From the ‘Covenant of Primus’ book; Solus’ main entry (note transcribed with some errors here) and image.
I find it interesting that even though they try so very hard to stress that it’s just a processing difference you guys, it doesn’t really mean gender there are no genders they still made Solus so very distinctly female, and feminine, in appearance in so many ways…while none of the others are at all. Especially the more ‘form fluid’ individuals, who you would think would have room for that without making anyone uncomfortable, are all big and burly and either emphatically masculine in design or emphatically alien-beyond-identification (cough Amalgamous and his ‘explosion of parts’ portrait cough). I mean goddamn.
Similarly, I’m not thrilled that her story in The Covenant terminates in such a typically ‘token female, token romance’ kind of way.
What I ALSO find interesting though–and in a much more positive way–is the way she isn’t just ‘a’ creator or a part of the creation process but she is THE CREATOR, and she and her tools make for the totality of that process, both ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’. Seed and womb and all the other gendered imagery that tends to make its way into creation entities is neatly tied off in her little blurb up there and it pleases me. And let no one ever forget that Solus was the one who took point charging into battle against Unicron. Because yeah, we revisited that.
She builds shit! She breaks shit! She does not take shit. Her MYTHOLOGY, her place in the mythology, is so much better than the ‘after the legend’ bits she got it’s kind of staggering.
On which note, though,
I think we’re allowed to declare The Wreckers a Girl’s Club now.
How's it hummin'? 