Spoiler: rid s1e17 rest in fucking pieces is that one of drift's babies IT IS JETSTORM NO IT'S OKAY BABY aw fuck drift how did you get here thank you denny for gaining a lick of sense no but it's got a cybertronian onboard that or earth's been using cybertronian tech since optimus left ...the latter. definitely the latter. n o ....okay the writers haven't gone entirely mad thank you fixit JETSTORM sideswipe gottagofast SIDES okay even if this is jetstorm blowing things out of proportion, there's still the fact that... he would believe this of Drift, like that doesn't Just Happen Spoiler: s1e18 grim. grim that's not how obstacle courses work what the fuck kinda fish are those someone please tell fixit testing exists bl e s s bee bee you and sideswipe are the only one with titty lanterns this is probably illegal grim continues to be #relatable CHILDREN okay but introduce sideswipe to moving meditation there's something the same in a straight, open road where you can just drive for miles and miles and it might actually do him good huh I kinda hope that comes back, I wanna know more about fixit's model between this and his nightmare it definitely looks like they were one of the slave caste but hmmmmmmmmmm Spoiler: s1e19 oh my god did grim just call himself swole I mean.... Kaon gladiator... Decepticon... not too hard to draw a connection, he's there for being a con Fixit did tell yall the bridge wasn't reliable :T sometimes you just need an excuse for Giant Robots Punching Each Other To Death FIXIT YOU'RE GONNA GET SQUISHED well that was cute Spoiler: s1e20 I like how Sideswipe is still the only one with in-depth motion to his hips and bearing sideswipe got da booty is what I'm saying ono what does he want to escape from? :c that is one determined bear jetstorm mmmmmmmmmmmmhrrrrrrrr I am uncomfortable with the lack of regard for fixit's consent none of you are medical professionals, for chrissake have someone reputable, say drift, who presumably isn't an outlaw at this point, take him back to Cybertron if it's really so important here is a thought instead of making either the gleeful children or the uncomfortable alien do fucking brain surgery GO TO A GODDAMN MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL shit, even if Ratchet's still in mourning over optimus you'd think Bee at least could pull on a few heartstrings jfc sideswipe has a medical phobia txtit OH MY GOD KIDS NOW IS NOT THE TIME JESUS CHRIST FIXIT STOP SHOOTING THE SMOLS no, it's not fixit's fault, it's yalls for fucking insisting an untrained amateur do goddamn fucking brain surgery! oh my god you two what happened to "stay under cover" OH MY GOD DON'T KILL SPIDERBRO sideswipe rolls a nat 1 on his reflex check it would behoove you to find a goddamn medical professional and maybe, I don't know, let fixit know about the defense systems what happened to "only in a situation most dire" Spoiler: s1e21 I really should stop hoping but also episode title "Lock Out" rhymes with "Knock Out" illuminati Hot Doc #confirmed someone introduce grimlock to hockey oh my god I love grasshopper con wow steeljaw so much for camaraderie oh my god even as a car he's cute oh my gOD just toss him in there just DO IT Cool Rack Dudes having a Cool Rack Dude Fight I'm tellin ya drift and purple dude are a spade is that megatronus Spoiler: s1e22 it came to my attention that there's only 26 episodes in season 1 we're doing this where making it hapen "reporting that there's nothing to report. I'll report more nothin' to report later." A+ ACQUIRE!!!! SNARL!!!! okay scowl whatever Acquire Him you were doing so well grim shhhhhhhhhhhh Bee Bee it's "wreck and rule" sweetheart god I didn't know Slipstream was a name already taken when I made my fanrobot @Slipstream but they would be So Offended at each other it's kinda hilarious bless fixit sometimes you just need an excuse for a Dino Robot Fight kangaroo sideswipe sideswipe do you know what a kangaroo is but also: how the hell are they staying In Disguise without anyone besides a junkyard owner to cover for them, Jasper this place is not apparently grim's an elephant this time I mean that's a good Moral Of The Story, but also: the line I want there is "...and what I wanna smash is the con that's been throwing me around for the last half hour" FIXIT DANCING IS SO CUTE OH MY GOD Spoiler: s1e23 kittens can, in fact, swarm these are called "cuddle puddles" was that.... entirely necessary sides did you transform just to do a cool leap over a hill you giant dorkbaby IS THAT WINDBLADE IT IS HI WINDBLADE oh my GOD sideswipe you dork that tiny "whoops" just fukin kills me oh my god does side have a baby crush on her oh my god ble s s ....windblade is a beautiful butterfly but also what was she before she was a plane oh my god sideswipe is crushing on her this is adorable it's Ursula with a yellow color scheme I thought you were funny, Sideswipe there is joke here to be made about sides riding windblade I realise 1) Alien Robots and 2) you can't say "the queen is the ovary of the hive" on a kids show but also That Is Not How Bees Do bless fixit sideswipe