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1. Quoth the Seeker, “Nevermore”.

 

2. Dead End & Edgar Allen Poe.

 

3. Unbeknownst to Orion Pax, Ariel had been lying to him ever since she met him. When he’d found her wandering around near the factory where he was working at the time, she’d claimed to live in the cheap apartment block next to his own. However, she was actually a spoiled heir-femme from the Towers, who’d stupidly gone slumming in the “poor mechs’ district” and gotten lost. Poor Orion was besotted by the gleam of her plating and the shine of her optics; he never noticed that the expensive polish and optic-brightener she was wearing would be way out of the price range of a working-class femme.

            A. Although Ariel-the-poor-femme was ‘dating’ Orion (and possibly falling in love with him, despite her constant self-reminders that he was just a lowly, common laborer whom she was stringing along for the fun of it), Ariel-the-rich-young-debutante was being forced into an arranged bonding. (Mirage? Megatron? The current Prime?)

            B. When Ariel awakens as Elita-1 for the first time and is told that Orion became the next Prime, she immediately realizes that the tables have turned and now she’s the one in the lower social class.

            C. Did Optimus ever find out about Ariel’s deception?

 

4. Yes, this doughnut-shaped building in Oxfordshire IS a microscope, the biggest, most expensive and most powerful in the world, and will allow Britain to lead the world in the science of the very small…

It costs £260m, is the size of five football pitches and is the most remarkable British scientific project in decades… By one reckoning this picture shows the most powerful torch in the world - a device that can create the brightest light in the known universe, ten billion times more brilliant than the sun… It can produce a man-made beam of radiation so intense that it would be visible the other side of the cosmos, if it were to be pointed in the right direction...

It is hoped that [the microscope] will revolutionise everything from the way that computer microchips are built to the manufacture of new drugs… Police forces will be able to use [the microscope] as the most powerful forensic instrument in history.

 

5. Hound and Perceptor were built to work together. What Perceptor sees, Hound can show. (Inspired by the fact that Perceptor’s microscope barrel and Hound’s projector are kind of similar.)

 

6. Before the war, young Sunstreaker sneaked into the next-door neighbor’s private crystal garden and found the neighbor creating marvelous works of beauty. The neighbor confided that he had once been a famous artist, but had changed his identity so as to remain anonymous. In return for art lessons, the young mech swore to keep the secret.

Sunstreaker is delighted with his newly-discovered artistic talent; the neighbor shares in his joy and seems to be content that his gift is being passed on. One day, Sunstreaker went over to the garden and found it deserted; the house was empty and the neighbor was gone. Sunstreaker waited and waited, but the neighbor never returned. He mourned the loss of a hero, mentor, and friend – and only then realized that he had never asked the neighbor’s name.

During the war, Sunstreaker meets his former teacher. He is greatly surprised at what has become of his hero – and half-ashamed that he himself, like his mentor, gave up art in favor of war.

 

7. “The wonderful thing about Seekers

Is Seekers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber,
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about Seekers is
I'm the only one!”

 

8. Mechs with bright white optics.

 

9. Decepticon: *mutters* I don’t get paid enough for this…

Autobot: *shocked* You get paid?

Decepticon: *surprised* You don’t?

 

10. Primes don’t get vacation time. Optimus muses on how much the humans have unknowingly helped him, by letting him de-stress while officially ‘on the job’. Technically, playing basketball was ‘investigating and building good relations with a foreign species’ and a long road trip for no reason was ‘gathering data on alien culture and geography’.

 

11. Sunstreaker wasn’t a conventional artist – he was the only Cybertronian ever to create abstract art.

            A. Someone notices that certain abstract paintings on Earth look oddly familiar.

            B. None of the Decepticons could figure out why the Nemesis had been originally decorated with those strange artworks of shapes and colors. Certain ‘Cons grew to like them, and salvaged them for the underwater ‘Con base.

 

12. Crack pairing. I’ve heard of Perceptor/Starscream, and although I can’t figure out where exactly that came from… what about Brawn/Skyfire?

 

13. The only part of a Transformer that they would want to cover up for ‘modesty’ reasons would be the spark or spark chamber, right? So, wouldn’t having some sort of ‘window’ in the chest area (like Optimus, Soundwave, etc.) be the equivalent of wearing too-revealing clothing?

 

Megatron: O_O..... O/////O

Optimus: …Not a word, Megatron! It came with the alt-mode, alright?! *is embarrassed*

 

14. Suppose the second name ‘Prime’ was only used to distinguish the ruler of Cybertron under the old Autobot government. When that government was replaced by Decepticon rule, it was implied that Megatron had gotten rid of the office of Prime as well (by not claiming the title for himself). However, he continued to address Optimus as Prime – despite the fact that without the old government to back Optimus up, he isn’t technically Prime anymore.

 

15. The golden line had been crossed so many times that it had lost its meaning.

 

16. X-ray vision.

 

17. Joy doubled, and grief divided.

 

18. Without hope, one is only half alive.

 

19. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my enemy friend.

 

20. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

 

21. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

 

22. "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

 

23. "Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

 

24. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

 

25. “Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.”

 

26. “One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

 

27. “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

 

28. “It is easier to stay out than get out.”

 

29. Cruel and Amusing Prank #785: Remove all traction from soles of feet of recharging comrade. Options: local ‘anesthesia’ and industrial-grade sanding, stylish banana-peel shoes, or epic amounts of butter.

 

30. Art. Megatron with black Unicrony horns.

 

31. Red Alert -> Readimus Prime

Inferno -> Ultra Infernus

Firestar -> Alighta-1

 

32. ‘Mech A’ is just a puppet, being controlled by ‘Mech B’. Then ‘Mech B’ dies/gets stuck in stasis/goes missing/goes insane, and ‘Mech A’ wakes up.

 

33. Soundwave becomes a soundwave. He bounces around the Decepticon base, trying to get someone’s attention so they can figure out what happened to him and reverse it – but no one is listening. Then while the tower is up, some idiot goes and opens the door while he’s nearby…

 

34. “Again? Primus! What is wrong with you? You’re like the Charlie Brown to his Lucy! Stop going for the fragging football, you’re never going to kick it!”

 

35. Not really a full-fledged bunny, but… a fic where someone (a Cybertronian) ‘flounces’. Because it’s a fun verb.

 

36. Art. Starscream trying to kick a football that Megatron is holding. Bonus points if it’s drawn in ‘Charlie Brown’ style.

Edit: Found this. Optimus, instead of Megatron, but still hilarious. :D
 

37. Ironhide’s original name was Ironide. His creator was a deluded scientist who named him after the new substance he’d ‘discovered’.

 

38. His imaginary friends told him that he was the only one who could see them. They lied.

 

39. The war is over, but by the time of the armistice, both factions owed considerable debts to other species for energy or weapons – and since neither side won, the plunder which each side had been counting on to pay their debts could not be collected. Cybertron is immediately hit by severe economic depression.

A. To his dismay, Optimus finds that raiding other (uninhabited, if possible) planets for resources may be the only solution. It’s too bad that the leading expert on this type of mission has gone missing…

            B. Some mechs – mostly former Autobots and mostly scientists – are stubbornly refusing to support any plan which includes wrecking foreign environments before they can be properly studied (which would require funds that aren’t available, anyway).

 

40. Instead of open warfare, the Autobots and Decepticons divide the planet between them and start a cold war (no actual fighting, just paranoia and propaganda and political junk)/arms race.

            A. Rather than dividing Cybertron, one faction claimed Cybertron and the other claimed a distant energy-rich planet. An archived scientific report (from a two-mech team, only one of which returned under mysterious and uninvestigated circumstances) indicates that the planet is uninhabited and available for colonization… but the report was dated much, much later than it had actually been recorded.

            B. The scientist who turned in that report refused to stay on Cybertron when he found out about the ensuing cold war. He bought/stole some energon and supplies, then left for the planet where his partner had been lost.

            C. The cold war ends, and to symbolize the ‘clean slate’, certain records are deleted. Other records are accidentally destroyed by viruses, cleared up to store more important data, or ‘debunked’ as false. After much time has passed, one faction has totally forgotten that the other group even exists.

 

41. When Megatron decided to refurbish the crashed space cruiser into a base, the Decepticons thought it’d be boring living underwater…

            A. The base is located right in the middle of whale pod/dolphin school territory.

                        1) Soundwave loves the sounds!

                        2) Soundwave hates the sounds!

3) The cassettes record the sounds and use them to startle their fellow ‘Cons at odd moments.

B. The largest known jellyfish is the lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), reaching 35 meters in height.

C. Sunken pirate ships! With accompanying undead pirates!

D. Finding Nemo! Bonus points if you make someone talk in Dory’s ‘whale language’ or use that sarcastic school of fish that form into different shapes.

 

42. “How can I help it if I think you’re funny when you’re mad…” ~1 Week (Barenaked Ladies)

 

43. (I may have mentioned this before.) Each gestalt – could be all the gestalts of one or both factions – contributes one or two members (the leaders, or just your favorites) to combine to make the ultimate gestalt.

 

44. Femme: What is it with mechs and asking for directions?

Mech: I don’t want to play the gender card right now. You want to play a card, let’s play the “let’s not die” card.

 

45. “I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. Come on, Squishy Come on, little Squishy… Ow. Bad Squishy, bad Squishy.”

 

46. ???1: I promised I'd never let anything happen to him.

???2: Hmm. That's a funny thing to promise.

???1: What?

???2: Well, you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him.

 

47. Primus and Unicron have a chat with their boss.

 

48. Human scientists usually specialize in a certain area of science. What if Cybertronian scientists or medics, being experts on mechanical science/anatomy, are absolutely hopeless when it comes to biology and human medicine? Inspired by the fact that fan-Ratchet often heals humans, when he ought to be as bad at that as a human doctor would be at fixing a car.

 

49. Can connect to previous bunny – what if a non-scientific mech realized that what they really wanted to do in life was study biological life-forms?

 

50. The ‘Bots (and/or ‘Cons) in each of the fifty states.

 

51. The ‘Bots (and/or ‘Cons) in as many countries as possible.

 

52. Swindle is enchanted by the sheer number and variety of human scams.

A. He researches the psychology of gambling (i.e. how people might buy 10 different lottery tickets and think they have a much better chance of winning than if they’d just bought one), and decides to find out if such tricks work on the less logical ‘Bots/‘Cons.

B. He finds out about and becomes interested in magic tricks, and tests them on his fellow ‘Cons.

 

53. If they win the war, they’ll lose what’s really important.

 

54. Starscream and Skyfire come to Earth much later, and observe one of the ancient civilizations (Greek/Roman? North/Central/South American groups? Oriental groups?). Curious, they collect data on human mythology and bring it back to the other scientists on Cybertron to analyze. They unanimously conclude that the humans are all insane.

            A. A non-scientist finds out about the research, but when they obtain more information about it they fail to catch the key fact that all of these creatures/deities are myths.

            B. The person who finds out about the research knows that these figures are mythological, but he conveniently forgets to mention that when he spreads the story because he wants to lead an investigatory expedition to Earth.

 

55. The wounded Seeker/Aerialbot fell faster and faster, reaching the ground… and continuing to fall through it.

 

56. Jazz likes all kinds of human music except jazz. He chose that designation because of its other definition, of excitement/liveliness/spirit.

 

57. Megatron has the ability to alter others’ emotions.

A. It’s very difficult and takes lots of concentration; in fact, though he’ll never admit it, he doesn’t really know how to control his ability at all.

B. Soundwave, Shockwave, and Starscream were all ‘experiments’ at trying to alter emotional responses – all of which were failures and damaged them in some way. After what happened to them, the most Megatron dares to try with the other Decepticons is causing petty anger and calming them if they get upset or rebellious about one of his decisions.

C. Megatron always does whatever he feels like, because he doesn’t know what might happen if he accidentally tries to control his own emotions, instead of just using simple self-discipline.

            D. After observing how Optimus’ troops generally obey him and accept his decisions without question, Megatron suspects Optimus of possessing the same ability as him and (consciously or unconsciously) using it to keep control of the Autobots.

 

58. At first, Chip Chase was only taking advantage of the Autobots, to learn about their technology so he could become the next Bill Gates. All his life, he’d been looked down on by other humans, despite his intelligence – he felt like he had to prove himself. When they actually treated him more like an equal than some humans treated him, he started to feel a little guilty. He knew that when he launched his billion-dollar tech corporation, some of the Autobots would know or at least suspect what his real intentions had been all along.

 

59. “Have you ever loved someone so much you’d give it all for them / Not the expression, no, literally give it all for them / When they are your heart, and you know you are their armor…”

 

60. We’ve got Mirrorverse, with good Autobots and bad Decepticons – but I don’t think I’ve ever seen Optimus leading the G1-verse ‘Cons and Megatron leading the G1-verse ‘Bots.

