sorry for spamming you but how do you picture a spike and a valve to look like? mind drawing them? when i read fanfiction i can never visualize anything and its just UGH
I wanted to reply to your question with some sort of diagram, but I felt like what I was drawing was less robot erotica than robot gynaecology, which was weirdly clinical and tedious. I will draw spikes and/or valves in detail at some point, but it will be in the context of a comic or piece of art that has yet to occur to me.
Basically, spikes are robot penises and valves are robot vaginas. They’re concealed beneath the pelvic plating, and it’s generally assumed that all bots have both, with the spike being mounted a short distance to the fore of the valve. Most artistic interpretations I’ve seen pretty closely imitate human genitals, albeit made of rubber and metal, and with more glowing lights.
I recommend searching the “valveplug” tag for some visuals. Many talented artists have already lent their skills to this problem and I feel like any contribution I make will only be an imitation of theirs.
Oh but before we go… some headcanons:
1) Nobody really knows why spikes and valves exist. They serve no reproductive purpose and seem to exist solely for the pleasure of their owners. Various theories have been floated over the years, the most widely accepted being the idea that spikes and valves are vestigial grounding apparatuses, intended to help bots get rid of a surfeit of electrical charge. How they ended up consisting of both a plug and a socket is a bit of a puzzler. Perhaps at one time it was advantageous for bots to transfer charge to one another, and that with passing generations of coding and models, the pleasure inherent in this energy transfer came to outweigh the need for it as a survival mechanism.
2) Spikes are fair game as conversation topics go, and most bots are happy to talk about theirs, comparing specs and modifications. Valves, on the other hand, are intensely private and really nobody’s business but one’s own, and of course one’s lover’s. You can know everything there is to know about a bot’s spike, right down to its dimensions and the colour of its biolights, while not having the foggiest clue whether their valve is similarly tricked out, or whether it’s even been used.
3) Size difference between bots can be dramatic, but this causes fewer problems than you might expect in the interface department. Valves are incredibly compliant. The only real limiter on the size of spike you can take is the width and depth of your pelvic girdle, and even that is flexible in some cases.
4) Most mature bots have their equipment modified in some way, usually to make it bigger, brighter, and/or snazzier. Some bots, however, are forged pretty impressively and prefer to keep their equipment as is, without adding so much as a coat of paint. Breakdown is one of these “au natural” types. As Knock Out is fond of putting it, it’s hard to improve upon perfection.
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