#transformers:prime

[xunrae]

Introducing Rewind and Pharaoh!

Ugh, I tried to give these two some at-home therapy but it DID NOT work. Thank you, Rewind. Such a great thing to ask your ex.

anyways, ask box is open for these two! Feel free to ask ‘em anything!

[poptimus-prime]

Inspired by my last reblog: Which Am I lying about TFP edition

A human child almost dies due to energon poisoning

One character refers to another as “studlier”

A character makes a fart joke and doesn’t realize it

A single mom makes jokes about wearing heels for a Cybertronian

A terrorist uses a Cybertronian’s corpse as a life support mech suit

Soundwave has one line in the entire series that is, in essence, “fuck you.”

There is an episode where there is a rat problem in the Autobot base

Two characters have an organ stolen…in the same episode

A significant plot point includes a GIF of a dancing monkey

Megatron spends approximately half of a season dead

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

[tiftaf-the-world-jumper]

Grab all of your comfiest blankets and keep your lights on,

About to spooptacular in here!

@redwingskyfiresslayz @reignitedprimes 

Come get juice

Or bread

Whatever this is.

[elindae-writes]

Ok, this is all about your headcanons. Is Starscream the oldest/youngest/middle member of his trine? Did he get his trine before or after losing Skyfire? During his time in the Decepticons? How did he meet his trinemates? Was there a cool ceremony? Just tell me everything about Seekers! (Without major spoilers, of course.)

He’s the youngest and he trined Skywarp and Thundercracker after he lost Skyfire and also after he first met Megatron. So they were officially in a trine before they joined the Decepticons. He convinced them to join the ‘Cons and without spoiling too much now bitterly regrets roping them into joining Megatron.

The scenes in which he meets the boys and trines them are going to appear later on, maybe during the Orion Pax arc, so I don’t want to spoil those, but I will gladly indulge your request for cool Seeker facts.

Seekers think in three dimensions and not two due to them being flyers and always having to ascend/descend. This is part of the reason they are so claustrophobic, it’s because they are highly attuned to sensing what’s above them at all times and are therefore hyperaware of when the ceiling is too low.

In Seekercant the word for “grounder” is just “taxi-er” because whenever airplanes are about to take off they taxi around first, so Seekers basically just see grounders as wingless bots who taxi everywhere without taking off.

Seekers are unusual in that they see their alt-modes as their true natural forms and think of their bipedal root-modes as their actual alternate modes. This is weird even by flyer standards.

Seekers used to go on giant migrations. I haven’t entirely thought this out because I’m not sure where they’d actually migrate to--maybe they’d just all instinctively fly up and around Vos without leaving the city, or maybe they’d go off and visit ancient older nesting sites built by ancient Seekers. Either way I just like the imagery of thousands of Seekers blackening the skies with their numbers and then the sad image of Starscream trying to complete a grand Seeker migration all by himself because there is no one else left. But someone still needs to follow the ancient winds, so it’s gotta be him.

Starscream is tiny by Seeker standards and Dreadwing and Skyquake are actually more average-sized. It’s also my headcanon his RID frame used to be his old frame, so when Megs downsized him he got fussy about it because he genuinely felt like a bit of his Seeker heritage got taken away.

There were a bunch of different towers in Vos and they all had their own slightly different cultures. Seekers from one tower would whistle and chirp in Seekercant in slightly different tones than Seekers from another tower, like the way whales from different pods have their own unique dialects. Starscream’s fellow Seekers from his tower were infamous for speaking real fancy-like, I don’t know why but I just picture them as speaking in weirdly complex, vague, and mystical ways like the elves from the Lord of the Rings. Despite there being hundreds of different dialects each Seeker is capable of instinctively recognizing the dialect you’re speaking and can just tell what tower you’re from. There was also a Seeker equivalent of Australia somewhere in Vos and it was completely full of weird and intense Cybertronian animals, it was just like that one weird tower where all of the odd little drones and robots ended up. I just like the idea of Vosian Australian memes.

