[ID: Banner image contains two silhouette figures of Drift, holding the greatsword with a white-red glow within the hilt, and a techno-organic OC standing next to him. Both are looking off to the sun in warm gradient colours and surrounded by flowers and a bush in background. An edit manip created by me.]
Continuity Summary:
“Transformers: Valiant Keepers is a fan continuity that sets within the 23rd Century in the Functionists Universe that follows a hearing impaired techno-organic OC: Roxana Valiente and, her Sire and Guardian: Drift | Deadlock, who embark on the journey to survive and uncover dark secrets unravel behind the Functionist Empire that threatened the fate of Cybertron and its future. But, Roxana, Drift and their clan will soon learn the truth of their destiny...”
Main Characters wip atm:
Roxana “Roxie” Valiente - she/her + demisexual lesbian - a hearing-impaired techno-organic who is quiet and friendly, carrying a pendant that contains Cybertronian's secrets. She later come in accidental contact with a sacred artifact left behind by a Prime.
Reyes Diego Valiente | “Drift” Deadlock - genderfluid + polyamorous bisexual - a triple changer and Greatsword wielder with a dark past come to haunt him. He is Roxana's Sire through spark donor. There is more to him than he's letting on.
Noriko Watanbe | Windblade - she/her + demisexual pansexual - a good-natured Outlier who is taking on the toll of being the last surviving Cityspeakers. She's the mom to Roxana and helped Drift and Ratchet to raise her up.
Amos Rafferty | Ratchet “Ratty” - he/him + pansexual - Team medic who isn't afraid to throw down his servos at anyone dared to hurt the ones he loved and with a tenacity to fuss over Roxana's wellbeing. Has complicated history with Pharma.
Mia Chambers | Chromia - she/her + bisexual - shieldmaiden axe wielder and the team tank. Was the former bodyguard to Dai Atlas.
Nyx - she/her + asexual - a mysterious cybertronian cat chosen to become a pet familiar to Roxana.
Elysia O’Neill | Elita-1 then Elita Prime - she/her trans woman + bisexual - The current Matrix bearer who carried the burden of a leadership for her clan. Became a Prime that threatened the Emperor. Willing to put her clan’s safety before herself. Formerly Megatronia.
Scout Walker | Soundwave - they/them nonbinary + asexual - the clan’s resident hacker who mastered the arts of stealth and technology. Loves to annoy the Functionists and throw them off their feet.
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trope theme: mostly found family, polyamory love between three characters, techno-organics need more love, disabled protag, fantasy, mecha-inspired-by-tekkaman blade.
if I ever made my own AU verse for MTMTE/Lost Light arc to put Roxie into it, I would had added Windblade and Chromia to the Lost Light crew.
Since Chromia and Windblade are the moms to Roxie while Drift and Ratchet are the dads.
this was in favour to the main verse where Roxie has Drift as her Sire, and then Windblade, Chromia and Ratchet as her adoptive parents who helped Drift in raising her up within Dai Atlas' clan while fleeing from the Functionist Empire.
The Scavengers do exist in this cont, but Nickel and Grimlock will be changed to someone else (unsure who but I'm thinking of two autobot canon characters to throw into the group). Remember, Functionist universe with no Autobots vs Decepticons factions in reboot.
This came to me of a scenario imagine where Roxie and Ravage ended up in Scavengers' temporarily care after a teleportation pad gone wrong and sent them somewhere else that left Clan Valiant panicking and trying to find her and Ravage.
I once headcanon Misfire is fluent in sign languages and is the reliable mech to communicate with deaf and mute characters. They are the only member of the group willing to approach and interact with Roxie, trying their best to communicate through sign and lipreading. Misfire is more than happy enough to speak for her or repeat things if needed. They just took one look at Roxie, who was frightened and lost, and thought 'I must protect this techno-organic' mode.
Misfire spent more time hanging out with Roxie who brought her out of her shy shell. Once knowing she was separated from her family, Misfire made it a mission to help her and Ravage find a way back home, while completely unaware that Roxie was a member of Clan Valiant and she was on The List as high priority by Functionist Division.
