#an arm older than the predacon fossils you were digging up on earth

[transingthoseformers]

So, one particular aspect of the aligned continuity I noticed was just how easy transplants are. Like, Bumblebee's T-Cog was legit shot and all fucked up looking and Ratchet was not only able to repair it, but put it back into Bumblebee with little to no consequence. Megatron had the Decepticons dig up an ancient ass prime, cut off the arm, cut off his arm, and put on this desiccated looking thing Just so that he could use the powers of the forge hammer. Optimus Prime was able to scan Rex, a technoorganic animatronic that was consistently looking all torn up in the series and likely had all sorts of nasties, and gained a dinobot altmode (like, at least the rescue bots scanned mostly inanimate animatronics that hadn't been running around exposed to the elements) Megatron's mind was literally bouncing around in Bumblebee's head in "Out of his head" yes I'm considering that a transplant.

Like ik ik I've brought this up a lot but our immune systems are nuts, it barely tolerates having eyes. Human bodies have a very low tolerance for foriegn substances, which is very useful for murdering pathogens but less so when you want to bring a PB&J to school. From what I can see, Cybertronians have far more lenient immune systems (which would explain how Optimus's case of plague progressed so quickly) which allows them to scan an altmode using foreign data. But. There must be consequences to this. well, ig there is in a way considering how easily the tyrannosaurus programming overtook Optimus's processor in Rescue Bots. It definitely puts Cybertronians at a higher risk for viral threats and contaminants. It also allows for an IMMENSE amount of bullshit to happen with their frames, for better and for worse.

Cylas... is quite literally a 3/4ths dead human in the place of a dead mech's spark which I STILL HAVE OPINIONS ON. This should have been more of a disaster, especially in regard to how they managed to splice two shattered bodies of a Homo sapiens and a Cybertronus cybertronii together. I don't think that wouldn't have worked at ALL if Cybertronian biology was less messy