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Save The Last Dance For Me š¶
I recently started using Procreate and I've been practicing new brushes to get familiar with it. So I tried drawing KOBD dancing as practice. And I think today is the perfect day to share this. Happy Valentine's Day to you all!
this meme fits them perfectly
humanization of some tfp designs part 2 part 3
and uhhh lonely Sound (dont like how i designed him but i'll post him anyway lol)
Blinked for a second and now heās tall, slender, and gothā¦ Skywarp mustāve been tired being the only goth around š in fact, while he was at it he made Laserbeak goth too, kinda considerate of him for making them match š and a flight mode so Soundwave can actually get places instead of sitting around as a cassette player?? He was cooking
Knockout: [explaining in detail what he knew and saw of the Cybertron War]
Fio: sooo... basically ended up in a universal and almost endless war over a divorce that ended on bad terms?
Knockout: what do you mean?!
Fio: two guys; too good friends to be a normal friendship, one of whom accidentally got what the other wanted and in revenge started a war that wasn't about winning but about destroying him... but without killing him because otherwise he would lose his objective...
Knockout: HOLY PRIMUS ON THE GROUND! WE'RE TRAPPED IN A UNIVERSAL DIVORCE!!! *frustration of realization*
Fio: *Pat Pat*
Things that would definitely happen in "comfy fugitives"=
KO and Fio end up sharing the same brain cells on several occasions, especially in moments where anger would otherwise dominate them (the most reasonable example being when an illegal drag racer tries to flirt with Fio and call Knockout's alternate form an outdated piece of junk; and they both agree that either they beat him or they drive him off a cliff; either way is a win-win).
One of the biggest problems on their journey, despite starting in Jasper, Nevada, to Holloway City in Oregon (theoretically quite close), is that MECH cuts off their path and often lengthens their escape routes; other times, Knockout realizes that there are still Autobots on Earth and deviates to lose their trail and unconsciously N' sometimes, Knockout ends up returning on their tracks.
For some reason, when Fio needs to buy something, Knockout gives her an exaggerated amount of money (obtained legally/illegally through racing and accumulated through racing)
He complains about the bad movie the other chose at a drive-in movie theater, but still pays attention to him.
Fio is a die-hard musical lover and would drive Knockout crazy more than once because of the songs; being a method to annoy him into doing what she wanted (the only musical he liked was "Heathers" and just because he likes the movie more).
Knockout returns the "favor" by threatening her with spoilers for horror movies that she never finished because she falls asleep halfway through (he tried this with his torture tools, but Fio wasn't fazed in the slightest, so he quickly dismissed the idea).
Fio once tried energon, causing KO to panic; and she only responded, "It tastes like a sprite!" minutes before she was poisoned by it
The first time Fio saw KO's holo-form, she told him straight to his face that the look was so ordinary and bland that it overshadowed the effort he'd put into in his alternate mode and his finish... and they lost a day of travel just to "design" a holographic appearance worthy of his chassis (and neither of them regrets it).
In moments of weakness, Knockout prevents Fio from leaving his interior until she's in a position to speak; for her part, Fio immediately notices when KO isn't well and asks him about various topics until she finds the one that's bothering him.
What horrifies Fio the most are the moments when she needs a check-up (thanks to the fact that she suffers from various phantom pains) and accidentally activates some strange quality of her "prosthetics" while KO is playing along as if nothing had happened (among them extendable arms, an energy cannon, the wheels on her legs, a deployable hammer, etc.)
The thing that surprised Fio the most about KO wasn't that he was a doctor, an evil doctor, or even a former war criminalā¦ what surprised her the most was that he was married.
KO tries to contextualize Fio about many things about Cybertron, the Bots, the Cons or the Cybertronians in generalā¦ but Fio only understands them by comparing the situations with things from her world or situations she has seen in movies.
Unconsciously, Fio compares KO to a cat for better or worse.
MORE ABOUT FIO + TIMELINE EVENTS.
Here we have Fio's design before and during the events of "Comfy Fugitives."
more info=
PAST! FIO.
Fiorella was what you might consider a typical teenager of the 2010s, a social butterfly with a strong character who wouldn't let anyone trample on her or others around her, and who would get her way if she wanted. Being part of her school's theater club and running a small business for her classmates on the weekends in case these needed to be arranged for events($50 a session and $80 if she didn't like you).