Misfire argued with the others at first and defended Roxie over the suggestion on selling her off to get credits... Yes, Roxie was hurt and she understand that they needed to survive in a corrupted universe--it's not easy living within it. She appreciated Misfire stood up for her--actually a stranger that cares about her really warms her spark. But that eventually changed when the Division arrived to hunt down Fulcrum, who was a traitor to the Empire and it's not until they gave up Fulcrum once one of them spotted Roxie. The rest of the Scavengers grown attached to her and decided to band together to help her reunite with her family, even if it means fighting against the Division.
Of course, that means finding a stable communication center so Roxie can send a message to Soundwave and pinpoint her coordinates. They all worried that the message was not sent when the Division destroyed the tower, and it's not until the entire clan showed up, fought against Division and allowed the time to get Roxie and the Scavengers out of the dangerzone.
Once they are safe and patched up, the Scavengers has to part ways, bc the Valiant Clan have their own quest, so Roxie and Misfire said their goodbyes. Misfire gifted a beacon device to the Clan as an alliance to call on the Scavengers if they take the fight to Functionist Empire.
Elita, the clan's leader, accepted the alliance offer.
Cont setting: shattered glass > functionist universe with no Autobots and Decepticons factions. There'll be characters from either factions sort into main lineups, mercenaries, civilains or Functionist Empire. (this to explain why I have Soundwave, Windblade etc in main lineup with no affiliation conflicts).
Casts for main lineup may change up a bit, and expand on the Functionist Justice Division to include more characters.
Main villian besides Empress Minerva? Zeta Prime, who is now formerly the corrupted Orion Pax so a bit of a rename from Nemesis. (I have reasons for this due to a crossover cont with a friend's).
There will be no humans due to near-extinction of them in this cont, but techno-organics with human dnas are still in this cont because of Roxie and Minerva, but they are rare.
A major change to backstory was Roxie grew up with Clan Valiant and had pre-estalished family relationship with main lineup and friendship with Shatter (that eventually leads into romantic relationship after prologue. Shatter and Roxie met for first time three years before prologue). Instead of meeting the lineup for first time after prologue in original plan. This still means Deadlock was not separated from Windblade and Perceptor after freeing Roxie.
Happy Halloween from my techno-organic oc Roxie and the cyber-cat, Ravage. 🎃
Roxie celebrates the occassion as it is, also, her creation date. Her Sire Deadlock freed her on this day in the year 2234, as he had no idea when she was created originally. the witch dressup played a role for Roxie being a warlock in my original fan continuity and Ravage isn’t one of Soundwave’s cassette but acts more of a familiar to her.
I like to imagine Deadlock (Reyes), Windblade (Noriko) and Perceptor (Percy) got together when Roxie was five years old, Windblade and Perceptor helped to raise Roxie up and became her adoptive parents through their polyam marriage with Deadlock.
Roxie adopts Grimlock (Grim) the lovable Bernese Mountain Dog, and Ravage the affectionate black cat as her pets. Both were rescues in this sims 4 au (and everyone lives longer and immortals bc pets dying of old ages was too emotional for me to handle).
They moved to the countryside away from the city life as the apartments were too cramped with only 1-2 rooms. Deadlock wanted to provide a roof over Roxie's head and live her life away from anything associated with his past.
Perceptor happened to find a perfect farmhouse avaliable with lots of rooms and land for Grimlock to run around, though it needed some renovation suited to their preferences. The trio agreed it would be a perfect home for the newfound family to start new lives and memories. Perceptor helped Roxie with her homeworks and assignments because there's nothing with asking for help he told her.
Roxie enjoys photography in her spare time, hence there are family and pets photos in the house. Windblade loves arts and teaching Roxie about witchcraft and potion brewery. They're spellcasters in sims 4.
