#if I see another fic with untagged mpreg I am gonna throw up

[quetzalpapalotl]

I don't mind so much Transformers having something like "biological" relationship so long as is not the standard. Is not even that I dislike the mere concept of parent-like relationships, I mean, I'm a die-hard fan of the Wreckers Saga. I just don't care when they so closely mimic human relationships and certainly do not want the fucking nuclear family model imposed on my space robots. And also, the idea of an entire race with no childhood is so far removed from the human experience, is no wonder so many try to replicate it still. But that's what's interesting to me.

I had no idea of how much I wanted this fantasy until I encountered Transformers and so I want it to stay that way. I can get stories about traditional families and children anywhere else. Why this is so important for me is to feelsy and too complex for words, but it is.

The mentors in IDW2 work great for me because yeah, it's a parental relationship, but not like a human one. Everyone is adopted and is not like the weight of entire generations of families is on you. The newsparks are not children, they are naive, they need to be taught the ropes, they lack experience, but they have the same kind of processors as everyone else. Unlike children whose brains are completely different from adults and there are reasonings they are incapable of doing. If newsparks are impulsive is because they don't have the practice on controlling themselves and not because their prefrontal cortex is still developing while they process everything with the amygdala.

Transformers come out with a basic understanding of the world, hell, Cliffjumper said "sorry" right after being forged, like he understands something as complex as shame, he knew there should have been people waiting for him. That's not a baby, not even a child. Being a parent is not something that completely reshapes yoir life and identity, your child doesn't require so much monitoring and the period of time they require of you as support is minuscule compared to a Cybertronian lifespan.

On the other hand, the one thing that keeps me from watching Beast Wars is not even the animation. Is the idea that these people are "descendants", and it doesn't mean that they were created by the old Autobots and Decepticons, Primal is specifically a descendant of Optimus, Arcee is Rattraps great-aunt??? How does that work? I don't know, but I don't like it and I'm going to ignore it.