Terraformed

Ask Box: Open. «—-–-—» Characters Available to Ask: All 5 Terrans, Bumblebee, Optimus, Elita, Megatron, Tarantulas, Breakdown, Arcee + Silver, Rhythmwing, Jetwave «—-–-—» An ask blog for my Transformers AU, as of Earthspark’s events. «—-–-—» Main is @ut_girl666. «—-–-—» Avatar art by @shapeofmetal

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Starting Post/Context

Main Info:

This is a blog mainly run by Hashtag, and the Terrans own fun thing to keep them entertained while the others are out, however, other characters are allowed to be asked.

This does include HCs, and divergences, so not 100% accurate to show. But mainly follows the events of the show. There’s also no real overarching story or plot line. Just something for fun, mainly. :)

Additionally, this may not be the best, but I’m definitely trying. And I can get creative, but there may be some questions that I may completely not know how to answer. If it is the case, I’ll just try to respond as such. So I hope it’s not too bad.

It’ll start with the Terrans, Optimus, Elita, Megatron, and Bumblebee, and as asks are answered, others will become available. :).

ETA: Jawbreaker has his altmode while the blog is going. :)

Important HCs to start with:

- The Terrans are roughly tweens/teens in cybertronian age.

- Tarantulas lives with the Maltos in the dugout. (This is from @whirlandco’s “every good intention (is interpolation)”, which is a great fic you should check out.)

- Breakdown did get away from GHOST after E14. He’s keeping low, and he visits sometimes.

- Bumblebee is a He/They

- Megatron is technically allied with the Autobots, but he’s still in leadership of the Decepticons, and is yet to actually separate from them.

Background Going Ons (not a focus, but part of the AU):

- The Lost Light & crew do exist.

- Other Transformers are a variety of places, and not many are actually dead.

Rules:

1. No harassment, no spam, and no other inappropriate content for an ask blog.

2. No graphic things. Suggestive is alright, but not graphic. This goes for both gore and NSFW.

3. Please no politics. I don’t like to talk about that stuff often, let alone in a form of escapism. (Idk if LBGTQ+ counts, but that’s completely fine, it’s just most of the other stuff.)

ETA 5/2/23: I am also using ask games as well, so if you wanna use those too, then feel free! Here’s a few to start with - Muse Headcanon Prompts,

Please include both the emoji and the included words/written prompt when sending them!

Thank you for reading! Please follow the rules and have fun!

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Looking into seriously restarting this and doing some renovations to fit into my new current AU, so I’ll reblog this when I officially finish updating - probably this weekend, or I may wait till January so I don’t immediately go on a Christmas break after reopening - and then you can go reread the edited/new pinned post. :)

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Are you back for real instead of another hiatus? Because I'd love to chat with you all more often!

I’m definitely going to try. I’ve just gotten forgetful, I’m really sorry.

However, as a bonus, I have been writing up a Headcanon post! Albeit, it’ll also have a follow up post that’s angstier. But it’ll be a bunch of Headcanons! And I have plenty of fic ideas!

Anyway, yes, I’ll definitely try, and I’m gonna answer some this week and once I get them all answered I’ll start queuing them. :)

[callofxenon]

Thanks!

I'm guessing all of these relate to the good and bad consequences of Season 1 and the lore going forward? If so, I have zero problem. In fact, bring on the angst.

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Actually, the angst is more the far future when time and dark have made themselves very clear the answers to JRR Tolkien’s riddles.

<:(

However the rest of the HCs are cute domestic stuff, and silly too! So don’t you worry, there’s plenty of fluff to cure your pain, in store! :D

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Are you back for real instead of another hiatus? Because I'd love to chat with you all more often!

I’m definitely going to try. I’ve just gotten forgetful, I’m really sorry.

However, as a bonus, I have been writing up a Headcanon post! Albeit, it’ll also have a follow up post that’s angstier. But it’ll be a bunch of Headcanons! And I have plenty of fic ideas!

Anyway, yes, I’ll definitely try, and I’m gonna answer some this week and once I get them all answered I’ll start queuing them. :)

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Ok so when I write stuff I always make Nightshade he/him because that’s is what comes naturally for me. But I am not a non binary hater. I have had people block me for trying to explain this so that is why I am anonymous.

