Yeah, they could be cute together.



And your description of Moonracer is the same impression I get of her, good call there.

Some might think him a little generic, but I could see Bluestreak being considered an example of a handsome male Cybertronian.

Is there more to your story, or their romance central?


Not to push/plug my own ideas, but I had one many pages back about how Bluestreak isn't actually Bluestreak.


Bluestreak was a pseudo-brother of Prowl, Smokescreen and the silver and red guy we know.

Their identities were switched during the bombing. The "real" Bluestreak is presumed dead. It's a mystery how much the others know.

 

It's a great premise. I've got my own big honkin' story for Bluestreak in the works myself, but instead of just expositing what I did with him I'll highlight how just from his toy bio he's surprisingly multi-faceted. As a huge Bluestreak fan I'd love to see how others portray him instead of just my version of him.

The big thing is his PTSD, of course. PTSD isn't cured, it's accepted, and it's a really delicate theme to handle, so I'd suggest researching how different people deal with it in real life.

He hates war, yet he's in it, so there ought to be a reason for him to fight, maybe a personal stake, or maybe he wants to communicate the principle that it's pointless to those who don't understand, or maybe he's just lost and homeless, merely biased due to his home's destruction. Give him a standard to consistently reinforce and project so he doesn't seem a hypocrite.

If Decepticons are to be depicted as not 100% evil villains but just people on the wrong side, his bio quote, "I never met a Decepticon I didn't like," ought to be portrayed as an attitude that's understandable given his past, but ultimately unacceptable that he needs to change if he really wants peace.

Bluestreak and Moonracer are quite the juxtaposition given how grizzled the former is and how innocent(for a soldier) the latter is, and you could have them clash a bit to highlight the flaws they ignore in themselves but see in each other, which they would grow from. Maybe even take them to the ruins of Praxus, a very dark place for Bluestreak.

I haven't seen any evidence of this in real canon but I recall TVTropes describing Bluestreak as a marksman, so sharpshooting together would be a natural and somewhat positive, fun bonding experience. I'd portray Bluestreak as building his marksmanship skill through hard practice as a juxtaposition to Moonracer's natural talent.

Definitely interested to see what you do with them, comrade.

 

Mine is that Brainstorm, Chromedome, Hardhead and Highbrow just like to switch around eachothers bodies sometimes.

 

I've heard that traumatized WWI soldiers re-enlisted after the war due to their trauma making it so that they couldn't readjust to normal society, so I use that as a reason Bluestreak is even in the military at this point.

Bluestreak was designated as a marksman in the tech specs bio, so that description of him fits. And yes, that contrast is why I chose Bluestreak, and I also thought they looked good together in terms of general design philosophy. I'd redesign both of them to look more anime-esque, but the base designs look good together. And thanks.

 

Their separate arcs do play into their romance, but develop on their own, with Moonracer's arc about moving past the little sister persona and maturing, and Bluestreak's PTSD arc.

Wow, that's creative.[/QUOTE]

 

I love it!

 

Arcee usually has one the kindest, most loving sparks one could possess.

Some even might almost think she's a carcirture of a proper "feminine" Cybertronian (and yes, she is doing a curtsy with an imaginary dress).

Yet if see she sees any cruelty, any mistreatment of others

Even by those larger and stronger than her

No matter who, she'll stand up to it

Except the Fossilizers. Those guys really creep her out.

 

You really had me going up until the Fossilizer bit, cuz... well...

 

Well, may have just been the initial shock of them introducing themselves like this

Was just a bit much all at once

 

Having just acquired Legends Overlord (the Takara version, I didn't buy the Hasbro):

** The Hive - A syndicate of Nebulons with the mental powers to control non-living machines. They are led by Lord Zarak, a corrupt politician who seized control of the planet with the help of his supporters. His biggest supporters being Mega and Giga, who bankrolled his career into politics and funded the creation of the Hive's machines and the underground city that became Scorponok. Zarak and Galvatron enter into a very uneasy alliance... the Decepticons need allies if they are to re-build the Decepticon Empire while Zarak sees the Decepticons as a stepping stone to galactic domination... for now, the Hive can control non-living machines... but should they ever gain control over the living ones. Mega and Giga eventually enter into a binary bonding with the banished Decepticon leader, Overlord... an old rival of Megatron's from the gladatorial arenas... Zarak approved this as a means of annoying Galvatron... but also as insurance... if Galvatron isn't the ally Zarak wants, perhaps Overlord can step in, take charge and be that ally. Mega and Giga also take on human identities to spread Decepticon influence through Earth's society.

 

HOLD UP you have a copy of 3P solus prime??? damn

 

Just lucky buy on eBay (after a few missed attempts).

Even as just a remold, and bit older, still a nice addition.

 

ack so lucky

 

I must admit, even though I feel like Bluestreak has good potential as a character, I feel like he would work a bit better as comedy relief. He can have PTSD, but he would have accepted it for a long while ago. He hates war, yes, but his sense of humor basically indicates that he has somewhat accepted trauma and just embraced it. It hasn't gone away, but he is basically someone who has accepted that it's a part of him and no one can change that. So yeah, I would put him more as a motivational speaker as well as comedy relief.

