#Blatsko's lines

[transingthoseformers]

Just a general thought but I was today years old when I found out Blatsko's lines existed in humans. They're only visable to the naked human eye in people with mosaic skin conditions but they visable under UV light and dogs cats and bees can.

And we bioluminess in the visable light spectrum but too weakly for the human eye to detect.

Transformers have broader visual range than humans do and can see into the UV spectrum. They could see the stripe paterns we have. At the very least some of them could spot our bioluminesence too. Probably miners and other bots working in dim conditions bare. Frag Megatron's a miner. Unless he's well into a redemption ark I'd like to be able to hide in the pitch dark

This is are great details to add to fics with human transormer relations. From the light hearted, Autobots explaing to new arvals how to tell the humans apart visualy. "Look for the color saturation and the uncovered stripes first. Then run an optic comparison if you have to after that." To the cute fluffy romance bot tracing human reader's stripes. To the down right dark AUs where human are sold as a cute sentient non-sapient exotic pets marketed for their adorable stripes and bioluminesence.

Yep yep yep!

Blatsko lines are AMAZING, oh I'm remembering Karen Croft's glowy stripes in the final episodes of the third Earthspark drop, and I imagine it's similar to that oh she was so pretty

Like. It's beautiful. I goddamn WISH I could see my stripes like so so so much

Also makes me remember UV tattoos in this, do you think in this scenario they have them and they can see them but we can't?

He would be! In the tfp au we exactly do have him venture into the pitch black cave system, right? Yeah! Him having much better night vision than the other bots also tracks, because if the Nemesis Prime ep— yeahhh I TFP-ized this, sorry. In that episode it's demonstrationed that at least Bumblebee has bad night vision. But, it makes sense that Megs would be among the mecha able to see into the UV spectrum. Soundwave, Shockwave, and Optimus can too, just as a little treat. In bayverse I like to think ALL the mecha can see our stripes because I say so

Yesss yessss it would be, guys guys guys please add Blatsko's lines and UV tattoos into your fics

You can also have situations where bots describe the UV colors of animals too, because iicr there's a neat amount of animals that glow under the blacklight.

There's potential for so many cool things here, especially especially especially that idea of new autobots being taught to look out for the differences in our stripes