Another dump of a dumb

OOOH MY GOD that was a close one! i almost forgot to mention that DEPTHCHARGE WOULDNT DIE -SPECIFICALLY NOT DYING VIA SUICIDE god the writers would've had him like die in a blaze of glory and itd SUCK!! if this happened they'd intend him dying in battle as a-not as depressing-'hes dying the way he always had enjoyed/or lived, FIGHTING' but itd go against all things his character had said in the prior show and therefore in my eyes would just be even sadder! uhhhhhhh going with the optimistic view the end of beast machines legitimately has, i believe he should live through to the end, it'd be nice to see him have to process his situation and the current present situation of cybertron[i could see him relating it back to colony omicron due to the 'entire planet of people in the position of dying or remaining dead' and feeling somekind of weird sense of responsibility towards this, that feeling wouldnt be immediate but i can totally see it]. he'd live to see the end of the show having -althought in no way having ridded himself of how he was affected by omicron and rampage the damage would still absolutely be there- but id love for him to of legitimately started taking the steps toward's healing from it and again to be forced to confront just how little he's done with his life beyond chase rampage around space, he has acquaintances by the time he die's in beast wars but besides the friends lost during the rampage Rampage committed on omicron i dont believe he even mentions anykind of social life beyond his singular hobby of "kill rampage, avenge omicron" like cmon man do i need to set up a playdate for you or something?? dont be like me depthcharge go socialize dude. my point is he has nothing that could possibly be going on in his life after rampage dies -him dying with rampage was his easy way out, hes like one of those people who's only goal is to graduate from highschool, who then graduate and freak out because they didnt think this far and have so much they could possibly do! depthcharge a job wouldnt be permanent you could totally get a scholarship due to ur tragic backstory and major in a hobby! whats that?-you spent all your time doing your school work and sitting alone struggling to socialize so you dont know what youd enjoy?? shit man uh. it would take awhile for him to ever actually be able to befriend any of the maximals especially with the situation their all in adding more difficulty for any of them to possibly be calm or to just talk, but depthcharge and even just one singular character being able to be called friends would be such a turn from how he started out at the beginning of beast wars, and think of the message it'd sent to the audience!! this absolute dweeb with no life was a complete loner with ZERO hobbies, to then being a depressed weird loner probly with zero hobbies still, and now he's started to be able to start growing past that to start living a happyier life as well as successfully grown a little past being a complete social isolator! still probly has zero hobbies thought!

there'd be no "rampage comes BACK!!" or "megatron rebuilds an idealized recreation of rampage because he has a little too much time on his claws, called rampage II" this is about my thinking of a scenario where depthcharge goes to the beast machines not rampage's ballet in machine beasts, bringing rampage back in anyway shape or form would be just as easy an escape as both depthcharge and rampage dying was, rampage would show up and no matter how far depthcharge couldve gotten past him he'd immediately toss everything and go back to obsessively trying to kill him. i mean if the autobot's achieved their goal of replicating starscream's immortality via rampage then logically he probly got shot off into space by his death explosion HES COOL but bringing him back would dampen depthcharge's character as well as rampage himself-too much of rampage would totally lessen how cool he is, hes awesome theres no need to overuse him!

yknow i could imagine depthcharge and nightscream gettin' along, the shared trauma of the people they cared about being dead is a big part, aswell as their generally more lonerish behavior. i can imagine depthcharge pitying him and being too in his head to grasp that theyve lived through similar experiences and that his pity is projecting personal anger about himself towards someone resembling him, i can imagine nightscream being excited about someone having similar experiences, he'd probably hear about from rattrap gossiping or something[he's young. im young and even just hearing that someone has felt similarly to you especially in a situation where you'd feel so alone could be groundbreaking for nightscream], im confident these two being friends would be a decent chunk more interesting then nightscream and silverbolt being friends in the show. -anything involving nightscream would be hard to not also involve the question of "nightscream is intended to be a child around teenager age, so how does that work socially/what makes him considered a child?" because if the answer is "he was built at a much much sooner time then the beast wars cast and therefore is a child" then g1 characters like the aerialbots and stunticons would all be considered children which implies totally yeah they dont mind child soldiers in the war, which i cant think of any other answers to my question so yeah ill go with that one and think about the social connotations of that some other time. i lied anyways i dont know how old nightscream is but he had parents, beast wars is "technically" part of the g1 era yadda yadda the g1 bots claim to of been built, beast wars brought the idea of sparks into canon, i dont know much about the idw comics but i know "cold construction" exists in them but im just gonna assume thatd be the norm in g1, yeah so world implications-wise im gonna assume the bodys are built, the bodys have sparks placed inside em', i dont know lets just go with adoption that makes sense in my mind. so nightscream has parents but other characters anywhere near his age arent treated comparable to children so id assume the parenting part started being done again after the autobot vs decepticon war ended. anyways i could see depthcharge and nightscream being friends, nightscream could use a bad influence to affect him when he's young!

anyways ive been on a bit of a rampage and depthcharge kick after rewatching a few beast wars episodes, i think their interesting is all

me when the beast is machine

Alright, back to our regularly scheduled posting.

Time to dive back into the BEAST WARS, with Transmetal 2 Depthcharge! Got a used copy of this guy on reddit missing all of his accessories... and then found a complete one at a local store for an extra $30, which, considering no one had just the back (front?) of the tail, was a good deal in my eyes. Collecting takes a bit of work sometimes... at least I got a few good parts to kitbash off the old one ;)

This guy's REALLY fun. He's. MASSIVE. Kinda clunky. Hard to pose. Needs his vestigial third leg to stand. But like he's cool. It's Depthcharge. The shiny chrome and washy purple on his wings looks great. The disk launcher gimmick is even kinda fun. Not. Immensely so but y'know it's neat.

A dream many years in the making: my Tigatron cosplay is complete!

See you at MCM London this Saturday. Come say hi if you're there!

Watch me work:

I'm so pleased with the final result, and very proud of myself. I adore Beast Wars and this is my way of celebrating it and the impact it's had on my life over the last 30 years (urrrrk!).