#trickdiamond

[mistressmalicer]

more femmes for the girl kissers 😝

[prince-toffee]

GrumpBee (oh also Swindle, Roughstuff, and TrickDiamond) | Transformers (2019) | #33 | Cover A | Art by Ed Pirrie

[sparkleresthold]

Signal Lancer is so goated he actually seduces Megaempress and her four guards and not the other way around. He’s smoke too tough, his swag too different, his bitch too bad, they’ll kill him!!

[lillified]

I love ur art so much! I remember seeing your Megaempress design and I thought it was so pretty! She’s very underrated alongside her 4 Guards. But I was wondering what Lunaclub, Moonheart, Flowspade and Trickdiamond would look like in your artstyle cuz you make all ur characters very cunty and they always serve :3

hi, that's a great question!!

I absolutely have plans for Emp and her heralds, but right now the one with the most concrete background I have is Trickdiamond :)

AKA "Tricky," she's a smooth talker with an unmatched mind for brokering and bargaining--and a bit of a vice for gambling. Before the war, she took a variety of odd jobs, including a stint as a manager for career gladiators (a lucrative position for anyone who loves money and lacks a conscience). She even managed Megatron for a while!

^ here's a low effort doodle of her!

[mrteethart]

commission i did for vrchat :]

she is public model btw

[scarlettaagni]

became obsessed with G1-ified rewrite of Megaempress and her 4 Guards, so came up with renames and ideas (cause I really hate their names and characterizations)

Megaempress → Megajoule? Megajewel? Megatonne? Megatrix? genuinely no clue

Megaempress might be fine as is, it's a very hard name to work with. Megatron is megaton (measurement of explosive force) + electronic, so I looked at other measurements like joules or spellings, and -trix is a feminine suffix. I think if I had to change it, I'd go with Megatrix, but as you might imagine, the Matrix of Leadership makes this very difficult

Lunaclub → Sidereal

Luna is the one who crushes on Starscream, so I used "sidereal", having to do with stars. It's supposed to be pronounced like "sid-ear-ial", but in a case of G1 jank they'll say it "side-real" which sounds like a cool-guy TF name anyways. Maybe the bulky muscle of the Guards, turns into a tank?

Moonheart → Life Spark

Moonheart is the medic and inexplicably has "heart" in the name, so since Life Spark is not a real person, I'm claiming the name for her. There's people named Alma, so it's not weird. And she needs to be messed up. TF medics always got to be. and no, her Valentine Skullgirls routine doesn't count, even Valentine herself is deeper than that

also severing the sibling link between Sidereal and Life Spark that Luna and Moon had, I find it unnecessary

Trickdiamond → Replica, Dead Ringer?, Simulacra, Bootleg

I actually don't mind her name, but for creativity's sake, something to emphasize her duplicitous nature. Tried a sorta Chromia approach of a word that could pass as a girl's name, as well as other compound names. Maybe give her a Jem and the Holograms disguise power? Maybe turns into the left arm...

Her personality doesn't need any edits as it's interesting and doesn't revolve around her being a girl, and it shows in her having the privilege of existing in IDW2 fully realized without any of the others lmao

Flowspade → Keychain, Keystone

Flowspade's not that bad a name. A spy, and the closest member to Megaempress, so someone who can get around behind enemy lines perhaps with a chain weapon, or is the MVP of the group (and can literally form the right hand?)

Taking back her whole deal of originally being a plant by Shockwave, but would reinstate it as like, a story idea. Since these Guards are created Combaticon style, i.e. being preexisting people, maybe she can have a history with him? Shocks tries to counter-recruit her again since she's only been aligned with Megaempress for a short time?

Megatronia → Imperatrix, Imperatron, Imperion?, Imperia?, Amazonia, maybe this one can be Megatrix?

[huge shrug] imperatrix is Latin for empress, tried the -ion combiner format, also played with the girlboss angle and referenced the Amazons. not to mention me considering shifting the name Megatronia over to empress herself after changing the combiner's name

I did love the card theming but it made the names clunky so I think it's best left a visual component. I did use my Cybertronian playing card headcanons as something to work off of for some of the names

and I made sure these names weren't genuinely taken

maybe the ladies will rescue and recruit Nightbird, and maybe Slipstream can be here. Megaempress can collect women like Pokemon cards

[stargirlintermission]

I need someone to bring Megaempress and her guards back

[arceespinkgun]

In a just world Megaempress and her 4 Guards would be framed as a terrifying group of energon-thirsty supremacists and Tarn and the DJD would be framed as ridiculous jokes and Tarn's Megatron fixation would be treated like Lunaclub's fixation on Starscream where she has a Starscream shrine in her room and acts like this:

Also, Trickdiamond was so valid here: