#codexa

[earthstellar]

One thing that I really liked in IDW 2 was the concept of Going Immersant.

Given the immensely long average lifespan of Cybertronians, it makes sense:

If nothing kills you, and you live long enough to have experienced all of what you feel you reasonably can in this lifetime, and you feel content with the life that you have had, and it seems time to retire--

--Why not return your knowledge and the entity of your self to the core of your planet, where your energy and your components can be reused and your memories and knowledge can be subsumed into the greater whole?

Plug in with the stray cables that stick out of the cavernous expanses deep beneath the surface of Cybertron, let yourself get situated, and allow yourself to daydream as the crystals grow around you and gradually consume you. It is not painful. It is a process of sharing.

Each daydream then enters the great memory bank of Primus, at the heart of the world, the core of life itself for your species. Your experiences become part of the eternal record of experienced Cybertronian life. You join your God himself, frame and processor, as you combine with him within the physical form of your planet.

Primus created you, and as you are subsumed into the crystalline forms that surround you, you will go on to sustain Primus in some way. An unending cycle.

Perhaps you feel something, leeching up from deep within the crystal mass, some unique energy meeting you halfway, the cables that snake their way into your ports like vines carrying some ancient data, older than yourself, older than the Rust Sea, older than the Hydrax Plateau, older than the Titans.

Maybe you cannot decipher it, yet. But it comforts you. It reminds you that you are not alone, after your visitors have gone. Where there is digital noise, there is something to produce it. You will meet it soon--

--After countless years of a peaceful rest, knowing that at the end of your endlessly long existence, your life will go on to benefit others.

And for as long as you are able, you still remain present, as well. Just not above, on the surface. For some time, others can still come and visit, speak with you, consult with you-- Although as your memory banks purge into the greater whole, you begin to falter in this waking realm.

And that is OK; To rejoin with Primus and re-enter the Well of All Sparks as an ancient elder, a repository of experience and wisdom, is to become a teacher to all. Even in peaceful, gradual death-- And even then, your energy and materials and thoughts remain somewhere, deep within the planet.

Returned. Recycled.

Eternal, in some shape or form.

It's just a really beautiful concept.

Without any natural death, Cybertronians have the option to simply return to Primus, return to the core of the planet, in a half-waking state.

At peace, gracefully and with intent.

All of what they have experienced and all that they are, all of their memories and feelings, all of the metals and compounds that make up their frame and armour and protoform, all of it can be taken in and absorbed.

The option is there, to emerge once more.

But for most, this is the final calling.

To go immersant is to enter peace, to become a living state of meditation until the very end for you as an individual. To have full agency over how you pass on, to make the decision and consciously know. To be happy with that. To relax into your fate, as you see fit.

To make the decision to be recycled, to contribute all that you are, to return your energy to the crystalline matter that fuels your world and your people and your God, who in turn fuelled you and will thus go on to fuel all those subsequently churned out by the Well.

To merge with your living planet on an atomic level, on an esoteric level.

I wonder if the fully immersant aren't dead in the traditional sense. Perhaps they are offline, to those in this world. Perhaps their frame is vacated as their data is absorbed. But that data is not lost, necessarily.

It's just a very beautiful end of life option for Cybertronians, and I do hope the concept is revisited in some form in the future.

#codexa #idw transformers #idw 2 #orion pax #idw orion pax #maccadams #maccadam #just thinkin' #cybertronian culture #immersant

[spashahoney]

Day 12: Break Up, Make Up/For All Eternity (Arcee x Codexa)

Pax’s mom has got it going on. If she had ever met her leader’s mentor, Arcee absolutely would’ve had a crush and had made her follow Optimus later, all the more.

#transformers #transformers prime #transformers idw #maccadam #2023tfrarepairingfest #arcee x codexa #tfp arcee #orion pax #codexa #spashart #mama prime mama prime mama prime

[candychameleon]

More traditional busts I’ve done recently! Top ones are for fun/practice, bottom ones were commissions!

Cryak, Termagax, Codexa, and then 3 TFOCs!

#maccadam #transformers #cryak #termagax #codexa #tfoc #tfocs #transformers oc #transformers ocs #art

[astro-whispers]

Sure, tragic old man yaoi Megatron x Optimus is cool

BUT HEAR ME OUT:

Fucked up old woman yuri Termagax x Codexa

#transformers #megop #megatron #optimus prime #Termagax #Codexa #I just think theyre neat #soliloquy

[halenhusky309]

Is it weird that I wish for more mother-son content between Codexa and Orion Pax, only to come up with the image of Orion Pax carrying near-death Codexa, desperately finding someone to help his "mom"

I question my obsession of making OP suffer...

