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1. Antlers!
2. Art. Springer as a Tigger. Because Tiggers’ bottoms are made out of springs, you know…
3. The Autobots and the Decepticons as delinquent-but-mostly-harmless gangs of kids in a peaceful Cybertronian city. I bet their graffiti would be amazing.
4. (Disclaimer: I don’t want to offend anyone. I’m not poking fun here. I just got this idea…)
“The Autobots told us that if we drank of the energon, we would surely die.”
“You will not die! If you drink of the energon that was forbidden to you, your optics will be opened, and you will become like the Autobots, knowing all the traditions of Cybertron.”
5. Optimus & Megatron start acting like the Weasley Twins.
6. Art. Someone with a Mohawk.
7. Everyone on the
8. Blaster is in the ‘Con base for some reason and is horrified that the Decepticons thought of playing constant music over the P.A. system before he did.
9. ???: You know, life just isn’t fair sometimes.
???: You’ve just figured this out *now*?
10. Do Cybertronians have intuition? What's their theory on where it comes from?
11. Red Alert’s horns spark blue, right? What would happen if they sparked other colors? What would that mean? What about a little rainbow arcing between them?
12. “When he turned off his optics, I could pretend they were the same color as mine.”
13. Someone secretly films footage of scenes on Earth, planning to edit it after the war is over and bring the ‘foreign film’ genre to Cybertron.
14. A variation on the mind-switch theme: a normal mech swaps bodies with a gestalt team’s combined form.
15. One of the supposedly ‘non-flight-capable’ ‘Bots has a secret…
16. Soundwave can’t really fly; he uses telekinetics (or whatever ‘moving stuff with cool mental powers’ is called) to float himself and his cassettes around. But when he gets distracted…
17. There’s actually a music festival called Soundwave.
18. The Autobots’ humans find some of these.
A. There’s a hoodie here with an Autobrand that has red optics!
19. Usually, I have a really tough time accepting OCs (even non-Mary-Sues; sometimes it seems like they’re making too much of an effort to not be perfect. There should be a sub-category of Sues for “I would be a Mary-Sue but I’ve got all these obvious-but-important-to-the-plot flaws, so of course I’m not!” characters. </rant> But I’d be curious to see these:
A. A femme tapedeck.
B. A ‘wait-where-the-Pit-did-you-come-from’ relative/bondmate of a mech who’s generally ignored by the fandom anyway.
C. A TF who turns into one of those suitcases with wheels.
D. A TF who turns into a shopping cart. (Not sure this is even possible…)
E. Someone who isn’t a mech OR a femme OR some brain-breaking combination of both.
F. Human OCs who show up in one chapter, serve their purpose, and then are never seen again.
No, really. What are the odds that every single human the TFs meet becomes an enemy/important plot point/hostage/best buddy forever?
20. Every once in a while, the Decepticons will get the chance to take the moral high ground. They actually love doing this, because there’s no way for the Autobots to counter that strategy and it’s fun to see their baffled, ‘should we be mad or happy about this?’ faces.
21. As Air Commander, Starscream is expected to periodically come up with new or improved flight-combat maneuvers. He’s been busy recently and when Megatron demands a report on his progress, he decides to steal ideas from bird flight patterns and human-created formations.
22. Kind of a bunny-writing bunny: First person to write a bunny-list that uses all the tags currently listed (or close), I’ll write them a fic with their pick of 1-3 bunnies. Because that would be a HUGE tag-cloud. More like a tag-storm. *is expecting this one to hit the bunny-graveyard quickly*
23. A few human customs are slowly trickling their way into Cybertronian (war or post-war) culture. Primus somehow hears about the human tradition of burying the dead and… well, how would he react to an idea like that?
24. As the
25. (A variation on a previous bunny.) Before he joined the Autobots, Sunstreaker gave art lessons as a last-ditch attempt to earn a living without risking his neck on the battlefields or the gladiatorial arenas.
