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.
Bulkhead, Breakdown and Bumblebee have 4 blunt fingers Ratchet, Wheeljack and Optimus all have 5 blunt fingers All of Wheeljacks fingers seem to be missing a joint, safe for his thumbs Arcee, Airachnid, Knockout and Starscream have 5 slim pointed fingers Airachnid and Starscream both have very long digits, while Knockouts is each missing one joint.
Skyquake/Dreadwing and Megatron have 5 pointed fingers, and Megatron is also missing one joint on each finger.
Soundwave has very unique hands. He has 4 long thin fingers, with the tip of his wing sometime acting as a 5th finger for support. They are all missing a joint, and he seems to be able to move them sideways. He doesn’t have a palm or a wrist.
The vehicons/eradicons have only 3 fingers, all three of them missing one joint as well.
* Most autobots have blunt fingers while most decepticons have pointed fingers. Breakdown and Arcee seem to be the only ones so far to be an exception to that rule, and Arcee tends to be more ruthless than most autobots, while Breakdown was, well … Breakdown.
* Bulkhead, Breakdown and Bumblebee are all fighters, while Ratchet is a medic, Optimus used to be an archivist and Wheeljack is a scientist in most of his incarnations. The first group has 4, while the second group has 5 fingers, and I wonder if that is somehow related to their professions.
* Now, allow me a moment to giggle at the fact that Starscream and Knockout share their hand type with femmes.
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