5 - My first thought was that the carrying person would end up with a stronger than normal parent bond with their sparkling, that keeps them alive while the sparkling is alive, even after it's old enough it could survive on it's own. That could still cause issues in some sparklings, knowing they're the one keeping their parent alive. The exception being if the parent bonds to someone new, then their spark is stablized by that bond and the parent bond can wane a bit.
Added plot idea: There's a pair of mechs in the Ark crew who are a parent child pair, held together by the parent's dependance on their family bond. Said parent constantly worries for his sparkling in battle, said sparkling worries even more that if he gets killed in a battle, it'll kill his carrier as well. Then there's the mech who wants to romance the parent...
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5 - My first thought was that the carrying person would end up with a stronger than normal parent bond with their sparkling, that keeps them alive while the sparkling is alive, even after it's old enough it could survive on it's own. That could still cause issues in some sparklings, knowing they're the one keeping their parent alive.
The exception being if the parent bonds to someone new, then their spark is stablized by that bond and the parent bond can wane a bit.
Added plot idea: There's a pair of mechs in the Ark crew who are a parent child pair, held together by the parent's dependance on their family bond. Said parent constantly worries for his sparkling in battle, said sparkling worries even more that if he gets killed in a battle, it'll kill his carrier as well. Then there's the mech who wants to romance the parent...