Her most notable thing was that she was the only daughter of Colonel Rinaldo Ricci, but she herself didn't know which unit she belonged to.They had a very good relationship; Rinaldo wasn't the most attentive or present father, but he always made it known that he was there for his daughter and encouraged her tastes. Part of her creativity and customization of her clothes was due to the fact that her father didn't have much knowledge or time to learn much about feminine things and gave her permission to use his old clothes to modify them as she wished. He also gave her things like chains and belts; even if they weren't very pretty, Fio made sure that they would somehow work with her outfit.
The last thing we heard about Fio before she disappeared at the hands of MECH was that she was on the phone with one of her friends about going to see a movie after 5 p.m.
Extra Data
She is probably autistic.
She's Italian-American, but she's not exactly good at speaking it, although she does have a good listening and writing comprehension.
Fio was 17 at the time of her kidnapping.
She once responded to a girl who was bullying one of her friends by throwing a chair at her, and when they tried to reprimand her, she provided evidence of the bullying and the teachers' ineptitude demanding either a sanction for others or, in case of expulsion, making that information public (since then, no one has messed with her)
Her parents are divorced due to her mother's infidelity. It was such a catastrophic divorce, and her mother was so willful that Fio would rather die than see her again.
She learned to sew by spending time with her nonna.
She taught herself about makeup and fashion, as well as that not everything looks good on everyone and that "beauty" is adaptable, and that many struggle to maintain it.
She has some knowledge of cars thanks to her father, and Rinaldo had a collection of miniature cars (his favorite was a red 1950s Cadillac with white rims).
Her favorite colors are green and pink.
She loves calzones with cheese.
She loves monster movies and musicals; she doesn't really like action movies (unless there's a handsome actor to make up for the experience).
She would have liked to have become a professional stylist.
PRIME! FIO.
Fio reacts to what happened to her in a very blurred way after an indeterminate amount of time; her arms and legs were amputated, and she was fitted with strange, heavy robot prosthetics, and who knows what other mutilations she suffered. The first time she can react on her own, she does the most obvious thing: escape. She's so desperate that she ignores her fear of encountering a giant robot alien and asks for its help to escape from MECH and return home in exchange for whatever it wants.
At the beginning of the trip, and now without so much adrenaline, she begins to suffer from severe phantom pains and episodes of post-traumatic stress disorder at various intervals. She's lucky that the robot who found her was a doctor and partially knew how to treat her.
During the trip, she ends up remembering or learning more about what happened to her as a prisoner of MECH, what kind of experiments they did on her... as part of the "Calypso project". A project that looked at how Cybertronian parts altered the human body and their compatibility, concluding that they slowed his aging to almost the same rate as a pure Cybertronian before making those modifications to Silas.And that what she thought was weeks was actually almost 20 years.
Something KO didn't allow to depress or sink her until he was sure where he could leave her. Something she had to accept as an option: when she arrived, she'd be alone, but she'd try to enjoy her time in KO's company; who also often had to become his anchor, preventing him from losing control, destroying himself, and bringing out what he was hiding.
Extra data.
KO discovered that she suffered a brief energy poisoning during the various experiments.
She doesn't know if she regrets losing her hands or her hair more (one because she truly loved being active, and the other out of morale).
She doesn't change her clothes until she realizes how bad she looks.
She sets the condition that KO not kill if possible (and when KO refuted, she used the argument "blood smells bad and would rust your finish").
She has trouble holding objects with her hands, to the point where eating is a problem.
When she regained some motor skills, she began writing down all the movies that caught her attention.
She realizes that even a human life enthusiast like KO doesn't have much of an understanding without seeming strange; so she always has to come up with a way out of trouble. and Fio jokingly mentioned that she should create a department for cybertronians to camouflage themselves without raising suspicions from the government.
The armor on her ears is the only one that's removable, but it's extremely uncomfortable to be without them.
The first time she was seen happy on the trip was when she found out Knockout was a medical aesthetician. She couldn't stop talking for hours about how even a robotic millennial species with weapons would be interested in appearance; she even asked him what his beauty standards were. Even asking how much they charge to fix their prostheses
This would be in meters the difference in size with Knockout in meters (I got KO's height according to the official character size of the series)
TFP MINI STORY= comfy fugitives.
Well, one person voted to hear my vision of what Knockout would be like dealing with his own human teenager.
