Wreck and Rule: WAR

[thenamesblurrito]

and here we see where i reached the point of giving up on alt modes bc heck nah i’m done. giving the Mistress of Flame a sick hammer in the relic swap episode was a good choice, not only because she looks good in blue but also because she deserves terrifying storm powers. that said, the Stormfall Mistress is maybe a little more intense than usual. watch out, Hellscream

[llamagoddessofficial]

[This idea has been rattling in my brain and I had to share it.]

I know we all love the ‘humans are space orcs’ concept… but imagine, onboard the new ship they’ve been assigned to, the human meets an actual space orc. A massive monster… fangs and tusks and scars and a battle-hardened stare, looming over all the other life forms on the ship in its thick indestructible armour it refuses to remove. It barely drinks, it doesn’t need sleep, its massive shoulders are heavy with the terrible things it has experienced. Compared to the squishy & delicate human body, this thing is a walking tank.

… Except instead of hating/ignoring one another, the human and the monster start bonding over both coming from death planets. The human is excited to find a life form who doesn’t quiver with fear at the vague description of a jellyfish and the monster is ecstatic to meet someone who understands the feeling of being bitten by a qua’lem (cats are pretty close). They sit together and compare dangerous animals and locations as the other aliens look on in confusion and fear… oh, you also have dense jungles of deadly hidden predators, boiling acid lakes, tamed predatory killers, and areas with horrendously high and low temperatures? Sick!! 

It doesn’t take long before the two of them become totally inseparable. The human loves not feeling like some kind of crazy outsider and the monster is overjoyed they’ve finally found an equal in this unkillable marshmallow.

Monster: When I was a youngling, a grol-lik stung straight through my armour. The pain lasted for approximately 16 human hours. Human: Oh yeah man, I get that. As a kid I got a wasp stuck in my shirt. It stung me like four times, it was awful, and all my cousins just laughed at me… Monster: [using their arm screen to research human courting methods] I see.

[driiaz]

Not quite an ‘Orc’ per-se, but eh, close enough. See here giant spiky Deathworlder simping for tiny shouty Deathworlder.

[marlynnofmany]

This art is amazing and makes it so much better.

[wreckandrulewar]

Minimus and Dominus : Co-Dependence

“To catch a turbofox by the tail: an old saying, indicating to try to get control of something that cannot be controlled, or will hurt you in turn. Turbofoxes, despite a brief popular stint as pets, are fast, flexible, and deeply vicious, with some of the greatest jaw strength in ratio to their jaw size of any mechanimal. Those who try to catch turbofoxes often find themselves missing fingers afterwards.”

Minimus and Dominus spent their entire lives together, sharing virtually every step of the way- until they didn’t.

[wreckandrulewar]

Also....a quick height chart of the main cast, and a bunch of supporting cast (I just did whoever I had good images of). Not as extreme of height differences as some things I do, but I think it’s very fun to show off just how *big* Starscream actually is in this.

Bonus grompas

[wreckandrulewar]

Been doing some work on tweaking people’s designs, and Springer’s is coming along nicely!

[wreckandrulewar]

11 and 13 for cursed cont questions?

11. Who would send the Navy Seal copypasta unironically

Springer. Springer probably has his whole shpeal written up and sends it to people at a moment’s notice and 100% thinks it’s super cool and intense and scares people. People have tried to explain to him that it’s embarrassing, but he does not get it.

13. Who can quote the entire Bee Movie script with no hesitation

Swerve. He probably does it on request during slow nights at the bar.

[wreckandrulewar]

🍁 For Misfire (if he exists in this cont)

🍁 Misfire wasn’t originally pink! He also doesn’t remember how he got to be this color, but doesn’t want to admit that he doesn’t know, so he just reassures everyone frequently and loudly that he TOTALLY PICKED THIS HIMSELF YEP THIS IS DELIBERATE I HAD GREAT REASONS. He actually kinda loathes the color but he can’t back down now!!!!

[transformers-mirror-mirror-deac]

Cont Questions that Precisely Nobody asked for: Cursed Edition

For all your extremely cursed ask needs!

Special thanks to @sleeveev and @voidwingsprime or some of the questions here! This ask meme is for particularly cursed asks, either to the characters or creator of an original continuity, or AU. This is designed for Transformers continuities, but can be used for any project really.

