#robo rambles

Tenna calling pluey his lil’ pluey is cute! What does this look like in the jpn newsletter?

“WHERE’S PLUEY!? MY ADORABLE PLUEY-CHAN!! I WANT TO SEE HIM RIGHT NOW!!”

toast and xyx have finally risked it all (about time, that actually was such a long slow burn compared to other couples. they fucken would)

quest is literally the most depressed island resident and ive never seen him walk around with anyone else. he's always playing that god damn guitar tho

emilia ticked him off at one point which is honestly fair and real

speaking of emilia, she's been absolutely slaying and pursued major so hard that he was scared at first but now they are my first married couple (NEVER GIVE UP UR DREAMS)

despite this nightowl still thought he had a chance with the worst woman on the island. good job nightowl

They’re dry and tired sounding and mopey, but there’s wry humor there and they are more than willing to read a bitch. They're full of fun contradictions. They're a self-proclaimed pacifist in a ritual where they have to murder people, and they've clearly practiced with that gun. They're supposed to be secretive and in hiding, but they're one of the flashiest characters in the game. They're carrying what might very well be a full on biblical plague in a suitcase and laboring under the belief that they're the only possible person who can responsibly wield this power.

They’re a clever little weirdo whose entire play style reinforces that. You have to be a clever little weirdo yourself to make it work, or else you’ll either do fuckall or you'll get caught out by the enemy and punished pretty brutally.

Not to mention the Daddy Issues and the ambitious streak and the delightful way they try to justify their goals and the ritual to themself, or the way they go from concern they'll need forgiveness to outright gloating if you get enough kills. If you go on a kill streak, their corruption arc is happening in the game! That’s fun! (And implies that it wasn't that hard to get there, which brings us to how often they lie to themself, out loud where you can hear it, which is my very favorite thing about Pocket.)

Anyway, I can only assume the way to conclude that Pocket has no personality is by either a) not paying attention or b) only paying attention in the context of ships, because they do tend to be shipped with larger personalities than their own*. But this is of course the classic fandom mistake of thinking a character has less going on by virtue of them being quieter than another. (Or the classic fandom creator mistake of letting only one character hold the personality ball at a time, I guess, but I've seen plenty of people get them right.)

So we start with the usual pre war MegOP situation with Gladiator Megs and Archivist Orion, who go talk to the high council and yadah yadah, you know what happens next. (think TFP) OP gets the Matrix and Megatron is betrayed and starts up his intergalactic terrorist group (yippee!) When he finds out, Uh-Oh! He carrying and it’s Optimus’s… he freaks out pretty hard but WaveWave is there to support him during his pregnancy (Soundwaves a bit jealous about not being the one who’s currently carrying but is excited to see/raise a new spark). Eventually he has the baby and there are a few.. complications.

1. Sparklings are supposed to have strong bonds with their carrier and sire, but in Strongholds case, they have no sire bond with Optimus (the matrix prevented it), which causes her to have spark flutters (essentially heart problems) causing the little one lots of pain with no exception of expressing it but crying/being a fussy baby while she’s young. The only was they find this out is with Soundwaves telepathy, something they are VERY grateful for.

2. Megatron suffers from GREATLY from postpartum depression, and can’t even bear to look at his daughter. He can bring himself to feed her or try to establish any type of bond between the two and ends up hating her and what she stands for in his mind (having OP and trying to have a family with him)

This causes the young heiress to be raised by the deception high command with very little input on Megatrons behalf besides being an abusive mom and wanting her to be a warrior. She’s mainly being raised by Wavewave, the elite trine and Hook due to having to be in the med bay almost constantly in her sparkling hood. As a sparkling she showed major talent and interests in the arts, something that was supported by their caregivers, but almost gets beaten to death by Megatron finds out she wants to be an artist and not a warrior. (Megatron has “training” sessions with her, where she essentially gets beaten half to death but her carrier, who claims it’ll make her stronger. And when she’s finally able to beat him, she’ll be able to lead the decepticons) (this also leads to her hiding her passions) This is how she wins over Starscream and he decides to help raise/guide her (and who knows, maybe one day he or she will kill Megatron and he’ll be the leader of the decepticons) She’s raised to be a master spy (Soundwave) and interrogator/torturer (Shockwave and Starscream). Eventually though the war starts to pick up and everyone is headed to earth (think G1, but shockwave goes with the decepticons) leaving Stronghold alone on Cybertron with Rumble, Buzzsaw, Thundercraker, and the Constructicons to watch/take care of her; and her mentor Tarn (and the rest of the DJD) and a few other decepticons at about ~10 years old to Cybertronian standards. She finds herself forced to grow up and lead the Decepticons, being raised by the most ruthless and cunning bots has its advantages, and she ends up quickly taking out the Autobots on Cyberton leading the planet under Decepticon rule. However there was complications with the others (G1 style, went missing for a few billion years type-beat) She grows up a warlord, conquering Autobot territory’s and wiping them out, searching for her lost family comrades, with the Deceptions ruling the galaxy, (exterminating the Autobots and making allies with/converting Neutrals). She’s ends up creating a vast and powerful empire (Thundercraker, Hook and Tarn are very proud).

On earth is the normal G1 -> Earthspark timeline, expect I ignore everything that happens after s1. Soundwave manages to get a SOS comm into deep space, which gets intercepted to the Decepticon empire. This happens around/a little after her spark almost gave out, as her carrier/sparkling bond was broken with Megatron, which was assumed to be due to his death. This made her spark unstable, and made her even more vulnerable to her spark attacks (also her occasional maniac episodes go worse/more common) She leads a ship to Earth where she finds that not only is her carrier ALIVE, which means he LEFT her HE DOESNT WANT HER HE NEVER WANTED HER- but also joined the enemy. And started a new family, one without her This is also how she and Optimus find out they’re related, because honestly, Meg’s forgot all about her. (Also, megaton has more of a major role in the Terran’s lives, which leaves Stronghold seething, swearing to end them) ((You know when/how Megatrons calls Twitch “little bird”? THAT USED TO BE HER NICKNAME SHE USED TO BE HIS LITTLE BIRD WHEN HE WAS HAPPY WITH HER)) (think of when shockwave was racist towards the Terran’s) Stronghold finds out that the decepticons have been stranded on earth, and have been being tortured by Autobots and their human allies (GHOST). She stages a jailbreak for the others and begins to plan war with the others left on earth (she’s not leaving until Megatrons head is on a platter and she’s ripped the matrix out of OP’s chest). (They chill in the atmosphere like the Nemesis in prime) Needless to say, Shockwave Soundwave and Starscream are very surprised/proud to see her and her accomplishments (if not sad that she (now about 15) had to grow up so fast and what has happened to her)

There are a few ways this AU can end and there’ll prolly be a few alt timelines… 👀

Uhh anyways that’s it,,, I hope you like her and I will probably draw the creature soon