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Somebody shoot me. I've got other people's fancharas hijacking my brain.

heslestor's questionable Autobot, Hotzone. A Toxicologist and Pathologist whose ethics don't quite match up to the Autobot ideal, and if you kill him it's very likely that all the chemicals he's carrying around would make the surrounding area for miles a dead zone. Recent conversation had him cooing over a parasite of his own creation, and this image promptly burned itself into my brain along with the name Talin for the parasite. Which, like other made up words that hit me, turned out to be not-so-made-up. In this case, there's two. *exasperated*

Before, I'd offered to draw Hotzone because I like him so much and actually had a different one in progress. But nooooo, the pathologist wanted his parasite-in-a-vial. *sulk* It's really not fair when I'm struggling to get my own characters down and visualized. But hey, I'm glad it's one I could finish, there's not been many of those lately. And I hope you like this Heslestor, he was fun to design.

And if anyone knows where I can find some good tips on doing metal that's colored, I'd be very grateful.

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(incomprehensible sound of glee) He. Is. Perfect! Seriously, he is, I have an incredibly tough time coming up with designs for their helms (that I actually like) and love what you've done with him.

On anyone else, those big blue optics would make them look all innocent, but it's a little different on him; you can tell he's coming up with all kinds of things in that CPU of his.
And the parasite, Talin! (Who is even starting to develop a personality now) is wonderful. You absolutely read my mind.

And he's even finally starting to tell me more about his past and what he's getting up to so I can write about him. And I'm very so tempted to have him meet a human who decided that it would be a brilliant idea to ingest tape worms to lose weight. And the little heart is the icing on the cake. He's a very demanding character, though, isn't he? When he wants something, he wants something. ~~Like some of Mixmaster's stuff.~~

Haven't been able to stop grinning like a loon since I've seen it. (I'll just be quietly squeeing in the corner over here for the rest of the day now.)

Thank you! *loves the sound of glees*

Giving him large optics that didn't look like I was trying to do a fluff picture [which I can hardly stand doing] was a bit of a chore, since most gas-masks have large areas for the eyes and it wouldn't look quite right if he didn't have something similar. So, yeah.

And Talin is all happy to see Hotzone which should disturb me, but only succeeds in making me jealous. And THAT should disturb me that I'm jealous of the affections of a human-sized bladed parasite, but I couldn't care less if the creatures I'm interested in tend to give the average joe the willies.

Yay! Sometimes all characters need is a little attention from others and then they're very cooperative. Such as Wardrum, he's spoken up more since he was the one everyone commented on. ~~I want some of Mixmaster's stuff too. But I don't want to die a horrible death.~~

This is the second picture I have ever done in which I've tacked a heart onto a character. *people gasp and exclaim "Say it isn't so!"* Yet I don't care because like you noted, it just makes the picture all that more. Course the last one had giant mutant crabs being eaten, so interpret that as you will.

The large optics and heart kind of make it seem like he's thinking 'now who exactly should I test my little Talin on?' Which then makes me giggle like mad. Don't feel bad, I'm a bit jealous, too. Besides, it's so fun giving the average joe the willies. Would it come as a huge surprise that Talin doesn't really like any of the other Autobots?

The thing with Mixmaster is that you have to know how to get the stuff you want from him safely, which is hard enough if you're a Decepticon on relatively good terms with him, let alone an Autobot. Methinks Hotzone is gonna have to end up pulling a lot of strings and favors if he wants those substances. Then there's the fact that not only are these substances something the Autobots wouldn't really like him having (which is saying something with some of the stuff in his possession) but he also has to make sure that Mixmaster didn't alter it, either.

And why the hell am I not getting notices that someone responded to my comments anymore?

"Hmmm, I wonder if you could make the Aerialbots dance?"

His dislike is no surprise at all. The same thought was running around in my mind too.

*cacklefit* That would make an awesome fic. Now I'm getting the image of him bargaining with Torpedo or Sawblade to obtain what he wants in exchange for chemistry/pathology lessons. >_> Which should not happen because they don't believe in working with Autobots. They're curious fraggers that like knowing how the universe works even if getting that information isn't standard. I have an oc that they get their claws on when they wanted to learn anatomy. So opposed to just sticking to a datapad, they took apart a bot. Needless to say, that oc doesn't survive their self-taught lesson.

Cause lj is confounding? *shrug* No, idea. It's always been that way for me, I have to depend on my e-mail for comments I make elsewhere.

I bet just the sight of Talin would do more than make the Aerialbots, or anyone else for that matter, dance. And for some reason, it took me just until now to realize exactly how big Talin is. The humans are gonna freak should they ever enter Hotzone's domain. And they're gonna freak even more when they realize Talin sees them as nothing more than a light snack. With Talin as a pet, I almost feel sorry for anyone should they hurt Zone and the little worm finds out. He may be more on the simple minded side, but you don't hurt his caretaker.