 

61. Starscream is Megatron’s creator. Although the Seeker’s memory banks were wiped at one point, he retained a tendency to not want to take orders from his own creation.

 

62. Starscream with multiple personalities: a calm personality (suppressed by the others), a stupid-rebellious personality, a sly-rebellious personality, a scientific personality, a surprisingly-decent-leader Air Commander personality, a glomping-Megatron personality…

 

63. The Decepticons have a bunch of Autobot prisoners from the last battle. Negotiations are dragging, so the Constructicons decide to get some use out of their ‘guests’: they build some giant hamster-wheels and connect them to power generators…

 

64. A captive Autobot has an epiphany. Jets may have an advantage over cars in many ways, but there are two fun weapons that jets lack: a horn and a car alarm (and sirens, depending on which ‘Bot this is).

 

65. Who’d be most interested in human history?

 

66. Optimus always tells his troops that there’s hope, even when there isn’t any. And when things are going right for once, he’ll tell them that chances are high of everything going pear-shaped soon. Is this just part of what makes him a good leader? Maybe. Or maybe he’s just a compulsive liar.

 

67. When the Transformers woke on Earth and tried to contact Cybertron, they quickly realized that their home planet had been drifting through space for millions of years, while Earth revolved and orbited the sun – they had no idea which direction their home planet was in or how far away it was, let alone how to get back.

 

68. When Megatron & Optimus and company didn’t return, Shockwave declared himself leader of the Decepticons. To preserve Cybertron in the long run, he announced an armistice and opened peace talks with the Autobots who had remained. The deep stasis to which Optimus had succumbed fooled Elita-1 into thinking her spark-mate was permanently offline, so she and Shockwave had an alliance marriage to cement the reunion of the two factions.

 

69. Advances in human technology happen quite quickly. Both the Autobots and the Decepticons rapidly get frustrated with having to switch alt modes so often to keep up with what will ‘blend in’.

 

70. Human or holoform TFs in high school isn’t uncommon in fanon. What about in preschool, or kindergarten, or elementary/middle/junior high school, or college?

 

71. Shockwave suffers a personal tragedy of some kind. Elita-1 and the more gung-ho femmes consider on how even the most unlikely ‘Cons were different before the war, and are still just mechs underneath it all.

 

72. When the Transformers look at the humans, even the most kindly of them can’t help but be insanely envious of the simple thing most humans take for granted – that in a pinch, they can always just grow personal energy sources right out of the ground and live off of them.

 

73. Red Alert is Reflector’s creator. His paranoia made him create multiple bodies, convinced that one or two would be damaged or that he would somehow make them incorrectly.

 

74. Two debate teams face off in the final round of the Cybertron-wide championship, competing for scholarships to the most prestigious universities/military academies on the planet.

 

75. Who would a Decepticon turn to if he really, really needed help with some sort of personal problem?

Comments

[kirin-saga.livejournal.com]

Interesting phrasing there...

It seemed to fit.

Oh, you didn't think of Prowl? The telepathy didn't come through this time! I mean, what with 'donut-shaped' and police forces using it for forensic purposes and all...

Sorry. I saw Microscope.

XD Perhaps they were meant to be teachers, but they both got so caught up in what they were supposed to be teaching about that they became students instead.

*nods* Very possible. And so like them.

Mirage - Hmmm. Mirage lived in the Towers, yes? Maybe the part he lived in was right on the edge of a poorer area, or maybe paying for his art got so expensive he had to move out and find a cheaper place. Or maybe Sunstreaker lived in the Towers. Or maybe Mirage used the other place as his studio, to keep his art separate from his social life.

I like the idea of him living right on the edge. If he was rich but not as rich as the others in the Towers, it might explain some things.

Cliffjumper - He's always suspicious that others will betray him because someone in his close-knit artists' guild plagiarized his work, then accused Cliffjumper of copying his art.

Poor Cliffjumper! *hugs Cliffjumper*

Oooh! Wait! *thinks* *adds new bunny to next list* Hee hee hee! Three in one...

*curious*

An argument or fight between Skyfire and Perceptor would be... interesting. *ponders* They're both expected to be such peaceful, calm people. When they both finally explode one day, Starscream and Brawn have to be the peacemakers and get them to stop before they blow up Earth from sheer sciencey rage.

