Sowndwave76 wrote:Kurona wrote:Sowndwave76 wrote:I don't know anything about the Kiss Players
Keep it that way.
It's for the best.
Haha, yeah, I really have zero interest.
I was just curious about that photo.
Believe it or not, that blonde girl is actually a young Marissa Faireborn from the G1 cartoon.
As to why she's sitting on Optimus, there were a TON of skeevy moments in the Kiss Players fiction (as it was made to be the most perverted TF fiction ever), so her sitting there is meant to be light jab at that notion.
All skeeviness aside, however, Kiss Players did have two very interesting storylines hidden within it beneath all the creepy stuff spread throughout.
The first storyline was set right after the 1986 G1 movie before season 3 (in Japan, season 3 took place in 2010 instead of 2006, creating a five year gap between the movie and season 3 that otherwise doesn't exist in the English version) in which Galvatron crash-lands on Earth in Tokyo after having been thrown out of Unicron by Rodimus Prime in the movie. His impact completely devastates Tokyo, and leads to a shift in the relationship between the Autobots and humanity. The EDC is formed and goes all Cemetery Wind and KSI on the TFs, aiming to rid the Earth of them all with their own manmade trooper TFs called Autoroopers. Optimus Prime gets temporarily brought back to life during this time and joins up with the young Marissa, who together become fugitives on the run from the EDC. Marissa becomes Optimus's Kiss Player, which is a human who possesses the ability to merge with a Transformer by, well, kissing them. Other girls (both for and against the EDC) become Kiss Players of other Transformers as well, be they Autoroopers or the Autobot Hot Rod (who had given up the Matrix back the Ultra Magnus after having seen the damage he'd done to Earth when he threw Galvatron out of Unicron).
In the second storyline, titled Kiss Players Position, after the conflict with the EDC is all sorted out, the main human girl characters of the story (Marissa and other Kiss Players from the first story) team up with mysterious group of TFs called the Sparkbots, who take the girls on an adventure through time and space into different eras of the Japanese G1 cartoon timeline, as well as to points in the Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline, on a multiversal mission to find fragments of something the Sparkbots called the "Allspark". But, as they continued to gather these pieces throughout time and space, a greater cosmic force began to intervene, attempting to steal the fragments from the girls. As it turned out, the Sparkbots had lied to the girls and it is revealed that this intervening force is actually Primus, who was trying to stop them because these so-called "Allspark" fragments were actually fragments of Unicron's lifeforce, whom the Sparkbots were working for the whole time, trying to resurrect him. The story culminates in a final showdown between Primus and Unicron on prehistoric Earth.
Really now, the scifi backstory was no different from the American B-movie scifi plots of the 50s to 80s. Underdressed women, aliens wanting to 
[ Click to attempt signal recovery... ]
