#Transformer shower thoughts

[sjhfjdjdn]

[dat-lil-shark]

Did you ever think about how D16 and Orion from TF ONE probably never even got a grade school education cause they’re miners?

Now I just imagine Optimus sitting in the office with a contract and summoning the matrix: “Wisdom from Primus below, and wisdom from the thirteen predecessors along. Grant me the knowledge to spell my own name.”

Also I imagine Megatron sitting on his throne, shouting: “Starscream! Report the situation in the air! Soundwave! Bring forward the intels! Shockwave!… Tell me! Are there two ‘O’s in “order”?”

[ty-dye-rabbit]

Megatron’s original designation was “D-16”, and was a miner.

If you change the Numbers into letters:

His name spells “DIG”.

Megatron; Leader of the Decepticons, Gladiator of Kaon, Galactic Warlord, etc—

was literally named. fucking. “DIG”.

[oraclenorzi]

Y'all ever think Starscream got totally mindbroken in season three because of sheer isolation? I mean, the amount of times he straight up monologued to himself like he was genuinely holding a conversation with another person in s2 was def not healthy lmao.

Maybe (and he's pretty closeted in this realization lol) he just wanted company. And gaining that company through the Nemesis, however disrespectful and agonizing, was what ticked him into who he became s3.

Food for thought.

[bobokitty]

Was rewatching Earthspark, and to me, the Terrans are very clearly children in how they think and act. Got me thinking that due to their unique makeup, they experience a longer development cycle than Cybertronians. While for Cybertronians, it's Child (usually very short) -> Adult, Terrans go through a cycle similar to humans: Child -> Teen -> Young Adult -> Adult.

All of this to say...

For me, it's Hashtag. Don't know exactly why, but it just seems right.

Also rip to Dorothy and Alex now having to deal with 7 kids instead of 2 about to go through their rebellious phase (Robby already kinda started it).

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

Anyone else think that Diligence kinda sounds like G1 Starscream?

[graceofagodswrath]

Ok ok ok your "Humans of Transformers franchise are space orcs" rant is out of this world.

I detest with passion when humans are reduced to pets and plot devices when instead the story could be about two alien species finding one another equally amazing/terrifying for their own respective reasons.

Here is my question: do humans and Cybertronians see how eerily similar they are? They have love of music, familial relationships, similar urban infrastructure, societal structure, financial systems, competitive entertainment, organized societies and war, colonialism, recreational intercourse, marriage...

Not to mention, why was it never addressed how similar both species look: bipedal, waists, noses, cheekbones, 5 fingers, chins, facial expressions and sense of aesthetics and beauty? Sure, humans have hair but in rather strategic places.

Veins and wires, blood and energon, metal and flesh, nanobytes and blood cells, Sparks and brain impulses, sexual organs...

Imagine Autobots arrive on Earth for the first time expecting some primitive cave-dwellers, only to encounter a less advanced mini-version of Cybertronian cities (New York, Singapore, London, Rome, Tokyo, Rio, Dubai...) and societies running on scientific, artistic and philosophical development which has no right existing on the ruthless, all-organic planet such as Earth is. Societes run by creatures who 4.000.000 (the duration of their war) years ago were hanging from the trees btw.

Autobots would be terrified.

Lemme make sure this response saves this time, cause it took me a minute to answer cause my first deleted and I had so much written I got unbelievably angry and refused to even look at the tumblr app.

But here we are.

So, this is EXACTLY what I have been thinking about for who k owe how long. It’s also the intro to this wack as fuck universe idea I’ve had in my head a while, and have kinda hinted at in my other works, but I’ve never gone into detail about.

And I still won’t.

Anyways, yes. It’s crazy that we backlit humans so much when any other sentient species is about. Transformers, TMNT, etc (I’m on a one track mind, feel free to jot down any other fandoms I can’t think of). The main theme of these stories? HUMANS SUCK. And that is severely unfair. People want to cry about how much our generation doesn’t give a shit anymore. Have you SEEN the media we feed kids???

That’s why I live Humans are Space Orcs so much. It really puts into perspective how unique and batshit our species is.

So, onto the Transformers vs humans concepts. The ONLY reason (forgoing technoism and general hate towards organics) cybertronians don’t see humanity as an imminent threat, or one in general, is because of size. WE BE SMALL AF. Can’t blame them, I get it. We do the same. Insects? Fuck them mfs.

