FR YES HE’S SO COOL. He Needs Swords More Often

holoforms, starbee edition

Gonna start actually posting my animatics on here

Have some silly Pharma

KOBD is just M/M Aphrodite and Ares

"She's hot enough to replace you whenever i choose!" - Megatron in the G1 "Enter the Nightbird" Ep

It would've been soo fun if Nightbird was part of the main deception cast in G1. Like, if they actually made her fully sentient y'know?

Like she would've just been vibin' the whole show. And the one sided beef starscream would have with her omg.

i think it would be funny if she actually liked starscream, like she would assume she was his friend because she like, rarely interacts casually with anyone else. (I know they're canon dynamic would've just been her ignoring him so she could work, but this is funnier to me)

he's seething whenever she gets close to him. "she's probably thinking about ways to usurp me as second in command!!" and she's just like "hanging out with the bestie :3"

No thoughts just them

working on starscream’s backstory for To Earth and Back Again, my poor guy 🙏😔 In my fic he used to be the literal Decepticon poster boy and was very idealistic and eager to be involved in the cause, before he and Megatron began to develop their whole situation and Starscream’s life took a turn for the worse

(BUT IT’S OK IT’S GONNA GET BETTER)

Messing with designs for Skywarp and Thundercracker in To Earth and Back Again, and this draft is “Skywarp is Starscream but stretched, and Thundercracker is Starscream but squished”

Prowl does not want to be with Tarantulas

Intro Post!

I’m finally making a proper blog intro post :P

This is my blog where I post my art for transformers series and transformers fics and AUs. I’m Axol and my pronouns are she/they.

Links:

My YouTube channel

My AO3

I may post or reblog art that is violent/gorey so be aware of that

My transformers opinions bc y not:

Favorite series: MTMTE

All-time favorite character: Starscream

Favorite ships: Skystar

Yeah that’s all I got thanks chill

daily koss #29: if we only have one shot… better make it count, right?

Since I started on the 18th of February, today marks the one month anniversary of me drawing these wretched old men every day!!! I wanted to make something special for it, so I tried my hand at a comic (even though I am NOT good at comics—dear god, paneling is so unintuitive for me that I ended up wrangling this into a webtoon format just to avoid it).

Despite the increasing level of render and polish on my dailies over the past two weeks, this is the first time I’ve really, actually tried to flex my art muscles and apply my braincells to a piece 😂 Here’s to hoping my work paid off! I have now, officially, moved from low-effort shitposts to real-effort seriousposts 😔

(Also, if you’ve never read a webtoon before, hopefully the long-scroll format wasn’t too jarring! >_<)

A meta aspect I love about KOSS is that Transformers is a multi-timeline franchise: Knock Out and Starscream exist across multiple different continuities, sometimes alongside each other, sometimes not. But they only really ‘work’ in TFP, despite them both having other characters as constants (Breakdown, Megatron). If this were any other world, and they were any other versions of themselves, they might not even have been coworkers—just ships passing in the night.

And yet, the perfect storm of random events led to them being in one thing together, with a compelling dynamic at that (even an entire episode that puts it on blast!!!). Sometimes I think about how, according to the TFP artbook, Knock Out was originally conceived as something of a counterpart to Bumblebee—another fast, pretty car, except a villain this time—but the writers ended up fleshing out his relationship with Starscream the most. I wonder what the thought process behind that was—did the devs find their dynamic fun to play with as well?—and whether the two would get more moments together if Prime wasn’t cancelled…

But I digress! The fact I discovered TFP in the first place is the cherry on top of the serendipity-cake; I never imagined I’d ever get into Transformers, but one impulsive ‘hey, what if we watched the new Transformers movie’ from Lacuna at 3AM in the dead of January changed the trajectory of my life.

I’ve always been really bad at committing to projects for over a month at a time—I often find myself burnt out and restless after only a few days, even. So to still have so much drive and inspiration to create fanworks—for KOSS, of course, but an assortment of other pairings and properties too—is such a novel and exciting experience. My tune may change at a moment’s notice (I can be very fickle), but for now I’m eager to keep scribbling on 🥰I already have something planned for the next week of Daily KOSS hehehe~

Anyway, things referenced in the comic!

G1 cartoon s01e13 “Fire in the Sky”

2019 IDW continuity Tread & Circuits issues 2, 3, and 4

Armada episode 48

TFA s02e03 “Mission Accomplished” and s03e13 “Endgame II”

2005 IDW continuity “Choose Me,” Spotlight: Megatron, and Annual 2017 “Chosen One”

And it’s probably obvious from the art, but I love the juxtaposition of Starscream being tortured by god in every other universe while Knock Out is either happily married or doesn’t exist.