Shamelessly crossposting my transformers dragons from the flight rising thread, because oh god there are so many of them and so many more I still need. Rodimus has an accent to call to his current emo recolor, Tailgate is a horrorterror because @coldstars needs to stop coming up with incredibly gripping ideas that hijack my brain, Nightbeat is feeling the dead universe burn, and there are three separate Megatrons scattered throughout. eta: ANNND the first Galvatron is actually Nautica. That's what I get for writing names out in backwards order. Spoiler: lorge
You have too many pretty TF dragons! It is illegal, Spock! /grabby hands @Bonecrusher and Trepan/ ;-;
It's been a slow acquisition process! At first the petals/butterfly combo was expensive, so I took my time. And then my lair was crushingly full, so I was forced to take my time :P I even jettisoned my dancestor dragons to make room. Constructicons are high on recognizability, so they're easy to spot as they blow by, but I haven't decided if I want to try for any more distinguishing features on the last couple (and Long Haul might go away, t b h, his purple could... be more purple). And with the Combaticons, to my undying shame, I... cannot remember the color schemes of the last three off the top of my head :P But making a set of those and the DJD is high on my priority list. A Tesarus dragon will be easy, the others will be harder. Also needed: Velocity Firestar (with some of these fire accents that are so frickin hard to use in a subtle manner, finding her is Important) Anode Lug Emo Rodimus TERMINUS Ten Knock Out Breakdown Skids Swerve Minimus Ambus Optimus Prime Sunstreaker Sideswipe Getaway Soundwave (and cassettes ahaha oh god my lair is gonna splode) Bumblebee Shockwave Skywarp Thundercracker All the scavengers Blurr First Aid PHARMA Kup Springer Impactor Overlord Ironfist R O T O R S T O R M I think that covers all the critical ones, but doesn't even touch on the minor players like Ironhide or Wing :P Some of these color schemes are hard to (affordably) find in the wild (ultra magnus is my first blue and white with a hint of red that I've been happy with), and sometimes I can't quite remember colors, or I get picky about eyes or I run out of dragon moneys. Or my lair fills up. I'm sitting on a chromia and cyclonus that I bought replacements for (right after I bred them, of course), but I... mmmight start whittling down my homestuck babies at some point soon.
OH HEY. So I know this Soundwave picture has been making the rounds (maybe even on the thread? i have no long-term memory). But I just noticed something new. Check out his chest. Spoiler: not quite robogore? injuries, i guess? That's where his cassettes live. It looks like that cover was deliberately ripped off. This picture can be interpreted loads of ways (TGWP? young soundwave only just getting to know what war is like? all kinds of good stuff), but in addition. Imagine the framing of someone ripping mama bird Soundwave's chest open, and taking away His People, and he can't protect them. Given all the damage he took, it looks like he fought hard. And if the cassettes couldn't fight for themselves and were tucked away inside him, maybe they were injured, maybe they especially needed his protection, and he let them down at that most important time.
I can quite easily see TGWP!Megatron getting pissed enough to rip the cassettes out of Soundwave and leave him a beaten, wire-exposed mess on the floor while he continues on with each of the cassettes. And all of them are hurting and worried about protecting Soundwave right back, all the while This is both sad-making and intriguing to contemplate
Spoiler: TGWP My first thought was Megatron confiscating the cassettes (but not harming them, probably) to emotionally terrorize Soundwave with.
See, I can't tho bc the cassettes are too small to make interesting targets for TGWP!Megatron. He's not interested in holding back, he'd just lock them in another room and not feed them or something.
Oooh, he canonically doesn't see cassettes as PEOPLE-people. So Soundwave knows they're in the hands of someone who could very realistically let them die of sheer neglect, and would also probably react violently to any suggestion that he could maybe possibly have done anything wrong :3c
Yes, but also - Spoiler: TGWP Now I am torn. Because Megatron outright hurting the cassettes with his own hands would be one of those things I'd see probably pushing Soundwave over the line into outright mutiny. I disagree about them being too small to interest him, since Megatron is a vindictive fuck and the second he realizes how deeply someone cares about something, he twists it back to use against them Buuuut I really want there to be backstory where this exact scenario happens, and the cassettes get hurt and used, but Soundwave's too deep in the abuse victim mind trap to see a way out of it. Or worse, future story. TGWP ISN'T OVER UNTIL IT'S OVER
I mean TGWP!Megatron barely registers minibots as people, much less people even smaller. he's a size racist. Throw Tailgate at him and watch the carnage. >:)
Spoiler: TGWP To clarify: Megatron absolutely knows what he's doing when he works himself into a lather and then attacks other people, he is deliberately losing control because it feels good to him and I'm not saying he can't help it. But. I think he would be incapable of not killing at least the birds if he started to hit them, with how delicate they've been repeatedly mentioned to be, and how he's come close to beating to death even a healthy Jazz when he gets mad enough. The fact that he'd want to keep them alive to torment Soundwave with and use against him is why I don't think he'd hit them himself.
