When Headcanons Page Is Not Enough

A blog run by Dinobooty, specialized for Transformers and Warframe headcanons. REMEMBER: These are headcanons, personal interpretation. There are NSFW materials in this blog. You have been warned. They have been tagged appropriately.

[weatherbane3]

Polyhexan Nightstrike: With its nocturnal habits and ability to navigate in near darkness, the nightstrike is an invaluable companion to those who make their living in the subterranean levels of cybertron and the near constant darkness of polyhex itself. Despite its long-standing importance to polyhexans, all attempts to breed in captivity or completely domesticate nightstrikes have failed. As such, pups are poached from their nests at a few days old. While a nightstrike is willing to learn and obey commands, they are always just as likely to desert their owner and return to the wild. Praxian Tracker: Sharp witted and obedient, Trackers are a favorite of hunters and search and rescue teams. Their ability to pick up scents, even those days old and separated by distance is second to none, and their ability to match speeds on foot equal to most alt modes makes them prime hunting companions. Iaconian Hound: Their sturdy frames, speed, and jaws powerful enough to crush most metals make them a favorite of law enforcement and private security. Hounds are loyal but head-strong; their willful personality is both a blessing and a curse, but their dedication to their owners- once earned- is unshakable. Kaonite Pit-Hound: A favorite of fighting rings and as guard-dogs, Pit-hounds are a close cousin to Iaconian Hounds, but even closer to their Cyberwolf ancestors. Pit-hounds are unique in that their claws do not fully retract, and their protective mane of kevlar fibers is coarser and thicker than that of their Iaconian counterparts. While faster, stronger, and with sharper teeth, their temperament is unpredictable and tempers short; Pit-Hounds are not good companion or work animals. Simfur Rounded: One of the largest canine breeds, Roundeds are gentle giants. They love people and especially sparklings, and are happy with both sedentary and active life styles. Originally bred as temple guardians, Simfur Roundeds are still used in official events, and at least one lives at every temple as per tradition. Noble Opallios: Cute and playful, they are a favorite companion to Nobles across all of Cybertron. Their fuel probably costs more than you make in a year, pleb. Tarnish Ridgeback: It’s long been debated whether Ridgebacks are actually canines- almost as long as they have been used for labor in the mines. Hardy and strong, Ridgebacks have no problem going underground and hauling several tons of raw materials in carts back up when machines break down or the going is unsteady. Also good deterrents against intruders.

[tumblebuggo]

I like to imagine the Tenno themselves are not a physical body, but rather an artificial intelligence that pilots the Warframes, which themselves are a sort of bio-mechanical chassis. They still bleed, hurt, but they are not a single body within a suit. They are the Warframes. Would justify many things, such as:

Alad being able to control Warframes with his collar, which commonly is used for controlling robotics, overriding the platform’s own AI.

The Ascaris, according to Darvo, being similar to the technology used by the Corpus to control their robotics.

The one awoken Tenno being able to control various Warframes, including Ordis’s mention of “occupying” a frame.

The lack of eyes on most Warframe helmets. Those with them could have been built just cosmetically.

Vor’s theory of the Tenno being the power source that controls the Warframes.

Alad’s ease of dismantlement and rehashing together Warframes with Corpus machinery, which itself is based heavily of Orokin design (Like the Warframes themselves.)

The simultaneous Tenno betrayal of the Orokin could have been a malfunction, or perhaps a deliberately coded order to all Warframe platforms. Or maybe they became sentient.

Valkyr’s bloodlust. She is a tortured and quite possibly a less docile, more crude form of Zanuka. Being implanted with various bits of other Warframes. Perhaps her rage stems from more than her own suffering, but those of those she’s been butchered together with.

I can go on, but for now;

[Removes his headcanon]

[headcanonmachine]

Not Headcanon Related, but Still Rather Important

Alright, since I, dinobooty, am no longer active in the TF RP community, I decided that this blog, which used to serve as my ‘headcanons page’ for all my RP blogs, needs a big change.

First of all, a change in URL. Old URL used to be ‘thetwinswiththeirquirks’, a nod to my twin muses.

Secondly, a new series. So not only will this blog collects headcanons from the Transformers Aligned universe, it will also collect headcanons from the MMO game Warframe. 

So yes, I will start writing some Warframe headcanons I develop from my time playing the game. I am not as educated in the Warframe lore as much as the Transformers lore, but I love learning the in-depth story. That’s what this blog will teach me in the process.

