I've been thinking about the Commander Jaguars|Ravage Clones in Energon and that rounded back to thinking about Ravage herself again. Do you think she deserves a Mace/Morning Star tail weapon once more in a new continuity? What would be the ideal design for her in your opinion?
Random thoughts but I thought you might like to think on her some.
Ravi herself is a stealth model so I don't think she would use a mace or a morningstar as they tend to be noisy and loud weapons. The clones having those makes sense--they attack en masse and they are not stealth agents. But I also think having a heavy object on the end of a long, flexible tail (that is part of a cat's spine no less) would be painful for her as it would be a constant downward pull on her tail.
(I am sensitive to this because I have a bad shoulder as a result of being knocked off my feet by a train that had stopped suddenly starting again. I was carrying a heavy bag, and the weight of it pulled my shoulder and arm away from the rest of me. It didn't dislocate the shoulder completely, but the rotator cuff tore. You don't want something heavy at the far end of a long, moving part of your body.)
My ideal design for her is based on a combo between the IDW Mastermind Creations Reformatted figure and the BW Ravage design, but less, uh, hypermasculine of course.
When she is on all fours, her torso is longer--her spinal struts are extensible, but there should be 3 and the extensible areas are different, so that she does not have any one place on her spine where they're all weakest. Tarn took advantage of that in IDW and we all saw how that ended.
Her opposable thumb/dewclaw pops out when needed, so that she doesn't have to put much weight on it when she walks quadruped. @dimorphodon-x drew some really great hand designs for her and for Glit -- Ravage is shown in IDW piloting a ship, and Glit is the best surgeon IN the Decepticon army.
Anyhow, so, her spine is compact when it bears her entire weight in bipedal mode but longer when she's a cat. Her upper abdomen/lower thorax is where she compresses, so that her proportions are felinoid when stretched out and padding around, but more humanoid when standing upright. It gives her the illusion of a femme figure that way, too. BW Rav is very bulky and Ravage herself is a stealth person, so narrow the shoulders and hips a bit, but narrow the hips less than the shoulders.
I love the knives on her tail but I've always specified that she can sheathe them inside of her tail tip so that she doesn't have to worry about randomly stabbing people when she needs to vent energy out through her tail and also so that she can sometimes use her tail along with or in lieu of her spike.
The one major thing I would change is the location of the missile launchers.
The person who designed that doesn't own cats. On all fours with their long twisty spines, the physics of firing missiles from a hip mount would be unpleasant at best and even if there were built in buffers, over a time it would cause damage and degradation to the lower spine. That's probably why late in (G1-IDW-BW canon) life, as she moves further from a G1 frame through a late IDW frame to the BW frame (if you look at them there's an obvious transition from point A to point C) she elects to be bipedal almost all of the time. The hip missiles will have done for the twistiness of her lower spine and to maintain her strength it'll have to be fused into place so she doesn't Tarn herself when she shoots someone.
I ... wish I could draw.
The one difference between my mental designs for her in VOS and some of the lovely drawings Dimo did of her for that RP, is that her head in biped mode at least is shaped more like BW Rav's, giving her more room in her cranial case.
Also, the thing I like least about the MMC Reformatted Jaguar is that her lower jaw is so freaking tiny. It's like putting a cat's lower jaw on a jaguar's face, wtf. Although G1 Ravage's face is more like that of a thylacine than that of either a big cat or a dog/wolf. There is nothing other than a thylacine that has that much range of motion in its lower jaw.
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Just realized I never made a intro post so...
Fic requests!!
My names Astro!!
I'm a minor
My favorite food is lettuce
My favorite drink is Tea (duh)
My pronouns change all the time since I'm genderfluid, so ask if we ever talk
My heart already belongs to someone!!!!
My favorite animal is tardigrades
I wanna be an Astrobiologist when I'm older
I loveeee reading
I also love fashion designing
I'm writing my own book
I'm a therian (Kitty and bunny), otherkin(doll), and cryptidkin(Vampire)!!and a dollkin!!<3
Fandoms I'm in: A good girls guide to murder, Arc of a scythe, Vineyard Madness (or whatever that Tessa Bailey duology is called), Sally face, percy jackson, fnaf, South Park, HLAS, and more!!!
