Relationship Chart
Previous. . .
Note: I have changed Athena's role in TFP a little bit, so instead of her being a double agent for the Autobots and all that, she is instead taken by the Decepticons as a prisoner of war during the Beast Hunters storyline. So sorry if some things are a little confusing in this. Also, sorry if I got anything wrong, it's been a while since I've watched TFP.
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Decepticons 💜
Megatron
Athena knew Megatron from when she was younger and still went by her old name 'Crescent Moon'. Her sire Skyfire had taken her to go see Megatron in one of his gladiatorial fights, and she was impressed with his strength and became a fan.
Megatron met Athena after he won a fight, which he found her sneaking into the area where the fighters were resting. He recognized her from some photos her sire/carrier Starscream had (like the proud parent he is). Knowing that the place wasn't a safe area for a young femme, so he escorted her out while looking for her sire Starscream, whom he knew brought her here.
She'd ask him a lot of questions about his position, which he'd answer, though he'd obviously spare her the more gory details.
They used to have a decent relationship when she was younger, but that all changed when the Autobot/Decepticon war began.
When Athena and Skyfire were presumed to be deceased, Megatron had some conflicting emotions: while he knew Starscream was grieving, he refused to allow that to interfere with his job as SIC. He did think that it was a tragedy to lose Athena, though that was only because he saw her potential as a medic/soldier.
Megatron was stunned to learn that Athena was alive, since he was there the day the explosion happened in Skyfire's lab, more so when he learned that she apprenticed under the bounty hunter Lockdown, since he believed that the neutral bot would ever do such a thing. He initially believed that he'd be able to get her to join him again, but was disappointed when he discovered she joined Team Prime.
Since this happened around the time Starscream disbanded from the Decepticons, Megatron had decided that he could use Athena against his former Second in Command should the situation calls for it.
The two didn't really interact that much on the battlefield, though that was because Athena made it her personal job to avoid him whenever possible.
Starscream
Athena was born from the union between Starscream and his partner Skyfire sometime before the war for Cybertron began.
Despite loving his family unit, Starscream's pride got in the way when he became Megatron's SIC, so he ended up pushing them aside as a result. When Athena was almost off-lined during aher first official mission as a medic's apprentice, Skyfire had distanced him and Athena from Starscream and the other Cons as a result. This would lead to his decision to fake their deaths and go into hiding.
Starscream naturally assumed that Athena and Skyfire were off-line for ages afterwards, and he felt guilt that he hadn't been able to make up with Skyfire and be a better parent to Athena. So when he learned that his daughter was alive and well, Starscream did what he could to reunite with her, though that would take a while.
When he heard that she was with the Autobots, Starscream thought they had captured her and feared that they'd hurt her as revenge for him off-lining Cliffjumper and destroying Bumblebee's T-Cog.
Starscream eventually learned of Athena having willingly siding with the Autobots, but he refused to believe that she joined them willingly and that perhaps she was manipulated by them.
After Starscream got his position back when he rejoined the Cons, he made it one of his goals to get his daughter back.
When Athena and Starscream did reunite, it wasn't exactly a joyful reunion the Seeker had hoped for: Athena was found in the rubble of the old Autobot base the Decepticons attacked, barely alive. After some pleading with Megatron, Starscream was able to prevent his daughter from becoming off-lined and got her immediate medical treatment from Knockout, but as a result Athena became a prisoner of war and Megatron had her under constant surveillance.
On the Nemesis, Starscream tried to learn more about what went on with his daughter's life, since he wasn't there to watch her grow up. He also wanted to know about what happened to Skyfire, even though Starscream had an idea based on the fact that his partner wasn't with Athena when she first crashed landed on Earth.
When Athena was forced to take over Predaking's training since Starscream wasn't doing a good job, the Seeker worried for her safety and only agreed to it if he was there to keep an eye on the situation. He even reluctantly agreed that Shockwave or Soundwave could do it if he's too busy.
After Predaking showed some signs of progress, Starscream felt at ease knowing that the beast didn't attack and maul his daughter. Though he does think it's weird whenever Predaking brings Athena gifts when he comes back from missions.
When Predaking revealed his Cybertronian form to the others and started showing signs of interest in Athena, Starscream was both frightened and livid.
After the defeat of the Decepticons and Megatron's death, Starscream still tried to get Athena to leave with him, but Athena had once again declined, trying to get it clear in her sire's head that the two of them were on different paths.
It's important to know that even if Athena never left the Decepticons with Skyfire, her relationship with Starscream wouldn't have been better. She still would have left the group and joined the Autobots in that scenario.
