@transingthoseformers and I have been batting around a fanfic/AU where the autobots find and ally themselves with an insecticon colony on Earth, and Optimus and the queen (Queen Megachile, seen here) fall madly in love and start a breeding program to bolster both forces’ numbers. It’s produced as much genuinely interesting cultural ideas as it has hot ovi breeding porn.
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Alt Mode: Wallace’s Giant Bee
1 1/4 OPs tall=Giant Bug Wife
Ovipositor is somewhat prehensile to help with penetration and egg laying. Positioned where a valve would be on a standard bot. Spike, while fully functional, is little more than a pleasure organ for a Queen. Valve located at end of abdomen, backup reproductive system for queens not in Queenie’s specific situation.
Some things to come out of this thread:
-For my own sanity, insecticons are not a parasitic or viviparous species; the larvae stay firmly in the soft eggs for a set amount of time and are laid by the carrier when they’re almost ready to hatch. After they’re laid, workers gather them and place them in honeycomb like structures until they hatch and develop a proper exoskeleton.
-Colony has a very beehive type setup, but some behaviors don’t transfer over due to many types of insect alt modes
-After the alliance is formally established, the colony moves locations from Halmahera to the same mountain as the ARK, and as a result the two bases blend
-The cons find out about the alliance through wayward patrols, and laugh it off at first because the insecticons we know and love aren’t exactly known for being good business partners. This bites them in the ass when the insecticons, especially Queenie, turn out to not only be very skilled warriors, but master strategists.
-Eventually either Ravage or Laserbeak gets in and out with footage of just how deep this alliance really goes, and that’s when all hell REALLY breaks loose. The cons see the breeding program in action and how the insecticons treat the participating bots like legitimate spouses, and some of them get Ideas. Slowly, cons start to go missing at night, then alltogether, and eventually Megatron has to go to the hive doorstep to get his soldiers back, and he starts to have Thoughts as well when he sees OP carrying
-Insecticon fertility festival that mimics the nuptial flights of ants. Started as just that, nuptial flights, but since they’re not used anymore it’s just for displaying a queen’s power. As their culture evolved, more and more frills got added to it until it became an entire multi day festival celebrating creation in all its forms.
-Insecticon hatchlings pick up more and more traits from their carriers as the generations go on. It starts with just paint jobs and small details, but because they evolve so fast it’s only a few generations until we start getting wasps that shoot cryogenic spray instead of venom or grasshoppers with shield generators.
-Guard insecticons using their wings to shimmer and disorient potential threats.
I’m sure more will come of this fic so I’ll just keep posting as we make content.