Grim and Ravage loves to follow Roxie around and do play with each others. Grim likes to roll in the mud and puddles, whereas Ravage likes to lay on the desk soaking up the sun.
Perceptor does science stuffs and teach at the university as part-time, whereas Deadlock spends his free time doing yoga, meditation collecting swords while doing mechanic works on cars and bikes. What he does for a living isn't for Roxie's ears.
Roxie does meet Shatter (Sasha) and started dating her, but I haven't decided on how did they met. Probably online on social media platforms when they became close friends.
I haven't been active much or involve with og fan cont lately for personal reasons. Writimg for TF gets really overwhelming for me and my cont wasn't all that interesting, which is true I'm afraid.
So, I'm going to post and reveal major spoilers I had for this cont as chances of writing are unlikely:
1. The Thirteen Primes are different with my own interpretations for this cont rather than the canon version. Vector Stigma is not a Prime but more of architect to create the Vaults for the Primes to hide their secrets and artifacts.
These Prime are:
Lux Prime (warrior of Light), Solus Prime (warrior of Flame), Onyx Prime (Guardian of Beasts), Obscurus Prime (Guardian of Outliers), Zosmius Prime (Alchemist Healer), Clio Prime (Archivist and Storyteller Guardian), Logos Prime (Guardian of Time and Space), Nox Prime (warrior of Night), Arachne Prime (Guardian of Insecticon), Zinta Prime (Guardian of Warlocks), Scientia Prime (Guardian of Science), Froya Prime (guardian of Shieldmaiden), Nexus Prime (Guardian of Titans).
Any talks of the Thirteen Primes are considered as a myth and anyone would get into trouble with the Functionists on questioning the Emperor’s motives or openly discuss about the Thirteen Primes.
2. The Quintessons do appear in this, but they are not squid creatures. They take on heavy inspirations of Reapers from Mass Effect, and while in history there mentions of Quintessons mysteriously wiped out, but the truth is? They were repurposed and reformatted into dangerous sentinet machines served as the fleet with Emperor Zeta Prime as its leader to command.
The Quintessons were responsible for Earth's destruction to an apocalypse state and the extinction of humans. Only 20,000 cyborg humans were left alive and taken refugees on Hedonia. There was supposedly other transport evacuation ships leaving Earth but sadly the ships were caught by the Quintessons.
3. Minerva is actually Quintessa... The Quintesson Empress and sorceresses. Her original body was destroyed and in ruins, leading to Zeta having to rebuild her into a techno-organic. This is the reaspn for why Minerva has a human form due to the dna imprinted into her for appearance. She wears the mask to hide herself.
4. Red Energon exists as the counter to Dark Energon. Red Energon is the sole reason how Roxie survived Dark Energon infection caused by interrogation under Rung's electrocution. Deadlock used his greatsword onto Roxie to save her life.
5. At some point in story when the mask breaks and exposed the Empress' identity, Roxie get the shock of her life and questioned Minerva's deep connection with her. The truth is... Minerva is technically Roxie's mother through human DNA. It occured when she absorbed dna from Minerva's after Deadlock discovered her existence and brought her to life.
6. Deadlock has the matrix of Lux Prime. The matrix was the sole reason on him sired Roxie through spark donor.
7. Roxie is a warlock,like how Minerva is a Sorceress. Her powers were awaken after coming in contact with Zinta Prime's artifact within the vault on Hedonia after Ravage lead her to it. Ravage became her familiar.
8. Windblade will discover who betrayed her and her coven resulting in her being the last cityspeaker and Caminus outlier. Lightbright is her sworn enemy after Lightbright sold the coven out to the Functionists. Windblade wielded the Staff belong to Mistress of Flame. Windblade carried the matrix of Solus Prime.
9. Perceptor had a complicated history and an on/off relationship with Pharma. Perceptor was a professor at the academy knowing to refugee outliers not discovered by the Functionists. Perceptor carried the matrix of Scientia Prime.