I so want to see that fight! Everyone will be shocked! Except for Brawn and Starscream, of course. They will simply have 'why me' expressions and, at first, might pretend they don't know them. Then they will try to drag them apart.

And sheer sciencey rage. I love that.

I wonder how Optimus would feel about that? Maybe a little disappointed that his enemy doesn't seem to respect him much. But I can't see Megatron not finding out as much as he can about his opposite number.

Maybe Megatron knows it, but can't remember sometimes? Maybe he has the beginnings of Alzheimers? Or maybe he has a crush on Optimus and his mind goes blank whenever he sees him and he knows he can't go wrong with yelling Prime.

Shel Silverstein, I think.

*looks up* He wrote the Giving Tree? And... Where the Sidewalk Ends. No wonder his name seemed familiar. ... Runny Babbit!

I wonder what would happen if Blurr talked like Runny Babbit. Maybe he does already; it's not like anyone can tell.

For this one, right after I typed 'goes insane', I suddenly thought of Megatron/Galvatron.

Huh. I hardly ever think of Galvatron.

And when Soundwave's cassettes show up and ask if they can stay for a little while until their creator isn't a soundwave (but he hears "isn't a Soundwave") anymore, he *knows* he's going insane.

Optimus: *stares* "Why is Blaster cowering in the corner?"
Ratchet: *shrugs* "Something about Soundwave, Cassettes, and voices. He thinks he's going insane by the way."
Optimus: *still staring* "Can you do anything for him?"
Ratchet: "I gave him a sedative. You should have seen him earlier, panicking like that."
Optimus: *notices several Cassettes in altmode next to Blaster* "Did they multiply or something?"

[alabaster-demon.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I saw Microscope.

As always.

I like the idea of him living right on the edge.

Oh! That makes me think of a quote that I'm putting on my next list.

If he was rich but not as rich as the others in the Towers, it might explain some things.

Hmmm, reminds me of something I read once. Something about having a dual inferiority complex: not fitting in with the super-rich people or the 'wrong side of the tracks' toughs.

They will simply have 'why me' expressions

Maybe this sort of thing has happened to Percy and Skyfire before?

Maybe Megatron knows it, but can't remember sometimes? Maybe he has the beginnings of Alzheimers?

That is... a very interesting idea, considering the fact that Megatron is one of those Cybertronians who looks and sounds pretty old.

Or maybe he has a crush on Optimus and his mind goes blank whenever he sees him and he knows he can't go wrong with yelling Prime.

*grin* And one day he'll be so self-conscious that he'll blurt out some silly pet name by mistake.

I wonder what would happen if Blurr talked like Runny Babbit. Maybe he does already; it's not like anyone can tell.

Reminds me of a bunny I posted a while back about Frenzy + Rumble = Fumble and Rewind + Eject = Reject.

Optimus: *still staring*

You know, I never realized it before, but Optimus (& Megatron too I suppose) is really tormented by this comm almost as much as Perceptor. Because whenever we give Perceptor emotional problems or make him a mass murderer or something, Optimus indirectly has to deal with it on top of everything we do to all the other Autobots.

Optimus: *notices several Cassettes in altmode next to Blaster* "Did they multiply or something?"

Cassettes as bunnies! :D And I'd love to read something where the Cassettes actually use their alt-modes for something besides recording stuff for Soundwave.

[kirin-saga.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, reminds me of something I read once. Something about having a dual inferiority complex: not fitting in with the super-rich people or the 'wrong side of the tracks' toughs.

A fic? Or an article?

Maybe this sort of thing has happened to Percy and Skyfire before?

It always happens. Fortunately, usually not in public.

That is... a very interesting idea, considering the fact that Megatron is one of those Cybertronians who looks and sounds pretty old.

Maybe Starscream tries so hard to overthrow Megatron because he knows the truth and doesn't want the greatest Decepticon who ever lived to be remembered as a foolish, forgetful old man?

*grin* And one day he'll be so self-conscious that he'll blurt out some silly pet name by mistake.

*WANTS TO SEE*

Reminds me of a bunny I posted a while back about Frenzy + Rumble = Fumble and Rewind + Eject = Reject.

I remember that one!

You know, I never realized it before, but Optimus (& Megatron too I suppose) is really tormented by this comm almost as much as Perceptor. Because whenever we give Perceptor emotional problems or make him a mass murderer or something, Optimus indirectly has to deal with it on top of everything we do to all the other Autobots.

