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“What’d you do to it, Vector?” “Nothing! Just cut it apart, like normal! I dunno what this is.” “Pfft, it’s making noises at you. You definitely did something to it, some funky spacetime thing.” “No really! I… it does have weird vibes, but it’s not my fault-” “Aren’t you gonna answer it?” “Uhm….. hello?”

Ask Vector (Prime?) and the firstforged family

Welcome to a Transformers AU askblog centered around the very first members of the Cybertronian species, before they even know what “species” means! The main AU can be found over at @thenamesblurrito, this is a spinoff of sorts.

CONTEXT & RULES CHARACTERS (check who’s active by clicking the ‘active’ button on the side) ASKBOX: closed while I work through answering, 13/15 current asks M!A: none, not accepting any right now

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Anonymous sent: hey quintus, do you ever feel like maybe your siblings would appreciate having more arms? like if you add some they'll be able to do whatever they do so much easier and better?

“Noooo, why would you encourage them,” Megatronus cries. “Do you know how dangerous that is?”

“Nononono listen-” Cables writhing, Quintus scrambles over to him. Megatronus is unsuccessful in trying to duck all six of their grasping hands. “Think about it. Fighting a monster? More ways to hurt it. Picking up fuel? More room to hold it.”

“Quintuuuuuuuus,” he whines, failing to shrug them off.

“Just imagine what you could do!” Quintus is now puppetting him around to enact their imagery. “If you just let me do a couple things, it won’t hurt much I promise, you’ll be fine! Probably!”

When he looks desperately to his other siblings as Quintus continues chattering about their dubiously safe plans, Vector hides his face and Alpha stares down at him coldly. “You’re on your own.”

And Megatronus goes limp and hollow in despair as he is consigned to be Quintus-fodder for the rest of the day...

((((something quick and simple just to keep this blog alive! they don’t know what “science” is yet, but Quintus is already a mad scientist for sure

#quintus prime #vector prime #megatronus #Alpha Trion #in character #ask

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Happy 100 day anniversary of this blog!

I am in awe of this brilliant set of diagrams in reference to this answer here, thank you very much Jensen. I can’t draw atm, but I can tell you that Quintus is delighted and itching with curiosity, Logos is once again mildly grossed out by the phrase “chew hole”, and Vector is pretty sure the box displaying images is so much worse than just questions

#submission #vector prime #logos prime #quintus prime #out of character #oldboyjensenhinglemeier #happy anniversary to this blog yeehaw

Anonymous sent: Hello? This is *Kzzccht Zggzcht*, reality cluster Vidocer, outside recognizable streams. Outside recognizable anything. Attempting communication through meta soft spot, log 509876788. If received by anyone on or offline please respond with who, where, and when you are. Why is optional.

“It has to have a camera,” Alpha says. “It’s made comments on our appearances before, right?”

“I think so. Probably. I just wanna know what a reality cluster is.” Vector can’t help but think of the little crystal clusters that Alchemist always has on him somewhere for snacks.

“We should have specified which big flat part,” Alpha mutters, tail twitching in thought. “It’s the large one near the icy part, in the area towards the sunrise with the canyons. That’s why everything is so jagged. It’s rather plain, actually.”

Vector shakes his helm. “Screen’s already off, Alpha. That’s what you’re focusing on? Not the why?”

He tilts his chin up. “Well I thought that was already obvious. Why we are is because we are from being made to be as we are.”

And with that Vector decides for the umpteenth time he’s going to quit having conversations with Alpha that require any sort of deep abstract thought. It isn’t worth the effort to follow along with such nonsense.

((((i’m home which hopefully means more free time. it’s kinda hard to describe where on a planet you are when you haven’t come up with cardinal directions or geographical labels yet!

#vector prime #Alpha Trion #ask #in character

Anonymous sent: sorry logos and vector, didn't mean to come off as creepy or anything! we were just curious :) what do each of you (and quintus if they're around) like and dislike most about each other? when did you become a trine?

Before the hole to the half-real dimension that Logos disappeared into can close, Vector sticks his arm through, rummaging around to try and find his sibling. “Someday he’s going to learn to control this ability,” he grumbles. “Maybe when you aren’t jumpstarting his spark without warning, Quintus.”

They shrug with all three sets of arms. “How is he going to practice spatial shifting if he can’t handle the unexpected?”

Vector doesn’t grace that question with a reply, now up to his shoulder in the hole, so Quintus continues thinking aloud.

“Hmm, I think, I like best the way both of you always have a response to something I say, even when everyone else doesn’t. At least somebody can keep up with me!”

At that, Vector pauses and sighs. “Yeah, okay. I like how you actually understand what I can do, and Logos too. But then you ask for a paradox anyway. Stupid.” He sticks his glossa out at Quintus before gasping and heaving backwards. Logos reemerges into reality dragged by a doorwing, trailing cold vapor from the half-dimension.

