Think the crew would feel bad in the seemingly inevitable reveal that Rev used to be human and was forcibly converted and mind wiped?
Could you even imagine the raw, brutal chaos should the news break out that one human being successfully cyberformed? And is doing relatively well? From a very resource-heavy planet seeded with ore that's currently under the Council of Worlds? As well as a member of the dominant species of the said planet with a short life expectancy with great fertility rates?
In the galactic political space, mechanoids and organic species have a deep-seated distrust and/or outright hate for one another. To the point of genocidal as seen with the Decepticon's Infiltration Protocols, the gruesome process of pink alchemy (Energon derived from living tissue of organics which takes thousands of lives to muster one cube), how the Black Block Consortia destroyed Prion, and the attempts by various organic individuals to either perform experiments or wipe out Cybertronians.
The public would riot, the wrong people would leverage the process for all the wrong reasons, and the Galatic Council would join forces with the Black Block Consortia to fully commit to destroying Cybertron and its colonies.
(It's one thing to be a living act of theurgy. It's a whole other level that a mortal man -no matter the size, shape, and material -can be able to transform an unwilling victim to something malleable.)
I think the information would be completely repressed and the methodology destroyed by Tyrest's own hands.
Tyrest wouldn't have thought of it as a solution to the population and fuel crises. He would have viewed Revelation's creation akin to something holy and divine; something that was utterly his and his alone as a sign that he was on the "correct" path to Cyberutopia.
And forcibly bind Pharma to secrecy, no matter the costs. (There was a reason why the medic looked at Revelation with such pity, scorn, and wariness during the time in the Atrium...)
(And completely separate Revelation from cold construction since it's all still them and their frame eventually reforged itself to their final shape.)
I think that most the crew would get is a version of the truth: Revelation was forcefully reformatted with additional frame modifications that would be found on Songbirds rather than a bondmate and memory alternation with some level of shadowplay (courtesy of Pharma's experience with mnemosurgeons to mimic the marks).
It's enough to grind down the harsher negativity to milder levels of suspicion. Like Revelation and Remedy would be allowed to interact with Ten with supervision.
A few like Ratchet, Rung, and Mirage would figure out there's something beneath Tyrest's personal files about his beloved, Neutral sweetspark he mooned obsessively from a distance.
But never in their wildest dreams, they would guess the real events.
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You mentioned before that the people who would have access to Machete's bedchamber would likely already know about Vasco. How did that come up in your mind? Did they get caught in the act or was the subject broached with enough trust? How did those people handle it? Sorry if this is a bit vague but I thought about it today and I'm very interested. :)
I think it just has to be the case, I can't imagine how they could manage to hide the fact Vasco is bunking with him from everyone, for years and years. Machete doesn't live alone, he has staff and servants who do his housekeeping and run his errands. Even if Vasco didn't stay there for any extended periods of time and snuck out the back door to avoid attention, I'm assuming at least the people who do his laundry and change his sheets would eventually detect that some sort of funny business had happened. But the number of people who are in on it is still very very small and tightly controlled. His assistant Vittorio definitely knows and helps to manage this situation, so does his personal doctor, and on top of that maybe a handful of most trusted high-ranking emplyees, which he has vetted extremely carefully and pays handsomely for their discreetness and prudence.
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i alwys get annoyed when i see fanon depictions of artificer being affectionate with five pebbles because in my mind artificer has complicated feelings towards him that lean towards dislike and they see him more as a weird alien creature-machine who carries a great deal of knowledge and talks to arti for lack of anything better to do, and artificer brings him pearls to stave off crushing hopelessness and loneliness but like i dont think artificer actually likes him. i think theyd find him off-putting and unpleasant. of course that's just headcanon in my mind though which is why its a little funny that alternate depictions annoy me so much. we are all making this shit up
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