#worldbuiding

✨🍃🦋The Metamorph 🦋🍃✨

I'd say its like 40% g1, 20% tfp, 20% tfa, and then another 20% bullshit . theres probably some influence from the comics in there somewhere but i haven't actually read them so i wouldn't know lol

A lot of designs are very g1 inspired, cus i love the big blockiness of g1. and especially optimus prime's personality is very g1 optimus.

With a lot of the world building its hard to pinpoint specific inspirations cus a lot of it i just make up on the fly out of things i really want to explore. Like, i have it in tf:cwd that pink on a bot is seen as a threat or an omen, and im pretty sure i heard that from somewhere but i have no idea where.

I do think the egg thing came from cyberverse. probably. In tf:cwd cybertronians come out of eggs btw.

And a lot of my worldbuilding and lore comes from fandom! i cant give a specific example cus... i forgor. but im sure for some tidbits its a little obvious!

anyway, here's an infodump on cybertronian reproduction:

there are three (technically two) ways that more cybertronians are created: planet forged and bot forged

The most common way a bot is created is being planet forged, which means the planet itself created the bot. It begins at the core of cybertron. a spark is created and sent to the surface in an area called a "cradle" inside of a capsule. a cradle is a valley on cybertrons surface that houses sparkling capsules until they hatch. they are typically extremely hot and humid (a rarity for cybertron since liquids are extremely uncommon) there are hundreds of cradles dotting the surface that vary in size, the largest cradle being the one closest to the planet capital. (it can house up to 10,000 capsules) gestation in a capsule can take up to three months to two years depending on the size of the sparkling. minibots take about six months, fullframes take about a year, and grandframes take the full two years.

when a sparkling is done growing it bursts from the capsule and begins to eat it. The capsule has essential materials in it that will be absorbed by the sparkling that will allow it to consume energon. if a sparkling does not consume its capsule, it will be unable to process energon properly and will starve to death.

A cybertronian being Bot forged is much less common, and involves two bots sharing dna in a very similar way to human reproduction methods. Once a bot is sparked (meaning they are carrying a living spark that has the potential to become a sparkling) they must go to a cradle and connect to a vacant capsule root. a capsule root is a cable that supplies a capsule with the needed energy to grow a sparkling. When a bot connects a capsule root the themselves, it will activate their internal forge and will grow a capsule inside the bot around the spark. once the capsule is grown, the bot can disconnect from the root. during gestation a bot is unable to transform into their alt-mode and their body temperature will be much higher than average. as the sparkling grows, the plating of the carrier bot my become distended, which will require repair after the sparkling is removed.

When a sparkling inside of a bot is done growing, it will burst from the internal capsule, causing the insides of the bot to flood, this will trigger their expellation system, and the sparkling will emerge from the bot along with the burst capsule.

Imagine there being a conflict about the reintroduction (or even just conservation in general) of unicorns much like has been going on with the wolves of Yellowstone for decades now. They're a keystone species, they improve every single aspect of their habitat just by being there. Their magic helps the plants grow, improves the weather, keeps other animal populations in check. But they are wild animals. They do not behave in a way that is "convenient" for humans.

And above all else, they are protective of their homes. They will do whatever it takes to keep humans out. And the humans don't like that. They want to venture into the last wild places and ruin them. So they argue. They paint unicorns as dangerous, as mankillers. Claim that we shouldn't even be protecting them at all. Campaign to be allowed to hunt them. Display horn trophies in their homes.

Meanwhile the conservationists are wracking their brains on how to explain that the unicorns are not violent by nature. That when they are pushed into conflict with people, then there are problems. That having untouched areas, ideal habitat where unicorns can live without fear, will prevent lots of conflict. That killing the unicorns means killing the planet. They try educational outreach, and it works, a little, but then someone goes and tries to take a selfie with one and gets gored, and they're back to square one.

There's petitions to the government from both sides. Ads on tv to save the unicorns. They're used as dangerous creatures in movies, going on bloodthirsty rampages. The scientist scream that that's not a fair depiction, that it's causing more fear than is warranted. That you just have to use common sense and a healthy does of caution. People offer illegal unicorn hunts to the highest bidder. Every so often a video pops up online of someone petting a unicorn foal, and the authorities have to find them.

Zoos and conservation organizations sell unicorn plushies to raise funds and have "adopt a unicorn" programs, where people can keep track of a unicorn in the wild. (They don't do well in captivity, so captive breeding and reintroduction programs aren't even a viable strategy to save them. Scientists say it has something to do with the way they're bonded and connected to the land where they live.)

In the words of Mariah, it's time! In celebration of the success this year of two legends (Charli xcx and Chappell Roan, we aren't quite legends yet) our lexember is going to be a camp old romp through some lines from their albums brat and The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. 

The conlang you can see is N'asibómmó, which has been created on our language creation livestream! This first week will be brat themed with the most conlang-related lyric of the summer: “Talk to me in your own made up language” from Talk talk which merited the full translation treatment - most days we will just give one word. Just don't ask us to define word.

╰┈➤ ❝ [Northistle Neighbourhood] ❞

A quieter and cheaper neighbourhood, Northistle is more known for the nature surrounding it than the families themselves. With many of its homes residing deep in the forested and mountainous areas, not many people venture through unless they want to explore the park or fish in the Central Pond.

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“Fear the cold.”

@bbu-on-the-side * {Day 7: Details} What's a detail of BBU worldbuilding you always wanted to dive into? (Newly emerging professions, legal aspects, pet fashion, economic side effects, societal aspects, facility workplace ethic, history, safehouse organisation, deconditioning…) Do it now, and ramble a bit!

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I touch on a lot of the things I think about in my own writing, because world-building is honestly so much fun for me!

I don't talk about religion much beyond individual people though, and so that is something I think about but don't write.

Like, my theory on this is that religious organizations across the board heavily disapprove of the system, with their logic being that this allows people to "escape consequences" of their actions in their life before signing up, and there are TV preachers on this universe's Fox News declaring that all must stand before the judgement of God, even if they were pets in life. "The Lord does not forget your sins, even if you do."

I think this makes for uneasy bedfellows between the pet lib movement's leadership and some church organizations. Both want to end the system but with different rationales behind it.

I also think some churches or religious groups run safehouses, halfway homes, etc. Some better than others. I think a lot of churches have "missions" where they go to "the streets" and try to convince runaways to come to their halfway houses. The kind of people who complain about how the runaways don't always seem sufficiently grateful for their pity and charity.

But I think there are plenty of churches who just show up, help, and provide support without demanding worship in exchange. People who leave backpacks with toiletries and some food in areas where runaways tend to congregate. People who just buy food and cook big meals, even when it's illegal to feed runaways. These are the people who know how to befriend someone and provide aid without pity. I see the Unitarian Universalist church being very much about that method? Not always perfectly.

Churches lobby constantly for legal restrictions on the system but in my BBU world part of the point is that corporations have so totally overrun everything that ANYTHING is legal if a billionaire pays the right senator off.

Nat gets most of her funding from Vincent Shield's various shell companies but also applies for a lot of grants. And I think many of those grants come from churches or religious orgs.

Jake doesn't want to ask for money from religious organizations because of his own lifelong resentment after his childhood church ignored, enabled, and eventually justified his father's abuse of Jake and his mom. It means he has to scramble for money more than Nat.