is all about riding ladies this episode inne the catch is he only did it 'cos windblade did first, hun :P Spoiler: s1e24 "[...]a Decepticon with the power to change its shape." Netflix Netflix pls I think your summary-writer fundamentally misunderstands the premise of transformers snrk grimmy FIELD TRIP BACK TO JASPER COME ON VISIT!!!! RAF!!! bee. bee you know how much of Earth is ocean, pls don't let fixit choose coords randomly THAT WORKS bless fixit JASPER ....OR DEATH VALLEY THAT WORKS TOO bee: [excitedly geeking out while everyone stares blankly] #me!!!!!!!! children DRIFT!!! he shows a sense of humor at last! toooooooour buuuuuuuuuus strongarm playing along with the pranking gives me life befriend sideswipe DRI F T drift's offended face at being snootbooped strongarm just let the babies hug your legs they're scared grimlock: punches an entire cart of explosives into submission This Is Fine THEY!!!!!!!!!!1 NAMEDROPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIFTERS!!!!!!!!!!! my boy Amalgamous repreSENT ....why are there two drifts is this where the fun starts it IS also nice reflex save sides oh that is beautifully animated not the time, sides, but yes, yes you do (sideswipe would fuck his own clone txt it) ....grim. grim no "lizard samples" fixit. fixit no
Spoiler: rid s1 finale pt1 it WAS megatronus HA I know my thirteen >:3 aw shit ohai optimus ....those fliers are fidget spinners and I can't unsee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 SOMETHING HAPPEN look let's be real if Optimus offered a pitch makeout I'm sure Megatronus would get distracted real quick ooooooooooooookay hi windblade bye windblade I see your Rescue Bots continuity jokes well at least someone told fixit about that rest in pieces fracture the number of times "bitch" should be tacked onto Megatronus's sentences is real ...yall that's only five ignoring Solus (dead), Maximo (dead-ish), and Megatronus (exiled), there should still be ten of you, not seven Who're we missing, here Quintus and Onyx, maybe? Since Quintus was also a Bad Boy and Onyx doesn't get on with the others... but we're still short one hm hmmm hm hm yep that's optimus yep OH oh I bet it's Vector missing, since he kinda sits outside the universe with a shiny new paintjob! but god I love all the little nods to Optimus and Micronus having been friends before the first rez Optimus 1<>Micronus otp ohhhhhhhhhh my god hank pls um fixit fixit what do you think a servo is I'm sure fracture has many of them dayum denny you got muscle, fridges are heavy Y O ....okay I realise yall were probably locked up through the end of the war, but you miiiiiiiiiight have heard how badly defying (demi)gods went for Megatron are you sure you wanna do this steeljaw YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS Spoiler: finale pt2 megatronus's smile is adorable yooooooooour account is biiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaased prima you son of a bitch oh ow ow ow right in the heart optimus has watched bee die once already and there's no magic resurrection pool here BADLY PLACED OPENING SEQUENCE yo what since when is megatronus telekinetic earth played a role in your exile? really? Did they just... glue you to uncle dearest someone up there is rolling the dice for yall grimlock: gives no fucks about mythology "isn't that correct, jetstorm?" [blank stare] "jetstorm!" [cackling] megatronus's alt is startlingly similar to shockwave's iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's Primely energy! Either OP's Morale Field or Micronus booping you up No mortal can kill a priiiiiiiiiime >:D team steeljaw's blasting off agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain BYE BEE they didn't even bother animating his limbs, just slid him right out of frame MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR EVERYONE More Lasers is obviously the solution just casually grab optimus and move him out of the way dayum bb d'aaaaaaaaaaaaaw sideswipe [nine pages of screaming]
.....you know, I forgot that we'd been given an estimate of how many mechs deathsaurus had on his warworld. 500-ish. Which is a lot of people, but not THAT many. It's 2.5 lost lights of mechs. Even if we assume that a lot of them were as durable as cybertronians are, and survived debilitating injuries on necroworld, I'd still put the number of corpses left behind as... at least a few dozen? If twenty mechs died, that's an entire ten percent of his crew. If forty died, that's a whole fifth of his men. One of every five men dead. What I'm trying to say is that provided there wasn't some kind of continuity hiccup along the way, deathsaurus just lost a pretty darn significant fraction of his crew. (silly shipping habit thoughts: if his crew is as romantically-inclined as the rest of JRO's cast, and this group has been together and tight for a long time... how many bereaved mechs are there right now? :3c)
