#Once again I cannot draw bayverse

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Short Donatello problems

(No, I do not know how height works so this is very much not to scale)

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Yes, this is rough because I got busy and then forgot about it lol

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Ruins introduction post

(Both drawings are old, I'll update them laterr)

Welcome to Ruins! Previously known as Green Painted Ruins, as you can see.

Tag: Green painted ruins au

I haven't updated the introductory post in a while!! Wow!! I have so many followers now that don't even know what Ruins is so y'know what better time to rewrite the entire introductory post?

Ruins was the first ever iteration I made for the TMNT fandom, and the second au I made overall. It was initially created as a weird mesh between the Bayverse tmnt films, rottmnt, and 2012 tmnt. As expected, I could not stick to that and it went wayy farther than it was supposed to go. I'm planning on picking up on posting about Ruins pretty soon! I haven't talked about them in a while (I think I haven't actually talked about them much since the iteration comps, which makes sense because I talked about them a *lot* during that time) and I think it's about time they start being seen again.

I'm not gonna include a 5 hour long rant like in the original post, so instead you're getting the basics about the au. :

The turtles were experiments and intentionally mutated. Not for the purpose of mutating animals or having turtle soldiers or anything like that. No, they were tests of mutagen.

Mutagen, which is essentially modified Kraang decomposition! Kinda gross, right? Well, there was a goal behind its creation. Dimension X, the home of the Kraang, has a weird ability that nothing there can truly die. Your body can die, your heart can stop, but your brain keeps running and as long as your limbs are still connected to your body your brain will keep piloting them. So why not try to harvest that ability? Why not try to give humans the ability to pilot themselves long after they should be in the ground?

Making animals that are formed like humans and that have the brain activity of humans is just one of the various tests that the Foot Clan have conducted to further mutagen experiments.

But when a few of their experiments escape they run into a bit of a problem..

Leo. The first mutated, oldest at 16. Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. Was the first test of retro-mutagen, a failsafe designed to reverse the effects of mutagen. They learned that once mutagen is in something's system it can never truly leave. Is a bit less human than the other turtles. Will get severely dehydrated if he's out of water for too long.

Dannie. Second mutated, second oldest at 15. North American Wood Turtle. Is the most similar to a human as far as appearance goes, but has more turtle-like instincts than the rest of them. If a turtle cannot digest something she cannot digest something.

Michael. Third mutated, tied for youngest at 13. Bog Turtle. Because of the more accidental nature of his mutation, he wasn't mutated as thoroughly. He is still ectothermic and isn't very good at regulating his body temperature. It's quite uncomfortable for him. He's often found clinging to Raphael because of this.

Raphael. Last mutated, tied for youngest at 13. Bog Turtle. Because of the more accidental nature of his mutation, he wasn't mutated as thoroughly. His bones are weird and he's significantly more flexible than the rest of them, able to fit into his shell rather easily. Also has terrible eyesight but refuses to wear glasses because the braces are bad enough, okay?

The experiments were conducted by the Foot Clan (led by Oroku Karai) with assistance from the O'Neil company.

For this iteration I have talked about

The Everything is Fine (it's not) arc The Foot Clan arc The Dimension X/Venus arc The Maybe Everything COULD be Fine arc The Everything is Fine (it is this time) arc

These are not the ONLY arcs, but they're the biggest ones

I was planning on making refs when I first made this introductory post but I never ended up getting past Michael and Raphael. So. Just take them at the beginning of the story (pre foot clan arc).

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Let’s Talk Headcanons: Sparklings, Part 1! How is babby formed?

Whelp! This is going to be a fun one! After having a blast explaining it to a few people, only to realize that my hands are cramping afterwards, I’ve decide to write out my personal sparkling headcanon for all to read. “Children” have existed, so to speak, in the Transformers franchise since about 1986, when The Movie introduced a few nameless robotic kids running around and laughing happily right before Unicron devoured their world (really, though, why did they show those kids...) and then, later in the film, an orphaned youth the Autobots found on Quintessa... Wheelie. While no explanation of Wheelie’s birth was offered, it’s fairly well-known that the official bio stated that his parents were killed when their ship crashed on the planet. Iiiinteresting...

Later on, the Beast Wars franchise made frequent references to “ancestors,” namely that Optimus Primal is actually a direct descendant of Optimus Prime. Bayverse introduced the idea that Transformers could potentially hatch from eggs... and then, in comic media, gave us breast-feeding Megatron... um? Let’s be honest here, the part of the fandom that is aware of that factoid... well, at least some of us aren’t sure if want. Transformers: Animated teased us with a glimpse of an infant-looking protoform that would become the techno-organic Sari... but never actually got to explain where she came from. And then IDW’s special Silent Light gave everyone a sudden flood of information compared to the brief touches of the previous continuities. We actually got an explanation of what Cybertronian babies could look like, how they could develop... but still no explanation of how they’re made. Well, we know me! That’s where my processors kick it into overdrive!

