This is me ranting about Cybertronian biology in this AU only bringing up cultural things here and there I'll make a separate post for their culture!
No art again sorry! also this is a lot of talking about my au and how it works, problem is I have severe Dyslexia and rely on speech to text so I hope everything comes across properly and it didn't miss hear me at all.
So my Cybertronians are kind of weird I wanted to make them a little bit more anthropomorphic creature than just mental humans, although they are giant robots they're also alien giant robots and I wanted to pull out the alien a bit more! My main design goal is to kind of give them the vibe I get off of wild animals example, lions are actually pretty cute until there's one right in front of you then suddenly you're scared I want to do something like that with cybertronians! they're actually kind of cute until you make one angry suddenly you stop thinking they're cute.
They're not going to be straight up animals that transform into vehicles as like I said their anthropomorphic (I furried your robots) so anthropomorphic robots with amalistic traits that transform.
Traits they always have with some variation
Typically a cat like muzzle but the shape can vary from individual (so more dog like bird like blah blah blah they have a muzzle!)
Sharp teeth
Retractable claws
Tails that also can vary in shape and length
Traits they might sometimes have
Animalistic Ears (size and shape can vary)
More or less than two eyes (not including Empurata)
Plantigrade, Digitigrade, Ungulates, maybe they go to snake route or something a bit more alien
Weirder body proportions
About their diet
So you may have noticed sharp teeth, claws and front facing eyes that's predator traits, yep their predators, they're diet is metal and energon and they can get both of those things by hunting and eating Cyberanimals, and Cyberanimals can get their nutrition by eating Cyberplants or other Cyberanimals! (depending on the diet of the Pacific animal of course) Just like most carnivores cybertronians aren't 100% carnivorous as they do also eat Cyberplants but it's not as nutritious for them. Also if them being carnivores make you feel all sorts of weird and maybe scared don't worry they cannot eat organics! But if you were in this universe, Decepticons don't like organics and would probably kill you anyway so hope you meet a Autobot!
Food Preparation
Now they could and oftentimes will just kill the animal and eat it right there with no preparation needed, same thing with cyber plants simply just pick a fruit off a tree and start eating, but they like to spice up their food sometimes and make drinks, dishes, snacks or even emergency food storage like energon cubes. Fun fact drinks are made with Cyberplants, leaves for tea fruit for many drinks you get it! But if you process fruit in a special way that's how you can get highgrade Energon!
Cybertronians ancestors
Draconictronians (my rename for primes predacons) in this universe they were the very first to exist and eventually evolve into Cybertronians over time, Draconictronians can't really scan alt modes and are just stuck with the one they have which always is a Draconic like creature. there is still Draconictronians around but they're quite rare now and is considered endangered. Be polite too your local Draconictronians it's not fun to know your species is endangered.
Cybertronian Subspecies
Junkions have evolved the ability to be able to put themselves back together quite easily and painlessly as long as the joints themselves are not damaged, they also can thrive better in more hostile environments compared to typical Cybertronians. They have a natural desire to collect material scraps and reuse them that also has extended to things like garbage which has caused them to developed a culture evolving around collecting garbage and recycling it. They can have alt modes that don't just relate to garbage collection and scan alt modes but no matter Cybertronian alt mode or even getting a Earth alt mode it always become a more rugged and apocalypse like version of what they got, seems their biology is always ready for a hostile environment.
Minicons evolved to be much smaller than the average Cervatronian and have the ability to stick with them like the remora as they have the ability to become magnetic at will to Pacific Cybertronian of their choosing, they typically tend to have alt modes that complement fellow Minicons or other Cybertronian, but they can also have other kind of alt modes and scan alt modes but unlike how in some cases (typically among multi-changers) Cybertronians that are larger can have smaller alt modes Minicons can only go for small alt modes. They also have a symbiotic relationship with other Cybertronians as they can give an energy boost but also their diet consists of pest or parasites (aka they eat things like Scraplets and Energy leeches) due to how they get their nutrients they've evolve to form very strong bonds with other Cybertronians and will choose a Cybertronian to stick by their side, because of this they can be very loyal friends or partners, but their people if you wrong them you can lose their trust and they can leave! Minicons can also be other subspecies or the ancestor species, so you can have a Draconictronian Minicon or a Junkion Minicon.
Fan gen name fun fact
The name of my fan generation actually came from me thinking about how Cybertronians will probably become cryptids so quickly and maybe even be mistaken for already existing cryptids!
(Bigfoot posing Ratchet)
Even make me think that maybe our main human cast are in a cryptid hunting club! Which eventually causes them to meet their Robot alien friends!
I'm here to talk a little bit more about some characters in my fan gen Transformers Cryptids! instead of just insane rambles! No drawings yet though because I have no motivation ): but I am here to talk about the main character of my fan gen.
