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leefyberrybread · 8 months
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uh oh....
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chefbeepo · 2 months
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And perceptor sees all this and goes:
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cyber-streak · 2 years
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Okay, it’s nice and all that Rewind came back, but imagine everything that would happen if he *never* came back at all, and just kind of stayed dead forever.
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bootleg-cal-weathers · 6 months
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i’m actually so sad rn 😭
i can’t believe they killed off Rewind 😕
SOBBING SHITTING THROWING UP FIRE IM NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME AFTER THIS 😭😭
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megapwnus · 2 years
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Desperately trying to figure out his dumb fuck head but every artist draws him so differently and even a single artist will have such inconsistencies in their turnaround of his helm that like. I’m just gonna have to make my own references UGH….
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breakdownsbuttlights · 5 months
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thanks for the book recs ;) do you have any book/reading related headcanons for any characters, i wonder? any of them big readers?
By far the biggest reader is Drift. Fiction, philosophy, esoterica, new age, self help, left wing political thought (he probably owns the entire Verso back catalogue)-- everything but poetry, interestingly. He's an insomniac, so he reads at night. Heck, he reads whenever he has a spare moment. Where other people pass the time by staring at their phones, Drift can usually be found behind an old paperback with a cracked spine (he keeps one or two of these on his person at all times... though where is a mystery).
Ratchet reads the news.
Prowl sees books as an obsolete technology and probably hasn't cracked one for fun since grade school. That's not to say he's a poor reader; he's a consummate skimmer who extracts information from texts with the brisk efficiency of someone juicing a lemon.
Mesothulas read a handful of books in university which informed his romantic and aesthetic sensibilities and hasn't strayed from them since. He doesn't read these books anymore; he doesn't need to; he's a living embodiment of them.
Chromedome strikes me as a voracious science fiction nerd in youth who at thirty stopped reading altogether due to depression. Now he watches films.
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jesuis-melodrama · 1 year
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My Favourite Reasons For Why the Great War Started
1. Revolutionary Justice in an Unequal Caste-System Society.
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I adore the IDW comics, it's the second Transformers media I consumed after the franchised Michael Bay films, and let me tell you – I was not expecting all these heavy explorations into bot psyche, romance, societal injustice, and redemption. Really, it seriously surprised me, I never expected to see actual canonical romance in the Transformers universe, it always struck me as the type of medium to focus on action first.
So – thank you, James Roberts and Alex Milne.
There's so many characters and arcs I could talk about – Cyclonus and Tailgate and Whirl; Chromedome and Rewind; poor poor Shockwave; whatever's going on with Prowl; Starscream, Bumblebee, and Windblade attempting to scrape Cybertron back together; that one time Rodimus and Megatron's charisma was so awe-inspiring, it made personality parasites explode – but I want to focus on how the Great War began in IDW.
It's the first media to suggest Megatron not as a power-hungry tyrant, but formerly as a member of Cybertron's suppressed working class forced to labour due to the alt-mode he was born with. Sick of and unwilling to accept the subjugation imposed upon him and fellow mechs like him, Megatron rises from miner to gladiator who eventually becomes powerful enough to seize power as a revolutionary and then ascends to the image of the all-mighty Lord Megatron that is synonymous with his name.
Optimus, on the other hand, had somewhat humble beginnings as a strict but fair and righteous police captain named Orion Pax struggling to provide justice in a society deeply embedded with corruption.
Although both Megatron and Optimus sought to revolutionise Cybertron into a world where all bots are equal and uninhibited from potential and free will by their alt-modes, they had very different ideologies and motivations on how and why to reach this goal. Megatron, especially, loses his way and path eventually, and continued his slaughter not for the means to an end, but because he began to crave the "pleasure" from the act.
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Optimus didn't escape unscathed from tragic ramifications either: the mantle of leadership as the war dragged on for thousands of millennia weighed heavily upon him, so much that his later psyche in the comics could be described as suicidal.
But whatever that infects these two old bots in the future, young Megatron and Optimus were, in some strange way, allies, out of mutual respect and acknowledgement of the other if nothing else.
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The war was initiated and continued by them, because they both believed in a better Cybertron, and millions of years later, thousands of atrocities after, unspeakable acts of war crimes, the Great War ended with both of them remembering what they were fighting for in the first place.
IDW's concept that Megatron was a gladiator turned revolutionary and Orion Pax became Optimus Prime who was inspired by Megatron's words made its way to the Transformers: Prime animated series, allowing this universe's rendition of the two titans to be voiced by Peter Cullen and Frank Welker, the legends themselves.