If you are not fond of Warframe, you can blacklist the tag: hc: milky way

Likewise, if you are not fond of Transformers, you can blacklist the tag: hc: cybertron

[speakeasysniper]

Headcanon time

Today: Protoforms

Protoforms always seem to float around in the TF canon but no continuity that I’ve seen has really gone into detail on what they are aside from ‘baby transformers’ that have yet to be assigned an outward appearance, a blank slate to etch out their personality on. So based on what I’ve seen in canon I’ve come to assume a few things:

1) In their base most state, Cybertronians are an ever-shifting vat of liquid. 

Not unlike the Changelings from Star Trek, Cybertronians are a race of Mimics meaning they shift and adapt their external appearance to suit their needs for whatever terrain they find that they can scan. 

2) Being a liquid state would help to explain their seeming intolerance for the cold. 

Computers perform better under cooler conditions, the workings of their internal components keeping them warm, but Cybertronians have a seeming intolerance to ice and cold. Granted these settings in canon are almost always in sub zero temperatures (G1 Skyfire, Bayverse Megatron, TFP Prime and Arcee) save for once incident (Bayverse Bee getting sprayed with the extinguishers) but it remains consistent across continuities. If their liquid core freezes, they would be unable to move and unable to move the basic working components. 

3) Spark resonance and frequency override any sort of CNA (Cybertronian DNA) coding making most prosthetics and replacement parts easier.

Since water can be manipulated into changing shapes in its flow with a tonal frequency, it leads me to believe that the individual sparks of Cybertronians emit a complex chorus of tonal and electrical frequencies to manipulate the shape of their liquid core. Or in the cases of the Starscream clones and such, a frequency from an external source to manipulate the protometal’s shape. Granted the replacement thing doesn’t hold true for every continuity for every body part, as TFP bots can’t replace their eyes very easily, but they apparently had no issue with T-cog compatibility between any of the bots of any size.

To me, this theory also lends credence to TFA’s protoforms and the infant-like mercurial state they become if not scanned to any specific pre-existing design.

4) Cybertronian anatomy breaks down into 4 layers: Skeletal armature, endoform, exoform, and armor upgrades. 

Between different versions of canon, armor is more or less just Armor. For example: 

Prowl believes in thought over violence, and so his body doesn’t conceal much weaponry. Though he does have a few weak laser guns built into his systems, the vast majority of his frame is devoted to computing power.

Prowl here is … pretty much naked by the standards of most continuities. He doesn’t have much built-in weaponry which would be an external, third party addition, rather than a basic design feature from his spark resonance shaping his protoform. So to me, it breaks down like this: 

Skeleton: A multi-jointed, multi-swivel solid state armature that can be rearranged internally through the sequence of scanning a new mode but locks into place when the shift from one mode to the next is complete. This solid state component system would also include fuel tanks and other internal components that may get relocated during transformation sequences. 

Endoform: The ‘meat’ of the Cybertronian body, the pliable but mostly solid metal of their faces and joints allowing for flexibility in an otherwise rigid metal body. The health of a Cybertronian can be determined by the pliability of his endoform, or similarly, the brittleness of it. Like clay, without proper care or in temperatures too extremely cold or hot, the endoform can harden and crack apart.

Exoform: The solid metal first layer of armor and kibble. Like most exoskeletons, it can be shed if necessary or if knocked or cut off, though it would leave the endoform damaged until it could repair itself and generate a new layer of armor. Exoforms may be slimmer or heavier by the bot’s natural frequency and design.

Armor upgrades: The bulkier pieces of armor worn over the exoform. Since Cybertronian armor is mostly functional, the upgrades would be integrated with and likely graphed to the exoform so that nerve functions would extend to the upgrades. 

If you’ve finished reading this far, I commend you and would like to remind you that this is all my own personal interpretation based on observations made through various continuities and in no way has any bearings on canon or any other players’ interpretations. 

