#well if ur a creepy spider sciencist ur gonna. creepy spider science. BUT. SEEING A KID. WHO PERHAPS.

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OKAY OKAY. u wanna hear about tfs being double trans

[VD:  A clip of transformers: Earthspark of Nightshade (they/them), a young terran transformer still in their protoform speaking about identity with Tarantulas (he/him), a spider alt moded transformer, in his mausoleum turned lab]

Full transcribe below

Outside, in a cemetary, Nightshade steps out from behinda statue. Speaking coyly: Oh, perhaps... I could help you work?

Tarantulas: I... might have use for an assistant. If you follow my instructions, implicitly.

NS, sprinting past into the mausoleum excited: I'll prepare the work station!!!

Tanrantus looks down, follows.

NS, excited looking around: This webbing is so verstile, a truly ingenious design.

T: Yes, yes it is Nightshade. [beings working] most fail to properly appreciate my inventions.

Nightshade watches him work: Not even other decepticons?

Tarantulas, bitterly: Especially other decepticons [actives the device, projecting a human hologram] And to think, once this device is complete, I will pass for human. I won't be BOUND by restrictive labels like autobot, or decepticon anymore. [hologram fails to pick up a rock, Tarantulas taps at the device, and the hologram succedds] At last, I will be free.

NS: Isn't that a contradiction though? [Retrives a compotent part] You'll be free, but also hiding?

T: Ah, y-you'll understand. Once you choose an alt form.

NS: But I don't want an alt form. 

Tarantulas addresses Nightshade directly: You are a transformer, another mode is your birth right. [returns to working]

NS: I see no need for one, aren't I sufficient as I am?

T: Young one, alt forms aren't meant to complete you, as though you have a missing part. They further express who you already are.

Nightshade looks complative at Tarantulas: I haven't heard it explained that way before... This is why you've chosen such a unique appearance.

T: Yes, I will always be Tarantulas. And you, Nightshade, however you may appear, who will you be?

NS: I'll be me! A sciencist. A protector, someone who... helps thoses in need [smiles]

Tarantulas, awkward and moved: I- I am glad for it. No one's ever been so generous to me... I [Goes back to working abruptly, changing tone] It is a gift, to know yourself so well, so young. Take pride in it.

A zanny montage of them working together starts, and the clip cuts. END