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My brother pitched an idea to me

As he puts it, "if you draw prowl with cat ears, people on tumblr would go feral", so I'm testing his hypothesis..

starscream gives everyone an aneurysm on national television

Optimus: where did you get this gun??

Gun, in Megatrons voice: it doesn't matter

Prowl: yeah what he said

Head empty, just Prowl in an apron HE'S SO CUTEEEEEE🙏🏻💖

escapism again so just made a IDW1.0 Prowl tier list and I wont elaborate my version of it.

It's more basing on characterization/performance/role in the story rather than design and art since a lot of them are the same

Parental parallels:

Vastly different people they may be, but I did notice some similarities between Prowl and Tarantulas and their decisions regarding their science spawn son:

Prowl here states that “I just…want the best for him”.

But at the same time here, this being the scene where he essentially gives him up for adoption to Kup, it’s clear he doe not feel that he’s the one who can give the best.

As Impactor says- 

“We’re not role models Prowl.” 

Neither see themselves as the sort of morally sound people who would be equipped to take on the task of not only raising him, but raising him well.

All of this ultimately being why he gives him to Kup. A good mech, a good role model, who would watch out for Springer and really was the best option available.

While Prowl himself proceeds to keep tabs but at the same time have only minimal direct involvement, 

Tarantulas meanwhile, did not willingly give up Ostaros/Springer.

While Prowl was the parent who recognised themself unfit and that their child would be better off if given up for adoption, Tarantulas was the parent declared unfit and that had their child forcefully taken away.

They differ there hugely.

But, the parallels start to show more when Tarantulas actually finds that child again.

In a truly tragic scene, he admits to Springer how he’d been watching but had decided to not make himself known: “so as not…to be in your way”.

He also ultimately admits this:

That he thinks- “It was for the best you were taken from me. I think your life…would have been worse…”

So, utterly and devastatingly heart wrenching as it is, the parallels really were laid quite bare there.

Both parents cared for Springer/Ostaros.

Both parents wanted the best for Springer/Ostaros.

Both parents ultimately ended up coming to the decision that the best for Springer/Ostaros meant them not being there.

And both came to be proud that he turned out so good. That he turned out better than either of them.

Which I guess means that, perhaps, the two aren’t so completely dissimilar in some aspects then after all.