Thoughts about Headcanons
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keaaluEdit: I'm sure there were nice gaps between the lines when I wrote this. SUPERDENSE.
Skywarp
…seems to have decided that he’s the perfect candidate for main protagonist in the Blue series, for some reason. I’m not sure why, but he’s been camped out up there for at least 10 years and doesn’t seem inclined to move out just yet.
Aggressive, vulgar, and none too smart, but more… mischievous than outright malicious, I guess? I do enjoy writing him, although he’s strayed quite some considerable distance “off canon” (like, next-planet-over considerable). I like the fact he’s not pretentious, and doesn’t try to pretend he’s anything more than he is. He still struggles to find solutions to problems that don’t involve his fists, but usually gets results one way or another.
In my headcanon, he’s quite the “hot-blooded” mech (he’d call himself a ladies’ man; I think “bit of a whore” fits better), and loves attention from anyone pretty. It flatters his ego to think he’s a handsome, desirable mech (and no-one really does much to disillusion him). Skywarp is sex-positive and enjoys it, and probably wouldn’t say no if someone asked him if he wanted to swap fluids (even if his femme would probably give him a hard time and make him sleep on the couch afterwards).
One thing I’d always struggled with a little was his canon lack of brains; I mean, he’s a computer-based organism, with presumably the exact same computing capacity as any other Seeker in that dark helm, so how can he be such a dunce?
His teleport was the perfect solution. If there’s one thing you’d need to be if you have one of these, it’s a competent navigator, else you might teleport into walls, permanently enmeshing your structure with anything that was there to start with, and making some horrible superdense mess. Which I headcanon as being pretty traumatic, because think of all the complex structures that suddenly won’t work any more. (Solid material does have a lot of spaces in it, but not enough to be able to easily separate yourself out from it.) (Starscream says Warp was superdense in the first place, so it’s not like it’d make a big change to the status quo.)
So, headcanon Skywarp now has the biggest brain capacity of his trine, much to Starscream’s chagrin – but he uses 75% of it for navigation/reading the quantum universe, so eh.
Why is it that teleporting into solids is a problem, but not other substances? You still have a big object* appearing in space that’s already occupied by other atoms, right? I work on the idea that he projects some sort of handwavium into the area he’s warping into, and this field can push gases and most liquids away, but not solids.
(Warp objects to being called a “big object”, by the way.)
Thundercracker
Millennia spent separating his wingmates has given him quite the knack as a peacemaker, which is probably why he’s adapted to peacetime the best out of them.
He gets headaches. Mostly caused by his wingmates.
Forceps/Sepp (f, surgeon) and Hardline/Hack (m, police watercannon)
Sweethearts in the golden age, the choices they made in the war broke them apart, and they weren’t together in SBM, although they got back together at the end (thank you, Seekers).
Forceps met Starscream for the first time when he was bleeding out in a Deixar side street, after an attack by Cali’s heavies, on the point of greying out altogether (although we all know better now, don’t we?). Even knowing who he might be (although not 100% sure because his optics were blue), she chose to put him back together, and ultimately came to consider him a friend, even after he got his memory back.
She’s the only one to still call him “Scarlet”; usually when she’s being affectionate, which isn’t often.
She currently suffers from ingeniogenesis imperfecta, a neurodegenerative disorder similar to Parkinson’s; currently incurable, but manageable.
Hardline is a soft-sparked giant that would do absolutely anything she asked of him. He’s left the police to care for her, although she hasn’t let him change his alt, because it signifies her determination to some day beat her illness.
Slipstream/Seem and Footloose/Lucy/Footsie (m/f, early secondary-fission split-spark twins; brats)
“What if Skywarp had never got involved in the ‘Cons?” - you'd probably have ended up with one or the other of these little horrors.
Skywarp’s accidental sparklings; as competent teleports, they share his overall lack of brains, but make up for it with the same kind of enthusiasm. As adults, Seem is a constable in Deixar police force; Footloose is a paramedic.
They’re also apparently living in opposite-land; mech/femme, grounder/flier, vertigo/claustrophobic, reserved/impulsive, takes too long/jumps in blindly, takes after dam/takes after sire.
Seem is an Essex boy; think Police Interceptors. (Like the clip where Tissey laughed at the sergeant for falling in the pond – twice.)