[amalkova]

Commission for enthusiasticinformedfragging of Swindle’s array choke-full of upgrades :D Here’s a lil explanation of what’s what

Keep reading

[wargreybuns]

before i pass out from today’s incredibly and socially exhausting family event, let me just spit out some of my (not so original) ideas: • cybertronians finding the idea of clothing highly intriguing • some cybertronian scientists inventing fabric that resists tear from an average mech’s power • cybertronian fashion designers making clothing inspired by human clothing but fitted and adjusted to cybertronian anatomy • clothing that cost a fortune—because fabric isn’t easy to produce on a mechanical planet and every piece of attire can only fit one certain body build • “mechs in clothes” becoming a kink, some mechs find satisfaction in undressing another mech • advanced elaborate clothes that enables the wearer to transform while still wearing it

[aaashleylove-deactivated2017032]

[kidmothra-deactivated20150617]

giant soft paws

[quinncy]

bull-de-hierro

[theshriekingsisterhood]

Fact: transfluid is an actual thing irl

Fact: you can tell how well a machine is running by the color of its transfluid

Fact: tf medics can tell how healthy a mecha is by getting them off

Fact: i have never seen this utilised by fandom and that is crime

[farfalleh-deactivated20210531]

So I finally managed to finish that diagram. It took a wee while longer than I’d hoped, but aah well 8D At least it looks pretty!

+ Disclaimer: This is a headcanon for my upcoming TFP-based fanfic project, Book of Hours. It’s pretty much entirely self-indulgent overthinking waffle. /no regrets

Reference—

Spark Bonds - in depth

Spark Spectrae

1. & 2. Echo Bonds—

Binary, trine and cadre bonds are all cultural forms of the same basic bonding method, the only difference being the number of mecha involved. Binary bonds were most common among the higher echelons of Cybertronian society, cadres of five and six the norm among the lower caste tiers. Echo bonds are carried equally by each participant; no one spark is more central than any other.

3. Fracture Bonds—

A rare phenomenon occurring to prospective binary-bonding couples whose sparks share well-matched gravitational resonance frequencies, bonding sparks on a much deeper active level than an echo bond. Romanticised by popular Golden-Age novels, in reality a frightening prospect discovered too late; unintentional 99% of the time.

4. Split-Spark Bonds—

Sparks which split wholly shortly after kindling, forming two discrete identities mirrored (rather than bonded) on the most complete level possible. 

5. Kindle Bonds—

A bond formed between a newspark and the spark of its carrier, in which it gestates for the first year or so of its existence. Temporary, fading away over the course of the newspark’s minority, it allows carrier and child to easily keep track of each other.

6. Array Bonds—

A shallow bond characterised by one individual serving as the main data hub, referred to as the keynote, through whom the other members of the bond are linked. These encompass gestalts, symbiotes and their hosts, and sparked ships/cities and their custodians.

[bettyjoan]

Here is my Transformers sticky valve headcanon post! My subject for this study is, of course, Beatbox.

So I know that the valve and spike array are portrayed as more like “doors opening and out pops some sexytimes” but I like to think that the entire pelvic array has to transform back to reveal protoform-deep hardware, much like how Transformers Prime bots’ limbs transform into/back to reveal weapons, guns, etc.

The valve itself becomes swollen when the bot is aroused (for cushioning to relieve any discomfort caused by the other bots’ plating), and in order to accommodate spikes of all sizes, the valve can be stretched with preparation thanks to that (light gray) super-pliable dermamesh that surrounds the metalmesh lips of the outer valve. So, originally, the valve is about the size of the darkest color in the center while the rest of the valve is pinched shut by the surrounding muscle strands.

The interior valve is comprised of calipers that can contract and expand as necessary, and the valve is capable of returning to its original size and shape shortly after interfacing.

About the same can be said for the spike; there is a “door” that opens, but only after the pelvic plating has transformed away to allow the spike cover to release. Sometimes if a bot is particularly turned on, the spike cover can open prematurely, causing the spike to *ding* against the pelvic plating.

[madmud2730]

So I decided to make up pronouns based on the thirteen frame types because I was overthinking about a character of mine and how I was going to write them. After talking with Butters about the issue I was having (which I’ll explain in a moment), I’ve decided to scrap the idea of using these pronouns in my writing and sticking with traditional/well known pronouns for the sake of reader clarity. I still want to post them though because I am vaguely proud of these bastardized words and feel like sharing. Hopefully no one will be upset with this. I’m sorry if it’s not all that good/your cup of tea. This is primarily just for my own curiosity/satisfaction.

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[headcanonmachine]

The Twins’ Age [Mark 2]

From Mark 1:

If you look at Fall of Cybertron, you see that Shockwave created the Dinobots using creatures he found on a primitive planet (Earth). Out of the five dinosaurs chosen for the Dinobots, Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus appeared first, at approximately 150 million years ago, in the Jurassic era. The Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pteranodon, and Triceratops appear in the Cretaceous era, 60-ish million years ago.