“Tell you what,” Logos coughs up his own energy with static in his voice. “I don’t like how I can never get a minute alone without the two of you.”

“And I don’t like how you never say thanks when I fetch you back again,” Vector snips.

“Wonderful!” Quintus drapes themself over their trinemates once more. “Aren’t you happy we’re such close siblings?”

(((( did you think I’d let this blog die so easily??? I may be in places with terrible or no wifi, and have miniscule free time, but I’m not abandoning the firstforged! Here’s a worldbuilding comic about how trines and spark relationships work in this universe, by the way, since the fanon term ‘trine’ means.... many things, depending on who you ask.

#vector prime #quintus prime #Logos Prime #ask #in character

Looks like the askbox is on the fritz! 15 is my limit, and I’ll work through answering them and reopen once I’m not as swamped. Thanks for your curiosity, I’m having a lot of fun and getting some great questions!!

#askbox closed #update #out of character

Anonymous sent: Dear ATF, were all of you created at the same time? Or is there an "eldest"?

Quintus ignores the sound of scuffling and snarling as Megatronus leaps on Alpha in the background. “Optimus was picked up last, of course--in fact they almost weren’t found at all! Hmmm I wonder what would’ve happened if one of us had been left in the hotspot...”

“If you ask me to hop back in time and make one of us abandoned to stay in the hotspot as newsparks, don’t,” Vector says flatly.

“Well you could have at least let me ask it out loud first,” they grumble. “Let’s see, uhm. I and Logos and Vector were forged all at once, of course, and Alpha and Megatronus, and all of Nexus too. But really the only order there is between us is who first got plucked out of the hotspot by our guiding hand.”

“Yeah, I guess our guardians are the eldest?” With an absent wave of his hand, Vector teleports away the violent ball of fur and feathers just as they were about to tumble into his legs. “Epistemus says the five of them were around for a... while. He hadn’t programmed a chronometer yet.”

It’s difficult for even him to measure how long those five had existed. Looking at their timelines is all wonky, Mortilus especially, and Primus always chastises him for giving himself a helmache. Sometimes it seems like they’d been around for eternity, even though Adaptus had told him about their first memories. Sometimes it seems like they’d only come into being when all the newsparks erupted, existing solely to guide them. Solomus always tells Vector that they all are people here and now, so it doesn’t much matter, and every day their experiences will reforge them anew, in a way.

But time is Vector’s thing. He can’t help but be curious sometimes.

Megatronus yelps in pain in the distance and Vector rolls his optics. Better curious than stupid.

(((( some LORE! this is the kinda stuff you won’t find in the mythology books written long after the fact. Vector here doesn’t quite know how to make sense of the wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey-ness of his five parents, but he’ll work it out eventually

#vector prime #quintus prime #alpha trion #megatronus #guiding hand #ask #in character

@sgtransformersdork sent: Hello, I don’t really have a question, I just wanted to say that I platonically love all of you.

“You don’t need to threaten them Maximo!” Vector swipes the box back, and Maximo lets him. “What are they going to do, put mean things on the screen??”

They look entirely unmoved. “Can it hurt to give a proper warning?”

Megatronus snickers. Alpha jabs him in the chest to get him off his shoulder.

“It’s only courteous.” Maximo struts off, far too smug. “I know I at least would like to know how far to push before finding retaliation.”

“Drama bot,” Vector mutters.

“I still don’t know what plakonatilly is,” Megatronus announces.

“I thought it was planitocally?” The question has already disappeared from the screen. “I might be wrong.”

“It’s platonically! Platonically. For goodness sake.” Alpha’s optic is twitching.

His twin pokes his cheek. “Alright then smarty-struts, what’s it mean then?”

“I don’t know, but at the very LEAST I remember what the word is,” he sniffs.

(((( it’s been a tough week y’all but here i am. fun fact this was the first question i ever got! just saved it til the right time to answer. for some of these i might start doing less art more text, but that will depend entirely on if the art muse allows me lol. also i’ve typed platonically enough times that it no longer looks like a word

#liege maximo #vector prime #megatronus #alpha trion #ask #in character #sgtransformersdork

Anonymous sent: i pull out a laser pointer and make the little laser dot appear on the nearby rock in hopes that maybe Megatronus or Alpha Trion will chase it, if anyone

Vector’s laughter makes the little red dot shake and jump against the ground, and Alpha leaps to follow, optics intent on his prey. It’s not the most graceful he’s ever been.

A few seconds more and Alpha freezes and trips over his own paws. Angry embarrassment dawns on his face. The damaged bulb on the box flickers out, and he weakly bats at the fading light, fuming. Vector laughs so hard his vocalizer is reduced to static.

“You…” Alpha whinges. “That’s mean.”