#orion pax #optimus prime #codexa #transformers #maccadam #angsty time

[lets-try-some-writing]

Based on my obsession with my main boy Optimus, I never thought there would come a day that I find that one obscure blorbo to adore.

I've found her.

Codexa my dear you are F A S C I N A T I N G

Why do I have a feeling I will end up writing for her later.

#transformers #maccadam #lets try some writing mumbles #codexa

[kurtrorti]

I decided to give myself a challenge with palettes and Codexa was lucky to be first

1/36

Yes, I will need to do as many as 36 arts 😔

#transformers #art #transformers art #maccadam #codexa #tf idw #transformers idw #fanart #tf codexa

[cherrytimemachine]

Airdropping memes for my AU with no context.

#codexa #centaurus pax #tf ocs #transformers ocs #delta magnus #tf barricade #prowl #tf jazz #jazzprowl #prowljazz #esmeral #deathsaurus #deszaras #tf memes #tf au #transformers au #transformers #cherry chats

[gusherbug]

codexa could have glasses. life could be dream

#transformers #maccadam #idw2 #transformers 2019 #codexa

[katchless]

Codexa!

#transformers #maccadam #tf #idw #katchless art #tf idw2 #codexa

[dustbunny105]

The unholy sounds that this panel dragged out of me, I tell you...

#transformers #idw2 #codexa #optimus prime #my heart

[pluralsword]

And here we have the cover for Chapter 13 of Addendum (an IDW1 Arcee novel fanfic): Gender Diaspora. This cover was super fun to work on with @VansZero (discord) love how it turned out and how they depicted the Everbright (that would be that blocky gray and blue ship in the upper right corner), and he made Road Rage's expression so memeable lmao we adore this piece. Here's the same cover in colors without the title, and in black and white:

Also yes, the symbols on the Delta Leaguer's torsos? That's the Delta Forge (not actually named in the fic) symbol, ie the symbol of the Delta League (also known as the Anti-Vocation League), a reclamation of Solus Prime's forge hammer. cyan=tears pink=blood. Here's a zoom in on Arcee's and our rough draft for it that we gave VansZero:

This symbol was first described in Chapter 2:

"Among the wreckage in the maintenance shed, I saw the agreed-on mark for the rendezvous: a cyan-pink infinity loop with two golden cylindrical hammer ends stylized after Solus Prime’s Forge hammer on each side of the loop.

The chosen transformations of spark and blood… Trans-Mutate sure is good with symbology. I rolled up around the tracks on my treads, stopped at the door, and laid out a tide of slow notes from my car horn."

#transformers #maccadam #addendum nexuses #addendum #addendum (an IDW1 novel Arcee fanfic) #autosignet cycle #pluralsword stories #Arcee #idw arcee #trans arcee #idw1 #idw2005 #transformers idw #exrid #codexa #road rage #tf road rage #transformers road rage #spacewarp #delta magnus #proteus #dai atlas #shockwave #rampage #tf rampage #trans-mutate #trans robots #lesbian robots #sword lesbian #fanfic

[spashahoney]

This fem encouraged Orion’s dreams and hopes, you telling me he didn’t love his mentor like a carrier?

-and then that fem retired immediately when the war was brewing. Legend. Be like Codexa. Jump ship.

[Original audio is from Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse]

#transformers #transformers idw #loud sound warning #flashing #orion pax #codexa #alpha trion #spashart

[transingthoseformers]

TF Surge: What if Codexa and Alpha Trion platonically co-parented Orion?

They were basically librarians and weren't paid much, both wanted a baby but neither could afford to raise a baby alone, so they kind of collaborated?

That would be so sweet yes

#maccadam #transformers #codexa #alpha trion #Orion pax #transformers: surge

[askvectorprime]

What happened to Damus in IDW2? Did he ever become Tarn?