Yes Brainstorm in my au is the main character, yes I'm obsessed with him.
⚠️Also this post might be subject to editing especially if there's any story changes⚠️
So about that Brainstorm I owe you
Brainstorms parents are Sixshot and Ultra Magnus, Ultra Magnus is his stepfather but Brainstorm does not know a life without Ultra Magnus as Sixshot met Ultra Magnus when Brainstorm was a newly forged sparkling and been in his life ever since, to him Ultra Magnus is just one of his 2 Dads. (Brainstorm is aware he's not biologically related to Ultra Magnus)
Six shot and Ultra Magnus later have a kid together who is Arcee making her Brainstorms younger sister.
Quickswitch and Brainstorm are the same person, Brainstorm is FTM and Quickswitch is his dead name.
Brainstorm is a six-changer and was taught Ninja techniques including those from a six clan as he was growing up, sixshot hoped it will help him protect himself. Brainstorm still ultimately becomes a scientist so scientist Ninja!
Brainstorm alt modes are a race car, tank, submarine, cybertronian sniper rifle and Bat. I compared him to a Bat in one of my posts I'm making him a Bet!
Brainstorm gets together with Magnificus AKA Quark and becomes The stepfather too Quark's adopted son Ga'mede.
Personality
He appears to be pretty shy and quiet as he's normally not the one to start interactions but if you were to interact with him you will find that he's actually quiet sociable, lively, kind, determined, sensitive, emotionally intelligent and just intelligent. he does have a couple problems though like trying to get him to be the first to interact with someone it's pretty hard, as if they don't share his interest he struggles to figure out how to interact he's not being mean, just a little awkward! He's a thinker just a little too much, thinking so much his brain begins overheating. he could also be very stubborn as a example he has tried things over and over to the point of tears when actually he just needed to simply take a break and come back to it later.
Family
Sixshot (bio Falter)
Ultra Magnus (Stepfather)
Optimus prime (Brainstorms Uncle, brother of Ultra Magnus)
Okay time to overanalyze G1 Brainstorm because I love him
Seriously where's my fellow G1 Brainstorm fans at?!
G1 brainstorm is not giving enough love both by the fan base and in the literal show itself
Anyway so 99% of this a tire thing is just going to be me reading way too much into a character who wasn't written with the idea of a character, but instead the idea of marketing toys? Yep, but let's be honest that's probably how we got the versions of the characters we love today! Also to make it clear this is about G1 not the Headmasters, IDW or the IDW reboot. Anyway have my insane rambling for the sake of fun.
Brainstorm likes and respects organic life!
G1 Brainstorm seems to have quite a bit of respect for humans and see them as equals, this can be seen with the fact that he believes that humans can help make cybertronians stronger but also when he's talking about it Highbrow tries to quickly sum up what Brainstorm is talking about to another bot, "Oh Brainstorms trying to prove that we can function better with human operators inside us" which Brainstorm besides to corrects him "Human partners, Highbrow!" With the fact that he correct Highbrow by rephrasing it as a partnership tells me Brainstorm doesn't want this to be a someone is stronger than the other or someone's fully in control and the other listens fully relationship, he wants it to be a partnership where both parties are equal and work alongside each other! I even say all of this extends to organic life in general due to the Nebulas being roped into his idea. "You mean putting Humans- uh Nebulas inside the Autobots bodies?" He even corrects himself to include them despite the fact that his original plan had nothing to do with them.
He kind of casually gets bullied-
Fuck you Hardhead /j but like our Laurel first introduction to Brainstorm in G1 is him trying to show that his theory is proven and think of how to put his idea in motion just to immediately be shot down quite rudely by Hardhead, "correction the problem is you and your stupid ideas!" Like damn that's pretty rude and on top of that later his idea is stolen by the decepticons like he just exists in this series and bad things happen to him!
he's quiet but willing and happy to talk when spoken to
So like I know for a fact it's just them not doing much for him but most of the time he doesn't seem to speak until someone speaks to him, it's just a small little thing and it's happened to several other characters before but it could always be reinterpreted as being shy or learning to be quiet because a similar interactions like with Hardhead
The Return Of The Golden Age!
Ok so about that whole Brainstorms the one who brought back the golden age in G1 thing I brought up in my first post! when you think about that scene Optimus prime has with alpha trion where alpha trion is bringing up that bringing humans and cybertonians together will bring back the Golden age... Hey I wonder whose idea did that? I wonder who's the one who ultimately brought back the Golden age? That's right it was Brainstorm! He's the one who thought about bringing humans and cybertonians together as one! But like the show never acknowledges that fact, He's never given credit for the fact that it was his idea that caused this, he's not even made into the leader of the Headmasters!
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