26. One of the Autobots worked with the government’s welfare system in Kaon before the war. Many of the Decepticons, and even a few Autobots, resent this mech because he reminds them of when they were too poor not to accept ‘charity’; they also (unjustly) blame him for the severe cutbacks on the welfare budget that made the government stop funding Kaon welfare entirely.
27. The Decepticons finally realize something: Megatron is old. Really old. And he’s always been old. And a lot of them are fiery young rebellious types (or at least they were when they joined up).
28. Optimus and Megatron (and maybe also ____________) vs. everyone else.
29. *whines* “Megatron, Starscream is know-it-alling again.”
30. When Soundwave read Chip’s mind to get that one formula, he saw something else in there that he found quite interesting/amusing. Blueprints? Formulas? Theories on Cybertronian psychology?
31. Seekers are designed to live at high altitudes in an already-thin atmosphere for the majority of their lives. Being on Earth is slowly damaging their health.
32. There’s never only one option for the next Prime. The potential ability to carry the Matrix isn’t determined by leadership ability, but by unusual spark strength, a certain arrangement of energon tubing in the chassis, etc. Thus, several possible ‘Primes’ are unknowingly scattered through the ranks of both factions.
33. What if a gestalt or a cassette was chosen by the Matrix to be Prime?
34. Multiple ‘Primes’ always exist; however, the Prime traditionally stayed distant from the common mechs and only met with government officials or close friends, and so the belief arose that there is only one Prime at any given time. When a current Prime who carries a Matrix meets an un-Matrixed potential Prime, the first Prime’s Matrix divides like an amoeba and spits out a second Matrix.
35. Why exactly does Soundwave look so funny when he runs? *is reminded of the song “Walkie Talkie Man”*
36. The Aerialbots and some flying Decepticons do a Cybertronian flight-dance number at an air show benefiting Air Force veterans.
37. Art. A Mary Sue ‘former (e.g., an exact duplicate of a female human model, except big and metal) standing alone, with a hurt “y dont u LUV mee?? :’(” look on her face, as various often-paired TFs cringe in horror at what is actually, to Cybertronians, a remarkably ugly femme.
38. Constructicons: *hovering behind an annoyed Starscream in the Decepticons’ public lab*
Hook: And you’re doing that wrong too! I thought you were supposed to be a scientist!
Starscream: Let me give you a little tip, Hook. I don’t know if you realize this, but I don’t react well to criticism even when it’s useful, and your whining is not constructive criticism!
Scrapper: Of course it’s ‘constructive’ criticism, idiot. Everything we do is ‘constructive’. *preens*
39. Why does the Autobrand look so angry?
40. “It’s all falling… Everything… Everything is falling apart!”
41. Art. Inspired by the Optimus Prime = Eeyore I’ve seen… Decepticons as Heffalumps and Woozles!
42. “Elita-1, she’s the prom queen / Prowl & Shockwave, captains of the chess team / Sideswipe, the clown / Blitzwing, the quarterback / Seen it all before / I want my money back!” ~Altered lyrics from Bowling for Soup’s High School Never Ends
43. Art. Megatron with long black horns (dragon-y would be nice).
44. Art. Lion!Optimus with cat-like versions of his ear-antennae-thingies.
45. Why don’t Cybertronians have tails? They’re quite useful appendages (especially prehensile ones, like monkey tails that act as an extra hand), since I’m sure all sorts of fun Cyber-tech could be put in them…
46. Perceptor’s optics get destroyed in a freak scientific accident. Back at the
47. The Aerialbots were spotted and tailed (and I just realized the other way that could be interpreted XD) when they went back in time to Cybertron. The agents who followed them reported back to the head of the CIA (Cybertronian Intelligence Agency), who realized he had a group of time-travelers on his hands. Further observation led to the conclusion that the Aerials had been on Earth at some point, so the CIA sent top-secret agents Starscream and Skyfire to investigate the Earth in their time.
