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“‘It would seem thousands of cycles of Autobot history and knowledge..... have been transmitted to you.”

In the year of our Lord 2020, I’m revisiting Human!Transformers again, never thought I’d see the day.
It’s been more than a decade since I last drew anything from this franchise, but War for Cybertron on Netflix really got me excited for the brand!

I’ve always, always wanted a TV series that could go to the dark corners of the politics behind the war and be sort of like the IDW comics in explaining more of the Transformers themselves than the people on earth and WFC, despite some glaring issues, gives me that and I can’t wait to see Earthrise (while fervently hoping that the humans they meet here aren’t annoying as all hell). WFC done do the rare thing of actually making me interested in Bumblebee as a character throughout the movies/animated series (the 2018 Bumblebee movie is also a winner in my book), I really adore how he starts out non-affiliated to anyone and doesn’t actually care about nobody’s fight above finding peace.

The way they handled his eventual choosing of the Autobot faction however is a little slap dash! I wish there was more of look into why he remained unaffiliated throughout the war for so long, even if only for survival.

My personal headcanon is that he had close friends once, couriers like him who decided to choose sides once the war got going and it ended up with one of them being killed by the other, so he’s been adverse to choosing sides ever since because he’s never gotten over that trauma.

My Human!verse version of him—Ben—-is a bitter teenager who once had a loving family until his dad ranked up as one of Megatron’s officers and things got tense in his household because his mother was sympathetic to the Autobot rebel faction while his father became increasingly radicalized by Meg’s rhetoric. Things went downhill when she was accused of hiding and helping them and his father turned her in to cops who hung her alongside others in the square as traitors. He balked at the very idea of joining Megatron’s faction ever since and ran off. However, what he doesn’t tell anyone is that his refusal to join the Autobots is because the person his mother was punished for helping was an injured, younger Optimus Prime, and so there’s resentment there as well which he has to come to terms with when he actually meets Prime—-who he remembers but does not in turn recognize him as the child hiding behind the door glaring away suspiciously—-years later.

The name ‘Bumblebee’ was his mother’s nickname for him and his stripey hoodie was a gift she said his scrawny self would grow into eventually. He eventually gets proper power armor as a member of the Autobots, sort of their Gavroche/thief/scout, but he always wears the hoodie on top of it.

He looks a little more grown up than when I first drew him!

Description
“‘It would seem thousands of cycles of Autobot history and knowledge..... have been transmitted to you.”

In the year of our Lord 2020, I’m revisiting Human!Transformers again, never thought I’d see the day.
It’s been more than a decade since I last drew anything from this franchise, but War for Cybertron on Netflix really got me excited for the brand!

I’ve always, always wanted a TV series that could go to the dark corners of the politics behind the war and be sort of like the IDW comics in explaining more of the Transformers themselves than the people on earth and WFC, despite some glaring issues, gives me that and I can’t wait to see Earthrise (while fervently hoping that the humans they meet here aren’t annoying as all hell). WFC done do the rare thing of actually making me interested in Bumblebee as a character throughout the movies/animated series (the 2018 Bumblebee movie is also a winner in my book), I really adore how he starts out non-affiliated to anyone and doesn’t actually care about nobody’s fight above finding peace.

The way they handled his eventual choosing of the Autobot faction however is a little slap dash! I wish there was more of look into why he remained unaffiliated throughout the war for so long, even if only for survival.

My personal headcanon is that he had close friends once, couriers like him who decided to choose sides once the war got going and it ended up with one of them being killed by the other, so he’s been adverse to choosing sides ever since because he’s never gotten over that trauma.

My Human!verse version of him—Ben—-is a bitter teenager who once had a loving family until his dad ranked up as one of Megatron’s officers and things got tense in his household because his mother was sympathetic to the Autobot rebel faction while his father became increasingly radicalized by Meg’s rhetoric. Things went downhill when she was accused of hiding and helping them and his father turned her in to cops who hung her alongside others in the square as traitors. He balked at the very idea of joining Megatron’s faction ever since and ran off. However, what he doesn’t tell anyone is that his refusal to join the Autobots is because the person his mother was punished for helping was an injured, younger Optimus Prime, and so there’s resentment there as well which he has to come to terms with when he actually meets Prime—-who he remembers but does not in turn recognize him as the child hiding behind the door glaring away suspiciously—-years later.

The name ‘Bumblebee’ was his mother’s nickname for him and his stripey hoodie was a gift she said his scrawny self would grow into eventually. He eventually gets proper power armor as a member of the Autobots, sort of their Gavroche/thief/scout, but he always wears the hoodie on top of it.

He looks a little more grown up than when I first drew him!