Geomotus: you’re saying I can be tiny? I can run and hide in a rock pile and not even the caretakers can find me because I’m small as frag? No awkward interacting with others because they can’t find me? SIGN ME UP!

🤣 he’s having the time of his life playing in the dirt

Mass Displacement Mayhem- Soft AU

Geomotus x Reader

• Glancing over your shoulder at the little mech toddling after you, arms slightly out from his frame as he follows you through the tall grass, you smile faintly. Because this size? He’s stinking adorable. Even if he still won’t allow you to carry him, uncomfortable with being touched. “Ta da. Rocks,” you say, gesturing at the water and the river worn stones. And he’s walking past you, peds dipping into water you’re pretty sure is ice cold. “Careful,” you mumble, hoping you won’t have to go in after him if he falls in.

Did you know Inferno from Beast Wars might technically be the first neurodivergent Transformer?

Neurodivergent: differing in mental or neurological function from what is considered typical (neurotypical)

Geomotus is called "one of the first openly neurodivergent Cybertronians" by IDW Publishing’s Editor-in-Chief John Barber. 

But I realized I don't know what they mean by first openly neurodivergent.

In Beast Wars, Inferno's fire ant beast mode instincts completely overwhelmed his logic circuits after scanning. His neurological functions are canonically different from typical Predacons and Maximals. That's neurodivergence by definition (differing mental/neurological function from typical).

In Transformers Animated lore, according to Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac, Blackarachnia experimented on Blitzwing, rebuilding him into a triple changer and making him mentally unstable, causing Blitzwing to have three personalities. This would be an example of acquired neurodivergence similar to Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder).

In IDW, Shockwave was taken to the Institute and subjected to "Shadowplay", the emotion centers of his brain cut out by mnemosurgery. This would be another example of acquired neurodivergence.

There's a few other characters who could be argued to be allegories or be neurodivergent-coded (Beast War's Transmutate, Transformers Animated Ratchet, IDW's Rung, Froid, First Aid, Riptide)

So what does Geomotus being "openly neurodivergent" mean?

Does that mean he's open about his different neurological functions? 

He's explicitly written with traits like social cue struggles, bluntness, withdrawal in unfamiliar situations, and reliance on 'shapes' for self-soothing.

Does it just mean he works to help manage his condition openly? 

He's aware/manages it openly (therapy, accommodations, tools)

Does it mean that Hasbro openly considers Geomotus to be neurodivergent?

He's written as the first intentional, explicit representation of neurodivergence.

I guess technically "one of the first" could mean just one of the few neurodivergents Cybertronians. 

I don't have anything against Geomotus. I like him and think he's good neurodiversity representation. But I think there could be an argument there's been more neurodivergent Cybertronians than most people would think.

But I'm also thinking, Cybertron is a metallic planet, usually the body of Primus. It's not the same telluric geology we have on earth. Tectonic limits would equate to transformation seams. Is there a molten outer core to form a magnetic field over their planet? Maybe 'mountains' can form on regular Cybertronian bodies with enough force but are usually fixed by doctors. How linked are geology, biology and theology on Cybertron?

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