I just want to say NiGHTSHADE YOU ARE AWESOME AND EVEN IF SOME PEOPLE LIKE ME DONT USE YOUR PRONOUNS WE LOVE YOU ANYWAY. I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH

sorry if I offended someone. offending people is a fear of mine

Anon, I’m not going to be overly rude here, and if I come off as such, that’s not my intention, though I am a little vindictive here. But I’m going to be wholly honest here: not using someone’s preferred pronouns, and ignoring them in favor of what’s more comfortable for you personally, is actually very disrespectful, and it does not demonstrate love.

Now, for the moment, I’ll give you a pass, because I definitely understand if you haven’t had much time and experience to get used to it, so you’re new to writing them, I was there too, but please at least try to work on using they/them/their for them, and in future asks you send please refer to them as a they/them. It doesn’t have to be an overnight transformation, but work on it. I’m sure if you try, give yourself some time, and start working on it, soon it will come naturally like nothing.

And for the record, when I say I understand, I remember when I was first writing them way back when the series came out - while they’re all drafts within my Wattpad books, and I always went back to correct myself, just to enforce that self-policing I was doing to make sure I got them right - I used to use gendered pronouns for them sometimes too.

It was a slip, and I really never meant to be hateful, or spiteful. Most characters had always been gendered in some form, so that’s what I was subconsciously used to.

But, as I wrote, and wrote, and the more I thought of them as a they/them, the more that tendency to gendered terms slipped away, and now calling them a they/them/their is so natural I don’t even really have to think anymore.

This proves obvious from how since then, I have lots of lovely NB characters, such as:

Knockout, Trans Genderfluid - She, her, they, and them are most common, but occasionally uses he, him, and his.

Dragstrip, Demifluid - They/Them, occasionally also he/him

Mesothulas, Agender - They/Them

Unnamed Getaway/Atomizer Kid, Genderless - any/all pronouns; gender what’s that? who needs one, that shit’ll weigh them down. as far as anyone else is concerned, their gender is anarchy, and they identify as a threat to the government.

Evac, Bigender - He/him and They/them

So trust me, if you start to focus down on calling them they/them/their, it will become easier! Just work on it, and slowly with a little bit of time it’ll practically be second nature soon.

Best of luck! :)

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YOU'RE BACK! Where have you been? And tell the Terrans I said hi!

Yeah, I kind of am. I got really focused on writing fics, and this just sort of fell off to the wayside by accident. And I also started watching Criminal Minds with my mom, so I’m not really focused on my phone because I have a TV show I really like in front of me.

But I’m gonna get onto answering those asks that have been piling. Don’t worry! I’m fact I’ve developed some ideas an HCs, that I’ll be sharing. ^^ And a very fun announcement too! 😉

I answered anon’s there quick, because I felt that last one was important, because I sometimes ‘phobes pop up in the places you’d least expect, and I don’t want them around, or at least not interacting. My support of Nightshade should make that very clear. (I’m not calling anon an enbyphobe, but I am aware there’s at least one of this blog’s followers who is. DO NOT GO WITCH HUNTING, I REPEAT, DO NOT GO WITCH HUNTING.)

Anyway, yes I’m back. Thank you for the quick check in. I’ll answer a bunch tonight and have them all queued to post over the next couple days. ^^

Hashtag: Yo! I totally forgot! I got really caught up with all the stuff Bee has been having us do! But we’ll start answering those now! ^^

Hashtag: Say hi, guys!

Twitch: Hii!!

Thrash: Hey. |B)

Jawbreaker: Oh, we’re doing the blog again? Well, um, hi. :)

Nightshade: Hello! ^^

Nightshade: I hope you have a good day!

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SO IM LOOKING BACK ON THIS ONE ASK I SENT AND I SAID THAT IF NIGHTSHADE FELT BAD ABOUT BEING NON-BINARY AND IM SO SORRY I WAS TRYING TO SAY THAT ALL THE HATE WAS STUPID!! SO SORRY AGAIN!!

No no, don’t worry Anon! I understand! I’m sure you meant it like that, but since they’re still so new to the world and haven’t experienced any -phobia yet, they’d probably be confused why you’re concerned about them, as they simply naturally feel that that’s who they are, why would they ever feel bad about it? Especially when no one’s ever made it out to be a bad thing at any point? (Which for the record, I mean no one’s villified it, because being nonbinary is not a bad thing at all!)

