Colors Galore!

So a few days ago I saw a jeep with a bunch of rubber ducks on the dash and I asked my coworker if they knew what was up with the duck thing. I’ve asked in the past but no one ever gave me a straight answer (no one I ever asked owned a jeep). BUT this coworker had family who DID. She told me that when you see a jeep you like, you’re supposed to give the owner a rubber duck to show your appreciation.

Which brings me to this:

It’s been a while since the Autobots first crashed on earth and everyone has gotten used to each other, so much so that a lot of kids (and some overzealous adults) have been sending in gifts for the bots (especially around Christmas) but one odd thing everyone aboard the Ark noted that when they got these gifts, there was always some rubber ducks sent to Hound. The first few times it happened everyone kinda laughed it off as kids just giving him things they liked, but… Hound kept getting ducks. He certainly wasn’t complaining! He loved nature and wildlife! But why always rubber ducks? He asked Spike and Sparkplug one day and Sparkplug told him about the appreciation tradition. Word quickly spread and some mechs (cough Sideswipe cough Sunstreaker cough) kept leaving the tiny-tiny little ducks everywhere for him to find (Prowl told them to knock it off after one falls in an energon cube and someone drank it, and Ratchet had to go into their tank and get it out). Hound took it all in stride and now has a sizable duck army to his name.

He likes to take his favorites on patrol with him to keep them close and if a Decepticon encounter comes up along the way, he stashes them somewhere unlikely to be harmed. If he can’t do that he tries to be as careful as possible during battle.

One day, he gets unlucky and takes a shot from a Decepticon. The hit was on his chassis and it was barely anything, grazed him really, but one of his rubber ducks wasn’t so lucky. What made it worse was that it was the first duck he had gotten. Melted and warped in his servo. For days after it was obvious to anyone with eyes Hound was depressed over the loss of his duck.

One day Hound goes back to his hab, opens the door, and his pedes (and some of the hallway, and the whole of his hab floor) are covered in rubber ducks of all kinds. Hound then hears someone approaching and turns to see Mirage… holding the once destroyed duck in his servo. Mirage tells him that he hated to see Hound so despondent over the loss of an item of “great sentimental value” and so had the ducks remains taken to Wheeljack where (under VERY STRICT supervision) he was able to remold the duck anew.

Mirage barely finishes his explanation when Hound’s lips meet his, one hand around his upper back in a hug, the other gently rubbing his digits over Mirage’s and the little rubber duck’s head.

Bonus (what would have happened if we left Wheeljack alone):

- Woodrow and Charlie both loved “The Deepening 3D” as kids. Mostly as a “so bad it’s good” movie they could turn their brains off to.

- Woodrow mentions on one of their calls that the mechanical shark from the movie is going on display in the same town the movie was filmed in, and that on his way back, he was gonna stop there to see the shark and that if they can, everyone should meet him in Seymour’s Bay so they could all see the shark together!

- Charlie is actually kind of excited to see the shark in person and he shows the movie to everyone that night (He forgot about some of the not PG scenes on accident and Cody’s siblings had to cover his eyes 5 different times) Kade, Dani, Graham, and Cody just don’t get what this is until Charlie says he knows, it’s just so bad it’s good and then they understand COMPLETELY. Heatwave doesn’t understand why you would watch something if it’s not good, Chase is overthinking how many laws the CIA is breaking holding the shark’s baby hostage, Boulder is right there with him because he can’t stomach animal cruelty, and Blades actually enjoys the movie and feels for the shark.

- Realistically I think Chief Burns would go with Cody and Chase to the unveiling of the shark

- They meet the Belchers (sorta) after the shark rips off the prosthetic arm and Louise yells “Thank you God!”

- It was then father, son, and adopted robot alien cop son realize they may have bit off more than they could chew

- When the shark starts going berserk and the town starts making plans to stop the shark Charlie takes control of the situation enough to put Hugo in is place (he was a massive jerk this episode and Charlie gives off so much dad energy you don’t wanna make him mad or be dumb around him)

- When shark gets tangled in the spikes and hits the fire truck Charlie and Cody wince and Chase has to offline his vocalizer or risk humans hearing him gasp.

- The oil and the electricity just make Charlie want to put his head in sand. How has Griffin Rock managed to deal with worse BETTER???

