#greasebug

They were originally called Baffle, and were an artist catering to the Cybertronian elite, which they detested but. It was a living. They'd make sculpture for the most part, complex metal geometric works and stuff that Moved, usually decorative, occasionally had some sort of function. While art came naturally to them and being an artist allowed them a good deal of freedoms a lot of other castes didnt get, and they widely got jesters priviledge on account of being Highly eccentric, they despised the way that the elite would speak of them and how they were forced to make such shallow pieces without real meaning

They started going off the rails a bit and ended up with a workshop full of junk sculpture that nobody wanted, stewing in their own distaste for the system, till they heard Megatron's message and tried to make contact with the Decepticons. They never met him in person till the war was well, well underway, and his ideals had shifted to extremism.

But it was still better than making shallow works, and they preferred to see their fellow transformers free than living the way they all were before. Their art now had an impact - even if that impact was. their art was now weapons made out of corpses. Fun!