1. Who in your cont has the worst taste in men?

2. Who in your cont would have been a member of the Superwholock fandom

3. Who in your cont would have simped for the Onceler?

4. Best guess for who’d be a tumblr sexyman in your cont

5. What bizarre fandom discourse would spawn as a result of your cont

6. Kiss, marry, kill for X, Y, Z

7. Who in your cont is most likely to own a body pillow and of whom

8. Who in your cont would want to kiss IDW Overlord

9. Who in your cont genuinely thinks TFP Starscream is attractive

10. Who is most likely to commit adultery

11. Who would send the Navy Seal copypasta in ironically

12. Who in your cont would write RPF

13. Who can quote the entire Bee Movie script with no hesitation

14. Who in-universe is considered to have the best thighs

15. Who Naruto runs

16. Who genuinely ships Reylo

17. Who has the biggest lips

18. Who simps for celebrities

19. Who thirsts for the most unattractive jerks for the most incomprehensible reasons

20. Who doesn’t chug their respect women juice and instead dumps it down the drain

[transformers-fan-continuities]

Transformers Fan Continuity Masterpost

Phew, this is incredibly long! Forgot to make an actual post about it too oops.

Here’s the list, in alphabetical order, with links and short descriptions.

And here is the fan continuity submission form

If your stuff is on this list and you don’t want it to be, tell me and I’ll take it down! If your stuff is on this list or you follow one of the things on this list and the information is outdated, tell me and I’ll update it! If you have a fan continuity and your stuff is not on this list, tell me and I’ll update it!

This link is part of my header, so it should be easy to find.

[transformers-fan-continuities]

a quick rebagle! there’s a lot more on here now than we started with!

[autoacafiles]

🌿

Natural-born Beastformers, said to be the spawn of Onyx Prime, rarely take a vehicle mode for long.

Sure, some like Leobreaker temporarily take on vehicular forms and pretend they had no other form, but overtime elements of their original beast mode emerge, until eventually a spontaneous reformat into a version of their original beast mode takes place.

In the end, natural beastformers will ultimately return to their beastly forms, no matter how much they wish to deny it... unless, of course, they place their spark into a standard protoform and live out their lives in that form.

[wreckandrulewar]

🌎 for worldbuilding?

🌍 For useless worldbuilding...

Cybertronian cities tend to extend vertically just as much as they do horizontally, though because Cybertron is composed of multiple hollow “layers” on most levels, this just means that you wind up with megabuildings where the floors prospectively go from -500 to 100. Most of any given population would actually live below surface-level, only emerging onto the surface to travel between populated areas or in places where subterranean (subcybertronian?) levels are inaccessible or dangerous! (This means that pre-war, during settled ages, many non-flying cybertronians who lived in cities had a sort of agoraphobia, and may have gone centuries at a time without seeing the open sky.

This is flipped when it comes to denizens of flying cities, mountainous areas, or places like the acid flats, where claustrophobia was instead the norm, as *not* just living a life suspended a mile above the ground was nerve-wracking to Vosians who would even get nervous the first times they walked on a large, solid plane like the surface of the world, because their horizon was effectively cut in half.

[wreckandrulewar]

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🌿 For useless biology facts...

🌿 Cybertronians are actually very bad at pretending to be earth vehicles for anything beyond face value. Think of it like those people you see wearing incredible elaborate quadsuit fursuits- you could probably mistake some of those for a deer from a distance in low light, but up close you definitely can see where the joints are wrong at the very least. While Autobots and Decepticons were on earth their mimickry was to hide from each other, not humans. Humans notice when a jet that’s supposed to be thirty-five feet long is actually twenty-five feet long, and moves in defiance to the laws of a little thing called physics. Until humans figured out that Seekers were aliens, it was a real weird time of trying to figure out who was (presumably remotely) flying these tiny, nightmarish jets capable of doing things that would kill human pilots.

To that end, most cybertronian’s natural altmodes don’t really have earthly counterparts. They can certainly wear a car “disguise” if there’s a vehicle they can comfortably “fit into”,  but the second a human gets into a cybertronian it’s pretty obvious that this wheel does nothing, the speedometer is basically just a static image, and also this car doesn’t sound or move like any other car.

Most notably, the fact that cybertronians have an inherent, natural ability to use some form of gravity manipulation makes the way they move pretty obvious to those in the know, which is what this answer is actually also about! Cybertronians aren’t as beholden to stuff like inertia, because their sparkfield creates a “bubble” of altered physics around them (which is also part of the animating field that keeps them alive). This is why jets can just take off from standing still, and cars can come to a dead stop from 100, and they can handle pressures and impacts far beyond what they reasonably should. This even makes them partially bulletproof, as small object impact can be negated by most sparkfields once the defensive properties have been triggered! (hand to hand fights are a little tougher because it also adds on a layer of field vs field)

Not to say that you couldn’t still mow down a Cybertronian with enough bullets, or with like...a tungsten-rod railgun (good luck cancelling that out!), but this is also likely why they have naturally developed energy weaponry.

[wreckandrulewar]

Also always was like ??? because very few land vehicles have full on bulkheads. We'll, technically the engine compartment of a car counts as a bulkhead but it's still primarily used as a nautical/aero engineering term

[agathaarts]

Starscream and Bulkhead from my TFAU; Transformers WAR (Wreck and Rule)! They got a thing together. Messing around with brushes and having fun with shines and shadows.

