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I was reading some transformers fanfiction and it's a solely underutilized idea to have humans and Cybertronians be in a symbiotic relationship. In nature all the time big animals will rely on smaller animals' help.
For example humans could give repairs, clean them, and help them reach smaller places. Cybertronians can give transportation and protection of course. They're emotional benefits too; humans are really nice soft things to touch and humans like having big robot friends :3.
So I'm imagining transformers realize how useful it is to have a human partner around so they start going around trying to get one. Anyways this leads to shenanigans of course and a lot of cracky moments.

Suspiciously nice looking car in a driveway with its door opened: ....

The random human who owns the driveway: ...

Human: *Turns around* Screw that! I'm not becoming part of the human distribution system today, no sir I am not.

Cybertronian: *Sad beeping noises*

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The bots that "hate" humans are really just the dads who say they hate the animal you brought home but like a week later is sleeping with them in his lap.

Transformers use a microwave type noise as a pdpspsh sound.

Some homeless people will just chill in a bot's house to try getting free food and shelter. It works like 80% of the time.

You know that one skit "Where's this dog i keep hearing about?" Idk but something like that would be funny.

The transformers would absolutely lose their mind over babies.

When Noah meet/steals mirage once they get to the warehouse he starts celebrating at final getting a human. He's like your my friend now we're going to eat soft tacos later. (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ
(Which now I'm thinking about isn't actually that different from canon lol)

Humans are like so so soft to them. Like it's hard not to just squeeze their little faces for being so darn fluffy.

They will all do the human thing of seeing an animal walking around and acting like it's your first time seeing this cute blob. So an average joe will just be walking home after a shift then hears tons of honking out of no wear to see like three bots excitedly pointing at them.

Humans are like so so soft to them. Like it's hard not to just squeeze their little faces for being so darn fluffy.

The crazy cat lady equivalent is called a crazy fleshy bot or crazy human lover.
This is the best I could think of.

You know cat huffing? I bet some bots do that too. We are a usually clean species that uses a lot of scented items. I bet from a planet made of metal they don't have a lot of pleasant or any variety of scents.
I saw some good fan art of various humans being smushed into the faces of a bot and it reminded me of cat huffing.

Humans will also be feral little murder monkeys.

What I'm trying to go for is:

Alien: Because for reasons beyond my understanding I feel compelled to have that little death machine love me.

Human: Welcome to being a cat owner.

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Tired AF Sam after defeating Megatron : Uggggh I really need to eat.

Optimus dying a little inside: I see.... enjoy yourself.......
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*when Mirage & Noah first met*

Mirage: Oh my God please don't eat me bro. I promise you I'm not tasty.

Noah: (The fuck) I won't???

Mirage: Thank the allspark I'm too young to die yet.

Noah: ??????

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*Charlie nawing on a spoon*

*Bee scooches away*

Charlie: Whaw-t?

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This is purely crack and I wanted more content on humans being scary to the bots.

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I just love the untold intimacy of transformers & humans touching each other.

There's just something so special about it to me you know? The trust the human has that their robot friend wouldn't hurt them and the bot's love for this small being that's not even a fraction of their lifespan.

Cybertrionains have been through centuries of war and have like so much trauma it's unreal. While humans are capable of great misery we're ultimately made to love.

Bumblebee for example has been shown to have found great comfort in humans. This dude was thrust into a world war he didn't want to be in and became a full on war veteran before he turned 25.

Like don't even get me started on his relationship with Sam. I can't say anything that hasn't already been said.

Megatron & Dot is another good relationship. He's so gentle with her and just so happy to be her friend! There's this one scene where she even hitches a ride on Megatron's leg. (Can't find it though)

Of course I can't forget Bulkhead and Miko. He's just straight up her dad. It's very obvious that she doesn't like or have a good parental figure in her life. The team is probably Miko's true family in her eyes. She might be a little shit but she's Bulkhead's little shit.

I just also just love size differences in general. It appeals to a lot of creatures in my brain. It's probably in my top 5 of best tropes in fiction.

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In this au the war ended before humanity got involved in it but for one reason or another we still find out about the bots. Standard fist contact stuff happens you know but the bots eventually realize how much calmer they are around humans.