im sorry im on a HUGE deathsaurus kick rn so thank u for these posts spock Spoiler: fic idea rambling??? im sorry im buzzing with this that said, last night i got to thinking like. what if deathsaurus on the lost light instead of megatron. not to be like "oh boo no redemption art for megs" but like. i think it would go a long way in terms of making the decepticons out to be, well. people, and not the Stock Bad Guys all the time? bc i know jro's been playing with grey morality, but i think, it could stand to be a little more? idk, clear? idk! anyways, they end up either by chance, or (accident? engine malfunction and deathsaurus knows that star system like the back of his hand?) visiting one of his warworlds and find out that 'okay, these guys just want to live their lives too, everyones tired of the war, they have their own economy now! also they havent immediately torn us apart so maybe we can work with this'. and ofc this lead to deathsaurus/rodimus ship stuff because i am a goddamn disaster and weak for huge size differences and im playing with fic ideas currently
Also also!! One thing I'm really hopeful for is that okay. Both of these are commanders who get hella invested in their crews and care about their men a LOT. And they've both just done the thing where they got screwed over by someone they trusted. I think I remember JRO saying something about Deathsaurus being a pretty direct foil for Rodimus sometime I need to see if my recordings of the panels are actually audible. And oh my goodness, they have SO MUCH GROUND to bond over, and they're both pointy emotional leaderboys, and I need to see them interact. But I really am interested in the possibility of their first meeting starting from the incredibly loaded place of 'okay so can any of you tell me why you're flying around in the CORPSE OF ONE OF MY MEN??' I may be in the middle of Deathsaurus fic right now, though it's pretty immediately following DOTL, so there's no Rodimus involved, just Deathsaurus and Nickel. But ohhhh my goodness I adore his voice. I wasn't sure I could find it, but it's kinda from the same spot as my Rodimus voice, only with more experience with the weight of carrying so much responsibility. I love him so much. And this is a silly fic, because it's coming from the very highbrow creative inspiration place of Spoiler: nsfw i saw a picture of dragon autofellatio, plus there are those urban myths about someone removing some ribs so they could suck their own dick except then I started getting Emotions all over it, and I didn't even make it a whole paragraph before I decided this had to be a couple thousand words instead of the short little thing I'd been aiming for :V (after this it's time for dominus ambus fic and djd codependence and MORE HEAVY EMOTIONS. I don't know what it is lately, but the characters from that entire branch of the storyline have grabbed me by the heart real good) (i haven't been able to sit and just write in ages, this feels so so good)
oh my god yes..... i want them to meet. i want the initial awkwardness, i want them to eventually begrudgingly get along, i want them to find out theyre not so different, and fmaybe even for rodimus to look to him for guidance?? if they joined forces it would be. extremely good i think. THAT SOUNDS AMAZING jkfhdgkhfh
Spoiler: i lied, one edit for a spoiler cut, because i talk forever You know, I keep coming back to the grey morality thing, because right now we've got four main chunks of cast in LL right now (stragglers and people marooned in another universe or buried underground aside), and they've ALL got some serious sympathetic ground to build on. The ditched LL crew, they're main characters. I don't need to go into why they're sympathetic. The Scavengers have been in and out of the books, but even when they were at their most O_O and sitting around a cozy not-yet-a-corpse fire, they were written as a bunch of lovable, dorky, little people, where they were minor officers at best and are HELLA removed from the decision-makers and society-drivers these series tend to gravitate towards. That's even before they start trying to take care of Grimlock and talk mental health and domestication. Deathsaurus (and Nickel and company) have had even less screen time, but they spend almost ALL their time having obvious decent motives and doing nice (contextually nice :V) things. Deathsaurus earned a torture-murder sentence so he could protect his crew from being thrown away in the war. Nickel lost her whole colony and is taking good care of her crew of ridiculous murderdorks. They're still decepticons and a little.... murder-y.... when it comes to our protagonists, but they're doing pretty well with their framing. And Getaway and company look like assholes as of the moment, but ain't no way that's going to stick as black-and-white as it is right now. Even if it's background characters who stayed behind, I think the only ones we've been shown being jackasses are Getaway and Atomizer. Mechs like Hoist and Bluestreak and Perceptor have ways been sympathetic before now, and for the most part, I doubt that framing is going to change too much. In the first two seasons, our main villains had some seriously D: stuff in their backstories, but it was fairly hidden. We're jumping into this season with