#still learning how to draw proper Cybertronian

[cosmique-oddity]

Chapter one : Goodbye Cybertron !

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THEY MADE IT ! Prowl and Horius are officially on their own (or Cybertron’s is…..without Prowl).

And I MADE IT TT

This is the first comic i want to continue and eventually finish ! For now I have like 11 chapters planned

Important : Their colocation is 100% platonic I won’t support any ship between them except the one they’re on (the space ship lol)

Kind of slice of life shaped :3

Did you notice Hot Rod ?

Context

Prequel

[melishade]

In your Peaceful timeline, how would Arcee and Wheeljack fit into this? Megatron's looking for a Cybertronian ship, but there's less urgency to find one. And there's still no guarantee they'll push the beckon button since it was Erwn who pushed it on accident, implying neither Optimus nor Megatron knew where it was or what it was for. So that makes Wheeljack and Arcee's arrival less likely.

Previous Episode of the Peaceful Timeline

Yeah...they don't come to the AOT world at all.

The only reason they even came to the AOT world in the first place was because Eren triggered a mechanism that activated an emergency signal that remained active on the neutral ship for two years. And they picked up that signal five planets away, which brought them to the planet in the first place. Because Eren doesn't exist, and Megatron would be trying to find a ship closer to Optimus and Ymir's location, the Jackhammer doesn't pick up the neutral ship. And after Wheeljack and Arcee help those Autobots on the planet they were on...they go home. Optimus and Megatron are effectively stuck on this world. Well, technically Optimus.

But...Optimus and Megatron don't really mind. Optimus doesn't have to be a Prime anymore. All Optimus has to do is help Ymir live a peaceful life and make sure that no harm comes to her ever again. It's a simple task he gave himself, but one that is the least demanding and the most freeing. He gets to help the next generation grow. Optimus is content. And Optimus trusts that the Autobots will be able to take care of themselves. They don't need him right now.

Megatron is surprisingly okay with this situation too. If he goes back to Cybertron, he's going to die. No wiggle room around that. Megatron has the opportunity to make amends with Optimus for all the wrong he did, and Megatron grows a small appreciation for some humans. Extremely selective. Megatron's mind is actually quiet for once.

They're okay. They're free.

So some more soft shit for the Peaceful Timeline:

-Maria doesn't really know that Optimus and Megatron are actually aliens. They don't reveal that to her, and for now they think it's for the best. They have to be extremely cautious when drawing attention to themselves.

-Ymir...slowly opens herself up to the village near their secluded cabin. She learns to trust humans again and actively goes down to the village to provide her help. She'll trade food either grown or foraged for supplies and medicine. It's nice to not have people look at her in fear, but with kindness and appreciation.

-Megatron and Optimus do find a ship that they can ultimately use that isn't too far away from Ymir and Maria, but it does require some travel. Optimus informs Ymir of when they leave and when they believe they'll be back so Ymir can be physically and emotionally prepared.

-Optimus and Megatron do discuss whether or not to make contact with Cybertron, and they both silently agree 'Not yet.' They couldn't leave Ymir and Maria behind.

-Megatron, at one point, does get curious and ask Optimus what Ymir's titan form actually looked like. Optimus provides the description and Megatron is a little disgusted.

-Optimus and Megatron do stay in fighting shape in the event of an emergency. They fight in both titan and human form. Titan form is obviously them having to stay away from humans. But human form is right in the backyard of the cabin. Ymir gets worried when they fight, but little Maria thinks they're so cool and tries to mimic them. Megatron thinks they should teach her how to fight, earning 'no' from both Optimus and Ymir. Maria begs Megatron to let her learn, but Megatron isn't really in the mood to do something behind a mother's back, earning grumbles and complaints from the child.

-Megatron does teach Maria how to be more agile, with Optimus and Ymir's permission. It gets her active and it's a proper skill. Maria ends up doing cartwheels all around the house to show off to Ymir.

-Optimus teaches Maria the importance of knowledge. How to read and write. How to identify poisonous foods and plants. How to chart the stars. So Maria is just as smart as her mom, if not smarter.

-The village refers to Optimus, Megatron, Ymir, and Maria as the 'odd family'. But Optimus and Megatron do help the village grow and advance. The village wonders what Optimus and Megatron even are. Optimus simply says he was a scholar while Megatron says he was in labor. Which isn't wrong. They aren't really lying.

-If Maria has a bad dream, she goes to her mother for comfort, and Ymir is happy to provide. But Ymir still has her own nightmares of drowning, of King Fritz. And Ymir will go to Optimus and seek his comfort while Maria was asleep in her room. She'll rest in Optimus' alt mode and wake up early in the morning as to not alarm her daughter.

-Ymir...ultimately opens her heart to romantic love again. Every time she goes to the village, there's someone around her age she talks to. A baker. He'll give her an extra loaf of bread, and Ymir gives him an extra potato in response for all his hard work. He's kind to her, and she her. The villagers warn him about getting involved with Ymir. Not because she's odd, is technically a widow, and doesn't really speak, but because Optimus and Megatron are going to be on this teen's ass. They have a good idea of how protective Optimus and Megatron are of Ymir and Maria. And Megatron is already intimidating enough.

-Maria ends up spilling the beans about her mom talking to the 'nice bread man' in town and are immediately spying on this man, waiting for a slip up. Maria is brought along once, but gets them caught when Maria says 'Hi Mama!'. They have to grab her and run.

(I'll probably expand on the romantic love in another ask if I get it, but I am enjoying writing all the soft shit.)

[thanksjro]

More Than Meets the Eye #13- Swerve Doesn’t Have Any Friends

Okay, let’s go ahead and get this out of the way.

It’s a FUCKING SPORTS BRA AND RUNNING SHORTS ALEX.

And don’t think I don’t see that friggin’ cleavage alien back there. You ain’t slick.

I’m going to make it a law that all comic book artists learn how to draw clothes that don’t vacuum-seal themselves to women’s bodies. Milne gets six months for this infraction alone, and Roche gets a year for the initial bra crime he committed back in Last Stand. Learn how women’s underwear works, you ninnies.

Our issue opens up with Swerve stretching his radio personality muscles.

Oh, Guido Guidi, whisk me away to flights of fancy!

Our artist for this issue is none other than Guido Guidi, ascended from fanwork to deliver us from evil with his near-superhuman ability to emulate other artists’ styles and just make things look really pretty. He was responsible for the mythos pages in the 2012 Annual, AKA the best part. He also filled in on some of the art for Last Stand of the Wreckers, not that I really noticed because he’s just that good.

Swerve lets Blurr know that while it might have looked like the Lost Light had exploded, thus killing everyone onboard back in issue #1, that isn’t actually what happened. I’m glad someone filled in the Cybertronian populace on that.

I was never great at math, but those speech bubbles might be phoning it in a bit.

