• sent by Anonymous

    We seem to be on a mech au kick again and just I’m just Eternally having thoughts about texaid and the combaticons in this au. The idea of first aid starting to smoke or wearing vortex’s old jacket and swindle or someone SEEING THAT is one that never leaves me alone.

  • answered by keferon

    Hmmmmmmmm

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  • coyotemaximal

  • i think it's lowkey a fascinating character design choice that all the combaticons have masks EXCEPT for swindle. subtle visual cue that this is the guy whose words you have to watch or something like that. idk.

  • st-peculiar

  • I’ve had a lot of thoughts on this myself…

    Like okay. This might not make any sense at all but I’ll give it a shot anyways. Swindle is their face guy. He’s always interacting with other characters on a much larger scale than the other combaticons because of his businessman-like personality and occupation. It’s kind of like “you can trust me because you can read my face and see my ‘honesty’” while the other combaticons’ expressions are completely concealed. Easier to lie when you aren’t giving any physical tells. But Swindle is just so fucking good sometimes that lying comes to him like second nature. He’s good at talking, communicating—negotiating. His design being different from his other teammates is both functional for them and a good cue in for the audience regarding Swindle as a character.

    Completely dismissing the fact that the mfs name is Swindle, you could catch on pretty easily what his whole deal and role is within the combaticon dynamic. The rest of them—they’re dangerous. They’re big, seemingly emotionless, obvious that they hold some kind of firepower. But Swindle is smaller, big eyes and a generally unassuming face. Kinda normal in a way. But you don’t realize until you’re completely fucked over that Swindle was the one you had to be looking out for the entire time.

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  • sent by thesafftaff34k

    What has buckethead even been doing all time????

  • answered by zeropro
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    Collecting his combiner teams and preparing for a big fight.

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    The Autobots will hopefully be prepared.

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  • sent by dabbyman-deactivated20260101

    So What Are The Combiners Like And I Mean All Of Em

  • answered by zeropro
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    The youngest Decepticons, born on earth from thawed sparks placed inside earth vehicles. The Stunticons are a close knit family unit and do anything Motormaster tells them. They don’t really know or care what the Decepticons are fighting for, as long as they get to have fun and wreck havoc.

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    The Constructicons are one of the oldest combiner teams, and were some of the first mechs to join the Decepticon cause. They’re like the glue that holds the faction together, working behind the scenes on any non combatant jobs that need done and sometimes literally holding the base together after an attack. They take pride in a task well done, and don’t concern themselves too much with politics, trusting those in charge to guide the ship while they focus on keeping it running. They are loyal to each other first and the Decepticons second, and look forward to the day they can start rebuilding Cybertron.

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    Starscream’s brigade, former criminals that were given a second lease on life when Starscream stole their personality chips from a prison cell on Cybertron and reformatted them into a combiner team for his own purposes. The combaticons hate each other (except Onslaught and Blast Off, who are dating), and aren’t too fond of Starscream either, but they’re stuck together due to the nature of their combiner programing, which forces them to combine together when given the command to do so. After failing to help Starscream overthrow Megatron, the gray tyrant installed kill switches in their processors to insure they do as they are told.

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    Way back in the day, Beastformers were not considered people and were often experimented on for science. The Predacons were the first successful attempt at creating a combiner out of separate individual mechs. The Predacons really would just like to be left alone, but they will follow whoever is the strongest, and currently that is Megatron.

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  • fenostarvedemon

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    You can call it a small redesign, probably🦄
    I really love combaticons, I want to draw more of them❤️❤️❤️
    So I made myself such a micro reference✍️

    P.s Sorry, I drew the humanoid faceplates for everyone. I love the variety of faces, like the different angles of eyes or the silly noses:-P

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