If rambling isn’t my middle name-!

Altered Loyalties

The Conception of Altered Loyalties Megatron vs Starscream Skyquake and EHP Guardians Commanders and Their Dead (hypothetical) Autobots and the Army (+ hypothetical Jazz) Cliffjumper the Not Dead POW (yet) Last Words (AKA explosion practise) [art] F-35 Data Link [short post] Accidental Zombie Apocolypse [short post] Makeshift Mention (episode changes of ep1-5, 6, 8 and 20) You CYLASed the Wrong Mech [art] MECH and the New CYLAS Raf and the Haunted Radio

Bot Experiment Triple Changers (BETCs)

Gritsandbrits Original Post [reblog] Octane and Astrotrain Wasp Friendship Ended with Blackarachnia Omega Sentinels First Encounter TFA Season 4 Pitch Document First vs Second Gen TC Scientists' Leftovers (AU within an AU) Introjects How do Octane and Astrotrain Front Surgery 2: Electric Boogaloo Blitzwing-Blackarachnia-Waspinator Dynamics Giving TCs Pronouns Gritsandbrits Meme [reblog] Confronting Blackarachnia Blitzwing = Malware? BETC Blitz and Shattered Glass Alternate Techno-Organic Dynamics Private The 4th Penguin (Private) BETC Blitz vs Mike Squad Unicron Spawn Random BETC General Headcanons Blue/Orange Morality Random Defender Hothead Design Struggles [tag rambling] Fanfiction Permission Fic Snippet ~ via Anonymous Fic Snippet of Antagonist Blackarachnia ~ via Anonymous How are Triple-Changers Made Chronic Pain, Redemption and Suicide Blitznut Real (or is it?) Shockwave: The Sanest Decepticon Mmm Yummy Parallels

Ben 51

Area 51 Behaviors and Opinions Three Fun Activities to do at Area 51 Freyd, Bellicus, and Serena Alien Names Zs’Skayr Omnitrix Life Support

(These next three AU don't contradict one another, so assume they run concurrently with future headcanons)

Age Accurate Transformations

10 Year Old Aliens [reblog chain] A Galvan and a Piscciss Volann at 10 [art] No Matter the Size of Your Opponent [art]

Mutants and Magic

Ben 10 Should Have More Mutants and Magic I Totally Didn’t Just Use Kariachi’s Necromancer Argit Fic and Make it Canon to My Mutants and Magic AU Absolute Not No [reblog] How Kariachi’s Necromancy Works [reblog] Mutant AND Magic Ra’ad Pseudo-humanity Kariachi’s Necromancer Wards Therapist Suggests YOU are Magic [art] Ra’ad is Learning How to Cast Protective Spells [art]

Bureau of Metaphysical Phenomena

Mike Trio in the B10CU The Introduction of the BMP into the B10CU What is Susie? TV World and the Mikes Chapter 5

General + Tech

Specified Xenobiology

So ON that note, it's so niceys that neither TFA faction are the heroes lmao, kinda really screwing over our maintenance bots Team Prime in this continuity by making them the ultimate underdogs- either way, with Megatron being a charming figure with rhetoric to spread and actual goddamn manifestos, turning the Decepticons kinda cult-like is also very nice (particularly since Megatron exiling the previous Decepticon leader Megazarak, and also that specifically being one of the major reasons why the tensions between Decepticons and Autobots worsened), comes across with real big Cult of Personality types, especially since Megatron wants control over Cybertron and the Allspark. And since the current ruling class of Cybertron and the Allspark were the AUTOBOTS well- let's just say Blitzwing can bring along some very compelling reasons why Autobot rule is anti-cybertronian and cruel. Something something, Megatron sees Blitzwing's very understandable vitriol, yada yada, Megatron views him and his status of being the last remaining triple changer (bar maybe some scientists tryna make another for Project Omega) as an incredibly useful tool, etc etc, Megatron is a very charming mech and can turn Blitzwing's trauma into bigotry and basically the Cybertronian equivalent of a fascist* because yay for radicalisation you are not immune to propaganda! *Keyan's Political Ideology video

Basically, Blitzwing went from pre-TC 'tries to become smaller/be one of the good ones [warframes]' non-confrontational quiet mecha, medically abused and viscerally changed into something that hurts so bad he's disappeared across parts that want to die, parts that want him to live, and a part morbidly entertained by the whole thing, then after everything is welcomed into the fold of an ambitious cult on the cusp of war and had his trauma turned into a leash as a tyrant-to-be's attack dog to beget the violence destined by violence. It didn't take too long for Blitzwing to cause more harm than personally had been harmed, million upon millions of years of war builds up more of a body count than scientists actually responsible for the Triple Changer Trials would amount to, especially since Autobot scientists in of themselves are more than just those that operate unethical experiments just because they can let alone the Autobots not even scientists at all- doesn't matter, at this point nothing matters, so long as they die first. So long as Megatron can win, so that nothing like Blitzwing can exist ever again, including himself.