- When the shark burrows under the restaurant Charlie goes in with Bob, Teddy, and Mort

- Cody comes in with the Belcher kids to turn on the ice cream machine to deactivate the shark

- Charlie manages (with Chase’s help) to catch Fischoder before he runs off when Bob asks about preparing the restaurant (he also lays down the law about how Fischoder tries to pin everything on Bob when Fischoder both bought the shark and employed his carnies to set the thing up)

- When Hugo tries to take credit for everything Cody interrupts and sets everything straight (idk how, I just want ✨karma✨ and I feel like Cody deserves to put someone in their place)

- It took the Omega Lock incident with Earth for the other planets to realize they were out of their depth. They knew Earth could feel what his earthlings did but they were a KNOWN VARIABLE. Some planets (Venus and Saturn mostly) began to privately think that this was all the bots fault.

- When Earth talked to Theia and Proto in the liminal space he could SEE Unicron staring at them. Proto and Theia didn’t know much about him until the cybertronians appeared. He just sorta… lurked.

- Makemake makes a campaign based on the Cybertronian war. (Who would YOU want as the NPCs? I personally want to see the Sun as Megatron and Mercury as Starscream because funny~)

- If all cybertronians have an EM field, and most planets have EM fields, then most of the “background noise” Cybertronians feel on different worlds has been those planets emotions (and isn’t it INTERESTING how many other planets were ravaged by their war)

During the initial Unicron fiasco something like that ended up happening.

When Unicron rose his presence triggered a lot of natural disasters that Earth could feel, but couldn’t stop because (as far as I know) planets can’t control their surfaces like that, they can only control their gravity and use it to manipulate stuff around them.

The dark energon inside of Earth started going crazy now that Unicron was awake however and DID allow him to “speak” through Earth. However Unicron couldn’t control gravity like celestial bodies can, and after realizing that the Autobots were the more pressing issue, decided to leave for the moment.

That was the initial moment everyone in the solar system realized they were outclassed. Unicron wasn’t like the Sun (the one of them who, until now was the most “powerful” of them) who flipped out but would eventually come to his senses, this was an actual GOD and a malevolent one with abilities only found in earthling books.

When later asked about it, Earth described the experience as someone speaking through him. He could still think, and everyone could see the fear in Earth’s eyes while he was talking in Unicron’s voice.

- Once Astrodude comes back from Titan with SiBO the kids all adopt him, Astrodude has no less than 30 pictures on his phone that he sends to the kids

- Astrodude suffers enough so using my idea powers I’m gonna say that when the computer brings Astrodude’s ship back to earth it ends up crashing into Outpost Omega 1

- At this point his wife and son are there in hiding and while he and the Autobots work to fix his ship, he gets a break. Lord knows this man will need good memories.

- Planet X reminds Optimus of Megatron. Someone who thought the world owed than and when they didn’t get it, lashed out against it.

Oooohhhh yeeeaaaa, the guilt hits like a train. Of course the Autobots (Optimus especially bc we all know he gets about blaming himself) already felt guilty about ravaging their home, but it should noted that it was less about the planet itself in the moment, and more about the fact that their entire race now had no home, and was set to go extinct without the well of sparks.

I had to do some googling for accuracy but in the aligned continuity the surface WAS ravaged by war, but it can be assumed that a lot of that damage was done to the cities or places above ground. Areas that, in theory, shouldn’t effect Cybertron (as a planet) too-too much in the long run (I mean look how much of that damage Earth and the humans have survived over the years). What really cinched it in the Prime (aligned) continuity was Megatron poisoning the planets core with dark energon that caused the planet to go dark.

Also I’m gonna take a moment to specify something I’ve tried to get across but I don’t think I’ve been great at it.

PRIMUS is Cybertron’s spark, the reason the planet is alive and capable of producing energon and being habitable for Cybertronians (hence the comparisons I’ve made to Proto and Theia). He is also not dead, he just kinda… exists as a godly force ghost in this AU? But only Cybertron itself (and matrix wealders) can really communicate with him.

CYBERTRON is the planet itself who was born when Primus sparked it into being to give his Cybertronians a place to live.

(I’m sorry if that sounds messy lol, I just thought it would be more interesting if Primus and Cybertron were two separate people, if anyone wants to ask more clarifying questions do not hesitate.)

- Miko introduced the planets to EPIC. Now when Mercury gets annoyed with Venus he starts singing “Wouldn’t You Like”. It’s shockingly effective.

- Wheeljack made a joke after he came to base after the Makeshift incident that if planets could talk then what would Cybertron have to say? He meant it as joke but everyone started thinking about it… and now everyone’s regrets about the war are compounded

- Surprisingly JACK is the one who gets into playing Dungeons and Dwarf Planets with Makemake, Pluto, and everyone else. He’s their artificer.

- Just for kicks, after Jupiter left after the Grand Tack was revealed and the asteroid belt started coming apart, Luna wasn’t quick enough to stop an asteroid from falling to earth… and hitting the Nemesis.

- It was barely able to stay up, but it put the Decepticons out of commission at a time when everyone had a lot on their minds, so win-win.

