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[EDIT '26: This master post is outdated and will be replaced with a new post.]
Fifteen years has passed since the forty-year Autobot-Decepticon War on Earth came to a close. Cybertronians on Earth cannot return to their home planet because the only way back there is through the Spacebridge that was destroyed in the final battle. Although the war was declared over, Decepticons still sow trouble meanwhile the Autobots have split up. Several join forces with G.H.O.S.T — an internationally recognised law enforcing unit where Cybertronians may join in – while the rest manage their lives independently.
For humanity, most of the global population are indifferent towards their alien “guests”. Many want them to leave yet many are fine with them staying. There are those who refuse to wait and take action to rid the Cybertronians from the face of Earth themselves. The big question is: would they risk casualties on innocent lives to achieve this or not?
Peace remains far away for planet Earth.
Then, one day, a new generation of Transformers-kind native to Earth is born. What happens the next two years since their birth will mark a historic moment for Earth and the Transformers-kind.
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BOOK ONE: FAMILY
A family of four moves into their new home gets more than the calm life they desired. They found the new generation of Earthborn Transformers whom a mad scientist refers them as “Terrans”. Determined to protect the newborns Transformers from the uncertainties of a post-war world, the Malto family adopts and raises them as their own. Adopting the Terrans is easy, raising the non-human yet non-alien species is the real challenge.
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BOOK TWO: UNITY
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[first sketch of OC Terrans] | [info on the OC Terrans]
The Malto Terrans goes around the world to meet other Terrans and collect the Emberstones to restore Terratronus. Meridian have created his own Terrans to sabotage the Maltos and to manipulate humanity to turn against the Transformers kind for good. However, the real trouble is an ancient enemy from eons past, waiting for the perfect time to strike.
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BOOK THREE: BELONGING
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With the troubles caused by Meridian and the Quintessons solved, the Terrans now must face their hardest challenge: a court deciding the Cybertronians’ place on Earth. They know this is a losing battle, but they will do their best to defend their seniors regardless. Meanwhile, the New Council on Cybertron aims to make Earth its Colony, whether the natives like it or not.
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STORY NOTES:
Book 1 ends at the alternative "Prime Time" episode. Book 2 ends at the alternative S1 finale.
Book 3 is an entirely original storyline without any connections to the canon. In other words, no longer canon compliant.
Out Of Character galore. The cast doesn't have the same characteristics or personalities as they do in canon.
Family drama. Following the above, this is unavoidable.
Thundercracker takes over Megatron's spotlight in the story. Megatron does not have any appearances until Book 3.
No, this series won't focus on the legacy characters. This is the Terrans' story.
Robby & Mo are 14-year-old twins. Their cyber-suits won't be a thing here.
FTGU Nightshade is not an intent to change Canon Nightshade! I can't believe I have to clarify this with NS specifically. They are not a real person!
If treating fictional characters like the non-living plastic toys they all are disturbs you, kindly move on from this fan fiction series.
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I think it was pretty good overall, season 1 on its own being great. Seasons 2-3 aren't as good, though watchable.
I will say that the best part is the character designs, hands down. The ONLY bad looking character is Mandroid, and that is clearly on purpose. I mean, have you seen the cybortronians? They are all gorgeous! (Though Optimus' face is a little off, I will admit).
Prowl was peak in s3, hands down the best part of that season. I love my morally questionable boi! The Terrans are cool, too. Nightshade is excellent nb rep, and they are my child. I will fight you on that.
Like Danny Phantom, though, the show suffers from, well, wasted potential, I want to say. A similar situation of left behind plot points, unanswered questions, and vague backstories.
The first episodes insinuate that this is a G1 based universe, for example. But it quickly became clear that that is not quite right. So because of that, we don't know slag about pre-war Cybertron. Why did the war start? No fragging clue!
That's my biggest gripe with the show, actually. The next being how they fragged over Starscream after season 1. Like, I don't actually mind the Decepticons being the bad guys again, but they wasted Starscream's potential in particular.
Overall, I can at least recommend season 1 without guilt. The episodes after that, however, should be watched with a grain of salt, I guess.
NOT FUCKING AGAIN! THE MUSICAL ( TF EARTHSPARK MESSAGES AND MANDROID'S GENOCIDAL HORRORS EDITION)
Holy shit I am losing my mind... @monocle-teacup you better read this <3 (dead serious though cuz wtf)
Also of course as always, spoilers ahead this time for season 2 of earthspark so dont want it? skedaddle (s2 isnt worth caring about though, trust me)
Also again nobody go witchhunting or harassing anyone, this is discussion of media and someones poor takes on some clear themes in a show.
Okay you're using THE TERRIBLE WRITING OF S2 TO PROVE YOUR LITTLE HORRIBLE SLIMY GENOCIDAL GREASEMAN IN THE RIGHT???? WHY ARE YOU VOUCHING FOR HIM. WHY DO YOU SAY HIS IDEAS ARE RIGHT AUUUUGH-
How you continue to have terrible takes astounds me 💀 You can't be serious man how are you this like,,, braindead? And ignoring all of what S1 is trying to teach even before S2 came out? oh wait.