Starscream was from a really high-ranking family, aka the equivalent of Seeker nobility, and was maybe in line to become or at the very least is closely related to the Winglord. That’s why it was such a scandal when he got the heck out of Dodge and decided to abandon his proud noble military family so that he could go blow stuff up in a lab in Iacon.

Shuttles have their own culture, but are weirdly symbiotic with Seekers. I just like the imagery of throngs of tiny Seekers who wandered around their towers with the occasional giant shuttle just lumbering through. Shuttles adopted Seekers and vice versa. Seekers were extremely touchy about whoever adopts baby Seekerlings and shuttles were the only non-Seekers who were allowed to adopt them. When Starscream moved out of Vos and got himself a roommate in Iacon his family was like “who?? who is dwelling with you, I refuse to allow you to have a non-Seeker roommate, we’d much rather have you dwell alone then dirty yourself by living with an Iaconian--”

And then Starscream just sent over a picture of Skyfire and then his family just said  “we will make an exception for him because he looks very polite”

Seekers were infamous across Cybertronian for being--I’m not sure if this is the right word--cryptids? They hate using doors, so if you’re a grounder and your Seeker buddy is bopping by for a visit you’ll just hear a soft tap tap tap by your window and you’dlllook over and see your winged friend waiting for you to open it up and maybe you’d shout something along the lines of “THE DOOR WORKS FINE”

And then your Seeker friend would just flare his wings and get all offended and it would be a whole thing--

Seekers very rarely make non-Seeker friends, but when they do they tend to make friendships for life. That is not foreshadowing, no, not at all. Non-fliers back on Cybertron would even leave their windows unlocked for their Seeker friends--even though the door would work just fine.

Another weird thing about Seekers is that they hate it when people actually see them entering or exiting a room. You’ll just turn around and a Seeker will be there, and then suddenly they won’t be, hence their cryptic reputation around Cybertron. They are infamous for being overdramatic and theatrical, but they just think of everybody else as being underdramatic.

They have no concept of personal space when in bipedal mode. When flying they normally have to fly wide apart in order to avoid collisions (military trines or just trines that are really in-synch are the exception, they normally flew only a few inches apart) so when in bipedal mode they make up for the lack of physical contact during flying by skooching up real close to each other when back on the ground. Seekers are very very good at forming neat and orderly lines. They have a tendency to sandwich confused and surprised grounders who are shocked to have their personal space so suddenly taken up by a bunch of pairs of wings.

Back when Vos was intact there was a big debate going on as to the proper way to teach your Seekerling to fly. There were two schools of thought:

Send your Seekerling to a school with safety nets and attentive instructors and teach the Seekerlings to just hover, then ascend three feet off the ground, then five feet, and then so on.

Or just chuck your Seekerling out of a tower 10,000 feet in the air while shouting “fLAP” and then just hoping for the best. That was how Starscream was taught. It’s also how he taught Eradicons to fly. He’d have them walk up to the edge, he’d go behind and just give them a good kick, and then shout “THIS IS THE VOSIAN WAY”

And then they’d return to the deck of the Nemesis, cold and shaking, and ask “why?”

And then Starscream would whisper back even more gently “it’s  t r a d i t i o n”

Whenever Seekerlings were really really tiny, as in only a few weeks or months old, the adult Seekers would transform, then also have their Seekerling transform into a very smol plane, and then they would secure the Seekerling to their back before taking flight. It’s like when that Boeing jet carried space shuttle Endeavour around, but much cuter. Seekers carried their newsparks around on their backs between their wings and their wings would widen in order to create more room. You can actually tell if a Seeker has tended to newsparks by just looking at their back. Starscream babysitted a lot, so he has this modification. I just like the idea of Seekers walking around like possums with like six Seekerlings on their back, they gotta make room, it’s the only way I could think of to accomodate all the kiddos

Seekerlings are like newborn horses. They can get up and run--or in their case, transform and fly--right after being sparked. The moment their systems go online they then immediately fly off and crash somewhere. Seekerling caretakers had it rough.