Edit: OH GOD I found the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CtKdpCXfRo
Sophie Ellis-Bextor (or Mel C) would be the perfect voice for Footsie , although I see her looking nothing like her – this is what I have in my head when I think of her:
http://blackhairlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/brown-huge-natural-afro-hair.jpg
Pulsar/Squeaky (and variations on the theme) and sibs
Initially these four were all policebikes, although Whitesides has gone to work for the courier network lately. All four came from the same production run and consider each other siblings, after dorming together, although they don’t necessarily all appear to like each other (Pulse and Beemer tend to rub each other the wrong way). At about 11.5-12ft they’re one of the smallest adult frametypes, which means they tend to be gregarious (and a bit scrappy).
Pulsar ended up with Warp by accident (she’s still not sure the “L-word” has ever come from his vocaliser) but you know? She’s actually kinda comfortable with him, and in a way enjoys their squabbling. She had a brief affair with Thundercracker, while Skywarp was missing, which they mutually ended (but remained close friends) because it felt… weird. She does not get on with Starscream.
I had an epiphany and realised that if she needed a holoform, she’d look like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, just with really short hair and slightly more upswept eyes.
Her sibs are: Longbeam (f, abnormally tall (for a bike – 12.5ft) and sarcastic); Surefire/Shoof (f, hippy chick; for some reason, French); Whitesides (m, sex-positive, usually in trouble; occasional unicorn (I don’t even know).)
Celerity/Lara and Vector/Vecks/Bunches (f, late secondary-fission split-spark twins; riotbots, musclebabes)
Quayside’s riotbots; these are two BIG girls (taller than most fliers, and built like brick outhouses). Identical twins, apart from in terms of headshape (Celerity has a bun, Vector has bunches.) Both capable of subduing most machines without a whole lot of effort, although it took both together to calm Skywarp down when he caused a riot in that café one time.
Celerity is currently super in love with TC; Vector thinks she’s hilarious and far too fluffy about it.
Nightsun (m, helicopter, plays clarinet)
Thoughtful, kind and observant. As his specialty is light and the recording of it, Nightsun is a gentle, artistic type; headcanon says that as well as being a bit of an amateur painter, he also plays the clarinet and is conductor in the station’s little jazz band (well, those rotors would make a good metronome! Um, not that machine-based organisms would necessarily need a metronome…) He also has dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent.
I’m not sure how you’d scale up a clarinet so that someone 16 feet tall could play it and have it sound the same as a regular, human-sized clarinet, but I guess there’s TF-woodwind artisans who could figure that out?
Skywarp
…seems to have decided that he’s the perfect candidate for main protagonist in the Blue series, for some reason. I’m not sure why, but he’s been camped out up there for at least 10 years and doesn’t seem inclined to move out just yet.
Aggressive, vulgar, and none too smart, but more… mischievous than outright malicious, I guess? I do enjoy writing him, although he’s strayed quite some considerable distance “off canon” (like, next-planet-over considerable). I like the fact he’s not pretentious, and doesn’t try to pretend he’s anything more than he is. He still struggles to find solutions to problems that don’t involve his fists, but usually gets results one way or another.
In my headcanon, he’s quite the “hot-blooded” mech (he’d call himself a ladies’ man; I think “bit of a whore” fits better), and loves attention from anyone pretty. It flatters his ego to think he’s a handsome, desirable mech (and no-one really does much to disillusion him). Skywarp is sex-positive and enjoys it, and probably wouldn’t say no if someone asked him if he wanted to swap fluids (even if his femme would probably give him a hard time and make him sleep on the couch afterwards).
One thing I’d always struggled with a little was his canon lack of brains; I mean, he’s a computer-based organism, with presumably the exact same computing capacity as any other Seeker in that dark helm, so how can he be such a dunce?
His teleport was the perfect solution. If there’s one thing you’d need to be if you have one of these, it’s a competent navigator, else you might teleport into walls, permanently enmeshing your structure with anything that was there to start with, and making some horrible superdense mess. Which I headcanon as being pretty traumatic, because think of all the complex structures that suddenly won’t work any more. (Solid material does have a lot of spaces in it, but not enough to be able to easily separate yourself out from it.) (Starscream says Warp was superdense in the first place, so it’s not like it’d make a big change to the status quo.)
So, headcanon Skywarp now has the biggest brain capacity of his trine, much to Starscream’s chagrin – but he uses 75% of it for navigation/reading the quantum universe, so eh.
Why is it that teleporting into solids is a problem, but not other substances? You still have a big object* appearing in space that’s already occupied by other atoms, right? I work on the idea that he projects some sort of handwavium into the area he’s warping into, and this field can push gases and most liquids away, but not solids.
