#crossrod

Daydreaming about the Boyf

@smoked-salmon-official and I collaborated again and y'all have to deal with it (we're so back). it took a bit of time due to schedule issues but it's finally done!

CrossRod Holoformers!! I loved how this turned out. Kaz has been improving so much with their human art and I'm so happy!

I had to create a holo Crosshairs design but I think the two fit together juuust right. If anyone wants the full design for human/holo Crosshairs, then I'll post both the masked and the maskless version. IDW CrossRod my beloved.

og image below cut~

i like the Lost Light Cat Shelter AU ( created by the wonderful @madamadamiu ) so y'all can have my attempt at a cat version of Crosshairs since he's on the Lost Light... i drew him to be loosely inspired by the Kurilian Bobtail? i dunno i don't draw cats that often. i liked the small tail a lot.

why does crosshairs look like that with the arm guards and the helmet? he's got some funky balance and sensory issues of course... *gently pets* he's getting so much love and attention at home with Pinpointer dw dw

when I get back home from work I'll come up with ideas for kitty cat Sureshot and Pointblank...

The TargetRod picture is finally drawn holy fuck anyway @tilly-tittle WOOOO~!!! They're all on a spontaneous date! What could possibly happen?

i love the sketchy look of this style it makes me happy

close ups of each of their cute faces~

inspiration picture~

@tilly-tittle I finished CrossRod yay— this took a bit bc I’ve never actually sat down and drawn a Roddy boy that WASN’T from Energon— so, yay, first G1 Hot Rod I’ve drawn!

Contrary to that— I’ve drawn G1 Crosshairs wayyyy too many times for comfort.

I hope they’re cute… bc I found another pic of them together in alt mode so here are all my screenshots of them in the same frame—

Rodimus has what etched into his hand..?

Roddy boy :(

makes Crosshairs be emotional support boyf—

He showed Optimus (hoping for a pep talk, he did not get that), so idk actually how many mechs know about it but yeah

and then Optimus dares put Megatron on his privately owned spacecraft and make him captain-

‘My boyf!!!’ Rodimus is excited and calls out, which freaks out Crosshairs and he turns around— completely forgetting his mask was off as he was really concentrated.

Rodimus, instinctively, seeing Crosshairs’ burnt ahh melted face, screams in terror and asks “OH MY PRIMUS ARE YOU OKAY WHAT HAPPENED??!??!?!” and scurries over—

Crosshairs is not so happy with the reaction, and he’s scared and embarrassed over how disgusting he must look to the picture-perfect Rodimus Prime. He turns around and covers his face, getting his mask back on. They get into a bit of a yelling match, with Rodimus not picking up on the fact that Crosshairs has had this scar for years before they met, and Crosshairs is getting uncharacteristically defensive and hostile, thinking the worst of how Rodimus thought.

Crosshairs yells at Rodimus to leave and Roddy leaves, bumping into a confuzzled Perceptor who has no idea why Crosshairs of all people was screaming…

And this continues somehow—

All Rodimus can think of is that Crosshairs is hurt and he needs to help and why won’t he let him help just tell him how he can help

Crosshairs is panicking cause he’s hideous and obviously Rodimus hates him now cause if that wasn’t a look of abject horror what was??

So he tells him to leave and Rodimus does so cause he loves him but omg he’s done it again Crosshairs wants nothing to do with him now, Roddy what have you done? Why do you ruin every good thing for yourself

And Rodimus and Crosshairs stew in this for a while because they both don’t want to see the other again but Rodimus does eventually break the stalemate again (because he feels guilt, because he can’t keep avoiding apologies) and they both realize that they were scared of each other hating them

They talk it out (cause that’s the healthy thing to do) and they both learn things

Like how Rodimus has his own scars, though most erased by the matrix (like remember how Megatron shot him with his fusion canon and killed him? Yeah not a trace and now Megatron is his co-captain, funny how that happened anyways-) he sometimes misses them cause some were the last trace of Nyon that he had and no matter how painful some were it meant he survived

So he loves Crosshairs’ scars actually, cause they are a part of him and Rodimus loves him and please don’t leave me

And Crosshairs is like if you’d let me I’ll never leave