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and here's my AO3 account if u wanna look (I rarely update and I only have one Sally face fic on there- most of my fics get posted on here)
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I was on board with Ravi until he said he didn't like cats now I don't care for him an ounce
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OOC
IDK how "around" I will be tonight.
We had a work party today at the Exploratorium.
This is the place where you can immediately tell who else is neurodivergent as you go and immerse yourself in whatever sensory experiences float your boat.
I wish my phone hadn't died. There was a wall of lights and if you ran your hand through them hard enough they'd flash what you drew. After most of the people left (so I wouldn't be hogging the exhibit) I managed to produce a credible Decepticon symbol, but my battery died so I couldn't take pictures and I also had to take the bus home which took forever. <3 so much fun though.
I bought a coronavirus plushie.
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when ur gf decides to be a mischievous little shit and it hits u all over again how cute she is
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..... yaknow, another thing that makes miravi fun for me is that. aaravi is very easy to embarrass. she’s very easy to catch off guard, or fluster, or just otherwise leave her floundering because she doesn’t know how to react in emotional situations since she doesn’t have that experience.
and miranda, in contrast, is next to impossible to properly embarrass. she only really gets it in certain situations and, even more importantly, only from specific people. she’s most at her element in dialogue and emotions, since she uses both of these to extreme effect to manipulate people to get what she wants.
which means that miranda is a person who KNOWS how to zero in on how to make aaravi lose her footing in a social situation and just start floundering, but also comes with a kind of emotional awareness on when it’s gone too far or when she needs to lighten up.
all of this to say that miranda knows how to reduce aaravi down to a blushing mess with just a few little, choice words and can still keep her hooked enough to keep coming back for more.
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Spielkarten / Playing Cards
by Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa
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Which characters and what relationship dynamics will be featured in your newest sequel? ( you don’t have to answer :))
*whispering* I would also like to know this.
I can tell you that almost everyone makes a brief appearance, but "Many Happy Returns" will mostly focus on Bruce's relationships with the three "bat-kids" who have birthdays (either canonically or implied) around this time: Tim, Damian, and Jason.
But weirdly, there are also a lot more scenes between Tim and Jason than I was originally prepared for.
I don't know if this helps, but I appreciate your curiosity. Thank you!
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our flag is a thing of beauty
look what @bitegore made me
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Look at my sweet darling angel!!
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Blaine's return in ep. 2 is so funny. literally just--- I imagine him waiting outside the morgue until Ravi was out and Liv wasn't there yet only to sneak in and lie on a slab like: 'see this is going to be so funny! (because I'm dead!)'
(how long did he wait down there like that before it began dawning on him that this was a lot of effort and boredom for a really small pay-off practical joke. Ten minutes? Thirty minutes? Two hours?)
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Black-Tulip taking her favorite kits on a trip while her not-so-favorites follow them
[30/JUL/2022]
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We have a 6th month old!!! Ravi (a.k.a. Mr. Beef Ravioli) is not only half a year but also as big as his 6 year old big sister Shadow!! Someone please tell him to stop growing so fast! Hahaha We already don't know what we'd do without this sweet, fluffy, and silly boy with his man-arms! We love you lil' monster! #love #ravi #ravioli #mans #lilmonster #mrbeefravioli #lilsir #sirfartsalot #wormking #monster #keykey #babycat #kittehs #kittens #cats #keycats #snuggly #cuddle #purrs #fourmonths #babykitties #fluff #floof #catsofinstgram #catsofinsta #bleps #blep #goofball #gato #neko https://www.instagram.com/p/CjPR7TwOUKN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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so today was a murphy law day for me and your fic literally made everything better, i laughed so hard , the characterization , the Ravi! i feel so jelous of Sebastian because i want him to be my boyfriend so bad i really enjoy it so thanks for that
dhdhdgsgsgs thank you so much!! was very stressed over this fic but it’s good to know it all worked out <333
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