Soundwave
Soundwave doesn't really have any personal feelings towards Athena. He just sees her as the enemy and the Decepticons' prisoner when she was taken by them.
Like Megatron, Soundwave knew Athena when she was younger, but they never really interacted with each other.
When Athena was taken by the Decepticons as a prisoner of war, Soundwave was in charge of who gets to see her. This made Starscream trying to see her a bit difficult since Soundwave (and Megatron) believed that he would try to help her escape.
Athena does find Soundwave to be a bit creepy, since she doesn't like the way he's constantly watching her.
Knockout
Much like his partner Breakdown, Knockout originally first heard of Athena (then called Crescent Moon) from the other Cons. While he wasn't a fan of Starscream, the doctor felt sympathetic to the Seeker for losing his family.
When it was revealed that Athena was alive and well, and with the Autobots, Knockout knew that drama was about to unfold.
They have met on the battlefield, but neither one of them tried to fight each other: mainly Knockout since he was a bit worried about what Starscream would do to his finish as a result.
During the time Breakdown was attacked by Airachnid and presumed to have been off-lined, Knockout was stunned to receive a private message from Breakdown's personal com link requesting a meet up. When Knockout left the Nemesis (with the excuse of going out for a drive), he would go to location to see that that Breakdown was actually alive: he had survived his fight with Airachnid since, luckily for him, Athena happened to be nearby and saved him. Breakdown had told him that he was done with the Decepticons and wanted Knockout to leave with him, adding that Athena had helped him recover from Airachnid's attack and other matters. Knockout, however, was too afraid of Megatron's wrath, and decided to stay with the Cons to at least make sure that no one learned the truth of Breakdown's fate.
Knockout has wondered why Athena helped his partner with faking his death and leaving the Cons, though it's difficult for him to ask her himself since they're both on different sides.
When the Autobot base was blown up and Athena was caught in the rubble, Starscream immediately had Knockout take care of her and fix her injuries.
Knockout is probably the only one of the Nemesis that Athena considers to be on semi-friendly terms with: this was before her eventual meeting with Predaking.
The doctor not only is the one on the Nemesis who actively seeks out her company (who is not Starscream), but is also the only one to share her interests in Earth culture.
Knockout was surprised to learn that Athena has a high tolerance to poisons and some toxic materials, but when he find out that Athena built up her tolerance over the years on purpose, he thought that she was even more stupid than Starscream for purposefully getting herself sick. It'd be one thing if Lockdown had her do it, but it's a completely different matter that she did this to herself.
Since Breakdown isn't around to help Knockout with his finish, he asks Athena to help him with the hard to reach places. The others have seen them do this and have wondered if there was something going on between Knockout and Athena. The only one to have asked was a concerned Starscream, though Knockout denied the rumor.
Breakdown
Note: in the story I'm planning, Breakdown lives and becomes a neutral bot before joining the Autobots later on. I didn't like his fate in the series, so I thought that I could give him a different one. I guess this makes this another AU that I'm doing (IDEK 😅).
Breakdown had first heard of Athena, back when she was still known as 'Crescent Moon', in passing: not from Starscream himself, but from the Vehicons. It first happened around the anniversary of her and Skyfire's supposed passing. He did feel bad for Starscream for losing his family, but Breakdown didn't say anything since the Seeker made it clear that he doesn't like to talk about it.
After Athena was revealed to be alive, Breakdown felt awkward upon realizing that Starscream's daughter was on the enemy side and that they'd most likely have to fight each other whenever they meet.
During the time when Breakdown was attacked and almost off-lined by Airachnid, Athena happened to be passing by and saved him from a killing blow. Since she couldn't take him to the Autobot base, Athena had taken Breakdown to a nearby cave and did all she could to heal him. She was able to prevent him from going offline, though she had to keep an eye on him for a few days since he was still in recovery.
Breakdown couldn't comprehend the idea that Athena saved him, especially since the two of them didn't really interact all that much. When he asked why she saved him, Athena replied that it wasn't for anything personal: she saw someone in need and decided to help. Breakdown thought she was an idiot for helping the enemy, but he was grateful to her regardless.
After Breakdown got better, he decided that he didn't want to be part of the Decepticons anymore, but he wasn't sure how to leave without earning Megatron's wrath and because he didn't want to leave Knockout alone. Athena, feeling sympathetic, had decided to help Breakdown fake his death so the Cons wouldn't find him (like father, like daughter, right?) and told him to meet up with Knockout while she contacted someone who owed her a favor: she planned to ask Lockdown to come to Earth to take Breakdown off-planet.
