#star gets asked

[starpathmecha]

The more chapters i read of starpath the more im conviced you could hand the fic to a doctor and immediately get prescribed a lifelong supply of ritalin.

Like that thing is **highly** diagnostic

- person with adhd

oh my god. does jazz's internal monologue reek of adhd that badly????? i SWEAR to GOD it wasn't on purpose. can Everyone tell i'm unmedicated

[starpathmecha]

can Vortex's frankenstein mecha rear up at all to shoot that gun or with the way the centipede back half's plating works is it stuck blasting the hell out of Quint legs and generally doing lots of property damage?

also does this mean Vortex is still alive in the wrong-space AU?

Vortex is about as tall as a quint with his Frankenstein, but he is doing a lot of property damage regardless. That gun is POTENT and also is intended to be half of his total mass (as in it would be were his back half not a giant centipede.) He can rear up the same way a horse can, but it'd be really impractical to try and walk around like that. His center of balance just isn't built for that.

And he's. Well he's not dead. EFFECT got to him :)

[starpathmecha]

so naturally when i picture any tumblrite i have not met in person, i of course imagine their icon, because what else am i gonna do. your icon of course happens to be bebop.

so on that last post about revealing what's up with starscream faster, where your tags say "imagine me covered in blood" i'm just. picturing bebop. covered in blood. giving a shaky thumbs up at the camera.

PERFECT. 10/10 NO NOTES

[starpathmecha]

rainfallraven from ao3 here (url was taken by an inactive blog sob)

okay. okay so i know that it is not feasible to go "tell me all of the everything about every mecha type right now" the way my brain wants me to do so i will have to narrow down.

fauna has wolves as frontliners, rabbits as scouts, whales as cargo (personnel?) transfer, bats for fucking teleporting shenanigans that could be so very many jobs, and owls for i'm guessing from the interlude chapter long range combat and probably very good long range sensor suite? that's a third of the fauna ones. (i could be forgetting details from the interlude but i think that's all that was mentioned by name) jazz immediately describes roddy as area denial or whatever the specific quote was- does fauna have something equivalent? or does jazz's whole "absorb all the information because everything everywhere is trying to kill you at all times" ness means he just has encyclopedic knowledge of mythos mecha too to have such a snappy description ready? or honestly both is also very possible 🤔

OKOK hello ao3 user raindropraven!!! You have Words for me!!!! :D

OKAY UHH FAUNA AREA DENIAL. Well firstoff these mechs were mostly made by me in a looks cool or has fun gimmick capacity, so it was more like retroactively coming up with a use for Mech that Has Big Flamethrower but besides that I think the FAUNA Hyena or the FAUNA Pangolin would be best? Also, the Whale isn't an official mech class, it's what FAUNA pilots named their cargo and personnel transport ships.

The Hyena is kind of boring but its main purpose is just to do long-distance vertical explosives. Mortars, basically :) The Pangolin is a teeny weeny heavily armored mech whose main job is to have a machine gun, most of the time a laser machine gun, and just Start Blastin', so yeah fits the Asphodel's profile of "BWAAA CHOKE POINTS EXPLOOOODE!!!!"

[starpathmecha]

Can we has drawing of vulture pls?

OH YEAH I CAN FINALLY POST WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE AS A PILOT!! hoold on

here's some doodles I've done on him, both what he actually looked like as a Guy and his mech :)

[starpathmecha]

How well can they dance in the mechs?

I wonder how hot rod would try and pull off the Macarena

UHHH okay. HM. The mechs generally have a gretty good range of motion besides like, fine motor skills, so Jazz could pull off the Macarena in his mech no problem.

Roddy also has a pretty decent range of motion, but he can't reach super far in front of his face because his arms are set way further back than on a normal person. He could also probably do the macarena. If he tried hard enough

[starpathmecha]

❤️‍🩹for the fic ask!

for ME PERSONALLY it is staring out into the ocean of wildly cheering fans and going. surely if All of those people liked it it's at least not horrible. and also going AT LEAST IT'S BETTER THAN AI

[starpathmecha]

i feel like the fucking effect guy

effect first mention in fic “oh dang that sounds really interesting, yknow usually I go for stuff like fauna but effect really draws my attention”

oh shockwaves the effect guy at jazz’s base haha effect mention

oh I found the tumblr blog for the fic, for some reason almost all my interactions have to do with effect

oh I really like drawing effect mecha designs, hah these guys are all over my notebook

THEN TODAY I DREW A PILOT OC

GUESS EHERE I BRO IS STATIONED UNDER???

why am I fixated on the literally worst place for a pilot bro I feel like an outdoor cat owner just letting this lil guy get eaten by effects whole Thang™️

ps love this fic so much 🦔🦔🦔

imagine i'm handing you an award. of the three (3) people who were working on this when i First made it (including me) i was the EFFECT guy. i can now pass some of the title to you. be free, my mad scientist-ass apprentice. also I wanna see that pilot oc <3

ALSO YOU'RE NOT WRONG. the mecha overseers up at M.E.C.H told me all the EFFECT pilots keep being warped into unrecognizable facimilies of themselves so i asked how many evil doctors they had and they said every time it happened they'd hire another doctor to see if that would sort it out so i said it sounded like they're just feeding their pilots to evil doctors and then the base overseer also at the meeting started crying