So really, don’t worry! You haven’t made them feel bad, they’re just confused by the distinct lack of it ever being before, and now someone is expressing concern. So it’s confusing to them more than anything else. ^^

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Ok so What do the Terrans think of my ship?

it is TwitchBee

Heh yeah idk why I made this

Okay, um, UT here —

I’m gonna be wholly honest: I view the Terrans as being children, and their behavior could vary all the way from maybe ~13ish, to toddlers, and Bumblebee is a young adult, so I am- it’s really really not my cup of tea.

Even so, I HC Bee as AroAce in most continuities - in ES I’d put him as Demi or Gray, oriented towards guys - and Twitch as AroAce as well. So even so they just- they don’t work imo.

She probably looks at him like a bonus family member, or teacher, and he looks at her as his student.

And I do hope you know, you can look up to people, and have idols, and not want to be involved with them like that. You can have friends and not want to do that. You can have close relationships with other people and not want to do that.

So I ehm… that’s really all I have to say…

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To Bumblebee

Did you get adopted by Optimus? Also- *Hug*

Bumblebee: I-

Bumblebee: just like I said in the last ask —

Bumblebee: — no, no I am not Optimus Prime’s son.

Bumblebee: Optimus hasn’t adopted me, and his kids are Ultra Magnus, Arcee, and Hot Rod.

Bumblebee: though, I will certainly admit wholeheartedly and honestly, yes Optimus can be quite the father figure, and have the quite the dad energy.

Bumblebee: I dare say, perhaps a more- *vaguely waves hand* -‘inclined’, set of people, may consider him a ‘DILF’.

Bumblebee: oh, and thank you for the hug! :)

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I think Twitch may explode from this but Alligned(Prime) Continuity Wheeljack

Twitch: *gasp*

Twitch: A Wheeljack/Dad 2 with swords!!

Thrash: He sounds pretty cool, to me. ,':)

Hashtag: yoooo, cool as hell!

Jawbreaker: why would he view Optimus that way? But otherwise I suppose he could be fun to hang around.

Nightshade: might be fun to invent things with him. :).

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Bumblebee, I have a question… are you & Optimus father & son? :>

Bumblebee: !!

Bumblebee: wha- no, no!

Bumblebee: Optimus isn’t my sire, he has his own kids completely separate from me.

Bumblebee: in fact, I don’t have a sire, or carrier, just ‘creators’. They’re B—

Bumblebee: —bbaaaaacckk innn- Nevada! Back in Nevada.

Bumblebee: but anyway, Optimus has his own kids. They’re Ultra Magnus, Arcee, and Hot Rod- or what was his new name?? Something with ‘Rod’, I think.

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Wait, swear jar? Now I have to know Who 'tips' the swear jar the most? Who does it the least?

Twitch: I mean, it’s not really a consistent thing, especially since they usually use it to set little miniature goals, so if it’s something we like, then it only encourages us, honestly. So… a scolding and week or so without video games is more likely selection.

Jawbreaker: Yeah… they all get heavy into it. I prefer to stay out of it.

Twitch: It’s a hard tie between Thrash and Hashtag. They’re just the two who swear the most in front of mom and dad.

Jawbreaker: Ironically, Nightshade tips less than you do, Twitch…

Twitch: yeah, them and Tarantulas have an unspoken agreement that they don’t rat each other out for swearing. Mom and dad have to be there to catch them do it, and they can usually keep their lips sealed for the short amount of time they’re in the bunker.

Twitch: but they also don’t rat on us, either, so… it’s a fair trade.

Jawbreaker: oh.

Twitch: so, in summary, yeah we have a swear jar, but it’s not the most consistent thing in the world, Thrash and Hashtag swear and tip a lot, and Nightshade and Tarantulas swear a little too but they don’t do it front of mom and dad and don’t tattle on us when we do it.

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Ok this is a weird Biology question about the Terrans, since they seem to have like a weird mix between humans(Being able to eat, needing water, closer to human size) and Cybertronians(Metal bodies, the ability to transform and built in weapons) does that mean they'll experience puberty at some point?

Megatron: Obviously, they most likely will. They’ll probably go through similar processes to both our own, and humans, may possibly even develop their own specific to their subspecies as Terrans.

Tarantulas: If I may call in an expert to help us, to more professionally answer this question~

Megatron: I suppose.

. . .

Knockout: Hello, why have I been added here?

Wildbreak: Dunno. But, ‘sup.

Megatron: Ah. Knockout. Wonderful to meet you again. Pronouns today?

Knockout: A pleasure to speak with you again, my liege. She/they/her.