- Sun doesn’t give much thought to the Cybertronians at first. He occasionally buts in on their conversations though

- The only time he gave them some real thought was when he got to hear about about Cybertron’s destruction. Hearing about a planet that stayed in its orbit and still got hurt that got destroyed actually made him go quiet for a while.

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT WAS THE PLANETS REACTIONS TO JUST EVERYTHING WITH EARTH AND THE BOTS PLEASE 🙏

A lot of questions lol. Honestly when the Bots and Cons first started making their way through the solar system, everyone thought they were just weird asteroids. I mean do humans notice every bug that’s around them until they get annoyed? No, they had no idea that they were looking at space faring vessels, and LIFE? Forget it, they all knew how long it took Earth to get life, and with all the special conditions his earthlings needed NO ONE expected more life to just… pop out of nowhere.

But to keep things interesting~ here’s the specific internal questions every planet (and the sun) has (if anyone wants specific moon/ dwarf planet reactions in the future you’re gonna have to ask for someone by name. There are way too many to do in one post)

Sun - Doesn’t really care too much. It’s interesting to see Life go beyond its solar system

Mercury - He is curious about what the Cybertronians solar system might look like, but honestly he just wants to know more about the bots as people. Astrodude was his first time talking to a human, but now he can get to know life from outside the solar system!

Venus - Is honestly jealous of what other planet created Cybertronians. He KNOWS he can never have life (do Soviet robots count? Probably not) he’s had it drilled into his head time and time again that the kind of life Earth has, he never will. But to hear another planet in the same position managed life… it hurts, if only a little

Earth - The most shocked out of all the planets. His life came from VERY specific conditions (and an insane amount of luck) so again, to hear about a planet that has NONE of that, and still managed life? Yeah, it’s a lot. But in a good way he promises! (He actually wants to talk to Cybertron at some point, talk about their life and whatnot. It’s always been a pipe dream to talk to another planet that feels what he feels about the being on his surface…)

Mars - He’s surprised, but… he’s also the only one to wonder WHAT made the Bots come here. Speaking from experience, you don’t just leave your planet for no reason…

Jupiter - Takes a more analytical approach to his curiosity. He is one of the more book smart planets and wants to know about Cybertron as a planet. He’s never heard of a celestial body made entirely out of metal before, it’s just way less common than rocks.

Saturn - Definitely shows his surprise enthusiastically. After Titan told him about what Astrodude found in one of his oceans, he is starting to think that life can come from anywhere!

Uranus - Somewhere between the Sun and Mercury with his interest. Again, it’s cool that there’s more life out there, but like Mars, he starts to wonder what could have made the Cybertronians leave.

- The bots took some time to get used to the weirdness on earth from Earth moving around and playing cards with the other planets on top of the drama the planets face

- Miko of course made a “your anus” joke when Uranus introduced himself, and he just… sighed. Billions of billions of years of the same joke just made him tired. It was the first time anyone saw Miko give a genuine apology.

- The bots treat the moon revolution with more seriousness than the planets. The planets and the moons say that it wasn’t that big of a deal. They all learned how Cybertron’s war began that day

- Optimus and Ratchet in particular are worried about the Sun’s instability mentally

- The planets (now that they know what to look for) tell the Autobots about Wheeljack’s arrival before he comms them. Which again helps Astrodude’s claim at the start

- Primus is to Cybertron what Proto and Theia are to Earth. They are the progenitors, not them. I headcannoned that Primus sacrificed himself to make it so (unless someone does something stupid) the planet would always have energon flowing on it.

- Earth made a lot of references that none of the planets understood until they met the kids.

- I read an OC x Ratchet fic where Ratchet and Raf developed special ear pieces so Miko and Jack could understand Bumblebee too. After some work, they managed to help them understand the planets

- Astrodude’s family was eventually found by Soundwave and had to be brought to base

- Astroson and Astrowife (we need fandom names or something guys, I’ve only been watching Solarballs for like a week but we need placeholders or somth) can naturally understand Bumblebee too. No one understand the requirements for humans understanding him, but Bee is not complaining

- Astroson loves to play games with the kids, and even helps teach Bee and the kids ASL

- Astroson is the first human who wants to know everything about Cybertron as a planet. Ratchet has two adopted children now.

(Because everything my brain absorbs comes back to TFP ig)

- After Theia and Proto collide Unicron smashes into them. Venus is the only one who notices and tries to stop it but his gravity isn’t strong enough. He worries that that… thing? Did something but after Luna and Earth form and nothing seems to be wrong, he forgets it.

