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THE JETTWINS’ CANON CREATION IS KINDA HORRIFYING HOLY SHIT

#My favourite thing about this is the fact that it explains why Jetfire’s optics are yellow#You can see that Jetfire is the one with his head blown clean off because of his orange arm (and that’s really the only tell)#so sciencebots had to completely rebuild his helm artificially which means his optics wouldn’t be ‘natural’ ones they’d be more like#functional prosthetics or something. We know from tfp that there are some organs that are impossible to recreate perfectly like t-cogs#the minicons – which were also built by sciencebots – also have yellow optics#which leads me to confirm that optics are one such of those organs that are incredibly difficult to recreate#and that the yellow optics that are built instead are like imitations of real optics. As close as they can get with current technology#because before the accident both twins have blue optics so why bother changing it to yellow? There would be no point to that if they could#rebuild optics properly#this is probably not the only use of ‘next best thing’ mechanical replacement in their bodies but it is the most obvious#and confirms that they’re basically frankenstein monsters of their own original frames + flying parts + various kinds of prosthetics#and i think that’s cool#

That’s my favorite thing too along with the fact that they literally chose them because Ultra Magnus didn’t give a shit if they lived or died through the experiment and they had virtually no say in being picked whatsoever. 

Magnus literally said “find me someone expendable”. I s2g Mags goes from Optimus-level nice to asshole so fast…

That’s why I love TFA. The Autobot regime is so fucked up lol

//ACTUALLY, different colored optics were confirmed by Derrick Wyatt (art director for TFA) to be an indication of altered coding, which we know occurred when Starscream’s flight coding was incorporated. Jetstorm has a visor, so we have no idea what color his optics actually are post-rebuild. Minicons reflect this as well, as they don’t seem to have full Autobot coding. They’re an “artificial” construct.

TFA doesn’t have the problem of difficult to replicate parts, as every body type is pretty much handled like Vehicons. Protoforms are stuck into molds and brought online in batches. There are very, very few unique frames at the base level, but modifications are widely accepted. So yeah they’re definitely “frankensteined”, but the optic change runs a little deeper.