Hey, I hope it's not weird to message you. I saw your Tenna cosplay earlier and I was wondering what material you used for the screen?
I'm also a cosplayer and I've been having issues with a helmet with very poor visibility, and your approach looks like it could work for me.
Thank you!
Hi! So, I'm a fursuit maker and the material I used for the screen was the same as the one used for fursuit eyes- it's called buckram! When ordering it, I reccomend you buy something made for fursuits as the first few times I tried to order generic buckram I got the wrong stuff lol.
It's basically a stiff sort of mesh. Easy to see through up close, but from a distance not so much. For my tenna head, it's painted black on the inside- which helps with visibility a lot!
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so i crashed yesterday (we were super busy all day and i was exhausted afterwards) and slept for twelve hours BUT I FOUND THE FIC: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7813227/1/2-Worlds-Collided (i'm on mobile so apologies for not setting up a proper link) can someone make sure kaidashade sees this?
@kaidashade Iād message it to you but Tumblr is borked for me right now because Iām at home, not college, and the internet here is whack. send me an ask and Iāll reply privately with the link.
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Hey, spotted you in the tfp tag, I'm intrigued by these headcanons you mentioned for Knock Out?
oh my. er. yes. yes, I have some. some of them are only dubiously applicable to non-AU scenarios but yes definitely.
okay so FIRST OF ALLāTHE BIG ONE:
KNOCK OUT IS HYPERSENSITIVE.
I didnāt actually notice the evidence myself, but after a friend had been talking to my about my own hypersensitivity for a while, they pretty much told me āyāknow what, it would make a lot of sense if KO has thatā
and I was like⦠holy shit youāre absolutely right
(cut for length. mention of Starscream as an abuse victim; donāt read point two if that bothers you because thatās a comparison Iām referencing.)
an explanation, before I lay out the evidence I can remember off the top of my head: hypersensitivity, or at the very least the variety that I and my headcanon Knock Out have, is when you can feel, taste, and/or smell everything in much more clarity than the average person.
this also comes with being constantly aware, at least half-consciously, of everything touching me at all times. and I do mean everything. I canāt even wear loose-fit pants because when I walk the legs flap around and drive me nuts, okay. I canāt tune that stuff out like most people do automatically because it just⦠feels so strongly. if that makes sense.
but like, paper cuts donāt get tuned out. the pressure of a band-aid doesnāt get tuned out. a lock of hair lying in the wrong direction doesnāt get tuned out. the faint pressure of the elastic at the bottom of my sports bra doesnāt get tuned out. my tights pulling my leg hair in weird directions is legitimately PAINFUL after about an hour or so of constant itching. you see where Iām going with this?
I also have pretty great color contrast vision in addition to all that, but as we donāt know how Cybertronians see, I donāt get into whether that applies or not for Knox. it very well might, but I doubt heād even notice anyway because heās not an artist in the way I am.
ā¦anyway. that was a long aside. whoops ^^;
so anyway, my point is, the way Knock Out reacts to⦠pretty much everything⦠does not read to me as simply the reactions of a mech worried about getting his appearance scuffed. (bear in mind, though, itās been a while since I last watched the series!)
the first point: the very first time we see KO, he walks in and he says,āIt was a long drive, Starscream. Iām still picking bugs out of my grille.ānever in the rest of the series can I recall any other mech even noticing something like this (except maybe when literally coated in dustābut this is a much slighter thing!). and bugs in the internals of your grille is not something that would be seen, so if it were just about appearance, it wouldnāt be a problem. and I mean, if it were normal for Cybertronians to feel this sort of thing, surely we would get it from prissy little Starscream (I love him, but itās true). but noāwe get it from Knock Out. on its own this could just be a gag, and Iām sure thatās what it was written as, but with everything elseā¦
point two: Knock Out flinches away from possible punishment just as badly as the badly-abused Starscream does. one could hypothesize that itās just a weak Decepticon thingābut even the lowly Eradicons donāt flinch like that. Starscreamās reason is his abuse. but the way Knock Out flinches isnāt so much the cowering Starscream does, but a jerking away like you would from a hot pan thatās burned you. he is anticipating pain, not because heās conditioned to being beaten, but because it will h u r t. and no other Decepticon reacts like that, so itās just them and their separate reasons.
