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He prepares to die at Ratchet's hands /hj

Their first sparkling is definitely not planned even though I imagine they'd have him when they're older and more mature (I don't want college aged idiots to have babies LMAO) but still, their first bitlet Rover isn't a planned baby. I imagine Bee would fantasize about having sparklings bc he really liked spending time with his nephews but the moment it actually bites him in the ass he panics bc of course your OWN children is a much bigger responsibility. But he mans up in the end. "guess I'm gonna be a sire" . Dodo is scared too at first but not so much about the responsibility as about the baby's potential health since she's afraid they'd be born with same defects she did.

uh oh. its gonna be a long one. They will grow together from stoopid young adults to more responsible mature adults. They didn't know each other until early 3rd season, timeline-wise. By the time they meet Dodo is an apprentice of Queenbee, Bumblebee's carrier, who hold the position of Cybertronian demographics chief, and while Dodo has some issues with her processor she's quite good with numbers. Queenbee is probably one of the few bots who's genuinely nice and respectful to her and trying to bring out the positive things and nudge her in right direction. Like I stated earlier in this blog, Dodo is, by Cybertronian standards, pretty much disabled without any prospects of changing the faulty component. Dodo may be absent-minded and clueless but she's not a total brainless idiot. She's not taken seriously by the majority of bots she ever talked with. She had it said to her face that she's a failure of a bot, no sugarcoating because the thought was she wouldn't understand the full scale anyway. She just accepted it but acceptance doesn't mean she's not hurt by it. Dodo is bright and kindhearted, willing to believe in good in the worst people imaginable and excuse almost any violence or bad things said towards herself because "everyone are so nice" and she is too used to be called the center of the problem. Jettwins are Dodo's friends and they are nice to her but they do discriminate against her without actually intending to do so. Hell, even Ratchet often questions her autonomy. He cares about her but he struggles to see her as an autonomous fully functional person, which is also why he'd be initially against her and Bee dating, Ratchet infantilizes her in his own eyes.

And I imagine Bee wouldn't be really nice to her either at first and would act like an afthole towards her, but the more they interact the more he kinda sees himself in the way everyone are treating her. Not like he had any experience with disability but since he's a pretty small bot he was discriminated against a shit load of times. And despite how many times he wasn't so nice to Dodo she's still so kind and friendly to him it actually makes him feel guilty and sad.

i dont have anything with them yet with her new design, but there she is. Her name is Warpwire and she's this sort of knight-themed bot, she was created before the war even started in an experimental batch of cold-constructed bots that were meant to be used in colonizing worlds with aggressive giant megafauna (knight fighting a big dragon blah blah blah). When the war started she was still pretty young and haven't seen the world outside the training space station she was created in, and when the station was invaded by decepticons they massacred everyone inside but one of them spared Warpwire and let her get launched into space in a stasis emergency pod bc her caretaker used to be his conjunx before the war started. Warpwire spent millennias being inactive in the pod, some of its systems started to malfunction with time and she would pretty much die if not found by the Intelligence Team. Warpwire was retrained and reintroduced to Cybertronian society but she still feels alien in it because, let's be real, bots like Ratchet and Ultra Magnus aged along with society, the change for them was gradual, but Warpwire is the equivalent of a 20 year old human living in 19th century and suddenly getting teleported to the 21th to live the rest of her life. She still uses a lot of old pre-war lingo and misses modern social cues. pics with her older design under the cut

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Bee can't catch a break

I personally DESPISE it

Thank you!

But for the ask: Do you mind if people like take inspiration to give bumblebee a family because you definitely inspired me to give this yellow menace a family.

Khhhhh yeah, I initially thought to make them be like up to 300 but tbh at the moment I think there are only about 70 to 80. Queenbee and Lionspark made like a third of them together, all the rest were already created in pods by Queenbee using her late deceased conjunx's genetic materials post war. Among all living offsprings only Leafcutter was conceived naturally.