#tfp rumble

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so... what does rumble look like?

When Soundwave finally gets Rumble back, the minicons' put in one of Frenzy's spare frames while he remembers what it's like having limbs and a face again with a fresh layer of paint slapped on.

(it is slightly lazy on my part to just do a recolor i'll admit but i doubt the show itself would have done much different)

Rumble refuses to go on missions alone now, not that Frenzy or Lazerbeak minds accompanying him. If anyone else has a problem with it they can take it up with sound wave.

he's twitchier than he used to be and (while he'll never admit) is genuinely terrified of the Wrecker Snipers who used his spark as unlimited ammunition. (Soundwave is planning all sorts of nasty schemes for those two.)

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Soundwave-esque paint jobs. These would be used mostly in flashbacks

[xxx-bumblebeez-xxx]

A fellow Transformers lover sent me TFP Rumble and a teeny Vehicon! I am in love, he is such a cute fella!

Soundwave is of course happy to see him... Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp though don't seem too happy!

[theangrycomet]

TFP's designs reflect the writer's decisions regarding character direction very well.

It's not as though I don't like the designs on their own; on the contrary I actually love the less-action-figure-and-more-extraterrestrial art direction they took with the Transformers.

But a lot of the designs push certain aspects so far to the point where their barely recognizable from the characters they are supposed to be.

Somewhat Coherent Ramblings below on the 3 biggest "victims" with my (admittedly limited) transformers lore knowledge.

is that a stickbug or a snake?

Starscream got a bad back from carrying the entire Decepticon cause on his shoulders while Megatron's snorting up Satan's crotch dust so forgive his poor posture.

Like it's a solid design for a for a sniveling backstabber- being able to look like a pathetic little bug one second to a ruthless killer the next.

And I love how he's rigged and animated- forget Predaking most of the animatign budget went into Starscream's theatrics-

Honestly he's probably the least "problematic" for lack of a better word for me because he can be fixed with giving him a paint job and maybe a helmet- probably styled along the lines of RID!Starscream's helm and he'd be fine.

A bigger part of my problems with his design now that I've ruminated on it is more how he's not allowed to feel like a proper, competent threat on his own after the first half of S1- and in turn, how he's not allowed to be intimidating more often.

the Sleeping Beauty Dress argument

Seriously tho- like she looks good but why did they make her blue specifically? Just make her a dark magenta to go with the muted color scheme of the show if your worried about her standing out to much (she's a $30k sports bike in bumfuck nevada- she's already flunked the "in disguise" part of the class)

I get the "oh the she's only girl she shouldn't be pink" argument but you know what would address that? HAVING MORE FEMALE CHARACTERS.

Getting off track...

Again, Arcee's design on it's own, even with the whole "female transformers must be motorbikes so we have an excuse to make them slender" trend, it's really cool.

It reflects her tough-love approach, and how the war has left her sharp around the edges so she doesn't get hurt again. But she doesn't really feel like an ARCEE design.

Like I've said before, it feels like at times the writers couldn't get permission to get the characters they wanted and decided to write the characters they could get to fit the story they wanted to tell, and that reflects in their designs at times. She takes charge of the team because she's best suited for the job, just ask her.

Arcee even is the one to take out Shockwave and allow her and Cliffjumper's escape- similar to how another blue-femme rescued a similarly named friend from Shockwave's clutches back in G1.

With this design and writing direction, it would have been better suited to another spiky blue femme; Chromia. She even comes with an established red love interest to kill off (sorry Ironhide).

Hell if the writers REALLY wanted they could have even still had her Tailgate Event happen with her favorite sharpshooter (sorry Moonracer).

Arcee girly pop

boombox gone eldritch cyber horror

I love this design so much, but where the HELL is Soundwave supposed to store his minicons??? That's his whole thing! Yes he has Laserbeak- but there should be SOME indication of where his lost Cassettes used to go even if they are dead (which in all likely hood they are but again- SEPERATE post).

It's very interesting to me how stripped down he looks, as though with each cassette he's literally lost a piece of himself.

Give Soundwave his Full-Grown Children Back Damn You.

Rumble and Frenzy would have had a fucking BLAST messing with the Jasper team- humans and bots alike.

Bonus:

I will admit when I found RID Drift's design and how Jetstorm and Slipstream are docked on him, I am curious if Soundwave's had his Cassettes on his arms too.

Because if that is the case Soundwave does have room on his arms for at least two- maybe four on the shoulders.

[axiondelta]

My designs for TFP Rumble and Frenzy. I wanted them to look a lot like Soundwave.

[novafire-is-thinking]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

SUMMARY

Oh, the lengths one must go to in order to get some peace and quiet on the Nemesis.

Chapters: 1 (3,156 words)

Fandom: Transformers: Prime

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Soundwave, Frenzy, Rumble, Ravage, Makeshift, Megatron, Vehicons

Relationships: Frenzy & Rumble & Soundwave, Ravage & Soundwave, Makeshift & Soundwave, Megatron & Soundwave

Additional Tags: Soundwave gets a break, takes place sometime between the Aligned novels 'Exodus' and 'Exiles'

My gift for MemyselfandI_1 on AO3 for this year’s Secret Solenoid hosted by @secretsolenoid-revived, featuring the kind of mischief only the perfect Decepticon could pull off ;)

[seraphim-seeker]

So I have a Mildly messed up TFP AU Idea that mostly revolves around Soundwave Angst.

So I thought up an AU where sadly yes, Rumble and Frenzy are dead BUT what Soundwave doesn’t know is that while they’ve been on Earth, Shockwave’s been experimenting on their corpses, rebuilding them, and shaping them into a new individual, they are built anew. Not as Rumble nor Frenzy, no she’s something else! She’s Enemy!

Of course when Shockwave does end up on Earth, Enemy following along. Soundwave notices but does react—not in the presence of Megatron— they kept it together until in their room….and just stand there not knowing how to feel or how act as they normally did aboard the nemesis when Enemy is here, when they can SEE who she used to be. It tears at them to see that Rumble and Frenzy just Gone.

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finally found half decent full body references for Rumble and Frenzy in aligned.

Now to translate this into TFP style for Red Guys Don't Die.