Bots find it hard to go into statis when there's a high likelihood of being attacked in your sleep, but with humans those worries seem to just melt away. It's kinda weird to them to feel protected by a very small organic creature. Regardless stuff like this keeps happening so seeing an economic opportunity humans created "Flesh therapy." (Everyone thinks it's a terrible name but it was the one that stuck)

Flesh therapy could be but not limited to: cable straightening, therapy sessions, human cuddling, car washes, becoming living fidget toys or the main thing live in human therapy dogs.

It will vary but usually a human will live most of the time with a bot (the company will provide basic necessities) and help them through daily life. They have their own vest with cybertronian writing and a government issued work id.

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I'm seeing these fics on ao3 where the tfp kids get forcefully turned into a bot and while they're nice I want to see one where Miko turns herself into a transformer on purpose.

Look me in dead the eyes and say she wouldn't absolutely become a predacon if given half the chance. She gets to join the autobots and can be a dragon at the same time? Hell yeah she would do it.

So I'm thinking Miko is on the nemesis for whatever reason then while running around overhears a conversation between Megatron and shockwave. For whatever reason the decepticon leader is looking into how to turn organics into bots. They have successfully achieved it and discuss all the details about it. Once the two leave Miko steals whatever would turn her into a cybertronian and sneak off.

So I'm thinking Miko is on the nemesis for whatever reason then while running around overhears a conversation between Megatron and shockwave. For whatever reason the decepticon leader is looking into how to turn organics into bots. They have successfully achieved it and discuss all the details about it. Once the two leave Miko steals whatever would turn her into a cybertronian and sneak off.

You see for the process to work there needs to be more living metal than the creature's mass. The more metal there is the better the results. After thinking it over for a bit Miko decides to use the apex armor. Just like the eclipse fic this is inspired by she is currently being isolated by the team, probably for the same reason too.

I haven't seen any content like this yet but I might do some doodles based on it.

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Considering how much Optimus is dadified in the fandom I kinda find it surprising there isn't any ao3 fics centered on him being Sam's extra father figure. It will be like a background thing or he'll be an older brother figure but never a dad. 🤔

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I just had a funny thought that somehow Miko befriends all the main decepticons but none of the cons knows that she did this. So it's just this cartoon level of shenanigans where they're trying to keep her a secret.
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*Miko crashing noises*

Vehicon: What was that?

Megatron: The wind.

Starscream: Definitely the wind my lord.

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*Soundwave holding Miko* 

Breakdown: What do you have there soundwave?!

Soundwave: [A milkshake]

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It's also really awkward when they eventually do find out.

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*Megatron holding up a gift from Miko*

Megatron: Care to explain?

Starscream: Master I- I can explain! You see... um.

Starscream: It belongs to knockout! He's been fraternizing with the autobot's human girl!

Knockout: Seriously again?!

Starscream: He lies!

*dramatic jump from the shadows*

Breakdown: He does not! He's not the only one who's gotten friendly with the organic!

*pulls out soundwave who's covered in stickers*

Breakdown: Miko has also infected soundwave's helm with her "friendship"!

Arcanine here for the drama: Hey isn't that the same wax Miko uses on starscream lord Megatron?

Everyone: ........

Everyone: oh.

Everyone: oh.

Megatron: I don't know if I should be proud she deceived me or mad she did. 

Knockout: God we're idiots.

Arcanine: Yes you are.

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The autobots and the humans come across a relic of some sort, when Bulkhead goes to pick it up a mist of light blue is released into the air. The other autobots are far enough away from him to not get hit themselves. When the fog clears it's revealed that the wrecker had been turned into a sparkling! Miko immediately is like "this is my child now and if anything were to happen to him I'll kill everyone in this room then myself."

She turns out to be a good temporary carrier to the autobot's surprise. Miko has taken care of babies before and in all honesty transformer children are heaven compared to human ones in her opinion.

This statement prompted Ratchet to look into human sparklings and was very horrified but also extremely confused. Why, why in all of Primus would a species willingly continue to reproduce when their children are like that?!? He now truly understands the whole "motherhood is the hardest job" saying he heard from some humans.

Thankfully for transformers sparklings are extremely easy to take care of. Provide some energon, make sure nothing hurts them, and they're essentially good.

Miko of course says idgaf then goes all out. She's reading bulkhead stories, spoon feeding him, giving baths with a waxing finish, tons of affection, making him the comfiest nest, all of it! Bulkhead is a very happy spoiled little guy.

Of course something eventually has to go wrong. Miko has restrained herself from sneaking through the ground bridge for bulkhead's sake but one time she just couldn't resist it. She grabs the apex armor and runs through it. Being a baby bulk follows after her.... you can probably see where this is going.

The autobots are kicking ass as usual when they all hear a shrill shriek. Pan over to a group of vehicons with the leader holding bulkhead. They use him as hostage threatening to kill him; to emphasize their point they cut one of the little mech's cheeks.

Miko goes absolutely insane. She's acting like a feral animal and is doing things that would even make bayverse Optimus clutch his pearls. By the time Miko is done bots have thrown up, some passed out, and Megatron is metaphorically shitting himself. Obviously he calls a retreat because fuck that in all honesty. He can destroy Optimus another day.

Miko is already pretty protective of Bulkhead/her family so I imagine if you touched her "baby" she go full on psycho mama bear mode.

Following Miko's slaughter the autobots at home base obviously want to know wtf just happened. She just explains how she was protecting "her child" and any decent human mother would do the same. This prompts another look into humans but more specifically mothers. They see all the stories of human carriers pulling off seemingly physics-defining things to protect their children. It's a real eye opener for them.

After this Bulkhead is still a sparkling for a few more days but everything is pretty peaceful. He gets turned back and while she'll miss baby bulkhead Miko is glad to have her friend back.

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A great reason I saw why humanity is always attacked by aliens is that humans comparatively evolve technology thousands of times faster than other sentients. So in fear they try to get rid of us early.

I'm imagining a scenario where the autobots are being kept hostage in deep space and the humans who can't reach them yet try to advance their technology. 10 years pass and with lots of hard work with some help with transformers' tech this is essentially what happens.

Megatron: Haha admit it Optimus there's no one left to save you.

Optimus: We still have humanity.

Megatron: It's pathetic that you think those puny organics can save yo-

Human: Get knifed bitch.

*disintegrates*

Autobots: (⁠‘⁠◉⁠⌓⁠◉⁠’⁠) ?????

Human: Hey guys we finally saved you! :3

Bumblebee: *questioning bot noises*

Human: Long story short we used plutonium plus a fuck ton of energon to blow our way through the universe, and this sword sword is filled with what is essentially black matter.

Human: Anyways let's get you out of here.

10 hours later

Human: Before I forget we made another all-spark by accident so you guys deserve to have the first one we originally remade.

Optimus: T-thank you... I never. What?

Ratchet: I never thought I would live to see the day Optimus broke.

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After being in a war for millions of years transformers gotta be really fucked up. So I imagine with humans being nice and soft and having therapists that we'll be therapy dog humans.

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I read a fic where Sam became the allspark/a prime and I had a good idea. What if he became a some sort of queen for a transformer hivemind. You're going to have to hear me out in this one.

So to reform the allspark the primes have to use Sam's body. He starts craving metal, eating a lot, and waiting to be close to transformers. Sam sends out signals, subtle at first for his needs; like "I'm hungry" then the bot will feel compelled to feed Sam. Until basically all the bots try to serve him as a queen.

(The allspark technically was kinda like their queen bee. 🤷)

Anyways Sam turns into this fucked up body horror esc thing half between human and cybertronian. Also he doesn't just look like a messed up cyborg he resembles more if a biblically accurate angel had an insect body but was also a centaur being made up of 60% metal.

So this would be best if it was 50% crack and 50% angst. Cause I imagine Sam would be so fed up with the princess treatment. Plus Sam is already going through enough as it is.

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So when a bot doesn't have enough fuel they just slowly decrease in productivity before going into statis right? We humans are very different. When there's not enough food around the human body will go to drastic measures to ensure its existence just lasts that bit longer. It will eat up our own muscles and if driven far enough even eat a family member. I imagine this would be objectively very horrifying to watch for a transformer.

So I'm thinking the autobots and the prime kids are stranded somewhere with little to no food. For the first few days it's relatively normal, the bots are worried but they know humans can survive a few weeks without food but they don't know what it does to a person.