Wildbreak: okay, read what we’re here for: I’d presume you mean Nightshade, and the sibs they mentioned when we met them? Albeit, they were high outta their mind when they mentioned them, due to the anesthetic, but I digress.

Megatron: Yes, they are one of five Terrans total.

Knockout: Ah. So all five would be like them, just different alts, and such, I’d presume.

Knockout: With all this context, since I’ve been doing work and practicing on both cybertronians and humans, I’ve seen my fair share.

Knockout: From what I got from Nightshade, I can successfully say, yes, they’ll definitely go through adolescent developmental processing, quite similar to our own various kinds. To what extent or degree that may include humanity’s own, I can’t tell.

Knockout: They’ll probably experience it a lot sooner than ours, but definitely later than humans.

Knockout: So far, the only problem I’m personally seeing with the Terrans, is the possibility they’re all quite oblivious. At least, if we are to take example from Nightshade’s oblivity, lacking the slightest hint of what lay behind their panel.

Megatron: They’re newsparks, Knockout. They hardly need to know their frames may have… extra bits, at their age.

Knockout: They should know for hygiene’s sake! At the very least! I would not like to have a youngling crying in pain on a table before me, because you didn’t educate them about their frame, and how to keep it clean, and now they have an infection of some sort, or something. Or they got themselves in over their head, with weird, brand new feelings, and decided it’s such a good idea to shove the nearest phallic object up their-

Megatron: THAAT’S ENOUGH. ō/////ō

Megatron: we’ll… get there. When a little time has passed, and Dot and Alex think they might be ready for that conversation.

Knockout: Mhm. ‘You’ll get there’.

Knockout: Regardless, yes. They most likely will go through some form of what you humans would call ‘puberty’.

Knockout: Speaking on the matter of their siblings, what are they each?

Tarantulas: Nightshade’s siblings are two femmes, Twitch and Hashtag, and two mechs, Thrash and Jawbreaker.

Wildbreak: so, two AFAB, two AMAB, and an NB.

Wildbreak: Alts?

Megatron: That’s not-

Tarantulas: Twitch is a flying ‘drone’ as the humans call them, Thrash is a motorbike with a side car, Hashtag is a GHOST van, and Jawbreaker is a dinobot beastformer, then Nightshade, of course, as you already know, is an owl beastformer.

Wildbreak: eeesshhhh, ain’t gonna be easy…

Knockout: dear god.

Knockout: what the hell have i gotten into.

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SAVE THRASH FROM THE TALK!!!

*gentle laughing*

Nightshade: I’m afraid we can’t save him now.

Nightshade: He’s surrendered himself to that fate.

Nightshade: And besides, it’s just a minor scolding for using so many swears.

Nightshade: He’ll be okay. :)

Thrash: ^

Thrash: what they said.

Thrash: thx for concern.

Nightshade: *chuckle*

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To arcee and bee how did you two first met and what you think of eachother

Both: !

Bumblebee: I- uh- see, she-

Arcee: Ah, ‘Bee was one of dad’s spec.ops members. Absolute master in the field. Worked with Mirage, and Hound. I believe Bee was… the assassin, and the blackmailer?

Bee: aha! Yep. Assassin-ing and blackmail. Love doin’ that! It’s my favorite! Never met a better blackmailer than me, Bumblebee! A-heh…

Arcee: yeah, I was right. He’s great. Pretty sure I met him way back, when I was little.

Bee: Mhm! Yep! Met waayyy back.

Arcee: Real cool, and fun to hang out with. Also fun to mess with, too.

Bee: Pretty good, yourself, Arcee. Kinda tough, and everything, but not bad company. Especially when I need an adult to hang out with, and not one with ten limbs and speaks like Shakespeare.

Arcee: oh, yeah. Tarantulas. He does talk like that a lot doesn’t he? Kinda ridiculous.

*hissing*

Arcee: BUT LIKE, IN A COOL WAY.

*somewhat quieter hissing*

Bee: Eeee-ee-eee… good grief…

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"Tarn Anon"

*Transmission straight into Hashtag*

So you are the Terrans that Shockwave has informed us about he was correct, you are inferior. Do not think your fleshlings bond with Megatron will save you and your doomed brood, we will find you and we will terminate you. And just to give you a taste of what you will face.

*Forcibly uploads all the photos of the DJDs past victims*

Hashtag: Oh! A new as-

*Alert going off*

Whoosh!