Now I'm gonna have to figure how he's getting what he wants, not alert anyone to what he's doing, get away with it, keep his life and most importantly his health. Maybe he can rope in Smokescreen or Sideswipe to help him, 'cause you just know that he can brew some really good moonshine energon. He'd go to Swindle, but he knows he'd be sold out the instance the price was right.
I have a feeling that Torpedo, Sawblade and Hotzone may just put their differences aside, for a while, if something was to catch their collective attention. They won't even notice they're working together until someone wanders across them and goes 'you guys do know you're on opposite teams, right'?

That reminds me of a fic I saw a while ago, where Barricade was using Mikaela as a living cadaver.

*snarls and mauls internet browser* Hate, absolutely HATE it when I keep losing comments to the void. Let's see if this one sticks.

You know how tempted I was to draw myself giving a confused Talin a hug? Very, very tempted.

Ah, I misspoke. It wasn't my intention to imply that only Torpedo and Sawblade were the curious ones. All the Sauricons are inquisitive, those two are just more likely to seek out lessons rather than just hands-on experience.
Now all I can hear from the group is a simply stated "Oops" and a quietly mumbled "He doesn't act much like an Autobot".

And that was a just downright evil fic. Wardrum would like to point out that they kept theirs off-line, and that he doesn't understand why the Autobots are so much more furious than usual about that one they've killed compared to others.

I've learnt my lesson in concerns of the Voids known as the Internet and copy all comments into a document before posting.

Do eeeeeeeeeet. You know you want to. If for nothing else than to have Talin unsure whether he should snack on the flesh creature or leave the strange human alone.

Now have an image of them all sitting crosslegged in a giant circle while Zone wows them all with some of the nastier viruses he knows. Kind of like Uncle Fester, Wednesday and Pugsly from the one Addams Family movie with the book of human injuries 'Oooooh, scabs.'

Hotzone is of the philosophy that the Decepticons already do horrible things to their enemies, and often even their allies and own troops, Autobot behavior isn't going to really change that, so why get mad when he does the same thing, and in a humane way too? He's curious, not cruel. Well, unless ~~necessary~~ provoked. Besides, with the Cons 'rule of the strong' he's smart enough to find a low rank grunt of no importance if he wants a test subject. There's even some Bots that agree with him.

Also, I've not had so much information about biology crammed in my head since school as I do research for Talin. And at least with classes, there was a time limit, unlike at home where I go link happy, start with parasites and end up wondering how the hell I ended up at Mark Hamill's wiki page in the wee hours of the morning.

Nuuuuuuu. Not another picture....*sighs and grins* Really, at this rate I'm going to have more stuff finished in relation to your character than my Sauricons. I want to draw them, but they keep moving away and leaving me to Hotzone. ~~And they're laughing at me too dammit.~~

There probably aren't that many people who get all fascinated by his interests like he is. So any chance to share with the curious is probably enthusiastically embraced. And I just realized that with that statement his partial residence in my skull is now official, because I didn't reply right away since I started that other picture.

That's the title of the book? I want.

Now I wish I could share my 'Parasite and Symbiology' book with you. It's a textbook written by a PhD and while old (1970) it has a lot of research data in it that's more than just "parasite eats you, you're in trouble". Clark Read is the author if you get the chance to look it up.

And lookit what I found (http://www.ki4u.com/chemical_biological_attack_detection_response.htm) while looking for reference pics. *shoves more information over*

They know how to distract you, they may be young but they sure aren't dumb. Maybe if you bribe them with something, then they'll sit still long enough for you to draw them.

That, and people tend to be put off by his particular brand of enthusiasm for the subject as well. They tend to get a sneaking suspicion that he'd like to see what would happen if they were the one infected with one of the chemicals or viruses he was researching.

"Parasite eats you, you're in trouble." I find this inappropriately funny and haven't been able to stop giggling inanely for a while now. Probably because of the image where a doctor is saying that to a patient.

Oh, more information, can never have enough of that. *noms info* As I get distracted so easily, I tend not to find the more specific information I'm looking for. Unless it's right before a deadline, that is.

*typed these at the same time*

Mwahahaha, thank you. I told them that I won't allow their lessons to happen if they won't cooperate. That got their attention, apparently I needed to speak Decepticon.

But it's that kind of dedication that I admire in knowledge seekers. That he sees everyone the same is also admirable from my point of view. It also comes to mind that he wants them to know/think that. After all, I would think it's a great defense if people were worried about you infecting/poisoning them.

That's good, since I was trying to be humorous. Fear my sense of humor, for it is dark and morbid and it will laugh at stupid people's pain. They won't get my sympathy when they boo-hoo over the fact that they lost everything because they didn't bother to learn what living on a floodplain means.

*nods in agreement* It's one of the reasons I love the internet. Come across something you don't know? Immediately look it up, and if you don't get back to what you were originally doing until hours later. Well... whoops.

*has added you to their yahoo messenger*

*finally responds* *is still a bit out of it*

With characters like your Sauricons, the only way to get their attention is by speaking their language.

