Not many to be honest, I haven’t seen much content of him. Which is a shame, he is quite interesting in the way his lore mirrors idw shockwave’s. I wished he got more screentime. Also his voice is funny,

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1) Are Percy and Brainstorm actually conjunxed? Did Brainstorm leave Percy cause he was hurt by his actions? Or was it onesided, with them actually completing the rites but Brainstorm not realising it?

2) What kind of discrimination did Brainstorm have to deal with? In what ways was he restricted as a warframe? Does your TFA-verse have its own caste system? Were Brainstorms talents that undeniable that he was granted leeway/a higher status in order to server Cybertron as a scientist?

3) Did Brainstorm join the Decepticons because of increased discrimination and scutiny? And then get pushed over the edge when Perceptor decided to mess with his own personality matrix? (Have you considered Percy doing that to himself in response to Brainstorm leaving him for the Decepticons, in order to prove a point?)

4) How do Brainstorm and Perceptor reunite? Does a Decepticon delegation get send to Cybertron, with Brainstorm being one of the scientists on the Decepticon side? Or does Brainstorm go to Earth to either deliver a new shipment of weapons to Megatron or maybe he was summoned in order to build something on earth, The terrifying (according to rumors) engineer who created some of the most destructive and dangerous weapons that the Decepticons used? (He has such a cheerful and bright paintjob tho, would Perceptor even allow people to speak ill of Brainstorm?)

5) Brainstorm seems to have a lot of attachment to morals and sentimentality in your verse, what would his reaction be to the Jet-twins? They used to be factory worker grounders after all, before being chosen to be reformatted into being autobot flightframes. Would he have opinions about that?

6) I'm a sucker for a good baby trapping plot, but how do you think Perceptor would get there? From what little you've written till now he still seems a little too on ice to be able to make it under Brainstorms panels XD.

Anyway good day!

This is such an awesome ask, thank you! I really wish I had more of this verse coherently written down so I could share it with you, but it's largely chunked together at the moment and I don't want to publish the next piece because I decided to make Perceptor suffer a bit more. I originally posted it as a kind-of April Fools joke (as I'm mostly writing other content on this blog) but it is a genuine passion project of mine and I'm delighted in your interest in it.

1) I originally scrapped this piece together with all the whimsy of a CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) novel. I used to read them when I was young, namely one of the pieces by R.L. Stine, and I thought all the ways the plot could go was super interesting (but, with all the viciousness of a autistic kindergartener, I hunted down the 'best' ending.) The idea of writing something a bit like that seemed fun. So in one of those iterations, they're conjunxed and mutually aware of it, another they're "lab partners," and if I hated myself, I'd do another where they were pining pathetically.

2/3) Basically, yes! The autobot faction got gradually more hostile as propaganda turned (more) against warframes in response to the Decepticons, up until the point it wasn't really safe for Brainstorm to stay in his position. He's a very dramatic and very intense mech, though, so he didn't take losing his job well. He was, indeed, very, very good at it. Which some people hated, admittedly. He didn't have a 'good' personality to match his talent, so he wasn't considered an exception socially.

Joining the Decepticons wasn't his favorite option, but Perceptor is still a relatively loyal autobot (it's veering on dubiously) and Cybertronian's seem to have a deep hatred for weak willed political parties. Decepticons gave him a job, going Neutral gave him three dozen headaches including not exactly having the personal shanix to relocate.

The fact that you bring up Perceptor's personality matrix right then is actually very ironic, because in what I have written, he did! After Brainstorm was ousted, Perceptor lost a few dozen reasons to keep caring and a voice to tell him that maybe D.I.Y brain surgery is a terrible idea. He became utterly manic in a bad way. I may have been slowly killing off his friends. No comment.

4) The original concept was more of the first, since we don't really see Perceptor leave Cybertron. He's technically government, so he doesn't have as much freedom of movement. Boundary pushing by being an aft excluded, of course. Autobots and Decepticons begrudgingly met up by sending some delegates to the Decepticons, but no one really wanted to volunteer for that.

I like to imagine Brainstorm's paint job is pretty much identical, except for a few things where he wasn't able to get a perfect replacement shade. He's old in TFA standards. He keeps exploding himself. It's gotten scuffed. Perceptor's relationship with Brainstorm isn't public, so no one is really treading on that landmine on purpose, but he is a prominent engineer and gets the OCCASIONAL mention. The Decepticons have much more famous mechs, and he's- not playing it safe, per say, but laying a bit low.

5) I think he's very pro-body modding. But I also think he's an old warframe who has experienced a lot of fucked up shit he doesn't talk about, and this refomating kind of reminds him of MTO armies. Maybe they're not being made in dozens and have some sort of semi-competent handler, but it still doesn't resonate well with his spark. He's familiar with double standards even if he wasn't very good at sanitizing himself for the public, so he's not too hurt by them being flight-frames in the physical sense.

6) It takes a while! But the big plot hasn't even shown up yet and it's probably gonna involve letting another mech do stuff to you that could probably end up with you dead if they fucked it up. Perceptor gets kind of. Clingy. Life is hard enough, he refuses to question his trust in Brainstorm and consider any doubts.

So first of all happy pride month to you all !

Whichever’s easier lol