2. Lord Prime and Lord High Protector
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Whatever contentions (of the many) that may be had with Michael Bay's re-imagining of this iconic franchise; you've gotta admit: the designs were cool.
Bay gave us Megatron's ram-head helmet, the astonishing CGI transformations, and the adorable Bumblebee design that has since become a classic of the character.
And according to Chris McFeely's video on the Great War, apparently, Bay's Transformers is the first Transformers media to introduce the idea that Megatron and Optimus had personal pre-war relations, some intimate form of brotherhood and camaraderie, while other adaptations at this point only alluded to their connection as rival leaders who rose to power at roughly the same time.
Bay took it a step further; Megatron isn't simply an opportunistic warlord making a grab for power, he was once a legitimate ruler holding an equal throne besides Optimus.
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That's right, Bay crafted the title of Lord High Protector, a Cybertronian ruler of high status with authority over military affairs, ruling in tandem with the Lord Prime, Optimus, who was in charge of more civilian and spiritual duties.
It's interesting, this idea, because it implies far more depth to Optimus and Megatron's history, they must have been ruling together for quite some time before Megatron fastened his greedy claws on the All Spark.
I, for one, am curious in a series that explores how they ruled Cybertron together and how exactly this fracture came to be.
3. Megatron Dunks on a Dock Worker for the Fun of It
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The classics of the classics, the first Transformers show to place the universe on the map: the archetypal G1 cartoon series that featured wacky shenanigans such as battling dinosaurs on a remote island or Soundwave and his Cassettes dancing with teenagers at a local gymnasium party.
G1 followed a very traditional hero-vs-villain formula, inspired by the Cold War tension at the time of airing and writing; there was no personal connections or noble aspirations for an equal society – Megatron was simply a campy, formidable scoundrel who yearned for power and Optimus Prime was the honourable, paternal everyday hero who rose to be the leader of the force resisting him and his army (at this point, Prime wasn't even a title, it was just Optimus' last name!).
Optimus Prime still had a previous form of Orion Pax, a dock worker rather than a police officer or an archivist, and Megatron was once an admired figure of Orion's, whose parasocial adoration was disintegrated when Megatron blew up Orion's workplace, critically injuring him and girlfriend, Ariel (soon to be Elita-1), and de-activating best friend, Dion. From the ashes of destruction, reconstructed by Alpha Trion, Orion became the battle-masked, audial-finned, red and blue paragon of justice that shouldered the burden of command in the war against Megatron and his evil Deceptions.
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decepti-thots · 7 months
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That post about aileron reminded me of how I think of nautica trying to erase skids from her memory like she just doesn’t know how to cope with death and loss cause she was removed from the wild ass war! It’s a weird beat in the comic but it speaks loudly to me
Ohhh yeah. These two are definitely a couple different perspectives on a theme, as it were.
While I have critiques of Nautica's arc in execution there (it's… got a LOT of flaws and IMO does not stick the landing at all, to put it pretty mildly; hence why I find exRiD overall better at exploring these ideas), I think it's a real shame that unlike so many other arcs in MTMTE/LL with issues or incomplete resolutions or whatever, there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in taking the core emotional idea and running with it in fandom spaces? It feels like a really toothy emotional hook to latch onto that a lot could be done with as a part of the canon that is definitely a font of massive missed potential and lingering threads. (God, it really kills me ever since it was first pointed out to me how Nautica and Brainstorm's relationship might change because he's watching her do what Chromedome kept doing.) Nautica gets stuck in a kind of Cheerful Generic Girl Best Friend mode in fandom that skips past uhhh. A lot of her actual canon presence, when you really look at it!
It's especially interesting to think about because as a species their feelings about death are very different, right? Which IDW1 does address, and MTMTE specifically mentions this, with Cyclonus talking about how there's one version of the Guiding Hand myth that states Cybertronians are "immortal" because they killed Mortilus. Like. They don't have a lot of context for death as a regular, natural part of life that everyone comes into contact with in the day to day. Caminus isn't just full of civilians in the way you or I might be a civilian during peacetime; if you're a civilian for these folks, death is an abnormality period, a freak accident or whatever at most. (And even then: you're so hard to kill, it can't be common.) Cybertronians in the war are the weird ones for being used to it as a regular occurrence, and for both Aileron and Nautica it's not just that their friends experience traumatic and violent deaths, but that they die at all. It's got to be existentially destabilising in a way so many of the characters on that ship just can't relate to. (Tailgate likely could, but he's uhhhh, he's got other stuff going on at that point, so we will forgive him being too busy, lmao.)
