Tag: Tailgate

haketh:

Tailgate is not a child you goddamn idiots he was alive for who knows how long before falling down the hole. His arc isn’t supposed to say he’s a child it’s to signify how naive he is because he was out of action for so long Good Lord.

And if he was supposed to be a child you can’t have your cake & eat it too & act like it’s okay for Cyclonus & not for Getaway.

firstly, i’d like to say i totally agree with you: Tailgate is 100% adult, it was confirmed transformers don’t have “child” state – they are born as adults. however – we do know how long tailgate lived before he was buried underground – less than 2 weeks:

so it’s not really that he was out for so long as much as simply him being terribly inexperienced…. (an

inexperienced adult not a child (!))

estethell:

tankfairy:

estethell:

I have to be honest, I still did not understand why Cyclonus did this gesture!

whispers personally i think he was angry w himself for not having the right words to comfort tailgate.

what DO you say when someones first move after learning they have 3 days left is to come tell you? what does that say about you, about what you mean to them? i think he was really at a loss for words, and instead of comforting him, cyclonus pulled away, and in turn, alienated the only person on the ship that saw anything good in him.

i think him scarring himself up was those feelings surfacing, of frustration and anguish, of immediate, burning regret because he, with all of his experiences and age, really didnt know how to respond, let alone help tailgate deal with it. so he spoke coldly, he shut himself away. maybe it was a way to punish himself for not being better at communicating, and for hurting tailgate in the way he did because of it.

and maybe? it also had something to do with how tailgate said he never really did anything important, how he’d never made a mark, anywhere. cyclonus’ beliefs involve wounds that are not critical to survival being left alone and unrepaired, so he’d always have them, and tailgate would have mattered somewhere, even if only to him.

Your explanations I like a lot, I think you’ve really right *-*

don’t mind me, just sobbing forever in the corner…

i’ve re-read some of mtmte earlier issues, (while waiting for #52 to finally come out…) and i got to this part and like, i know it’s a terribly tragic scene but all i can see is cyclonus-sized tailgate… like wtf…. he’s not sitting high or something, look at his legs! (and swerve too. no minibot-sized minibots in this scene!)