Seekers had potlucks. Their systems require very fine and refined energon, so they are very good at tasting subtle flavors. In other words, Vos was home to the Cybertronian version of professional chefs. Their energon was famous for being gourmet and it would be served in fine-dining restaurants throughout the rest of Cybertron. But back in Vos they’d just casually serve each other what was essentially gourmet energon during potlucks like it was no big deal. Like imagine going to the neighbor’s potluck and they’re all eating caviar.

Seekers instinctively cluster around each other in multiples of three. Three’s a very a lucky number in their culture and they had a base-six counting system.

Trinebonds are mostly just full of a very intense and platonic brother love, but there were some trines in which you’d have two Seekers adopt a more parental role towards the third, and in some other trines there would be more romance involved, but for the most part they were just bros through and through.

When a Seeker dies the other two feel an agonizing pain, but will eventually re-trine with a new third in an attempt to feel whole again. Seekers who lose both trinemates will tend to have a full-on mental breakdown and will get so stressed that their spark will actually begin to flare erratically, which unfortunately prevents them from re-trining. Seekers who lost both trinemates and yet who managed to pull through the pain and trine again were treated with great respect.

Trined Seekers are capable of sensing what kind of vague mood their two buddies are feeling at any given time. They can detect when their trinemates are in root-mode or alt-mode or when they’re healthy or sick. Seekers will lose the ability to sense their trinebonds when there’s too much distance between them or whenever their trinemates go into a deep coma-like stasis that slows their spark down.

All of the Seekers in a tower would be almost always all distantly related. The Seekers who lived beneath you were your distant cousins on one side of your family and the Seekers who lived above you were your even more distant cousins but like 53 times removed, but still family and therefore still invited to the family potluck!! They’re all like hobbits in that they are obsessed with genealogy and will gladly talk about it for hours on end. Seekers will greet each other by explaining their genealogy. This really confuses grounders.

Some random grounder: “Oh, hi, how are you?”

Starscream, probably: “I AM STARSCREAM SON OF STARFLIGHT SON OF SKYECHO SON OF AIRHALO SON OF SWIFTWING--”

The poor grounder: *softly* “What the fuck”

If you don’t interrupt the Seeker then they will just keep recounting their genealogy on the assumption that you are actually intrigued. This can go for hours. Seekers are mortified when they learn that grounders do not know the names, personalities, likes, dislikes, and favorite childhood snacks of their distant great-great-great-great-great grandfathers.

Orphaned Seekers who didn’t know their genealogy had multiple options: get adopted, then just list off the adopted family’s bloodline, or if they didn’t get adopted then they’d just list off the names of Vos’s mythological heroes and figures, or maybe even just claim Primus as their ancestor (which isn’t even wrong.) This is kind of like how people in ancient times claimed to be descended from gods. The human equivalent of this would be some dude walking up to you and saying “I am Bob, son of Zeus!”

Some Seeker towers had certain naming conventions. Like you’d have one tower full of Seekers who are all named after cloud formations, and another tower full of Seekers named after noises, like “whistle” or “blast,” and you guessed it--maybe even “scream.”

To be honest I’m not sure if I want Starscream to be a very common or very rare name. Vos was made up of ancient warring clans that all united under the first Winglord (he/she took Vos under their “wing” hence the title) and maybe they could’ve been named Starscream? In most human societies everybody and their neighbor always would want to name their kiddos after the current ruler, but in Vos maybe it was very rare and very bold of Seekers to name their child after the current ruler because it would be seen as an attempt to snatch up that ruler’s glory. So to name your Seekerling Starscream would be the Vosian equivalent of naming your son Gaius Julius Caesar. He’s an intense bot so it makes sense that he’d also have a very intense name.

But then again I also like the idea of the Autobots just thinking of Starscream’s name as being weird and rich and odd and  e x o t i c  but then finding out it’s the Vosian equivalent of John Smith and that there were eight Starscreams on any block at any given time.

Maybe Seekers would change their name whenever they have a big event happen to them, like a trining for example. I think a culture obsessed around airflow would be fine with people changing aspects of their identity like that because then you’re being like the wind, flowing and changing with the same wind that carries you. It’s also my headcanon that this is why Seekers change their frames a lot more. Your frame isn’t you, it contains you, and if you change then it would be really weird not to change the way you look too. 