Ratchet being a medic would be the one most observation of starvation side effects. He would see how their cheeks begin to hollow out, their sluggish movement, and the...... irritability. Slowly, painfully the bots watch their human charges slowly descend into madness.

When things start to enter the late game things really kick off. Miko (of course) one day remembers something. Car seats are usually made out of leather which can be very nutritional. Of course she shuts that thought down at first because no way is she hurting her bot friends. Yet one night while the hunger naws away at Miko, she looks to bulkhead's plush seat beneath her and shakily flips open her knife.

Miko then makes a decision.

The bots try to ask what's wrong with Miko but she doesn't respond, just solely focused on eating. The kids see her and almost instantly figure it out. Whatever survival instinct they have in them kicks in so they try to also take/eat the leather. It turns into this whole messy bloody braw between them where they just go feral™️. After breaking up the fight, the bots finally learn about what starving does to animals.

Finding food becomes even more of a top priority. For the kids safety the autobots restrain them so they can't resort to cannibalism. Until they find actual food the bots do have to use their own leather. They will do whatever it needs to keep their sparklings alive.

They find a deer or something then the kids just tear into it, not even cooking it first. At least two bots threw up watching Raf being fed cut up heart pieces by Jack.

When eventually they do get back they back to society when Miko not crazy with hunger apologizes like crazy and doesn't do anything bad for like two weeks.

The bots also now keep food rations on them, no matter what. 

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• She is fluent in morse code.

• Has broken at least 10 different major laws.

• Has adhd and depression.

• Cat coded.

• One time during hide and seek with the bots she hid in Optimus's chest cavity for a hour and to this day nobody knows how she got in there without being noticed.

• If she actually liked it Miko could get all As and Bs at school.

• Has a bet with Megatron (which he acknowledges) that she refuses to tell anyone what it is. Simply on principle and to commit to the bit.

• Will try to eat food she's allergic to and Jack will have to pry it out of her mouth like a dog.

• Has extreme beef with this one dude online. Has asked Raf multiple times if he would give her his IP.

• Can hotwire a car.

• Tries gaslighting the bots to think vampires are real.

• Has like 50 squishmellows.

• The reason she's scared of spiders is because one time when she was younger Miko got bitten by a really venomous one and had to go to the hospital.
Also cause she just finds them freaky.

• Goes into the military when she's older.

• Can do a backflip and a summersault.

• Thinks of Bulkhead as her robot dad.

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I have had a vision; remember when Megatron captured Sam and stuff? He makes this type of lion rumbles after saying "Come here boy."
First of all sounded really cool secondly he do be sounding like a cat. Humans are space cats? Transformers are cats? Nuh-uh everyone are all cats here.

So cat headcanons for all!

• Bots will scruff humans that are being little gremlins.
• Human zoomies are very concerning but entertaining to transformers.
• The version of cat beans here are human face cheeks.
• Air jail is an extremely popular trend among bots to do with their human charges.
• Humans and transformers purr when happy. ✨
• (This is my au I can do whatever I want with it fuck you)
• You know when a cat comes over to lay on you and you're like "omg you want to cuddle with me?! 🥺💕" Same thing when a human wants a hug or to be carried. Not moving when a cat sleeps on you rules also apply here.

