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At last--- Humanformer Nightshade!! NS has by far one of my favorite designs and coming of age episodes out of all the Terrans, I hope I did them justice!! For their casual look I tried to marry a little bit of medieval outfit design w/scientific theming and I think it worked (first pose inspired by one of the renders I found done by Sebastian Contreras on Artstation ; https://artstation.com/artwork/5vok5A)

I love giving the robots the most over-the-top, obnoxious eyelashes 💜

Dreamyyy

Combining my current interests together ;]]]

something something kid appeal bot = babysitter

bonus:

And of course i had to draw Nightshade again heheh

Do you have any favourite headcanons about Nightshade?

(I feel like them being autistic is a pretty common headcanon, so I’m curious if you have any thoughts on that as well)

YEAYEYWYEYYSUSY OH MY GOD YES WE HAVE SO MANY HEADCANONS ABT THEM !!!!! get ready for a fuckn infodump (also sosoos many of these are just us projecting)

warning: i sound like an insane person

okay so YES !!! nightshade is absolutely autistic. and they are stimming constantly. they stim vocally a lot, and a lot of the time its just bird sounds, but sometimes it'll just start screaming lmao. it also likes to rock back and forth a lot!! definitely a verrrry common one.

Also if youve seen how we draw nightshade you might've noticed that we draw xem with little wings in root mode! they also flap those to stim :]

also they love slime!!! this is verry much just me projecting but i like to think xey love slime and they have a huge collection of textures <33 its favorite is bingsu!!!

and NEOPRONOUNS as you might've noticed :P. (we have a nightshade alter that uses neos so we are once again, projecting) but anyway, it was hashtag that told nightshade about neos, and they immediately got into it!! they have many and love hoarding them <3 some of xeir favorites are it/xe/that/owl/web/bot/mur

bones!!! vulture culture!!!!! they collect bones. sometimes theyll go out into the forest and search for bones for hours (it has soooo many antlers) and if web finds a dead animal, web'll take it back with them to clean it out webselves :]

They also have intrusive thoughts. yeah less fun headcanon time. they can be very vivid and very graphic, and its caused nightshade to have panic attacks a few times. i hc that bumblebee also used to have them, so bees helped xem through some of the bad ones <3

also xey have severe emetophobia. yeah i know, a bit of a weird one. if someones sick, they will be avoiding that person like the plague. whenever it watches a movie with the family, it'll always check if there are emeto scenes so it knows when to look away or leave (shout out to doesthedogdie.com i fucking love that website!!!!)

this post cus i think about it a lot

and general terran hc! i headcanon that all the terrans can eat human food :D although nightshade specifically has a difficult time eating (the tism) and xey'll only eat things like noodles or very processed food. murs a huge ramen lover 😎

MINECRAFT. you cannot look at nightshade and tell me they dont love minecraft!! xey have a survival world going where xeyre completely decked out in netherite, have a hundred redstone machines scattered all over the place, and just so many huge projects going on. mur started a multi player world and got all murs siblings to join. most chaotic world ever

and now im thinking abt owls, so. they have night vision, because of course. and it also sleeps in a nest (terrans can sleep hc jumpscare) its just a pile of a fuck ton of pillows and blankets and if you touch it xey WILL bite you

also it has a very strong prey drive. if they see anything particularly small moving around on the floor they are fucking jumping it. its like xeyre the maltos mouser lmao. no small animal that shows up in the malto home is safe

oh and as for music !!! big fan of the big neurodivergent three lmao. lemon demon, will wood, tally hall. that stuff yknow? (yes im projecting) also heres a playlist that our nightshade alter made that is 100% what we hc source nightshade to listen to !!!!

LOVES STAR TREK !!!! you CANNOT convince me they wouldn’t. big fan of the non-human bridge officers <3 Spock, Data, Saru (and also big Odo fan) webs favorite is probably next gen :] also i 100% percent believe it was Alex that introduced xem to it. i look at alex and see a star trek liker. i will not be taking criticism

oh and now heres a weird one. when nightshade was a protoform, they were always very… squinty? i dunno, its just something we noticed. like why are you squinting baby, can you not see? and then when xey got their altmode, suddenly xeir eyes were much wider! and i like to think that they did actually have bad eyesight as a protoform! and becoming and owl greatly improved it :]

also they cant see glass in their alt mode <3 hashtag has a compilation of mur crashing into windows

and about the episode "missed connection", we aren't actually told how long nightshade was helping tarantulas, and while most interpret it as just one day, i like to think it actually took about a week at least or even longer. i dont really know why i hc this, but maybe its cus i need nightshade and tarantulas to be besties or i'll die

okay thats it for now <3 i definitely have more headcanons so i might make a second post abt em later

POV he gets you

Tara again yeah :)

Funny ideas for the Terrans

- Yknow how when little kids fall over they fill their lungs with enough air to wail like an air siren? Thrash does that sometimes.