God Bulkhead turned out so good. I dread when I finally have to give in and draw their altmode.

[nimmenstjer]

Ok, this may be a result of me trying to design an Arcee I like with a doable transformation for the past several weeks, but what if Bulkheads legs did the generation arcee thing (and some big wheels flapped forward on the thighs/hips), the chest/torso flapped up over the head to become the front of the vehicle (with maybe a folded-in thing becoming a bumbper), and the arms, with the kibble, became the sides of the vehicle?

[wreckandrulewar]

It's a good transformation sequence, but this Bulkhead doesn't have wheels, actually! They're a shuttlecraft/dropship- I'm still drawing everyone's altmodes (I just struggle with vehicle design) but initially they were a submarine because I wanted to do something different, and eventually they became a hovercraft through tinkering. In part because it means they can legitimately do an elbow drop from orbit.

Sometimes the best offense is just gravity + nigh invulnerability + the comparative density of tungsten.

[wreckandrulewar]

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🥀 For useless history facts...

🥀 Megatron is, er, well, was from the long-standing noble house of Ascent, the rulers of Tarn since the Primal Age! They were considered to be among some of the finest military leaders and producers in all of Cybertronian history, and were instrumental during the Golden Age’s campaign of expansion and colonization of other planets. During the golden age of expansion, the leader of the house- Magmatron Convoy -was one of the few Predacons who held a politically recognized noble position.

These days, he’s mostly known as the guy who made everyone suspicious of Tarnish houses for a good millennia after he tried to assassinate his fellow members of the Convoy Council in order to stage a coup against the ruling Iaconian Primes. It went poorly and he was publicly executed by the rest of house Ascent when he attempted to return to Tarn to hide.

🥀 Many pre-war military and political titles are indicative of an overarching phenomena of Cybertronian culture, which is that on a historical level individuals have held very little power while groups are considered a single entity. Titles such as Convoy aren’t just indicative of leadership, but also of everyone that someone with a Convoy Title is considered to be in command of- they are treated as a singular unit...as a convoy, if you will. This is the same with the title of Emirate- used to refer to a political territory but also to the individual chosen to speak for everyone in that territory as one.

Most of these titles have fallen out of favor after the Autobot-Decepticon war due to a large-scale rejection of pre-war culture and political dynamics, but lots of historical figures are referred to as Convoy or Emirate or even hold titles like Polity and Squadron, just because of how they were regarded as the speaker for entire groups. (As you may be able to guess, this meant that it was very easy for lone voices to be overpowered and lost when leaders had their own goals...)

🥀 Cybertronians had actually visited Earth multiple times over the course of a few million years, but for much of history the planet held little interest to them. Organic oil/fuel is a novelty, but was considered too time-consuming to drill out, treat, and transport back to Cybertron. Instead, Earth was largely observed by religious devotees who believed that alien worlds with life-forms similar to Cybertronian life forms were somehow connected, often times believing they were the abandoned “first projects” of Primus or the original Primes. Cybertron is a relatively young planet, by cosmic standards (and by the standards of most TF settings) only having a few million years of evidence for physical history.

In part this was fueled by the fact that concepts like convergent evolution had never been discovered by Cybertronians, who do not experience sexual reproduction or advantage-based evolution, but it is a little eerie how close many earthly life-forms have parallels upon Cybertron (as well as other planets...) At some point, approximately eight to ten thousand years ago, Earth was prepared for cyber-forming but the process ultimately never began for unknown reasons, leaving large amounts of inert raw sentio metallico and energon crystal seeds buried deep under the planet’s magnetic poles and imbedded in the planet’s crust in other key locations, which would eventually draw the Autobot-Decepticon war to the planet, seeking desperately needed resources.

Which actually turned out pretty well. Earth was instrumental in ending the Autobot-Decepticon war, but we’ll explore that later...

[agathaarts]

Starscream and Bulkhead from my TFAU; Transformers WAR (Wreck and Rule)! They got a thing together. Messing around with brushes and having fun with shines and shadows.

God Bulkhead turned out so good. I dread when I finally have to give in and draw their altmode.

[wreckandrulewar]

What’s this? CONTENT? It’s more likely than you’d think! (keep an eye here for some answered prompts today!)

[transformers-mirror-mirror-deac]

OG Cont Ask Meme: Useless Fact Edition!

Send an emoji for a useless fact about the cont, a character, or worldbuilding.

🥀 For useless history facts

🌿 For useless biology facts

🍁 For useless character facts

🌍 For useless worldbuilding

[transformersmr-hq]

Finally an ask meme that I can give proper answer to!