#transformers writing

❥ Hi everyone! 👋🏽 Considering it’s been awhile since I’ve written anything on here, I came up with these while on a break! They’re inspired by my other mini headcanons, but they don’t follow a set timeline. But I hope you like them, thank you & enjoy!

Long before the war, you were an apprentice of the 13 Primes. Destined to join them once you come of age. You’ve spent a majority of your time studying the history, arts, and culture of your planet. But what happens when you’re in the archives one day, and a mysterious Bot falls through the ceiling?

Before the war, you were a brand new Prime who was appointed to oversee the social system & well being of Cybertron’s citizens. However, when rumors of a war start to spread, you are placed under the protection of the prestigious High Guard.

You are a stray Autobot who got separated from your team after narrowly escaping some Decepticons. You find yourself in an abandoned city but make your way to a massive temple at the center. At first you believe you’re alone, until the temple’s doors open, and a colossal noise erupts from inside.

You are a famous racer from Iacon City, who is currently traveling the galaxy hoping to expand your career. Challenging the fastest speedsters in all of outer space! What happens when you land on Earth, hoping to beat the Autobots’ finest in a race?

You’re walking through Earth’s woodland, looking for something to do, until a massive sound shakes the ground. While definitely frightened, you follow a smoke trail that leads to a large crater. Out of the crater comes a group of strange beings: tall, strong, and covered in metal. For some reason they looked just like you. But before you could process anything, one of them looks in your direction. You’ve been spotted, by aliens no less. Now what?

Quick Author’s Note Here:

❥ The third prompt was super fun to write, so I extended it under the cut. Feel free to read if you want! Thank you! 🙏

Collapsing near the base of a mountain, Optimus’s optics go in and out of focus. It’s a pathetic end, he vaguely thinks to himself. All of Cybertron’s hopes and dreams, the Bearer of the Matrix - dying alone thanks to a squad of ragtag Quintessons. He doesn’t even have the excuse of being betrayed by Sentinel.

A shadow falls across him - a hulking, towering bot. Even with his vision blurry and going dark, there’s no mistaking who it is.

OK so recently I've been getting into ASMR videos (I still don't know how given I used to hate them and now we're here XD), but anyways. In some videos they eat these edible rocks/crystals to make sounds and stuff, the exterior is crunchy but the inside is like jelly.

(¬¬This guys over here¬¬)

So when I saw the blue ones, I was like "mmmm, they look a bit like energon.... wait a sec"

(YOU CAN'T TELL ME THIS DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ENERGON!! LIKE THE COLOR AND EVERYTHING IS TOO SIMILAR!!)

(HERE'S A PHOTO FROM THE SHOW FOR COMPARISON. LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME IT DOESN'T LOOK THE SAME XD)

So now I imagine the TFP kids making some DIY edible rocks/candy to simulate they're eating energon!

I think Miko would be the one that has the upper hand in this since one of the ingredients for the recipe comes from Japan (agar agar), so I HC she likes to prepare herself this rocks and brought with her some agar agar so she could make some during her time in America. So when she makes this connection with the energon, she immediately drags along Jack and Raf to make some!

They make some at Jack's home since June wouldn't question the intention of the rocks. And they decide not to tell the bots since they wanted to surprise them (foreshadowing lol!)

Once the rocks are ready (apparently you have to let them rest for almost a week), Jack brings them to the base to share with his friends.

And once they're gonna start indulging in it, the chaos starts lol!

Ratchet, seeing they're about to consume "energon", raw "energon" nonetheless, absolutely panics and almost pushes it out of their hands so they don't intoxicate gkkhhox

Bulkhead would try to make Miko spit it out since she would have acted like a chipmunk that puts the food in it's mouth when startled to run away quickly khchkchk

Arcee would immediately start shouting (in concern, but she's hiding it under anger) at Jack for trying to eat something they know is toxic for humans

Bee would start panicking and almost crashing out thinking Raf is gonna die (again)

I think Optimus would try to calm down everyone and ask the kids why they thought that was a good idea to do (and also panicking on the inside cause wdym his adopted-human-kids-but-can't-say-it were eating raw energon???)

