put a child in that robot

Hello one and all! For fun (and because the transformers fandom has a tendency to take over the more general competition lol) we here have decided to organize our own tournament bracket. Obviously we're heavily inspired by @need-him-pregnant-poll and the sheer number of transformers submitted to that bracket this year.

NOTE: Though this will lean HEAVILY toward Transformers, mecha from other franchises are allowed. This is both to make things slightly more interesting (and because Mod Spike is hyperfixated on the genre more broadly). Possible media includes, but is MOST CERTAINLY not limited to: Brave Series/Yuusha, Bang Brave Bang Bravern, Metal Cardbot, Ironleaguer, SD Gundam, Dragon's Heaven, ect.

SUBMISSION CRITERIA IS AS FOLLOWS:

Your character MUST be a mech. For our purposes: Mecha are Visibly Mechanical beings of Human Size or Larger. Their body plan mimics- primarily- the body of something found in the animal kingdom.

(Ravage [Transformers] is a mech, but Connor [Detroit: Become Human] and Hal 9000 [2001: a Space Odyssey] are not.)

Your Mech MUST either A) pass the Harkness Test OR B) be an entirely non-living mech. If the later, your Mech will be assigned sapience for the purposes of this poll.

(To further explain: if one were to submit the SSC Mourning Cloak from Lancer, that mech would be discussed and competing as though it were a fully sapient character and propaganda should be submitted as such.)

Your Mech's gender identity is irrelevant to this poll, as it isn't a male pregnancy poll, but a mecha pregnancy poll. Feminine aligned mecha are welcome.

We love OCs (Mod Chip especially loves creating fankids, which shouldn't come as a surprise), but will only be accepting canon mecha.

Submissions will be taken through asks for the sake of simplicity. When submitting be sure to include:

1) Your Mech's Full Official Name, 2) the media your Mech comes from, 3) any specific images you would want them represented by (optional), and 4) your propaganda for said character (optional).

GENERAL RULES:

Please only improve your Mech's standing by honorable means. Propaganda and fanworks are encouraged. Botting, trash talk, and harassment are NOT.

The primary criteria you should be considering when casting votes is "Do I want to see this mech pregnant and/or raising children afterward?" This is not a poll about the sexiest mech, though we acknowledge that as an important criteria to many folks.

Have fun! While it's great to be passionate about fandom tournaments, we suggest that if you become overly stressed about the outcome of a poll that you may need to take a step back.

It's a little more complicated than you might think. In most continuities, Transformers reproduce asexually- either by being built or by emerging from their home planet's crust fully formed. However, in the Japanese side of the franchise, a Decepticon's wife and children are referenced, which does have certain implications. Also, and this is my favorite thing to bring up, the live action movies feature "hatchlings" whose origin is unexplained, which does imply that someone laid eggs at some point. In The Last Knight, baby Dinobots have appeared also without explanation. There is no way for new cybertronians to be built on earth at that point, so like. Idk about you but I feel like that lends some validity to saying "these mechs have been sexually reproducing".

Explicit mechpreg is a fanon thing, though, and is typically presented in conjunction with the common headcanon that cybertronians are a cosexual species. If that still sounds like a large leap to make, it's important to remember that transformers are aliens first and robots second.

If you'd like to learn more about transformers as a species, TFWiki has an article about that

Hope that helps! And thanks for stopping by lol

And thank you for joining our cause!!!