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Bots can be pretty overprotective and possessive over their human(s). Especially when being given affection or being cleaned. For example like this person with her lion.
I imagine one day Sam is giving Bumblebee a car wash when Barricade shows up.
The war is over in this au and he's reformed so he's not going to be blasted. Anyways he's got to talk with Sam about something but Bee is having none of that. He revva his engines, threatens him with a blaster, etc. Sam is like calm your maggy ass down. Doesn't work. So he has to finish the wash before he can talk to Barricade.
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Another idea is one day Optimus gets hit with something that makes him revert to a feral thing using only his base coding for logic. The autobots are all there when it happens. At first it's kinda fine he's just acting like an overgrown puppy. Then the former decepticon barricade drives over to them with Sam inside to be dropped off. Optimus sees this then absolutely loses it and flings himself at them.
He flees very scared/confused, with Optimus in hot pursuit. The autobots explain through comm links what is happening with him. Eventually Optimus reaches them so Barricade has to transform to protect himself plus the human. When the prime sees Sam plopped out on the grass he immediately goes to grab him. Scared as hell Sam dodges the hand then books it to a little cave nearby. Barricade tries to fend off Optimus as long as he can but he's only one bot. When the prime beats him he runs after Sam trying to grab him again. Sam just in time manages to make it into the cave. The feral transformer desperately claws at the ground trying all he can to get him out. After a few minutes of frantic digging the human hears a kind old microwave type of noise that somehow is soothing? Sam takes a peak to see that Optimus was making the noise; with some of the most heartbroken eyes he's ever seen. When the autobots catch up they recognize the sound that's being made. Creators would use it to call for their sparklings. Finally knowing that Optimus didn't actually want to hurt Sam he comes out (I'm gay) of the cave. Big ole bot grabs him asap and affectionately nuzzles him, scent, hug, etc him.
It takes two days for the effects to wear off so Sam and Bee have to deal with a lot of mother heaning. He's protective of the other bots too but these two are his fragile babies!

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Megatron and Sam are trapped in a time loop. After a while of repeating the same old nonsense they get bored and start fucking with everyone.

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*slams door open*

Optimus: Brother return back Sa-

*they're playing uno*

Megatron: Foolish squishy. I have calculated every outcome and they all lead to the same conclusion. You will fall by my head.

Megatron: Red 7. Uno.

Sam: Reverse, uno, and I win. Bi-atch.

Megatron: IMPOSSIBLE!! YOU MUST HAVE CHEATED!!!!!

Sam: Don't be salty that you lost dude. Now pay up.

Megatron: *anger noises* Take your filthy money.

*Throws a crumbled up $50 at Sam's face*

Bumblebee: #&--'_#@@ 369"$2??

Optimus: I- have.. no idea.

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Optimus: We must find the allspark before Megatron.

Sam: That fucker?! Ugh, not again.

Ratchet: You know Megatron?

Sam: Yeah it's a long story. I know where the glasses are; it is at my house . It's on-

Bumblebee: Hold up, wait a minute, something an't right here.

Optimus: How do you know of him? You are a normal civilian human are you not?

Sam: Not really normal but once again long story I don't want to get into. I'll tell you later.

*Approximately 10 hours later*

Megatron: I should have known it would have been you offspring.

Sam: Same here creator.

*Record scratch*

Bumblebee: What did he saaaaaaaay?

Starscream: Excuse my language my lord but what the frag.

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Megatron: Time to play the most dangerous game squishy.

Sam: Knife monopoly?!

Megatron: .....

Megatron: No. I was going hunt you for sports but what is knife monopoly?

Everyone else: ?????
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For whatever crack induced reasons Sam activates the "omg so cute" section of the brain in transformers. So it makes things much more funny.

When Sam sees bee true form the first time he gets picked up and cuddled. Bee doesn't know why but he just needed a snuggle from this small human. The rest of the autobots have more restraint but you definitely can still feel the 🥺 in their mannerisms.
This even affects Megatron; which is kinda awkward for everyone lmao.

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Megatron: WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU FLESHY I'LL MAKE SURE YOUR NEST IS VERY COMFORTABLE AND YOU HAVE THE FINEST FOOD!

Sam: What?!

Megatron: What?

Autobots: I meeeeean......

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I love the idea of Megatron and Miko being frenemies! To my knowledge she's the only human to have killed a transformer in this series. (Megatron's horrified but impressed look was amazing lmao) From what I have seen she's also done some other pretty impressive things.
I read those fics where Megatron and Miko got stuck in a cave-in together and I love them so much! I need more stuff written about them getting along.

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Miko & Megatron friendship headcanons

• Megatron got Miko's phone number so he could threaten her but now they just chat about stuff.

• Commit ✨arson✨ as a past time together.

• Did the supervillain turn around in the chair thing with Miko standing in as the cat.

• Their dynamic is essentially the uncle with lore™️ who adopted the feral neroudivergent child.

•They play uno together and it gets so heated. Like really heated lmao.

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Megatron: I know 200 ways to kill a human.

Miko: You could glue an open jar of rats to his face then blowtorch the other side so the rats have to eat their way out through his face. :D

Megatron: 201.