Hell, I mentioned Brainstorm. He's an MTO. MTOs are the first of the currently living generations of their species to grow up with no memory of a society in which people do not regularly die; even once peacetime sets in, we see that they have reached the point in their species' lifespan where death by old age is becoming increasingly common and thus part of their cultural landscape. Those are a lot of Nautica's friends, who maybe want to help but have no easy way to really understand why she's reacting so strongly, you know?
Ohhh I love Nautica so much. Can you tell. Someone hug that poor woman good lord.
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cyber-streak-2 · 7 months
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Chromedome: Why are we friends?
Brainstorm: Poor decisions on your part.
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Before we bounce over to Pharma and the bitty let's check in on the DJD and their former "sparkeater."
Poor Rewind is geting leave because as next of kin he's got a lot of medical decisions to make for Domi. And the spark bond is keeping him calmer. Ratchet and Wheeljack are at least able to get him back to not looking like a sparkeater and deal wiyh the physical damage while they wait for a processor expert to show up. Chromedome is both able to assist Dominus in regaining cognitive function and be pissy at his Ex-whatever-he-and-Prowl-are. Pharma enjoys haveing someone with shared history to bitch over Prowl with. Prowl gives the combination a 0 out of 10 yelp stars.
Tarn, asuming Megatron didn't completely slag him for being too dangerous to live after sliping the leash, is un-masked, striped of his name, spayed, and de-voiceboxed as well as demoted to low ranked bodyguard under Lugnut's comand. Megatron manages to twist things round so Damnus is grateful to still be permitted to serve his Lord after such a colossal frag up. IDW Megatron is a the second most SOB Megatron right after TFP.
Megatron is geting so much shade from Starscream over the DJD jumping the sharkticon and geting completely lost in the sauce. What he didn't expect was the judgment he's getting from Soundwave. "Soundwave: concured with Starscream. DJD: terrible idea. Megatron: rejected advice of Starscream and Soundwave.
Megatron strips the DJD of their names sends them on assignments with the fear of himself in their sparks. Helix who didn't cover himself in shame is given a lateral shift to be the new warden of Grindcore under his OG name. Tessarus is sent to be a guard at same. Vos ends up demoted into the science division, as a scientist/lab assistant under Shockwave. Kaon had a suspiciously Soundwave shaped plausibly deniable accident. While the List remains and DJD officially exists as a unit on paper the jobs remain unfilled.
Makes sense Rewind's in the know on a lot of this, so far so good with Dominus's repairs
Also yes on domey v Prowl Because fuck Prowl in this au
Iii. Shit, Megatron was not kind with Damus. But that tracks for idw Megatron with how he'd treat an offense so triggering for him.
You know you fucked up on something when Starscream and Soundwave agree against you.
A lot of their reassignments make sense, as well as Amp's "disappearance" with how connected he was to the Pet / Dominus
... interesting that the List is still active and on paper the DJD is still a thing. Hmm.
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elfdragon12 · 10 months
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What I enjoyed in More Than Meets the Eye/Lost Light:
The illustration if Swerve's loneliness (it's quite visceral for me, to watch him be sociable, for Ultra Magnus to assume he has all these friends, only to be all alone)
The Scavengers (they hit that sweet spot of "loveable jerks" whose hearts aren't quite gold but work things out their own way)
The arc between Cyclonus and Tailgate* (The development is well paced, with good emotional beats*, I want to see them together by the end)
The arc between Cyclonus and Whirl (Another relationship that's paced well and the conclusion feels earned)
The moon vacation (It's nice to see these characters who've been hurt so much get a chance to be away from people who make them worse and a story involving Prowl that acknowledges how traumatized and damaged he's been and he gets to hear an apology from someone who manipulated his body without consent)
Cerebros (such a wonderful and wholesome boy that just tries to help people and it's a crime he's largely ignored by this fandom)
The rivalry between Overlord and Tarn (I could have a whole comic book full of nothing but Overlord roasting Tarn and I would love every page)
Misfire and Swerve's insta-friendship (being audibly goofy on main provides echolocation for the like-minded, I love it)
Skids and Nautica's friendship** (the dancing and everything really made such a good connection)
What I actively do not enjoy:
The pacing of the full story (jumps way too much, overuses starting in media res and then backtracking to explain, spends a lot of time forming problems but little or sometimes no time for resolution. I think this may be in part JRo's history in prose and fanfic where he gets all the time in the world to set up problems and make characters go through all sorts of bad times and take his time with resolution. This is not the case when writing comics for a franchise)