Swerve says that he’s having a great time on the quest, despite all the hiccups, and we get an explanation for why this long-range communications system hasn’t been seen prior to this point. It’s been broken for a while- most likely due to the quantum jump that started the series off with a bang- but Blaster managed to get it running again. Good job, Blaster. With this little setup for our framing device out of the way, we get into the meat of the story.

Swerve is being nosey about things that weren’t any of his business, happening in a closed off room, when Drift drags him down the hall and hid him away for safety. Swerve doesn’t much appreciate being manhandled, but there’s a method to the madness here.

Drift’s nose has vacated the premises once again, so we’re just going to have to deal with that. And how shapely does one have to be to be known as “the guy with the legs”? I mean, Drift is RIGHT THERE.

Drift uses his own powerful legs to kick down the door to Cyclonus and Tailgate’s room. It turns out that the horrific screaming wasn’t the sound of a murder or sexual relations taking place, but rather that of Cyclonus singing in Old Cybertronian.

My god, he’s completely enamored with this unrepentant murder machine.

We are just all up in Cyclonus’ grill for this panel. Nothing but lips. Was this specified in the script? Because it feels like it might have been specified in the script.

Old Cybertronian, or the Primal Vernacular as some might call it, was last seen in general when Rodimus channeled the will of the trapped Titan all across Tailgate’s chest. It was last seen spoken when we met Vos, the terrible murder gremlin who turns into a gun and uses his face to cause puncture trauma.

Comic books are wild, y’all.

Now that we’ve established that no one’s being killed, Drift goes back to what he was doing earlier, with Swerve deciding to tag along because he’s horrifically lonely. He invites Drift to come room up with him, because I guess if you’re going to sell off your comatose roommate’s bed out from under him, you might as well go for the guy who’s third in command,  is probably one of the hottest guys on the ship, and slices people into chunky salsa if they try anything funny.

Drift politely declines, and awkwardly removes himself from the conversation when Swerve doesn’t take the hint, returning to his sword lesson with Rodimus.

Oh thank god, the obnoxiously pink room is back.

Ultra Magnus bursts into the room, appalled by the actions of his fellow crew members. Some of his concerns are well-placed. Others, well…

Is- is that another friggin’ retainer on those lower teeth? Why does this design choice keep showing up?

So Magnus has imprisoned roughly a third of the ship at this point, and Rodimus suggests he take a chill pill. Magnus doesn’t even know what a chill pill even is, so we’re forced to make use of our most dangerous weapon- the threat of a good time, courtesy of Swerve.

The fact that Ultra Magnus hasn’t reduced Swerve to an oil stain on the floor is genuinely astounding. The guy has zero respect for bureaucracy or proper business management. It has been MONTHS, you dinky little man, get your act together as a business owner.

Swerve takes the bribe, and soon everyone’s shipping off to Hedonia, where the drinks are plentiful and the women… well, most of the Lost Lighters don’t even know what a woman is, so that aspect doesn’t really come into play. Thanks, Furman.

Also, Rung’s back to normal. Don’t worry about it, not a big deal.

Swerve isn’t having much luck on his Roommate Quest, as Tailgate spurns his advances, stating that he’s good kicking it with Cyclonus, mainly because they’re both old as shit.

I see we haven’t quite hit the threshold on the “Cyclonus is allowed to have friends now” meter. Give it a few more issues, I’m sure we’ll get there.

Man, zero for two for Swerve on trying to get a hot roommate. Maybe third time’s a charm?

Rodimus pops into the back of the shuttle to remind everyone that their entire race is more or less despised by the entire galaxy, and to play it safe by using their holomatter avatars.

The revamp by Brainstorm and Rung is truly a blessing, because the avatars in IDW were awful to look at up to this point.

Y’all, that is HOT ROD. Jesus wept.

Getting back to Tailgate’s questionable taste in companionship, Tailgate asks if Swerve and Blurr connected right away. Swerve gives him an affirmative, then starts listing off the guy’s racing stats until Ultra Magnus plops down between the two of them, drawn in by the melodious sound of statistics.

Magnus is having a hard time relaxing, but he’s giving it his best, and I think that’s very commendable of him. It’s hard trying new things.

On the surface of Hedonia, it would appear the B-Movies are having a Pride event in the entertainment district.

Okay, moment of truth- show us those avatars!

Oh thank god, they aren’t totally hideous. Though, isn’t Rewind old as shit? I guess youth is a state of mind. Still, I can’t believe we missed out on silver fox Rewind.

Rung’s line is in response to folks at the time claiming that Rung was a self-insert character, which is interesting, because we’ve already seen what a self-insert looks like when it’s Roberts doing the inserting, and we’ve also seen his Mary Sues.

Rung, while an original character who had appeared in Roberts’ pre-professional works (a single line of text in Eugenesis, where he was a psychiatry play-on-words), he isn’t what I’d consider a Mary Sue. Mary Sues are usually stunningly beautiful, beloved by their peers, insanely talented in ways that no other character is, and typically have some sort of connection to another character that more or less forces them into the story despite not needing to exist.

Mary Sues don’t get their friggin’ heads exploded, or exist in a constantly-forgettable state. Sure, he’s the only therapist we’ve ever seen in the Transformers franchise, but there was kind of a massive need for that sort of character to be created, seeing as all of these sons of guns have PTSD and clinical depression. And, as we’ve seen in previous issues and will continue to see later on, he’s really not even that great at it.

That isn’t to say that he doesn’t have certain traits befitting such a characterization, merely that they don’t add up to equal that sort of whole by issue #13. Transformers (2009)-era Drift is way closer to a true Mary Sue than Rung is.

Anyway, where the hell did Tailgate get to?

They really just let Frodo Baggins in this bar all babybjörned up, huh? Does Tailgate even know what a baby even is at this point? Does he just think he’s a very small person? How much human media has he consumed? We haven’t gotten into the reproductive process for the continuity yet, but fresh Cybertronians aren’t exactly a one-to-one to human infants. Damn it, Roberts, what the fuck am I supposed to make of Babygate?

Whirl’s off in the corner, disguised as a 12-year old girl who’s fucking STRAPPED. Magnus has disappeared, but Rewind locates him pretty easily as Rung makes a comment about Magnus needing to make an appointment with him.

Oh hey, Verity. Been a minute. Careful, ol’ six-eyes over there is leering at you.

The fellas come back to the bar as they truly are, and sit down for a round of drinks. Whirl gets Ultra Magnus a drink that sounds disturbingly like a Cybertronian equivalent to Milk Coke, and we get a little anatomy lesson. Transformers have something called a Fuel Intake Moderation chip, something that keeps them from getting drunk on pretty much the only thing they can consume. Swerve suggests Magnus turn his off so he can have a good time- which I don’t personally agree with, but this is Captain Stick-in-the-Mud we’re talking about here. Magnus gives it a shot.