“I didn’t do it!” Vector wheezes out, hands on his knees. “The laser turned on by itself! Was that some nice bait to fall for??”

He furiously opens his mouth, rethinks, and shuffles around to sit primly on the ground as if nothing had ever happened, aloof and haughty. “I’m simply on such high guard that I move to attack a threat before thinking.”

(((( uh huh sure Alpha yeah we definitely believe you. I know he hasn’t really shown much of himself here but we’ll see his face in the next one. now that I’ve got this blog kinda established I think I’m gonna slow down my answer rate. at some point I can no longer procrastinate assignments by drawing…..

#alpha trion #vector prime #transformers #transformers au #ask #in character

Anonymous sent: hey megatronus, we havent seen you yet, what do you think of this question box business?

“Well, it’s not... just a box,” Vector hesitates. “Yeah, it’s a box, but it’s weird.”

“Uh huh.” Megatronus keeps his lazy smirk as he flops backwards, stretching. “There you go arguing again.”

Vector opens his mouth to disagree but stops himself just as quickly with a growl. His flippancy is good at disguising the same sort of clever verbal traps that Alpha likes to use. Megatronus just usually laughs and moves on instead of lording it over everyone like his twin.

“You think there’s any way to get Alpha to stop being so... like that, about the box?”

Megatronus snorts. “Only if it manages to be more interesting than keeping up his own paranoia.”

“But you don’t agree with him.”

“What’s it gonna do to me? Gimme a virus?” The baring of fangs that he calls a smile shows just what he thinks of that possibility.

(((( Tronus told me that he’s gonna have two entire fullbody panels and I do not have the ability to disagree. don’t worry y’all, the stubborn lil Alpha shows up in the next question!

#transformers #transformers au #megatronus #vector prime #alpha trion #ask #in character

Anonymous sent: dearest vector (title unknown), how did you get that shiny glowy fancy sword?

“I still maintain that being the main source of inspiration for something counts as a significant degree of creatorship,” Logos sniffs. “And it’s not my fault that nobody but you or Mortilus can really use something that slices apart atoms when you swing it wrong.”

“It doesn’t take my powers to not chop your own leg off.”

“Timespace proprioception. Whatever. Solus may be credited with the design and creation of that sword, but it’s practically a mini-Logos in composition.”

Vector snorts and lets it fall back into the storage of unreality from where he’d summoned it, microfractures between timelines healing with his automatic gesture. “I am not going to put your name on a sword. Or any name. Who gives names to weapons?”

“If you do, you have to use the consonants of my name. I demand it.” He’s smirking again. Vector doesn’t fall for the bait.

“Sure. Yeah. That’s gonna happen.”

((((( astute readers (aka folks like me obsessed with easter eggs) might have a guess as to what particular sword this one is, or rather what it will someday become. Vector needs to be careful with those accidental prophecies there! also, huzzah, we see their knees, it’s a miracle

#vector prime #logos prime #solus prime #transformers #transformers au #ask #in character

@oldboyjensenhinglemeier sent: Thank you for answering, Quintus you are polite, but can you surf? Someday, it is your destiny to learn to surf I can read it in your helm. In answer to YOUR question, at least one creature with a chew hole has access to the communication network you have discovered. Probably more. We are stupid and benign I promise. Especially stupid.

“I am absolutely keeping this box, no, quit it-” Quintus flails futilely at Vector as he goes fuzzy to phase through their grip and snatch the box back. “Whu-oh come on! How come you get to take it every time?”

“Because last time I let you hold it for more than an hour you started disassembling it!” Vector has perhaps grown a little more attached to a mechanical organ wrested out of a corpse than he should be, but it’s interesting, and entertaining, and something to break the tense boredom of miles and miles of wilderness with only five of his siblings to keep him company.

Logos looks queasy. “Chew hole. Why.”

“I’m hardly going to disassemble it now, there’s so much yet to learn! What’s on the other side? How many? Is it autonomous? Is it us but in a different timeline? Why are they asking questions?”

“Please don’t start a dialogue with something we don’t understand yet,” he groans. Box safely stored in subspace, it’s only a matter of time before something new pops up and this argument happens again. “Okay. Okay, uh... basic rules: no breaking or disassembling, no mind games, no asking me to shatter reality to hop through the screen. And if you keep that...” He sighs. “I guess I can share the box more. Maybe.”

“Neither of you are going to comment on the chew hole thing?” Logos blurts.

Quintus and Vector glance at each other, then shoot a flat look at Logos. “Why would we? Sounds exactly like the kind of thing you’d say to weird us out.”

(((( quintus is too smort for their own good tbh. this is the previous question being referred to

#vector prime #transformers #transformers au #logos prime #quintus prime #oldboyjensenhinglemeier #ask #in character

Anonymous sent: Hey Vector, what were you stabbing just then?