Chromedome (I know he's really popular and some folks put CDRW on a pedestal as the first canon queer ship, but he's a legitimately awful person and partner. The way he treated the alternate Rewind is right out of yandere fanfic, his use of mnemosurgery played a huge part in the original Rewind's death, and he was Trepan's apprentice, willingly becoming a mnemosurgeon even after learning what they do. An offscreen discussion with Rewind suddenly having a change of heart and being lovey-dovey doesn't make me feel better. Rewind wasn't a perfect partner either, but Yikes™️. I hate him)
Megatron's redemption arc (really, he's just running away from the consequences of his actions to have a second chance at leading a rebellion and being happy. Why don't we ask the millions of people the blue flowers represented what they think about that--oh wait, they're dead. Because of him)
Related, how everyone who doesn't like Megatron is villainized (I'll say it: the mutiny was justified. It really was. Optimus was stupid to put Megatron in a leadership position on that ship when no one there had any reason to not hate him. Tarn was right when chastising him, as much as I hate to say it)
The general handling of mental health (Trailcutter is forced into sobriety by body modification and then immediately killed off, Chromedome's mass of issues and "we talked about it", Red Alert and Fort Max are "fixed" offscreen and then written off the ship, and both Rewind's traumas are largely ignored in favor for being Chromedome's cute little boyfriend, for examples)
How often the audience is informed of details instead of shown or how things are solved offscreen (a good example being Skids and Swerve being best friends--how often do we actually see them hang out? Almost never. This is largely because of the vast number of major characters, so there's poor balancing)
How character death rarely has any impact (Mirage's death is a "blink and miss it", Ten's death isn't brought up again, Nightbeat is only brought up by Rung--this is also one of the dumbest deaths I've ever read, Swerve doesn't mourn Skids and Nautica gets her grief erased**, Trailcutter's death only matters when Rodimus is faced with past Trailcutter, and so on--they were largely there to up the stakes rather than to have actual consequence to the story)
Mederi (it was... Just a mess. The whole of the narrative was to bring us here?)
The double endings (the narrative flow got confusing here and, honestly, I didn't find either satisfactory)
*The multiple times characters are brought back from the dead, especially Tailgate (a quantum leap, remaking them with science-magic, and "a wizard did it"! The Tailgate one was especially frustrating as a reader because it felt super cheap to be taken back by his death and go through Cyclonus's grief, getting a touching yet bittersweet reunion, and then a weirdly omnipotent 8 ball just.... Brought a new Tailgate from a different reality. Is the Magnificence actually a Dragon Ball?)
**The way Nautica's grief is handled (very "have your cake and eat it too". You can't have it be a problem that she wants to have her grief manually erased, have that erased, do the whole "friendship matters!", and then brush off the friendship between her and Skids as if it meant nothing)
Ultimately, there are things I liked, but it's so hyped up that, in the end, I felt misled by the fandom. I was frustrated by many of the events. Perhaps JRo is really good at prose (you can't make me read Eugenesis. From what I've heard of it, it is not the kind of story I would enjoy), but I don't think writing comics is really his wheelhouse. He set things up and resolved them poorly. At least some of it is due to the nature of the American comics industry. I also felt like he could have spent more time researching how to write therapy effectively.
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zephyrrhiesfyrian · 11 months
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I finally decided to move the tiny faces to their own folder so I don't have to scroll through the entire archive of like 700 images every time I want to find the newest ones.
As always, we must perform the ancient rite to give thanks to @tiny-tf-faces for introducing us to tiny faces.
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Rodimus has seen something indescribable.
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Hound!
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HIGHBROW MY BELOVED
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Bluestreak!
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About 70% of Rodimus's face.
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Tarn's tiny faces always end up so scrunkly.
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Part of Inferno. Poor baby's been cut in half.
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This is Hound I swear.
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Crosscut!
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A smol Swerve.
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Nickel yelling at her stupid sons.
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Skids! (and part of either Nightbeat's or Nautica's speech bubble)
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Helex looking very sad.
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Rodimus managing expectations :D
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I think this is Siren?
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LEOZACK!!!
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A miniscule Tailgate.
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Cyclonus observing.
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Ratchet in the jury at Brainstorm's trial.
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Rewind is so small.
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Perceptor!