Shockwave had watched over Earth for a very long time, may as well since the beginning of the war. A scientist does, especially a precise one like Shockwave, will have studied said an alien planet for a long period of time before attempting to experiment on them, not to mention the development of his tools to fetch some DNA samples from the dinosaurs. Therefore, Shockwave’s age must be older than dinosaurs (or any life on Earth, for that matter). Plus, he’s been around since the Age of Wrath. I’m using Shockwave here as a guiding hand to guessing the age of the Twins.

Dreadwing and Skyquake are some of the earliest products of the ‘baby boom’ in the first half of the Golden Age, so they are younger than Shockwave (and most important characters in the entire Transformers franchise, apparently). They spent their late juvenile years witnessing the fall of the space bridges and Cybertron’s disconnection from the colony worlds. They were already adults, having worked as astronomers long enough to feel bored out of their minds, by the time they discover the gladiatorial arenas and met Megatronus.

I find it unbelievable that, for the Aligned continuity, the war only lasted for 4 million years like its IDW counterpart. I find it even less believable that Shockwave is able to recover DNA samples of dinosaurs 4 million years ago--when Earth was in the ICE AGE. Therefore, I assume by the time the Dinobot experiment took place, Earth would already be in late Cretaceous Era, about 66-67 million years ago before the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs, replacing them with mammals.

4 million years of war would not sound so weird to me if the Dinobots had been created by Wheeljack, after the Cybertronians settled their war on Earth, like their G1 and IDW counterparts. Alas, that is not what happened, according to Fall of Cybertron--which is part of the Aligned continuity that houses TFP and RiD2015.

I take 300 million years, doubling the Jurassic Era, with the assumption that Cybertronians grow up very slowly. They spend hundreds of thousands of years as children, then several million years as teenagers, then spend the rest of their nigh-immortal lives as adults.

[theconwiththeboom]

Common Insults Among Fliers/Seekers

KITE

An insult directed towards fliers with large and/or wide wings that are somewhat bigger than their body. Basically body-shaming among fliers. (Yes, Dreadwing hasn’t been exactly nice to Starscream, calling him a kite on several occasions.) They have a belief that large-winged fliers are lousy fliers.

MUDSLOGGER/DIRTKISSER/DUSTKICKER

Insults directed towards fliers who are grounded (i.e. due to a defect, malfunction, or injury). Fliers, especially Seekers, are usually very proud of their flying capabilities. To lose that ability is a shame.

PAPER PLANE

An insult or slang for fliers who are afraid of flying and prefers to be as close as possible to the ground.

[certifiedvalvecharger]

Thinkin about plug and play/tactile interfacing toys.

Data chips which run simple sensation programs, which can be inserted to give the feeling of ticking all over your frame, tingling jolts in set and random patterns, the experience of overheating without the danger.

False firewall programs, entirely separate from actual security, for those who get off on the idea of their partner overpowering their systems but don’t want to actually risk getting viruses.

Socket adapters for interfacing multiple partners at once.

Switchboards with different voltage and current for electroplay.

Adapters that magnify, reduce, distort, delay the signals from your partner.

Programming data chips with specific sensations, emotions, thoughts, etc and sending them to your long distance partners so you can essentially interface them from across the galaxy.

Sets of magnets placed on key locations of the sensornet to disrupt and alter electronic signals, induce temporary paralysis, produce pleasurable hallucinations.

Devices that generate small electromagnetic fields swept over bodies, numbing and restoring sensornet functions.

External harddrives filled with various programs and data packets that essentially work like interactive sex dolls, artificial partners. They come in many varieties for specific kinks: dominant type, submissive type, sensual type, rough type, bondage type, cross faction type. Harddrives patterned off of pornstars or what they think famous cybertronians would be like in the berth.

Programs that simulate “heats” for those that get off on the idea of being overwhelmingly desperate for interface.

Data chips that suppress overload, programs that aid multiple overloads.

Rounded finger caps for cybertronians with claws who want to avoid scratching their partners, sharpened caps for those without claws who want to scratch and be scratched, vibrating varieties of both.

Sensory deprivation programs that allow bots to offline auditory, visual, tactile sensors.

Sound generators producing auditory signals that increase arousal.

Just… plug n play and tactile interfacing toys.

