The Cause Of Last Post (not Exactly

The cause of last post (not exactly

Postwar Autobots join the Nemesis AU, but I continue to be obsessed with these large men not knowing how to flirt about anything outside of violence or interface

I know they don’t ever interact but I was thinking about Skyfire holding Rodimus like a cat, but like the thought was in your style. Like kitty drift but Roddy, anyways seeing kitty drift has been making my day recently!

JUST. A! LITTLE! GUY!!

may have misinterpreted this- but i loved the idea of a TINYY rodimus loafed in the palm of his giant hand

Well...I have to say I know nothing about canon Combaticons and their gestalt, but I read The Combiner Quirks of the Combaticons by Gayrob0t today and this is so so good odktjfjfmfn I just had to draw at least one scene from it

Oh my goodness now I can't stop thinking about the fact that there's a possibility of someone finding out that Jak is sentient. Either him celebrating eerily humanely after he wins a particularly hard fight, or Pandora trying to comfort him after a loss(how often do you see bots getting comforted after a battle, eh?), OR the people(person?) who made Pandora quit legal bot fights (or someone else entirely, bitter that they lost to ur OCs in the underground battle) trying to undermine her, collecting footage and overanalysing it until they figure out that something isn't right...

- 💐 (thinking thoughts.........)

see the fun thing about this ask is that it has some layers to it!

first of all- JAK, while still having some tells that he's not fully AI, at a certain point is pretty comfortably able to fly just under the radar of most people, because while bots being too human is absolutely grounds to get them expunged from their rings, bots having personalities is NOT a crime. Often times bot fighters will code in some rudimentary personality codes to make their bots more likeable, encourage people to bet on them, etc etc. Because of this, JAK is actually pretty popular in his ring because his personality seems so pronounced in comparison to others.

A lot of spectators in the underground rings tend not to look too deep into stuff, the nature of these being illegal prize fights often attracts people of all stripes, though the most common are either those who appreciate the sport, or just garden variety robogore sadists who like seeing bots get obliterated for fun.

That's not to say there haven't been close calls though...

in fact.... this is a good chance to mention that TECHNICALLY..... JAK's cover has, in a way, already been blown.

One of his competitors already thinks there's something up with him.

(btw this oc belongs to my beautiful partner @creehd I will talk more about him if anyone hasss quessstionnsss <3 and i also probably will talk about him anyways even if u dont)

Wait... if EXO is fighting in the underground rings who's his handler? Like he has to have a person (probably an organic) 'controlling'/entering him into the fights right? Or did he do a funny and made a non-sapient mech he controls and pretends that's sapient to sign him up?

@creehd touched on this in his post about EXO from last night, but basically, EXO is pulling a fast one on the whole ring.

See, as this is an illegal bot fighting ring that exists in underground catacombs within the station, there are many bot fighters that WANT to participate, but are unable to appear in person due to many varied reasons, from physically being unable to get there due to illness or species, to wanting to remain completely anonymous due to one's career.

In my mind, and cree can attest this or not, EXO most likely appeared in the bot fighting rings under the guise of being an unsupervised fighter.

Unsupervised fighters DO happen occasionally, though they're much more rare, as if an unsupervised fighter loses a fight brutally enough, their bodies are typically either dumped, picked apart, or left to be collected.

The reason EXO doesn't have to worry about this, in his mind, is because EXO. DOESNT. LOSE.