I've Noticed A Few Posts Lately Talking About Makeshift From Transformers Prime.

I've noticed a few posts lately talking about Makeshift from Transformers Prime.

I get the appeal. He's a minor character with a total of two appearances in fiction (not counting the children's book that's just an adaptation of "Con Job"), who has an interesting ability that gives him a lot of potential for stories. What I haven't seen though, is literally anyone talking about Universe Makeshift, so it pleases me to be the first.

I have no idea why I love him so much. I don't even think he's enough of a character to count as a Glup Shitto. He's never appeared in any fiction. He has no official bio or personality. He doesn't even have a figure that can stand properly. All he has is being a bluish-purple late 60s muscle car with knife and claw hands, but that's apparently enough for me.

The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again

My kitten tried to kill my stuffed tribble. My roommate remarked that my tribble killing cat would make a great Klingon pet… and she’s right.

Imagine a Klingon ship having a cat that protects them from tribbles & vermin. They have to get the cat from a shelter run by humans and they’re like “This is the honorable Mr. Chonks”.

“Yes, our ship also has an earth feline. Her name is Carrot and she fights like a warrior.”

There’s absolutely a Klingon out there who lost an eye to a feral cat that he then adopted.

Klingons who go “pspspspsps” to get the Ship Cat to come hang out during break.

Orange Ship Cat that gets lost in the jeffires tubes and Klingon whose sole job is to go fetch the orange cat. He acts like he hates his job but he actually really adores his feline co-worker so much.

Klingon that always hands things to the Ship Cat so it can sniff it.

Klingon that intentionally grabs boxes to enrich Ship Cat’s little life. Sometimes they get multiple boxes and the crew bets on which box will be deemed “best box” by their fluffy little warrior.

Klingon that starts his work shift saying “Qapla'!” to Ship Cat who meows in return.

Newly Minted Ship Kitten climbing up to a Klingon Captain’s shoulder with her tiny needle claws while said Captain is attempting to be intimidating on the viewscreen.

Klingon who gets a head bunt from Ship Cat and gives it a head bunt back.

God I loved that scene with Jazz and Cliffjumper in the recent Skybound issue. Not only did Jazz actively engage with Cliffjumper body language wise but he went out of his way to console Cliff on the his hesitation to kill Starscream AND Carly giving him the silent treatment. It's also the fact Cliffjumper felt comfortable enough to vent to Jazz about these things in the first place?! Even though Jazz doesn't understand personally, he related Cliffjumper's struggle to Optimus who is going through a similar thing with Spike which in turn also further humanized Optimus

I agree with this completely! I know I've said this before here, but it's been so rare for Jazz to express closeness (particularly physically) or open up with anyone in this way! It's great to see a friendship between Jazz and Cliffjumper expanded upon too, it was only present in like... one episode and the movie in the Sunbow cartoon, and it's great to see it come back. I hope that Jazz gets the same depth as Cliffjumper and Arcee have and might eventually open up about his own personal struggles, too.

I am literally in the process of writing a post about Jazz and his traumatic past from the Marvel UK comics continuity that will include this bit:

While I get the sense that this may change, particularly with the new Skybound comics featuring Jazz and showing more of his friendship with Cliffjumper which has its source in the Sunbow cartoon, I don't feel like we've ever had this much of a window into Jazz's past and such a deep look at his personality and relationships. I don't think that any future content needs to be this dark, but I hope that as much attention is given to Jazz in the future!

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