sometimes breakdown loses sight of other bots and he has no idea where they go
99.9% of the time theyre underneath his massive boobs
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Ratchet saying something along the lines of “[Humans] have no protective shell. If they get underfoot, they will go squish.” sort of implies that minicons sometimes get stepped on.
Most of the time when the Vehicons fall down in fights with the Autobots it’s not because they’re dead or dying, or even hurt all that bad. They just know that if they go down and stay down, they’re way more likely to make it back alive and mostly functional.
All right. So here’s my attempt at deciphering the Cybertronian glyphs used in TFP.
Cybertronian – or at least Autobot Cybertronian – appears to have two distinct scripts: one similar to printing, the other more like cursive. This is the print script.
‘I’ and ‘Y’ appear to be interchangeable (as seen in the word for “cylinder”).
Some glyphs, when written next to each other, merge or run together. For example, the dual horizontal lines of ‘A’ run into the square component of ‘V’ in Soundwave’s name.
There’s a section at the end of the Covenant of Primus that has a nice english-to-cypher comparison on the afterword that shares many more letters ; yay! Am I here to share? Mais oui. Are the glyphs in the CoP different from those in TFP? Only a bit! I’d say what we have between the covenant and the script used in TFP is the difference between serif/nonserif/script font, because the larger patterns of the letter forms remain very similar. Here’s a chart from my work on the covenant which takes only like 5-10 minutes to crack, and five of them are looking for the letter K an cursing at how A’s kerning runs into other letters..
With this at our fingertips, it becomes quite possible to make both heads and tails of a longer stretch of cybertronian text. All one needs is large enough screenshots which I’ve been looking for, such as a high quality version of orion’s screen from Orion Pax 1-3. Then using the letters we already know and comparing with their mutations of letterforms in Prime and we can fill things out! It would be very exciting.
Sorry for butting in here but I felt it was worth adding the letters from War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron as well. Woo Aligned continuity!
(The only real difference is FoC has tweaked the character width so they avoid the awkward problem they had in WfC where half the Cybertronian text was actually missing and some of it became gibberish. They really wanted the ‘translating’ to look cool.)
Most of the glyphs are pretty similar! More like the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts than, say, a different character all together. At the very least they all keep the general ‘shape’. Most of the ones that look like they’ve changed dramatically are usually only slightly tweaked or skewed when you compare them. I think ‘O’ is the best example of this.
P.S. Thanks so much to both of you for sharing these. *o*
One of my favourite things about Miko her enthusiasm for life. She’s a fifteen year old adventure seeking, exchange student who loves dune bashing, heavy metal and takes giant, alien robots in stride. She draws even though she’s not very good, slacks off in class because she’s too enthusiastic to see the rest of the world [only to discover she knows more than she thought anyway] and takes the world by the horns even if she doesn’t make the best decisions. She grows, learns, loves and never once stops supporting her friends: human or Cybertronian.
Miko is radiant in everything she does, and because she wears her heart on her sleeve that love of life is there for all to see.
I still can’t get over that Megatron’s head pokes out of his alt mode in Transformers Prime.
His altmode gets even better when you realize the part he shoots lasers out of is his crotch in his bot mode
Jesus christ and I will never be over the fact that even Soundwave and Starscream adapted alt modes that could feasibly blend in with Earth tech but he was like: “No imma stick with this nonsense.”
Megatron is a character that is extremely proud of being cybertronian and looks down on anyone who he feels as giving up their cybertronian identity, so it makes sense he would never adopt an earth altmode.
Not to mention it fits his intense and blunt personality, TFP Megatron is as far away from subtle as possible. He’s not the sort to want to blend in and be inconspicuous. He’s the “I’m here, everyone see me? Because shit is going to start” sort.
Wanna talk about nonsense?
How about Shockwave and his space tank? Seriously, what was up with that? It crawls so low on the ground you couldn’t drive over a speed bump with that.
Well I figure that Cybertron is a lot… smoother that terrain stuff isn’t usually really needed. Explains why he doesn’t leave his lab much XD
Sometimes I think about the fact that Shockwave was physically capable of wrecking the Wreckers and I wonder what else he can do. It’s my personal theory that “conservation of energy” actually plays into this scene… typically he is very slow-moving, but here we saw his speed and agility both massively ramp up. I think he deliberately expends the least energy possible in day-to-day tasks just so he can kick in that extra bit of effort when something like, say, his creation being bridged to the arctic happens.
Can I just talk about this one moment in TFP in the episode “Patch” ?
Like, Megatron reached out to Starscream to assure him, calmly saying “No one is perfect, Starscream”. Megatron legitimately meant it to him that he doesn’t expect Starscream to be perfect. and he understands that no one is perfect, kudos to you Megatron, we should all learn something from him
I love how Megatron also doesn’t bother to deny the “beloved” part of “beloved Dreadwing” lol
I just love how, for ages, a ton of fanon has been that seekers express themselves through their wings to some degree or another, but we never saw it, really
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