#rid deadlock

Presenting his kids students. Don't worry, they don't bite (yes they do).

low key thinking to throw in these four into my Red Guys Live AU for shits and giggles

Saberhorn’s not just a rhinoceros beetle, he’s a European Rhinoceros Beetle. He also has a pair of little insect arms that he can’t really use—one is missing a hand.

What the fuck is Shadowraker? Raspy Cricket.

Clampdown’s a fiddler crab. It just fits.

Grimlock’s a giganotosaurus now

Razorpaw’s a fossa (and swelter and glacius are lemurs)

Logically Psuedo would be a cuttlefish or orchid mantis… but like… Earwig…

Quillfire is a North American Porcupine (no design changes)

Scatterspike is a Crested Porcupine (quills make a mohawk on her head and back)

Crazybolt is a bearded dragon

Slicedice is a monitor

Flamesnort is an armadillo girdled lizard

I’m making Drift a triplechanging beetle. Deadlock was a beetle. Drift avoids transforming into his original alt mode at all costs. The tip of his horn is the same as his crest.

New Vertebreak design! (More snake-like features. Same body type. Slit pupils, forked tongue, more distinguished fangs rather than a mouthful of sharp teeth. Actual hands/arms! Has a built-in backpack-type thing that opens and has his original arms, letting him have more hands to work with.

Drift's Bug Collection

TFP Drift/Deadlock and his Jettrine Redo

Saw a take (i think it was from @bumblebee-enjoyer) that's RiD Jetstorm and Slipstream should have a scarab motif and I loved that and i've been needing to redo my designs since i have a better grasp on TFP design rules so Tada!

Random Headcannons I played with when drawing this:

Minicons's frames' are known to to reflect their Deployer and what kind of bond they have

when Minicons bond with new Deployers, it is not uncommon for them to go through "growing pains" depending on the state of the previous bond/how willing the minicon bonded to their next Deployer

The first to change is their biolights/eyes, next is their upper armor, followed by their limbs

This is a gradual process, though the process is known to be accelerated if the Minicon is very fond of their Deployer

Drift/Deadlock is unaware of any of this