He's willing to share just about anything he's learned over the years with anyone else, all they'd have to do is ask. Though there are a few trade secrets that he'd only share with an apprentice, of course. The only reason people get the impression he wants to infect them, is the fact that everyone has different types of defenses and firewalls, so their reactions would be very different. It doesn't help that he has the made habit of talking to himself when he's deep in thought. Particularly interested in how a medic's defenses would handle some of his viruses.

Dark and morbid humor is quite fun thought. Especially when working in a haunted house. Don't get me started on stupid people and their mishaps. There's just too many slaggin' people in the world, is my answer, but that's just me. Then there's the fact that very few people learn to adapt to where they're living. If you live in a place that floods easily, get a floating house like they have in the Netherlands.*has forgotten how much I love the Science channel* Or, even better, don't live there at all.

TVTropes is a really bad site to get lost on, just so easy to start randomly click links and waste an entire day.

*has to relearn yahoo again*

*flails with happy* You made it an icon! (>_> It took a stupidly long moment for me to notice that though.)

Is it because he doesn't realize it's a topic most aren't comfortable with, or is it that he just doesn't care? It's one thing that bothers me about the humans in Transformers. The Autobots have some of the best masters of science or medicine and no one seems to take advantage of the opportunity of them being there to learn more. ~~And while the Decepticons do too, it's more hazardous to a humans' continued health.~~

Sweet. Is it a Haunted House or is it a house that is haunted? Either way, it sounds like fun. As for proper housing, even a house on stilts like some tropic peoples have would work. But a floating house sounds like a great place to live too.

Oh god, the TVTropes site, I just started drowning myself there again.

*relearns yahoo as well*

Just found the art program GIMP, and have been making icons like a fiend. Even if I still don't know what the pit it is I'm doing.

It's a little of both really. But mostly, he's like anyone whose job is something they passionately love to do and will go on at length about it to whoever has the misfortune to ask what they're doing. The humans in Transformers bother me to a great degree, I want to watch Armada and the other TF shows, but I couldn't even make it through the first episode because of the humans. Then there's one of the continuities, where there's actually a Cybertronian law that states they can't share their technology with other species.

The kind where you dress up, get free pizza and energy drinks all month and get paid to scare the ever living slag out of people. Glorious, I say.

TVTropes and all the very many different wikis out there, just discovered the quote wiki and lost about 2 hours just reading M*A*S*H quotes.

How's the program handle? I've only recently heard of it and haven't tried it out yet.

Psh...misfortune, not here. *wishes there were easier-to-find impassioned masters who'd share their knowledge* And it's their loss for thinking that way.

I got through the first episode of Armada solely though the awesomeness that is the pause button. It must've taken me three hours to get the thing over and done, with only watching five minutes or so at a time. Face-palming is also a must to keep your brains in your skull.

That IS a glorious job. *jealous*

Well, I like it so far though I'm not the best to ask since I don't have a lot of experience with different art programs. There's also a patch that is suppose to make near identical to Photoshop, but since I've never used PS before I don't really know. *is also very slow at learning such things since I'm one of those types that just randomly tires things without reading the manual*

The first time I saw Armada was one of the later episodes, and only a few minutes. The reason I remember it so well is that Red Alert, who is turning out to be a favorite of mine, abandoned the one human who was riding with him in the middle of a canyon while searching for one of the mini-cons. I may not be the greatest human sympathizer out there, but you know it's bad when I'm all but praying for one of the Decepticons, or even an Autobot, to just squish all the humans and get it over with already.
And here I thought some of the G1 episodes were bad, at least the humans weren't as annoying as the ones in Armada.

It is a great job, especially since you meet a lot of like minded people at a place like that. One of the things that amused me the most, was the fact that some people got so scared from me popping out at them, that they would actually admit that they peed a little.

*never bothers to read the manual as they always turn out to be incomprehensible* That and art classes tend to do the same. So while I have years of art under my belt, it's virtually all self-taught at a slow pace. I'll have to try the program now.

It probably makes me a bad person if I'm all determined to try to watch the series again just to see that part.

*is more jealous* *art!bunnymuse gnaws on skull*

The episode was one where the humans had those specialized suits. The process of putting them on made me headdesk so hard I nearly gave myself a concussion. It was great though, since not only Red Alert ignored that particular human, Carlos I think his name was, but so did every other Autobot as well.

Just wish I had a picture of my costume to show you. I was one of the white tiger twins, the back story to which we were escaped Russian biological experiments. Had those really long, 'bout four inches, elf ears that I put a bunch of silver hoop earrings of varying sizes in, really well done makeup with airbrushes, black trench coat (which quickly got covered in mud), one of those really nice leather dog collars with very sharp spikes on it, heavy duty chains draped all over me, fake blood all around the mouth like I had just eaten someone *there's a surprising amount of people out there who will let strangers bite them if you just ask* and a custom made set of six fangs. The only thing I didn't own was the white dress shirt, everything else was mine.
No one could tell my gender either, which made some of their comments even more amusing.

And I hadn't realized anyone made videos of the haunted house. The Field Where Robert Moss Played (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=16858903), featuring the Ringleader and Grub the Clown.

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