But have you seen a botfly or tick burrow into your skin? The infection that comes form that? Have you seen ants jump a small animal as a colony and absolutely shred it? Or a spider only biting you, and the horror the venom causes (recluses and huntsman’s specifically). We have a good fucking reason for disliking these mfs.

But transformers? These are organic experiences. Worst they go through are rust infections, spark death, the works. They are not at risk the same way we are. That is why they view organics as small and inconsequential. They have no idea how hard we fight to simply stay alive.

And now the similarities. It’s understandable that they wouldn’t immediately recognize the physical, cultural, and psychological similarities between our species. Transformers are an incredibly diverse race, like any other. But specifically in physical form. Your average cybertronian holds a similar appearance to your average human. We tend to have the same features, just with different names. Eyes, noses, faceplates, ears, two arms, two legs. Sure that’s average for them too. But they are unique because of the fact that they have two forms. Vehicle mode. Their mode decides what they’re second mode looks like, which can create extreme diversity is appearance. Small, large, many limbed or not.

So the immediate similarities probably wouldn’t jump out to them in an odd way. There’s also the idea that because they’re so spread out in the universe, they’ve seen other organic races that are also similar. Pairs of every body part could be the common denominator among species.

That goes culturally too. War, love, music, government, politics, it’s all a natural form of sentient evolution. Another common denominator. It’s how it’s done that makes it unique. And the similarities between human and cybertronian culture is uncomfortably familiar.

I think that’s why cybertronians are seen being closest with humans rather than other species in the shows and comics (obviously because the audience is human and they need relation to characters but shhhh forget that for a sec). This is where the theories start.

Let’s say cybertronians begin to recognize the weird similarities between our species. The really, really weird stuff. The itty bitty details. Like:

- how we also mainstream kissing on the lips as the top tier romantic gesture.

- use verbal tone and cues for our language.

- have intensely complicated interpersonal relationships in the exact same manner.

- suffer from extreme mental health issues like depression, anxiety, PTSD (I totally headcannon that forms of adhd, autism, and ocd exist in cybertronian society, have y’all not seen my boy rodimus prime??)

- will also destroy each other in the name of our gods, until we have a common enemy.

That’s just the basics I could come up with. The only time I actually saw a moment where a transformer genuinely take a moment to realize that humans can be a threat, was in transformers prime. Episode 6 of beast wars (I think, correct me if wrong), where Miko beats the ever loving fuck out of an insecticon (I think) and upon Megatron hearing this, just goes blank Kubrick stare for a hot second. Man had an ugly realization that did not fit in with anything he had experienced his whole life.

AND THEY NEVER FUCKING ADDRESSED IT EVER AGAIN. Sick of this shit. Could’ve had the most badass character development, where the humans actually proved useful and did something (it would have fit Milo’s character so perfectly too) and scared the utter shit out of the transformers. BUT NO. They continue to be annoying as fuck.

One thing I loved about TF Prime was that it canonically turned Unicron into Earth. And humans came from the earth. Which relates humans beings and cybertronians so hard. Cousins Fr. We are the cybertronian equivalent of organics, and transformers the inorganic equivalent of humans. The individuality, the chaos, the culture, it clicks. There is so much material to really go into it.

But they never do. Don’t get me wrong, I love Transformers lord and just discovering more without humans being involved. We’re just annoying af at this point. But there is so much u tapped potential in transformers actually taking the chance to LEARN about us. But we’re just friends (pets) to these mfs.

That’s why I love TF Earthspark so far. Transformers ingrained into human culture because they’re not from Cybertron, and cybertronians having to adapt to human culture because they have no where else to go. Granted, it’s a kids show. There’s only so much they can do. But I’m excited for where it’ll lead. It really shows how much of threat and ally humans are, and how we are just as diverse as cybertronians.

I need to write another fic about cybertronians meeting humans their size from our world tho. Need to continue my old piece. Would give me so much life. Y’all help motivate me, college draining my ass.