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Nightbeat, ready to investigate something.
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Riptide! :D
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Careful, Nautica's armed.
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Rung is here, of course, as he is always watching. o-o
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Xaaron! This might be the first tiny face of him I've posted.
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Magnus, presiding over Brainstorm's trial.
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This image has done Rodimus so dirty. smh
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Chromedome!
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Brainstorm, defending himself in court.
And that's all we have room for in this post! :D
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pits-of-kaos · 1 year
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My poor little meow meow Prowl is loosing—
Like man, how does that sad little meow meow not evoke pity? Even in the slightest?
He was beaten to a pump by Optimus, refused to be killed in the name of mercy, mind controlled and almost killed his comrade which would probably make him feel really guilty, betrayed by who he thought were friends, had needles stuck in the back of his head by CHROMEDOME just to get rid of his memories unconsensually, probably has quite a bit of trauma from sending people out to die but do you think he had ever wanted too? Probably not, but it was his job and if he was going to do it, he was going to do it with the least amount of casualties. And people forgave Megatron of all Cybertronians, who killed almost an entire race and species with his bare hands and many more, but didn’t forgive Prowl just because he didn’t change his thoughts and opinions.
Welp, that was a bit of a long rant— but yeah, this is just my opinion, Megatron is still great and I love him, but I will always vote Prowl :D
One word: Packaging.
Or more specifically, the way he packages his pain.
(I’m not sure if you’re looking for an actual answer, but I’m gonna give one since I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Keep in mind that a lot of this is speculation.)
Quantifiably, Prowl did far less horrible things than Megatron, but Megatron has (1) a secure place in the franchise, (2) a redemption arc, and (3) looks*.
*so most fans say, anyway. My opinion on this fluctuates.
Also, Megatron’s reaction to his struggles is very different from Prowl’s.
When he’s in pain emotionally, Megatron directs it toward himself for the most part. Same with Starscream, Chromdome, and several others who have been through hell in the war.
But Prowl? Prowl refuses to acknowledge his wounds and takes it out on those around him and the world at large. His need for control is rooted in deep insecurity and a feeling of not being safe anywhere or with anyone. Even Tarantulas of all people picked up on Prowl’s desperate need to convince himself he was in control even when he really wasn’t. That tips me off to the depth of Prowl’s pain and self-deception, which he’s almost entirely numb to.
Most people will have more pity for someone like Megatron, Chromedome, or even Starscream who struggle in an obvious or self-pitying way versus someone like Prowl whose pain drives him to antagonize others and act like he can’t ever be wrong. It’s easier for most fans in the TF fandom to look at Prowl and blame him for his problems because of his outward pomposity. And in some cases, it’s true.
At the end of the day, a contrite or self-pitying sufferer gets more pity than a pompous one. Chromedome is the former and Prowl is most certainly the latter.
This was going to be longer because I have a lot more to say about this topic, but I cut it short because I believe I answered your question adequately. The rest will have to go in another post on main. That is, if I decide to share it at all. I still hold my breath every time I bring up IDW Prowl.
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anon-e-miss · 1 year
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Oooh. Prowl suing CD for repayment on certain bills he'd paid under the assumption it was his bitlet? Even for repayment on say furniture or baby things he'd passed onto Rewind to help woth the set up in the understanding this would be shared child and Prowl wanted them to have the best. So CD is very much spinning the coldhearted greedy Prowl harrassing poor grieving Chromedome but he's legally sound and his lawyer is cutthroat.
Blaster would probably be emphasizing so hard from the side he heard from Chromedome and Rewind and when Jazz looks into the timeline of events is not matching up and certain people or looking a lot less innocent and victimized. Why were they accepting payment X, Y, and Z on these days AFTER Rewind realized it may not be Prowl's and why did the money go to Chromedome's expenses and not check ups or purchases for the baby?
Maybe Chromedome is the one who points Prowl out to Lockdown? To help insure the suit goes away? And Jazz meanwhile has been asked to help by Blaster who is trying to help out CD who's "just too proud to ask"? Maybe Lockdown doesn't go away and is behind some suspicious circumstances following the bidding? Because Chromedome has been getting approval turn over his expenses blocked and delayed to give him time?
He would be honestly suing Rewind because it was Rewind who defrauded him, though Chromedome was complicit, and likely even the brains behind the whole mess. His lawyer isn't going to drop the case because Rewind died. Nope, going after the estate. Prowl was VERY generous and his own bitlet, when he has one is going to need those credits spent on them. Prowl doesn't care if he's seen as a villain here, he absolutely doesn't care. Let them hate him, boo hoo. Not like he hasn't been hated by... eh most mechanisms that he's been around over the vorns.