- Earth can sense energon (and dark energon) on his crust, but doesn’t know what it is, where it came from, and worries no one will believe him so he keeps it quiet

- Every planet thought the Nemesis (and whatever brought the Autobots to earth, was that ever explained in canon?) was a weird asteroid (boy were they wrong)

- Astrodude can understand the planets, moons, and the sun the same way Raf understands Bumblebee (plot device lol)

- The planets start to figure out something weird is going when the rocky planets are playing cards and Mars notices the Decepticon space laser thingy in Earth’s orbit.

- They ask Astrodude what’s going on, but he doesn’t know either and NOW THERES ROBOTS!!!

- The planets and Astrodude watch as the Autobots come through the portal, fight, and blow the thing up.

- Astrodude tries to tell Houston (guess how that went?)

- Fowler ends up overhearing Houston complaining about “Astrodude” (what kind of name is that???) in a military base meeting remaining him constantly bringing up talking planets “and now robots building satellites! How stupid does he think I am?”

- Fowler has an aneurism because now some astronaut saw the bots

- Raf and Ratchet end up making a small probe to make contact with Astrodude

- No one believes he can talk to the planets

- Earth can sense energon and so with Astrodude as the go between helps the bots find some deposits (and also asks about dark energon) which lends credence to his claims

- After the “blood of Unicron” thing comes to light, everyone wonders how it could have happened. Venus at some point tells everyone what happened with him trying to stop Unicron from absorbing into Theia and Proto’s remains after the impact

- Every planet is… unsettled after it’s revealed the Cybertronians killed their own planet. For all Earth loves his earthlings he’s always been scared that one day he would die by the hand of the ones he propagated. Hearing that it happened to another planet…

- Earth is also not happy that there’s no way to get Unicron out of his core

- When the omega lock was fired at Earth to create Darkmount the pain was worse than anything he had felt before. No one will forget the scream he let out

And maybe, just maybe, it was time for the dragon club to return. Not to fight a world ending beast like Jormungander, but a different threat that threatens the nine realms

So I feel like I’m a broken record at this point. Specifically one who can’t do screenshots so fair warning in that front.

So! Episode 7 am I right? Anyway the main theory/comment I suddenly realized was this: the locket had a hot dog 🌭 in it. The hot dog, through theorist screenshot revelations is connected to Scratch, the first abstraction in Kinger’s own words. My weird thought process led to this: Scratch was one of the first people brought into the circus and Abel befriended him. They were good friends for a time, until Caine took things too far and caused his mind to bend to the point it broke. Caine, unable to comprehend that he was the reason Scratch abstracted decided to blame Abel. After all, he was the NPC, he must be the reason why things took a turn with this human right? Caine was made to let people have fun. And Caine, being a possible narcissist, came to the conclusion that NPC’s getting too smart were the reason why a human took so poorly to the adjustments he made (after all, if he was an AI made to make people happy than how could he POSSIBLY be the reason people break?) decided to get rid of ANY NPC that got too close to the human characters.

Just a quick TLDR new Welcome Home theory says Barnaby is a buggle, based off some art on Clown’s official website that they have said is not part of the official canon but (and I don’t know what examples people are pulling from, I’m just rehashing what I’ve heard) other tidbits from that non canon space have made their way into canon (or at least fanon idk). Basically the art in question is a picture of Wally controlling a monstrous version of Barnaby saying “I made a dog” or something of the sort.

I wasn’t certain of the theory, truthfully I’m still on the fence (but if I may be so honest will yall I was one of the Rose Quartz isn’t Pink Diamond people until the reveal slapped me in the face so that’s how well that radar works ig) but then a few minutes later I had an epiphany

Buggle = bug + puggle

Puggle = pug + BEAGLE

Plus like people have been saying we’ve never seen the final form of the buggle, and while the picture does look like it has wings my opinions are A. Same baby form, different adult forms for all so every toy is unique or smth or B. Someone is pulling a “Jigglypuff from above”.

So you know how in TFA there’s the whole Powell kicks Sari out of her only home? Like her dad’s gone, she’s going through a crisis, and now she’s forced to leave the only home she’s ever known.

So imagine if you would, one morning Powell goes into his new office, everything is normal for like 15 minutes when all of a sudden he started hearing an odd noise, going something like shloop, plorp, shloop, plorp, over and over again until suddenly… a man in a purple shirt, blue bicycle helmet, with suction cups on his hands and feet start climbing up past him.

Classic Suction Cup Man interaction ensues. Powell tries to talk him off the tower, Suction Cup Man keeps annoying him, even writing a vulgar song just for him.

Bonus points if Powell gets a hold of Business Guy and he just laughs in Powell’s face “your problem now bitch”

Sari and the Soace Bridge Crew are just confused