Despite being really lax about some things Seekers can be very very strict and traditional about other things, such as etiquette. If you’re meeting a new Seeker for the first time and you rotate your wings 70 degrees clockwise that means “may the skies of the holy 70th tower of Vos bless you” but if you rotate your wings anti-clockwise it means “I curse your grandfather!” And then Starscream would just gasp in horror and then shout “DO NOT BESMIRCH THE MEMORY OF SKYECHO”

Some Seeker names were common--like, too common. There were a few thousand Skyechoes, Windblasts, and Driftwings who drifted around at any given moment. This made role-call in school very painful. Some caretakers would try to be edgy about it. “Oh, my son isn’t named Driftwing, he’s named Dreadwing!”

Seekers cremated their dead but in the most intense way possible. They took their dead up and just let them burn up in the atmosphere so that they can become one with the sky. This resulted in some pretty spectacular meteor showers.

Same random grounder: “What a beautiful shooting star!”

Starscream, casually: “Oh, that’s my grandpa, SKYECHO SON OF AIRHALO SON OF SWIFTWING--”

Same unfortunate grounder: “wHAT--”

Seekers make noises all the time and are very rarely silent. They hum when content, beep when excited, chirp when riled up, rumble when confused, trill when happy, and so on. Starscream used to be a chatterbox but was forced to repress his chitterings because Megatron would always tell him to shut up. He’s going to trill more and more throughout Unburied, especially around Optimus.

Seeker towers were infamous for their weird architecture. They weren’t designed to ever be wandered around in while in your bipedal mode. No staircases, period. Just extremely tall ceilings and arches with curved corridors everybody flew through with lots of balconies you could land on. There were lots of holes in the wall that they could fly through that led to actual rooms where they would transform and be bipedal (berthrooms, washracks, etc) but then after they slept/ate/partied they were just like “that was fun guys, gotta go” and then just flung themselves out of a hole in the wall over a 1,000 foot drop and then just transformed in midair and flew off. Grounders couldn’t visit the towers due to there being no grounder-friendly infrastructure. Special buildings had to be built near the ground to help accommodate visiting grounders, but you only ever really saw these kinds of grounder-friendly accommodations in towers meant to receive diplomats.

They had bathhouses in their towers, like the ancient Romans but with robots instead of old dudes in togas. Just giant birdbaths basically. Just lots and lots of splashing and chittering.

Seekers preen themselves, their circuitry is delicate and even the slightest of contaminants can cause big problems. That’s why they have such sharp talons---for getting in the small spots. And for stabbing people. That’s a nice bonus, too. They preen each other all the time. There were some regions on their wings that could be preened by anybody, but some other parts of the wings that could only be preened by close friends such as trinemates. So the outer planes of the wing could be preened by just a general buddy, but the actual area where they connect to the back? That’s trinemate-only territory right there. It’s not a sexual thing, just a cultural taboo they had.

When Dreadwing makes his grand debut I think I might have a scene in which him and Starscream are preening each other while angrily bickering, not because they actually like each other, but just because they’re the only Seekers around and Starscream’s had a rock stuck in his wing seam and slag it, Dreadwing is the only bot who knows how to get it out--so it’d just be angry bird bickering and arguing preen time.

“You killed my brother!”

Starscream would then flutter angrily and say something like, “NO, BUMBLEBEE DID, STOP BLAMING ME--please get that rock out of my wing seam k thX--IT WAS THE SCOUT’S FAULT!”

And then Dreadwing would just be like, “Skyquake is dead, and it’s all YOUR FAULT--I also have a rather unfortunate rock located in my wing seam, can you remove that--and it’s because of your cowardice I am now brotherless!”

Seeker talons were actually retractable. Some Seekers would have their talons out literally all the time though, these were Seekers who were high-ranking in the military or who were just on some quest of personal revenge. After the war began they modified their talons to just always be sharp because you don’t want to accidentally retract them when in battle.