point three: how he reacts when actually injured. something about having hypersensitivity seems to give a person higher pain tolerance (at least from my experience); it still sucks, even worse than it does for others, but I can get through a day like normal with a level 6/10 on the pain scale because⦠well, itās not everything Iām feeling. Iām used to a lot of sensation.
and when Knock Out has been run over by a fragging train, and multiple times I might add, heās suffering but keeps going. he gets up. when Optimus rips KOās door off, he makes this broken sound, but later when he mentions this to other āCons, heās⦠pretty blase about it, tbh. but thereās still that tone in his voice like āI am woundedā.
and that brings us to point four: weakness is something you have to conceal among Decepticons lest it be exploited. it is completely within reason that Knock Out would use his ego as a front to disguise when heās in pain. buffing out those stinging scratches because you āwant to be beautifulā will get you mocked, sure, but people wonāt target you and hurt you for their amusement like they would if they knew you were āweakā. so I mean, when he looks so panicked when Starscream makes it clear he means to dole out punishment by damaging KOās finish⦠I mean, itās pretty clear to me, anyway. Starscreamās talons are sharp. it would be like taking a knife to the outer layer of someoneās skin. (*shudders*)
point five: can you possibly imagine how cool the phase shifter would be when for once youāre not feeling E V E R Y T H I N G? no wonder he liked that thing.
point six: having something stuck to you, like paint, is the worst god damn feeling in the world. Knock Out is definitely the kind of bot to saw someoneās head off for being made so uncomfortable, I think. oh, and along that track, he checked a guy off the road for scratching him. thatās⦠a little out of line for just a scratch. hell, he risked causing a bunch more doing it. but it was deep, so I bet it fucking hurt.
point seven: his fighting style keeps him very out of harmās way. quick, darting, a long staff meant to put your enemy down quickly and from a bit of a distance, but too close for the enemy to use a blaster? yeah, that seems to me something to be fighting like when pain is a bad bad thing. and when given the option to fight or drive? āMm. Drive.ā avoiding conflict = avoiding discomfort.
point eight: he has a very slow, smooth walk where none of his limbs touch. like me with loose pants. the on-and-off touching is a no. every touch he makes against his own body is very deliberate, too.
point nine: Iām sure he could have gotten anyone to fill in for Breakdown buffing him, but no, only a Trusted Person gets to touch your more sensitive places. this could be a fragile fleshy mental health thing for me and a distrustful Decepticon thing for him but anyway. heās still very careful to buff away every scratch. even Starscream, who KO outright says has a ālustrous finishā, has visible scratches all over his character model. KO has no such scratches on the glossy parts of his frame. he does on the black parts around his collar, but they still donāt look as bad as, say, Wheeljackās plating.
and the white at Knoxās face and neck? absolutely pristine.
okay thatās enough about that. another headcanon. Iām sure everyone and their dog has seen the one where
KNOCK OUT WAS CREATED A SEEKER. (heās a trans-alt.)
he struts. heās light on his pedes. his hand motions are delicate and flitty in the same way Starscreamās and Airachnidās are. and then he loses his wings (I touch on one possibly reason I play for that further down) and itās just like I miss flying because Iām coded for it so Iāll just go fast fast fast on the ground anyway yes racing is good high-speed air feels so nice.
the ego, pride, and independence he has seems to be a very Seeker set of traits, no? and he bristles under Shockwaveās command just like Starscream does under Megatronās. (which could also relate to the next point.)