I think Prowl has extra control issues here, to the point it's toxic. Not so much with other mechanisms but he's in the scene because he needs more rigid rules in relationships, literal contracts that spell out duties in both directions, that your normal relationships don't allow. His difficulty dealing with situations that fall out of his control is a problem. Sparklinghood trauma, I think.
Blaster is empathizing heavily with CD, that's the progenitor of his grandcreation and... thinking his creation INTENTIONALLY defrauded someone hurts. Of course, he knows that Rewind was wrong to have interfaced with CD when on this contract but they were in love and... well, Rewind was his creation. It's put him in a bit of a spot with his regular but not live in sub. Tracks finds the whole thing so distasteful and he is fully on Prowl's side and not quite about it.
Jazz can see pretty quick that the majority of the funds that Prowl shared were not going to Rewind. Like, Rewind was sending him woe is me messages about a bill, an unexpected expense and Prowl sent the funds but it was all lies.
I imagine CD actually gave Lockdown some of Prowl's own funds to try and win the scraplet Prowl's contract. There's a bit of a bidding war. Jazz knows Lockdown burns through credits, his mods aren't cheap and he's addicted to them. When Lockdown seems to have own it, Jazz throws in his bid and wins cleanly. Jazz just happens to have more shanix. Not sure why or what but he has a tidy income.
Prowl's going to be an interesting project. Prowl wants a bitty so he isn't going to resist any fragging, he expects it. But Jazz will need to break him and break him down in to make him actually relax. Prowl tried IVF at a clinic before turning to a breeding contract but he couldn't kindle. He couldn't relax enough according to the medic. He couldn't trust the process. Jazz will need to break down a lot of barriers.
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cherrytimemachine · 1 year
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Watching @strawberrym00 read MTMTE just unearthed all my complaints about how much of a dick Rodimus is in the first half of the comic.
I finally got around to reading the written portion of the back of volume 4, and when Rung expresses that he’s worried about Red Alert because he told him he’d been hearing voices under the floor, Rodimus calls Red, a recent victim of attempted suicide mind you, as mad as a bag of Scraplets.
How selfish and cruel does one have to be to say that about someone who tried to take their own life? Plus we find out later that Rodimus knew Overlord was down there all along, so he’s not only insulting someone who’s suffering from a serious anxiety disorder and attempted suicide, he’s also gaslighting Rung into believing Red is crazy.
Then in the comic he goes and lets Drift take all the blame for the Overlord incident even though Rodimus and three others were all involved with the plan, and poor Drift has to pay the price because he’s the only one who has enough balls to actually own up to being responsible for it, and Rodimus lets that happen!
I absolutely adore G1 Rodimus, he’s funny and one of the only people who actually cares about Daniel’s well-being, but his MTMTE counterpart is a self-centered prick all through season 1 of the comic, and his comments about other people are the ones I really can’t get past.
Also I don’t know how people like Chromedome either because even though he does suffer a lot and you really feel for him, he was also a dick in many instances. He Shadowplayed Prowl and showed no remorse for tampering with his mind. I don’t condone Prowl trying to manipulate him, but Chromedome shouldn’t have done what he did, especially to someone who looked out for him in their past partnership.
Sorry for the rant, I’m just upset with these two especially after bringing up the Overlord thing again.
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breakdownsbuttlights · 8 months
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Serious question-- does Prowl have any hobbies outside of being a pain in everyone else's ass? Or does he just do that all the time
Pity poor Prowl and his lack of time to engage in hobbies. If he weren't busy trying to control the entire world and antagonizing everyone in the process, he might be at liberty to pursue his other interests more comprehensively.
But what are those? As a child he kept racing pigeons: a passion that translated into his roles as parrot dad (to Green) and, later, apiarist. It might also surprise you to know that he's something of an athlete, which is to say he plays squash with Bumblebee once every couple of weeks. Despite the infrequent practice, his drives are formidable and punishing: another outlet besides table flipping for his rage. He's also, per @decepti-thots, smugly good at pool, though that might fall into the "being a pain in everyone's ass" category.
Is wine a hobby? He knows an awful lot about wine. And gadgets. Again, insufferable.
(There are other areas of interest that inhabit a grey zone between hobby and pecadillo, which I won't go into here. Mesothulas and Chromedome could fill you in on those.)
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