10. The main lineup will be separated away from Decepticons to pursue on their main mission to assist Roxie and Deadlock on finding the vaults. They went to infiltrate the Functionists' HQ on Hedonia to steal a ship so they can leave for Earth to resume their mission. Galvatron and his reinforcements helped out by distracting the Functionists to allow the main crew to escape.
Said main lineup were: Roxie, Deadlock, Windblade, Perceptor, Grimlock, Ravage, Shatter, Slipstream, Knockout, Soundwave, Chromia and Elita-One as the crew's leader.
11. Elita and Damus had history together as the famed gladiatorial warriors.
12. Shatter seeked retribution onto Overlord due to the massacre of her own clan by his hands. She was the last surviving member.
13. Slipstream was left to dead after her Seeker crew were killed in an ambush, making her the sole survivor. However, Starscream was missing at that time.
14. Starscream was declared MIA by Galvatron, when in truth... Starscream was shadowplayed and became Jetfire.
15. Deadlock was another victim of Shadowplay.
16. Knockout was a victim of minibot trafficking within her home city. She wanted to pursue her own dream to become a medic but was promised false lies by slavers about helping her achieve dream career. Knockout was rescued by Cyclonus and was trained by Nickel as a medical assistance. She is now the main CMO of Elita's team.
17. Chromia was a former member of the Wreckers, a neutral aligned subgroup at first. Sadly, the Wreckers allied with the Functionists and branded Chromia as a traitor and Kup was forced to retire from the position as the leader due to conflicts.
18. The main crew will find Trypticon or Omega Supreme, who was reformatted, and disguised into a warship on Earth. Trypitcon/Omega Supreme's awakening had ruffled Zeta Prime's feathers. Their power would wipe out the Quintesson fleet.
19. Way later into chapters would see Roxie get captured by the mercenaries: Arcee, Cliffjumper and Tailgate. Tailgate insisted on wanting to keep Roxana as a 'pet' but Arcee favoured the high demand rewards by giving Roxie over to the Functionists for credits and get rich. Damus and the Division arrived to collect Roxie, but discovered that the mercenaries were holding back in the delivery. Mostly because a techno-organic with human dna are so rare, and the mercenaries, after Tailgate's desperate begging and obsession, decided to change their minds and keep Roxie for themselves, they hidden her away. This forced the Division to attack the mercenaries and search the place apart by force. Roxie did escaped from the mercenaries but she was eventually caught by Damus in a cat-and-mouse chase and sang a lullaby to prevent her escape. This would had counted as the most frightening experience for Roxie to endure on her own.
At the same time, Deadlock was in anguish over Roxie gone missing and the crew began to search for her tirelessly, only for Soundwave to successfully tracked her through a tracking device that Perceptor left in her hearing aids.
20. The main crew will discover the truth about the Allspark within Cybertron core locked away by Zeta Prime was a fake and Zeta used the matrixes of the fallen Primes to forge Cybertronians into their own image. The real Allspark was well protected and hidden within a secret vault.
21. The Division members are Warrior Elites, and some are actually Phase Sixers. They are fiercely loyal to Empress Minerva, more than Zeta Prime, to no fault.
22. Grimlock would avenge their Dinobots and Predacons fellow beastformers by seeking retribution onto Scorpnok for experimenting on them.
23. After prologue, Minimus Ambus had crossed the line with Minerva and was revealed as a spy for Zeta Prime after going against her orders. Minerva opted on executing him but instead she had another idea in mind for punishment was domestication.
24. Zeta Prime is Unicron. Unicron is not a planet-eater... they are infact a God deity.
when i'm playing too much of ass creed Valhalla, I already imagining Shatter getting into a lot of fights when she shouldn't.
(plot twist, she has no regrets and would 10/10 defend the crew members. Which is why Deadlock respects her and trusts her enough to look after Roxie).
Scarlett’s techno-organic headcanons for this original continuity:
Most techno-organics are constructed cold as forged techno-organic are extremely rare in most cases. There are two ways for a techno-organic to gain a spark from: the hot spots or a spark donor from a Forged Cybertronian only.
