I Wanted To Try, And Make A Human Version Of Starscream A While Ago. It Was A Very Funny Process

THERE WAS A SOUND IN THE SKY I THOUGHT IT WAS A STAR IT RAINED AGONY

So Shattered Glass is a thing for Transformers, who doesn’t love a good old alternate universe where the bad guys are good and vice versa.

And the color pallets don’t need to be the same thing either! We get some nice different color schemes that fit the characters new personalities!

We got Starscream, his colors being swapped out for Sky/Jetfire’s colors very nice very nice! It’s also very fitting with his character, it’s simple and sleek just like him!

Next is Skywarp! Also very nice! It feels a lot like a slightly darker Thundercracker color scheme, it’s dark but not dark compared to his original design. I like it! Very nice!

Now what about Thundercracker? Surely after two banger designs, the third member of this iconic trine would get a color scheme as good as these tw-!

……. Thundercracker…. What have they done?

Seriously! The poor boy looks like they threw every gaudy color at him! It doesn’t even feel coherent! It’s how I would have colored an OC back when I was 5…

This boy needed some help, I ranted about this to both friends and family, how Thundercracker was robbed of a good color swap and also THEY KEPT HIS OPTICS RED!! Every other Decepticon with red optics had theirs changed to blue! And sure! The 2021 comic made his blue, but now his optics just blend into his blue face and every other promotional image I’ve seen of him he has red optics! Ughhhh

With this rant in my head refusing to let me sleep, I challenged myself. I drew Thundercracker twice. One version was that I kept the same colors as his current design and try to see if I could make it more appealing to my tastes, the second version was what I would have chosen if I had been in charge of Thundercracker’s SG coloration.

Keep in mind though, I had colored these in with copic markers, so the colors may not be accurate for the first version.

So yeah! That’s my take on SG! Thundercracker. I know that it’s a weird thing to get upset about, I just can’t stand poor Thundercracker being done dirty by such a gaudy color scheme. If you like his original color scheme for SG then more power to you! It was just not my cup of tea.

I feel like I need to say this little story.

So this isn't related to fandom stuff, although maybe you could use it for childhood head cannon stuff. It's just a weirdly fond memory of mine for my childhood and so I grip tightly to them since I barely remember my childhood thanks to ✨trauma✨ but I vividly remember a little thing my mom would do for us for St. Patrick's day. Now my family has a lot of Irish ancestry, so St. Patrick's day is meaningful to me as a lot of Irish culture is. I'm pretty sure this isn't a practice that other's do but yeah.. enough of me prattling, I'll explain the little tradition. The night before St. Patrick's day, my sisters and I would leave out one of our shoes outside our door before we went to bed that night (I always remember leaving out my left shoe) and then the next morning, there would be candies within the shoe. I always loved this but anytime I ever told someone about it that wasn't my family, I would just get weird looks. I think it was simply a little something my mom started to do for her daughters to give us a reason to remember smaller, less celebrated holidays... or maybe it was to give us something happy to do during her and dad's divorce. I remember being pretty bummed about missing that little tradition one year because St Patrick's fell on his weekend, but when we came back, I was overjoyed to see that one of our shoes were out and it was filled with candy. The tradition still continues and I do admit, if I ever have kids of my own someday, I'd love to do this tradition as well.

Also, doing some research about this, apparently leaving shoes outside your bedroom door is a thing for others but it's mainly for like Christmas or in Poland's case, it's a pagan midsummer tradition. You learn something new everyday lol!

I drew this a while ago, it was my first time drawing Cyclonus and I wanted to make something from my head. I don’t think it really shows in the outcome though so I just have to work harder and study him more next time!

I vow that the next time I post a picture of Cyclonus, it’ll be a lot better!

I gotta get this outta my brain.

I keep imagining what could have been if like IDW Starscream, ruler of Cybertron, lost his leadership position earlier on and his sentencing was to join Megatron on the Lost Light. The idea from the new leadership on Cybertron is that Megatron would get rid of Starscream and so they could just kill two birds with one stone. Starscream lingers mostly to the more isolated parts of the ship, barely interacting with anyone, but somehow always being dragged to the brig for something going wrong on the ship. It gets to the point where Starscream doesn't even come out of the brig holding cells when it's offered to him, he just wants them to leave him there to rust. Of course that information is quick to make it back to Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, and Megatron. They're a mix of trying to figure out what to do in this situation. Rodimus I could see him either being a-ok with Starscream staying there or he could believe they need to work at Starscream since Megatron was just as bad as Starscream and he turned out okay, Ultra Magnus is more on the 'leave him there' side given Starscream's criminal record, but Megatron is mixed about what to do. Megatron doesn't enjoy Starscream being on the ship, being in the space that he managed to make for himself and finally begin to work on himself. But he also knows that he himself wasn't good to Starscream and feels a sense of deja-vu hit him when he hears from Ravage that Starscream is self-isolating and wasting away. Similar to all those years ago when Starscream led the Decepticons for 3 years only for the crew to resort to cannibalism. It's a chance for Megatron to do the same situation, but differently. To show Starscream that the ex-warlord has changed. So Megatron goes to the brig and decides to speak with Starscream alone. [Sorry but this idea became too big for a single post, I'll link the second part which is the little snippet I wrote for this.]

[Part 2]

I’m currently in coloring hell, wish me luck, this’ll hopefully turn out well

I think I actually know what happened here. Originally, Hasbro wanted the Prime continuity to exist within the Live action Michael Bay movies, making an entire bible to follow and work off of. The Prime creators refused it and chucked it into the garbage. If I remember right, they really wanted to do their own thing but kept getting pushback from Hasbro to have it all tie into one of the other continuities if they weren't going to use the Bay films. Eventually near the end of the first season, they went with the Aligned continuity and I guess their continuity checker missed the GLARING plot-hole that was: A) Starscream had always known what Dark Energon was, he was a scientist that was STUDYING it in the games and was in charge of PROTECTING IT. B) Prime Starscream has no idea what this substance is and equates it to mere myth until he sees it with his own optics. C) Megatron empowers ALL THE DECEPTICONS with dark energon in the games, and poisons Primus' core with it. The writers of the show feasibly couldn't work with the other media in the Aligned continuity unless they had to bank on the idea that die-hard Transformer nerds wouldn't have played the WFC game series. Not to mention, they had to actually make secondary content like the novels and comics for this story to actually work. Basically to end this ramble: I'm pretty sure the Prime writers were trying to make an entirely different story, but due to studio meddling they had to forcibly shove their show into a continuity that didn't make a lick of sense with the preexisting content we had of Prime. Do I still like Prime? Yes. Do I seethe over the plot holes that come with this show being in this continuity? Absolutely.

Genuine question for those who think that the Aligned continuity doesn't exist: Do you also think that Transformers: Prime doesn't exist? Because there's a very big continuity error within it.

Remember when Megatron and Starscream were talking about Dark Energon as if it were a myth? In episode 2?

Yet, --in the season finale-- Ratchet tells us the past of Optimus and Megatron, how the war started (these are all taken from Transformers: Exodus) aaannddd we have this:

"Poisoning the planet to its core."

An event happened in both WFC and Exodus, in which Megatron used Dark Energon. And Dark Energon was referred to as the "Sparks of Unicron" in Exodus.

This is how it's going so far in the writing department.... someone help me.

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Time to let Tumblr know I'm a Transformers fan.