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C-y-n-d-i In reply to ??? [2014-07-06 16:13:20 +0000 UTC]

That's the whole point. That's how the general public might react. Jazz learned to see past it. Thanks!

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RunawayComics In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2014-07-06 19:41:32 +0000 UTC]

it is well done though and I love the stories

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to RunawayComics [2014-07-06 19:50:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I'm in the process of writing more Lightverse, actually! It'll be a big one this time-- a multichaptered emotional rollercoaster! I can't say when it'll be finished, but I always announce when a new fic has gone up and I announce the updates if the fic is off-site due to the content.

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RunawayComics In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2014-07-06 21:37:41 +0000 UTC]

WOOHOO!!!!! MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to BlackSkeletonGirl [2014-01-20 02:38:42 +0000 UTC]

Actually, Prowl has no optics at all in my fics. No optics or visual processors. The stuff he needs to see just didn't come with the package, and Yoketron started him on the path of being okay with that.

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BlackSkeletonGirl In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2014-01-20 10:41:50 +0000 UTC]

what is a visual processor? 

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to BlackSkeletonGirl [2014-01-20 22:39:18 +0000 UTC]

Their equivalent to the parts of our brain that interpret vision.

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BlackSkeletonGirl In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2014-01-20 23:23:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh, O.K

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to Amanda-1-Brown [2013-07-15 21:39:38 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry?

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Amanda-1-Brown In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2013-07-16 08:45:48 +0000 UTC]

Okey, I'll forgive you.

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to Amanda-1-Brown [2013-07-16 16:54:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Lol this was odd, but interesting! 

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Amanda-1-Brown In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2013-07-16 17:25:10 +0000 UTC]

Really? I don't think so . But your art scared me

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to Amanda-1-Brown [2013-07-16 17:32:37 +0000 UTC]

That's because I suck at it XD

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Amanda-1-Brown In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2013-07-16 18:08:04 +0000 UTC]

You are crazy

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to Amanda-1-Brown [2013-07-16 19:14:44 +0000 UTC]

Yup.

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to danieljacksonfangirl [2011-12-24 18:05:35 +0000 UTC]

I love that song! Merry Christmas!

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danieljacksonfangirl In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2011-12-26 18:05:23 +0000 UTC]

I know, it's one of my favorites.

Hey, since this seems to be the only place I can get a hold of you, I have to ask. As mentioned before, I adore Light, the innocent love and passion in it, and, most of all, the ideals. Well, if leaving my computer to rant about the unfairness of it all counts as adoring them.

Anyway, I really, really, really want to incorporate flawed mecha and the views on them into one of my own stories. I'll credit you, but I have flat-out fallen in love with Light-verse Prowl and Jazz.

One more thing, you are my role-model. Literally.

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to danieljacksonfangirl [2011-12-26 18:33:11 +0000 UTC]

You're totally welcome to use Light-verse in your writing. I'd be really honored!

Sorry I took so long to reply last time. Busy IRL XD I used to have tons of free time.

Thank you!

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danieljacksonfangirl In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2011-12-26 18:47:52 +0000 UTC]

OHMYPRIMUSILOVEYOUSOMUCHRIGHTMOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to danieljacksonfangirl [2011-12-26 20:27:12 +0000 UTC]

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to IceFarie [2010-11-14 21:03:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to Spiritstrike91 [2009-05-24 06:02:23 +0000 UTC]

Hehe I give Prowl a very thin upper lip, he's always got that pout ^^

And yeah, that's Light Prowl without the visor. He's got no eyes underneath. His face is as smooth as a protoform from his forehead to his mouth.

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Spiritstrike91 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2009-05-24 06:03:57 +0000 UTC]

Smooth and delicate. Prowl is the ultimate love!

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-08 17:07:48 +0000 UTC]

LOL

Aww, that's so sweet!