- Nightshade - being a bird - can’t see glass after getting their alt mode. This means they have to be careful, and are always very cautious to make sure there’s some sort of a perch to land on beforehand.

this is 100% because while for a while Dot left the kitchen window open bc it was nice outside, one night she closed it, and they would normally swoop in using mass shifting and land on the counter to greet her and Alex in the morning before work, or help with the dishes. But it was closed, so they confidently swooped in, believing it was still open, and ramming straight into it head on, smashing their beak into the glass (the window cracked), then fell. It was quiet a moment before they started absolutely wailing hysterically on the ground, because that really hurt their fragile/sensitive beak. Dot, horrified and feeling terrible, immediately rushed out and whisked them up to comfort them. That is how it was discovered they’re blind to glass now, and ever since she has put stickers on the windows to help indicate if they’re open or closed for them.

- Twitch will sometimes get zoomies, except she’s zooming so fast and so completely ‘no thought head empty’/hyperfocused on zooming, she ends up stuck in the dirt, and has to be pulled out. Then she’s off and within the next two minutes she’s done it again.

- Hashtag lags sometimes. She’s an internet hotspot, basically, and those have their troubles, so sometimes she’ll lag like that after overuse or something. It leads to some silly things, and once she was stuck so long the others turned it into the mannequin challenge.

- Jawbreaker has turned really big tires into hamster wheels sometimes, and has even been caught sleeping in them. This has lead to him inadvertently winning hide and seek.

A They/Them who causes May/Hem

Some face meme requests from twitter

if you took a bite out of them, they would taste like the andes chocolate mints

What if Ultra Magnus is in Earthspark?

(Who is really big, bigger than Megatron then got seriously injured and him saying "I'm fine" when the Maltos are being hysterical at the background.)

(What?

Ultra Magnus is Evolving!)

(Also Minimus Ambus slipping out from his suit.)

(He'll be smaller than twitch, which he would be standing there proud and mighty.)

(He then saying sup' to everyone)

Me: Ehhh...why not make it to a meme?

Also me: yeeeEEESSSS

Hahaha my still looking for my art style

I have Earthspark Brainrot rn so enjoy the Sillies!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2023!

After All is Said and Done

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EARTHSPARK!

Summery: "Please tell me I wasn’t this bad when I was a sparkling.“ Bumblebee sighed. "No. You were a lot worse.” Optimus teased.

ao3

Bumblebee was exhausted by the time they got back to the Malto farm. And it wasn’t all due to the battle with Mandroid.

On the way he’d had to stop Jawbreaker from adopting the raccoon that seemed to follow them everywhere, Hashtag from fighting an inflatable wavy arm man and Nightshade from trying to chat up the non-sentient speed train. And now, despite the dark of dusk creeping over the horizon, the new young Terrans were in no rush to get some recharge, having started a game of hot cube with Twitch and Thrash, whilst using the human children as hot cubes.

Bumblebee collapsed onto the bed of hay, keeping one optic on the Terrans through the open barn doors. He felt the warm chuckle of Optimus’ baritone as the Prime sat on the haystacks besides him.

“Please tell me I wasn’t this bad when I was a sparkling.” Bumblebee sighed.

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Hehe hambirb

for the transformers sketch requests, how about nightshade from earthspark?

The lovely inventor and big eyed cinnamonroll!! 🦉💚

finished the new tfe episodes and wow!! i love that nightshade fella!

nb color palette for the funsies

*grabs Nightshade from Earthspark* LOOK OSTAROS NEW SIBLING

new sibling!

someone on twitter wanted to see a headshot example and I didn’t have recent samples so here’s a quick nightshade! I love them ^^ I think their design is really cool!

Thinking about how funny Missed Connections is from anyone’s perspective other than Nightshade’s

From Tarantulas’ perspective, this random excitable incredibly nerdy child wandered into his lab (which is in a graveyard), presumably either lost or trying to hide, and becomes his assistant out of sheer curiosity. When he asks them to run away with him in order to hide from the ambiguously evil agency trying to imprison and/or indenture bots (and put them in fighting rings but I’m presuming he doesn’t know about that) they respond by looking dramatically away and saying they have other …obligations here. And then you go to their house and find out that they’re living with a full on GHOST agent, who’s saying inexplicably threatening things, and misunderstandings ensue.

From the rest of the sibling’s perspectives, it’s a no-school day, but their sibling Nightshade is building inventions instead of hanging out with them. Then they read Batman and tries to go visit the author in a graveyard, and whilst they’re gone, they try and fix their invention with duct tape and self-confidence to try and get Nightshade to hang out with them, and end up breaking it further. Nightshade, however, is not angry, because they met a scientist in the graveyard, and wants to take apart the murdersphere 5007 with the scientist. And then a giant spider kidnaps their parents. 

From Dot and Alex’s perspective, their child is struggling to connect with their siblings, asks about morality, might have met a decepticon, and then they get kidnapped by a giant fucking spider in the middle of the night.

Perfection.

Hice estas humanizaciónes de los Terrans hace rato pero no las había acabado, las hice antes de que se filtrara el look de JB así que ese se los dejo debiendo (?

An act of kindness.

Their friendship means everything to me

Working on a big oc post right now, so have a Nightshade sketch sheet.

Nightshade fire scene, anyone?

Also I will never ever draw anything more perfect than this

“It brings me no joy to say this to you, but I warned you…”