And that’s a series wrap on Ultra Magnus!

No, the man’s just got no tolerance and has been knocked the hell out by his drink. Things begin devolving. Tailgate is crying. Skids has found out that Whirl didn’t give Magnus Milk Coke at all, but instead the equivalent of liquid cocaine. Swerve is convinced he’s going to prison. Rewind is filming the whole thing.

Nobody actually checks to see if Magnus is actually dead, until Rung gets around to it. Swerve, you’re a doctor by original trade, what the hell are you doing?

The boys sit Magnus at the table to wait out his nap. Hours later, nothing’s changed, except that they’ve started up the nemesis game, and Whirl’s decided he’s going to be rude about monoformers being monoformers. Rung gives a non-answer, because that’s just who he is as a person. Skids names Misfire as his worst enemy, only because he’s still missing a good chunk of memory and can’t remember if he had a worst enemy, but still wants to contribute to the conversation.

Rung, don’t be a dick, he did his best. You were right on top of Fort Max, it was a tricky shot.

Ultra Magnus finally starts waking up, and that’s the point where everyone decides to foot Swerve with the bill for the emotional labor he’s going to have to perform by explaining just what the friggity-frack happened.

Magnus starts laughing, then crying, then offloads his troubles onto Swerve. Magnus feels like he just doesn’t fit in on the Lost Light. He’s just trying to do his job and everyone makes fun of him, or disrespects his authority. He’s trying, he really is, but he’s just not built for post-war life. He’s actually tried to leave his position on the Lost Light, but they just keep pulling him back in.

Probably doesn’t help that Rodimus seems more interested in Drift’s opinion on matters than his own SIC half the time.

Oh no, he’s making digs at the things Swerve’s sensitive about. Where is Rung?

Magnus just wants to be understood, y’know? He’s a fully realized creation. He’s got interests. Like music! And the fact that Swerve is missing his Autobot badge!

This was the point where MTMTE was still bouncing back and forth on whether it wanted to commit to the crotch badge. It was a tumultuous time for everyone, very dark days.

WHERE THE FUCK IS RUNG

Magnus, having had enough of sharing his feelings, takes another sip of his cocaine and slips back into unconsciousness. Swerve admits to his limp body that people don’t actually like him, but rather only stick around because of what he can offer- namely, a good time.

The rest of the Swerve posse comes back, with Cyclones having joined the party. Rung shows off his new model ship, which gets Rewind started on his movie collection. He pulls up the opening ceremony for the Ark 1. Y’know, the Ark 1, that ship that Cyclonus was on that disappeared into the Dead Universe for six million years. The Ark 1 that Tailgate was supposed to be on.

Before we can get started however, someone throws the model at Rewind’s head.

That someone is none other than Cyclonus, who proceeds to fly into a rage, throwing tables and shoving the still-unconscious Ultra Magnus to the floor. My word, what a reaction! What could possibly be setting him off so much? Does he not like being reminded of his fated trip to the stars? Is this a manifestation of trauma from that event?

Who knows? No time for questions, Skids is too busy punching him in the face.

Tailgate intervenes, explaining that because Cyclonus and himself are so goddamn old, the engex Cyclonus consumed is wreaking havoc on his body. He tells the rest of them to go on while he tries to calm Cyclonus down. Interesting that Rewind doesn’t have any sort of input on this, given that he is also super fucking old, but there’s no time for questions! We’ve got to get Ultra Magnus back on the shuttle in the next 20 minutes, or else they’ll be stuck on Hedonia FOREVER.

They start throwing Magnus on the floor repeatedly, trying to get his t-cog to spin up. No dice, however.

It’s 4AM. Do you know where your Domey is? Because Rewind sure as hell doesn’t.

Okay, time for Plan B.

I’m guessing not, Rung. I’m guessing not.

Using Magnus as a trampoline does the trick, and the boys are rewarded with the sight of Magnus’ alt-mode… resting on its roof, upside down. They get him sorted, pile in the cab- Rewind is driving, which leads me to believe he at least has some experience handling a vehicle. Chromedome does turn into a car…

I don’t even know what that sort of activity implies for a Transformer. We won’t go any further down this line of thought.

The boys manage to get Ultra Magnus to the shuttle in time, and all’s well that ends well!

This is about the time that Blaster knocks on the glass at Swerve to wrap things up, seeing as he’s been at this for over nine hours now. There’s one last little aside before we’re done with our story, however, and it involves just what happened in the bar after everyone else left.

Cyclonus calmed down almost immediately after the rest of the guys left, paying for what he broke and inviting Tailgate to have a seat.

Well, I say invite, but it’s really more of an order.

If you’d already figured out at this point that this jumpy little marshmallow was lying about being the biggest badass who ever lived, a gold star for you! It turns out, dear Tailgate has been crafting a fabrication, spinning a yarn, telling a tall tale since Day One on the Lost Light. The story has been feeding us a steady diet of fish the whole time!

Red herring!

Red herring!

Red herring of Tailgate’s own design! Autopedia’s mods are a friggin’ joke.

Tailgate was supposed to be a the Ark 1 launch, but it was because he was on the cleanup crew. Boy’s a sluicer, and his arm SHOULD say "waste disposal”. Through a cunning use of his wits and cold reading, Tailgate faked his way through the dismantling of the bomb on Temptoria. A smart boy, he is, if not a bit self-centered.

Which brings us to why exactly Cyclonus freaked out in the bar: he wasn’t having an episode, but rather faking a reaction to prevent Tailgate’s lie from being exposed. He still thinks that Tailgate should come clean about this whole thing, before things get really messy, but it wouldn’t be an issue of MTMTE without some raw-ass emotions getting thrown about.

Cyclonus, who hasn’t allowed himself to feel anything other than simmering rage or national pride for over six million years, is beginning to feel something for Tailgate.

That feeling is sympathy, and maybe a little pity.

He offers to teach Tailgate a song to help him feel better, because that’s what he does when he has feelings.

And given that Cyclonus seems to sing often enough that Tailgate’s gotten used to the horrific sound, it might be that Cyclonus has feelings a hell of a lot more often than he lets on.

Roberts, how many times are you going to make Tailgate cry? How much pain are you going to subject him to before you’re satisfied?

The scene closes out on the two of them getting their karaoke on in the empty bar, in the god-awful language that is Old Cybertronian. I can only imagine that they get kicked out of the bar pretty quickly after this.

Getting back to the present, Swerve has finally, finally finished his story, closing out with an invitation for Blurr to come visit Swerve’s.

Blaster gets ready to shoot one hell of a voice message at Blurr, but there’s a problem; the number Swerve has isn’t long enough to be a personal hailing frequency.

Yeah, turns out that Tailgate isn’t the only liar on board the Lost Light.

