#mtos

I have met a few. I have no issue with them, providing they carry out their tasks as assigned. When they do – and they usually do – they are better than... others that I could mention.

I hope you were looking at Bumblebee when you said that.

Why? He usually-

"Usually"?

Well... he at least gives Optimus less back-chat than you give me. You are a miserably insubordinate wretch.

I'm not miserable and you'd get bored if I didn't give you a little bit of playful banter to contend with, Megabum.

I think I'll insert myself here. Megatron, I believe you deliberately danced around the purpose of this question.

Dear Medically Minded,

Lathe of Operation: Burning Sky was one of a number of Made to Order soldiers mass-produced in the wake of the Simanzi Massacree and the Forced Flood, though his wheeled alternate mode put him at a severe disadvantage in the boggy, waterlogged terrain that ultimately stymied the Autobot campaign. Like many MTOs, he found religion early on in the war, and his faith in Primus and the divinity of his “Chosen One” ultimately persuaded him to abandon the Autobots and join Starscream’s government, though he did not escape Cybertron before Unicron’s attack on the metal world.

Updraft of Devisiun emigrated to Cybertron along with her combiner sister Downwind. A medic by trade, she was fascinated by the study of mecha-biology and the allopatric processes which had resulted in several notable Cybertronian subspecies—though she was also more than a bit conceited and regarded her modular, energy-efficient body as superior to the “primitive” Cybertronian form.

Because Fulcrum was warborn forged:

As seen here, the only other cybertronian even said to have been forged during wartime is Fortress Maximus, who is in fact all but confirmed to not actually be warborn and instead be a shadowplayed Pious Maximus.

This is because the very last hotspot on Cybertron, the one that brought forth Bumblebee, happened pre-war.

So anyone who popped up after would have been the extremely rare solitary spark and not at all expected. 

The wiki itself even says: “Forged sparks from during the war therefore are implied to be all-but impossible.”

And while the odd solitary spark, like Overlord on Luna-1, popped up pre-war too I very much doubt that usual procedure for such discoveries would still be in place. 

Nobody was expecting any more newsparks, so why bother prepare for them?

Meaning that in all likelihood, what happened when Fulcrum first popped up from the ground, somebody- perhaps even an MTO who likely didn’t know how currency worked never even mind proper child discovering protocols- discovered him and reacted something like this:

obviously i think tyrest is wrong about constructed cold transformers being inherently corrupt, but tbh i also think ultra magnus is wrong about this being a concidence.

my question is: how many of the defendants were MTOs? how many of them were thrown onto a battlefield right after they were born? and how might that warp their ideas of what’s acceptable?  it wouldn’t surprise me if MTOs were more likely to commit atrocities (their lives have been nothing but atrocities). but this is because of how they were treated after they were born, not because they were constructed cold.

It’s been an ongoing thing, and for a little bit in Lost Light I thought it might come up, but of course that got jossed and it was something else entirely, but every so often I see someone else post something like it--just little snippets really--and y’know, fuck it.  I’m gonna make a post and it’s not gonna be great but really, fuck it.

So a couple of things we know in canon that are related to/feed into this thought:

-MTOs are built into bodies, Forged mechs ‘grow’ or ‘form’ from Sparks introduced to sentio metallico (basically protomaterial in other continuities) or however that’s written

-Sentio metallico is naturally occurring on Cybertron, on or in the ground, in limited amounts

-Sparks put into pre-built MTO bodies still have the ‘code’ for their own unique bodies that they could/should have become under normal/natural circumstances

-Some mechs get dysphoric as fuck about this and body swap as often as they can (*coughstarscreamcough*)

-Transformers eat snacks and chew on things

-Forged mechs have a high amount of sentio metallico and MTO/Constructed mechs have significantly less, but a higher amount results in ‘better’ or ‘higher quality’ MTOs.

Those last two are actually very related.

Because what I’m talking about is sentio metallico cravings.

We have some COOL OCs.

[twitter convo between vepe @Munatron and James Roberts @jroberts332 on 4 December 2014.

vepe: Did First Wave Constructed Cold bots have the city name suffix? Wondering since I can't recall Starscream of ___ mentioned

JR: Yes; it was only the MTOs that had the campaign-related 'surname']

Chromedome might know what Brainstorm is, but Chromedome also knows the stigma that can be even just constructed cold, never mind literally being built-to-be-a-soldier, so he covers for him.

If Stormy doesn't want anything said then Domey’s not going to say it. It would be hugely awful of him to do otherwise, to out him against his will.

Not that he’ll let him get away with being obnoxious in his ruse though, clearly. He still interrupted and told Stormy off when he tried that with Tailgate.

The only point I have to debate, is when Chromedome found out about it. 

About Brainstorm being an MTO.

Did he know from the start? Before Brainstorm was efficient at hiding it?

Did he find out some other way or guess?

Or even, did Brainstorm wind up confessing to his friend?

I mean, they are very close.

There’s also how we know that the first husband of Chromedome, Scattergun of the Fourth Vorsk Offensive, was canonically also an MTO and one who didn’t hide that either, with a friend he had, Hoist, knowing and talking openly about that fact.

And I very much doubt an MTO running off and getting all domestically married would be looked upon kindly either too.

So perhaps seeing how Chromedome didn’t mind MTOs being not as they were supposed to be, with his associations with who would become his husband, that could have helped Brainstorm feel he could confess to him? And not be immediately disregarded or ratted out?

I’m not sure.