Made a companion piece to my original TFA Blackarachnia/Optimus (linked here) image using the designs by Eric Siebenaler as seen on KeyanCarlile's youtube channel.
The specifics are that in the original ideas surrounding season 4 of TFA, we were going to see an AU where Optimus became a techno organic and Elita leads the autobots trying to help him. Just loved the idea and couldn't help but want to draw them! Hope you guys like!
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You cannot tell me otherwise. "Omg, they were roommates" Sure but we Know Sentinel went on cleaning crusades and moved shit around. I just know they've all freaked out and had to work together when there was a scraplet or cybermouse or whatever kinda pest in the dorm. Study crunches, training exercises, the petty arguments, all of it.
Random AU idea I’m throwing out because I’m not gonna do it (I’m already doing a TFA AU), so feel free to steal this idea.
Basically, Sentinel and Elita never managed to convince Optimus to come with them to Archa Seven. Optimus stays at the academy and the other two go on without him.
As for what would happen after that, no idea. Maybe they realize how much of a dumb idea it was and back pedal just in time, or they both “die” there. I dunno, I’m not gonna write anything for this. I just wanted to get it out there.
This is probably a hot take but I hate Transformers: Animated Megop, it makes no sense they have no chemistry, no history together, their is even a huge age gap considering Megatron is Ultra Magnus’s age who is Optimus’s father figure.
Especially when there are two other options to ship tfa Optimus with in which they do have a past history and chemistry and they’re the same age as each other
Also, fun fact: the original pitch document for TFA Season 4 featured an episode titled “Arachnus Prime”, which would've explored an alternate universe where Optimus was turned into a techno-organic and Elita-1 leads Team Prime, so now I’m hella interested in seeing your take on that.
anon we r on the same wavelength i did a lil exploration of that a while ago too but here's a remake. btw 2 me he would also be called blackarachnia in a swap scenario
Bumblebee looks so much like Elita-One that I imagine Optimus can't help but think of her every time Bumblebee throws himself into a dangerous situation 😭