You choose your attraction of a gross ass man over LITERAL IN YOUR FACE PLOTPOINTS BECAUSE YOU'D RATHER MEATRIDE YOUR BABYGIRL MANDROID OVER EVERYTHING THE SHOW HAS BUILT UP. Not like you probably ever cared to connect any of the dots.
Oh, to help you do that, I have a previous post I made where I pinged you! You should read it before you read anymore, it'll help with what I'm about to preface here. Please READ IT.
It's been a while since I have posted as I've been busy with finals, but I saw a post that absolutely made me spur a headache with just how
Okay, time to dig into literally EVERYTHING ALL OVER AGAIN BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEEM TO LET GO OF THIS MAN AND HIS OBVIOUS LACK OF HUMANITY IN HIM AND CONTINUE TO SEE SOMETHING THATS NOT THERE. I will start off by saying the quality of the writing for season 2 and season 2's entire disregard for season 1 don't discredit season 1, no matter what nonsense there is. I hate season 2 for all its going for thus far and its just genuinely a waste of my braincells to try watching it again. There are also things not specifically related to mandroid but are also pet peeves that show your lack of attention to detail.
How. Did you miss this. Humans have been living with bots for 30 to 40 years at this point they don't bat an eye at them because THEY THINK THEY'RE JUST SOME BOTS CASUALLY WALKING AROUND. They don't give a fuck about the terrans; only a select few know they are even earth-born bots. Transformers have been living amongst humans casually don't you think they wouldn't give two fucks and know not to gawk at random robots walking around like they just started existing?
You saw the Philadelphia episode (I hope? because you act like you haven't) or really any episode they are just chilling and walking around, you didn't notice nobody gave a damn? What about Optimus, Elita 1, and other bots? Would you randomly gawk at a group of sapient beings walking amongst you who've been there for a lifetime?
No.
They had to hide FROM GHOST not FROM THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. Ghost would have tried to capture them and imprison them by deeming them a threat for merely existing, not humans as a whole. The fact you miss this entire detail is incredibly sad.
Okay now onto Mandroid stuff because you never stop meatriding him MY GOD
Huh, maybe you need to USE YOUR BRAIN and realize he was not protecting earth. He -thought- he was, because he perceived them as vermin who need to be wiped out and a threat to humanity. Like I said before in my last post DECEPTCONS DO NOT EQUAL ALL OF TRANSFORMERS OH MY GOD. Plus with this season its clear there can't be the same writers on this team. They have sacrificed the story for toymaking opportunities DON'T YOU THINK MAYBE HE'S NOT RIGHT JUST BECAUSE S2 SOMEHOW SAYS THE -CONS IN SPECIFIC (NOT ALL BOTS MY FUCKING GOD)- ARE TO NOT BE TRUSTED AND ARE DANGEROUS? USE YOUR CRANIUM THAT EVOLUTION HAS GIVEN YOU. Mandroid conflated every single transformer with a twisted ideal in his head born out of hate, not from a true sense of danger nor did he separate cons and autobots or unaligned bots in his head from the conglomerate "evil" he thinks they are.
As above so below, you're DEFENDING HIS TERRIBLE GENOCIDAL BEHAVIOR BY BEING LIKE "HE MIGHT HAVE DONE BAD STUFF BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY HE WAS JUST PROTECTING EARTH" over a giant guardian robot who's being mind controlled and had no intention to do this or will of her own. Why are you so adamant on convincing yourself he was a good or commendable man? Where is your basic comprehension of anything in this show at all. HE TRIED TO COMMIT GENOCIDE ON A WHOLE RACE OF BEINGS WHO HAD BEEN COEXISTING ON EARTH FOR YEARS. It's not something you can go 'erm acshually-" on.
He literally killed EVERYONE who was a transformer; even if their death wasn't permanent they still died because he saw them all as a disease needing to be eradicated.
He has no sense of humanity, only hate in his heart and the need to destroy. How do you think he was protecting earth when he had succeeded at murdering an entire population off the face of the earth even if it's only for about 5-10 minutes? HOW ARE YOU THIS BLIND TO MEATRIDE HIM THIS HARD.
I honestly doubt they knew about her, let alone understood the glyphs everywhere. They were just mapping ancient tunnels and figuring it out; Croft also probably forbid anyone from entering due to the DWELLERS, not Terratronus; she was well off course and well protected/hidden by dirt and freaky alien monsters. Even if they somehow DID know, GHOST probably just utilized Terratronus to justify imprisoning dozens of transformers; whether they were cons, neutral, or autobots that didn't want to be part of a government mass incarceration and control program. Mandroid probably didn't give a shit at the moment because he was busy trying to squash literal children like bugs. Shut up about this stupid attempt at the executives making money off of random plot bullshit and toymaking opportunities.
