robots don't cry by hibbary on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Heh heh, well, this picca idea popped into my head and I decided to go for it even though I've never really drawn a mech before, let alone colored one. It was an... educational experience... There are a couple of technical concerns that I'll now lament, for one, Starscream is a huge mech and so the water drops should be much smaller--indistingishable, really. But I wanted freaking water drops so I said, "screw it. I'll just make them bigger than they really are supposed to be." So, you must suspend disbelief a little here.
"What is this all about?" you may be wondering. Well, I was thinking about Transformers and how they appear to have very human attributes despite their mechanical bodies and I thought it a cruel, unusual thing on the behalf of their creators to give them the capability of feeling emotional hurt. I'm not very knowledgable about Cybertronian history, so it could very well be that they developed them entirely on their own, but I still find it upsetting, the idea of a living soul locked away in a cage of metal. Kind of make you wonder if there weren't a few who just couldn't take it all and released their sparks onto oblivion. From what I can tell, most of the 'bots seem just fine with it, but what if one started to feel differently, confined in such a cold, hard shell? I'm sure none of the others would understand...
Well, I picked out Starscream for this, one, because he's my fav, and two, because it seems like he's just the angstiest transformer of them all. It's the Armada version of him because I'm more well versed with that having no access to G1. *ducks thrown objects* I know nobody likes it and everyone thinks it's stupid and a herasy, but c'mon! That's what makes it fun to watch!