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Scavengers sketch T3T

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My piece for Fractured: A Transformers Shattered Glass Fanzine featuring my favorite boys

cons4eva’s name is “symbols.”

let me explain. 

in this panel, he introduces himself by name. of course, it’s written in a font that looks alien. but i came across the dwarven font in the dungeons and dragons player handbook and recognized it from this panel. i immediately had to translate his name because i was insanely curious and wanted to know for writing and roleplaying purposes (i had a short-lived cons4eva rp blog). so i went in search of the font.

i found the font, called davek, available here, installed it on my computer, and went about figuring out cons4eva’s name. i noted that the name in the panel was upside down, compared to the original font and made the changes necessary.

so, once all the flips were made so the font was the right direction, i put the font to a regular font and got “.slobmys” as a result. period included because it’s included in the original text as well.

HOWEVER.

because i had done all that flipping, including the fact that the name was now “backwards” for the original name, we can put “.slobmys” backwards and get the name “symbols.”

whether this was intentional from either jro or the letterer, chris mowry, i don’t know, i’ve never asked, but i thought it was kind of cool that cons4eva’s name could be translated to an actual word and not nonsense, like some other times i’ve “translated” other text from primal vernacular. this was, as i said, mostly done for curiosity’s sake and fun, i just thought i’d share this little tidbit.