#i will draw my version of shockwave ti give example don't worry

[unicrons-chaos]

Hot Take on worldbuilding!

I think at least cybertronian transformers would have something like uncanny valley instincts. Because of things like Spark Eaters. Perhaps a mech with too much grey is uncanny valley due to the comparison to an offlined frame. Or an empurata victim.

Or shadowplay and how their processor and actions now are not quite the same and that could be dangerous cause spark eaters weren't acting the same.

Predacons(predaking's bros) and Insecticons are views close to this valley as well because the mechanimal heritage and coding to varying degrees and this made outsiders uncomfortable and thus the hate towards them. Beastformers too to an extent. They aren't exactly in the uncanny valley but to others they're close enough. (In my personal worldbuilding Predacons are ancestors to many and Vosians are closest descendant so this would imply to them as well in that sense. Might discuss that whole gig in another future post)

Anyways,

Perhaps Caminus and Velocitron didn't have to worry about this and don't understand why Cybertronians are uncomfortable with a mech that they've never seen before.

Empurata was an illegal practise. A crime and punishment to strip one of their humanity esentially and be deemed an outcast.

How? To make them look barley like the rest of them.

To make them just mech enough to be fear/aggression/concern inducing.

Big singular eyes in the dark of a helm and sensors or biolights that glow like sparking wires, sharp sometimes pincher like claws too sharp to be a mech's claws, a few too many revealed wires, no mouth or mask to give sense of a voice box, helms like darkness with antenna and blocky shapes not too unlike a spark eater's chest with something trapped inside.