Four million years ago, Swerve met Blurr at a publicity event, got way too friendly with a celebrity, pestered the guy until he gave him a fake number, and has convinced himself that he made a life-long friend to this very day.

Big oof.

Later, back at Swerve’s, Swerve is busy cleaning the glassware when Ultra Magnus comes in, sober and having just gotten out of surgery to fix his fuel tanks. Guess that second sip of Nucleon really wasn’t a good idea.

Swerve tries to tell a lie about what happened the night before, only to have the dawning horror that Magnus remembered the entire night, as he’s presented with a new badge. Swerve, bolstered by the fact that, while Magnus didn’t enjoy the previous evening, he appreciated having company, begins to ask Magnus if he’d want to room with him.

Wow, zero for three! That’s rough, buddy.

Kind of a bummer end to this whole issue, but it was still decently light, tone-wise, for MTMTE. A great deal of fun was had, in between all the mortifying reveals of our characters inner demons.

...Well, shit.

[uselessalexis165]

Facts about Lilang Bituin (3)

-Back when Lila stilled lived on Cybertron, her carrier basically ended up doing most of the decision making for her.

-Most things Lila knows besides fighting are all things she was forced to learn by her carrier.

-One of the things Lila was forced to learn was learning on how to be a “proper femme”. So that ended up with Lila being forced to learn about beauty, grace, higher ranked standers, etc etc.

-Lila was forced to learn ballet like dances when growing up since her carrier thought it would help her be more femme like and less of a brute mech.

-She doesn’t admit it much, but ballet was a okay thing Lila liked doing by herself. Sometimes those instincts or reflexes kicked in whenever she’s fighting. 

-Lila doesn’t really like to do dancing much now ever since she left home, at least not in front of others. She does do ballet when she’s by herself sometimes though.

-The pink paint on Lila isn’t from a electronic paint job like most other Cybertronian’s have. 

-Her paint job is something she’s personally done because she thought it would make a bolder statement for what she believes in and what she stands for. Also because Lila wants to still somehow have her purple paint job

-At this time both Lila and Melody are together.

-Lila actually really loves to draw. In her free time back in the Archives she used to draw on this data pad she had before leaving it behind in her escape from home.

-Her biggest dream growing up was to become a visual designer for the stained glass windows and tapestries for the Guard’s council. Not a lot of bots know much about her dream except her family and Scout.

-Lila’s carrier didn’t want her to have this job because she thought it was too much of a lower class standard. Lila wanted to have this job because it was special to her and few others, but carrier never listened to her.

-Lila told Scout about her dream and Scout was practically thrilled! Scout never knew her friend had a taste for artistry. Scout has told Lila that she could help her, but Lila told her that right now isn’t the greatest time. Lila doesn’t have much inspiration along with the fact that she’s scared to really start drawing again.

-Reason she’s afraid is because she’s afraid she’ll somehow end up making her art too personal or dark for others interests. Most of Lila’s old drawings were of how in pain she was growing up under her carrier’s control.

-With use to being a Archivist, she loves reading. Her favorite type of books are always gonna be some form of fantasy books. Having the imagination of different worlds with extremely unknown powers were always something she liked.

-Some of Lila’s favorite types of clothing she’s seen humans have are those really big sweaters and hoodies to help hide your body, forms of masks humans were as fashion, combat bots, dyed hair with extremely fun colors, really anything that helps her make herself stand out and show of how much she’s in control.

-Lila has been practicing her singing to make sure she won’t end up mind controlling innocent bystanders whenever she’s just singing freely. She and Scout don’t wanna end up with Team Prime or anyone else somehow mind controlled for a whole another hour. 

-Lila surprisingly doesn’t have that many fears or isn’t afraid of most things. With being on Earth for a whole stellar cycle (whole year), she’s gotten use to most things around her.

-She’s barely scared of bugs, most of the humans aren’t that threatening to her, she just sees them as more of daily annoyances, along with the fact that Lila still barely knows most common things about Earth so she doesn’t have much fear.

-Only thing she fears is are the Decepticons that try and hurt her friends and the Earth and her carrier. She can stand up to the Cons with force if Scout or the others are endangered, but her carrier is somebot she can barely stand to.

(Scout is owned by my friend @authorchanlove)

[iacon-stargazer]

Muse Info

REPOST. DON’T REBLOG.

MUSE: Orion Pax FC: himself lol OCCUPATION: archivist AGE: uhhhh SEXUALITY:  demisexual PRONOUNS:  he/him/his (though i hc there are no gendered pronouns in Cybertronian languages)

APPEARANCE:

I am 5'7" or taller. / I wear glasses. / I have at least one tattoo. / I have at least one piercing. / I have blonde hair. / I have brown eyes. / I have short hair. / My abs are at least somewhat defined. / I have or have had braces.

PERSONALITY:

I love meeting new people. / People tell me that I’m funny. / Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me. / I enjoy physical challenges. / I enjoy mental challenges. / I’m playfully rude with people I know well. / I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it. / There is something I would change about my personality.

ABILITY:

I can sing well. / I can play an instrument. / I can do over 30 push-ups without stopping. / I’m a fast runner. / I can draw well. / I have a good memory. / I’m good at doing math in my head. / I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute. / I have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling battle. / I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch. / I know how to throw a proper punch.

HOBBIES:

I enjoy playing sports. / I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else. / I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else. / I have learned a new song in the past week. / I work out at least once a week. / I’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months. / I have drawn something in the past month. / I enjoy writing. / I do or have done martial arts.

EXPERIENCES:

I have had my first kiss. (verse dependent) / I have had alcohol. / I have scored the winning goal in a sports game. / I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting. / I have been at an overnight event. / I have been in a taxi. / I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year. / I have beaten a video game in one day. / I have visited another country. / I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts.

RELATIONSHIPS: (verse dependent; i’m going with default)

I’m in a relationship. / I have a crush on a celebrity. / I have a crush on someone I know. / I have been in at least 3 relationships. / I have never been in a relationship. / I have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them. / I get crushes easily. / I have had a crush on someone for over a year. / I have been in a relationship for at least a year. / I have/had feelings for a friend.

MY LIFE:

I had at least one person I consider a “best friend”. / I live close to my school. / My parents are still together. / I have/had at least one sibling. / I live in the United States. / There is snow right now where I live. / I have hung out with a friend in the past month. / I have a smartphone. / I have at least 15 CD’s. / I share my room with someone.

RANDOM SHIT:

I have break-danced. / I know a person named Jamie. / I have had a teacher with a lastname that’s hard to pronounce. / I have dyed my hair. / I’m listening to one song on repeat right now. / I have punched someone in the past week. / I know someone who has gone to jail. / I have broken a bone. / I have eaten a waffle today. / I know what I want to do with my life. / I speak at least 2 languages.