And out of respect for that vote, here it goes~
SUMARY=
20 years after the events of TFP, Knockout fled from the Autobots and returns to Earth hoping to end his existence with a strange feeling of being fed up with everything... unfortunately his pre-mortem plans are interrupted by a human military chase towards a test subject; a teenager with mechanical parts who asks him for help escaping home. KO is initially uninterested in helping until he recognizes that those chasing him were MECH and decides to intervene in the name of sabotaging them for "boredom" (everything they did related to Breakdown and Silas). The teenager, Fio ; more horrified by humans than by him, makes a deal: she is the daughter of a military man who had been chasing MECH for a long time, so in exchange for taking her home he can get whatever he wants as long as he is within his rank. KO accepts the deal on the condition that if the girl is lying, he will eliminate her in the most horrible way he can think of, the girl, without nerves, accepts the condition.
A journey filled with fights, disputes, sarcasm, crises, and imperfections, but in a strange way; a bond of sincerity and friendship develops between the ex-Con' and the girl.
About KO:
The former Decepticon doctor, despite betraying Starscream and being accepted by the Autobots, has proven more vulnerable than he expected, feeling it was so easy that he ended up overwhelmed and escaping to Earth at the first opportunity, hiding from them as much as possible; keeping his reasons for returning to Earth to himself. He's still a conceited and narcissistic jerk who, above all, hates scratches in his paint and will get angry and ready to pull out his buzzsaw. But in Fio's company, he begins to soften and become more sincereā¦ trying to disguise it with sarcasm and arrogance; but at a point where the human knows when he's seriously bragging and when he's just doing it to protect himself.
Feeling he has nothing to lose and the reward Fio offered him, he agrees to take care of Fio until he can bring her home, thinking that "without a war, it's something Breakdown would definitely do."
About Fio:
Fiorella Ricci, or simply known as "Fio," was just an ordinary girl who had the misfortune of becoming MECH's biggest target when her father was a researcher and actively wanted to wipe out the group. She ended up being mutilated and having her body parts replaced with prosthetic prototypes made from fallen Cons and Bots. She has no clear sense of how much time she spent as a subject of experiments or even processed the pain of her Cybertronian partsā¦ she doesn't care at all (or she tries to); she ended up so affected that her only thought is to stay away from anything related to MECH and just return home, regardless of the means or ally.
At first, she remains reserved with the bot, only giving vague clues about how to get to her city, but sooner or later she begins to have conversations, ramblings, and arguments with it to make the journey more pleasant.
the woobification of the tfp cast is actually infuriating to me
A plot that could easily be from How to Train Your Dragon:
Platonic Predaking x Reader, but with the slight dynamic of the fox and the little prince in 'The Little Prince' story. Predaking basically being lonely, running into some random homeless child in the woods, and immediately deciding that he shall be tamed by this one child. Cue the reader 'taming'(more like being adopted by) Predaking and ending up having just this giant predacon as a guard and guardian. They live in a cave, alone together, with Predaking raiding delivery trucks for food for the little reader.
(Team Prime would probably check in here and there just to make sure the reader is actually still alive, all while Predaking acts like a brooding chicken.)
nahhg im so unfynny š bug anyway opritach animation š
did you ever have a conjunx?
A buncha catwaves!! I didnāt have the time to get to Bayverse or One or Cybertron SDW unfortunately, maybe Iāll do them tomorrow if I got the time š¤ but I just kinda was in the mood to draw some cats and I picked out some roughly related breeds to each Soundwave and their personalities or looks š¤ yes Cyberverse is on that catnip btw, he just seemed like the type š as for the fur patterns I wasnāt sure how to go about them so I just splatted on some related colors and where they wereā¦ go my soundlings šāā¬ ššāā¬ššāā¬
It would be so funny if unicron was kind of chill (I think that there is lore why he has to be evil if I remember but let's forget about cannon). And in terms of how that would affect Megatron and Starscream.
Megatron after taking dark energon: YES UNICRON'S POWER IS MINE
??: Oh not you I don't like you
Megatron: Who's there and how dare you insult me!?
Unicron: It is I the ruler of the Quintes -it's obviously me Unicron you just snorted my blood you unfunny mech. Seriously if you're going to be evil you need some intelligence at the very least.
And with Starscream (cause of the times he gets haunted by him).
Starscream: Stupid Megatron and his stupid plans
Unicron: Totally agree
Starscream: Primus is that you
Unicron: No it's his evil brother Unicron
Starscream: Oh okay
Starscream: WAIT!
Being a transformer fan is terrible and embarrassing in biology cause the words mean SMT completely different in the fandom
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Teacher: This is the heart and inside it has these things called valves here's a close up to them
Me who's seen all the things said about what people want to do to the characters: THE WHAT!?
Knockout: I headcannon that....
