Yes vampires take blood from other people
.... How would that work in a scientific standpoint
and I dont mean that in terms of the entire concept of vampires
I mean it in terms of taking another's blood for themselves because like
there are different blood types out there
and they all either do or don't have certain antibodies which would cause the body to reject new blood if it isn't a certain type / entirely removed of antigens so the body could accept it in the first place
BUT
i remember seeing people here and there headcanoning vampires inject a venom of sorts when biting their victim, the venom supposedly turning the victim into a vampire too
now had they mentioned WHEN exactly would they inject it?
no idea don't remember
But what if it was right as they bite the victim + before they start sucking blood?
venom would not only act as The Thing That Turns You Into a Vampire but also as an unconventional ZZAP
could vampires smell different blood types?
what if there are two different concoctions they'd inject with one for converting to vampirism and another for antigen removal
in some cases vampire ZZAP wouldn't even be used because some blood types (O) are universal and can be given to anyone
What if all vampires are AB blood type because their immune system can manage with accepting any blood type
I'm either a genius or I'm WAY overthinking a fictional concept like mf vampires
Love, dadatron, my man would try, but Lord would he be a shit father at certain points of time. Now... might I ask for idw/mtmte dadatron? Maybe when he comes back in issue 25 of Lost Light, he not only has a fleet, but he also has a small little bit with him... was tempted to make him suffer, but he be a semi good dad during/post LL/mtmte (not before... feel it would be similar to tfp Megatron if he was a father before mtmte)
EXACTLYYY he's not a very good dad... he's the best dad around (to you in your optics) when you're too young to really understand the world but when you get a little older, you see through the MASSIVE cracks.
now idw papatron... thats a bit more complicated
i'll be so fr with you, phase one idw megs is a tough parent. very no-nonsense. like tfp lets you goof off every now and then but this guy? he expects proper discipline and will scold you severely if you're not meeting his expectations. you're more than his sparkling, you're his heir. he expects more from you than tfp ever would. you'd try so hard to impress him, putting yourself in dangerous situations and i wouldn't be surprised if you died either. people tend to forget how emotionally detached from everything phase one idw megs really is. that mf turned bots into living landmines for shits and giggles while quite literally running the cybertronian equivalent of concentration camps. he was BRUTAL. also a lot more emotionally unavailable? he's so busy with the war that he barely has time for you- top 1 worst megadads ever.
but if we're talking about him having a bitlet in the functionist universe, ohhhh its so emotional for him. like he's hesitating but with all the chaos going on, he can't just leave you out there either! he's reluctant, but i think a few of the other bots from the functionist universe might encourage him but terminus kinda disapproves cause they're in the middle of a conflict and megatron can't just go about raising kids now when he's their only commander!
for him, it'll be the first time he's going to have to learn to be gentle. most of the time, even aboard the Lost Light, he's a stern and brooding old mech. he can't exactly keep that up if he's going to raise a healthy little sparkling. he hesitates to as advice at first but soon learns how to hold you gently, he's never held anything as gently until you came into the picture. your giggles and babbles makes something in his spark positively melt. and for once, he's smiling. he enjoys this feeling a lot more than he thought he would.
is he perfect? no, not really. miles better than his counterparts though. when doing something mischievous, he doesn't just scold you. he tells you why you're not supposed to do that and the consequences of your actions. megatron doesn't want you to turn out like him.
he would want you to be better than he ever was. he wants you to be kind, empathetic, and understanding. things that he still struggles trying to grasp.
this might culminate into overprotective behaviour. he wants you away from all bad influences. which is why when he's back on the Lost Light, he hesitates to let half of them carry you around even though they're all so eager. it took him weeks to allow Rodimus, who wouldn't stop begging, to let him babysit you.
Rodimus proceeded to take you in his alt mode and zoom in the hallways of the ship, making you squeal and laugh at some instances when he almost ran over bots. nevertheless, he's your self-proclaimed 'fun' uncle. Megatron thinks hes a terrible influence, the moment you start doing finger-guns at Megatron, he already regrets allowing Rodimus to take care of you.
as captain of the Lost Light, he's a busy mech (just like in the functionist universe). so it means that you're usually looked after by someone else and it ends up with you being the ray of sunshine aboard the ship.
sometime its Ultra Magnus, who lectures you on keeping clean. also you screamed out in terror first time you saw him as Minimus Ambus. you thought he was an imposter. its like those videos where kids see their dads without their beards for the first time.
