something i was thinking abt at 1am was creators vs mentors, and i think for my cybertron creators are the guardians of cold constructs and mentors are the guardians of adopted hotspot/forged mecha. creators actually had a servo in your creation, but both creators and mentors fall under the category of (parental) guardians.
so if a cybertronian was created in an industrial warehouse/mass produced, they might have only mentor(s) who adopted them after their creation, or no mentors or creators.
cold cons could consider the machine that made them or even the operators of that machine as their creators, despite having nothing to do with them
a mech who was cold constructed personally by one or a few mecha but then given to/adopted by different mecha would have both creators and mentors.
also i like the idea that guardian/creation units can be any size. one kid and one guardian, five kids and three guardians, one kid and seven guardians, one guardian and seven kids, etc
cybertronains use c-1 for your oldest/leader among creators, c-2 for your second creator, and so on, to mimic the serial number sparklings get before they choose a name for themselves, like b-127. mentors use m-1, m-2, m-3, etc. c and m are the only letters not used by sparklings.
im sure some mentors and creators would name their sparklings themselves, but in this world it would be very few
the range of mental health for cold cons would be very vast in this world, depending entirely on who their creators were/how they were created. mass-produced but later adopted by loving mentors? probably pretty good. created individually with love and care and kept by those creators? amazing. stunning. created by individuals for one purpose and one purpose only, without mentors? yeahhh that doesn't sound healthy man. mass-produced by a machine and thrown into war? ohhh buddy,