Starscream: Well I have a cannon to my head
Knockout: Megatron's not even here... HOLY SHI--
Megatron just lurking in the door way
Au idea that's similar to one Deadpool comic
Kind of plays with the 4th wall breaker Starscream but in a completely different direction.
As in due to his immortal spark being like a constant in every universe you have this one flux where they all are in eachothers bodies for a split second.
They've seen the other dimensions, they understood what it was and then bam it was gone just like that. They can't recall what they witnessed or what secrets they came across.
Except for one of the Starscreams who now is aware of the other dimensions and also the writers and us the audience.
He can't see us or talk to us though. But he's become less energetic to everything until he cracks under the pressure of knowing his pain is simply for amusement and starts to find a way to reach us/writers to extract his revenge.
And he has a sword (very important, this is).
Also he has this glitchy power I don't know exactly what it would do but I feel like he'd be able to glitch his body to other dimensions whilst still being active in his so he can't be hit most of the time (there will be a massive drawback obviously, can't make it that easy).
My 4th wall Starscream but he can now travel dimensions.
He's blasting every Megatron with a rocket launcher as that universes Starscream is getting beat up.
Whilst wearing shades of course.
He'd just be like "You're very welcome, now do you need therapy or would that just make it worse" but just pops out of existence straight away.
But if it was SG it would be hilarious like -
My Starscream popping out of a portal, rocket launcher at hand "Fear not weaker and more pathetic me I sha... WAIT WHAT THE FRAG IS THIS!!!!!?????"
And then you have Megatron just grilling Starscream to take a break and have some energon (concerned father moment).
"FRAG NOW I'M JEALOUS! I DON'T GET PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS! FRAG YOU!!"
Pops out of existence whilst Megatron and Starscream are frozen.
But he pops back in a few seconds after, head poking out shouting "I hope you have a happy life as well bye!"
Finally got to do drawings and I'm practicing poses with Starscream ofc, it's easier with robots anyway.
Learning how to draw metalhawk cause I need to draw some interactions with him and star when I improve.
I don't know what I was planning for the top drawing but the colours low-key work just in a weird way.
Homophobic!!? Nah I'm homosexual
Starscream probably if he saw the meme
Could work the other way around if he's trying to deny it but we know it ain't true
Starscream trying to redeem himself song
I'm sorry but man the lyrics are really like Starscream actually trying to make amends but due to his self destructive tendencies he keeps failing. He also wants everyone to know he is actually wanting to change but doesn't know how to.
"I swear, I will die trying" literally cannon because everytime he has changed or become a hero he dies, straight away sometimes.
"I'm not a good person, I'm bearly a person at all" cannon cause I say so and let me explain. He knows he's an asshole and sometimes he purposely acts like one for reasons. And in some of the darkest versions of Megatron's and Starscream's relationship he is quite literally a slave to Megatron and a "whipping boy" actual quote from Starscream and it makes me sick.
4th Wall breaking Starscream moments would be hilarious PT.2
Soundwave and Starscream are just standing side by side in the nemesis whilst Megatron is talking about a new plan to destroy the autobots.
Starscream to us: Now you want to know why Soundy is standing right next to me. And no it's not cause we are supposed to. Listen hear and don't tell anyone I told you this or otherwise I'll be banned from the 4th wall. This guy right here can read minds but only at a close proximity like we are in now. See the producers have never made it clear, those lazy afts, I really hate their fleshy guts.
And then you slowly see Soundwave facing Starscream with absolute horror.
And after a whole minute Starscream goes: Wait if he can read minds. And I just broke the 4th wall. And the scene didn't pause. And he's standing right next to me. And he always reads my mind that means. Oh frag.
But during this part the scene did freeze so Soundwave didn't hear that part. Starscream is hyperventilating worried he'll be experimented with.
Soundwave is concerned. Cause he thinks starscream has gone full schizophrenic mode and not half anymore.
I feel like Starscream should be given a 4th wall breaking ability
Like the moments are similar to how Deadpool does it like imagine a scenario that goes:
Megatron and Starscream arguing.
Starscream staring directly at us as the scene pauses: I interrupt this scene to give a warning for the viewers. I believe it's around the time I get my ass beaten up. So if you are uncomfortable or whatever with abuse I suggest you skip to 10:54.
The scene unpaused but Megatron just walks away with a huff.
Starscream whispering whilst pulling the screen down: Now that's a suprise. A good one of course. Primus really is shining down o-Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Megatron in fact did not leave and was just waiting for his fussion canon to charge. And skipping to 10:54 was actually correct.
