Any headcanons for rumble and frenzy? Or others of Soundwave’s cassettes?
HC: Ravage was a gladiator alongside Megatron back before the war. Ravage is Soundwave's dad mentor, not the other way around.
Hello everyone. It has come to my knowledge that not everyone is familiar with Transformers Legends, an anthology book from 2004 where several short stories from different continuities of the transformers universes are told.
One of these stories is called "Redemption Center", taking place in the G1 cartoon universe where Starscream loses his memory and is taken in by the Autobots, while being protected by Optimus the entire time. Since copies of the book in good condition are tricky to come by at a reasonable price, thought I'd scan the pages of Redemption Center and share with you all.
Enjoy!
I feel like Cliffjumper really is the Krillin of his franchise.
NOTE! I did NOT do this artwork, I merely recolored it for the sake of having a visual reference. This is what I imagine Starscream to look like in the form of a WWII Messerschmitt Me 262 jet. This is the form he takes in my Ao3 fanfic of him. I probably spent way longer on this than I needed too, but I really like how the recoloring turned out.
He froze.
Before him, barely illuminated by the light, was the sleekest and most streamlined plane Otto had ever seen in his life.
It was a Messerschmitt, no doubt, he'd worked on enough of them to recognize the company's engineering tendencies, but it was a model he'd never seen before.
He'd only ever heard scant rumors from other pilots. Experimental planes being worked on in secret, their speed supposedly able to surpass all other aircrafts ever made. What he'd heard seemed so exaggerated, the capabilities so impossible, Otto had begun to doubt if such an aircraft really could exist.
Yet here it was, right in front of him.
From nose to aft, barring the alabaster underbelly, the entire fuselage was a vibrant crimson. The swept wings, reminding Otto of a swallow in flight, bore a subtle off-white hue which, aside from the Balkenkreuz cross, were only accented by a thin red stripe and a white line running parallel to the back rim of the leading-edge slats.
The massive podded engines, fused to the bottom of the wings, were painted in stark contrast to the rest of the body. Their sky blue color, only ever used on a select number of planes, was also streaked on the back half of the tail's horizontal stabilizers. It was not a color Otto would've expected the designers to use, especially alongside the red paint. In any other instance he would have found the combination garish and ostentatious. But somehow, the contrast managed to enhance the appeal of the other colors; it certainly made the red pop all the more.
But the most unusual design choice by far, something never seen on any plane ever, was the slight orange tint present in the glass of the cockpit.
Otto's heart felt ready to leap out of his chest.
Maybe it was the shock of having such a valuable plane in his barn, maybe it was the danger that having something like this might bring, but deep down he knew, it was the sheer joy and euphoria of just marveling at a really, really, really beautiful plane.
And this was a damn jet.
In the skies of WWII Berlin, pilots have reported sightings of a ghostly aircraft, a phantom jet eerily similar to the game-changing Messerschmitt Me 262's being developed in secret by Nazi engineers. While the Luftwaffe fliers see this "Ghost" as an omen of good fortune, one disillusioned German mechanic discovers the mysterious plane hidden in his barn, somehow disappearing and reappearing at random, and quickly realizes that, for this machine, there's more than meets the eye...
Hey look at that! Starscream decided to show up in his own fan movie!
He had like zero reasons to do this.