“Maybe that particular one was a new model,” Maximo muses, antlers bobbing. “Upgraded hardware, more comprehensive comms suite...”

“I should’ve asked Quintus to look at that monster,” Vector says. The hanging bits and viscera got annoying after the first few days, so he trimmed it up and patched some parts, but all the integration ports are still ragged from when he yanked the box out of the wreck.

The box isn’t alive. But what could be on the box’s network if not other monsters? Very weird...

He pauses. “Hang on. Maximo, I thought you were avoiding this thing too.”

They sniff and shuffle their wings. “Alpha’s caution is only practical up until it becomes arrogance. He’s off somewhere fuming at my betrayal.”

(((( kiddo number four! how rich, Maximo, talking about arrogance as if it isn’t the pot calling the kettle black

#transformers #vector prime #transformers au #liege maximo #alpha trion #ask #in character

Anonymous sent: for logos: what are your favourite problems/puzzles?

“You all need to stop crawling over me just to grab this!” Vector sends the box a few seconds to the left and plants his elbow in Logos’s middle.

He doubles over and snaps “It asked me, idiot.”

Well, he’s got him there. But after toting the thing around for a dozen solar cycles, Vector has started to almost like it. “Doesn’t mean I’m scaffolding to climb on,” he says sullenly and flicks the box back into existence. “Answer your question then.”

He doesn’t deign to acknowledge Logos sticking out his glossa at him.

Logos leans over to scan the question again and Vector allows it. His doorwings flick up and down as he chews on his words for a moment. “I like reconfiguring things. Restructuring. Making a new way from what’s already there. Like the nest we cleared out when we found this thing. I find all the little folds and tense points and then turn something inside out without breaking it. Inverted cave systems are fun to explore.” He grins, smug.

“Quit giving it all your secrets!” The faint holler of Alpha reaches them from a ‘safe distance’, and the two of them look at each other.

“... do you think it’s asking questions to spy on us?” Vector whispers.

Logos holds his nervous gaze for a long moment, face inscrutable. His doorwings sink and he finally opens his mouth.

“Nah.”

((((poor Vector, he didn’t sign up to play keepaway. but Alpha does have a point. do you have a secret motive with these questions?? looking for weak spots maybe?? hmmmmmmm ominous

#vector prime #logos prime #transformers #alpha trion #transformers au #ask #in character

@oldboyjensenhinglemeier sent: Hello hello! Are your weapons edible? Because they look delicious. Very shiny and radiant! How do you make them?

“What? I’m just looking--”

“Two hands is not just looking, give it back!” Vector is too busy scrabbling to get his box back to notice the tentacles Quintus winds around his legs, until his pedes are yanked right out from under him and he goes thumping to the ground.

“Somebody had to answer the question if you weren’t going to,” Quintus snickers.

“It’s a dumb question,” he wheezes, winded.

“So what?” They hum in thought for a moment. “I’m sure some of our weapons are edible. If you chew really hard. It rather defeats the purpose, doesn’t it? And the way we make them is simple! Just find what kills the best and do that more!”

“That’s not what Solus would say,” Vector grumbles from the ground.

“Well Solus isn’t here and you’re bad at this answering thing.” They drop the battered box onto his chest as they wander away. “Maybe practice more.”

(((( first appearance of another kiddo, woohoo! next question also has another ;)

#transformers #transformers au #vector prime #quintus prime #in character #oldboyjensenhinglemeier #ask

@stonecrusherproductions sent: Hello- *Zzzzzzzrt* is this on? Is it? Oh, the light's on, okay, okay. Greetings there from *sssssssst*-Gamma. I'm from a possible future of *krrrrrrrt* and this is an experiment. Possibly fail*kkkkkkkkkkt* if it did work I probably wouldn't be *Krrrrrrrrrrrt* nd this. But if this does succeed, I have a *hssssssst*ing for Prima. Keep an eye on *gkkkkkkt* cuz that guy sus af. Oh, and- *message fizzles out*

“I think,” Vector says. “it’s malfunctioning.”

“Then fix it!” Logos hollers back at him, sifting through his own pile of wreckage.

“How?” Fiddling with the screen doesn’t clear any of the static snow, nor any of his apprehension. A possible future? Not something he enjoys having to mess with, even though he’s admittedly good at it. Who sent this? What’s Gamma? Is ‘af’ a real word?

Worst of all is the fact that it mentions his sibling by name. Vector isn’t quite sure what all is in the great wide universe, but anything knowing and using their names spooks him. There’s nothing out there that would call them by name, apart from other family members... right?

“I think it’s a communication device. Probably. Whatever network it’s running on is--”

“The same network you’re always lost in?”

“... not normal.”

(((( I had a good selection of asks to choose from to answer first and this one worked perfectly, thank you stone!

#transformers #transformers au #vector prime #logos prime #prima #in character #stonecrusherproductions

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