And once the kids explain that no, it's not actual energon, never less raw one, it's a candy that looks like a rock and it's safe to eat, the bots would finally calm down after that sparkache

.... And then it starts again once Miko pulls out a bottle of blueberry water with edible glitter that makes it look like refined energon KGDYYKFHKHOCHO

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The MTMTE/LL universe probably has my favourite canon take on Cybertronian anatomy, but the one thing that kind of bugs me is the existence of “nervecircuits.”

It seems to exist to make the characters feel the bodily pain they go through, but for transformers/robot characters in general, I don’t think it makes much sense for their species to have this, or is necessary.

Don’t get me wrong, the body horror in the series is phenomenal. But I think it all still works fine without the implication that Cybertronians have robo-nerves? Like the decapitated Ratchet scene was so effective because he woke up and couldn’t feel anything wrong with his body and the horror hits like a truck when it’s revealed what Pharma did to him.

(From MTMTE issue #18)

(From MTMTE issue #19)

Like I said before, I don’t really understand this when I think about it. The implications I read from these panels are:

1. They have “nervecircuitry” - this likely is circuitry that lines the bodies of Cybertronians that allow them to feel pain and other sensations

2. They have the ability to re-route nervecircuits somewhere else in their frame

3. From the decapitated Ratchet scene, there is some way to block all nervecircuitry. Or perhaps they cannot “feel” anything when they are offline/in stasis?

Why wouldn’t they constantly have their nervecircuits turned off when they’re war machines and constantly being torn apart and wrecked? And okay, I’ll turn to human anatomy for the answer: pain allows us to understand that something is wrong with our body and lets us know where and how to fix it. So it’s probably the same with Cybertronians. Maybe they turn their nervecircuits off for battle (though if I remember correctly, there are cases where characters are expressing pain during battle, and also why would Ambulon even have his on in this scene?) and then after battle when they are being treated by the medic, they are turned back on to diagnose what is wrong.

But… there are in-universe ways to diagnose what is wrong that work much better in my opinion? They are super robots. I’m sure they are advanced enough to get an error message flashed on their optics when a piston breaks or whatever (I think we’ve seen that in canon as well… I cannot think of an example rn though). And we constantly see bots hooked up to medical gizmos in medbays or scanned with doohickies by medics… we have also seen bots blown up and offline that medics are able to fix back up without them expressing their pain. If they had physical lines/circuitry throughout their frames dedicated to feeling, they would constantly be shredded to bits and impractical.

I do like the canon choice of Cybertronian’s sparks being able to feel touch. This to me makes more sense than them having pain receptors, and also scratches the itch of still allowing them to be physically intimate with each other that we all crave (I love the concept of spark-merging as a form of sex/intimateness/tender vulnerability).

(From MTMTE issue #19)

A lot of fics I’ve read use the idea that Cybertronians can feel touch, and I situate that within what I call “sticky universe anatomy.” The sticky universe encompasses any Transformers fan work that subscribes to elements from sticky sexual interfacing headcanons. Fanfics may not include any sexual content, but they might use anatomy headcanons that come from wanting Transformers to have sex. There isn’t anything wrong with that (I for one like to partake in this literature from time to time) but it relies on giving them human attributes and human bodily functions which for me personally, provides a disconnect that these are alien robots, and I lie awake at night overthinking Cybertronian anatomy (Ok but seriously, someone explain to me the conundrum of Cybertronian mouth anatomy). I have read a few fics that justify sticky sexual anatomy in great detail, but none that have justified the idea of nervecircuits.

I think physical contact is inherently something a lot of people crave in their romance and so it is inserted into their fics, which is sweet. But I also love to read unique headcanons or anatomy quirks people come up with that explore the innate mechanical-ness of Cybertronians.

What was he thinking before, of course he knew this mech.

He's right here in front of him so close he could touch, his plating inches away from his servos if he were to reach out. He's so different from the mech he once knew, more confident, more sure, but so much like him too. Not just in looks-his white plating with red accents, his finials, those damned vibrant optics-but in his devotion, his humor. His gentleness despite the violence he knows so intimately, maybe even in spite of it.

It’s so easy with Autobots. Bulkhead’s a big jeep. Ratchet’s got a nice practical truck cause not all of his alts are ambulances. Arcee and Elita are our biker girls and we love them for it. Bee and Jazz have their fancy European sports cars. Prowl unfortunately has a cop car. Optimus obviously has his truck.