Hello there Starscream! As a fleshling writer, I was wondering, what would you rather have us refer to your clones as? Your siblings or your "creations"/"children"? It seems like a lot of people say different things.. .
‘Siblings’? I was the only offspring from my creators, and neither of them would have cheated on each other.
They do have my CNA. They do share my frametype. They do sound like me, after a fashion. Similarly, they take after me. They are hardly at the same level as I am.
They’re not ‘children’, not in the human or Cybertronian sense. They were Sparked into adult frames and there was no other mecha involved. Clones, offspring, spawns.
The accidental spawns are a different story. Swindle used some of his own coding when he made them, thus having two ‘creators’. But we never interfaced and it is impossible for two Sparks to form another without merging.
Swindle doesn’t treat the two he keeps around like children, and I don’t consider them mine. The clones would be siblings to each other and half siblings to those from the other batch.