#functionist council

Chapters: 4/9 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007), Super Sentai Series, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, ウルトラシリーズ | Ultra Series, ウルトラマンコスモス | Ultraman Cosmos, 王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime, Hinted Jazz/Prowl (Transformers) Characters: Megatron (Beast Wars), Optimus Prime, Doggie "Boss" Kruger, Ultraman Justice, Sentinel Prime (Transformers), Rita Kanisuka, Rita Kaniska, Jazz (Transformers), Prowl (Transformers), Mentioned Barricade (Transformers) - Character, mentioned Lockdown (Transformers), Functionist Council, Ten-of-Twelve (Transformers), Twelve-of-Twelve (Transformers), Galactic Council (Transformers), God Papillon (King-Ohger), Mentioned Elita One (Transformers) - Character, Mentioned Master Yoketon (Transformers), Ultra Magnus (Transformers), mentioned Megazarak (Transformers) Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Mob, Alternate Universe - Police, Oppressive Government, Court Trial, Trials, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Politics, They/Them pronouns for Rita Kanisuka, They/Them Pronouns for Ultraman Justice, Continuity Soup (Transformers), Continuity What Continuity Summary:

It is the most anticipated trial in Cybertron's history. The trial of the notorious mob boss, Cast Iron, is about end with a predetermined verdict.

However, a leak has caused the Galactic Council to take command of the trial to the shock and confusion of very bot.

Why is the Galactic Council interfering and how is a snitch related to this?

Dear Form Factionalist,

Unfortunately, most ‘bots with animal forms fell quite outside the bounds of Functionism! Following the disappearance of “Onyx Prime” from Cybertron at the end of the First Cybertronian Civil War, those beast-formers who had already not left the planet wound up largely excluded from the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, disparaged as little more than “throwbacks” from a primitive age. Initially, most beast-formers simply rejected Nova Prime’s burgeoning society and left to continue their life in the wilderness as they always had—hunting turbofoxes, foraging for natural energon deposits, and marking their territories. Elders who had lived through the reign of the Primes passed down traditional knowledge to younger ‘bots, who raised cairns and mounds to memorialize an era of peace and prosperity they’d never known.

With the passage of time, however, Cybertronian society continued to urbanize, pushing these last holdouts into smaller and smaller tracts of untamed land. When it became clear that these hardliners would not surrender their territory, Nominus Prime and the Senate passed legislation that would formally recognize a number of beast-form genera into the growing Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy—a legislative tactic that quite annoyed the Functionist Council!

Unfortunately, most beast-formers occupied a very low rank on the Functionist hierarchy. Within the bounds of “polite society”, the best that most beast-formers could hope for was a job at one of Cybertron’s many research and development firms, where beast-formers would be regularly used as test subjects for new surgical techniques, various addictive drinks, or new forms of electronic paint. A few, such as Krok, deliberately removed their transformation cogs and joined the Militant Monoform Movement in an attempt to distance themselves from their origins.

Age: at least 4.1 Million years

Gender: male

Faction: Functionists

Assigned Forces: Sanitation and Recycling Corps

Role: Model Worker, serial killer

Motto:

Personality: Trashmaster of the First Total Recall has gone Crazy long ago. The humble, earnest and industrious Appearance in the public has long been nothing but facade covering a cruel, bloodthirsty and twisted monstrosity. He is also violent and short tempered due to the addiction caused by the endless increase of quotas and oppression which had caused his mind to deteriorate further, and the endless Propaganda caused him to become extremely classist, worshipping the powerful like Nemesis Prime and the Functionaries while seeing the lower class bots, especially disposable class and later extending to anything that defies the Functionist Council as things deserving extermination, which only furthers his mental instability, and it seems that he is on the verge of total mental regression.

Alternate mode: Trashmaster transforms into a grey 2017 Autocar ACX Front loader Garbage Truck

Appearance: Trashmaster is around 13 meters tall and has a transformation scheme similar to the FansProject version of Motormaster although the Truck cab portion of the lower Legs is not upside down, while his head sculpt resembles that of an combination between Energon Scorponok and G1 Toy/Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Comic Motormaster, with the exception of sharpened teeth and blood red optics. Trashmaster has Functionist Council Insignia on his chest, shoulders and legs/cab door and Propaganda billboards on his arms, but they were all worn, faded and covered up by grimes like his entire body.