Tagged by Stolen from: @doctorhealthyself​

Tagging: whoever hasn’t been tagged?

[stuntiteachers]

Masterpost of all the Post-series conclusions to Stuntiteacher AU stories

Mun: Here you go everyone! All the conclusions to stories I’ve had in my head these past few months, I hope you enjoy them for as long as it took me to write them all. I think I’ll probably draw some of these for my own enjoyment, as well as in general stuff regarding my favorite designs and what not. Like previously stated, I’m not done with this blog yet, this is more a precaution and just an in general “open endings to the stories”. I know some of these things are things people wanted to know about!

Post-Stuntiteachers AU

Please note that Cybertron and Earth are treated as two continents on the same planet in this AU.

Bee Team and Steeljaw travelled back to Cybertron to confront the corrupted high council. Very similar to in canon events, Cyberwarp managed to be a reckoning force that took Cyclonus down. The five were sentenced to prison, with Cyberwarp being in a separate jail and with a lessened punishment for her actions.

The new council is set up, with Windblade having to leave her teaching position in Earth until Cybertron elects their new council properly. Steeljaw, having the most authority regarding Decepticon affairs at that point, becomes an ambassador for Decepticons both in jail and out (until Soundwave and/or Starscream come out of their comas). He chooses to return to Earth to be with his own allies but keeps communications open and active with the Autobots to keep his post (he wants to make a change happen, and this is his best opportunity). Bee and his team return to their true home in Earth and resume their teaching/police jobs.

But you’re all here for the shipping side of things, so here we go on post-series fates.

Bee and Steeljaw awkwardly become friends through the Autobot/Decepticon alliance. At first it was still just strictly work related meetings but over time Steeljaw would just pull stuff to get his attention. Nothing past platonic, but an interesting development to both of their characters. Bee becomes more aware of what life is like for the Decepticons and becomes more sympathetic, while Steeljaw learns from Bee how to be a better person and strengthen his own existing relationships with his teammates and partner. After a while, they decide to make life easier for them work wise and do video chats every now and then (in private locations cause you don’t need cops finding out where your hideouts are).

Sideswipe and Strongarm both come out and confess their affections to Windblade when she returns back to Earth, and awkwardly ask which one of them she would consider dating if interested. Windblade takes a day to think, and decides if it was alright with them, she’d like to date them both. The three of them are very happy together, even if Strongarm and Sideswipe still squabble like children every now and then.

Grimlock and Drift remain good friends after Drift confides in Grim how he’s not particularly interested in romantic affairs (Grim is totally understanding about it and started asking before giving Drift big hugs). Drift even assists Grimlock in attempting to try asking Bumblebee out. Bee, although extremely flustered and nervous at the advance, accepts.

Slipstream and Jetstorm grow up with their ambitions of wanting to be police rookies and maybe one day becoming private investigators. They both suspect they’ll end up chasing down Airazor and Divebomb one day, as the two are trying to become bounty hunters like their dad. But until then, in their teen years, the four of them became close friends, and try double dating for a while, much to their fathers’ hesitation (“I’m not becoming an in-law to HIM no matter what”).

Fixit becomes an official un-official addition to the Clay family, moving in with Denny and Russell. He’s extremely happy every time he’s referred to as family although he lacks a proper connection to them in terms of title (“This is Fixit! He’s family!” “So what, your uncle or?” “He’s family!”). Fixit is also on great terms with Russell’s mother, funny enough, they bonded quickly.  When they got to college, Russell and Hank, who recently transitioned, became roommates.

They’ve never been mentioned in this AU, but Optimus and Ratchet got married and went on a month long honeymoon vacation when everything was over that marked the start of their retirement until they were ever needed again. I don’t make the rules…except I do, and these grandpas need a break.

A number of the captured Decepticons were given revised trials and changed sentences after Steeljaw became a temporary part of the council. The more violent and likely to cause harm cons stayed, but ones with less malicious motivations were granted pardons under the guise of “being a part of the mind control plot from the previous council”, thanks to Steeljaw’s manipulation. This allowed him to free his previous pack team of Thunderhoof, Quillfire, Underbite and Clampdown as well as some cons like Fracture, reuniting them with their families and loved ones. In addition to this, Decepticons were given more rights in their government, granting them more job opportunities, resources to shelters for the homeless cons, and marriage and adoption rights (proper official ones instead of the shady ones they got away with for years).

After they awoke from their respective comas (a few days apart ironically), Starscream and Soundwave were told of what the High Council was trying to do in terms of trying to summon Megatron. After a very one sided conversation between the two former commanders, they both understood exactly what it meant when Megatron left them both behind, Soundwave facing the grim acceptance at last and Starscream slowly but surely taking a step forward to his own mental recovery by not pursuing his abuser for a satisfaction he might not even get. Once hearing about how there was elections for a new high council, Starscream went to run for an official position promoting rights for the Decepticons while also bringing Cybertron to equal footing in terms of alliances (essentially taking over Steeljaw’s temporary position), while Soundwave, true to his nature, worked by his side if only to make sure he wasn’t getting into trouble and was actually following through with what he was saying. The two do well to mark a significant change in the Cybertronian government system, and although neither knows this, Megatron is extremely proud of the two of them.

Steeljaw and Thunderhoof finally got a proper sit down talk about their relationship, thanks to Bee’s side assistance with helping Steeljaw understand Thunderhoof’s side of things. They decided to separate for a while, just to give each other a healthy amount of distance and time to figure out where to go from there. Six months or so later, they started meeting up again as friends and within a year start dating again, far happier than they were before.

Quillfire and Springload started doing the odd travel expedition together once Back and Forth became teenagers and could be left alone with the house for a few days without too much chaos. During one of which, they found an undiscovered ancient civilization, which to Springload’s mind was his long lost Doradus, much to both of their pure joy and happiness. The archaeological find gave the family enough financial stability that Quillfire didn’t have to always steal for Springload’s medication, and Springload was given enough credibility that he was hired to work with other history seekers professionally. Springload thanked Quillfire for all his support when they brought their kids back to see “Doradus”, and proposed to him (Much to Back’s excitement and Forth’s bemoaning about going to a wedding).

Underbite and Scowl do pretty awesome together. After being together for five years, they end up adopting a baby from Shadow Raker and raise him together (they choose to never get married out of personal preference). They raise a little one named Stomper, affectionately called Stompy, who’s as destructive and excited as his dads are. They love their little one, with Scowl acting as a stay-at home dad for the first few years before switching with Underbite. Scowl genuinely loves giving his son a chance to be whoever he wants to be in life, a choice he didn’t get to have growing up. Thunderhoof and Clampdown also have a tenancy to visit specifically to see the kid, both having a weakness for little Stomper, melting their hearts every time. It’s legitimately the only time where no death threats are made by Thunderhoof.