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• They try to keep their relationship on the down low. Megatron does it because he does not want his crew think he's weak. Miko only hides it because she doesn't want the others thinking she is a spy or betraying them.
• (Totally not also cause she's sick and tired of being the "annoying one" and she finally has something no one else on the team has)

• Once during a battle Miko called Megatron dad and he rubs this fact constantly in Optimus's face.

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Miko: Bloop bloop bloop.

Jack: Miko!

Miko: What?!

Jack: That is that's a dangerous decepticon!

Miko: He's not dangerous. (A complete lie)

Jack: What are you??

Miko: We're blooping!

Miko: Bloop bloop bloop bloop.

Megatron: >:3

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• Watches together that one dude on Tiktok who makes messy drama with Barbie dolls.

• Miko has a decepticon persona called (can't think of a name) and all they do is kidnap herself and prank the autobots. Only Megatron knows they're Miko.

• Megatron is low-key scared of Miko sometimes but he sooner turn into an autobot before admitting it.

• When he found out how short the lifespan of a human is Megatron for no reason in peculiar started looking into if organic life forms could be made into transformers.

• Miko somehow got him a pink shirt that has "girl dad" printed on it in his size. No one knows how she did that and at this point they just don't question stuff like this anymore.

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Ratchet: What is that?!

Bulkhead: This is my emotional support human. Don't worry she's harmless.

Miko: Yo.👋

Ratchet: She just destroyed 20 decepticon soldiers!

Miko: I'm harmless to you guys.

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There's just something so special about it to me you know? The trust the human has that their robot friend wouldn't hurt them and the bot's love for this small being that's not even a fraction of their lifespan.
Cybertrionains have been through centuries of war and have like so much trauma it's unreal. While humans are capable of great misery we're ultimately made to love.

Bumblebee for example has been shown to have found great comfort in humans. This dude was thrust into a world war he didn't want to be in and became a full on war veteran before he turned 25.

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Like don't even get me started on his relationship with Sam. I can't say anything that hasn't already been said.

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He's probably not used to such soft touches either so it makes it just that much sadder.

Megatron & Dot is another good relationship. He's so gentle with her and just so happy to be her friend! There's this one scene where she even hitches a ride on Megatron's leg. (Can't find it though)

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Of course I can't forget Bulkhead and Miko. He's just straight up her dad. It's very obvious that she doesn't like or have a good parental figure in her life. The team is probably Miko's true family in her eyes. She might be a little shit but she's Bulkhead's little shit.
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I just also just love size differences in general. It appeals to a lot of creatures in my brain. It's probably in my top 5 of best tropes in fiction.

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I haven't watched a single episode of earthspark but I love love dot. She's just so amazing! First of all she's a mother of seven kids most of them being giant robots and just actually makes it work! As soon as she knew they existed she just yoinked them immediately. Also the way she refers to the terran bots as her babies is so just cute. 🥺 Secondly she's best friends with Megatron and that is such a feat in its self. They have fought together in the army and he respects her a lot.

Dot such a real power house in this series and is ready at all times to throw down when her family is threatened.

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Raf

Power: Distortion

Abilities: He can cause non living objects in a 40 feet radius around himself to become distorted like in a corrupted game or computer file. (Think spiderverse glitching but more techy)

Causes all technology in the area to become unusable as they will only be able to display static. 40% of the tech afterwards will also be fried.

Can hold the radius for only a few minutes at a time in 15 minutes intervals.

Drawbacks: Headaches and derealization.

Opinion of power: Feels it's annoying. He can't really use it a lot because he always has his computer on him and he doesn't want it to break.

Inspo: The obvious cop out was a tech helper based power or something intelligence related but I thought it would be more interesting if it's the opposite. I want their powers to be interesting, you know?

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Jack

Power: Viewpoint teleportation

Abilities: Can teleport anywhere as long it's in his line of sight.

When touching objects or people he can also teleport them. Can only take two people at a time.

Currently can only teleport 20 times in a day.

20/20 vision

Drawbacks: Temporary blindness, physical and mental exhaustion.

Opinion of power: Thinks it's very useful. I mean who wouldn't love to teleport? It's annoying when he can't see but it's great for getting Miko and Raf to safety quickly.

