ramblings of an exodused lunatic

it's been a while! i've recently been very busy and demotivated to really draw for the past half of the year but my heart still yearns for my tender metal favorites.

happy new year! cheers to another year of megop and megop and megorion and megorion and megop and megorion and megop! it never gets old drawing these two casual and comfortable and domestic :))

merry christmas! here's some domestic winter megop as well as some miscellaneous orions

hello, I take commissions but they aren't open at the moment due to being busy with my backlog of commissions as well as schoolwork. apologies!

i've been busy with lots of things but i started to miss gay robots. they mean so much to me. i cried holding tfp optimus in my arms the other day.

i don't have much to present this time around so here's an old old comic that i drafted up when i was reading exiles. inspired by that one line where optimus said megatron never believed in them co-leading cybertron together. that it was a joke. in here i also wanted to show how as much as orion wants to be loved, the reason he loves megatronus is the same reason why they can't work together. they are characters that have strong convictions and pride and i think it is for these reasons that they find each other fascinating and admirable but also why their fallout was something that was inevitable.

some miscellaneous break-up orions (or optimuses since this is after a trial. i just like to call him orion still when he's still fresh off the trial)

i do like to imagine that orion had tried desperately to reach out to megatronus after their fallout in the trial. as angry as he was in the moment, they were supposed to be leading together. after all, that has always been the plan in orion's mind even with their disagreements and even if megatronus did not share the same sentiment. i don't think this desperation lasts very long though, he has lives to worry about now, and they rely on him now. him alone.

thinking about megatron hearing mostly criticisms from orion's initial reads but when he goes over to look at /all/ of the annotations theres actually a lot of comments that goes over a lot of how much orion agrees with him, is enlightened and greatly admires his work.

megops from my megop collection forever they are soft and in love to me.

doodle of megatronus' quiet self-repair

recent orions

tfp/exodus megop with ikanaide there wasn't much thought put into this compared to my other videos but i was also just using this song because i thought it suited them and help me get back into drawing robots. i think despite this being mostly megatron's pov it matches well for the both of them :))

orion is looking towards megatronus, towards him /leaving/ and megatronus has his back turned from orion. this is his goodbye and he is not looking back.

this follow up comic is now from megatronus' pov; explains more his thought process leading up to the conclusion that orion had betrayed him. the lines from the first page are lines from chapter 10. the passage describes his tone as "contemplative" and to me that speaks of him indirectly voicing out his doubts of orion and suspecting that there is something more to orion than his desire to help megatron and bring change to cybertron. more to orion than the cause they both fight for. there isn't. he is wrong in his assumptions of orion and i try to show that in the second page with orion's awaiting look at megatronus. he wants approbation and he thought that he did what he could to help the cause by trying to appease the council. but megatronus' thoughts have swerved over to the conclusion that orion has betrayed him and he had always planned for this to happen. of course other factors do come into play with this (i.e. the high council themselves adding fuel to megatronus' rage and their overall dismissal of him during the trial + orion's speech being. mm. very appeasing to the council despite his anger, but that is a discussion for another day.) but i wanted to really bring focus to that underlying sense of doubt between the two of them that really become the root cause for their fallout; showing the real reason for their connection inevitably breaking despite sharing the same cause.