[misqnon]

something something Hey. do you think brainstorm saw chromedome go through such unfathomable pain losing conjunx after conjunx that he would rather perform the mnemosurgery on himself to remove the memory of them entirely than live with the pain and thought. rather than try to move on from his feelings for quark and run into the chance of losing his loved one again like chromedome did, that he'd rather remove the possibility that he'd lose them entirely- i.e., the war? That he'd rather travel back in time and save the original One that he loved and eliminate the possibility he'd have to lose ANYONE than go through even a speck of what he saw chromedome go through . jesus christ I can't get this comic out of my mind

[soyu2001]

I woobified Starscream in my head.

Yes.

But...

Maybe that's not so bad?

At least he can have some peace.

[sjhfjdjdn]

[dat-lil-shark]

Imagine if we get a transformer video game where we can get THE most immersive experience of being a transformer ourselves. But it also included seeing the humans like this.

And maybe you can wear them on your body.

And put them in your inventory.

Don’t know what practical use they’ll have tho, maybe none.

[qkmlh]

As someone who grew up around Transformers secondhand and knows good nuggets of the various lore and characters by proxy, it’s incredibly funny to me that my top 3 faves are pretty basic but on opposite ends. Bumblebee, Shockwave, & Soundwave. Put them in a situation together and godspeed

[dawn-rays-dingo]

Do you think if Knockout and Breakdown have a kid they would name it Crashout?

[magnesiumshinesbrightly]

I just realized the reason I obsessed over the character Bumblebee (transformers) as a kid was because he talked the way I do. I learned how to talk and interact based off of media characters and so my speech is constantly switching accents and tone like his radio speech💀

[in-the-airducts]

Hey guys super wholesome Brainstorm and Chromedome friendship story idea

It starts off after the events of the Overlord arc but sometime before the Brainstorm time-traveling arc. Chromedome is still kind of depressed despite having Rewind 2.0, so he unexpectedly seeks out Brainstorm's company. Brainstorm is almost done with his suitcase. He's obsessively working on it since completion is so near. Thus, he's tired and doesn't take the correct precautions to lock his hab suite door, and Chromedome finds him working on the suitcase. Bewildered, he asks Brainstorm about it. Brainstorm's been caught by his best friend and is a terrible liar (his "eccentric" personality covers most of the mistakes he makes which is the only way he's made it so far), so he tells Chromedome the truth...or at least part of it. He tells Chromedome that he is building a time machine to go back and save Quark. He does NOT tell Chromedome about being a Decepticon or the REAL plan of going back to stop the war, which would also erase Brainstorm's existence. Chromedome asks Brainstorm if they can go back to save the original Rewind. He seems like he's willing to give up Rewind 2.0 for this endeavor.

Brainstorm, feeling guilty that his REAL plan will likely end up in Chromedome and Rewind never meeting, agrees. He says he'll go back to the day that Rewind dies, but he secretly plans to stop the war anyways. This will make the entire Rewind-saving thing a moot point, but it'll give Chromedome some closure at least (and Brainstorm less guilt). Brainstorm finishes the case, and they go back in time. However, the case malfunctions and takes them to the wrong point. Instead of going back to the beginning of the Overlord day, they go back to the place where Overlord's just escaped and Chromedome is still in the time chamber. Brainstorm realizes this and tries to go back to the correct time. However, the case is not responding, and Brainstorm discovers there's been a malfunction. While Brainstorm is trying to fix the malfunction, Chromedome is trying to save Rewind. He fails and watches Rewind die again. Then it starts again. Brainstorm and Chromedome realize they're caught in a time loop that restarts with Rewind's death. All physical conditions are reset. Brainstorm and Chromedome hold only the memories of the time loop. It seems like they have 2 options to stop the loop: they can save Rewind, or they can fix the briefcase. They attempt to save Rewind first. Cue the angst: over and over and over again, Chromedome watches Rewind and the Lost Light crew die. Every loop, his hopes are raised and then crushed, just like Rewind's tiny body. Over and over and over again, Brainstorm also watches Chromedome fall into a cycle of despair. A bunch of things happen during the time loops. The first time Chromedome doesn't immediately try to save Rewind. The first time they realize that even their own deaths (guess how that happens) are reset with the time loops. The first time Chromedome thinks about leaving Rewind. There's a lot of unpleasant first times, despite the time loop.

Chromedome can't take it, so he wipes his memories of the last 2,375,499 loops. He only remembers that he and Brainstorm had time traveled to save Rewind.