I wouldn't consider it stealing because you asked, first of all, and secondly you're not randomly popping up with a "Prowl without eyes behind his visor" thing. One thing that could put a wrench in your idea is Sari's key. It fixed Jazz, it'd fix Prowl--unless of course Prowl is too ashamed to admit he has a problem seeing and won't let anybody examine him. THAT I can see him trying to pull Him and his ninja pride.

Maybe the damage could be his optics are stuck in "macro" mode(take a digital camera, set it to macro mode and focus it on something close. Then lift it to look far without adjusting it and note how it's all light, shadow and colored shapes) and that would leave him majorly nearsighted. Just an idea

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-09 08:54:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your thoughts on my fic. I greatly appreciate the feedback.

Furthermore, thank you so bloody much for pointing out Sari's key-- I probably would have neglected that detail and then felt terribly stupid when someone pointed it out to me. What I've pictured for the first two chapters (give or take a bit) is that during a battle (something I need to practice writing, I admit!), Prowl takes some major, major damage to the face. Through the grace of God (Primus?) and his battle mask, he survives intact, expect for the minor-major detal that his optics are totally shot to hell and back-- essentially useless. Because of the fear of extensive damage and/or death, he'd definitely have been examined.

A constant in the fic is, however, how Prowl copes-- to put it lightly, he doesn't take it too well, especially at first. (Then again, who can blame him?) As I worded it in the segment I've written, when Prowl is talking to Ratchet, he feels like he could have prevented the accident (as I continually call it) that caused him to be blinded and is deeply, deeply embarassed. Embarassment is a theme within the story itself-- Prowl feels lost without his sense if sight, much like Jazz in your fic, but stubbornly insists (in part because of that ninja pride) that he can continue his life with or without the use of his optics, and when he does accept his teammates' help, he lashes out if they screw up (case in point: guiding him).

(Sorry about the bloody long thing of text above; I rarely get to discuss my fics in-depth with anyone... )

Hmmm… macro mode resulting in ass-kicking nearsightedness. Sadly, I can’t find my macro feature on my camera, so I’ll have to tinker with it later (read: at a much more decent hour than 10 till midnight AK time!). I may have to consider that-- thank you so much!

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-09 17:57:59 +0000 UTC]

I don't mind, I like in depth discussing Perhaps then, Prowl could willfully say it's kind of against his beliefs to accept that kind of help. Like a ninja kind of pride, so he refuses the key because he believes he doesn't 'deserve' it. I dunno if you want his issue permanent or not, but if so then it can be a story about him learning how much his team cares. ^_^

My camera is an Olympus and it has a little wheel with different settings on it. You turn it until the one you want is lined up with a little red stripe. There's a "guide" mode with more selections and one of them is "super closeup photo" and that's like mega Macro mode. It's the setting I use for those cool face shots of Unicron, with the camera literally inches from his face.

I've used it as a microscope of sorts before, taking photos of my eye when it got bloodshot for no reason and it let me see that the blood vessels themselves were all swollen and it wasn't a bleed. Turns out that was an allergy I got over. Here's the photo XD [link] (WARNING: It's kind of gross!)

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-10 06:25:10 +0000 UTC]

I can see Prowl being stubborn enough to not want the help of Sari's key-- in part because of his ninja pride, and in part because a small part of him doesn't quite believe this is real. This is more likely than not going to become a part of the plotline, and I thank you so deeply for it.

As to the permanancy of Prowl's blindness... I'm still uncertain. I may keep him that way, I may not. If I don't, I would need to develop a way for him to be cured that doesn't involve the key. If you have any ideas, I would be very grateful to hear them. (And of course, I would be giving you credit where credit is due. )

Regardless of the ending, one thing that's for certain is the team really rallying around him in his time of need... even if he didn't ask for it, which surprises him. As I picture some of the situations / scenes I want to write, particuarly early on, Prowl is very moody and sullen about what's happened to him, and he takes it out on everyone around him-- even though I've yet to think it totally through, I think one of the most poigant scenes in the story will be when Prowl does ask for someone to hekp him, to get him from the common / living room to his quarters, and he ends up lashing out at them (who the poor sap is yet I haven't decided) because they're doing it wrong-- taking him by the hand like he's a four year old is what I've always pictured-- and saying (more or less) that damnit, he wants his dignity.

