#wishing evil on anyone who doesn't treat the Constructicons with respect

[saxandviolins77]

I just read your constructicon bad takes post and thank you so much I agree with each and every point. Especially about that ship.

I will say I personally go back and forth on having all of them being from a white collar background- I definitely agree that they’re all intelligent and have specializations, but diversity of backgrounds and nuance makes them more fun to play with. I know plenty of highly skilled people who don’t have traditional education.

I said that because I didn't want to make it a headcanon fest; it would feel like I was making a "people don't view them the way I personally do" point instead of a "people are fundamentally misinterpreting them."

But yeah, in my own fan continuity (which is just "G1 but the Constructicons are the main characters"), I do have them being informal workers and from poor backgrounds.

Only Long Haul (a suburbanite 🤢) and Scrapper (nepo-baby 🤮) are from wealthier backgrounds and had opportunities in early life to study.

Hook, Scavenger, and Bonecrusher come from impoverished places and had to do it the hard way; it didn't stop them from working (or Hook from becoming an actual licensed surgeon), but it does color the way they see the world. Bonecrusher specifically, I feel the need to say I write him as someone from a favela (you Americans call it ghettos, but it's not the same thing), so yes, his life was HELL ON CYBERTRON. (and he's black, but that's subtext.)

Hook and BC only got degrees when they joined the Decepticon faction (on duty), or else they literally couldn't work as officers... But not the same thing as going to college, right? (Hook had to infiltrate his way into the Autobot faction to get his surgeon specialization, but he did it lmao.)

ALSO, thanks for that last point. People with no formal training can STILL be professionals in their own area, and having traditional education does NOT make someone "smarter," which also pisses me off when some sheltered white teen goes forth to portray the Constructicons as dumb BECAUSE they are construction workers... GO TOUCH SOME GRASS AND MEET NEW PEOPLE!!!