#‘I’m positive skywarps actually plotting something against thundercracker this time’ ‘that’s what you said the last 3 times.’
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Thinking ab how there’s a sort of wing-speak thing for both wings and doorwings
It’s heavily rooted in body language so I’m positive there’s similarities but fliers and praxians are Definitely socialized differently. Plus the hinges, weights, and attachment angles are different! So in certain ways they Can’t move the same
There’s definitely stuff that has different motions but mean the same thing, like for example wings fluttering would be the same as doorwings bouncing, because doorwings Can’t flutter
But what about the motions they share? A lot of outside factors influence the tone or meaning a gesture can have, and I think the detail wingspeak has would just amplify that, so with the different backgrounds a lot of the same motions probably have different meanings
Are the differences read as accents are? Like a flier from altihex looking at a praxian and the wing language translates like someone speaking with a super thick accent? The message comes across but the details are lost in translation
Or would that apply more between a flier from altihex and another from vos? While a grounder from praxis is speaking a whole different language?
How does that come into play after Vos and Praxis fall. Did it fuel the fire? “They’re all Decepticons/Autobots, they’re Bad, they don’t even use their wings/doors properly”
Idk man I feel like this is potential that Everyone is underusing, if we as a fandom are making it function as a language I demand nuance, I demand variation
#transformers#wingspeak#doorwings#seekers#all fliers actually but. tumblr tags have biases#praxians#cybertronian culture#cybertronian language#I’m imagining the crack that could be accomplished with this#insert a game of gossip-telephone between the Decepticons and Autobots that gets increasingly ridiculous due to mistranslation#all of them are ‘eavesdropping’ on wing based communications and Everyone is confused#‘what do you mean they were talking about gun food. what does that even m e a n -‘#‘I’m positive skywarps actually plotting something against thundercracker this time’ ‘that’s what you said the last 3 times.’#‘why would TC need to fly north what are the autobots planning that hangs on us sending him North?’#‘is a Decepticon dating smokescreen???’ ‘no ok That One you’re definitely reading wrong’ ‘yeah ur right’#‘dude starscream they just called Decepticons smelly can I please fight em’
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