like... Functionists, Terminus, and Scorponok as the only real overt assholes. Terminus took advantage once and vanished from the story, functionists are gone until Brainstorm and Killmaster embark on an epic bromance, and Scorponok... well, he showed up? :V (fake edit: oh wait, the galactic council, who has had maybe less screen time than terminus) But the REAL big thing that's been nagging at me, okay. Sympathetic villains area thing that can work, and can work really well without them ever doing a dragonball z and becoming new best friends. But this feels like REALLY lovely heel face turn groundwork for Deathsaurus particularly. But then, inn the story, Deathsaurus and company are still decepticons, even ages after deserting. He spends his time cyberforming worlds, which he does because ???? Resources AND ideology are the big things I can think of, but if a crew like that set out to do, idk, mercenary or security work or trade, they've got a lot of ships and one HONKING BIG SHIP and a lot of crew. Their ship is in bad shape, we're told. It doesn't seem like Deathsaurus is necessarily making any net GAINS here. Lots of words to say I think he's probably still onboard with decepticon ideology. We've got a lot of protagonists, but JRO has confirmed a few times that if we have a central protagonist, it's Rodimus. People are going to collect around him. Why would Deathsaurus team up with Rodimus and company? Dude-you-are-flying-my-soldier's-corpse is a good fun excuse for them to meet. But there are some major sore feelings going in both directions right now. Fandom has an entire wide open playing field to wander around in, but a professional big-name franchise is going to have some stricter requirements driving it's structure. What sort of deeply-felt, emotional THING can Deathsaurus, Rodimus's corpse party, and the Scavengers bond over? I'm maybe going to go back and reread phase one material when I get the chance, but Scorponok. He works pretty subtly a lot of the time, but he's also very much go big or go home. His big pushes I remember are the one spotlight issue where he starts yoinking an entire alien planet before Ultra Magnus arrives and hunts him down, and the background stuff on earth where he's the one ultimately directing the body horror headmasters adventure with Sunstreaker and Hunter. Philosophically, okay. Ultra Magnus has a little bit of a NEMESIS space cop thing going on, if phase one holds true (oh man, I wonder if his armor will start acting up again?), he's directly pissed off/attacked Anode, Lug, and company and is doing sketchy shit all over the place. It's been maybe-probably signaled with the garrus-9 timeline and symbols business that he's responsible for fucking up grimlock. The scavengers aren't looking to fight, but Grimlock doesn't take orders and is a big dinosaur and doesn't afraid of anything, I doubt Misfire will ditch him, etc. etc. The scavengers might prefer to cut and run, but when they were cornered, they tried fighting back against the DJD. That's pretty hardcore. Deathsaurus. He has a strong bond with his people, which is also a big Rodimus thing, and is also a big thing with the scavengers. He ditched the decepticons because Megatron wasn't treating his crew as people, just as pawns to be sacrificed. Scorponok is up to mad science adventures where we we still don't know what he's up to, but he's not going to be caring about personal bonds, or the value of life. If he's doing another quietly-infiltrate-an-alien-world thing, he might run into Deathsaurus trying to cyberform it. Or perhaps he needs more test subjects for whatever the heck he's doing. I don't know, there are still too many things we haven't been told. But even if he's still technically a decepticon, he's not going to be the same sort as Deathsaurus. He's not going to be the same sort as Tarn either, but if Tarn was fanatical loyalty, Scorponok is more... like Bludgeon, where it's similarly intense, but all in the name of self-service, not for a greater cause. Deathsaurus is still licking his wounds over running afoul of Tarn's methods, and he's just lost a lot of soldiers. I think encountering Scorponok in any way isn't going to go great, and it's going to go extra bad if Scorponok makes any threatening or conscription-flavored move. Anyways! Bonding point: valuing the lives of your friends/allies. Kind of a thing in the series in general, but it's been sorta erratic. Autobots and helping each other is a classic Good Guy thing, but the classic portral of the decepticons is more... backstabby. You have some moments, like Starscream/Thundercracker/Skywarp doing an emotion in NYC over wait-aren't-we-more-than-JUST-a-unit, or the Constructicons and their grudge over Scrapper. But anyways, I don't know where to go with this, but it seems like a really logical element for the story to turn on, going forward. Things have gotten more and more emotion-heavy and it makes sense for those bonding-type emotions to be a pivotal Thing. This has been: disorganized thoughts typed on mobile on an exercise machine. no editing, we ride and die