My camera is a Kodak, so I still have to find the macro setting on it. There's a setting specifically named "Cloe-Up," so that may be it. (Oh and the photo you linked to-- I didn't think it was all that gross. Of course, I once watched an open heart surgery in a movie wile shovelling spaghetti into my mouth and not blinking. )

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-10 16:17:19 +0000 UTC]

My camera is a Kodak, so I still have to find the macro setting on it. There's a setting specifically named "Cloe-Up," so that may be it. (Oh and the photo you linked to-- I didn't think it was all that gross. Of course, I once watched an open heart surgery in a movie wile shovelling spaghetti into my mouth and not blinking. )

O_O I would barf so hard...I'm so squeamish about guts. Blood I can handle, but not the guts. LOL


Ooh, yeah, good call. My version of PRowl would get really mad if you grabbed his hand like a child...but he hates it more if you grab his elbow from behind and push him forward. Because guiding means he should follow a half step behind and how your body moves will tell him when to turn. All he needs is a little verbal cue of "steps going up" or "door opening inward/outward on the right/left". He can feel when you're turning, but it's wise to tell him there's a wall you're turning from so he doesn't bump it(though he might hear it first anyway, sound shadow).

I like your idea. Maybe his eyes will gradually self repair themselves the same way we heal. Except theirs is more sophisticated. But it could take a long time--years maybe--before his vision is clear.

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-11 05:20:27 +0000 UTC]

I'm actually very comfortable with stuff like that. It's weird-- horror movies scare me witless, but I don't even react to blood and guts from the medical standpoint.

I've done a little homework on life with / helping someone with visual impairments, and I paid major attention to segments that talked about guiding. What I learned said that you should be about a step ahead and to give those audio cues, among many other things. Some other major details I learned included general conversation skils and ettiquette. It's very interesting, really.

I'm glad you liked my ideas. I'm still wracking my wee brain for a cure, but I really do like your idea that Prowl's optics fix themselves. The thing that bothers me about that is the timeframe-- I hesitate to write Prowl as being blind so long... I'm a wussy-wuss sometimes.

~ SG17

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-11 19:42:38 +0000 UTC]

Maybe it takes six months then? Or less? Your call

There's a blind lady in my choir. Her name's Amelia. I'd done a lot of reading about blindness already anyway, for Prowl, so I pretty much only got nervous guiding her the first time, and only because it was really CROWDED in the church and I didn't want her to bump into people. But I showed her to the bathroom, which has a really funky turn. So I was telling her "We go straight down this hall until you run into a fake plant that's taller than us. There's a brick wall sticking out a little ways on our right, so we turn right twice to get around it and here's the bathroom door. It's heavy and opens inward on the right."

Of course another time, she got reversed in the bathroom and was waiting for the wrong side of the door to open. We had a good laugh and she said "I'm just a little bit blind today!" She's really funny about it.

Btw she's been blind since birth. No light perception at all. So a lot of how Prowl acts has also been based on observing what she does with her hands.

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-12 05:18:49 +0000 UTC]

Timing wise, I know he'll be blind at least three weeks-- in the one section I've written, Prowl declines Ratchet's offer to help him leave the medibay by saying, The layout of the base hasn't changed in the past three weeks...

I have to give you credit for doing so well with Amelia, based on your description-- I would be so terrified of making a mistake, even with the bit of research I've done. And I have to give her credit for being able to joke about the ups and downs of being blind-- I mean, it's bound to be something you'd get used to, especially in Amelia's case where she's been blind since birth, but I bet it'd be pretty easy to be bitter about it.

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-12 06:01:28 +0000 UTC]

LOL


Bitter? Hm, maybe if she'd lost her sight. Those who never saw can't really know what they're missing. But if I went blind tomorrow and started hearing people ooh and ahh about a glorious rainbow or something? I'd be a tad upset to miss it because I'm such a visual person anyway.

