Unfinished Fics: The Banner of the Landwaster - In Darkness Spawned

[koilungfish]

Unfinished Fics: The Banner of the Landwaster - In Darkness Spawned
In Darkness Spawned
Sidewinder unwittingly lets the mutants out of the Underworld. Megatron, Motormaster, Dreadmoon and Astrotrain try to put them back, the Autobots get involved, and the mutants aren't even the worst things down there.

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[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Stunticons have forcefields, also, which is a point in Motormaster's favour.

I am really curious to see what a Starscream with a Megatron-personality-overlay would be like. As you have said, they really complement each other, with Starscream going for short-term sure bets and Megatron playing a longer, riskier game, so the resulting cross would be rather frightful, I think, able to play both the long and the short game.

Megatron's speech to Sidewinder is oddly inspiring and moving.

I actually felt really happy for Sidewinder getting his stuff back together.

And yes! Yay for noticing that Megatron and Xaaron both have weirdly similar helmet things going on. (But then, Xaaron's design is pretty blatantly based on Gold Shirt Megatron, which has all kinds of interesting implications.)

You making Motormaster blind if kind of odd, because I've seen someone else do the same thing. Is this a kind of pan-fanon thing, like Jazz-blind?

Also, weirdly, I have an unfinished booting around that involves Motormaster and Astrptrain (and a whole lot of other people) getting stuck underground in tunnels, fighting weird monsters. (But they were fighting the Monstercons, not Mutants.)

Motormaster driving into a pothole is just what would happen to a young truck used to the relatively nice roads of Cybertron.

Astrotrain does have a desire for power that pops up in The God Gambit and that Triple Threat episode, so him desiring to manipulate the chaos makes good sense to me. That, and his write-up says that he enjoys causing chaos.

The theme of blindness is kind of neat, if alcohol-coma-inducing.

Why doesn't Sidewinder want to be a Triple-Changer?

"the psionic disciplines of the Emirate" - this intrigues me.

Primus is the god of Decepticons also.

I wish people would remember this.

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

You mean in terms of Megatron taking Motormaster on the mission? The forcefields are, as I mentioned, kind of velocity/momentum based, so they'd be pretty useless against a flamethrower ... except I think I wrote Motormaster's forcefield as repelling Smeltdown's fire? Oy, IDS was such a mess.

I'm really not sure. Damned scary, that's for certain, but with an ego the size of hell-alone-knows-what. It depends how the overlay works on an emotional level - both of them have bad tempers, but different sorts of bad temper. Both together would be impossible.

I'd hope so. It's supposed to be. And hey, Megatron's had a lot of practices at inspirational speeches over the millions of years.

Rar! That was kind of the point.

Entirely! I worked with the idea that Xaaron's from the same factory as Megatron, in Tarn, and both of them have a pretty classic Tarnish design. After all, Xaaron's a tankformer too :)

I have no idea. I've never seen it anywhere else ... not that Motormaster gets written that much, and even then he's usually Chauvinist Bully #1.

Telepathy? Possibly the story wandered off to someone who might get it finished.

But he wouldn't be used to the roads on Cybertron. He's barely been on Cybertron. He'd be used to Earth.

Entirely so. IDS would probably have made much more sense if I'd worked out where he'd gone and what he was up to. He probably had the plot.

There was a reason for it, but I can't remember what it was.

Because he's a Seeker. Always has been, always will be. That's what he thinks of himself as.

Based on the whole thing with Emirate Xaaron contacting Primus psychically. It's a big misphrase, since it's not that Xaaron can do that because he's an Emirate; he can do that because of his religious activities. It should be something else entirely, but I hadn't worked out what when I wrote it.

Entirely! Primus is a genocidal scheming bastard!

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Maybe you'd get a version of Guiltor that is actually interesting. (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Guiltor)

Hahahah, yeah, I've written Xaaron as Tarnish, too, and I've toyed with the idea that he paid rather a lot to have his exact line of manufacture covered up, especially after he realised just who else had rolled off it. >_>

I meant to say that Motormaster is used to Earth. I like him becoming a better leader, even if he learns from nutcases.

Lame, Sidewinder, lame. A man with no wings is in a dubious bargaining posture!

Fun fact: hellhounds are native to Cybertron, and they're soulless. There could have been a whole demon eco-system before Primus took over!

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

That's not a character, that's Starscream in cosplay!

Well, tanks gotta come from somewhere ... yes.

It helps cover the gap between sources of characterisation, and hey, character growth is always good.

I think he'd repaired himself enough by then to have wings. Maybe. It was never clear. Also, it's more about body sense. He's a Seeker, it's part of his identity. Sidewinder's more firm about that than a lot of jets might be, since he's been strenuously resisting various pressures to get rebuilt into a bomber for most of his career. He's a stubborn git when he wants to be.

What? :: confused ::

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

I kept picturing as the cringing image of him on dA somewhere.

In the comics, the Mayhems have a hellhound with them one time. It is said to be soulless. Strikes me as an obvious left-over from the demon era! Humans domesticate wolves; Decepticons domesticate demon dogs.

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

Which one? What?

I did not know about that.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

There was one by Azrael, I thought? I can't find it now.

Hellhounds. (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hellhound) I have the silly urge to write a fic where Spinister brings a puppy back to train it as a tracker to 'tree' Autobots for him, and Needlenose is annoyed because Needlenose is a cat person and does not like puppies. Especially puppies of the damned.

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

I don't remember it.

Hah, quite probably. Although "soulless" might just be a variation on "sparkless", i.e. non-sapient.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

There are no sparks in G1 Marvel, so soulless means... soulless.

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

Spark equivalent. Whatever.