like men. And random thoughts: We've suddenly got a LOT of mad scientists bopping around the place. Brainstorm and Wheeljack, okay, they're kinda like that, sure. But then you have Bludgeon up to Shenanigans on Cybertron with the hot spot, you've got Scorponok showing back up in the picture when the last we saw of him was headmaster shit and the last we heard of him was very possibly the Grimlock stuff, and you've got Killmaster, and give me more of him bring him back from the pocket dimension he's too good to waste. Also, it occurs to me that we've seen a couple of very distinct flavors of decepticon showing up in the cast, moreso than for the autobots. We've got the mooks with the scavengers, just... ordinary guys who happened to end up on that side. We've got Tarn with the ideological fanaticism. As opposed to Megatron, who was taking a step back from the cult-like thing it became over time and examining the philosophical roots of what he believed in. There's Deathsaurus, who's... loyal, to some extent, but is more loyal to his people than to a cause. And then decepticons like Overlord or Bludgeon, where being a decepticon is more of an opportunistic thing. That's really interesting. I guess it's a natural progression when the initial series framing tends to be autobots = good guys, and a lot of continuities never get around to the question of why someone would be a decepticon. My very very dearest hope is still that the Scavengers dig up Tailgate and we have an echo of early MTMTE 1 where he's scooped up by a sympathetic ship full of autobots and wants to be One Of Them, and here where he gets scooped up by a ship full of sympathetic decepticons and has to really GET that more balanced worldview. Especially since one of the last things Cyclonus did was try to communicate to Tailgate what a weight it is to be a person who kills. Also Misfire is all about the Necrobot, they've got a perfect excuse to land there, I just need someone to dig Tailgate up please, this is important. CYCLONUS AND DEATHSAURUS BONDING AS SPIKY OPPOSITES-ATTRACT FIGHTBOYS, this is important and I'm too lazy to properly explain from mobile, but I want it
Anyways, I also have lots of Thoughts about original flavor Vos and him being the team medic-by-default (because having to secretly maintain his own people suit), and that being a reason why the team really needed Nickel when she showed up. And also the betrayal by Vos being the thing that nudges Tarn into trying to do the whole Manager thing with performance reviews and junk, which is the opposite of what his team needs emotionally. And and and, the varying emotional reactions the team has to the pet afterwards. Kaon's is pretty clear, I could say some things about Helex and old hurt and frustration over Vos boiling over as anger about Vos, but directed at Kaon. Plus also the things Tesarus said to Tarn about decepticons sticking together. Codependence is so interesting in the tight group relationships like the DJD has. Also, what kind of colony was Prion that Nickel is so blase about the domesticated pet, cranial fluid in people's mouths, harvesting internal organs for Tarn to use, and just generally being the bossy abrasive team mom for a group of sadistic, twisted torturers? PS, also, Alex Milne said that when he was designing the DJD, he made some decisions. And that Kaon is an electric chair with tank treads for a reason. When people are in their alt mode, how do they move? Tarn's a tank, Tesarus and Helex have wheels. Vos is a gun, but people can pick up a gun and run with him (also he was retroactively designed to match the gun Megatron was holding in that one picture). But.... Kaon. Kaon is a chair. When he's transformed, do people just... pick up the chair and run with him? And that's why Kaon is a motorized electric chair.
AND. You know who's a perfect matched set? WELL. DINOSAUR/DRAGON. It's gotta happen. This is so important. deathsaurus/everyone deathsaurus does dallas the lost light
last post I swear :B but look. deathsaurus is totally onyx prime's slightly-less-pointy great-great-great-great grandbaby. Right down to the four eyes and between-the-eyes beak and everything.
Nickel/Deathsaurus, 5.5k, nsfw, robot dragon alt mode funtimes. My focus is still horrifically broken, but! Less broken than previously! This was a two-night adventure, which it shouldn't have been, but this was better than never finishing the thing at all. Maybe I just need to keep following my id. Also I broke in the ao3 deathsaurus/nickel tag, which is a travesty, how has nobody else written the tiniest lady with the giant dragon man. And I tagged it nickelsaurus on tumblr because I can. -saurus is the greatest possible name ending ever, and deathsaurus is the best candidate for ship name mashups in the entire franchise. (cygatesaurus, rodisaurus, megasaurus, whirsaurus, starsaurus, there are literally no bad ship name choices. and that's apart from the death- beginning part which is also pretty solid gold. grimsaurus vs deathlock, ship name battle GO) ...but damussaurus does sound pretty silly, ngl. also, oversaurus.