So right off the bat I’m going to start by disappointing fans of pregnant robots or eggs... I do not subscribe to either, thank you very much, Michael. To me, part of the fascination of Transformers is that they are machines that live, and think, and feel... they are not organic beings, even though they have life. They are alien robots from another world. And I love looking at all the ways that they could be like us, but I also love the ways they could be different...and I feel like the differences should really, really take precedence when it comes to young. Fortunately there’s something I can hinge my theory around... the fact that a Cybertronian’s soul is synonymous with it’s heart, a real, physical thing it holds inside of itself. The spark is a source of fascination and, yes, some romanticism for me... and I see it as the inevitable source of any life that is created between two lovers. So let’s get started on how the babe is made!

If you read my post about sparkmates and sparkbinding then you might have noted, at the end, that I hypothesize that sparklings get their name because they come from interactions between spark-bound sets.This, of course, makes them more rare in some continuities than others, hence why Whirl needed affirmation that he was holding what he thought he was holding. The process starts thus; in the act of spark-merging/bonding/sharing/whatever verb you prefer, of course, energy gets passed back and forth between the two (or more) partners. It gets shared, it builds, it passes back and forth. If the push and pull of energy is even, with all partners contributing equally, then everything gets spread around evenly, a great time is had by all, and you have a happy couple or trine all curled up together purring and feeling loved by the end of it.

However, what happens when the push and pull is not even? Sometimes a partner can get too excited and either push into their bondmate or pull against them, trying to draw more of their lover’s energy towards themselves. When this happens, of course, there goes that lovely balance... one spark inevitably ends up taking in an excess of energy and gets a bit of a buzz. If the connection is broken before the balance is restored, one of two things will happen... either the over-fed partner will be highly energetic for a while, until the excess dissipates... or the excess will begin to concentrate on or around the spark, condensing to a point where it forms a bud. A ‘bud’ is a growth on the spark where the energy collected from the bond partner or partners hasn’t quite broken up. It’s a little too “solid” for the spark to break it down... but growing it from there is another story entirely. Essentially, once a bud forms, a Cybertronian has conceived.

Clearly this visual is totally unnecessary, because this is a pretty simple concept, but I was really having fun doodling sparks so there we go.

Now at this point a Cybertronian has conceived, yes, and can proceed to make a baby... but! They aren’t doing it alone! This isn’t like most organic species where the biological father of an offspring makes it to conception and then the mother takes it from there... a Cybertronian carrier cannot carry the spark to term alone, namely because a lone Cybertronian can’t generate the spark energy to feed the bud by themselves. Buds do not grow on their own. They stay the size they are for however long until more energy is given to them... and this, of course, is done by the Cybertronian sire or sires engaging in yet more spark-sharing with the carrier, this time more deliberately pushing energy into the carrying spark. The sire is now deliberately feeding energy to their mate, and only through that excess energy can the bud begin to grow. There is no set time for how long this can take. A bud that is not fed can last for years affixed to the parent, and will happily grow again once it’s fed regardless of time passed. On the flip side, if the parents decide they really, really want this kid out fast, well... the more contact, the faster it grows. At this point, it all comes down to planning.

As a note on planning, or the lack thereof rather, it is actually pretty uncommon for a Cybertronian that is part of a pair to conceive by accident. It can happen, but it takes one partner being either particularly pushy or particularly clingy, in excess, for that to occur. Accidents are a bit more common with trines, however, when two partners can overpower a third without realizing it.

So now there is a budding new spark, and parents to feed it and make it grow... but no body to put it in. And there will not be a body until one is provided... Cybertronians are not mammals, they don’t create tiny Cybertronians inside of themselves. This is where a bit of outside help comes in... as we discuss the birth and development of sparklings in the next post, because this one is fragging long enough already!

So before I round up part one, let’s have some random headcanons about carrying that hopefully won’t expand this too much...

Sparklings usually share a closer bond with the carrier, since they were more connected to that spark than that of the sire(s) while being carried. With that in mind, a carrier who puts more time and energy into a hobby while carrying is more likely to be able to share that hobby with their offspring later.

Carrier activity and stress levels are two of the most important factors that can influence the growth of a new spark. Because of this, while many Cybertronians would prefer a heavily-armored parent carry, just as often a smaller bot with a less stressful day-to-day routine will be the one to carry. Many Cybertronians believe that parents with high stress levels can lead to young with anxiety issues, so quite often the siring parent will go to great lengths to assure their partner’s comfort. Oddly, there is no actual evidence to support this.

A spark with a bud is really, really obvious when you look into the chamber. Like, visibly so. At the very least, it means less tests are required to determine if a spark-merging took... aiming a few energy readings at the bud is typically more than enough to confirm.

While the debate rages as to whether listening to classical music during pregnancy does anything for a human, for a Cybertronian it actually does seem to have a positive impact on the budding spark and how well it stabilizes itself as it grows. What nobody can figure out is whether this is because of the music itself, or if the bud simply picks up on the parent spark’s positivity about doing something good for the baby...

And that’s it for this post! I have no idea how long part two is going to take to prepare, so wish me luck!