Weaponry: Trashmaster is very Strong and surprisingly nimble. In robot mode, he is Capable of punching through walls and the outer shell of an average Transformer, his teeth are Capable of tearing open living metal tissues, and even Capable of jumping and climbing in Cybertronian cities. In Garbage Truck mode, Trashmaster is Capable of loading 50 tons of Garbage, a top speed of 120 miles per hour, and Capable of running over anything in its path, send things as large as a Truck it crashes into Flying or even bringing down multi story Buildings if he was fully loaded. He has very High alert, and owns a long Energon-bladed Machete(reference) with sawtooth on the back which he uses as his tool of murder, alongside a Resonance entreching tool, a Jackhammer, a pickaxe and a sharpened pry bar/digging bar as his tool and weaponry. And due to the unkempt condition of his body, he can also produce massive plumes of toxic smoke from the exhaust system in both mode that can act as both a Smokescreen and Poisonous choking gas.

Character Biography: not much was known of the early upbringing of Trashmaster of the First Total Recall in Kaon thanks to the lack of contact with the Functionist Universe, which was further worsened due to mass erasure of records by Functionists after their Coup d'état. However, the cold constructed worker caste bot was soon discovered and revered by the Functionist Council for being a model worker during their Cleanup after pogroms of those they Considered obsolete and massacre of protesters and dissidents and the Recycling of the corpses.

It didn't go well for Trashmaster. The exemplary service didn't give him any physical benefit, but caused quotas and demands to rise endlessly, Propaganda Machine to encroach on his already little time, and he was also harassed by local criminals(for extortion), low class bots and dissidents like Anti Vocationist League(an Underground community and resistance and one of the few dissident group still extant in Functionist Universe) members(due to his identity as an example for the oppression of the lower classes and slavery promoted by the Functionist Council).

The compounding pressure, mostly from the quota and harassment by authorities and the mob families caused him to slowly buckle and crumble, and he began to take up drinking and smoking to relieve the pressure, until it can only be quenched by using Circuit buffers(Cybertronian Equivalent to recreational drugs) before only frequent use of Circuit Speeders like Syk(hard narcotics) can work for his pressure, which caused irreparable damage to his cerebral modules. He became shorter and shorter tempered, began to attack his colleagues and neighbors, and even going as far as ripping into obsolescent disposable classes and dead protesters to drink their internal Energon fluids, as it seems to be also calming to his Circuits, which didn't last for long and he Eventually fell into the deep end and began to ambush and murder low class bots in order to ingest their metal tissue and internal fluids.

Such act of horror were also under the watchful eyes of the Functionist Council and the Functionaries, who deliberately ignored it as they are not caring of the low disposable class, and they're also glad to have something horrifying to keep them and the hiding dissidents in line…

Weakness: Trashmaster's wrecked nerve makes him very exploitable with the right string being tug and the horrifying bloodlust makes him unapproachable to everyone else. The grimes on his hands can Sometimes gunk up the mechanism, and the worn on other parts can cause slippage. He also have exposed fuel lines underneath the chassis/behind his back, which if ruptured would severely impact his strength and endurance if not allow enemies to outright set him on fire.

Commentary: I originally made this Character in the edgy and angsty teenage years and has adjusted to make him less conscious and more sympathetic when being put down.

Hot take joke bit- Arcee's helm vaguely resembles a transformation cog, which the Functionist Council emulate. The twelve of them arguably overcompensating for not being (trans) women unlike 'Cee, and get angry about the capacity for change. Huh wait- why is this familiar.

Of course Arcee’s helm only takes up this look in EXRID (her helm also looks like this in G1 and Cyberverse), not the look she had from her initial reformatting surgery from Jhiaxus. So we rewrote this joke:

Arcee: hey Jhiaxus do you think you could code in some audial buns with grooves for the CNA surgery? Like a transformation cog, since I'm trans. Doesn't have to be 1 for 1, just reminiscent.

Jhiaxus: of course my lady (proceeds to not do that because it doesn’t fit his idea of a woman)

Arcee, later: Jhiaxus is such a transmedicalist scraphead

Later, the Functionist Council: we are the pinnacle cog of alt mode and police body shape

EXRID Arcee after her surgery from Ratchet: Fragging finally I have my helm-shape that loudly declares my transness. It’s so lovely <3

All we're saying is this is good fanfic material stuff (of something that clearly wasn't intentional) with real parallels of how hateful cis folks will appropriate transformational/realization symbology/aesthetic and deny anyone seeking a better fit for themselves, trans or no. We might throw this into the next chapter of Addendum to have this comment in there when she looks in the mirror