But Amelia is really funny I ask her if I can pet her guide dog, and one time she was all "No, because you're you." but then she laughed and said of course I could pet the dog. She jokes like that, hehe!

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-12 07:00:18 +0000 UTC]

I'm sorry, I should have clarified-- on the one hand, it would no doubt be frustrating to hear someone talk about, say, that glorious sunset you mentioned and not having any kind of frame of reference; but on the other hand, it's true that you can't miss something you never had. You and I would be in the same boat if we were to go blind-- I like to see things, and not being able to would bug the hell out of me.

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-12 17:01:43 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's true. Prowl gets kind of a wakeup call when Scooter shows his frustration that he can't make his limbs do what he wants--and realizes Scooter can SEE the others walking and talking normally and knows he's not like them. Jazz and Optimus are working on a way, actually, for him to at least get around without needing to be carried. The poor little guy even needs help to transform--the most basic act for a Transformer that makes them a Transformer--and he struggles at it. But bolt on some training wheels when he's in vehicle mode and he zips around

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-14 07:15:04 +0000 UTC]

At the risk of making myself sound like a total idiot (which, admittedly, rarely takes work)... who's Scooter? In any case, he sounds like a fascinating character-- I love the name for starters (which is Transformer-y in and of itself), and he sounds like a very interesting character with his... delimna, I suppose is one way you could word it, about his inability to move on his own. I kinda feel for him, just based on the little bit you mentioned about him.

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-14 07:38:05 +0000 UTC]

He's Prowl and Jazz's Sparkling in a fic I'm writing ^^ And it's not that he can't move at all so much as he can't control his body movements. A condition much like cerebral palsy in humans.

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-14 10:26:46 +0000 UTC]

Awww... why do I feel my heart melting right about now? Oh wait, I know-- because the words "Prowl," "Jazz" and "sparkling," when used in the same sentence, set off a chain reaction of endorphins in my brain. xD I'm really looking forward to seeing this installment of Jazz and Prowl's lives. (Poor little Scooter... I can only imagine the hell that's going to put Prowl through-- just what my sleep deprived overactive imagination can pull up, somehow I picture him feeling responsible for Scooter's "flaw" because he is, himself, "flawed." )

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-15 00:28:59 +0000 UTC]

Awww

At first, Prowl almost feels he can't connect to Scooter because the future he'd envisioned is shattered, and he mourns it. Any parent who discovers their child will be severely disabled like that would realize "they won't get married, they won't have a normal life, they'll need so much care...etc etc etc" and Prowl has that reaction at first. Jazz, too, but he's quick to try and make the best of it.

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-15 03:25:35 +0000 UTC]

I suppose it's almost to be expected that Prowl at first has trouble connecting to his son becuase of that lost future-- Prowl would want Scooter to have everything that was denied to him for so long, the classic "I want you to have a better life than I did" sentiment (something I've heard from my own parents). And then when he finds out that Scooter can't have that, he would naturally be distraught-- because even though Prowl is "flawed," he is self-reliant, whereas Scooter is unable to even transform himself. Even with all of Jazz's love and support, it's going to be hard for Prowl to get out of the mindset that "flawed" mechs are sub-human (pardon the expression), and to see that in his offspring is going to hurt him very, very deeply. (Jazz is going to have a heck of a time during this segment of his relationship, I betcha...)

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-16 05:55:22 +0000 UTC]

Yes...that's exactly it. He worries a lot about what could happen if Scooter was alone and in danger...there isn't much he could do to save himself.

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fireweed15 In reply to C-y-n-d-i [2008-12-18 20:29:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh, those are the kinda thoughts that keep parents awake at night! I'm cringing just thinking about it. And no doubt Prowl is going to keep a tight hold on Scooter becuase of that. Poor...

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C-y-n-d-i In reply to fireweed15 [2008-12-18 21:59:18 +0000 UTC]

Yup, but the little guy will gain some independence of his own

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