Clampdown is still as sneaky and information filled as ever. Never really locked down to one place, he’s just doing his own thing, gaining few friends and more people wanting his head. He’s honestly fine with it though. He’s looking out for himself in the best way he can, and he knows when life gets too hard he can always crash at one of his few friends’ places for some kindness and positivity.  

Crazybolt and Slicedice, after being together for twenty five years, immediately got married when the law was passed. Slicedice bawled he was so happy, which made Crazybolt tear up, which made their employees wanna gag over how sickeningly love dovey it all was. They invited practically every con they knew, it was a fun time all around.  

Vertebreak and Nightstrike pretty much never changed their ways. Kept being the murdering duo they were, only now they changed workshops every now and again. In addition, Wingcode started joining them upon finding out about her brother’s way of avoiding capture (“My boyfriend destroys the bodies for me”), much to both of their displeasure because, oh man, is she prideful. Not to mention acutely aware of everything they do, so they got interrupted a lot any time they wanted to be romantic.

Glowstrike, Scorponok and Saberhorn’s business got officially recognized and they started allowing Autobots and non-Cybertronian raised humans into the neighborhoods they owned. Media broadcasted this as a kind gesture ushering in a new era of peace and unity between factions, but really they stopped caring, money is money. Their relationship was good and functional until Glowstrike ended up collapsing one day, much to her partners’ immense fear and concern. After taking her to a hospital (a good proper one, thank you new laws) they found out she was pregnant with twins and that it will take a lot of her if she keeps them. This lead to a conversation the three weren’t expecting to have, with Scorponok worried for Glowstrike’s well being, Saberhorn worried about parenthood and Glowstrike worried about how this’ll change things for them. All of course, boiling down to the question of “do they keep the kids or not”. It took them a week after finding out about it to decide to keep the kids, under Glowstrike’s request to have a quick group marriage before they’re born and before she starts showing (because she refused to get in a wedding dress for that and she’d be damned if she couldn’t have a nice dress for her day).  They had two healthy little girls named Lightbreak (taking after Saberhorn) and Firestrike (taking after Scorponok), and Glowstrike (although grateful her daughters were born) had her husbands’ take care of the babies the most in the first week, wanting to isolate herself for a while after the whole ordeal before going into her full motherly duties.  

Nightra and Scatterspike are happily in love. Neither rushing things too much, but just enjoying each other’s company to the fullest. It was very hard for her to say goodbye, but eventually Scatterspike did move out of the Scavenger residence in an effort to live with her girlfriend and pursue work in construction. She still tags along for the big scavenging trips in the winter though. Nightra keeps her work as being a thief, although she admittedly enjoys the pay she gets from the cops for tipping them off to some really nasty criminals she works with.

Paralon eventually gets gently rejected by Dragstrip after trying a proper confession (Dragstrip mostly was just wincing cause he’s pretty bad at reading these things in general), but wasn’t too worse for wear. He’s still got his ambitions to make a name for himself, so he started experimenting with his talents by trying a lot of different jobs. He hasn’t found anything in particular to pursue yet, but he’s hopeful.

Thermidor and Clawtrap are still as bickery as ever, and after Scatterspike and Paralon moved out, it got worse for a while. Being alone with each other for so long made them remember how much the other irked them, at least with the whole group they could avoid each other. It took a while, but eventually some of the other cons got fed up and forced them into a couples therapy-like session with Kickback (who considers himself pretty neutral with all relationship-like shenanigans he seems to get wrapped into). After answering in stubborn and snarky attitudes for majority of the questions, Kickback managed to sneak some truth serum (courtesy of Scatterspike and her experimental syringes) into their drinks, and they started spilling what they actually loved about each other. It was messy and embarrassing as heck, but it worked out in the end, and they could actually admit out loud that were dating.

The Corvicons are doing pretty alright for themselves. Filch has been doing really well gathering her shiny things to sell, but she’s also made formidable improvement with her customer service, becoming a favorite of frequent customers. Boostwing one day comes home with the proud statement of having successfully asked out his shiny friend from the scrapyard he visits (it was Kickback), and that motivated Jacknab to properly pursue Razorhorn (“He’s shiny to me! He’s really stupid shiny!”). Pilfer is perfectly content staying single for a while longer, amused by his brothers’ antics in courting.

Through a lot of emotional comfort and confiding between themselves, Shadelock and Roughedge started dating, Roughedge gladly being Shadelock’s shoulder to lean on on the hard days and Shadelock giving Roughedge all the love he deserves. Wildbreak cried when Roughedge told him, while Dragstrip just sighed heavily over his stupid partner being stupid.

After being worn down, Motormaster eventually accepted trying to fix things with Shadow Raker. At least that’s what it seemed, but Motormaster actually had a plan of faking it until he could reach a point where he could destroy Shadow Raker’s heart like he did to him all those years ago. Slashmark and Heatseeker avidly mention how stupid that plan was, holy shit, what a STUPID PLAN, but Motormaster is honestly king of stupid ideas so he goes to that dinner date an hour later than he should’ve been, watching Shadow Raker wait in the cold the whole time. Thing is, as the date goes on (and on, because Shadow Raker refuses to let the night end yet) both of them start picking up on facts from the other regarding that “betrayal” that separated them. After going to the warehouse in question, both tried to recount the whole event in detail and after a while, they figure out what actually happened was one of their mutual enemies set it up so while Motormaster got arrested, Shadow Raker would come out of hiding to save him and would lead to setting them both up for an assassination attempt, but there was miscommunication and Shadow Raker didn’t find out about the arrest until much, MUCH later, when the damage had been done. Motormaster lost it when he figured it out, and after smashing some things in the warehouse to vent his rage, started hardcore crying cause all these years he’s been hurting over hating someone he loved for something that wasn’t even either of their faults. Shadow Raker laughed through his own tears, cause he almost forgot how emotional his partner could get. They embraced and Motormaster really couldn’t understand how Shadow Raker could wait for so long for him, and he replied saying Motormaster was worth it, he was always worth it. They got back together, and in a little less than a year got engaged like they wanted to be since the war days ended.

As a result of the reunion, Motormaster told his team he was aware of their relationships (“Very, VERY aware”) and that they have his permission to be open about it and that he’ll stop wearing his own copies of their rings out of possession (Shadow Raker side commented it was to wear his own ring to which he was promptly cut off by an embarrassed Motormaster). The other Stunticons were ecstatic about not having to hide or lie or be apart anymore and they all went out to celebrate and as a result came out to their fellow cons. There was a lot of cheers/groans from the cons that had bets going on about them.

