#lambaste

hi i’m trying not to think about something so have some self indulgence as an attempt at distraction. not all this art is finished but whatever

i think i forgot to post this TFA version of Buzzard (they/them) and their minicon companion Gremlin (he/him). i just keep giving them redesigns smh. it’s fun though! their TFA version is created when two Allspark shards activate in a plane museum and bring them to life. they fall in with Wreck-gar and go their merry way around collecting anything shiny or interesting. their special ability is snatching anything they want for their magpie hoard, even if it means sneaking a hand into somebody’s internals to pry out a fuel pump! they can do this lightning fast with excellent precision, so oftentimes they’ve already got their new shiny tucked away before anyone even realizes what happened. the concept of stealing needs to be introduced to them gradually. Gremlin helps by having incredible bite strength and an unbreakable jaw, so if Buzzard can’t quite reach something, they can hold him up to whatever they want and have him chomp it. granted, Buzzard is about as tall as Cyclonus, so it isn’t too often there’s something they can’t reach!

have a See-saw (she/they). she knows you’re here. she knows you’re watching her. unfortunately, she is also aware there’s nothing she can do about it, and is thus anxious. that’s their special ability actually, a play on their name, since they “see/saw” the story they’re part of. they have meta information about the universe they live in and what’s going on around them, so she comes across as paranoid, cowardly, and the most intense conspiracy theorist in the world. given that she’s a TFA OC who is an Autobot intel agent, working under Longarm Prime... yeah they know exactly who they’re working for and are properly afraid. nobody is aware of her meta knowledge, so they just assume her uncannily on-point guesses is a sign of being excellent at her job. most people assume their incredibly perfect balance is their special ability, which is the reason they were named See-saw to begin with.

my first Transformers OC, Mantis, and some freakin old art for her too. she started as a Bayverse OC, a deliberate mary sue, because i wanted to explore what being a mary sue would do to a person’s psyche. (the answer is, nothing good) she’s a gentle person with a little too much compassion, sometimes willing to let people take advantage of her because she wants to be kind. but she’s got two younger siblings of her same frametype, Seraph and Quetzal, and she’d move mountains for them. a nice mom friend. her alt mode is a hovercraft, by the way, those circles are large wheels containing rotors.

if you thought i could resist getting accidentally attached to this trio of jokingly-named darlings, you were wrong, which is why i’ve actually made art for them. a trio of contentious sisters, Post Haste, Lambaste, and Toothpaste are all just worker bots. Post Haste delivers mail because she’s pretty fast! even when she delivers it to the wrong person she’s fast enough to go back and correct her mistake with a smile without losing time on her route. Lambaste works alongside people twice her size because of her incredible strength, but oftentimes ends up using that strength to punch people out because they picked a fight with her. she’s got a semi-permanent glower on her, and the only people who are exempt from having a permanent grudge held against them are her siblings (only bc holding two grudges against the ppl she’s related to gets exhausting when you love them too). Toothpaste (yes i actually did name her toothpaste, i wanted their names to rhyme) is very careful with the details of her work, which means the spaces she cleans always end up looking absolutely spotless. usually she’s polite and demure and kind, but if you ruin her hard work (like a certain person who appears below) she will get Toweringly Mad. prepare to be chewed out by the personality equivalent of a furious kitten. each of them are variants on an alt mode inspired by that autonomous car up there. Post Haste is the basic version, Lambaste has a truck bed and a hitch, and Toothpaste has street cleaner attachments, with the big brush forming a skirt.

Lambaste

verb | lam•baste

1. To assault violently : beat, whip