#transformers stuff

“Hm, how can I make this about my robot alien interest?”

(This isn’t me being disrespectful, I just think it’s funny)

I just am really hyperfixating on them rn... Like I literally even headcanon Capricorn's male voice sounding like Ratchet's from Transformers Prime...

I even inspired the star power eating virus from the scraplets in Transformers!

— i feel uncomfortable sharing with process stuff because i always be so perfectionist for no reason. but every time I see my friend soot posting text or art media, i feel inspired to do same.

But that got me thinkin.. who does this sound like?

'eres the vid I was watchin':

Exactly.

Mutated sharks in the waters? Well guess what, the plants aren’t exempt from whatever went Wrong either, hehehehehehe >:)

OOOOOOOO wait wait wait. WAIT. Started writing this in the tags but no, i gotta move it up here too.

So like. Y’all remember how Jazz doesn’t remember what the ocean is like anymore, but remembers enough to know the waters in his tank are Wrong and Bad?

Hehehehe, IF whatever caused the mutation is still in the waters, if it is making the creatures and plants be unnatural, would Jazz even notice?

Jazz is finally free from the tank and back in the open ocean, the ocean came to HIM, he is free now, and he’s having a great time and he’s like “whoa!! I’ve missed these waters so much, they’re so different from the tank waters, it’s so much better! I’ve missed this, I feel so alive, it’s like my blood is singing!” And Prowl is like, “wait no, this is still Wrong, something is wrong, the waters are still wrong.”

@keferon for the apocalyptic ponyo au and @sightseertrespasser cuz the poachers idea was so big brained and I just ended up writing this whole thing in my notes app cuz of it and it was so good that I had to share it:

OOOOOOOO, SSTP WAS SO BIG BRAINED FOR INCLUDING THE POACHERS IN HERE!! Another point of drama! Having to avoid them! Trying to release the humans back to the biggest group of humans except those humans are actually poachers and the humans are hesitating but the mers are trying to encourage them to go back, and then suddenly the humans are making loud noises and-

OOOOOOO, Blurr and Swerve should like, they DEFINITELY have a system of communication, simple noises or hand signs to convey meaning given how much they had to depend on each other as they navigated the washed up ruins of the island.

So Swerve and the other humans are all wary and making their barks and chirps at the big group of human, and then Blurr registers the wide eyed look of fear and anger on Orange’s face. Orange immediately books it back towards him and barks the noise that means HELP! DANGER! And jumps down to Blurr’s who had automatically outstretched his hands at the noise. Upon landing, Swerve points in a direction and Blurr immediately starts swimming away, having enough time to process what just happened and shout back at the others, “GET AWAY, THEY’RE NOT SAFE!!”

Shockwave is already swarmed with his guppies and swimming away, while Ratchet and Hot Rod make their escape.

Now it’s a chase as the mers try to get away and-

Oh my god, that would make SUCH a good chase scene video game wise, all the different characters with their different mechanics trying to escape the poachers.

With Swerve and Blurr, you’d have a punch of sonic style fast speed running away with Swerve occasionally having to heave Blurr up and dead sprint on dry land to escape the poachers.

With Shockwave and his kids, it would be Shockwave trying to get away as fast as he can, using his size and strenght to break apart buildings in the way and occassionally lob debris at the poachers while the kids shoot at the poachers trying to give Shockwave enough time and space to do all that.

With Ratchet and HotRod and Drift… well we don’t have a lot for them yet, they’re very new, so I’ll just come up with whatever, hmmm. Dratchet is not a speedster. He’s not giant like Shockwave is with a gaggle of guppies who are more than willing to draw blood.

But he DOES have Drift who knows poachers, and Hot Rod who is more spry.

This may be more of a hide and seek sort of escape for them, Hot Rod peeking around corners to look for them, Drift using his knowledge as a former poacher to know their tricks, and- oooooo, what if Ratchet had weapons stocked in his fins. He has to get new fins, might as well ALSO make them tasers.

So their escape is less of a runaway, and less of a smash and run, and more of sneak and ambush.

Ooooooo hehehehe yesssss, I LOVE that. This is so fun, I’m having a great time.

So we have three different escape sequences. I don't know if Jazz and Prowl should be there too because if they are, I feel like everyone would get the danger they were in much faster and also this would quickly go from "run run get away" to "we have two apex predators here and two giant fuck off mers (Shockwave and Ratchet) who definitely know how to fight and the apex predators are on their side and also there's Drift who is ABSOLUTELY going to fight when he realizes there is no running away and CAN fight and also an entire swarm of children who have a lot of pent up stress and zero issues with taking it out on a bunch of adults who were going to hurt their father figure that they're very attached to". Like I can't imagine Jazz and Prowl being there and it NOT ending up into a boss fight. Oooooo except if Jazz got injured, badly. That would make running away a priority, and THEN! Ratchet could help Jazz after they get away! In this situation though, I can't imagine everyone accidentally getting separated like in the situation above so this chase scene would probably play a little different. Instead of three separate chase scenes, it would be EVERYONE swimming away, and at different points of the chase, you'd control a different character, using different game mechanics based on who you're controlling at the time to help get away- oooooo, to be even harder, maybe you'd have to pick and chose who to control based on the environment around you, deciding if you need to be fast so that Blurr can speed ahead and clear the path for the others, or if you need to be the kids and distract the poachers, keeping them off of you, or if you need to be Ratchet and and do some field medicine while swimming so that Jazz can stay stable, doing some quicktime events at some parts, and puzzles at others and shit. That could be fun too, hehehehe.

IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY.

Other fun derivatives:

There are many consequences to being a marine biologist (for a long suffering marine biologist who is having Issues with a mer)

For @keferon's apocalyptic ponyo au. Having more thoughts about the Fucked Up and Too Close Moon thing!

I hear those words and the first thought I think of is Majora’s Mask, obviously, but like also! I like to imagine mer religion would revolve around the moon, cuz you know. Oceans and Moon. The ocean breathing and swelling with the waves and tides, pushed and pulled by the moon.

But anyways! Mer religion centered around the moon! Or at least the moon is significant to mer culture! I'm sure there's a bunch of other things I could use instead, like maybe the religion is centered around the glowing heat of underwater vents, the life that breathes and burns in the earth, the way the earth shifts ever so slowly but surely, always changing, or perhaps the movements and life that comes from ocean currents, traveling across the whole ocean, bringing new things, providing a constant path of travel or something, or OOOO, light!! Biolights, sunlight, moonlight, starlight, light that shines and glimmers and allows for communication, allows for Sight, allows for life, light that leads and illuminates, light that guides, oooooo, yes I like this one better! And like! That way, light can be many things at once, and we can keep the whole transformation part of transformers in here, light changing based on the role or something maybe.

I don't know I'll think more about that later. For now, I'm gonna talk about the Moon. I think about the Moon being weird and I think about mer religions centered around the Moon.

Then I think about Rung who is Primus who is God and I think about how the Moon is Fucked Up and Too Close and I think about Rung and I’m thinking.

Hm.

What if the Moon is Fucked Up and Too Close because Primus is down on Earth as Rung and he can’t get back. Maybe he lost his memories, maybe’s he’s trapped and can’t return, maybe he’s being experimented on by humans, there are so many possible reasons, but whatever the case, Primus who is Rung who is The Man In The Moon, or The Mer In The Moon in this case, can’t go back, and this is fucking up the balance of the world.

Maybe THAT’S why there’s mutant sharks. Either cuz of the fucked up moon, or if you take the “is trapped and being experimented on by scientists” route, the mutant sharks are errant experiments that were created as a result of Rung’s own DNA or whatever godly equivalent.

Hehehe, they trapped a god and the world is transforming in irreparable ways for it.

Plus, this way, it gives me the delightful interaction between a human and a mer being like:

Human: YOUR GOD IS REAL??!!

Mer: uh, yeah, that's what I said.

Human: No see, OUR gods are believed in, sure, but we don't have PROOF. We're certainly not just seeing them wherever and whenever in the flesh!

Mer: Then why do you have so many beliefs and religions??

Kef's post here, specifically the art at the end, is haunting me. It is fucking with me bad. I wouldn't wish boredom and lack of mental stimulus on my worst enemies, and here Jazz is. Stuck and trapped.

Aimless.

So I decided to write a little something because OOF. Do you know what it's like to be bored? Constantly? Because I do and it SUCKS.

For @keferon's apocalyptic ponyo au.

There’s nothing to do.

This isn’t anything unusual. Jazz regularly finds himself bored out of his mind every day. He’s exhausted every avenue of entertainment he can and then some. He already knows this human dialect, English, so he can’t entertain himself trying to puzzle out words and letters. The people at this aquarium haven’t given him any toys to mess around with either. It’s always a toss up whether the aquariums he ends up at give him toys or not. He prefers it when they do. It’s demeaning sure, but what isn’t in his situation? At least with a beach ball, he could do SOMETHING. It’s night and usually, Jazz would escape his tank by now to explore the building, but the aquarium was setting up some new policy, something about frequent tank escapes and trying to prevent them. It’s not from Jazz’s end, he’s too good at this by now to get caught, but the octopi weren’t exactly being subtle when they went to throw rotten clams at their caretakers. What this means for Jazz though, is that the aquarium is busy tonight, and there’s too many humans around for Jazz to risk it.

What it means is that there is nothing to do, and Jazz is bored.

Bored bored bored, he is so BORED, there is nothing to DO!!

He bursts into an agitated swim, circling circling and circling, trying to burn off the restless energy, or maybe to get dizzy just to feel something, anything, but he’s done this too many times, it’ll take more than that to get him dizzy. The apathy and numbed anger quickly comes back, stealing his energy and hollowing him out. He hangs in the water, bored.

There is nothing to do.

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