48. Skyfire gets frustrated with the Autobots and goes to hang out back in the ice and think a bit.
49. G1 Optimus ‘jet-judos’ G1 Megatron (although he’d be in mech form, of course).
50. Red Alert is paranoid as a result of a little ‘experimentation’ with drugs he did when he was younger.
51. Cybertronian sparklings don’t get a choice as to which basic alt-form type they’ve given. Most of them just accept the type assigned by their creators; a few would make minor modifications (e.g. a cargo-plane jet type wanting to be a Seeker), and a few want a complete overhaul. However, only the very rich can afford the delicate surgery required; rich mechs flaunt their wealth by switching alt modes frequently. Of course, if you’re in an army and you can convince your unit’s medic that your current alt-form impedes your effectiveness in battle…
52.When _________ looks at someone, he/she can sense the number of lies that person has told.
53. When _________ looks at someone, he/she can sense the number of people that person has killed… and who the people were… and if they’re still hanging around, and have anything to say…
54. Megatron: *thinking* Shockwave’s seemed worried about the Autobot femmes’ strategies getting more… aggressive. Perhaps I should check up on him… *opens video comm line to Cybertron* Megatron to Shockwave!
Elita-1: *sitting in Shockwave’s chair* *smiles sweetly at the screen* Shockwave is unavailable and probably suffering massive amounts of pain right now. Can I take a message?
Megatron: *quickly closes comm line*
55. (Movieverse) The All-Spark was the source of all Cybertronian life – its continuous source. When Sam destroyed it, he destroyed not only the Transformers’ means of reproduction, but their very means of existence. Thanks to him, the Autobots and Decepticons are all slowly dying… and their best medics predict that every Cybertronian now has the rough equivalent of a human lifespan before they shut down.
56. As a sparkling, Soundwave often didn’t realize that the thoughts he picked up through telepathy weren’t always supposed to be shared.
(AU snippet: Near the end of an educational visit to little Soundwave’s classroom by Optimus, the Prime-in-Waiting, and Megatron, the future Lord):
Student: *loud whisper* Why is teacher-femme being so nice to them? She’s always mean to us.
Li’l Soundwave: If she does not show proper respect to the princes, she will be fired.
Students: *cheer and hope for signs of disrespect*
Li’l Soundwave: *LOUDLY* And she likes their physical forms and thinks if she is nice then they will want to bond with her.
Students: *giggle*
Teacher-femme: *glares at her students while blushing*
Optimus: *also blushes and fidgets*
Megatron: *smirks*
Or maybe Megatron fidgets and Optimus smirks. Who knows.
57. Teletraan-1, being an Autobot computer, made a few extra modifications when it gave the Decepticons Earth alt-forms. Post-wakeup, each Decepticon who landed on Earth possesses a small sliver of Autobot programming.
58. The G1 Cybertronians didn’t have the dubious benefit of the Internet for learning Earth languages. Their voice patterns are each copied from Teletraan’s speech recordings from specific humans; thus the different accents, etc. What if one of these unknowing ‘voice actors’ met his counterpart or heard a giant robot on TV speaking with his voice?
59. Art. G1 TFs with metal catlike-horselike-goatlike legs (you know, that backwards-looking knee thing, with hooves or claws for feet. *fails at describing*).
60. A group of TFs (a faction, a gestalt team, or a random group) is transfigured into humans/animals/drones/inanimate objects by _________. Out of that group, only one or two escape the transformation and must work to convince or trick _________ into changing the others back. (Inspired by Odysseus and his adventure with Circe. Whose name rhymes with Perce. And by the way, thanks to kirin_saga I now automatically use a 9-letter, P-e-r-c-e-p-t-o-r sized space for fill-in-the-blank TF names. I have to admit, it’s a convenient size.)
61. A TF with (retractable?) Octavius/‘Doc Ock’-style arms.
62. Transformers playing Calvinball! (from Calvin & Hobbes)
63. [Lovingly quoted from Calvin & Hobbes]
Starscream: Okay, Skyfire, press the button and duplicate me!
