Just. The camera work is so perfect. It shows Silas’ perspective here so perfectly. And how Starscream continues to look forward without caring where he steps, meanwhile Silas has to crane his neck and assure he’s out of Starscream’s way while he walks. Like Silas only barely reaches midway up Screamer’s CALF bro UGH
Souviens-toi de la première fois, où nos regards s'étaient croisés
Même que ton œil disait merde à l'autre, surtout à moi
Mais pourquoi moi, alors que les autres te trouvaient bien trop laide
Peut-être que moi, je suis trop bête, mais je sais t'écouter
Ave Cesaria - Stromae
My gift for @tachocracy for @secretsolenoid-revived this year! I hope you all love it as much as I loved drawing it. I've been wanting to do a zine about Knockout and his specific way of grieving in TFP so I was so excited to receive this prompt.
It seemed like a lot of you guys are liking it so far!
And if you are wondering what the Pixie AU is, it is basically a (mainly Tfp centered) AU of mine where all the Transformers characters are now humans, and now all the canon humans characters are pixies! SO that most of the plots can stay the Transformer/human relationships can stay the same!
Optimus Prime
Ratchet
Silas and the Mech
And enjoy Pixie Raf working hard to hack the Decepticons
My issue with humans in TFP isn’t completely the fact that there’s human. They’re on Earth, of course some of them are going to know. (I just don’t like when they have a bigger role than the actual transformers themselves) It’s the fact that it’s human children. The humans in TFP would have been a lot better (in my opinion) if they were agents assigned to deal with the bots just like Fowler rather than just some random kids and a mom. It would have given them a better reason to be there. They could have still grown to be family if that’s what you’re interested in. They could have still be given the personalities they have. They would have still played a part and helping in missions. And before someone says “wElL iTs FoR kIdS” just because a show is for kids, doesn’t mean there needs to be kids. I was a kid when I began watching TFP and it doesn’t mean kids will enjoy child characters. It also doesn’t make sense that they kept them there. The whole “you should stay here for your safety” makes no sense. That just put them even more in danger. It’s common sense the cons would have gone after the kids even more if they knew they had friendships with the bots? One more thing, I find it really weird how Arcee, a bot with the mentality of an adult, pushed her grief onto a 16 year old? I get that the show needed to bring Jack back but that was just… weird. Agent Fowler and Silas were awesome though.
This is my opinion, you don’t gotta agree. You’re entitled to yours and I’m entitled to mine.
“There’s a war brewing…between the new world order, and the newest…”
I wish we could have seen what MECH’s original agenda was, because my biggest question is, “What war?”
I assume Silas was speaking about a “turning of ages” here, rather than a typical war, but I still want to know what huge thing was happening in the world before the discovery of the bots caused him to change plans.
The writers didn’t explore any of that, but Silas' words and his reaction to Cybertronians do have other interesting implications:
For all his faults, I admire Silas for his insight into what the presence of the bots meant for humanity on a practical level. He took one look at the mechanical titans, and ascertained that humanity would be in trouble unless it adapted to the newcomers and did something to close (or at least decrease) the power gap between the two races. Or, rather, that those who didn’t adapt and close the gap would be left behind, since I doubt Silas cared about the future of humanity as a whole.
Obviously, Silas was not going to let himself be one of those left behind. When his first attempt at putting himself on an equal footing with the bots didn’t work, he went so far as to grovel at the feet of Megatron—arguably the most powerful Cybertronian on the planet at the time.
Of course, that didn’t end so well for him, but the point still stands:
Silas was an opportunist. He recognized what walked on the earth and what it would likely mean for humans in the future.
He misjudged and miscalculated, but he was definitely onto something, and I would have loved to see it go somewhere.
TFP Shattered Glass, but June and Fowler are swapped.
I've never seen anybody do that, usually the humans stay the same as baseline except Silas and Fowler are sometimes swapped.
Or maybe up it a notch and swap all three of them? June as a government agent, Fowler as M.E.C.H's leader, and Silas as a nurse? Or nurse Fowler, agent Silas, and M.E.C.H leader June?
You know, that would be fascinating because i admit i have a tendency to forget the humans whwn i mess with shatteree glass, but swapping all three of their roles up would be so fascinating as all fucking hell
I'd be so here for MECH Leader!June actually she'd be so fucking cool
because like. Smokescreen going to have No Fucking Clue what the hell this is. Jasper doesn't see a whole lot of rainstorms, and it's not like the internet existed yet for him to do research. At that point, all his Earth Knowledge was limited to what the handful of humans he'd met had explained to him, and I highly doubt Earth weather patterns came up
so just. Imagine. Maybe it's late in the day and Smokescreen is hanging around with Leland and..... okay I'm spitballing here, but let's just call his other minder....... Henry. Henry Rook.
but yeah, they're chilling, hanging out, maybe talking
and then the first bolt strikes, close and loud enough to be heard through the rock of the silo
and suddenly Smokescreen freezes
He's quiet and perfectly still. Watching. Waiting. Listening.
And when the second sound reaches them, he's already grabbed the two humans and is bolting for the lower levels
because suddenly he's back on Cybertron, back in the Archives, back with Alpha Trion and the Decepticons are at their door step. The building is falling apart around them and there’s blaster fire outside, after all such a loud sound could only be an attack, nothing on Earth could make a sound so loud and he needs to protect the humans. He failed Trion before, got knocked unconscious without even a chance to defend him, he can’t fail again, he can't-
so now Henry and Leland have to figure out how to handle this giant robot they've been watching for a couple years having a flashback and breakdown
Silas hears his men caught a robot and thinks he got "Breakdown's little friend," but then he sees them bring it in and it's NOT Knock Out but instead his giant fire-breathing battle-scarred mother who got caught on purpose and is here to burn everything down and cook Silas personally.