Tag: just my thoughts

attentiondeficitstarscream:

listen listen I 100% understand the appeal of characterizing Tailgate as a sweet little blueberry muffiny marshmallow sunshine child to contrast against Cyclonus’s more brooding, darker nature (like, from a writing standpoint, the Opposites Attract thing can be REALLY good)

but like, isn’t it even FUNNER when you write Tailgate how he is in canon? that is to say, a marshmallow that could probably hold a grudge for centuries if given the chance, who, much like a cat or a badger, is ready to throw down no questions asked at a moment’s notice

#when tailgate meets you its 50/50 that he’ll decide to either fight you or aggressively befriend you and the result is decided at random  (via thepraxianweasleygeek)

I guess that might be up to interpretation but, the way I see it it’s not decided at random at all.

it 100% depends on the way you treat him and the way he sees you act.

I mean yeah, Cyclonus dropped him on the floor and wasn’t very nice or personable but – he picked Tailgate up and helped get him to safety in their room when he really didn’t have to, no one would have blamed him for leaving him behind like basically everyone else. 

He only attacks either people he’s told to attack (DecepticonsTyrest) or people who hurt him or people he cares about.

Yeah, he can be childish and naïve as a result of his lack of experience but it kind of annoys me when people take it as him being irrational…

what are seekers?

I know the term is used to refer to Starscream’s frame type but I never quite understood it. what are they seeking exactly?
in tfp, Starscream calls them “Energon Seeker” which doesn’t really explain much – I mean they obviously aren’t miners, and Cybertronians have advanced technology to find energon so… what are seekers for?
I know this is probably not what the show intended (but that’s the fun with headcanons – it doesn’t matter!) but my favorite theory is that they aren’t really called seeker at all – I think it’s just grounders being too lazy to translate a Vosian word.
I’ll explain – back in the days of ancient Rome, during “the Great Revolt ”, the jews had a unit (for lack of a better word) called the Sicarii, they were called that because of the small daggers they carried that were called Sica that they would use to silently stab anyone who was suspected to be a traitor or to align with the Romans.

<this is what this Sica looks like>

now Starscream obviously doesn’t have anything that resembl-

oh.

I headcanon seekers to be some kind of elite assassins used for dangerous & important jobs – hence why Starscream bragged about it to Airacnid…
now in any transformers universe (that I know of), Energon is both their fuel & their blood.
I think we misunderstood which one the seekers were after…

I know this might be a bit of a stretch but transformers tend to use many Roman words so… it’s not completely impossible!

fun facts!

in Hebrew “sun” has two words: “חמה”(Hama) which is female and the more common “שמש” (Shemesh) which is the only Hebrew word that is both male & female.

“moon” also has two words: “לבנה” (Levana) which is female and “ירח” (Yareh) which is male.

my point is the sun is nonbinary that sometimes identifies as female & the moon is genderfluid.

criminarchy:

namafangirl:

criminarchy:

criminarchy:

Unpopular question but why do some writers really hate Rodimus and Starscream and treat them almost similarly.?

Jk I think I know the answer.

what IS the answer then? i was wondering the same thing, but i can’t really think of a good reason why… what do you think?

I was thinking it was because that Megatron is an important figure in the franchise and writers love to pay attention to him at the expense of other characters, while a friend said that it’s because ppl hate abuse survivors.

I was pretty close bc those two are commonly intertwined.

good points! i tried to think of a reason myself a while back and the i think it might be because they are both relatively “feminine” (we see that especially in tfp starscream) and tend to use words & strategy rather than just punch anything in their way – which is apparently “cowardly” ans not, you know, common sense.
plus they kinda replace the two “main” characters – optimus prime & Megatron – which annoyed many people.

spoilers under the cut

anybody else thinks deathsaurus is gonna be really pissed with Tarn now? or maybe even switch sides? i mean we all know he has a problem with leader who kill their own soldiers:

and here we have Tarn kill his comrade for…. showing compassion….

meanwhile megatron:

well… he doesn’t “treat his foot soldiers like fodder” anymore, does this mean he and Deathsaurus don’t have a problem anymore?