Spoilers for a possible scene in By the light of ghost stars BC I was thinking thoughts last night. Mind the tags!
Primus meets his first humans :)
haha i gave the funny robot god trauma.
[In this scene, I'll probably make it so that Sam hasn't gotten his alt yet, only his bot form. He'll get his alt when the Primal Rage kicks in and Primus decides he needs a more aggressive form]
When I initially decided to make Sam become the new vessel of the AllSpark, I already knew that it would create problems, both physically and mentally, for him. Being forced to give up your humanity at the whim of some ancient deity is no picnic.
However
I realized that it would be very interesting to see Primus face repercussions for possessing and changing Sam (although he didn't have much of a choice). Yes, Sam's body has been changed to be more inline with what he creates, but Primus has never really experienced a regular, mortal form.
Primus has been an untouchable god to his creations, and despite his dormancy, he has always been revered by his creations. None of them would ever wish him harm, and they didn't know that the AllSpark was, in a way, Primus, when they launched it into space.
While he knows who Sam is (he's had months to study him while he brought him back and changed his body) and he knows that he's on a new planet with some of his creations, he really hasn't been aware of what has been going on since he got launched out into space, away from his body. He knew that there was a war, but he didn't know how bad it had gotten until he realized how many sparks had returned to the Well upon awakening when Sam did. As a result, he immediately set about gestating a batch of newsparks.
Despite being awake, Primus didn't actually get to experience the world until he took control of Sam after he got knocked out. Primus has no idea that he's not in good company, and since the only human he's had experience with was willing to sacrifice anything for his last Prime, he mistakenly believes that all humans are good. He's never been attacked directly, never experienced fear. He doesn't pick up on the danger until a set of harpoons sink into him and hold him down.
Primus might be a god, but Sam is not, and Primus is in his body. He panics, overwhelmed by the new, negative senses, and the researchers manage to get his gestation chamber open and extract one of the newsparks before he realizes what's happening.
While the humans don't understand what they're holding, Primus does, and he's furious.