Breakdown was surprised that Athena had connection with the older bounty hunter (since no one ever told him), and that Lockdown had agreed to help, though not without Athena agreeing to return the favor in the future. After leaving Earth, Breakdown agreed to work with Lockdown for the time being.
Airachnid
Athena knows of Airachnid from her time with Lockdown, who has once fought with her over bounties and other things. The younger femme thought the spider-like Con sounded scary, and had made a mental note to never cross her path in the future. This would obviously not go to plan.
When Athena arrived on Earth, she met Airachnid during a mission with the Autobots. The spider-like Con attempted to strike her down and make her a trophy, but Athena was fortunately saved by fellow Autobot Arcee.
Airachnid is also aware of Athena's status as Starscream's daughter, so whenever she would interact with the Seeker, Airachnid would leave him hints about Athena's whereabouts.
Neither one likes the other, though Airachnid likes making Athena squirm with discomfort whenever they interact.
Dreadwing
The Decepticon Dreadwing was once close with Athena's sire Skyfire back when he was part of the group.
Dreadwing first heard about Athena a long time ago, roughly around the time when she was training to be a medic, in passing: he was talking with her sire Skyfire, who was practically beaming with pride over the fact that she was pursuing the art of medicine.
When Dreadwing arrived on Earth, he heard about Athena's choice to join the Autobots, and since she and her sire Starscream were deemed as traitors at the time, Megatron had personally given Dreadwing the task with off-lining Athena should they cross paths on the battlefield: though Dreadwing felt that may be going a bit too far as he knew that this was just a way to further punish Starscream for his double crossing ways, and he believed that it was a form of betrayal to his old friend Skyfire.
When they did meet, it wasn't during a battle, but when Athena went out for a flight by herself. As he wasn't there to hurt her, Dreadwing had offered her condolences for the passing of Skyfire, and she did the same for the passing of his twin Skyquake.
Athena has attempted to get Dreadwing to leave the Decepticons and join the Autobots, but he'd always decline like he did with Optimus.
After Dreadwing learned that Starscream was responsible for the unwanted resurrection of Skyquake, Dreadwing had thought about harming Athena as payback for what Starscream did, but he later decided to leave her out of it since he was once friends with her other sire Skyfire.
Note: Like a lot of other TFP fans, I was upset with Dreadwing's fate in the series, and now I'm wondering if I should give him a different ending, like I plan to do with Breakdown.
Shockwave
Shockwave doesn't particularly care about Athena one way or another.
They have met before when Athena was younger, though that was just in passing. All she remembered was his singular red optic.
Much like the others, Athena assumed that Shockwave had perished on Cybertron during the war, and was very shocked to discover that he was alive.
When it came to the training of Predaking (before his awareness and intelligence grew), Shockwave believed that Athena had better progress than Starscream since Predaking actually listened to her.
Overall, these two don't interact that much to have a relationship.
Predacons 💛
Predaking
When Predaking first met Athena in his predacon form, he initially had no interest in her, other than the fact that she was the first femme he saw. He'd usually just ignore her.
Later on, after Starscream's 'training' wasn't working, Megatron had decided to have Athena be in charge of it instead, making it part of her punishment for siding with the Autobots. Predaking didn't think that Athena would be better than her sire, so he kept his distance from her in the beginning.
When Athena proved herself to be better than Starscream and treated him with kindness, that was when Predaking started listening to her.
She'd read him stories from her data pad, ones from Cybertron and Earth. Since some of the books are from her home planet, Athena would find history books that detailed the lives of predacons because she thought it would be important. He liked whenever she read to him, as he found her voice to be soothing.
Some of the other Cons think it's a bit weird that Athena and Predaking were getting closer, especially Megatron and Starscream. Shockwave himself didn't really care, since Athena made better progress than her sire.
During the 'zombie' outbreak on the Nemesis (that was caused by Starscream and Knockout), Predaking stayed with Athena until the crisis was solved.
When Predaking's intelligence and awareness grew overtime, he started getting more protective of Athena, growling at any Vehicons and Decepticons that got too close to her. He even brought her gifts, like shiny objects, when he came back from missions with the other cons. There was one time he brought her a leaf, as he noticed that she admired the beauty of nature.
When he started practicing how to speak, one of the words he practiced was Athena's name.
When Predaking revealed his bipedal form to the others, Athena was obviously very shocked by this: like everyone else, she wasn't aware that Predacons were capable of transforming like them.
In his bidpedal form, Predaking would start having conversations with Athena, and even asked to go on flights with her: though this would be a bit difficult to do so since Athena wasn't allowed to leave the Nemesis without having one of the other cons as an escort because of her status as Starscream's child and as a prisoner of war.