Skyfire : Are you sure this is a good idea?
Starscream: Brother! You Doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a brilliant idea! Hit the button, will ya?
Skyfire: I’d hate to be accused of inhibiting scientific progress… Here you go.
*BOINK*
Skyfire: Scientific progress goes “boink”?
Starscream 1: It worked! It worked! I’m a genius!
Starscream 2: No you’re not, you liar! I invented this!
64. A scene I’ve always wanted to see in a TF fic: Air Commander Starscream flying at the head of an ENORMOUS (at least fifty or so) group of Seekers. Taking his loyal squadron and flying away from the Decepticons forever? Swooping dramatically in to rescue Skyfire/Megatron in the nick of time? Doing ridiculously complicated aerial tricks just for fun?
65. For whatever reason, both factions’ weapons have run out of charge/ammo/energy. Doesn’t keep them from fighting though!
Optimus: *scratch*
Megatron: *bite*
Optimus: *b!tchslap!*
Megatron: *spinning kick!*
Optimus: *KAMEHAMEHA!*
Megatron: *bizarre WWF maneuver*
Optimus: *headbutt/folding chair combo, roll Strength and Agility -3 for damage*
Megatron: *Death-from-above attack, roll 1 d20, 12+ for success...*
Soundwave: *PSYCHIC POWERZ!*
Perceptor: *MOAR PSYCHIC POWERZ!*
(actually just sitting quietly across from each other, frowning in concentration)
Jazz, Blaster, Ramjet, and Skywarp: Guitar Hero/DDR/Rockband Ultimate Faceoff!!
Wheeljack: Got any threes?
Blitzwing: Nope. Go catch an aquatic organic, slagger.
Grapple: *throws Legos*
Hoist: *throws Linkin Logs*
Devastator: *throws Tinkertoys*
Eject: TAG! You’re it!
Frenzy: *#*&$!
Superion & Menasor: *staring contest*
And so on…
66. Mech and Mech B switch bodies. Mech A (in Mech B's body) acts a little different, but Mech B (in Mech A's body) suddenly starts acting exactly like Mech A usually does. Further investigation reveals that Mech A has a processor glitch which alters personality programming. (Original idea was that Sideswipe and Sunstreaker switched, and Sides in Sunny's body started acting like Sunny's usual not-so-sunny self.)
- 2007,
- aerialbots,
- allspark,
- ark,
- art,
- au,
- autobots,
- blaster,
- blitzwing,
- cassettes,
- chip chase,
- constructicons,
- cybertron,
- decepticons,
- devastator,
- eject,
- elita-1,
- frenzy,
- gestalt,
- grapple,
- hoist,
- hook,
- jazz,
- matrix,
- megatron,
- menasor,
- optimus,
- perceptor,
- prime,
- primus,
- prowl,
- ramjet,
- ratchet,
- red alert,
- sam,
- scrapper,
- seekers,
- shockwave,
- sideswipe,
- skyfire,
- skywarp,
- soundwave,
- springer,
- starscream,
- sunstreaker,
- superion,
- teletraan-1,
- wheeljack
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Date: 2008-10-21 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-21 05:14 am (UTC)I LOVE this idea so much! Because I really do think Siders is smart; he just doesn't apply his brains in any traditional sense, and so his untapped potential goes ignored.
39. Why does the Autobrand look so angry?
Huh. I always thought it kinda looked like it was crying. Whereas the Decepticon insignia looks like a kitty cat!
54. Megatron: *thinking* Shockwave’s seemed worried about the Autobot femmes’ strategies getting more… aggressive. Perhaps I should check up on him… *opens video comm line to Cybertron* Megatron to Shockwave!
Elita-1: *sitting in Shockwave’s chair* *smiles sweetly at the screen* Shockwave is unavailable and probably suffering massive amounts of pain right now. Can I take a message?