and Starscream implies, whilst heās being a dick, Knox could have flight. itās pretty much established that mechs created as grounders cannot, except in extreme circumstances (otherwise I donāt know if the āCons would even bother keeping any grounder Eradicons around tbh. flyers are more useful). Starscreamās speech there came across as āwhy would you give that up?ā more than āwhy not upgrade?ā
in line with that,
KNOCK OUT IS FROM VOS.
specifically the slums of Vos; the bottom of the hierarchy. the bottom of the city. heās a guttermech. he never had formal medical trainingāheās better at breaking things than fixing them; he says so himself. but at the same time, he could keep Megatron alive. he could set up a cortical psychic patch in an episode before Shockwave ever came back into the series and could have done it; heās not stupid, just not necessarily educated. I think he picked things up to save himself more than anything, then took it further as the skill he could make work for him among the Decepticons, likely with a mentor (ahem Flatline) helping him along for a while.
and now that heās out of the slums heās desperate not to be thrown back into that kind of life; he values his freedom and drops the Decepticons like a hot potato to join the āwinning teamā. his ego comes in part from his appearance being the only thing he had to his name, once upon a time.
if you listen to his voice, thereās a musicality to it. the other grounders in the series donāt really have that. it could just be part of the implied āKO is gayā thing the writers were pushing, but all Cybertronians are gay fuck you I like to think that itās also a Seeker thing. Starscream speaks with a very tonally fluctuating voice as well.
anyway, Knock Out may have at one point worked as a buymech because what else was there for a young Seeker with a beautiful frame and not a Shanix to his name? the way I see it, he wouldnāt have thought it as something degrading as Iāve seen some people interpret that possible backstory for him. he helped people down there, took some clients other buymechs wouldnāt (empurata mechs, for instance, if thatās a thing in the story Iām playing out at the time) and made them feel less like trash for a while, which may have been part of put him on the track to becoming a medic. helping people. (anyway he would have definitely focused his attention on them, not himself, because⦠hypersensitivity. and that made them feel special, so they came back, so he could stay alive because repeat business.)
sometimes, I run with the story that KOās a transalt because he lost his wings when a trick (or several), or someone who just doesnāt approve of buymechs, got nasty and ripped them off. he couldnāt be properly repaired down there in the slums. what Seeker willingly gives up their wings, right? so I mean, in drama-heavy stories and roleplays itās a slightly more realistic take, I think.
my next two headcanons are equally possible and I can flip between either one depending on which suits the story better:
KNOCK OUT AND BREAKDOWN WERE GOING TO BOND BUT NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO BEFORE AIRACHNID HAPPENED
or
KNOCK OUT AND BREAKDOWN HADNāT EVEN ADMITTED THEIR FEELINGS FOR EACH OTHER YET WHEN BREAKDOWN DIED
just because I like breaking hearts :)))))
oh, and as I nodded to above,
FLATLINE WAS KNOCK OUTāS MENTOR.
I completely blame the same friend as the hypersensitivity thing for that, by the way. it just⦠works. KOās just so gleeful about tormenting people, yāknow? so where could he have gotten that? yeah.
and finally:
KNOCK OUT LIKES BIG MECHS BECAUSE THEY CAN PROTECT HIM AND THAT IS A+
no explanation needed on that one. :ā) and I guess that makes him āāgayāā because like zero femmes in the Aligned universe are big. (which is a shame; Strika is a gift. but I digress.)
anyway sHIT DUDE IāM SORRY I RAMBLE SO MUCH AAAAAAAA
I just really love KO and Iāve been playing him in an on-and-off roleplay with The Aforementioned Friend and itās just been the most fun thing holy fuck
Iām sorry if parts of this didnāt make sense Iām not good at getting my thoughts out in words ._.
EDIT: ADDENDUM RE āSENSITIVE MEDIC HANDSā
Knock Out wasnāt made to be a medic like Ratchet and Flatline were, but his hypersensitivity makes his hands just as sensitive as theirs! heās just as capable, physically, as they are. (I knew I forgot a point when I made this)