He is DEFINITELY not being treated for his condition, not for his mental health and not for his chronic pain; maybe the altmodes slightly tug against each other, pull at his endoform like it's own version of joint instability if we pull from EDS, potentially something like vertigo where altmode systems clash and suddenly he's feeling like he was always a tank never to be in the air when he was forged as a jet. Not to mention he's not exactly well liked just for the way he has been made to be, has become in the absence any real choice in the matter, a freak in body and mind. While she may not have a mind freaky enough to be disliked, one freak of the body ends up finding solace in the other, Blackarachnia - walking around the 'leopards that will eat your face' party and knowing it (what other choice is there, either she's dissected live on an autopsy table or she can somewhat live in company even if on a timer) - may reek of Autobot scientist but her biology makes her potentially freakier than Blitzwing. Blitzwing is probably still revolted by her just as much as Blackarachnia runs out of patience with his 3 predominantly fronting alts, but still... it's some kind of solace; maybe they can be friends despite it all-

Welp! With Waspinator signifying Blackarachnia's desperation, Blitzwing was RIGHT to detect her Autobot history- she's just like any other scientist he's had to deal with in the past, just one more wound to inflict upon him and he only has himself to blame-

And finally, his time in prison. Technically this used to be the first paragraph in my post but the structure got so confused that I had to delete everything then re-centre, structure everything in order so that I don't mess up my thoughts. I think no one is exempt from redemption, it's just that the character (or person also) needs to want redemption; much as I enjoyed Steven Universe (I understand how it was basically a kid tryna reconnect with his estranged family yada yada I understand the themes), placing the onus of redemption on the redeemer rather than the person seeking redemption is uh... irresponsible maybe? Blitzwing regardless of whether he wants to redeem himself should still be given treatment, no one is unworthy of treatment even if they've done plenty to cause others to need it. What makes it not a conducive environment for treatment or redemption at all is that unfortunately, Blitzwing despite everything has had very real reasons not to trust Autobot scientists, even if he'd been taught to generalise his skepticism to medical officers who have sworn to do no harm.

He'd kinda be in this fucked up state of 'needs to be treated' and 'cannot trust anyone to treat him' where this would probably be the one time where everything has the time to bubble up and boil over into active contemplation of dying. It'd been a background element for millennia but in an Autobot prison cell with nothing to do and no one to help, unlike rotting on a planet Deceptions were exiled to or wandering the stars on a wild goose chase, this is the clearest moment in his mind that he has lost and the Autobots have won and he HAS FAILED. Failed and he's still alive, living it's own torture because he couldn't even die right. Going with the Hasbro mandated route, it would almost be a 'justice' committed upon him when Megatron throws him to feed the fuel of Trypticon, I mean he was already fuel for the war. Waking up will be it's own repeat of 'couldn't die right', and it would be very hard to convince him to actually fight against Megatron (though a convincing argument would be mentioning how it'd be a suicide mission, though it's not like he's going to just announce he'd be cooperating with Team Prime just so he can die for once)-

So yes, constructing a triple-changer frame didn't work; the mecha couldn't access one of their other forms, and upon autopsy found that the structures intended for the secondary alt-mode were partially reabsorbed into the proto-form as if deemed redundant, better used as materials to be consumed like a parasitic twin. On that front, they needed a new direction. Not wanting to construct a lone member of a gestalt that never existed - to have a triple-changer's third-mode be a detached limb - or for the alt-mode they had designed be absorbed by the growing proto-form, they turned their research to fully developed mecha.

There have been rumours of (illegal, backalley) surgeries that can change a mecha's alt-mode, the High Guard tracking cases of warframes and beastframes trying to infiltrate civframe districts (their words not mine), identity theft [REDACTED BY THE HIGH COUNCIL], and investigating the surgeons themselves following a line of corpses (ignoring the fact some mecha identified have been civframes trying to convert into warframe or beastframe bodies). If the researchers can get their hands on a couple of these infiltrators if not the surgeons themselves, then they may be able to *coughs into hand* 'pick their brains' about the operation if not find out themselves with a full-body inspection. Some surgeons were successfully paid off to work under them for the on-going project.

Combining (HAH) their research on combiner T-cogs and their learnt understanding of alt-framing (the reassignment of frame type), they found that unlike first-sparked proto-forms for newcons, a fully developed mecha's endoform does not view the replacement pieces of a different alt-mode as material to consume, rather it adapts and slots the new pieces along seams that reconstruct themselves to open and part in corresponding ways; the body is able to adapt to the replaced material rather than viewing it as redundant. The issues arise when certain sparks sputter under the strain of even just this so called 'simple' procedure of alt-framing, but you can't forge a tool without smelting a few scraps; they were criminals anyway, can't have that.

Before turning to untainted mecha, the researchers studied on T-cog mechanimals, testing first on frizz-rats and glitch-mice, attempting to give each respectively a pigeonoid and bolt-bat third-modes. They increased the size; combining a singlehorn with an alloygator; and even larger; a fusion between a buzz-boar and a sonicondor. They eventually were satisfied enough with the results, testing combinations left and right, making sure if each pair could work with A + B and B + A. Vitals were tested (those that survived measured from healthiest to least and the variables listed down to the minute differences), behaviours observed (does the mechanimal retain it's knowledge of it's original frame, does it's third-mode come with instincts to assist in use or does it need to learn everything from scratch, does the mechanimal desire to transform at all), and the effects of domestication were considered (is a dieselle still docile with a hellhound third-mode, can a hellhound be tamed with a dieselle third-mode). This period of testing came to an end and the mechanimals were put to rest.