Megatron: *quickly closes comm line*
*cackles* Now THERE'S a strong, feminist version of Elita that I can really appreciate! :D
58. The G1 Cybertronians didn’t have the dubious benefit of the Internet for learning Earth languages. Their voice patterns are each copied from Teletraan’s speech recordings from specific humans; thus the different accents, etc. What if one of these unknowing ‘voice actors’ met his counterpart or heard a giant robot on TV speaking with his voice?
Unrelated (kinda), but it reminds me of a line from "Doctor Who". When asked why he has a northern (Northern UK) accent, the Doctor's confused reply is, "Lots of planets have a north!"
62. Transformers playing Calvinball! (from Calvin & Hobbes)
Oddly enough, I can see Rumble and Frenzy doing this very gleefully, with their siblings blackmailed into joining!
Eject: TAG! You’re it!
Frenzy: *#*&$!
I really would like to see a cross-faction Cassette game of tag...
Calvin and Hobbes! *LOVES*
Date: 2008-10-21 06:58 am (UTC)2. *CACKLES* Springer is so going to want to hide that picture.
6. Very easy to imagine. Assuming you meant the hairstyle. Because a lot of those helms do remind me of the hairstyle.
Of course, it'd be funny to see a sparkling!Flyer using a miniture OV-1 Mohawk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:OV-1_Mohawk.jpg) as a rattle.
8. Poor Blaster! *hugs* It's not you're fault. Soundwave's been on Earth longer than you. And he doesn't have his creators constantly telling him to keep it down.
11. ?: "Why are Red's horns flashing different colors?"
Inferno: "He got a hold of some of Perceptor's special brew."
?: "So he's high?"
Inferno: *nods* "Perceptor said it would wear off soon." *pause* "Though his exact words were that it would wear off after the glitterwolf rescued the goblin prince from the pickle faeries. I'm assuming that meant soon."
14. And what would happen to them when the gestalt split?
20. *LOVES*
22. I don't think even I could do that. Especially with all the tags resulting from misspellings, duplicate tags, tags we really shouldn't be using but I ignore anyways... I really need to clean up that list.
29. Know-it-alling. I love it.
33. *LOVES*
35. *makes note to look up song*
38. Poor Hook, having to put up with Starscream's attempts at science and Scrapper's attempts at puns.
41. Cute! Though I forgot about Woozles and thought at first that you had misspelled Wuzzles.
45. I remember some fic/art where 2007!Movie!Prowl had a tail. Let's see if I can find it... Here's the
<b>2.</b> *CACKLES* Springer is so going to want to hide that picture.
<b>6.</b> Very easy to imagine. Assuming you meant the hairstyle. Because a lot of those helms do remind me of the hairstyle.
Of course, it'd be funny to see a sparkling!Flyer using a miniture <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:OV-1_Mohawk.jpg">OV-1 Mohawk</a> as a rattle.
<b>8.</b> Poor Blaster! *hugs* It's not you're fault. Soundwave's been on Earth longer than you. And he doesn't have <i>his</i> creators constantly telling him to keep it down.
<b>11.</b> ?: "Why are Red's horns flashing different colors?"
Inferno: "He got a hold of some of Perceptor's special brew."
?: "So he's high?"
Inferno: *nods* "Perceptor said it would wear off soon." *pause* "Though his exact words were that it would wear off after the glitterwolf rescued the goblin prince from the pickle faeries. I'm assuming that meant soon."
<b>14.</b> And what would happen to them when the gestalt split?
<b>20.</b> *LOVES*
<b>22.</b> I don't think even <i>I</i> could do that. Especially with all the tags resulting from misspellings, duplicate tags, tags we really shouldn't be using but I ignore anyways... I really need to clean up that list.
<b>29.</b> Know-it-alling. I love it.
<b>33.</b> *LOVES*
<b>35.</b> *makes note to look up song*
<b>38.</b> Poor Hook, having to put up with Starscream's attempts at science and Scrapper's attempts at puns.
<b>41.</b> Cute! Though I forgot about Woozles and thought at first that you had misspelled Wuzzles.
