#jet!sam

A Bumblebee and sparkling Sam inspired by @tiptoesnose reminding somebot that unauthorised or no warning of the sparkling will result in screaming that will alert the entire building

And a jet trying to catch some sun time

IT IS TIME

Jet Sam has been a journey and more, him and the lore and stories I’ve been building and exploring wouldn’t have been possible without @justayoungling , truely they’ve probably cultivated my skill more than I could do on my own so let’s get into exploring the journey Sam has been on,

So the first frame for jet!Sam was created for the ugly duckling au, exploring the isolation and alienation from both humanity and cybertronians

He’s delicate, feels to flimsy and not very fit for his frame. Clumsy and prone to denting he often felt like something was always trying to break out, power that didn’t have the room it needed but had no words or the experience to know what to do with it or explain it. The autobots on the site with him somewhat knew his history of human to metal, destructor of the allspark. Not liking the human name “Sam” Sunstreaker and Sideswipe give him the new name “Prisam” a play on prism, a comment on how his wings would fracture the light like a prism.

Then I started talking with @justayoungling and they introduced their boyo atlas!

And so it started a spin off au where Windblade introduced them and Atlas saw Sam as a reflection of him, a young lost bot who seemed to have fate on his shoulders. Atlas having traces to ancient relics like the matrix, primes and the allspark, something we explored heavier later down. Atlas having small future visions and feeling that being with Sam is where he needed to be. So despite Sam’s reluctance they became fast friends.

Atlas having not known Sam as a human, Sam didn’t come across freaky-alien weird to Atlas, just another weird bot, but it’s okay because Atlas can be weird with him too, being a huge help to getting Sam comfortable flying

Together he and Sam forge a strong brotherhood, not many more jets flying around and they both need more socialising, flying frames enjoying flying with trines or in formation with each other a good thing for them. Finding themselves and their own path beside just following the next command from Prime.

Sam regardless of body, was made by Primes, something deep in his spark no matter of self dissonance he would always try to do the Prime thing. Something that came to head, a autobot spacecraft crashing down, it would have impacted and destroyed a large area and possibly kill the bots inside. Sam, Atlas and Windblade being the only flying autobots there was very little anyone else could do. So Sam chose to throw himself onto the craft, the heat and pressure of a crashing ship weilding himself to the ship trying to change its direction into the ocean. As the ship impacted the ocean the crushing force, the shock of heat to ice chilling water…

It worked. And only cost one bot.

But being a Prime, you never really stay dead, and Optimus trying to mourn and maybe give Sam some honor and peace in “death” he sent the some of the dust from the matrix into the ocean Sam lay at the bottom of.

Awakening and reformatting him into his second frame. And so rose from the ocean

Prismatic Prime

Who’s definitely gone through his own journey of designing! When he came from the ocean, there was only so much material to reformat with, considering how much it took to originally make his first frame. His wing panels so destroyed he had broken remnants of flight gears and not all completely functional. But Ratchet is nothing but a miracle mech and some serious dubious and unstudied medical work, they were able to graft the parts given to Optimus by jetfire to Sam.

Leaving him with the Cybertron equivalent of nerve damage to his wings, little feeling and he doesn’t carry them or emote with them like many expected behaviours of jets.

A Frankenstein of a mech if any medic got a good look under his plating

So I wanted to capture the essence of jetfire, in Sam, choosing the nighthawk (right) to carry on the blackbird (left)

Which was very technical and I’ve seriously grown my mech building skills from

the first concepts

First very similar to jetfires silhouette.

-large

-spooky

to the middle unrefined but clear image

I loved the idea of his Prime form being a contrast to Optimus and Rodimus, a jet, something more Unicron inspired like a warning, not to forget the evil that may come for anyone, Megatronus comments about how evil humanity felt manifesting for Sam to then use to invoke good with, preservance, determination an unrelenting and powerful spirit.

Colouring is not my strong suit. It’s ment to be like a burned and singed body compared to his te

to the refined stage!

I am very happy with his look, I made the wings easier to draw and more easier to read and relate to the nighthawk, and his COLOUR! So much more cohesive! He’s like a black cat of night! His pede talons are retractable but unlike others his servo claws aren’t. Traces of so many bots that made him who he is now, he is a walking history lesson in a language only few can only ever understand half of.

AND OF COURSE HE GLOWS! My little ancient artifact magnet can’t escape the marks of the allspark and primes before him. He’s ment to envoke the ocean, bioluminescence algae. Atlas swears that you can see the faint moving lines and marks on Sam when their not glowing, never gone completely

But truely Sam will never be a finished design, always gonna be trying new things and different things and be inconsistent but I’m really happy with his look now. Something that undeniably is threatening, a hunter, something that stalks the skys and shadows but forever has a warm look in his optics. He may always be mourning who he was, what was lost, but he’s resigned and accepted his now in for a very long game. And might as well take advantage of being “Primely” and force other bots to think he knows what he’s talking about

Maybe I can convey all I want to share and explore with him you all next year! One way to find out, or @justayoungling will be the continuing gatekeeper of all my ramblings and loose ends, can’t praise them enough how enjoyable it’s been with them!