Rewind and Chromedome often gets chances to take care of you, and despite your mischief, it kinda makes them want one of their own. they know how to calm you down so you're quick to recharge and Rewind has a huge collection of animated features for you to watch!
Drift and Rodimus gets cuteness aggression around you. until you bit Rodimus' digits when he was pulling too hard on your faceplates. Drifts still thinks you're adorable and Rodimus doesn't want to give up his only chance at annoying the scrap out of Megatron by being your fun uncle.
Ratchet is mostly neutral about you and is the one Megatron trusts the most with. he's quick to discipline you. Megatron kinda struggles getting the balance of gentle and stern right so sometimes, its up to Ratchet to give you a spark-piercing glare. you prefer going to Velocity when you're hurt because of it, she's so much more gentle with you.
Tailgate loves playing with you. He's too old for it but he likes keeping you company by indulging in your little games. He'll drag Cyclonus into it too who's just sitting there extremely displeased.
Skids would have been fun uncle Rodimus thinks he is. he would've probably shown you around the bar (Megatron has forbidden any of them from taking you there but Skids prolly dgaf). he would've given you a tour of the vents. his adventurous spirit would've rubbed off on you.
but one day, Nautica probably would take you into Swerve's and she'd teach you to dance in there, holding your smaller servos in hers as she leans down to make it easier for you, the two of you moving to the rhythm of the bar's radio.
when you do show up to the bar, Swerve makes sure to give you the least intoxicating, kiddie energon he can find. he will sometimes give you sweets for free when you show up. he likes you. at least until you give him the petname 'energon mech'. but you're just a kid! so he's inclined to forgive you... even if the nickname sticks.
if he had been alive, whenever you have something that Megatron isn't sure how to deal with, he would've consulted Rung because Rung is the one who checks up on you. you would've been kind enough to not forget his name and probably his favourite patient. would've 100% gifted you a model spaceship or given some treats like Swerve would.
you're not allowed ten feet around Whirl for obvious reasons but Tailgate tries to convince Megatron that it wouldn't be "that bad". you... you test Whirl's patience. he is not fond of sparklings, you repel him away every time you go close to him. he gets this weird feeling of endearment when you chew on his claws though.
you're not just being raised by Megatron here, you're being raised by a whole SHIP. it gives him hope because he knows you'll turn out alright... you have the support net he lacked when he spiralled, you've got people looking after you and Megatron is glad he was able to give you that. he thinks of it as the best possible gift he could ever give you because it was the one thing he lacked the most.
you're the most protected sparkling in the history of sparklings cause you've got like nearly 10 uncles, 2 aunts and an ex-warlord father ready to jump anyone who'd hurt you.
he's the happiest when you've got something to smile about
at least, until when his sentence finally arrives. you've given him the best moments of his old age.
If Shang Tsung consumes other peoples' souls for immortality
Do you think he acquires all the diseases that come with them
TECHNICALLY no because soul and body are not the same (soul, mind, and body type stuff ykyk with how they're named separately in statements like that)
BUT what if when he acquires a soul not only he may acquire powers (like Shang explained to Kabal in mk11), he temporarily acquires the soul's physical conditions*
I could also delve into memories of the soul too by crediting recipients of organ transplants getting memories of the organ donor, but that's a different story and my focus is on the soul and body than the mind
So what if a soul or so was basically cursed by a god or smth to always have some chronic illness on them no matter to where and how often they reincarnate -- maybe something like an allergy or chronic pains or sleep apnea. I don't think it can be something like cystic fibrosis or cerebral palsy; a chronic illness like that would only hinder his world domination plans, and this keeps taking up his time as he's figuring out how to deal with it?