<b>45.</b> I remember some fic/art where 2007!Movie!Prowl had a tail. Let's see if I can find it... Here's the <a href="http://killforaheart.deviantart.com/art/Protoform-Prowl-73520375</a>. I might have imagined the fic.
<b>46.</b> Perceptor forgot he's blind? *shocked* Though, of course, he can see out of his lens barrel, so losing his optics is probably not the huge loss everyone thinks it it. <small>And you forgot to put Perceptor in the tags.</small>
<b>50.</b> *LOVES* *LOVES* *LOVES* I WANT TO SEE!
<b>52.</b> Blaster.
<b>53.</b> Perceptor.
<b>55.</b> *CRIES* Sam, how <i>could</i> you?! *tries to kill Sam*
<b>56.</b> *LOVES* It makes so much sense!
<b>60.</b> Percpeptor, Blaster, Springer, Red Alert...
<b>And by the way, thanks to kirin_saga I now automatically use a 9-letter, P-e-r-c-e-p-t-o-r sized space for fill-in-the-blank TF names. I have to admit, it’s a convenient size.</b>
*grins* 9 <i>is</i> a very convient number, isn't it? *thinks* I wonder how Perceptor feels, knowing that even blank spaces have his name (invisibily) written all over them.
<b>62.</b> *LOVES* I used to play Calvinball when I was a kid. I even convinced mom to play.
<b>63.</b> Skyfire: *calmly ignores Starscreams* "I wonder if there is a delete button." *studies box*
Starscream1: "No! You might delete me by mistake!"
Starscream2: "Mistake, nothing! You're the fake one anyways."
Skyfire: *twitches as the Starscreams start fighting behind him* "Or I could delete both..."
<b>Soundwave: *PSYCHIC POWERZ!*
Perceptor: *MOAR PSYCHIC POWERZ!*
(actually just sitting quietly across from each other, frowning in concentration)</b>
*LOVES* *WANTS TO SEE*
<b>Grapple: *throws Legos*
Hoist: *throws Linkin Logs*
Devastator: *throws Tinkertoys*</b>
*CACKLES*
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Date: 2008-10-21 09:59 am (UTC)Elita: Hi Honey, just wanted to let you know the space bridge is clear on this side, so if you need to drop by...
Optimus: Prowl, you're in charge. Be back in a few day. *Transforms and speeds away*
Ironhide: Prime! Wait up, I'm coming too!
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Date: 2008-10-21 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-21 04:43 pm (UTC)The spark- it comes from the spark.
12. “When he turned off his optics, I could pretend they were the same color as mine.”
In my head, this is someone thinking about Ultra Magnus, before he got the armour and was just a white twin of Optimus. It's not Optimus saying it though, because any Optimuses in my head don't mind Mags's red optics.
17. There’s actually a music festival called Soundwave.
The organizers find out about the Decepticon and send him an email asking if he would be their guest at the next fest. Soundwave is actually flattered.
A. There’s a hoodie here with an Autobrand that has red optics!
Magnus!
23. A few human customs are slowly trickling their way into Cybertronian (war or post-war) culture. Primus somehow hears about the human tradition of burying the dead and… well, how would he react to an idea like that?
Primus-muse: NO! I have enough trouble with all the crap you lot built on my joints, you're NOT ripping up places to leave dead bodies! Besides, it's useless because metal doesn't decay like organic matter does! Adapt cremation and smelt the empty husks so you can reuse the metal!
27. The Decepticons finally realize something: Megatron is old. Really old. And he’s always been old. And a lot of them are fiery young rebellious types (or at least they were when they joined up).
Going on the numbers given in the cartoon, Starscream is not exactly really young either - at least I am very sure he's older than Optimus Prime. Let's see, he visited Earth with Skyfire 11 million years before "Fire In The Sky"? "War Dawn" was only 9 million years before and Orion was a teenager, so I doubt he was all that old.