HI!! Bot Sam is such a hot pot for me there’s so many ways to go about it and I’m sure I’ve got something to suit any taste you have for ways he’s transformed or handled!!

I’m assuming your talking about jet Sam first, cause he’s just who I’ve talked about a lot recently ?

I consider his creation both allspark and control pillar/matrix induced, where in an alternate time line in the dark side of the moon, unaware hes been infused with allspark remains down to his very dna an explosion he’s caught in beside a control pillar (the things sentienel uses to create the portals) the allspark power is supercharged with energy and adrenaline and transforms him. And if they thought the original destruction of the allspark used all its power they double assume it with his transformation due to how much energy it would take surely.

His parents were likely told their son was to close to the explosion and given the alien nature was beyond recognition, so the government tried to sell them that their son died a hero. Witwickies never to do things the easy way can’t really accept it. How could their baby die and that just be the end of it? They both have their own ways of breaking down, both trying to live like their their the perfect clean image of a family who’s son simply isn’t home. Judy probably feels like her son is still out there, people talk around her like it’s just some mothers grief blinding her. Ron looses a lot of steam, the joy he would have felt living a “my child just moved out” lifestyle gone to just a deflated what is there to do? He’s not angry, can barely start yelling at any government agent or officer who tries to engage with them before he’s just exhausted.

They are very dejected and Sam always hoped something would bring them back together, that they’d meet again, but once he starts flying and reality keeps going he realises he wouldn’t know how to hug them anymore, and meeting them in this new body would make them feel more distant despite the physical closeness, better to keep each other alive in memories.

However! Never to doom him in all time lines (just most) A happier bot Sam is the minicon!Sam

He’s smaller and more closer to his human body then the jet him, completely allspark made. His soul Converted when he tries to jam it into Megatron, kinda ment to look like a shell of the allspark but definitely doesn’t turn into the allspark despite what others wish. Like the allspark didn’t want to destroy more then it had to so turning Sam into a spark and then providing a shell was its happy compromise before destruction

He is small enough to handle human tools and stuff like iPads and phones, more confident to harass anyone into letting him contact his parents, who are told he is hired and is working for the autobots and is doing remote work, he calls them and sends messages, he tried using some government grade green screen to face time them so they could see “him” and bullies humans into editing him as a human into photos to send to his parents in the name of keeping his cover, less anyone be spying on his family to figure out what he’s doing. His dad is very proud, never says it, but his son went from scraping together eBay listings, mowing lawns and botching grades to make money for deals to getting a full time job! And Judy loves telling everyone how hard he’s working and how harsh the government is for not letting its workers come home for Christmas like really you control the whole country but you can’t let one mothers son home for thanksgiving? Damn them!

And then my idea for car bot Sam i will sneak out to see his family. Maybe he tries to tell them he can’t get out of the car, or he sent this super tech car to call them, but then as they become aware of the aliens Ron has a sinking feeling his son isn’t calling them from the car. A but horrified and Judy can’t even think Ron’s making sense but both at least comforted their son comes home regardless

Sorry for rambling! Don’t know if I gave you enough of what you wanted!! Love talking ideas

it wouldn’t be transformers prime without the kids!

Obviously, they immediately want the jets to take them flying, and immediately Optimus and the crew say no.

Sam for all his self hate and general pessimism he has nothing against the kids, sometimes envy, lots of worry and awkwardness, he struggles to clash with being a giant robot yet also a human who grew up far to fast and wants to talk to other humans. He just doesn’t know how, so he watches them a lot.

And for all the autobots and the kids think the jets don’t care about the kids Prisam does want to keep them safe, especially when their guardians aren’t able to

Like being caught out in a snow storm and separated from the team

And Miko like Bulkhead actively try to make the jets feel included, like inviting them to game with them, Atlas knows how much Sam takes a keen interest in the video games they play with the others and how awkward his brother feels about asking to join so he helps bridge the gap for him

Part 1

The following art taged with ‘OverPrime’ is an alternative universe of an alternative universe to my jet Sam au, where @justayoungling ‘s Atlas befriended and became like a brother to jet!Sam, and then they ended up in the transformers Prime universe

Simple no?

It’s all very disjointed but I’ll give brief summaries

To begin, the boys were very slow to warm up to the Prime crew, to their world. Sam struggled to meet tfp Optimus Primes eyes, or listen to him, without it bringing up the conflictions and problems with his Optimus. And Atlas and Arcee got off on the wrong pede and have a very antagonistic attitude to each other.

Bulkhead however was a fresh face with no emotional baggage and was more receptive to being casual or more open with the jets

So of course he got roped into their shenanigans

And the new trust with the jets ment they would cause hell for him and whatever he was trying to accomplish prime be damned, and when the jets needed his help, he helped

Ratchet’s ideas on the boys grew as his understanding of their life’s and their persons did