In fact
If he WAS to get smth like that I hope he has been snooping around in Earthrealm med schools to know how to deal with it (he prolly hasn't — but considering he has a whole floor — The Pits — as a playground for tampering with genetics and alchemy he might as well know more than what we were revealed)
Or maybe the soul died from a very bad instance of flu or fever or some kind of other viral disease — in any case of whether it was hereditary or something contracted, like I said my boy has to PREPARE; whether it be to suffer through a very bad cold or have something akin to a wheelchair ready for multi sclerosis
Or just maybe he instead acquires immunity to some things because of the DNA mutations of the person he snatched a soul from (Malaria among Afrikaans, Rickets from Scandinavians, all kinds of vitamin deficiencies, some cases of HIV etc.)
Maybe that's why he still hasn't died yet
He's stacking % immunity to things so hard they're all maxed to a 100 like in a video game
And his ass just won't die bcs of that
* NOT LOOKS, Physical conditions ≠ physical appearance (eye color, hair length etc), that's a different story and from my understanding he doesn't need to steal someone's soul in order to shape shift into their appearance
With that do you think mouthless cybertronians just consume energon via an IV transfusion like method
Because well,
They're technically, literally eating their own blood
It wouldn't matter to them if its tasty or smth
But with that comes the idea that if the Cybertronians are technically 'eating' their blood, could it mean that they only 'eat' for sustenance and not for taste? If yes then there's no way that they're consuming high grade energon (which I've understood to be basically their alcohol in some adaptations) bcs it's tasty in some way
Especially bcs I don't think I've seen any show/comic have them comment on taste like that (but tbf I haven't watched THAT many of them so I might be missing out — or my memory just isn't serving me correctly)
Are you telling me they're consuming high-grade energon just for the sake of getting woozy
Wait Then if no actual taste then what's the point of Swerve's bar??
Just what kind of things is he using in his concoctions that Cybertronians have preferences for theoretically tasteless sustenance like that
I forgot to upload him for valentines, but we're gonna pretend he was a little nervous and needed to get a bit more courage before asking to you be his valentine
The most superior Cupid, at your service!! Who he’ll let fall in love is for him to know and you to find out 🙄… I lovee Pinkwave so much he’s so beautiful and cute 😮💨❤️ perfect for Valentines!! Even tho it ain’t that day yet 😒 it’s just cuz I doubt I’d actually be able to make myself draw something related for the right time if I’m just not in the mood… but it’s been a good while since I’ve done Pinkwave so yayy
I love that whenever it's some transformers yuri or bishojou or whatever art is it where it's humanized women instead of giant alien robots,
just so many artists collectively agreed to give Megatron a mf bob
Like yes it's very reminiscent of his bucket head
But like Optimus actually has some range to his haircuts, sometimes little side buns or a pixie cut or chin length or literally anything and everything else
Megatron? Nuh uh. BOB.
Even his human MALE counterpart has more variety than this 😭 I've seen him with wolf cuts, those very trimmed short hairstyles (idk any names for them), slick backs, dreads,
Megatron as a human woman? BOB. BOB IT IS AND A BOB IT WILL FOREVER JT WILL BE
I'm gonna address the elephant robot in the room, it probably not being the first time someone said this,
when I say GLOBER IS LITERALLY A WALKING INDIANA JONES REFERENCE
COME ON BRO
THE POSE IN HIS CARD IS REMINISCENT OF JONES' FIRST MOVIE POSTER
THEY BOTH EXPLORE
THEY BOTH HAVE A WHIP (and a boob window/jjjjjjjjjjjjj)
A BIT COCKY(??? maybe not the right word for Glober but still)
HE JUST HAS THIS FEEL TO HIM YKNOW
THEY BOTH ALSO DESIRE TO BE FREE AND DO THEIR OWN THING (IN THIS CASE GLOBER NOT WANTING TO BE SEALED) (INDIE LITERALLY WENT TO ONE LECTURE IN UCHICAGO HE HAD TO TEACH IN THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), AND PROCEEDED TO LOCK HIMSELF IN HIS OFFICE TO SNEAK OUT THE WINDOW AND GO LOOK FOR THE HOLY GRAIL)
GLOBER LITERALLY HAS A MANNEQUIN WITH HIM THAT HE NAMED 'JONES'