I feel like a good character to really truly develop PTSD with is Hot Rod/Rodimus. I always pictured him as someone who was orphaned in his previous life and had to be on his own in the streets for a long time, so when he bonds with people, it really is hard for him to let go, because he really doesn't want to go through loneliness again. And the losses that have piled up in his life (in my stuff he lost the first girl he loved back when he was a youngster, then he lost his whole platoon when he was left in charge of a mission and being an Elite Guard washout didn't help matters at all) really leaves a rather large sense of guilt and regret in the guy. Heck, it might make for a rather plausible reason as to why he has such low self-esteem when he is left in charge of a group, the amount of anxiety that piles up on him and the depression and rather extreme sense of inferiority that comes from feeling like he doesn't live up to the people that came before him. So yeah, I feel like Roddy having to learn how to accept himself and learn to live with the mistakes he has made in his past life makes for a bit more compelling story IMO.

 

Thanks!

 

The Jointron brothers are former band-mates of Sky-Byte back when he wrote music.

I thought it'd be kind of amusing if they were a group only hardcore music lovers like Jazz or Loud Pedal would recognize because of how relatively short-lived they were on Cybertron, they were no Rosanna or anything.. They probably did just a few shows at Maccadams or something.

Also cuz I love Fat Albert I thought it'd be cute if Wreck-Gar had his own Junkion band of sorts, each with a ridiculous instrument made from scraps.

 

Eons ago, the Quintessons were a fully biological species.

An explorer for them found a strange energy source emitting from a remote asteroid. It was in the form of spheres entering the physical plane thru a dimensional tear.

The Quintessons claimed asteroid as their property. Throughout various experiments, they discovered that placing the spheres in their servant robots granted them life (although the Quintessons refused to truly acknowledge them as sentient beings).

The Quintessons were able craft to a portable container unit for the dimensional tear (which became the Allspark).

and a.i. control unit to distribute the spheres (Vector Sigma).

Eventually, they constructed an entire planet dedicated to the industry of producing servant robots for tasks ranging from domestic labor and maintenance to science, and war, and even entertainment.

Of course, the servants of the Quintessons rose up and liberated themselves. Although almost no records of this uprising remain, it is known as the First Great Cybertronian War.

The reason so little knowledge remains is due to the devastation caused by the Second Great Cybertronian War.

Even less is known of this period, yet is believed it was only a few generations removed from the first war. A couple names of key figures are known, such as Nova Prime and Overlord, but nearly nothing of who they were and what they did has survived.

Yet, somehow, Cybertron rebuilt and prospered again (well, some prospered, but not all). Then Megatron enthralled eager legions with dreams of universal conquest and technological supremacy.

 

The 1986 characters’ alt-modes are Cybertronian and not futuristic.

 

This is my head cannon for how I see the G1 Decepticon Military is structured. Specifically who I see as the "main army" (84-86, with some 87-88)

Leader: Megatron

Scientist: Shockwave also the Military Operations Commander on Cybertron when Megatron is away

Communications: Soundwave, runs their information network

The legions of lookalikes.

Cassettes: Soundwave’s minions, the messengers and spies of his information network, and the occasional muscle whenever Soundwave might need it.

Seekers: the Air Force and make up the bulk of the Decepticon army since their whole thing is being able to fly while the Bots generally can’t.

Photons (aka the Reflectors): the security forces (sentries, scouts, etc.) who guard bases and patrol areas looking for enemy activity. You know stuff you'd expect a walking camera to do.

Note from TFWiki: The "watchdogs" featured in "The Ultimate Doom, Part 3" share Reflector's purple-and-grey colour scheme (right). The rear of the vehicles even resemble the viewfinder found on the backs of the individual Photons. Perhaps these Decepticon hovercars are the Cybertronian alternate modes of the Photons?

Battlechargers: their ground forces (like in Devastation), not as numerous as the seekers, since “ruling the roads” is the Autobots thing

Clones: created by Shockwave to bolster the Decepticon ranks, have various functions and alt-modes but have roughly the same robot mode (Pounce and Wingspan)

Shockwave's experiments

Duocons, Triple-Changers, and Sixshot: the result of Shockwave’s attempts to create a Transformer with multiple alt-modes. Basically Super Soldiers

Then we have the various special purpose units

Insecticons: main trio seem to be a Saboteur unit, not sure if the bigger four can fit into this. Venom and Chop Shop can and I guess Barrage and Ransack would be their muscle in case things go south while on a mission.

Firecons: Flamethrower unit

Triggercons: Gunner unit

Combiners: in general another breed of super soldier

Constructicons: Engineering unit

Stunticons: Urban Warfare/Counter-Autobot unit

Combaticons: Elite Commando unit

Predacons: Counter-Dinobot unit

Terrorcons: Terrorism unit

Seacons: Naval Force unit

Titans

Trypticon (with Full-Tilt and Brunt if their sentient): mobile assault base and their Ultimate Warrior

 

The Omnibots and the deluxe Insecticons (not their unit name) are both independent, galaxy-wandering mercenary units.

The Omnibots do have a loose, but still adhered to moral code (doesn't mean that they've NEVER taken Deception energon though, or unsavory jobs from other species)

The deluxe Insecticons, not so much.