Inspo: Jack is a pretty plain character so I wanted him to have a sort of classic superpower. Idk why but he just also gives off “I can teleport” vibes.

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Miko

Power: Swarm

Abilities: She can turn into hungry seven inch sized 50 million copies of herself.

If a clone is critically damaged they will disappear and if more than 40% of the copies are destroyed then Miko will revert back to a singular person. The mini Mikos function similarly to a hive mind and are not replicas of the og Miko.

Increased bite strength. Being able to bite through metal with ease.

She has wings similar to that of a desert locust.

Super kick

The ability to eat most organic and inorganic material.

Drawbacks: Insatiable hunger, cannibalistic tendencies, bots of autophobia, and losing her humanity.

Opinion of power: Thinks it's cool but dangerous. Miko can cause some very serious damage if she's not careful. Out of the human trio she uses her main ability the least, preferring to stick to her wings or kicks. This is the one thing she will actively not mess around with. When she's in swarm mode her main thought is food food food, and if something's edible she'll want to eat it. That includes the autobots and her human friends….. She won't hurt them. She won't.

Inspo: I just wanted her to be a straight up steroid infused scaplet if I'm being honest with myself. I want an arc of wheeljack being absolutely terrified of Miko after they see her consume hardshells and a legion of insecticons. Scraplets are very scary to autobots and now Miko is just a more deadly version.

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Remember when Optimus tried to convince Unicron not to destroy Earth because humans are low-key his children?
What would he have done if Unicron was like "You know what? You're right I'mma go play catch with my kids now." Would prime just let the evil demi god hangout? He would be such a terrible influence on us (affectionate) and seriously if humans are really mini-Unicrons you guys are fucked. What do you think is going to happen when dear old dad gives us some Cybertronian tech? We're going to reverse engineer that shit and turn it into an anti-black matter 100x deluxe bomb or something. That's not even including Unicron's probably rage out involving humanity in your guy's petty war. You fucked, especially the decepticons.

Well maybe not totally, I bet most humans would like our new robot cousins. I'm just wondering what would have happened if Unicron did like us? Honestly could make for a killer series plotline.

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There's not enough fics centered or addressing that Earth's core is unicron in transformers fanfiction. Transformers give off some sort of radiation so unicron must gives offs a lot of it. Who's to say that wouldn't affect life or specifically humanity in some way? Maybe it's why we act so similar to transformers, the reason we are so destructive, why we're so violent, so.... chaotic.

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When unicron first woke up he should have hated all the organics covering his form especially these "humans" but he did not. In truth he felt rather.... fond of them. The more he watched humanity the more he couldn't help but fall more in love. He liked our capacity for violence, the way we destroyed his brother's creations, our grit, but also liked our softer sides; the way we personify objects, how much we love sugar, the way we get excited over menial things.

Humanity was quite a mystery in what they felt and or did at any time for anything. It was quite literally chaos. While we are still quite young he couldn't help but feel proud of our race achievements.

When earth is reduced to husk and no being lived there he can't wait to break out this rocky shell to meet his creations face to helm.

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Humans are scary to Cybertronians but in the way spiders are scary to people. They're small mostly harmless creatures and usually more scared of you but 1% of them can infact kill you will also be incredibly horrifying to look at.

We don't have enough fur to cover our skin, our mouth protrusions are so weird, have acid inside of us, and the fact we eat other organics is just so messed up.

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So @gyancastle had this idea and made cool art that when the apex armor is piloted by a human they turn into a cybertronian. Miko also gets this sick battle axe! Here's the link to the post(s) if you want to see it. So anyways I'm yoking that idea.

After Miko gets the apex armor instead of taking it away from her the team decides to let her keep it. They train her in self defense, strategy, Cybertronian's martial arts, and how to use her axe. She becomes quite the force in the field.