With what they learnt, the scientists turned to the populace, and hand-selected a trial of 3 to start. This will be their undoing.

Another version before all the ribbonification

Here's the non-inverted image

Since Frisk would technically be an active member of the Bureau of Metaphysical Phenomena they’d be aged up, but it also maybe means the more child-like flowers like Aqua and Orange could also easily be aged up too (though, I’d put them in a cadets program, and/or students of the BMP studying at this specific facility), since particularly if it’s a facility that was like… actively studying the structure of rifts and trying to like… simulate one - task failed successfully one might say - it prolly wouldn’t be one of those space station types that has an attached BMP section like a fire brigade on board. On the other hand, maybe switch it around and the Undertale scenario was a whole ass space station, residential spaces, businesses, education included and Deltarune is the cautionary tale where fuckers learnt to be extremely careful with rifts. Hmm, yes the latter one, it drags basically everyone in but ‘everyone’ is still like a manageable number (businesses and homes and stuff is mostly built around a VERY long stay at the facility and has to be self-sustaining because it’s very self-isolated yes yes). Maybe if we go 2-2-2 between Plumber, BMP member, and maybe resident (with their own separate jobs), we can have Aqua and Seth as BMP members (a cadet and a researcher respectively, Seth maybe an assistant to Gerson while Alphys was an assistant to Gaster AKA they were one of the two immediate casualties of the rift), Orange and Yellow as Plumbers (cadet again, then active member respectively), and Green and Blue were residents on the station (they’re literally translated across, or are at least more civilian and mundane members of each organisation, like the chef of the Plumber’s mess hall or one of the faces of BMP with the hobby of dance).

Either way [goes to sleep to write this another day]

I think since I make the anodite spark explicitly stolen and Not Kris by eheh metaphysical means, Frisk and Kris are still different people but the spark itself (kinda like the player interacting with things and people Kris wouldn’t care about) the spark could be from Chara as like… the dead soul that still ‘lives’ unlike the other souls/flowers, particularly since as the BMP isn’t a game the spark can be it’s own character haha. So it’d mostly be the anodite spark reacting to everything like the really angry ectonurite somehow getting stuck in a rift and discovering herself, pointing many fingers at Flowery who’s almost Flowey but is different (since Flowey on geno thinks Frisk is a reincarnation of Chara rather than having any Chara still with him), and watching Spamton merge with maybe a prototype or scrap golem of parts from Mettaton NEO.

Which on that, I can’t believe I didn’t think about an albino Malware-like galvanic mechamorph for Spamton, especially since if you generalise to a species wide population, Malware would not be the only mechamorph with his disability or simply have other disabilities that would show up; being treated well for having a disability well- unfortunately you just need to look at Malware’s story and see how well treated he was. And being a direct sequel sorta, either MTT NEO was an unused upgrade or even just the real deal itself broken and unhoused… though I’d have no idea how alternate routes would work, even including the weird route. Technically the BMP doesn’t have like a number of people who are confirmed to be alive so technically you can fudge some numbers, but in the Undertale path Gerson if no one else will report Frisk for using the rift as an excuse to kill everyone, in the Deltarune since Ralsei acts as I suppose the ‘guy inside’ he’ll know the number more accurately and has the capacity to report Kris or at least start an investigation. Idk idk, the rifts are much different from Darkworlds and their escapist fantasy, I think the lowest it can go would be a neutral route or you don’t recruit everyone, but that’d be mostly since it’s a rescue mission and sometimes you can’t save everyone, particularly the 6 human souls.

Kinda the opposite to how most Deltarune darkworlds are inanimate objects while the flowers are like living things given a darkworld form (still functionally darkners because they don’t have a soul, technically lightners because they cannot live without it), these rift versions of them can only live in this phenomena because they’ve already passed on in this one. The main people that are actually stuck in the rift would be Asgore and Mad Mew Mew. Each of the flowers can still resemble plant-based species, it’s still a metaphysical phenomena it would pull from the logic of the universe, see plant-based people, then assign them a shape that matches.

Here’s where I would assign each flower to a plant-based alien, but unforchies for us I cannot canonically give you 7 plant aliens, a combination of not reading every alien to vet if they’re based on plants, having a small number of canonical aliens, and having some non-canonical aliens. Between florauna, those alien mushrooms/mycelium, methanosians, atasians, those magical pumpkin constructs, thornhounds, and alien trees well… two of them are fakers (and idek if thornhounds are sapient though technically that wouldn’t matter), I don’t think the pumpkins count as a species of person or animal, and who’s the unlucky bastard getting the highbreed (there’s a bailiff atasian, maybe Yellow can be, especially for the height thing).