#argh.

andrew, you were just in a cell with/close to varian for a year. right now, you’re holding him hundreds of feet above the ground. sure, you can have a huge grin or a steely expression, but i’ll need a flicker of something before either of those. disappointment, anger, hurt, anything! show me the depth, please.

varian, you have more of an excuse to solely be afraid— yeah, the about-to-die thing, i know, and i’m sorry about that— but we can work something else in there, can’t we? a pleading look. betrayal. anger! did you always see this coming, or does this come as a shock to you? with the context of the episode, i’m guessing it’s the latter, but i want to see the emotions that go with the shock! you’re not ever gonna bring this guy up again, so we need to make this count!

in fact… okay, i’m flipping through the script, and i think we need to work some dialogue in here. right, we have the “traitors to saporia pay with their lives” and “no! no” thing, which is good, but maybe we can have something after that exchange?

what if we alluded to some inside joke you two have? not in a silly “remember that time when—” way, but more of an “i thought you were never mean, right, andrew?”

guys, it’s just… this is our last opportunity to play with this rich dynamic we saw almost nothing of! we have to do something more than “you’re a traitor” and a fearful gasp of “no” that is more aimed toward the ground than andrew!

oh. oh, never mind. looks like the script’s already finalized.

cormorants in the river

muntjac deer in the garden

bluetits and wrens in the trees in the meadow

nature I don't like

Cole: Anything to make him happy, anything.

Cole: Why isn't that true anymore?

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Dorian: He says we’re alike. Too much pride. Once I would have been overjoyed to hear him say that. Now I’m not certain.

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Halward: This is not what I wanted.

Dorian: I'm never what you wanted, Father, or had you forgotten?

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Alright you know what for the hell of it I am going to post multiple art posts within the span of minutes. I'm always making some sort of image. This one's about my fan continuity! I've been wanting to retouch my designs since first making them because I felt they could use more character and better fit their characterization within DS.

I do actually have quite a bit of development about Deception Shattered I'm just very shy. Argh. To put it short, DS's stating idea was about the corruption of Megatron's ideals and how it led to the Decepticons falling apart from the inside. Orion Pax and Megatron used to work together as political activists-- but Megatron got violent in response to the continuously harsh and brutal treatment lower caste Cybertronians were getting. Four million years of unchecked power and violence later, Megatron has changed from someone wanting to better his world to someone who is cruel for the sake of cruelty.

I'm sure some people who follow me have spotted that Soundwave has the autobrand instead of being a Decepticon- and that's because I wanted to play with his character some! Famously 'the most loyal Decepticon' I wanted to see what would happen if Soundwave cared more about his cassettes than anything else. (Skybound 100% influenced me here I'm not even going to pretend it didn't) He may be loyal to the Decepticons, but when Megatron starts getting what few remaining Cassettes Soundwave has left killed, he can't stay any longer. He spends a long time drifting as an unaligned Cybertronian before joining the Autobots. Other things about him, Soundwave sounds the way he does because before the war broke out he was attacked by a higher caste Cybertronian. He's almost entirely blind for a completely different reason, because Megatron plugged his brain into a Decepticon warship and it fried all of his systems. Soundwave's lucky to even be alive after that happened to him.