#but being born inherently an outlier by the sheer whim of. idfk. primus or the planet itself. what's the chances there??? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

telesodalite · 2 hours ago

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Been thinking about idw1's outliers lately, and how sort of wild the whole concept is from a worldbuilding standpoint, and it struck me that most confirmed outlier abilities tend to be really useful, or flashy, or powerfully dangerous, and few to none tend to be like, really boring, or totally impractical, or even entirely useless? Which, doesn't really make sense when considering the fact that outlier abilities are seemingly random.

Surely not everyone who's born an outlier gets something useful?

And I don't mean like, "good" useful, but any sort of useful, even if that means you can kill people with your voice, or give a power boost by exploding yourself, those are still "useful".

But surely there had to be some with abilities that were totally impractical, or nonbeneficial, or at the very least just insignificant or purely aesthetic and pointless?

#mods. enhancements. and artificial outlier abilities are a different thing. with plenty of room for error and drawbacks #but being born inherently an outlier by the sheer whim of. idfk. primus or the planet itself. what's the chances there???#this definitely has to have been discussed before. i'm just too lazy to dig for it rn. but yeah. its a fascinating concept either way #idw transformers #tf idw1 #mtmte #lost light #maccadam #maybe thundercracker's sonic booms count. but those have some use. also its funky. so he gets a pass i think #i had more thoughts about this earlier when i first jotted the thought down. but ive forgotten them now >:/#basically its just funny to think of like. shockwaves school and all. going around like ''what can you do?''#and you've got the group we see in the flashback. and then like. some guy whos like ''...i can change the color of energon''#or like. ''i can float! but only like... three inches off the ground''#i cant think of every example. but go down a list of useless superpowers and there ya go #omg. wait. if rewinds whole color changing deal was legitimately a outlier thing. i guess he would count #also. in a similar vein. its really funny to think of outlier abilities as like. stats and stuff? plus 1 to so and so but negative 1 to etc #so abilities had a sort of cost. this is smth ive seen here and there in fics and stuff. and its great.#but its sorta funny to think of working in the opposite way too #take misfire as an example. bcs its funny. negative boost to aiming. but positive boost to evasion #less of a chance to hit smth. but also less of a chance to be hit by smth #idk lol. sorry. ive been doing a lot of gaming lately bcs ✨️stress✨️. so ive got a lot of dumb stats rolling around in my head lmao #also its 4am. so... coherence has long gone to bed before me lol #struggling to sleep again tonight. but more so for anxiety reasons. all these federal job changes are hitting very close to home rn #it'll probably be fine tho. probably. got a lot of other personal shit to worry about anyways. like my fucking medical files being tossed?!#tricare when i get you. when i fucking grt you omg. i didnt even serve. why am i suffering omfg #sorry... thats off-topic. so its probably best i uh. put myself to bed. at 4am. so. goodnight and good morning 🥲👍#tf idw #tf worldbuilding

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