Hashtag: hu-? Wha- where’d it go? I didn’t accidentally delete it did I??

Tarantulas: Tarn.

Tarantulas: I do not appreciate you threatening my assistant and their siblings. Let alone with want to kill them, or your attempts to traumatize them.

Tarantulas: keep your grimy claws off my little sparks.

Megatron: Tarn. We speak once more.

Megatron: I appreciate your dedication to your assignment from past leaders of the faction, but please remain within your field.

Megatron: As I have detailed to you and your lot, I am very different from my predecessors, and sparklings - such as the Terrans - are very strictly off limits to you all. We went over this with Silver, and Hot Rod.

Megatron: And even so, recall, they are to follow us up one day, when we eventually die off, Tarn. Because we will. No one is immortal.

Megatron: And they are young. Innocent, naive- impressionable. If you want to sway them over -

Megatron: - which is very possible, they have plenty of Decepticon influence, and Nightshade and Thrash both show interest in the Decepticons, who knows the decisions their siblings may make in their stead -

Megatron: Don’t try to scare them away. Yes?

Megatron: And do not take this as either one or the other - this is both your first warning, and my advice in an attempt to help you, if you want to bring the little ones in.

Megatron: The only order I have for you further regarding this matter, is either if you cannot tone yourself down a touch to mind your own, or if you are so keen on getting closer to them you sweeten up a little. I know you can, Tarn.

Megatron: Megatron, out.

Tarantulas: and for the record, nearly all of these messages from you to them, will be directed back to me. So it will be either coordinate with myself and Megatron, or leave. my. littlesparks. ALONE.

Hashtag: that sucks. It must have been deleted by accident somehow…

Tarantulas: do not fret, child. I’m sure a simple apology will be enough for whoever it was.

Hashtag: Whoever you were, I’m sorry! I think tumblr ate it! >A<'

Hashtag: maybe try again later? <:)

(Be sure to read the tags! ;) - UT )

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Nightshade, if you want to talk about something, go as deep as you want. You have amazing knowledge and observational skills, I bet Thrash is just jealous.

Nightshade: Ah, thank you, altho-

Thrash: I’M NOT JEALOUS, I’M JUST PRETTY DAMN SURE SOCRATES IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKIN DEAD!

Nightshade: *snort*

Thrash: I MEAN, LET’S BE REAL HERE.

Thrash: WE ALREADY GET THAT SHIT FROM MEGS AND TARANTULAS, WE DON’T NEED IT OUR OWN PERSONAL LOCAL BCE PHILOS-

Thrash: wait- did ‘nonbinary’ as a concept even exist before Christ?

Thrash: WELL NOW I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAT I NEED SOME GOOD GODDAMN ANSWERS FOR, AND I’M NOT TAKING MY ASS TO BED TONIGHT UNTIL I GET THEM, FUCK IT.

Nightshade: *giggling and snorting*

“Thrash Malto.”

Thrash:

Thrash: shit.

Thrash: I said all of that out loud didn’t I.

Nightshade: mhm. *restrained giggles and a nod*

Thrash: well before I get my ass raked on the coals by mom, they’re right - about whole going in depth thing, n’ shit. Just maybe remember the rest of are dumbass numbskulls, unlike you, brainiac. Dumb it down for us.

Nightshade: I know, I just get carried away. Now go, before you get in more trouble than you already are. You probably owe like, 50$ to the swear jar.

Thrash: I take back the brainiac remark. You’re supposed to be smart, and good at math, Nightshade.

Nightshade: *cackling*

“Thrash, get over here. We’re having a talk.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know. Just reminding our locally sourced failed mathematician they’re too big brain for us smooth brained folk, and losing a wrinkle or two now and then would do them some good.”

*Smile*

Thrash isn’t jealous, he’s just kind of rough around the edges, and prefers to keep his affection in an almost tough love kind of way. Like classic siblings calling each other morons from across the house, but they’ll go to bat and ball the moment anyone else gets involved.

He loves Nightshade to death, truly he does, but it’s not hard to get a little more than a touch exhausted/exasperated from the melodramatic way they talk, especially when they get enough of that from Tara and Megs.

Nightshade however is used to it, and likes that he’s always certain to use smart people when he does that. He acknowledges they’re smart, he’s just tired of their theatrics. They’ve started to take it as both a reminder and a compliment in one.

It’s an odd dynamic but it’s theirs, and they work with it. If ever the need they’ll change it up so there’s no hard feelings. :).