I'm really disappointed nobody has had this idea no matter how much I try to find something like it
Science so boring I gotta think of Starscream ranting about the academy to try
I can hear him go 'wtf do you mean you hate this I was the best in the academy even though everyone hated me. You're so weak'.
It's encourages me tho
Guys I swear I will post doodles soon but hear me out on this song idea/analysis like last time
Thanks, I Hate It by Simple Creatures but it's about Starscream 's and Megatron's relationship (not romantically unless you view it as such) from Starscream's pov.
"Am I good enough for you" portrays that no matter how he acts, loyal, disloyal, submissive or resistant Megatron will always seek the opposite or still view it and therefore him as disgusting making him the perfect punching bag simply for Megatron's very own amusement. In every universe, with the main ones with this problem being armada and prime, he gets treated as somebody with potential by Megatron yet he also denies Starscream that growth.
"I don't owe you anything" is something that Starscream himself would only think in his anger towards Megatron but may have only truly processed those words as true after the war (in the versions he survives for a bit after, such as him in the Windblade comics). This reflects how he -and every other abuse victim- doesn't and shouldn't offer their abuser anything no matter how much your life is centred and controlled by them, they don't deserve you.
"But I gave you everything" shows the fact that Starscream sometimes and maybe in the beginning of everything did try so hard to please Megatron. But he didn't need to do all of that as it only buried the hole he was getting swallowed by even larger and more difficult to escape from.
"Watch you pile it up and sing - Thanks I hate it" summarises Megatron's mentality and actions when it comes down to Starscream. Megatron will rarely accept something he gives and when he does praise is rarely given which may mirror any abusive relationship (I view it as an abusive adopted Father and their dysfunctional son that becomes even worse with the abuse - though see it however you want).
"No you're never satisfied" is Megatron's constant berating and thirst of Starscream's agony.
"Now you wanna run and hide" resembles how in the many times Megatron has been redeemed he has never apologised to the person he influenced and corrupted the most. The exception of this was Earthspark but even then Megatron was warning everyone how Starscream is worse than he ever was. He showed care for the other decepticons well being yet was inconsiderate of Starscream's. He's too scared to face the truth of his actions or view it as important to his path to peace, therefore hiding himself from his second in command as if everything will be dropped and sorted out.
The point is- Starscream should be accountable for his actions only if Megatron will be as well and if we brush everything he's done then we should do the same for Starscream. Yet Megatron should still face him either way if he truly is a "good guy". Starscream deserves that closure even though he thinks that killing and taking his place will ease everything it wouldn't.
Washing machine heart by Mitski but it's Starscream looking at Megatron being forgiven and redeemed and treating everyone else nicely.
Whilst he's called unredeemable and will never get an apology.
Like it's all I see at the 'why not me?' bits. And at the end I see it as him being in bed(berth?) and hyperventilating in desperation but also throwing something at the walls in anger.
Animated starscream except he doesn't have his tits no more.
Did it without reference which is probably why his chest is flat (don't shame him tho)
Little prime starscream doodle cause I need to learn how to draw that mf but I guess we can make him look less like a starved cat.
I lied I couldn't find a way to add the primes (yet tho DW) and I didn't feel like doing TC and SW yet so more shockwave content. Part of the au in previous posts. The next post of the au is going to be with soundwave to match with this (it will give more information).
So yeah my reason that empurata isn't a thing is that he's younger here and also the council isn't able to do that also it doesn't exist. That's why I kept some similarities to his usual face with the colours and soundwave.
My plan is to post some intros and lore of this au for a bit and then I'll stop so I can practice drawing so I can give more content and also maybe writing.
Thanks so much for 100+ likes so here's a starscream page I finished. Prime looks ugly AF as I choose a really bad picture but there's nothing we can do and only as I'm posting this I realised that the cyberverse pic I chose for a reference was edited from the OG as I don't think they have pupils.
Shockwave and soundwave are now added to my au (check out the other post if you've only seen this one pls)
This is surprisingly my first time drawing bots that aren't Starscream even though soundwave is my second favourite.
This took longer to post especially due to it being the work day's but I still got it done šš».
On the last drawings I tried to at least make it look like there are flames near them with the orange and red but that could use extra work.
I'm trying to see what design I should stick with cause there'll be changes from the original designs.
Thanks for the 24 likes on the last post did even better than the previous one.
I have more to give on Shockwave and Soundwave but that may not be the next post.