We've talked a lot about lolcows in the anime and Sonic fandoms, but rest assured plenty of others have them too. As such I thought I'd start a thread for likely the most infamous Transformers fan on the planet, the woman, myth, and legend known as Raksha.
Raksha is supposedly her legal name; ED claims her birth name is the hilarious-sounding "Jovanka Kink," but as with many things on ED I'm not sure how TRUE and HONEST this is. She is well-known in the Transformers fandom for her interesting beliefs about the series' mythos, namely that the Decepticons, not the Autobots, are the real heroes. She appears to draw this line of thinking from the episode of the G1 cartoon, "Enter the Nightbird," which features a female, Earth-built robot being recruited into the Decepticons, with the Autobots trying to help her creator track her down, knowing she'll be destroyed. This is considered one of the few morally-ambiguous episodes of the show; for Raksha, it was all she needed to declare the Autobots pure evil.
As you can imagine, she's a prolific Mary Sue author, and wrote her stories on her now-defunct site, Plumed Serpent. Many of these stories revive Nightbird and pair her with Megatron; others are slashfics of various Decepticon leaders together (like you really needed that mental image, right?), and still others feature her own self-insert, who is hilariously a beast-mode Transformer, even though she's a hardcore GEEWUNNER.
Oh yeah, she really hates Beast Wars, and its version of Megatron in particular due to personally leading his troops less than the original, causing her to label him a coward. His voice actor claimed she actually harassed him at a con once for a small dose of unfunny to this lolcow. She's also extremely obsessed with Soundwave, the communications officer with the awesome monotone voice, and has written an extremely tl;dr backstory for him about losing his Mary Sue wife and daughter to an Autobot attack. She was a major presence on Usenet in the '90s, where many people described unpleasant encounters with her.
It's somewhat notable that she's had more mainstream success than your average nutso fan like Chris; she hosted an actual, legitimate con in 1995 and and a character designed by her was released as an exclusive action figure there. She claims she, not Hasbro, owns the copyright to this character, Nightracer, and let's just say they disagree.
Her TFWiki page is here and her dead personal site, with her stories, is archived here.
Raksha is supposedly her legal name; ED claims her birth name is the hilarious-sounding "Jovanka Kink," but as with many things on ED I'm not sure how TRUE and HONEST this is. She is well-known in the Transformers fandom for her interesting beliefs about the series' mythos, namely that the Decepticons, not the Autobots, are the real heroes. She appears to draw this line of thinking from the episode of the G1 cartoon, "Enter the Nightbird," which features a female, Earth-built robot being recruited into the Decepticons, with the Autobots trying to help her creator track her down, knowing she'll be destroyed. This is considered one of the few morally-ambiguous episodes of the show; for Raksha, it was all she needed to declare the Autobots pure evil.
As you can imagine, she's a prolific Mary Sue author, and wrote her stories on her now-defunct site, Plumed Serpent. Many of these stories revive Nightbird and pair her with Megatron; others are slashfics of various Decepticon leaders together (like you really needed that mental image, right?), and still others feature her own self-insert, who is hilariously a beast-mode Transformer, even though she's a hardcore GEEWUNNER.
Oh yeah, she really hates Beast Wars, and its version of Megatron in particular due to personally leading his troops less than the original, causing her to label him a coward. His voice actor claimed she actually harassed him at a con once for a small dose of unfunny to this lolcow. She's also extremely obsessed with Soundwave, the communications officer with the awesome monotone voice, and has written an extremely tl;dr backstory for him about losing his Mary Sue wife and daughter to an Autobot attack. She was a major presence on Usenet in the '90s, where many people described unpleasant encounters with her.
It's somewhat notable that she's had more mainstream success than your average nutso fan like Chris; she hosted an actual, legitimate con in 1995 and and a character designed by her was released as an exclusive action figure there. She claims she, not Hasbro, owns the copyright to this character, Nightracer, and let's just say they disagree.
Her TFWiki page is here and her dead personal site, with her stories, is archived here.
