2 Seeker(ish) Bunnies

[katsuko]

1. It's widely believed that when a seeker's wings are irreparably damaged, said seeker tends to slip into madness. The humane thing to do in this case is to put the seeker out of his or her misery.

Starscream is shot down in battle and his wings are utterly trashed. Megatron opts to leave him behind (no sense wasting resources on a mech who's just going to go mad, after all) and the Autobots take him back to their base in the hopes that something can be done for him. When it turns out there's no way Ratchet can repair Starscream, it kicks off a moral dilemma: should they kill Starscream while he's in stasis or let him live in misery?

2. A variation on the first bunny and incorporating some of this bunny as well. Vos has aerial seekers (Starscream et al) as well as non-aerials or "skimmers" (Cliffjumper); skimmers are actually the Vosian variant of minibots. When an aerial's wings are irreparably damaged, Vosian medics either modify the frame to non-aerial or - if the damage is too great - transfer the ex-aerial's spark to a non-aerial frame.

Same scenario as above happens, only when the debate starts Cliffjumper and any other minibot that might actually be Vosian (I'm thinking Bumblebee) insist on modifying Starscream into a non-aerial frame. When questions start being asked, the two minis reveal that they're actually seekers, discard whatever excess armor they've been using to disguise themselves, and reveal what has actually been happening to damaged aerial seekers over the eons.

Bonus points here if Bumblebee/non-Cliffjumper mini was actually an aerial seeker long before the war and was modified due to severe damage.

Comments

[mmouse15.livejournal.com]

You come up with the best bunnies...

[katsuko]

*preens*

Oddly, I have this teeny thought in the second bit that aerials who get shot down adapt to being non-flyers adapt by either utilizing jetpacks for short jaunts or develop an insane fear of flying and no longer want the ability.

Honestly, my brain worries me at times XD

[mmouse15.livejournal.com]

Really? Your brain makes me want to pop popcorn and make lemonaide and watch the show. Seriously.

So, IMO, nobody has a better grasp of CJ than you do, and I want to see you write the second bunny.

Yeah, I know. RL gets in the way. Still, you'd rock the story.

[darkdanc3r.livejournal.com]

Dunno, I kind of second mmouse on this one. You would seriously rock a story like that.

[eerian_sadow]

this is brilliant. especially combining the two ideas and making one glorious fic!

*bookmarks for later*

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Random thought on the last part: Once upon a time there was a young Seeker named Hornet. He was injured and transferred into a Skimmer frame and renamed himself to Bumblebee. Unlike Seekers, Skimmers are less well-known so they can get jobs in other cities easily, so while working in Iacon, Bumblebee ends up falling in with Optimus Prime's Autobots as the War starts. (Bee may not like the Golden Age government's treatment of his fellow Seekers, but at least Optimus truly believes in the principals of freedom and equality he espouses.)

ETA: Another thoguht: Bee befriended Cliffjumper because he saw a kinsmech - he either worked out Cliffy was a fellow Vosian, or at least suspects it. e's never actually asked so he isn't sure, he doesn't want to spook Cliffjumper, or doesn't want to find out he was wrong and Cliffy isn't a Vosian, so he' stayed quiet about it.