Whenever I read the line "for the few Autobots left standing" I'm like it's fine, don't worry about it, they can carry/drag all the other perfectly-alive-but-inconveniently-dismembered members of the Rod Squad to safety, this isn't even an issue Spoiler: MTMTE 54 Also yeah, I hate to say it, but of all the group Skids is one of the ones I'm least attached to. Poor Nautica though...fuck ;-; If the Rod Squad escapes and eventually comes across the Lost Light in their competing quest to find the Knights of Cybertron first and someone points out to Getaway that factoid about Skids, I could totally see it becoming part of a villainous breakdown as he goes into wild denial over fucking up his scheming that badly
Spoiler: mtmte 54 does Swerve know Skids is dead where is Swerve?? also I love this bit but poor Nautica's never going to be the same again, is she?
Spoiler: MTMTE 54 I'm surprised only Skids is confirmed dead. I expected a massacre. I really hope Ravage pulls through, and I'm not convinced Megatron got killshotted until I see the body. Really surprised Deathasaurus sent his men to certain death, though, I was expecting him to go 'no' and get murdered.
Spoiler On the mystery of Skids versus Tailgate: perhaps it's the motivation/underlying emotion of the trauma. We know that transformers can be placebo'd, that their psychology and their physiology are not separated. When Tailgate did the burst thing, he was trying to save Cyclonus. He wanted to be stronger, since his feelings of uselessness led to Getaway being able to manipulate him, and he was too weak to save Cyclonus. So he becomes strong. Skids feels guilt. He wants to die. It's harder to justify why this never was recorded during the war, though.
Spoiler: mtmte 54 I am still annoyed about the fool's energon reveal, because I really don't like magic feather plots (especially when there's an implied mental health connection) but this whole thing about Optimus lying ro the whole crew and undermining Rodimus' authority to do it? That's actually really intriguing and i want more
Spoiler: Mtmte 54 ...you know what, is this supposed to be Lugnut? I kind of think this is totally supposed to be TFA Lugnut
OK im back home and shall now proceed to read mtmte 54 but first! liveblog of my read of exrid 1 b/c i needed to distract myself before my shrink appointment: Spoiler: exrid 1 was it worth it? that... kinda doesnt look alive, bro the land haaaaates you that should be your first clue that you didnt actually win, as far as your god is concerned those are some very... interesting robot designs! i like. jokes on you, rodimus is still alive. he got the right idea and bailed. and i see only one bot with an obvious badge. lots of neutrals, or lots of people who cast off their badge? out of conviction? out of tiredness? out of fear? hi metalhawk. i know you will die. i hope i dont get too attached to you. hm, bumblebee is still using the cane. so he didnt take up ratchets offer to fix him. ... and the autobots and the decepticons arent cybertronians? sheesh, i can kinda understand the sentiment, but ive seen too many phrases like that in my own home country uttered by the right-wing racist bigots to not be reminded of that sentiment and of course he runs into 'cons. augh. this comic is going to be "from bad to worse" the storyline, or, "what's the most disastrous thing that could happen", isnt it horri-bull. really. that's called abuse of power, you two. hi prowl. ... the only thing i can do here is try not to care about the morons who didnt leave with rodimus, and sit back with a tub of popcorn and watch the show, isnt it? BATFORMER YOU DISABLED OUTLIER POWERS? YOU ASSHOLES D:: LET SKYWARP HAVE HIS TELEPORTATION BACK YOU GUYS ARE AS BAD AS THE FUNCTIONIST GOVERNMENT THAT WAS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE DAMN WAR PROWL SHUT UP hi shockwave are you already planning destroying existence or was that triggered by this? no, bumbles, hes not. prowl? werent you the one who gave the order to sabotage the ship? 17 klicks into the wilderness, now if i only knew how those translate to minutes. did that start once the lost light left, or is it limited to specific parts of cybertron? prowl. you are ruthless, and lost sight of... everything. and, with nobody on your side, you sound a bit like starscream. also, ominous bot in the shadows is ominous. metalhawk is right, bro. that was just mere vandalism. but the underlying cause? was confirmed