... You're right! I hadn't noticed!

Cassettes as bunnies! :D

That'd make a cute picture!

And I'd love to read something where the Cassettes actually use their alt-modes for something besides recording stuff for Soundwave.

Like actually play music? *is shocked*

[alabaster-demon.livejournal.com]

A fic? Or an article?

Actually, I think it was a book, but I went and checked the book because it was bothering me so much and I couldn't find the quote. *is sad*

Maybe Starscream tries so hard to overthrow Megatron because he knows the truth and doesn't want the greatest Decepticon who ever lived to be remembered as a foolish, forgetful old man?

...Oooh. Maybe Megatron ordered him to do that for the same reason. Wait - Starscream's null rays are destructive but not fatal, right? Was he equipped with them so he could pretend to 'kill' Megatron while actually saving him?

Like actually play music? *is shocked*

So, if their alt-modes are cassettes, will high temperatures make their tape melt? *wince*

[kirin-saga.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it was a book, but I went and checked the book because it was bothering me so much and I couldn't find the quote. *is sad*

That happens to me all the time. I try to write down quotes that interest me but I sometimes forget to write down where I heard it.

...Oooh. Maybe Megatron ordered him to do that for the same reason. Wait - Starscream's null rays are destructive but not fatal, right? Was he equipped with them so he could pretend to 'kill' Megatron while actually saving him?

That's a good explanation for them. I always wondered why he had them. They seem such an Autobot type of weapon.

So, if their alt-modes are cassettes, will high temperatures make their tape melt? *wince*

Blaster and Soundwave: *realize they're out in the hot sun* *panic and start gathering up the Cassettes*
Cassettes: *annoyed sighs*
Everyone else: *stop fighting and watch in confusion*

[alabaster-demon.livejournal.com]

That happens to me all the time. I try to write down quotes that interest me but I sometimes forget to write down where I heard it.

Yup, that's it in a nutshell. It's a real pain, especially when you're writing a paper and need to cite everything.

That's a good explanation for them. I always wondered why he had them. They seem such an Autobot type of weapon.

I believe I read a theory once that he stole them from Wheeljack's lab, believing them to be some sort of superweapon, and when he found out what they really did he just kept them anyway - maybe out of embarrassment.

Blaster and Soundwave: *realize they're out in the hot sun* *panic and start gathering up the Cassettes*
Cassettes: *annoyed sighs*
Everyone else: *stop fighting and watch in confusion*

And you'd think this would happen fairly often, what with the Ark being in the middle of the desert and all. I wonder how the cassettes survived being in a metal ship in the desert for all the time they were offline? Would Soundwave and Blaster have backup climate controls in their chests that keep working even if they're offline?

[kirin-saga.livejournal.com]

I believe I read a theory once that he stole them from Wheeljack's lab, believing them to be some sort of superweapon, and when he found out what they really did he just kept them anyway - maybe out of embarrassment.

That sounds familiar. I must have read it too. Sadly, I can't remember what fic it was.

And you'd think this would happen fairly often, what with the Ark being in the middle of the desert and all. I wonder how the cassettes survived being in a metal ship in the desert for all the time they were offline? Would Soundwave and Blaster have backup climate controls in their chests that keep working even if they're offline?

Hmmm. Possible. Though I think, if their systems were online enough to maintain climate control, then wouldn't it take longer for them to heal? Everyone else, all their power was going to their self-repair systems. That might explain why it took so long for Blaster to show up, but what about Soundwave?

[alabaster-demon.livejournal.com]

That sounds familiar. I must have read it too. Sadly, I can't remember what fic it was.

Neither can I. Ah well, at least it's one you're read so you don't really have to go look for it.

Hmmm. Possible. Though I think, if their systems were online enough to maintain climate control, then wouldn't it take longer for them to heal? Everyone else, all their power was going to their self-repair systems. That might explain why it took so long for Blaster to show up, but what about Soundwave?

Well, I'd think the tape decks would have extra energy stored specifically for the cassettes' optimal health and comfort. Soundwave, being a 'Con, would insist on extra rations for his family's benefit even if it meant starving other 'Cons; on the other hand, Blaster would freely admit that the entire amount of excess energy wasn't strictly necessary for survival and would forgo part of his extra ration for the benefit of the cause.