Brainstorm is infuriated. Chromedome's left him to suffer under the weight of 2,375,499 loops alone. He barely talks to Chromedome for the next 3,200 loops.

Chromedome is mostly distraught about rewatching Rewind's death, which is a novelty to him since he erased his memories of the previous loops. Thus, he notices Brainstorm's tenseness but attributes it to Overlord's slaughtering of the crew.

After Chromedome wipes his memory, Brainstorm starts working on fixing the briefcase. This is very difficult, as all research is restarted with every time loop. It's impossible to run any long tests. It's also difficult to set up the lab and find the correct components for conducting research as materials always return back their original places at the beginning of each time loop.

In a moment of frustration (it's loop 2,430,567 for Brainstorm, loop 55,068 for Chromedome), Brainstorm tells Chromedome about the memory-wipe. He confesses that he's looking for a new way to stop the time loop that doesn't involve saving Rewind.

This is a breaking point for Chromedome, who wipes his memories the next loop. However, he goes back even FURTHER–to the point BEFORE he learns about the time-traveling and Quark at all. This effectively leaves Brainstorm alone in the time loop, as Chromedome is now unaware like the rest of the Lost Light.

Over the next few million loops it takes to repair the briefcase, Brainstorm has essentially explored the entire ship. In his exploration, he stumbles upon 3 unusual drives. They're Rewind's old drives, but they've been wiped. The first contains ALL of Chromedome's memories from the first 2,375,499 loops. The second contains the memories from loop 2,375,500 to loop 2,430,567. The third contains a message from Chromedome. He expresses his guilt, regret, and apologies for abandoning Brainstorm. At the end of the message, he asks Brainstorm for forgiveness and to make Chromedome download his memories again. Brainstorm realizes that these drives are the only things that can change. Despite the time loop, they haven't reset the information Chromedome put on there. He uses the drives to store research, and progress moves along much faster after that.

Brainstorm doesn't know what to do with the memories left on the drives. He ends up leaving them alone for now.

On loop 2,786,777, Brainstorm fixes the briefcase. Rewind dies and plot happens like normal. Chromedome is devastated, but in a normal way. He's about to erase his memories of Rewind, like canon.

Brainstorm enters the room, seething and hurt. He tells Chromedome that he doesn't deserve ignorance because ignorance is bliss. He's not allowed to forget Rewind after all that had happened. He then tells Chromedome about the time-traveling loops. Chromedome hardly believes him at first. However, his friend is so different and changed that he begins to possibly consider that there may be truth to the story.

Then, Brainstorm offers him a choice. He pulls out the drives and plays the third drive's message. Then, he says that Chromedome can choose to download the his memories from the time loop and suffer in knowledge with him for the rest of his life. Or, he can not look at the loops or delete his memory after looking at the loops. If he does this, Brainstorm will never acknowledge at him again.

At the end of this offer, Brainstorm pulls out a fourth drive, which is Rewind's message. After listening to Rewind's message, Chromedome decides to not delete his memories about Rewind and to take up Brainstorm's offer on downloading the time loop memories.

This ends in crushing depression, but Chromedome finds it within himself to not delete the time loop memories. Brainstorm and Chromedome live out their days in burdened memory, but they do it together. Yay wholesomeness!

[loveaetingkids]

You know how fnaf 3 revealed that Afton was strangled by the mechanism of his own suit and ended up inhabiting it as a ghost-zombie thingy? After going over my other special interest involving robots- aka transformers -an idea struck me:what would happen if the human was crushed inside the Cybertronian while they were switching between their modes? While in the tfp series it was shown that the human would only puke if that happened, what if they fell into a wrong slot? The transformer in question would look for their human friend, only to find some red liquid spilling out of them. If the soul of that person ended up trapped inside the transformer’s body, would it merge with their spark? Would the Cybertronian catch themselves thinking about something that never happened,as if the memory weren’t theirs to begin with? What if due to some circumstances, human corpse remained partly or fully inside the transformer and started consolidating with metal, creating some amalgamation that is partly machine and partly raw human tissue. The possession could even look as an infection- the first signs are barely noticeable, until it’s too late and the transformer shares their body and mind with a human who is very, very angry.