#trans-mutate

really funny 2 us bc thinking she wasn't in the film we put Trans-Mutate in our tf 1 fanfiction as a transfrem autistic dissident philosopher (she/they) who is 1 of 1st transformers 2 volunteer 2 mine w/ miners & support worker rights and later is part of what remains of the elected government under Sentinel's 50 cycles of rule and the new government that comes after, she 1st appears in chapter 5. you can read chapter 1 here.

Got this finished and ready! I really wanted to experiment with contrast, a looser composition, and a moody atmosphere.

understanding

Timelines Rampage

In the aftermath of the Grand Uprising, the Cybertronian race began to take uncertain steps into the wider galaxy once more. As a result, the Beast Upgrade was introduced to the planet Metascan Omega and its newly-flourishing Dinosaur City. Among those who took on beast forms was Trans-Mutate, who became a synthagnoid, a species of aquatic mechanimal similar to Earth's seahorses or seadragons—an alternate mode that proved very useful as she worked together with Dead-End in establishing a new, semi-aquatic settlement on Metascan Omega. I believe she found a great deal of happiness in her new home, and that spending time beneath the waves in her beast form helped when her environmental sensors became overstimulated. Her brother would even come to visit, on the rare occasions that he desired companionship over solitude; together, synthagnoid and decapodian would wander the seafloor, needing no words to enjoy each others' company.

i love my immensely powerful daughter

(Originally from the Alone Together comic in the Transformers Collector’s Club Magazine, Issues 55-60.)