Predaking would develop romantic feelings for Athena, and even decided to court her when asking Megatron for him to lead the other Predacons when they were brought online. Naturally, this did not go to plan since Megatron and the other cons had killed off the Predacon clones and pinned it on the Autobots. Athena does know about what had really happened, but because she was ordered by Starscream and Megatron to not say a word, she was forced to keep her mouth shut.
When Ratchet was nearly off-lined by Predaking, Athena put herself between the two and helped the medic explain what really happened on that fateful day. That would lead to him leaving the Decepticons and going out on his own.
He is aware of her relationship with Bumblebee, and while he respects their status as a couple, Predaking has told/threatened the scout to treat her with respect, because if he didn't, then he wouldn't be afraid to steal her away for himself.
Because of their friendship back on the Nemesis, Athena still wanted to help him with repopulating his species, so she decided to help Ratchet with finding Shockwave's notes to create more Predacons.
Darksteel
When Darksteel first went online, he thought Athena was an enemy of Predaking's.
Even though Darksteel thought Athena looked weak and frail, that didn't stop him from wanting to fight her in battle.
The only reason why Darksteel didn't fight Athena was because Predaking still cared for her.
When they eventually become allies, Darksteel would often ask Athena to bring him entertaining videos from Earth so he doesn't get bored.
Both he and Skylinx are aware of Predaking's feelings for Athena, though both approach it with completely different ways: for Darksteel, he thinks that they should convince Athena to leave Bumblebee so she can become their king's royal consort.
Skylynx
When Skylinx first went online, he alongside Darksteel thought Athena was an enemy of Predaking's based on how he didn't like to talk about her.
Unlike his comrade Darksteel, Skyinx didn't have the desire to go up against Athena in a fight: not because he'd think he'd lose, but because he didn't see it necessary unless they were in a battle against the Autobots.
He has been told by Predaking to keep Darksteel in line whenever Athena's around.
While he is aware of Athena's relationship with Bumblebee, like Darksteel, Skylynx thinks that it'd be better if she left the Autobot and got together with Predaking. However, unlike Darksteel, Skylynx doesn't make it his personal business to get involved.
Miscellaneous
Leland "Silas" Bishop
Because of what Silas and MECH have done in the past, Athena despised them before she even met them, especially Silas for what he did to her sire Starscream by stealing his T-Cog.
When Athena did meet Silas, it was when he and MECH were on the look out for a Cybertronian to dissect. They managed to knock her out and take her with them to their base. Fortunately, Athena was saved just in time before Silas and MECH could do any physical harm.
Even though she knows that the Autobots have a rule of 'not bringing harm to humans', Athena has had the thought about squishing him like a bug. However, she never acted out on these thoughts.
All in all, she hates this man. Don't let them be in the same room alone.
Unicron "The Chaos Bringer"
Growing up, Athena had heard stories of Unicron and his rivalry with the creator god Primus. She used to be scared of him, and even would have nightmares of the Chaos Bringer in her youth.
When she heard about Team Prime's encounter with Unicron in the past, she was thankful that she wasn't on Earth at the time.
When Unicron possessed Megatron's body to destroy Cybertron, Athena felt as if she was going to pass out.
Overall, Unicron is simply someone that Athena is deeply afraid of because of the things that he's capable of.
In a shocking turn of events my disability seems to have disabled me. So instead of drawing I will simply write the idea out instead
@smoked-salmon-official a drabble for ya
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Songshot is leaning back in his chair, head back and face to the ceiling; shamelessly, like he does everything.
Victory slams the door to his room open. "SONGSHOT!"
The flyer lazily picks his head up and turns his seat to side-eye Victory. "Whatever you think I've done, I promise it's worse." He drawls calmly, closing his eyes again and sighing self-satisfactorily.
"WERE YOU SERIOUSLY FLIRTING WITH MEGATRON EARLIER?!" Their incredulous accusation echoes through the small room.
"Worse."
".........What." Songshot opens his eyes to look smug just at Victory's finals push downwards. He just smiles until Victory starts talking again. "Usually when you say that you're joking what do you mean it's worse, Song!"
"You want him dead, do you not?"
Victory practically feels the defeat wash over them. Songshot is, in fact, helping them towards their goal.... in the only way he ever does.. getting under the enemy's plating... "You... You're the worst."
"Oh I can get worse!" He laughs, wings fluttering happily behind him. "Thats only half of it!"
".....what's the other, then?" Dread. Just dread. They already know the answer, though.
"Optimus is next." Songshot giggles aloud. "I already spent all last night with him." He finishes with a wink.
"I did not need to know that." Victory shudders. They'd be more grossed out if they hadn't already seen worse of both of their dads.
