Introducing Slade Holt

[beckyh2112]

Redhead, knows how to fly a Marine Harrier (has never been in the Armed Forces), blue eyes, works at a toystore where his hate for other people is honed nicely, favors orange sunglasses (when it's not dark), more than a bit of a jerk.

You Coming to Bed? by *Chaos2112 on deviantART

Rather yummy without his shirt.

Comments

[kalaryx.livejournal.com]

Slade Holt - I like that. ;D

Also, toy store? Lol!

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I've got human names for all of the Aerialbots and I borrow Monoshiri's names for the Stunticons. They've all evolved some, but I think Slade and Eric/Erica have kept their names the same the longest.

Slade would totally go Marines if someone would let him, but they won't, so he just stocks toys and plays with a boxcutter and grunts at customers.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Goddammit, I have been on a major humanfic kick for the last few weeks, and I am trying to get over it, and this is not helping.

(Shiny. Very, very shiny.)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

But humanfic is yummy!

Besides, dude. Sylvia Boltman. How can you say no to Sylvia Boltman?

(Yes, yes, he is. *cuddles Slade*)

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Dude, did you make Silverbolt a girl? Does everyone make Silverbolt a girl? I made Silverbolt a girl, but that was mostly akisawana's fault...

I can't really do the human names, though, I have to say. They make me giggle too much. ^_^

(At this point I have a whole thing worked out for how the Aerial gestalt works in a humanverse. And that led on to an EPIC Skyfire/Silverbolt(/Motormaster) storyline with evil!Silverbolt. Which has been eating up far too much brain-time for something I am never going to write out...)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I tend to switch Silverbolt, Air Raid, and Fireflight's gender, depending on mood. (Breakdown and Drag Strip are permanently girls in headspace, while Wildrider is a switch. The others are all male.)

Sometimes Moto and 'Bolt have a kid. And there is lots of angst and gunfighting, and "ohgod, we can't tell Optimus whose kid this really is, because he will KILL people, and Megatron will retaliate, and it will all GO TO HELL".

I, um, have a very odd headspace. I love it.

*wants to hear about Skyfire/Silverbolt(/Motormaster) storyline with evil!Silverbolt*

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I made all the Aerialbots girls for a while. I also ran a not dissimilar kidfic storyline (with Skyfire and Silverbolt, obviously) although in that case the running and hiding was because they'd been _turned_ human and were terrified someone was going to take the kid away from them or try to turn them all back before it was born. Which, while angsty, did result in hilarious Aerialbots-on-the-run-with-Skyfire scenarios to rival any sitcom.

(My recurring theme for headspace plays seems to be Skyfire-as-human disappearing on a mission, and Silverbolt slowly falling apart from not knowing if he's alive or dead. Sometimes this is as a result of everyone getting turned human overnight, and Skyfire having been away from the base at the time, and not turning up for a long while.)

Ehe. I am trying to summarise it in short form. Silverbolt gets captured, because Shockwave wants to experiment with the gestalt link and the Decepticon gestalts have threatened mutiny if any of them are used. The gestalt link being an artificial telepathy created by implants and designed to allow a team to act preternaturally as one unit. It's experimental, and dangerous, and the Autobots angst about it a lot. Shockwave uses the link as a way into Silverbolt's mind and subtly re-creates it, so that we end up with an evil!Silverbolt who is utterly terrifying because he is exactly like real Silverbolt until the moment he pulls a gun on someone he loves.

Um, for the rest of it... he and Skyfire are married, which Silverbolt is aware of but doesn't actually remember. And Motormaster is horrified by what's been done to him, and not just because it could also be done to him and his gestalt. And eventually the Decepticons take Skyfire prisoner, and Megatron orders Silverbolt to torture him, and things really go downhill from there.

I was actually thinking of writing a scene from that universe for your springkink prompt - after the torture has failed, and Silverbolt has given up in disgust, because he never wanted to use pain anyway, he tries things his way - and tempts, offers Skyfire what he's lost - and breaks him in a way that torture never could have - but I thought that it would require so much set-up it wouldn't really be fair play.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh~ *twines around, nuzzles* This is such an interesting-sounding idea. How does evil!Silverbolt interact with his gestalt-mates?

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Exactly the way you're probably thinking - plays them off, manipulates them, lets them think they have a chance to redeem him, then laughs in their faces. He intends to destroy them - not least because the connection is maddening to him now that he's no longer entirely a part of it. He actually has very little interest in Skyfire initially, it's all about his gestalt and how he can use them...

I have a feeling Motormaster, bizarrely, ends up trying to convince Silverbolt not to go after the Aerialbots. Because the whole systematically-destroying-your-own-gestalt thing freaks him out more than he cares to admit. But now I think about it, I kind of threw Motormaster in when I was running this before, and then went off on a tangent (which involved Starcream, surprise surprise) and forgot about him, and about the Aerialbots, and now I want to know what the hell happened there, because I followed the Skyfire/Silverbolt storyline exclusively after that. *pokes brain*

I MUST GO TO BED.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

NO YOU MUST STAY UP AND GIVE ME FIREFLIGHT HUDDLING IN MOTORMASTER'S ARMS BECAUSE SILVERBOLT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF HIM! AND MOTORMASTER BEING ALL "WHAT THE HELL, MAN".

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I THINK THAT IMAGE JUST ATE MY BRAIN OH MY GOD POOR LITTLE 'FLIGHT

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

YOU KNOW YOUR LIFE SUCKS WHEN YOU FIND MOTORMASTER COMFORTING *LUFFLES FIREFLIGHT*

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Also, where can I learn to do this stuff in 3D? Because I have such a clear image of human!Silverbolt.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I use Daz Studio (http://www.daz3d.com/i/software/studio?_m=d) as my rendering program of choice, but I've got a few plug-ins to help me with shaders. I really recommend picking up pwSurface if you like Daz Studio, because it's such an incredibly awesome tool once you get to playing with it.

*scans the various new features on D|S* Man, I really need to play with some of this stuff. Of course, I also really need a space to spread out my content libraries in.

[raikomotomiya.livejournal.com]

Oooooh... nummy. That curve of spine is just divine. Though I think the legs are a little stiff. Maybe it's the angle?

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

You are the second person to comment on the legs being stiff. Obviously, there is a problem there.

And yes. I love his back. *licks*

*will try to avoid that in the future, but doesn't really do rerenders*

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Random question, and this seems the appropriate entry for it - am I right in thinking that the Stunticons all have purple optics (apart from Drag Strip's visor)?

Because I find that really interesting, given that the Aerialbots have Standard Autobot Blue.

[blackwingdove.livejournal.com]

*doesn't feel like logging out of RP journal*

Yeah, the Stunticons all have purple optics, except for Drag Strip's visor. Even Dead End's visor is purple. (I also tend to assume that if one could remove Drag Strip's visor, you'd find purple optics underneath.)