28. Optimus and Megatron (and maybe also ____________) vs. everyone else.
My Magnus muse insists that blank is him, since there is absolutely no way he would be on any side that opposed Optimus.
33. What if a gestalt or a cassette was chosen by the Matrix to be Prime?
Read a movieverse fic where Optimus died and handed the Matrix over to the Twins - the Matrix merged them into one person.
34. Multiple ‘Primes’ always exist; however, the Prime traditionally stayed distant from the common mechs and only met with government officials or close friends, and so the belief arose that there is only one Prime at any given time. When a current Prime who carries a Matrix meets an un-Matrixed potential Prime, the first Prime’s Matrix divides like an amoeba and spits out a second Matrix.
Hmm... That would possibly work in my cosmology, though what splits is the engery that is held in the Matrix - containment for it needs to be supplied.
36. The Aerialbots and some flying Decepticons do a Cybertronian flight-dance number at an air show benefiting Air Force veterans.
I want to see that.
37. Art. A Mary Sue ‘former (e.g., an exact duplicate of a female human model, except big and metal) standing alone, with a hurt “y dont u LUV mee?? :’(” look on her face, as various often-paired TFs cringe in horror at what is actually, to Cybertronians, a remarkably ugly femme.
Heh, I want to see that too.
39. Why does the Autobrand look so angry?
I don't know what you mean - maybe it's personal interpretation but I don't think it looks angry.
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Date: 2008-10-21 04:43 pm (UTC)Probably for the same reason humans don't have tails - they are for proper balance in quadrapeds and bipeds don't need tails. It harks back to why are alien robots bipedal at all? Besides all the arguements about audience appeal and such, why - in-universe - are they bipedal? My usual idea is that somewhere back in Cybertronian history someone (either Quintessons or Primus) ran across bipedal races outside Cybertron and thought making Cybertronians the same shape would be a good idea.
47. The Aerialbots were spotted and tailed (and I just realized the other way that could be interpreted XD) when they went back in time to Cybertron. The agents who followed them reported back to the head of the CIA (Cybertronian Intelligence Agency), who realized he had a group of time-travelers on his hands. Further observation led to the conclusion that the Aerials had been on Earth at some point, so the CIA sent top-secret agents Starscream and Skyfire to investigate the Earth in their time.
And therefore Starscream caused that disasterous mission that he lost Skyfire on - by sending the Aerialbots back in time, he caused the mission to happen.
48. Skyfire gets frustrated with the Autobots and goes to hang out back in the ice and think a bit.
Meanwhile Starscream gets frustrated by the constant abuse from Megatron and goes to cool off - literally - and runs into Skyfire. They argue, then settle down and talk, and eventually end up interfacing.
52.When _________ looks at someone, he/she can sense the number of lies that person has told.
53. When _________ looks at someone, he/she can sense the number of people that person has killed… and who the people were… and if they’re still hanging around, and have anything to say…
My Primus muse is holding up his hand. His shared sub-muse, P!Magnus, is currently asking if this applies to him as well. Non-Primus Magnus is eying the two of them off, a bit worried, as is Optimus.
57. Teletraan-1, being an Autobot computer, made a few extra modifications when it gave the Decepticons Earth alt-forms. Post-wakeup, each Decepticon who landed on Earth possesses a small sliver of Autobot programming.
But it is actually several years after they all woke up that the log of the reformating is actually studied and this little fact is found out and someone realises it means that all the Earth-based Decepticons can be manipulated. A huge debate erupts amongst the Ark crew as to whether it is ethical to use something that amounts to mind control to effectively end the war.
60. (Inspired by Odysseus and his adventure with Circe. Whose name rhymes with Perce.
I don't know about that - I was always under the impression that Circe is pronounced "Sir-see", while Perce rhymes with "purse".
65. For whatever reason, both factions’ weapons have run out of charge/ammo/energy. Doesn’t keep them from fighting though!
Skyfire and Starscream have got tired of arguing and are now snogging. They draw the attention of the whole of the battlefield... and the whole thing ends up a wild inter-faction orgy.