Dear Tarn Troubled,

Damus was one of the very first Cybertronians to be forged in the immediate aftermath of the War of the Threefold Spark and the ratification of the Nominus Edict. His earliest memories were of emerging into a broken, empty plaza populated by a sparse crowd of war-weary Cybertronians, whereupon a haggard Nominus Prime quickly handed him off into the care of his mentor Derail, who—though well-intentioned—was too busy working construction rotas and helping to track down Threefold Spark holdouts to truly spend time with his new mentee. It should come as no surprise that Damus struggled to relate to the people around him, and so with no clear path forward, he immersed himself in Codexa’s archives, learning everything he could about Cybertron’s past. In the days of reconstruction, some forward-thinking Cybertronians came to realize that their empire had been built upon the misery of other races, but Damus never had to directly confront the cruelty that lay beneath the Expansion’s glorious imperial veneer: as he pored through the Cybertronian archives, he saw unstoppable Titan fleets waging war, brave explorers planting flags on virgin worlds, awe-inspiring works of art and music, verminous alien aggressors brought to heel by their so-called “betters”… and he quickly began to resent Nominus Prime for robbing him of the world he should’ve known, a world had never truly existed.

Damus might’ve become an archivist, or at worst a contrarian academic, but his early education took a turn for the worse when the people of Cybertron discovered his unique, deadly gift. When correctly modulated, his vocal harmonics could subtly interfere with the regular electromagnetic impulses that governed ordinary machines… and those that powered a pulsing spark: with enough time and training, he could literally talk anyone to death. Like the Insecticons who’d preceded him, Damus was foisted off into the care of the Cybertronian Science Ministry, where he became an object of curiosity for many of Cybertron’s intellectuals. Eventually, once they’d learned everything they could from this latest prodigy, Damus was released: however, his newfound reputation meant that few Cybertronians would associate with him, and fewer still would offer him the kind of academic position he’d hoped for. Damus eventually collapsed into the dregs of society, where he spent most of his days chasing one high or another… until the day the idealistic Termagax founded a new political movement intended to return Cybertron to its glory days.

As one of the first Ascenticons, Damus became an ardent adherent to the Ascenticon cause; after all, Termagax was the first Cybertronian he’d met who was unafraid of his lethal talents. However, in time, Termagax’s resolve began to falter, and after a string of political defeats that culminated in Termagax abandoning society altogether, Damus sunk back into depression. Soon, however, a new leader arose to take up the mantle of Ascenticon leader—a charismatic firebrand named Megatron. Determined to restore “Cybertronian greatness” by any means necessary, Damus stood by Megatron’s party even as a string of violent incidents began to turn the public against Megatron’s increasingly inflammatory rhetoric. At first, Damus was repulsed by the kind of thuggish, indiscriminate violence exemplified by “The Rise”. In time, however, some part of him began to rationalize its necessity, then begin to take a kind of perverse glee as more and more Ascenticon rallies collapsed into anarchic violence. After all, had Cybertronians not won their cosmic birthright through conquest, as the strong asserted their dominance over the weak?

When Megatron finally made his true intentions known and overthrew the Senate, the Decepticon leader had already sent Damus to assist Jhiaxus as the ex-Senator spearheaded a Decepticon uprising in the city of Tarn and successfully conquered the region. What Jhiaxus didn’t know, however, was that Megatron—correctly suspicious of the lieutenant—had deliberately sent Damus along as a mole to pass information on his doings back to the Decepticon leader and “bring him to justice” should Jhiaxus’s ambitions get the better of him.

As the triumphant Decepticons tightened their hold over the region, Jhaixus began developing a series of full-body upgrades that would hybridize traditional Cybertronian design standards with an experimental bodytype that metabolized both energon and highly-refined nucleon fuel rods. Jhiaxus successfully tested a prototype version of the design on himself, and it should come as no surprise that Damus was the first Cybertronian who volunteered to become the “perfect Decepticon”. Damus emerged from the surgery stronger, faster, and more alive, his unique abilities now greatly enhanced. To commemorate what he proclaimed to be an inevitable Decepticon victory, Damus adopted the nom de guerre “Tarn”, to honor the city where the future of Cybertron had been created… but, before Jhiaxus could begin mass-producing an army of “perfect Decepticons”, Elita-1’s resistance unit attacked! Along with Hot Spot, Cliffjumper, and Wheel Blaze, Elita was able to sabotage the technology and deal Jhiaxus a crushing defeat, permanently stymying any hope of creating an unstoppable army. That did not bother Tarn, however: he proclaimed himself an army of one, a one-man “justice division” who wouldn’t stop until these unruly Autobot saboteurs faced Decepticon law.

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #idw2 #damus #tarn #exarchon #nomimus prime #derail #codexa #titans #sparks #termagax #ascenticons #megatron #jhiaxus #elita one #hot spot #cliffjumper #wheel blaze

[thatturtleleon]

comic panel redraw: codexa and orion pax

#transformers #tf #maccadam #maccadams #transformers art #tf comic #thatturtleleon art #codexa #orion pax