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Apparently posts with external links don’t show up in tags? Which is annoying but I’m gonna use it as an excuse to post the sisters together.

I don’t think I mentioned this in their individual posts, but Kaydence is 19 and Flash Fire is 16.

I asked @jacandquill​ to redesign Skullgrin based on elements from both the G1 robot & Pretender shell and his CHUG figure and BOY did he deliver

also commissioned some self-insert fluff and I’m in love with it 🥺🥺🥺

The last of my commissions from @jacandquill​ for the time being is Flarepath, my tfsona! As such, ne uses the same pronouns that I do.

Neir altmode is the Pal-V Liberty.

By @jacandquill ! Check him out on Twitter, Youtube, and Patreon.

Meet Kaydence Gladys Burns! She’s Kade and Hayley’s daughter and Flash Fire’s older (and fully human) sister. 

Done by my brother JACandQuill, check him out on Twitter, Youtube, and Patreon.

Sparkling design inspired by @eve-of-halloween​‘s

Commission of my Kade/Hayley/Heatwave sparkling Flash Fire!

She has two “root” modes – cybertronian and human – and her altmode is this Type 3 wildland fire engine.

If a cybertronian with a tech alt and one with a beast alt have a sparkling, there are several ways their CNA could be expressed:

 1. A robot mode with a tech alt – your standard cybertronian, basically.

2. Furry robot mode with tech alt – for example, RiD15 Steeljaw and co.

3. Triple-changer with tech and beast alts; will be either metallic or organic depending on the parent. An example would be Boulder from Rescue Bots, who transforms into a bulldozer and a mechanical triceratops.

4. Robot mode with metallic beast alt.

5. Robot mode with organic beast alt. (If applicable)

Humans can have children with cybertronians! A kid with a human parent and a tech alt parent could end up as any of the following:

1. Robot mode with tech alt – There would be no sign that there was a human parent, except perhaps in facial structure.

2. Robot and human root modes + tech altmode. Y’all remember Alice from RotF? (Head’s up: there’s pictures of her transforming from human to Bayverse cybertronian that may be considered body horror) Basically that, but they can also turn into a car or something.

3. No altmode, just cybertronian and human roots. Again, Alice is really the only example we have of this.

4. Full-on cyborg. So basically, Teen Titan’s Cyborg, but with cybertronian parts. May or may not end up as tall as their cybertronian parent.

5. Look completely human, but internals are cybertronian. May or may not be able to do minor transformations/have “powers” like Sari.

And a kid with a human parent and a beast alt parent:

1. Robot root with beast alt – As above, there would be no sign that there was a human parent, except maybe in the face.

2. Robot and human roots, beast alt.

3. Cyborg.

4. Essentially human with some beast kibble; y’all heard of nekomimi? basically that but the animal parts are cybertronian.

5. Look completely human; same as #5 on the tech parent list.

This is inspired largely by the IDW1 canon, with weeks 2-4′s stage of sparkling development further inspired by @eve-of-halloween​’s sparkling designs bc they are cute as hell 🥺🥺🥺

Sentio metallico is essentially a plant - it’s a renewable resource that people can grow and harvest themselves.

Once harvested, it can be sent to a blacksmith to check for any imperfections that could cause issues and to be shaped into a basic protoform shape, leaving a small opening for the parents-to-be to each place a vial of their innermost energon. The opening closes over pretty much immediately and takes the CNA  from both donations to shape itself into a protoform.

After ~4 weeks or so, it is a full-grown protoform. The changes have largely been internal, but it has formed separate head and body sections, resembling the image below:

A spark chamber is the last thing to be formed, and will open when ready to receive a spark. This is done by essentially jump starting the protoform, turning it into a living, breathing (?) sparkling. It must be done within a couple of days at most or the protoform will “die” due to a lack of the nutrients needed to keep its internal organs functioning.

(Side note: I keep wanting to call this process “getting sparked” but that’s fanon for “getting knocked up” which renders that COMPLETELY unusable)

One of the parents is the booster: there are cables/terminals that can be transformed out for this process; by default a protoform has terminals out. The parent hooks up their cables to the terminals in the protoform’s spark chamber and essentially jump start its spark.

The booster has to stay hooked up and providing charge for a while to ensure the spark is capable of sustaining itself. Once the spark is stable, the terminals retract and the sparkling’s chamber will close automatically.

Once the spark is ignited, color nanites come to life and start giving the sparkling a hue, indicating that they’re alive. The face starts forming after that, with the mouth and vocalizer being functional in about an hour.

 -2 weeks Post-boost: Arms and optics/visor have formed, with optics/visor coming online as arms are finished. Still doesn’t have fingers yet. Helm shape and upper body kibble have taken form. Sparkling can now scoot around. 

-4 weeks PB: Legs and lower body kibble start growing, circuitry pattern fades as more distinct colors and patterns start to form.    

-6 weeks PB: Sparkling’s basic frame shape and colors are done. Fingers, dentae, and more intricate parts of kibble start to take shape. Sparkling can walk.   

-8 weeks PB: Sparkling is fully developed (roughly equivalent to 12-18 month old human)  and can start transforming (and flying in root, if applicable) From this point on they age at the same speed as humans until they reach about 25 years old, at which point their aging slows dramatically to reflect their longer lifespan.

Sparklings have an inherent generic Cybertronian altmode which can, of course, be altered by scanning a new alt.

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Trivia!

Many beastformers will online sparklings in litters.

Sometimes only one person will donate energon; this is the basis of cloning. It is/used to be very common in Seeker cultures, which is why their frame types are so homogeneous.

Innermost energon can also be donated to frames that have been constructed to be adults, but that’s generally frowned upon as the spark and processor aren’t as developed as the rest of the body. This can lead to severe health issues such as the spark rejecting the frame, etc. Despite this, this cold construction technique was used by some cultures before being widely adopted to create MTO soldiers during the Great War.