Hey Rewind Eject, just wanted to see how your doing so, I hope your doing well.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll go over and take a look.

I do have that in mind. Minerva's going to look child like since she's the youngest of my femmes. Airazor's the eldest so she looks more like a full grown female fighter pilot with hints of Valkirie in it. Arcee's more of a late teens/early to mid 20's look.

Cool. :)

Maybe that her backstory feels too much like her Prime self from what people told me about. I won't change too much though. Maybe do her backpack and legs different as well as her helment as well as some of her backstory but that's it. I do want to keep her as a TFP homage all the same. I mean her TFA version's isn't too different from her G1 self either so having mine be a TFP homage isn't too different.

It's doing fine.

Fracture is a surprise but it's a nice choice since it helps make her different from Arcee. I'm thinking of redoing my Arcee as well but I'm going to focus on my next three entries first. Next is Starscream.

Same thing and hwk

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You're welcome. I'm happy to help.

I take it that scene is Starscream's last screwup.

Sorry for the four posts in a row, I have another idea I'd recommend with Megatron's betrayal of Straxus: it's a huge secret. Megatron, being the careful, manipulative bastard that he is, arranged Straxus's assassination while keeping his hands clean - Starscream could tumble to the secret and become a huge threat to Megatron's power base, forcing Megatron to hunt him down and silence him.

On Megatron's personality and origin, one idea I had was to make Megatron Straxus's apprentice, While Straxus ruled Darkmount, Megatron studied under the tyrant, learning his lessons at Straxus's knee, and came to believe the same things that Straxus did, especially the techno-superiority that rooted itself in the Decepticon cause. Megatron's betrayal came because he thought that his father (or father figure) wasn't radical enough - Straxus could have advocated enslaving worlds and allowing organics to live as servants, while Megatron advocated actual genocide, clearing out the organics and leaving their resources free for Cybertron to seize.

With Megatron, I like the changes you're planning for the drawing; I'd go so far as to make the death-lock pincer (what RotF Megatron's weapon is called) and the rotor flail (I'd base it in Bayverse Barricade's weapon) be his official weapons and have the blade cape be permanently attached to his back, able to spread into Nova Prime-like wings when he takes flight.

With Optimus, I think if you show off the ion emitters as opposed to his shotgun, that will go a long way towards solving your problem. As far as his physical design, as long as you maintain the window pectorals, a white or grey abdomen, blue and red somewhere in the design, and a decent Optimus head, you're good to go. You don't even need the first two; Split Lip based part of his design on Machine Wars. Just go with what you like.

I do see how your Megatron is genericizing, though. That's why I committed to the Quintesson Forge in my Lone Crusade idea - it gave Megatron something unique, that played into his megalomania and overall theme of domination and mental violation. Do you have any ideas at the moment?

Edit: You mentioned a while back that the key trait any Megatron needs is charisma. Perhaps you can play off of that the way BW and TFA Megatron did.

On the subject of Optimus and Megatron, what specifically has you feeling like they are getting generic? Your Optimus has an interestingly troubled past, what with the Iacon Archives incident and the war itself - with all of that in his past, along with what you previously wrote about him being hard, pessimistic, and stubborn, he could be like TFA Ratchet, only younger and more physically fit. He'd still have those issues, but he'd seem like the war has aged him more than most.

Your most recent addition to him, his Gibbs-like tendency to do what needs to be done, regardless of whether he ruffles the feathers of some politically correct bureaucrat, could also add an interesting dynamic to him: he's an undeniably skilled badass who gets the job done, but he's extremely unpopular with the politicians, meaning that he's a perpetual outsider. The tidbit of the Council sending him on a pipe dream mission because they have no idea what to do with him merely underscores this.

Thank you very much. I'd be glad to help.

Soundwave as a kingmaker makes a lot of sense, since his role in your series means that he has a lot of pull in the background. I'm not sure that he needs to be loyal to the cause and not the man, though - there are different expressions of loyalty. While Fracture would be like Lugnut or Armada Wheeljack, outwardly shouting "All Hail the Glorious Megatron," Soundwave could be like Tarn of the DJD, ensuring that the Decepticons remain loyal to Megatron.

Now, your Shockwave is damned impressive, reminiscent of what MTMTE just did with the character. I like how you incorporated Beast Machines Tankor's shtick into him - it gives him a little kick and makes him the intelligent, hidden traitor to Starscream's arrogantly foolish braggart. The two make perfect foils.

Your art's better than any attempts I've made, at least! I've been inspired by other fans, such as using Red Alert instead of Ratchet because CyRaptor did the same in his Legacy pictures.

As a matter of fact, I'm going to try to before the end of the year. I didn't think it'd be that popular, honestly :)

Haha I forgot he says that:lol Megatron is just sick. After that lost he needs to just retire:lol

Heck yea:lol At long last! Decepticons!!!! Revenge is ours!!! Ooppsss wait the Bots found us! Megatron: Damn I cant have nothing:banghead::lol

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