Heatseeker and Slashmark didn’t change too much in terms of their relationship, although parties and gatherings were a lot healthier for Slashmark, not having to bite his tongue or drown his sorrows in alcohol. And Heatseeker was more than happy to have his favorite person next to him. The group still continued to be pretend teachers to new generations of cons, however Heatseeker and Slashmark actually found that they really enjoyed being teachers and started going an extra mile with their jobs with some extracurriculars for the students that wanted them. In addition, with the new laws in place Heatseeker found himself motivated to making sure his students wouldn’t suffer in their youth like he once had, and any time he noticed one of them not having a consistent lunch or new bruises, he’d pull them aside and ask them what was up, and if it was bad, let them know about soup kitchens and shelters for the nights it gets too hard. In addition, if he knows their parent personally he’ll make sure to make their life hell cause “c’mon, is this how you want to go down in their life? As the asshole they want dead?”. Slashmark and Heatseeker also decide to show sympathy to their teammates and gave them their extra mattress in return for a week off of their after hour crime jobs. They used that week to have a trip to Cybertron, just the two of them and their homeland’s sights. They got married a few months after Dragstrip and Wildbreak did.

Wildbreak and Dragstrip actually managed to end up having some good luck for once. Their jobs ended up getting them more money; their quick work and (in Wildbreak’s case) good attitude got the attention of some of their employers and they got raises. They managed to get enough to move out of their shitty apartment building and into a better one without roaches or awful landlords, with a similarly small apartment, but now with a decent bed. They still aren’t overly fond with their teaching jobs, but they aren’t quitting those. They do, however, get into some new weekend jobs through their hobbies. Dragstrip got to test out new race cars thanks to Kickback, Crazybolt and Slicedice’s jobs, while Wildbreak would volunteer at Shadow Raker’s foster care to take care of the younger kids. It was weird at first, having separate jobs, but both enjoyed it enough to make it work out, still happy to come home to each other. After many years of consideration and consulting others on it, Dragstrip did eventually go to Vertebreak for top surgery, Wildbreak by his side as long as he could. His dysphoria was still present, but Dragstrip did find it worked out well for him, occasionally patting his chest every now and then in pride (Motormaster continued to provide his own advice out of mutual experience). He also stopped smoking since he had to two weeks prior to the surgery anyway (and Wildbreak never was fond of it, he noted). Wildbreak was actually the one to properly propose; nothing fancy or public, just the two of them having a simple candlelit dinner in their little apartment, with Wildbreak proceeding to list off all the things they’ve done in the years they’ve been together and how he hopes they’ll still have plenty of new adventures to come together. It was beautifully cheesy, cause Dragstrip actually wanted to propose to him the same gosh darn night and they both just kind of collapsed on each other laughing and crying over how stupid they were but if that wasn’t them, who knows what is. Their wedding was sweet and simple, and after of few months of being newlyweds, they started talking about potentially adopting a kid.

Thanks for reading everything up to now! I hope you’ve enjoyed :D

[valorousowl]

What sorts of things would a young cybertronian be expected to learn/experience growing up? Is or was childhood ever a thing there? Are bots created as adults at a cognitive or maturity disadvantage?

Sorry this is so late, I put it off to do it proper justice 

So again this is a thing where, if varies between universes DRAMATICALLY

most universes have about three life cycle stages those being 

LIFE CYCLES

Baby, young-Adult, old-adult  though in some it’s apparent they have really about 5 stages of their life-cycle, if not more, and it varies by type as well.

First stage is usually Protoform (in some fanon this includes Sparklings, Bitlets and other young children) it encompasses when the Spark of life is created up through the full development of the frame, for some that’s a relatively short period (TFA and TFP/RID2015 for example) and for others it can be a bit longer (IDW G1, and Tyran/bayverse, bayverse also calls them hatchlings). Protoform is used as slang for youngling, often as an insult to a bot that’s acting childish or is young. Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Sari from TFA fit this category, as well as Wheelie and the Dinobots in some universes.

From there the Young-adult phase is after they’ve learned everything they need to and how they spend their life, be it working, fighting or leisurely. The marking of one bot moving to this stage from the previous is not always measured by years but more of experiences and mental capacity. Most bots are somewhere in this middle cycle, which can be broken down into about three parts give or take just based on their experiences.

Old-adults are several million years old, it’s the age where parts don’t work like they used to and the spark is starting to degenerate. Kup, Ratchet, Optimus and Megatron are all part of this bracket to varying degrees with Optimus and Megatron being on the low end, Ratchet being in the middle and Cup being what we call Old as Ball Bearings. Think of ROTF Jetfire, his father was a wheel you know--THE FIRST WHEEL. And you know what he transformed into? NOTHING! but he did so with Honor--WITH PRIDE!  This stage usually has two parts, one being early onset the other being for bots on the way to the scrapheap if you get my meaning. 

CHILDHOODS

Depending on where they’re raised bots WILL have a childhood. Wheelie was from, I wanna say Lithone, and lived in a family unit and was shown to be “growing” to some degree. TFA has specific teacher-bots that basically act as Governesses/Goverors that raise the bots while acting as mentors and nannies. They literally raise them. Tyran has them grow up, but their childhoods are super messed up. Megatron literally made a generation of Decepticons to taunt Optimus with, which I remembered wrong before I went back and reread it. WHOOPS. 

in G1, to some degree as well, the Dinobots had a childhood, though this was because Wheeljack (and Perceptor) made them “simple-brained”. Which it seems they’ve outgrown over time? 

MTOS VS FORGED

So i’m using the term from G1. MTOs, Made-To-Order (usually MTOsoldiers) are literally bots brought online as Adults. They originally had a ten step learning program, literally thousands of files on life and how everything worked, poetry, pilosophy, art, math, religion--EVERYTHING A PERSON MIGHT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND THEM. They dropped that to eight steps then three. Because if you have a 3 minute life expectancy you don’t need to be fancy. 

Either way this makes the survivors stuck with the BORN SEXY YESTERDAY TROPE. You think Megatron is sexy? You thirst for Large Oldman Bucketman? He was born sexy yesterday.

Megatron to my understanding was at least still born during either the 10 or 8 step cycle, because hey the man was once brilliant enough to write the Cyber-Communist manifesto. And then things got worse. Brainstorm was also a MTO who was brilliant. 

Generally though, these guys are the exceptions not the rule. 

Usually you get more like the Dinobots, simple childlike minds that take time to mature and are capable of doing a few simple tasks and can engage in combat but nothing world shaking. That being said Grimlock DID build the technobots who are some of the most brilliant bots of their generation so maybe it’s kinda luck of the draw. 

Starscream and his brothers among the seeker trines are other examples. Star is a genius, the others are pretty smart over all, but other trines don’t match up to Star’s trine in terms of intellect or planning.

The most important take away from it is, these guys, if they survive, are seen as adults by their society. Even if that age is a couple days old. But they’re naive, they don’t know everything they should. People do take advantage of them. Besides that is the fact people don’t want them leaving their castes. Warframes aren’t scientists. Despite theit personal abilities, it’s better to keep them in Security and Manual labor because they’re “BIG AND DUMB tm” and it’s self-serving to keep them there.