I am only just now realizing that this got kind of long, huh. I hope this wasn’t too much!! I might post more Seeker headcanons in the future.

[nails-the-tabaxi]

Unpopular Opinion: I find Transformers Prime to be overrated. At least as far into the series as I've gotten (about 8 episodes of S1) I mentally compare it to Animated and find it wanting. I'm not really digging the writing, and I'm not a fan of the art style or character designs, either. The eyes are weird and would look better with lenses over them. Where are their noses? WHERE ARE THEIR NOSES???

That head crest is ALMOST a nose, but not quite

Optimus reminds me too much of the Bayverse design for me to like it, Bulkhead is a less enjoyable version of his Animated self, I actively hate Starscream and Soundwave's designs, and Megatron is "What if Bayformers Megatron didn't look like Scraplets ate all of his skin". I also hate the "mindless drone cannon fodder" Decepticon troops. At least make them Seekers or something if you're going to do that, but I'd rather have actual characters. AND WHERE ARE THEIR NOSES GOD IT LOOKS SO WEIRD

Optimus, wondering where his nose is

Megatron shows up in the first episode rambling about Dark Energon with zero setup or backstory. We don't even see him really do anything before he fuses himself with it so there's no basis for comparison for seeing him *after* he's fused with it. Cliffjumper dies like 2 minutes into the first episode and thus I feel nothing (yes, you can empathize with his friends' grieving but I felt zero emotion from it).

Generally the show starts off feeling like the beginning of a second season, we’re dropped into the middle of the story with nothing grounding this version of the universe. It's in medias res but not done well, because instead of feeling hooked into the plot and wanting to know more, I'm just left feeling like I missed something. Animated started off after the war as well, with the Decepticons coming back, but it also established the setting well and generally did everything better than Prime.

It’s just better. A LOT better.

Do the human characters ever become even remotely tolerable? Because so far I can't stand any of them. The kids are all high-key annoying, and Fowler is so incompetent he may as well be actively working with the Decepticons. Why was he randomly flying a jet through the desert, in a suit and tie no less? Just so that one Decepticon whos name I can't remember could scan the jet? They'll do things that make no sense or just go nowhere (Jack wants to leave because of the danger oh no wait he's back, nice plot cul de sac there, writers) and generally do nothing but make me appreciate the utter lack of humans in Cyberverse more than I already did. They DO have noses, though, there is that.

Pictured: Annoyance boiled to it’s basest essence

In the plus column, however, I do enjoy this version of Ratchet, and Arcee is the reason I'm going to keep watching the series because I really like this take on her. I keep hearing how great the show is from everyone, and I'm really trying to like it, but so far I just feel like it doesn't live up to the hype.

I just realized: The two best characters have noses!

[whats-that-interest]

YALL IM CRYING I JUST FINISHED TFP

IT JUST ENDS??

LIKE THAT??

MY DAMN HEART MAN

they’re so precious I cannot handle it

[designationpinknoise]

What's up? Can we have a human teen reader having a fight with her siblings ? And it ends up being violent ? ( ratchet , Optimus , megaton ?)

I’m gonna set this in Prime. 

reader is 15, sibling is 19

Ratchet: Jumped from his work station when he heard a crash behind him! Thinking it was Miko, He turned to tell her to keep it down. only for his optics to widen in shock to see; That His charge [y/n] and their sibling were fighting! Not playful shoving or just rough-housing; full on fist fighting! 

Your older sibling was winning, c’os the next thing he knew they were on top trying to strangle you; causing Ratchet to snap out of his stupor and yank the older {L/n} off You and placing them on a stairless platform, and you on a medical bed as far away from them as possible. 

“WHAT IN THE NAME OF PRIMUS IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO!?” 

He demanded causing the two siblings to jump, they were silent till your sibling accused you of stealing their crush, he told your sibling the whole reason he even hung out with them was to get to you.

 Ratchet gawked as he processed this While you just looked scared and very confused. “Let me get this straight” the medic started walking to their platform “….you attacked your sister over a grown man, who has no business being attracted to little girls?…” Ratchet hissed in disgust as he leaned in close to your sibling.

