#skyjet system

Ok so, the plural Skyfire/Jetfire came to me for SEVERAL different reasons

1. Everytime I see a character that canonically has more than one name I either hit them with the trans beam or the plural beam, sometimes both like here

2. The various continuities ways of characterizing him is REALLY interesting. Im fond of the scenes Ive seen of him in WFC especially (both the netflix triology and the games), because it feels so subtly unique compared to other interpretations Ive seen more often that it's just stuck in my head. WFC Jetfire also remind me a lot of Agent Ukulele (scp character, primarily the one in our own system) so Ive just been kinda rotating them in my head for a hot minute now

3. The ice. I get that Skyfire is a shuttle and thus built to withstand colder temperatures, but being stuck in ice for *several million years?* That can fuck with anyone. Get silly with it, get angsty with it, do *more* than just have him stuck in a coma for 4 million years, its bound to affect him

The last reason is a big one Ive been playing around with recently with @sarcosticsarcomere while planning stguff for our roleplay server because you can go several different routes with it. The easy one is give him PTSD and all that fun stuff, the real angsty one is have his spark go out and have Starscream try to ""reignite"" it in a fit of hysteria. The latter option is fun because I can incorporate the idea of cold-constructed frames and the real life phenomenon of organ transplant receivers often gaining memories, urges, or even muscle memory from their donor that they didnt have previously. So taking all of that into account, what you have is a really cool base idea that you can branch out from.

My biggest one is def my plural headcanons which Ive talked about here, I dont think Ive talked about whos in the system though. I also have thoughts about giving Skyjet (their sys name) an outlier

Heres a loose timeline of when diff headmates came around:

Skyfire - 'the first'

Short-Circuit - wayy pre academy

Skybleu - pre academy

"The Hunger" - right around joining academy

Markshot - early academy

Ulchtar - during travels

Frostburn - while actively stuck in ice

Jetfire - fragmented while in ice, finished forming after 'revival'. Is the primary host until Skyfire comes out of dormacy, in which they share host responsibilities

Jetliner - post revival

Skyfire2/Rainfire - post revival before Skyfire comes out of dormacy

Sg/Fracture - after Skyfire comes out of dormancy, multiversal shit threw a completely different version of Jetfire into their system

Butch - after joining autobots

Skyfire, Skybleu, "The Hunger", Frostburn, Jetfire, and Rainfire are all brainmade/prosecermade. Short-Circut is a factive of a (non canon) Cybertronian singer similar to Ayesha Erotica. Markshot and Jetliner are both fictives from a (non canon) Cybertronian show. Ulchtar is a factive of Ulchtar/Starscream, a bit obvious, and how she acted when they were both at the academy and when they were traveling. Fracture is just Shattered Glass Jetfire thrown into the system due to people fucking around with timeline. Butch is also brainmade/procesermade except shes a human instead of a Cybertronian.

I imagine their headspace/helmspace looks a bit like a large ship similar to that of a titan.

As for outlier talk, I think a lot about some mechs having latent outliers that just dont show themselves until something that pushes them to be needed happens, like how we dont know that Starscream has an immortal spark until she 'dies'. So for Skyjet, I imagine them having some form of hydrokinesis and temp control (with both the water and their own frame). Think h2o mermaids but without the turning into a mermaid thing.

Also add in the whole 'water holds memories' thing that Frozen 2 did, and you have a pretty good way they were able to be revived. They pushed all their memories out into the ice around them right before they offlined, and then when Starscream revived him, they slowly regained them whenever they were in water, especially when returning to where they were frozen in the ice. Frostburn has the best control over it due to forming when they were actually in the ice, but they all have various ways they use it