Techno-organic with a spark from a hot spot does not have a Sire. They are extremely vulnerable and are often assigned with a guardian, known as Tutela Endura, to protect them. Worst case scenario if they are not assigned with guardianship, techno-organic are likely to be sent to the dark places the Functionists Council could think of.
For the Techno-organic with a spark as the result of the spark donor… Spark donors are only eligible to Cybertronian who are Forged born, and thus making them as the techno-organic's Sire. This outcome is a purely familial relationship where both the Sire and a techno-organic Kindred with a shared spark develop a bond between each other, which is known as Cognatio Endura. Roxana and Deadlock are examples of this in this cont.
Techno-organics are 100% Cybertronian hybrids with DNA absorbed from organic species. However, most techno-organics all have cyberized lungs and a spark.
Generally, the average height for techno-organic is similar to the minibots and minicons's height, but they are shorter than them. In Roxana's case, she suffered a growth stunt after being in forced stasis pod for 600 years, the progress in her heights as she aged are more slower due to the result of this. At her activated age 20, she stands at 5ft 4in until she grew a few inches.
They do not have a self-repair system in their protoforms. Medical checkups for a techno-organic are more frequent than most Cybertronian needed for their checkups. That is if Cybertronian medics are willing to give them checkups. Luckily, Ratchet, Pharma, Velocity, Nickel and Knockout all dealt firsthandly on caring for techno-organic’s energy signatures.
After a techno-organic reaches adulthood, or in other word the activated aged 20, their appearance will remain that way and they do not age in appearance at all. Humans would likely claim the techno-organic as vampires. Unless a techno-organic wishes to alter their appearance or dye their synthetic hair colour as they wished--think like how Cybertronians reformat with a new body.
Techno-organics are not immune to disabilities. They can occur if their parts are damaged before they absorb organic DNA. Wanted to address this since Roxana has damaged audical receptors being irreparable and diagnosed with hearing impairment, which required needing hearing aids. Which is something I want to keep than curing her--there was no cure for profound deafness. I project my hearing impairment disability onto my OC for that reason.
They can consume organic foods and beverages, BUT aslong they still consume energon for refuels. There is a reason why Deadlock put energon in Roxana's foods/drinks for her energy to replenish. It is possible for a techno-organic to have an allergy reaction if their tanks are not cooperating with specific organic foods (nuts allergy as an example). Roxana does not have an allergy, however, she developed a sweet tooth, which explained her love for vanilla. (I have a headcanon that techno-organic can be a fussy eater or bake/cook foods with energon as ingredients instead of organic dairy products.).
Techno-organics subjected from spark donors DO share a genetic trait passed from their Sire, namely sharing the same colour of their optics. In this case, Roxana has gold optics as what Deadlock's original optic colour was.
Functionists looked down at techno-organics. They suffered harsh treatments much like triple changers and outliers went through. 'Half-breed' are considered as a massive insult to a techno-organic.
To tell them apart, techno-organics have a spark, cyberized lungs and no self-repair system that they needed nanities to help with healing and regular medical checkups. Whereas Pretenders does not have cyberized lungs but they do have a self repair system.
Techno-organics have synthetic hairs. They can change the colour of their hair to whichever colour suited to their preferences or a reason of their own as they pleased than waiting every two weeks-three months to redye hair unlike humans. This is to mirror with Cybertronians and changing paintjob colours.
Techno-organics with human DNA are very rare. So far, there’s possibility of four techno-organics discovered on Hedonia. Not counting Minerva who is an Empress of the Functionist Empire.
There’s rumours circling around techno-organic possessing warlock (magic) abilities without knowing, which in this case that warlocks are strictly forbidden by Cybertron standards. Minerva is a known Sorceress in this cont.
idk what prompted me to do this for Drift taking Percy and Windblade's hands prior rekindling their relationship post-prologue that I sorta imagined the scenario. sorry that I used their holomatter forms than robot hands. idk, just hands and i can't draw to save my life.