I have a dirty mind. I consider it a treasure.
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Date: 2008-10-21 09:49 pm (UTC)I create one native american inspired transformer and now another is tapping at my mental door. *sigh*
9. Usually, I have a really tough time accepting OCs (even non-Mary-Sues; sometimes it seems like they’re making too much of an effort to not be perfect. There should be a sub-category of Sues for “I would be a Mary-Sue but I’ve got all these obvious-but-important-to-the-plot flaws, so of course I’m not!” characters. But I’d be curious to see these:
E. Someone who isn’t a mech OR a femme OR some brain-breaking combination of both.
*meekly raises hand* I sort of have two of these. Frostbite (http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/6978.html) is the closest I have to the femme type but she doesn't really look like a traditional femme. And Torpedo (http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/6347.html#cutid2) absolutely refuses to take any sort of gender pronoun, and their mind can't really be categorized as either female or male, but I don't know how much that counts since Torpedo has a frame like a mech.
39. Why does the Autobrand look so angry?
I've wondered about this every now and then myself. And to be bluntly honest, I've always thought it to be a little ugly too. Maybe it's because of that.
59. Art. G1 TFs with metal catlike-horselike-goatlike legs (you know, that backwards-looking knee thing, with hooves or claws for feet. *fails at describing*).
Digigrade is the term I think you are looking for? The 'backwards knee' is actually their heels.
63. [Lovingly quoted from Calvin & Hobbes]
Skyfire: Scientific progress goes “boink”?
*crosses out bunny from list* Yours is better, and a more thought out idea than mine.
65. For whatever reason, both factions’ weapons have run out of charge/ammo/energy. Doesn’t keep them from fighting though!
*laughs* Oh the imagery! This is great!
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Date: 2008-10-21 10:13 pm (UTC)I tend to avoid fics with OCs in most circumstances. Mostly because said OC is the main character and I don't really care about her/him. I have read good fics with OCs that are just there to serve a purpose (to die, for example) and are never heard of again. *shrugs* I'll admit that I do have a TFA OC. I'll never write fic with him in it, barring an offhand comment or something. (I've got too many fics in the works to do much with him, anyway.)
C. A TF who turns into one of those suitcases with wheels.
...I want to do this. That would be so much fun.
E. Someone who isn’t a mech OR a femme OR some brain-breaking combination of both.
Hmm...Would an AI fall in this category? Like Teletraan-1? (If they never get a femme form, that is.)
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Date: 2008-10-27 05:25 am (UTC)He could be captured. I can see him pouting in the Con's brig after he realizes that.
12. “When he turned off his optics, I could pretend they were the same color as mine.”
I love this sentence. I'll go with Jazz/Soundwave, but that's cause they are my favorite crossfaction couple. XP
13. Someone secretly films footage of scenes on Earth, planning to edit it after the war is over and bring the ‘foreign film’ genre to Cybertron.
And now we know what Hound is really doing with those holograms of his.
16. Soundwave can’t really fly; he uses telekinetics (or whatever ‘moving stuff with cool mental powers’ is called) to float himself and his cassettes around. But when he gets distracted…
Nice idea. Though he's really powerful if he can float himself and the cassettes at the same time.
30. When Soundwave read Chip’s mind to get that one formula, he saw something else in there that he found quite interesting/amusing. Blueprints? Formulas? Theories on Cybertronian psychology?
Soundwave saw Chip's plans of taking over the world with the creation of giant robots piloted by
his minionshumans. It's a pretty elaborate plan with drawings, steps to follow and everything.52.When _________ looks at someone, he/she can sense the number of lies that person has told.
Blaster!
53. When _________ looks at someone, he/she can sense the number of people that person has killed… and who the people were… and if they’re still hanging around, and have anything to say…
The Autobots have Perceptor. The Decepticons have Reflector. XD
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Date: 2009-02-22 10:42 pm (UTC)