AS STATED IN MY LAST POST: YOU ARE CONFLATING DECEPTICONS WITH ALL TRANSFORMERS, AS MANDROID DID. ONE GROUP DOES NOT EQUAL ALL OF THEM, AND DOES NOT MAKE TRANSFORMERS AS A WHOLE DANGEROUS IF THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO CAUSE TROUBLE. MANDROID SAW ALL TRANSFORMERS AS A THREAT EVEN IF THEY HAD BEEN LIVING WITH HUMANS PEACEFULLY FOR DECADES. YOU ARE HERE SIMPLY REITTERATING A STUPID AND NULL POINT THATS PROVEN WRONG AGAIN AND AGAIN IN S1. His reasoning behind his actions are "we need to get rid of these filthy dangerous vermin who are invading our precious planet." Also the chaos terrans being born evil is a horrible plotpoint and groups being born evil is terrible writing, just like the entirtey of Season 2 because these new writers on the team understand nothing about the show as is. (Yes, most of the writers in s2 never worked on s1)
This one. this one enraged me. This is the most recent post I'd seen about mandroid as of writing (june 8th) and you have SERIOUS AUDACITY to say this. HE KILLED ALL OF THE MALTO BOTS AND TRIED TO KILL ROBBY AND MO; WHAT MAKES YOUR FUCKING MANDROID LOVING SHRUNKEN AND POCKED BRAIN THINK THAT HE WOULD TEAM UP WITH THEM LIKE SOME BUDDY BUDDY ADVENTURE? HE ATTEMPTED AND COMMITTED GENOCIDE, UNETHICAL EXPERIMENTATION, CHILD MURDER, AND MORE.... HE WOULDN'T MAKE JUST """""SMARTASS COMMENTS""" HE'D STRAIGHT UP HATECRIME ALL OF THEM.
I'm not gonna be nice with this last one. You are incredibly media illiterate if not just lacking basic cognition to think he of all people would willingly team up with people he wanted to kill off during season 1. You watched the finale of season 1 and GATHERED NOTHING FROM IT. You, in all your 34 years of life, somehow have not obtained a single gram of "maybe I shouldn't vouch for and defend a person who's xenophobic and wants to commit genocide" despite enjoying writing and HISTORY. HOW ARE YOU ONE TO ENJOY HISTORY YET MAKE NO CONNECTIONS TO ATTROCITIES COMMITTED BY PEOPLE TO WHAT MANDROID IS DOING AND HOW THEY ARE WRONG AND ENTIRLEY UNFORGIVABLE. At this point I believe you to be willfully ignorant to pass off your crush on this man as okay and convince yourself he is right somehow; even going as far as to utilize this new season as an excuse for him.
Your audacity to think he is anything other than a pathetic horrible man with terrible and morally bankrupt goals and actions somehow will be nice to groups of people he hates astounds me to no end. The show gives you all you need to connect the dots and you haven't. I'm aware i'm likely talking to a brick wall because you're likely willingly ignorant to excuse yourself or will never read this but I will call out this nonsense regardless. It comes off as extremely weird and bordering on you just believing in the ideologies he spouts.
I will say this again to make it clear; Mandroid is a stand-in for people who believe in racist and xenophobic ideas, and will stop at nothing to destroy them. The transformers are an allegory for refugee immigrants, and the terrans are first gen decedents. You continuing to believe his lies and defending him just borderlines on you upholding racist ideals. (That might sound deranged af of a claim but considering the context... yeah)
TLDR for lazy people: This fool pinged in this post is claiming a character who ATTEMPTED TO COMMIT GENOCIDE as being in the right somehow with his ideals/actions and not a total morally bankrupt person. Meatriding getting in the way of logic.
Okay but here me out. Termagax's sentient home, 'House' was inspired by Baba Yaga's house right? Termagax herself is a scientist and engineer on top of being Meg's mother but also has experience/research in at least 'supernatural' things like the Prime's artifacts.
What if Termagax = a Baba Yaga like figure who just lives out in the wilds of Cybertron and tests you to see if you are worthy of her wisdom or are unworthy and she'll strip you for parts and toss the remains out to the cyberravens. That could be fun. Heck her name even means 'harsh tempered arguementative' woman which is very fitting.
I think even Kilotronyx calls her an old hag at one point becauae she's so sick of her bullshit.
Im so sorry Mandroid fans but I could not physically watch Earthspark with him on screen without physically saying "ew" every time, he repulses me and idk why </3
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Nope. He is a repulsive character with an ego that deludes him into thinking he's a hero when he's nothing but a selfish asshole who hurt others around him for his own delusions. To be fair, this is probably what the Season 1 team wanted to which, great job, aside from the rushed writing. He's no Silas from Prime.
I guess there is a potential story where I could delve into Megatron having his split personalities and Mandroid interacting with that, but I just don't want to waste my time on such an unlikeable character.
Bottom line, I have no interest in writing for a character who went out of his way to harm, mutilate, psychologically torture and try to kill kids. There is no excuse for that. Absolutely none.
Sorry if that disappoints you, but nope. My time is better spent on more worthy characters.
Side note, his moving factory reminds me of Megatron's mother, Termagax's, 'House' from the IDW comics. I know that many people compare it to Howl's Moving Castle but considering how Earthspark pulls a lot of stuff from the comics, I can't help but think it was a nod to that.
