#trypticon

Really really really nice idea I have absolute NO idea how it would work in any continuity cityspeaking is a thing ToT I gave a try tho

Two ideas:

1. Completely removing/altering the brain module so that they’re just. A vehicle or an object or stuff

And 2. Altering the brain module like you would with domestication of a Beastformet but. They’re still a car. A car growling and acting territorial lile a dog, a jet squaking like a bird, cassette payer that you’re 90% sure just bit you.

Honestly I think a lot about either since I think the social implications for either are SO interesting in fascinating ways

I think the Functionists are more liable to do #1, but #2 is one of those things that happens during the war and the rescue becomes immensely emotionally complicated

#2 would probably require a bit more mnemosurgery to switch everything, where #1 allows for much more damage considering how we see some bots can literally fully die and still have a viable altmode

(though there's a nice angst to annihilating someone's being so thoroughly they become a nonsentient living machine on a planet of sapient living machines, and it's a specific move keeping them alive but destroying their mind rather than just killing them outright then using their body)

Hey wouldn't #1 just be what happened to TFP Trypticon turning him into the Nemesis??

It's such a socially specific move to use the process of Domestication on a non-beastformer though. One could also account for forced reformats here, though I like to think that crosses over into different territory too.