I think definitely there’s a cognitive/maturity disadvantage, because they’re immediately shunted into the second lifecycle stage when it can take hundreds or thousands of years to qualify for it in normal circumstances. Hell, Bee is at least 4 million years old, give or take, and he’s STILL in the second life-cycle in most universes. which shows you how massively different this is. 

Also cause this god kinda dark I’m putting pictures and screen-grabs of various protoforms, hatchilings and younglings beneath the cut. Enjoy the babies. Enjoy entertainment. 

[epsilon-four]

Population Creation Diversity

The entire population of cybertronians can be divided into a few certain categories on how they were created. There is being forged, constructed cold, or being gestated and growing as a sparkling. Each type has a couple of subtypes underneath it.

Forged 

Natural Forged / Protoform

Extraction Forged / Forged

Forged Kindling (Rare)

Being Forged is when a spark is lit by a flare from Vector Sigma in an area on the surface of Cybertron, which is then designated as a ‘Hotspot’. These sparks are coated in raw sentio metallico to protect the energy itself from the surface, giving it a round, solid look, often etched with small rivets and imprints which are based on the environment where the hotspot is. 

Left in the ground, these sparks will eventually continue to draw energy and nutrients from the area around them and further, minor pulses from Vector Sigma, until there is enough sentio metallico to form into a base protoform. This is referred under specific terms to be Natural Forged, or ‘Being a protoform’. This usually happens within 2 years, although without outside influence it is said only 40-50% of natural forged sparks will survive into protoform stage. 

Protoforms are a very matte silver with no proper plating, and dark optics that can only see light and shadow at first, but get more advanced as they very quickly grow. As they grow, their plating will mould into segments, and will gain colour. They can transform into their base alt-mode after about 10 years of growth, much earlier than a sparkling, who’s growth only reaches that stage at about 14 years. This is yet another survival mechanism for a protoform.

Protoforms, when left to survive on their own, will instinctively flock to settlements and learn through observation, still surviving on instincts. Settlements near active hotspots that do not have a nurturing facility will often see protoforms in alleyways, hanging around shops, or older ones trying to mimic mature bots. Protoforms can also be taken into nurturing facilities at any time to undergo growth with a higher survival rate.

The forged sparks themselves can be taken from the ground before the sentio metallico has fully formed, and that is called being ‘extraction forged’, which is the majority of the modern forged population, and is colloquially called ‘Forged’. These extracted sparks can be grown in a similar way as out in the wild, using protoform and time, activating them as fully functioning bots, or they can be placed into a pre-moulded protoform. Placing these sparks in a fully pre-constructed frame became commonplace nearing the beginning of the war, and due to the constructed nature of the frames, they are a constructed cold sub-type.

There are also Forged Kindled sparks, which is where a gestated spark has been removed from the carrier and grown until mature using base protoform and time. These creations also tend to suffer developmental issues due to the nature of sparklings and kindled sparks and how they learn.  This method of creation is considered very rare, due to how looked down upon Kindling is under functionism. 

Due to the slow and sporadic nature of a spark being forged, the population percent of forged bots is slowly being dwindled by the increase of constructed cold bots. Forged bots make up between 40% of the population, although the number dwindled due to the increase of cold constructed bots, the population dipping to 30% at the most populous point.

Constructed Cold

Constructed Cold

Extracted Construct (Rare)

A constructed cold bot is created through a spark lit from an existing creation power source (such as the creation matrix), and housed in a pre-constructed body. Due to the nature of the sparks creation, it isn’t able to be housed in unformed sentio metallico, although in the final result, there is virtually no difference between a constructed cold bot and a forged bot. Due to the output nature of constructed cold sparks, they were encased and frozen in photonic crystal to preserve their energies. 

This allowed for the senate to ship out frozen photonic crystal-encased sparks to frame construction factories, who would ship out workers off the assembly line once thawed and checked over to see if everything was functioning. 

An extracted construct is a bot whose spark had been forged initially, but whose original frame was constructed. Due to the nature of the frame itself, they come under the constructed cold sub-type. This sub-type is extremely rare thanks to the rarity of hotspots and the availability of constructed cold sparks. Extracted constructs with gestated/kindled sparks fall under the ‘sparkling’ category, unless the sparks are pre-grown to size, in which the sparkling stage of growth is skipped. However, it is more valuable to the development and health of the bot to go through the sparkling stage.

Constructed cold cybertronians make up the majority of the population, with about 40-45%% of the entire planet being constructed cold at its most populous state, usually sitting about 35%. (This number wavers, but the overall trend is that the number keeps rising.) 

Kindling / Gestating / Sparklings

Gestated / Sparklings

Extracted Sparkling

While ‘kindling’ is an official term, virtually every society on Cybertron says ‘I was a sparkling’, or ‘I was gestated’ rather than ‘I was kindled’, as a kindled spark can easily be extracted and nurtured in the same way as an extracted forged spark and frame.

An extracted sparkling is a sparkling whose spark was extracted from their carrier and placed into a pre-grown (to age) forged frame, or into sentio metallico and grown outside of their carrier. A slightly less common option is to get a frame constructed alongside fresh sentio metallico, but this option is more expensive and ‘designer’. Extracted Sparklings are most common for carriers who do not have gestation tanks, cannot use them, or are adverse to the construction section of the carrying cycle. This specific term is mostly official only, due to the kindled and carried nature of the spark most extracted sparklings will still call themselves plainly gestated or carried.

Any kindled sparks that have been extracted and grown outside of their carrier, and not being activated until they’re mature are called Forged Kindling. They come under the forged category, as the developmental stage that sparklings experience has been skipped. 

Sparklings get major motor functions within 3 months, and after tend to grow in mentally and physically in stages and growth spurts. Most sparklings are talking by a year old, and while language can take a while to get a hang of, by 2 years they can hold a conversation about roughly the same level as a human 5-6 year old can. They will hold this level of development until they are roughly 5-8 years, in which they will have a growth spurt and develop mentally, until they are on level with a 8-10 year old human. After 8 years old, they are considered a ‘youngling’ - which is essentially preteen/early teens- , and then go under more major, but less frequent growth spurts. A youngling can exhibit a similar kind of behaviour consistently between ages 12-17, which is considered a mentally stagnant phase as the frame is undergoing most of the development. A bot is no longer considered a youngling after around 18 years, but is still considered adolescent until they are a century old. During this century, they tend to move away from home, and firmly start to work in fields they experimented in while they were older younglings.

All in all, a sparkling ages and matures in roughly the same time period as a human child, albeit less consistently and constantly, due to the non-organic nature of their bodies.

Gestated bots make up around a constant 20-25% of the planets population, and often have a firmer sense of community and family due to being raised by another bot, or community.