(Warp objects to being called a “big object”, by the way.)
Thundercracker
Millennia spent separating his wingmates has given him quite the knack as a peacemaker, which is probably why he’s adapted to peacetime the best out of them.
He gets headaches. Mostly caused by his wingmates.
Forceps/Sepp (f, surgeon) and Hardline/Hack (m, police watercannon)
Sweethearts in the golden age, the choices they made in the war broke them apart, and they weren’t together in SBM, although they got back together at the end (thank you, Seekers).
Forceps met Starscream for the first time when he was bleeding out in a Deixar side street, after an attack by Cali’s heavies, on the point of greying out altogether (although we all know better now, don’t we?). Even knowing who he might be (although not 100% sure because his optics were blue), she chose to put him back together, and ultimately came to consider him a friend, even after he got his memory back.
She’s the only one to still call him “Scarlet”; usually when she’s being affectionate, which isn’t often.
She currently suffers from ingeniogenesis imperfecta, a neurodegenerative disorder similar to Parkinson’s; currently incurable, but manageable.
Hardline is a soft-sparked giant that would do absolutely anything she asked of him. He’s left the police to care for her, although she hasn’t let him change his alt, because it signifies her determination to some day beat her illness.
Slipstream/Seem and Footloose/Lucy/Footsie (m/f, early secondary-fission split-spark twins; brats)
“What if Skywarp had never got involved in the ‘Cons?” - you'd probably have ended up with one or the other of these little horrors.
Skywarp’s accidental sparklings; as competent teleports, they share his overall lack of brains, but make up for it with the same kind of enthusiasm. As adults, Seem is a constable in Deixar police force; Footloose is a paramedic.
They’re also apparently living in opposite-land; mech/femme, grounder/flier, vertigo/claustrophobic, reserved/impulsive, takes too long/jumps in blindly, takes after dam/takes after sire.
Seem is an Essex boy; think Police Interceptors. (Like the clip where Tissey laughed at the sergeant for falling in the pond – twice.)
Edit: OH GOD I found the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CtKdpCXfRo
Sophie Ellis-Bextor (or Mel C) would be the perfect voice for Footsie , although I see her looking nothing like her – this is what I have in my head when I think of her:
http://blackhairlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/brown-huge-natural-afro-hair.jpg
Pulsar/Squeaky (and variations on the theme) and sibs
Initially these four were all policebikes, although Whitesides has gone to work for the courier network lately. All four came from the same production run and consider each other siblings, after dorming together, although they don’t necessarily all appear to like each other (Pulse and Beemer tend to rub each other the wrong way). At about 11.5-12ft they’re one of the smallest adult frametypes, which means they tend to be gregarious (and a bit scrappy).
Pulsar ended up with Warp by accident (she’s still not sure the “L-word” has ever come from his vocaliser) but you know? She’s actually kinda comfortable with him, and in a way enjoys their squabbling. She had a brief affair with Thundercracker, while Skywarp was missing, which they mutually ended (but remained close friends) because it felt… weird. She does not get on with Starscream.
I had an epiphany and realised that if she needed a holoform, she’d look like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, just with really short hair and slightly more upswept eyes.
Her sibs are: Longbeam (f, abnormally tall (for a bike – 12.5ft) and sarcastic); Surefire/Shoof (f, hippy chick; for some reason, French); Whitesides (m, sex-positive, usually in trouble; occasional unicorn (I don’t even know).)
Celerity/Lara and Vector/Vecks/Bunches (f, late secondary-fission split-spark twins; riotbots, musclebabes)
Quayside’s riotbots; these are two BIG girls (taller than most fliers, and built like brick outhouses). Identical twins, apart from in terms of headshape (Celerity has a bun, Vector has bunches.) Both capable of subduing most machines without a whole lot of effort, although it took both together to calm Skywarp down when he caused a riot in that café one time.
Celerity is currently super in love with TC; Vector thinks she’s hilarious and far too fluffy about it.
Nightsun (m, helicopter, plays clarinet)
Thoughtful, kind and observant. As his specialty is light and the recording of it, Nightsun is a gentle, artistic type; headcanon says that as well as being a bit of an amateur painter, he also plays the clarinet and is conductor in the station’s little jazz band (well, those rotors would make a good metronome! Um, not that machine-based organisms would necessarily need a metronome…) He also has dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent.
I’m not sure how you’d scale up a clarinet so that someone 16 feet tall could play it and have it sound the same as a regular, human-sized clarinet, but I guess there’s TF-woodwind artisans who could figure that out?