{Y/S/N] who at this point was all proud and smug about ‘putting you in your place’ opened their mouth to confirm this…before processing what Ratchet just said. suddenly realizing what their crush’s intentions were, and the dawning repercussions of their violent actions. 

They tried to apologize. but, the damage was done. Ratchet didn’t trust them around you for a while and You well, gave them the silent treatment for a few weeks till Optimus made you both talk.  

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Optimus: He walk passed the training room and saw You and Sibling…sparring? he hummed thinking nothing of it and was about to continue on his way. when your cry of pain caused him run inside and saw you and your sibling in one-sided fist fight.

 It was one-sided because you had broken your wrist a week before. and were curled into a ball protecting your injured arm. While, your sibling kicked and stomped on you! The prime immediately rushed over and pulled your sibling away and picking you up. 

They went to protest. but, quiet down when Optimus gave them his disappointed dad look [You know the one!] before he checked you over, you were fine, just shaken up and a little bruised. “What was this all about?” he demanded glancing down at your sibling who glaring up at you.

 “[y/n] stole my big break!” they accused while you just sighed “I told you Miko signed me up as joke…I didn’t think they’d actually pick me!” this confused the prime more.

You noticed and explained that Miko had signed you up for some voice-acting competition and had won a scholarship to an acting school. 

The one your sibling had been trying to get into. They didn’t take the news well and had cornered you while you were alone that’s what Prime had walked into.

Optimus frowned looked down at your sibling “Life may not always be fair or go as you plan. but, that is no reason to attack those around you…especially family.” Your sibling looked down at their feet as the Prime calmly lowered you the floor but, was precarious enough to keep you out of arms reach of your sibling in case…

”Now apologize to your younger sibling or you won’t be welcomed here again.” you both looked stunned that prime would threaten to banned them from the base if this happened again. “Sorry I attacked over a competition…” they mumbled you reached out and patted them on the head. “Accepted.”   

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Megatron: Megatron was flummox as he approached cargo-hold and saw a crowed of vehicons surrounding something, they noticed him and scattered revealing what they were watching. Y/n and they’re sibling beating the tar out of each other. 

The warlord was surprised by this! at his charge’s sudden lapse in behavior, You were the most pacifistic human he’d ever met! usually choose diplomacy over violence. so, seeing you in any sort of danger or risky situation was… concerning.

Especially when your sibling had knocked you off your feet and grabbed a pipe and was ready to swing, the sound of a cannon firing at the open cargo doors just missing the two humans seem to snap your sibling out of it.  they looked at the pipe looked down at you gasped and dropped it.

Not taking the risk You kicked them off and ran over to Megatron who picked you up, glaring at how shaken you were as you hugged his fingers. “What’s the meaning of this?” he demanded glowering down at your sibling who shrunk under his gaze. 

“It was my fault!” you tried to take the blame Megatron wasn’t buying it. and demanded they answer him. “No, it really was my fault!” Your sibling finally snapped “Because they found my stash!” they yelled the warlord cocked a an ridge.

 “Stash? of what?” he pressed your admitted that they were in rehab for a drug addiction and had relapsed. “I found out and destroyed it. they found what I had done…It really was my fault.” 

Megatron just paused just processing the whole situation. “This is not on you [Y/n]….” He assured then pointed down at their “this is on them…for breaking their promise.” your sibling scratched their arms ashamed of themselves. “And on the who ever pushed them into it, and for that I’ll see to that Knock-out monitors them. So, they don’t break it a second time.” 

Your sibling stared up at the warlord confused over why he would defend them? they almost killed you! then they remembered his odd tendencies a few months ago…robots had drugs? who knew? 

They were snapped out by Megatron calling their name. “S/n, I expect you to report to Knock-out tomorrow for therapy.” they nodded as the warlord frowned “See that you do…Because if this happens again? I won’t be kind.” he promised causing a shiver to go down your sibling’s spine. 

[veecepticon]

knocky is cherry（＾◇＾）