aTFAUomo: Scorponok
Scorponok is a very a terribly naive, childish Titan. Ve always sees the best in people, even if they do ver wrong. So when the Ancient Cybertronians decided that they didn’t want the Titans to live and decided to deactivate them all, Scorponok did not harbor any sense of negative energy toward them. One thing to note was that ve was a very young city, not even old enough to get Compeers (or, in summary, the trio of mature Cybertronians that would be bound into vis service to be with ver for all time) or experience too much of life, so ve did not have any sense of longing or depression or trauma that a lot of the other Titans did when activated. In fact, ve was very open to these new modern Cybertronians, who differed so much from the old. Way too open, as ve in naive baby Titan nature just let the Decepticons run around the place, blabbering on and on. Ve allowed verself to be claimed as a Decepticon city only because ve thought it just meant that ve would have a lot of friends, which wasn’t wrong. A lot of Decepticons like the Titan’s upbeat personality, its endearing, but vis attitude can also very annoying.
Its very childish in Titan culture to claim to be the largest and the most populated. All Titans in their core want to be the biggest, most popular city and loved to be complimented as such. It would go that a Cybertronian would say how big/loved/popular a city is, and that the Titan would just be like “aaaaa no!!! Not me, dont be silly!”, and the conversation would go back and forth until the Titan has their ego stroked to the right amount. Only an absolute child would demand to be called such and agree at first compliment that they are so great. Scorponok tends to do this in vis Cybertronian sized holoform, which ve always makes bigger than the biggest Cybertronian in the room that ve “is in”. In turn, the Decepticons pretty much pretend that the holoform is not there, like as if it was hide and seek asking wheres Scorponok, while the holoform Titan just move around frustrated and how no one sees how big and popular ve is. Rumble and Frenzy introduced ver to the concept of pranking and making snarky comments to others, so that's a mess. Starscream introduced the idea of overthrowing Megatron, so Scorponok is in on that too, tho no one takes it seriously. Ya boi says everyone has to study Cybertronian geology before anything else.
Scorponok geography wise is a highly crystallized city. On Cybertron, landscape and architecture is a lot different than that on Earth. The ground and the buildings are parts of a Titan, and are comprised of metallic component that act almost organic in a way, constantly shifting and moving in accordance to the commands of the people upon it, be it moving away for the path of a guardian bot, or becoming a whole new structure when the next hot and ready architect decides it shall be. One interesting phenomenon is the concept of crystallization.
Crystallization occurs on certain areas of Cybertron, due to Cybertron’s lack of a protective atmosphere in said areas, which allows various minerals in space to land upon the surface of the cities. These minerals are naturally unattracted by Cybertron’s specific mix of metals, and due to the planet’s unique charges, come together. The minerals form many unique structures as gems, arranging from the size of a pebble to massive building size towers. They appear to radiantly glow and give heat, as they reflect the biolights of the cities and citizens of a dark, sunless world. Scorponok verself has the colors of beautiful iridescent pastel colors in Cybertronian vision. To humans and other organics, ve appears to be a very disgusting grape lime highlighter color.
The citizens of these cities tend to have an odd fascination in the gems, and will take the natural gem structures and adorn them on their buildings or on their own vessels. Some of these gem structures contain minerals that Cybertronians can consume to create different effects, such as change biolight color or rejuvenate the spark. Needless to say, these cities get a lot of traffic from other Cybertronians and aliens.
Some bots are low crystallized, such as Metroplex, whose major crystal complex is vis famous crystal labyrinths. But few are the highly crystallized. As shown in vis Titan alt mode, ve is covered in giant crystal shards and towers. These are, keep note, NOT buildings. Buildings on Titans “melt into their skin” and do not stick out in Titan form. The crystals however are not a part of the Titan’s “membrane” so to speak, so they retain their forms.
Scorponok verself loves crystals as well. Ve is a master jeweler and geologist, and knows all kinds of ancient secrets left untapped by the modern Cybertronians. Ve holds vis own gem club, open to both factions. As with most Titans, he does not give one ounce of respect toward the concept of factions, much less what a grouchy bucket head says about them. But because a majority of vis citizens follow this concept of thought, ve had to compromise and set up “sanctuary” areas in which bots of whatever faction can meet, and ve does vis job of preventing capture or battle in said areas. Such areas are used for various purposes such as jewelry making or making concoctions. Some bots come for fun, such as Beachcomber and Hound, and some come when they have to learn science or make food or gifts for others. The jewelry area is constantly visited bots like Sunstreaker, Knock Out, Starscream, and Tracks. A mess. Not violent fights as the organics do, gRosS, but heavy amounts of snark and competition and petty nonsense. Scorponok is absolutely oblivious to the malicious nature of some of these fights. There are some bots that aren’t petty that go to the meetings every now and then, such as Ve believes that one day, members of vis gem club will become vis Compeers. Because its always a good idea to have your best friends be trusted leaders, especially such competent members such as they.
Scorponok’s Titan form is inspired by Insecticons. The age of Titans was really ancient, before Insecticons came to Cybertron. So, vis ancient Titan form looked nothing as it does now. Ve changed vis Titan form as such because ve thought Insecticons were really cool. Ve is also a popular areas for Insecticons because they love to consume microscopic gem particles that line vis surface.
As with most Titans, Scorponok never really appears in Titan form. In Titan form, Titans feel pretty much as how humans so, unable to feel the “souls” of vis citizens or the hum and rhythm of the planet. Its incredibly scary and lonely for them, and is only done if some reaction was accidentally set off, or if ve had to protect the planet or something. This picture in all purposes just for show. Scorponok is actually a very Big Boi, especially in comparison to a lot of Autobot cities such as Metroplex and Iacon.
As a side note on the design of the city. The stacks of rings on some of the shapes indicate that the land is “floating”. This is in fact alien technology, as in, not Cybertronian in nature. Cybertronians thought it was super cool and thus added it to their geography. Scorponok thus did not make the floating islands and is incredibly joyed by the sight of them
There is a specific bridge of floating islands that cross over all of Cybertron called the Round Rail, as shown by the circular floating bits that appear to be connected to another. Cybertronians can be launched to and from cities with a powerful jet of air that is really fun to ride on. The jets of air are from the floating islands and Cybertronians control their destination just by wishing it through their wifi like communication system.
(One thing that I am doing now with format is changing what content is put in the text. Basically, indepth lore text is put here on Tumblr or Deviantart, while personal commentary on making the art will be on IG and Twitter!)