[thenightetc]

Scraplets are… interesting.  Do they have some kind of hive mind?  Ratchet’s comment that the ones they just fought were scouts implies that they can at least communicate with each other.  Possibly long-distance, since the rest of them did pretty much arrive all at once, and they seemed pretty coordinated.  They’re definitely presented as this swarm.  They attack as a group—they react as a group; check out the way they all look up from what they’re doing at once.  Look at how none of them react to the Insecticon who just flew in until one of them is alerted to it—then they ALL react, all at once.

And these are clearly terrifying creatures.  Bulkhead says he has personally seen them eat someone alive.  The Insecticon acts afraid and backs away when they see the scraplets munching on Vector Sigma.  Cybertronians don’t seem to have any decent defense against them—theoretically, grabbing the offending scraplet and crushing it would do the trick, except there’s tons of them.

But then look at how utterly, completely, docile they are towards humans.  Not only was there the thing where one of them acted like a friendly puppy towards Raf, letting him pick it up and cuddle it, and not only did they let the kids tiptoe through their midst without more than a glance in their direction, but… they don’t pay attention to a human who’s attacking them.  Jack smashes one off of Vector Sigma and it just flies back.  He smashes another and it, too, only scuttles away, presumably to chew on another part of Vector Sigma.  And none of the others react to him doing this.  And, in Scrapheap, when the kids were all attacking those “scouts”, smashing them up and freezing them, apparently not a single one tried to attack the kids, despite that they were getting wiped out.  And then, what’s most interesting to me, is that Jack is able to pick one up while it’s eating, physically snatching it away from its food, and it doesn’t react in the least.  It doesn’t attack him (the way you’d expect a predator to if you get between it and its food) or even try to get away (which it probably could have—it’s not like he had much of a grip on it).

And I mean, sure—they don’t see humans as food.  But plenty of things that don’t see humans as food will still defend themselves from a threat, or attack if you try to get between them and a meal.  And social creatures especially can be expected to attack you if you’re attacking others in their group—protect the hive, right?  But scraplets don’t do that, even though they physically have the ability to make mincemeat out of a human.

So I think what it is, is that they just don’t have a concept of actually defending themselves, or attacking per se.  They have the instinct to eat, and that’s about it.  Their “eat” impulse doubles as an attack (and as a defense as well, at least in the sense that a best defense is a good offense), and it’s a devastatingly effective one on Cybertron, so—as a species, they’ve never needed anything else.  So while a dog, for example, will bite something or someone to attack even if it doesn’t intend to eat it (or even think it’s edible), scraplets have no impulse to bite anything they don’t see as food.  I’m guessing that there is absolutely nothing in their ecological niche that poses any kind of threat to them that they can’t dispose of by eating. 

It’s like they have no fear, no aggression—only hunger.

[headcanonmachine]

Stasis Lock Effect

Due to living in stasis for at least one thousand years, probably more, Skyquake's maturity is somewhat delayed. When he was first put (and then trapped) in stasis, he was at the peak of his adventurous vigor. When he woke up, his mind, therefore, was still on that state, but everyone else and Dreadwing has grown mentally. Hence why Dreadwing is the more mature twin--because Skyquake did not mature with him.

Skyquake may be adapting to the matured world, but his spirit still lingered in the old state. The fact that he was asleep for so long only made his adventurous spirit much stronger, making him want to explore more.

Dreadwing's mind is akin to a human in their late thirties or early forties, but Skyquake's mind is akin to someone in their early twenties.

[xarciel]

Nickel, iron, cobalt, chrome, He’ll eat your soul, Turn your spark to stone, Nickel, iron, cobalt, chrome, Run, little robot, run away home.

Traditional Cybertronian Rhyme (The Chaos of Warm Things)

Interestingly, all of the metals mentioned in the poem have ordered magnetism. Nickel, iron and cobalt are all ferromagnetic, while chromium [chrome] is antiferromagnetic.

In this context, assuming that the nursery rhyme contains a grain of truth, it suggests that sparkeaters are drawn by ferromagnetic properties of the spark. The exact nature of sparks is unknown, however MTMTE has discussed spark types, of which ferrum-positive and ferrum-negative are categories [ferrum is the latin word for iron and the derivative of the name ferromagnetism]. Therefore the ‘brightness’ of a spark is related intrinsically to the sparktype of the cybertronian, and is not necessarily a representative of the yield or strength of the spark.

Extrapolating these assumptions, I expect Rung would be ferrus-positive and have a high yield spark [to explain why he has the brightest spark of all the ferrus-positive bots onboard]. 

(via farfalleh)