#transformers lore

[ominouspuff]

Woke

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[gumptiomdog]

BTW if you've read the skybound 28 chapter. imma be real annoying about that soon

[tracklessreason]

I like to imagine there's a lot of lost literature surrounding sparklings. Its just been so long since it was really safe to have one, no one has learned how to handle them in billions of years, and now they've forgotten what to really...do with them.

You've got bots trying to give high grade energon to literal infants ("Its high grade, I think that makes it better for them"), thinking sparklings are broken when their alarms go off and repeatedly taking them to very tired medics who keep having to repeat that that loud beeping is telling you the kid needs attention, not a tune up.

I'm such a sucker for very plain domestic situations being turned into all-hands-on-deck debacles out of sheer unawareness of how to handle normal life after eons of war.

[turtledork02]

got some fuckshit going on in my life so drawing and making lore to cope when i have time

[moustawott]

Transformers One Official Novelization Worldbuilding and Lore Bits

Thanks to the Transformers One movie novelization, here are some worldbuilding facts that weren’t explicitly shown in the movie!

About Iacon city:

Cog-less bots can only work as miners, though the tier system (described later) suggests that they can move up or down a ladder of limited job options

All cog-less bots were born after the disappearance of the Matrix of Leadership

No cog-less bot has seen the surface

The book suggests that all Transformers bot, those who can transform into alt mode, were born before the disappearance of the Matrix of Leadership

Transformers can live anywhere they want in Iacon city, unlike miners

Miners have limited transport options: they can only use public transport or walk. The book also suggests that their access to the overall city is limited, said city being divided into main Iacon and the mining sectors

it is explained that Transformers rarely watch where they step when miners are around, often kicking miners as a result. Orion also notes that some will do it on purpose (yikes!)

There is a tier system that miners can climb. The movie has D-16 mention that tier 1 is the lowest. In the novel, D-16 is trying to reach tier 11 by the end of the current cycle. It is implied that D-16 is one of the fastest rank-climber amongst the miners

About Orion Pax:

His favourite Prime is Zeta Prime, who was the original bearer of the Matrix

Orion is passionate about learning the history of Cybertron, hence him often sneaking into the archives

Miscellaneous facts:

According to the novel, here are the Prime cogs each of the main 4 characters received: Orion has Prima's, D-16 has Onyx's, Elita has Alchemist's, and Bee has Micronus'

In some ways, the novel was better at telegraphing D-16's fall. The signs of him eventually getting tired of backing up Orion and failure to control his bloodthirst are more obvious to the reader.

Shoutout to the novel for also making Orion's motivations more obvious when it came to dealing with Sentinel: Orion knows that killing Sentinel won't actually solve the issue and believes Sentinel can be overthrown and stripped of his power without unnecessary violence. (My personal interpretation is that D-16 is using his desire for justice—more like vengeance really—to feel better about himself, not actually improve Cybertron. It’s the same logic those who support the death penalty have. They like the death penalty because it makes their own feelings better, no matter how ineffective the death penalty is for improving society.)

[folkhundr]

thinking about the idea of declawing cybertronians who have claws (angst)

Flight frames having sharp claws to help them interact with objects more delicately, and it translates to their every day usage of objects; datapads from Vos are thinner and more sensitive to the smallest of touches because it's built for the tips of claws instead of blunt digits. Their claws are thinner, sharper, perfect to get into the seams of armor when preening.

Starscream having sharp claws, while Skyfire has duller ones.

Declawed bots have heavier hands. The tips of their digits are cut off and often they struggle with depth perception and sensitivity and press down on things far harder than they should, just so they know they're touching something.

Sentinel declawed Cinderhymn the second he got scratched over something small.

Cinder still struggles with feeling anything in the tips of his digits, and always slams doors when he doesn't mean to, or his hands shake and tremble when he focused and tries to be more gentle.

[keeweei]

The superpowers a character has usually comes with usually had certain traits that come with it. Speedsters tend to be abit cocky, super strength is usually leaders, and invisibility usually comes with shyness.

But mirage isn’t like that at *all*. Mirage is an outgoing fashionista rich boy. But than why is his power going invisible?

I think it’s actually an allegory of how the war changed bots. Mirage before the war was aristocratic, and carries a lot of that high-society leisure with him. Before the war his life was decorated. He likes being seen. He’s extroverted. But because he can go invisible, he *has* to go invisible. He *has* to be a soldier because he HAD to choose a side. His ability as a soldier completely conflicts with who he is as a person. Thats tragic. anyway he should kiss skywarp or something