#functionist council

[awesomecoyote337]

The Functionist Council and Autobot society when a therapist actually starts helping bots with mental health instead of just their functionality and saying "Form dictates function"

[cosmic-orchid]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/9 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007), Super Sentai Series, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, ウルトラシリーズ | Ultra Series, ウルトラマンコスモス | Ultraman Cosmos, 王様戦隊キングオージャー | Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime, Hinted Jazz/Prowl (Transformers) Characters: Megatron (Beast Wars), Optimus Prime, Doggie "Boss" Kruger, Ultraman Justice, Sentinel Prime (Transformers), Rita Kanisuka, Rita Kaniska, Jazz (Transformers), Prowl (Transformers), Mentioned Barricade (Transformers) - Character, mentioned Lockdown (Transformers), Functionist Council, Ten-of-Twelve (Transformers), Twelve-of-Twelve (Transformers), Galactic Council (Transformers), God Papillon (King-Ohger), Mentioned Elita One (Transformers) - Character, Mentioned Master Yoketon (Transformers), Ultra Magnus (Transformers), mentioned Megazarak (Transformers) Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Mob, Alternate Universe - Police, Oppressive Government, Court Trial, Trials, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Politics, They/Them pronouns for Rita Kanisuka, They/Them Pronouns for Ultraman Justice, Continuity Soup (Transformers), Continuity What Continuity Summary:

It is the most anticipated trial in Cybertron's history. The trial of the notorious mob boss, Cast Iron, is about end with a predetermined verdict.

However, a leak has caused the Galactic Council to take command of the trial to the shock and confusion of very bot.

Why is the Galactic Council interfering and how is a snitch related to this?

Inspired by @pastelpaperplanes ‘s Cop and Mafia Au

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime,where do Cybertronians that have animal auto modes or non vehicles auto modes fall in the Functionism cast system?

Dear Form Factionalist,

Unfortunately, most ‘bots with animal forms fell quite outside the bounds of Functionism! Following the disappearance of “Onyx Prime” from Cybertron at the end of the First Cybertronian Civil War, those beast-formers who had already not left the planet wound up largely excluded from the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, disparaged as little more than “throwbacks” from a primitive age. Initially, most beast-formers simply rejected Nova Prime’s burgeoning society and left to continue their life in the wilderness as they always had—hunting turbofoxes, foraging for natural energon deposits, and marking their territories. Elders who had lived through the reign of the Primes passed down traditional knowledge to younger ‘bots, who raised cairns and mounds to memorialize an era of peace and prosperity they’d never known.

With the passage of time, however, Cybertronian society continued to urbanize, pushing these last holdouts into smaller and smaller tracts of untamed land. When it became clear that these hardliners would not surrender their territory, Nominus Prime and the Senate passed legislation that would formally recognize a number of beast-form genera into the growing Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy—a legislative tactic that quite annoyed the Functionist Council!

Unfortunately, most beast-formers occupied a very low rank on the Functionist hierarchy. Within the bounds of “polite society”, the best that most beast-formers could hope for was a job at one of Cybertron’s many research and development firms, where beast-formers would be regularly used as test subjects for new surgical techniques, various addictive drinks, or new forms of electronic paint. A few, such as Krok, deliberately removed their transformation cogs and joined the Militant Monoform Movement in an attempt to distance themselves from their origins.

However, other beast-formers found lucrative jobs in Cybertron’s criminal underworld—some, like Scorponok, became frightening enforcers. Others operated black-market relinquishment clinics, catering to those rare Cybertronians who wanted to experience the forbidden thrill of experiencing life as a cybercat or lupinoid.

[barbelo-babe]

one bot’s Functionist Council is another Matoran’s typical societal and biological structure.

[pluralsword]

Hot take joke bit- Arcee's helm vaguely resembles a transformation cog, which the Functionist Council emulate. The twelve of them arguably overcompensating for not being (trans) women unlike 'Cee, and get angry about the capacity for change. Huh wait- why is this familiar.

Of course Arcee’s helm only takes up this look in EXRID (her helm also looks like this in G1 and Cyberverse), not the look she had from her initial reformatting surgery from Jhiaxus. So we rewrote this joke:

Arcee: hey Jhiaxus do you think you could code in some audial buns with grooves for the CNA surgery? Like a transformation cog, since I'm trans. Doesn't have to be 1 for 1, just reminiscent.

Jhiaxus: of course my lady (proceeds to not do that because it doesn’t fit his idea of a woman)

Arcee, later: Jhiaxus is such a transmedicalist scraphead

Later, the Functionist Council: we are the pinnacle cog of alt mode and police body shape

EXRID Arcee after her surgery from Ratchet: Fragging finally I have my helm-shape that loudly declares my transness. It’s so lovely <3

All we're saying is this is good fanfic material stuff (of something that clearly wasn't intentional) with real parallels of how hateful cis folks will appropriate transformational/realization symbology/aesthetic and deny anyone seeking a better fit for themselves, trans or no. We might throw this into the next chapter of Addendum to have this comment in there when she looks in the mirror

the responses we got from servers we’re on include:

the council making their heads into t-cogs and whatnot is the equivalent of chuds online being like "my gender is stupid asshole and my pronouns are fuck/you" 

Arcee is so cool

[sixtus66]

Functionism bots.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

"You know why we don't have any 'old' Decepticons? Why we don't have a Kup or an Ironhide?

Because anyone back then who tried to fight the system, who wanted to make things better, who wanted to believe Cybertron could be more than it was... the Senate, the Council, the Knights killed them all. "

[sparkmender]

“—you’re beautiful.”

@three-of-twelve is a dumbass who thinks he’s romantic (and rung is arguably the bigger dumbass who can’t kill three because he also thinks three is romantic)