Couple of bunbuns

[katsuko]

For serious, though, they need to leave me the hell alone when I'm in the midst of writing other stories ¬_¬ (Although, two did come about because of something in one of my in-progress stories, so maybe it's not terrible...)

01. Seekers have three rules that they all follow: Loyalty first to family. Then to the trine. All trines are family. When Megatron goes a step too far in knocking Starscream back into his place after another takeover attempt, the two seeker trines decide it's past time to really live by their rules. And technically, the Aerialbots could count as a type of trine....

02. Seeker sparklings tend to be very small for a reason: rather than have their protoforms built separately and their developing spark placed into the protoform, their protoforms develop from superfluous metal found in their carrier (i.e. cosmetic touches like the control panel in a cockpit). The process tends to be painful for the spark carrier and whenever possible they go into stasis while the protoform shell is developing. However, it isn't always possible.

(Part of this was inspired by a picture I saw in one of the other TF comms, but it developed into the above in my head O.o My mind is effing scary.)

03. Starscream was not thrown out of the Scientific Academy after Skyfire's accident. Instead, the academy became incredibly protective of the returning explorer and released information that both explorers had been lost. When the war began to worsen and the Autobots took the Ark from Cybertron, Wheeljack suggested that they bring along a brilliant young xenobiologist in the event they encounter alien life.

Yes, the introduction of an Autobot!Starscream, whether he really wishes to be involved in the war or not ("Seriously, I only signed up for this to contact alien life!")

Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I just thought of another plotbunny that would make this more interesting - Datsuns are Seekers who never got flying altforms. They have doorwings because not all of the Seeker construction could be removed and the doorwings are vestigial wings that hark back to their originally intended alts.

Can you imagine, if the Seekers decided to live up to their true culture, how they would react if that was found out? How they would jump up to defend the lost trine that they suddenly see Prowl, Smokescreen and Bluestreak as?

[katsuko]

Holy cow, this bunny is multiplying fast O.o

But yeah, I can see literally all the seekers jumping to defend the Datsun trine. Hell, I can almost see the seeker trines trying to draw them away from the Autobots, especially if they're under the impression (false or valid) that the Autobots have something to do with the fact that those three never received or lost their flying altforms.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I don't think the Autobots on the Ark would be responsible for the Datsuns not having flyer alts. I supose a case could be made for a longterm government pogrom against Seekers happening in Praxus and all underage Seekers are automatically upgraded to doorwinged adult bodies due to this grudge. Maybe, if this has been running long enough, even the Praxian population don't know that there is a significant Seeker population in their city because they always get ground alt upgrades forced on them by the city government.

[mouser26.livejournal.com]

Alternately the Datsuns could be a 'throwback' from one or three seekers mating with 'grounders' over the centuries. Some offpring were born seekers, some were born grounders, and every so often you get a few born grounders with some seeker features.