Can it be robot time now?

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As you can see, the head is more Transformers style than Macross-y, and ended up having a strong Art Deco feel to it, which is fine with me because if I had to pick a single art style to be my favorite that would certainly be it. It also mostly settled the color question in favor of pastel yellow and golds with charcoal and light grey for the secondary parts, and blue or red/orange for the glowing accents, though I might yet desaturate the brights into beige and taupe.

Although I do also like the floral look from the greens and pinks of the previously posted images, like something Technomagic Space Elves might fly. Emerald green tones are also a Deco thing, so not out of the question for the main color with the grey secondaries also.

I'm also loving that it doesn't look like it transforms at all, which is pretty much the ideal for robot modes. A toy-savvy fan might look at the hollow backs of the legs and be suspicious, but the tailless fighter form and using e-pools with "gravitic thrusters" as one of the portfolio items besides various forms of blasty and bendy lazor lets it avoid having any recognizable robot parts as a fighter, or fighter parts as a plane singe even the "wings" at the shoulders are thick and chunky, and look more like the ornamental ones you see on a lot of designs (especially TFs, where "door wings" are an old tradition) or part of a jetpack - and indeed, in case of catastrophic damage or malfunction the entire wings/tail section can be jettisoned with no immediate impact on robot mode functions except the loss of the e-pools and the long term operational endurance provided by the wings' large capacity for consumable supplies.
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