by both con and bot reactions. werent you two supposed to stay out of trouble. gfdi. inb4 that was staged bumbles, didnt metalhawk ask you not to call them nails any more TEN MINUTES AGO "im done thinking" yeah thats p much obvious, bumbles of course it was staged. of course it was. (calling it rn: EVERYTHING here is staged) oh hey youve got your teleporting powers back! ::D also i have procured a windblade figurine! i need to re-do her paintjob though. Spoiler: i had a mighty need and now, i'm ready to be emotionally compromised by giant space robots. Spoiler: mtmte 54 ten has a mouth laser! i didnt spot that in the preview. (quick question in between, does anyone ever run out of ammo?) overlord YOU JACKASS on one hand, yay nickel! on the other hand D:: chromedome same, rewind, same can you guys PLEASE stop making chromedome do mnemosurgery? also, chromedome, if youre going to do that, HOW THE FUCK are you out on the battlefield fighting?? also, skids no D:: oh thank primus chromedome you wisened up motherfuck drift did you just call rodimus "hot shot" is that what you did you do have a crush on him dont you rodimus you phoenix <3 megs, thats why youve got friends who help your moral compass. also, you need to go out and help them, the upgrade is wearing off WHAT a placebo GDI AND THERE I WAS HAPPY THERE WAS ACTUAL ROBOT MEDICATION FFFFFFFFF ah, that stuff exists, but op was too worried abt megs. got it. RAVAGE NO skiiiiids ;;_;; and he didnt even get to tell brainstorm ... inb4 deathsaurus turns on tarn gdi deathsaurus youre not happy about this dont do it i... im not convinced. (also nickel, good shot) did did they really just kill off megatron i dont believe it i really dont and judging by rodimus face right now, he'll be the next to bloom jegus fuck.
Spoiler: mtmte 54 also, omg, in that screenshot I posted above, Velocity is in the fight too. I'm so glad she made it out okay, and I'm super proud of her for being so brave ;_; Nautica was part of the initial Camien expedition with Chromia and Windblade, so I'm guessing she'd been trained to fight at a decent level, like them. But Velocity is a medic, and a new medic. And here she is on the battlefield. I'm glad I didn't realize she was out there on my first readthrough, because I'd be stressing the hell out, worrying about her making it out okay. I hope she's doing okay. I want her and Ratchet to have bonding time over reconciling being a medic and a fighter. More screentime for Velocity!
Spoiler: mtmte 54 skids - an explanation It could be that only Outliers can do that? Tailgate may have become an outlier when Cyclonus infused his spark, but Skids already was one. It may have happened during the war, but there weren't many outliers, so the phenomena could have gone unrecorded. I KNEW RAVAGE WAS GOING TO GET FRIDGED!!! ARRRRGH!!! WHY DOES EVERYONE ABUSE MEGATRON'S MURDER CAT??! Also Skids...yeaah, he was the only major character whose plots thread had all wrapped up. The last piece was remembering what he did in the Grindcore. Also, the safest place for the minibots to be is on Maximus Ambus. Whichever robot came up with that idea gets major kudos. Also, WHERE THE HELL ARE TAILGATE AND CYCLONUS??? They both disappeared. After Cy's big declaration in 53, I expected some sort of drama to happen to one or both of them during the battle. I'm disappointed, maybe it's not over yet.
I can't remember if it's been shown before, but I really do appreciate that Tarn has speakers set into his shoulders. What a ridiculous thing to do, being able to play his ~theme song~ at a moment's notice.
So because you guys might need some cheering up have a link to the gdocs @TwoBrokenMirrors and I keep a fun little OC RP in! This is where my minibot medic Half Life goes :P cw: eating disorders, ptsd, past medical abuse, mildly dubious consent practices, canon typical violence ALSO IT IS MASSIVELY NSFW, 18+, adult content [LINK]
Spoiler: MTMTE 54 Oh, you have a good point about Skids being an outlier. That hadn't occurred to me before, and that would explain why it can't just be randomly induced trauma (and would explain why explosive outlier effects affected him differently from Tailgate). (And of course it would be the superlearner who put all of that together. Skids ;n;)
regarding tarns shoulder speakers imagine someone hacking them the empyrean suite is playing, and suddenly theres static, and then "ah, ah, mike test, mike test, can you hear me loud and clear?"
