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tiamatschild) wrote2015-06-07 08:21 pm
tiamatschild) wrote2015-06-07 08:21 pm
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I've been contemplating on Transformers ocs again. I really need to figure out what Moraine actually looks like, since after I decided not to kill her off while I was writing In the Low Places, I pretty much stuck her permanently in my mental conception of G1-verse and Beachcomber's personal circle therein. (Which means also Perceptor's circle, poor mech. I don't think he's ever going to find her any less disquieting.) I know she's a smidgebit taller than Beachcomber, and about the same mass, so miiiiiiildly less cobby. Single optical sensor band like a visor. Last time I was thinking about this I was trying to figure out her alt mode, and I pretty much got to "....basically Curiosity, only the wheels are more elliptical, almost oblong, and are basically like little mini tank treads, instead of wheels and they let her go up very steep slopes safely." I figure you can //definitely// see all six treads in her robot mode.
I'm very fond of my worryingly solitary geologist.
And I've been thinking about Cheerly, again, who I haven't put in any stories ever, and I'm not sure sure where to start. Although, really, I think she could make an excellent piece of supporting cast for a dockworker origin Early Optimus Prime story.
Cheerly's a tugboat, who works as tugboat and sometimes as a longshoreman or stevedore, around docks and harbors. I pretty much have her around not for any of my usual reasons - usually I create characters because I have a narrative slot that needs filling, and then they kind of expand - but because I was reading Patrick O'Brian one day, and he had Jack Aubrey say in a crisis to his crew, "All together cheerly now! Cheerly!" and it struck me that there could not be a better name than that for an autobot, and an autobot with a name like that would absolutely have to be a tugboat. There was just no other choice.
...Interestingly, and which I did not know till rather later, there actually was a rescue tug named HMS Cheerly that operated in the Atlantic during World War II.
I'm very fond of my worryingly solitary geologist.
And I've been thinking about Cheerly, again, who I haven't put in any stories ever, and I'm not sure sure where to start. Although, really, I think she could make an excellent piece of supporting cast for a dockworker origin Early Optimus Prime story.
Cheerly's a tugboat, who works as tugboat and sometimes as a longshoreman or stevedore, around docks and harbors. I pretty much have her around not for any of my usual reasons - usually I create characters because I have a narrative slot that needs filling, and then they kind of expand - but because I was reading Patrick O'Brian one day, and he had Jack Aubrey say in a crisis to his crew, "All together cheerly now! Cheerly!" and it struck me that there could not be a better name than that for an autobot, and an autobot with a name like that would absolutely have to be a tugboat. There was just no other choice.
...Interestingly, and which I did not know till rather later, there actually was a rescue tug named HMS Cheerly that operated in the Atlantic during World War II.