One day in battle a weird ground bridge is activated but it looks nothing like a standard one. It's huge, a distorted look to it, and a deep yellow. It starts sucking everything in which of course includes Miko. When she's spat out she's millions of miles in the air, after falling for a bit she crash lands in a forest. Distorted she walks to the nearest body of water near which is a big lake. Washing herself off of tree branches, leaves, dirt, and other kinds of debris Miko hears a crunch. Turning around with her battle axe ready she comes to a strange sight. It's Optimus, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Ratchet and a random human girl??? But there's something wrong with them, first of all they're comically much smaller and look different. (This during season 1 btw because I haven't finished the series yet but will be reconed in the future probably)

Miko demands to know who they are which they of course give their names which makes her more confused. Falling back on her training she realizes she needs information. So she decides to go along with whatever is happening. They ask for her destination which she responds "joyride prime" because Miko is still Miko she's going to do some trolling. She looks weirdly similar to her own Optimus when she's in the armor, plus Miko doesn't think she could handle being given orders by a fun sized Optimus. She barely tolerates orders back home!

Anyways she goes with them and when they ask what alt mode she wants. Miko has to awkwardly talk about how she can't transform. Miko "explains" that her t-cog was removed a long time ago and she can't replace it for whatever reason. The bots are horrified but she just plays it off.

They go back to base and Miko hangs out with Sari for a few minutes, she finds it really neat that this kid is like a mini her. Miko finds the other bots very charming as well; they're like a softer version of her own autobots. Especially Optimus, he actually shows emotions here!

Then a alarm goes off; decepticons are causing trouble of course and Miko goes along with them to fight. She hitches a ride with Bulkhead since you know she can't drive there. It's starscream doing whatever plot he's doing, he starts monologuing and Miko is like fuck that. I already get enough of this from her own decepticons. She throws her axe and cuts one of his arms off. When it spins back to her Miko starts rocking this twink's aft. It's like embarrassing easy to her; yeah starscream was a little incompetent in her universe but at least he could fight. The fact this one was much smaller and hasn't been fighting a lot, so yeah an easy win. When Miko goes for the kill she's stopped by Optimus. This dude has such a horrified look on his face that it stops her in her tracks. This gives starscream enough of an opening to escape. She's pissed™️ and asks why he stopped her? Optimus is also a little mad because wtf, we don't kill! They then head back to base to continue their argument there. It's really messy because remember in Miko's universe it's more violent and death is sort of normalized. So she doesn't get what she did wrong!

Miko storms off somewhere. Sari tries to follow her but is stopped by bumblebee. He thinks this new mech is a little too violent and dangerous for her to be around. The young girl doesn't listen and goes after our wrecker anyways. Sari finds the older girl brooding on a random donut shop. They have a talk and Miko accidentally reveals she's not a Cybertronian. She decides since the cats already out of the bag she tells Sari everything over donuts and go back to the base.

Everyone is a little mad at Sari but glad she's safe; Miko is a little offended. Yes I did just try to kill a guy but I'm not going to hurt a little kid! Sari tells them about how Miko is from a different universe and the war. (She leaves out the being human bit) . Now knowing her situation the bots better understand her behavior. The autobots set off of trying to figure out how to get Miko home.

Meanwhile the prime autobots are freaking the fuck out. Miko's been sucked into a whole other dimension being subjected to who knows god what!
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Meanwhile with the animated bots:

Miko: Then my Bulkhead ripped that venihcon's whole guts out! I practically felt the sparks on my skin!

Everyone: 😨

Optimus covering sari's ears: great........
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If we're being completely honest Miko is terrorizing this universe not the other way around.

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You know the saying of "I want to be under your skin"? Most crave the idea of being so close to someone you hold affection towards alas it's not possible . Unless...... if you're the human buddy of a transformer! I'm not just talking about their car alts. Some of those bots are seriously big. With transformers like Optimus there would be plenty of room for a human to wingle into his cables under some plating.

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Imagine a medic taking a walk and then sees this autobot covered in these lumps. Especially near their neck region. They are munching away happily on some energon clearly not grasping how sick they must be. The medic runs over to them and yells at the bot out of concern for what's going on. They demand that the autobot must go to sickbay NOW. The bot just laughs at them and pokes gently a few times at a lump by their spark. It riggles for a few moments before a human head pops out through a gap in the cables, their hair sticking out in all directions. They must have been recharging as they level the autobot with a tired glare.

"What?" They scream.

The autobot points to the medic. They stare at him for a few seconds before realization dons on their face. It's quickly replaced by an annoyed look.

"*Sigh* Look for the last time [-----] is not sick. All those bumps you see are happy human friends, humans who are trying to sleep so be a dear and frag off.

The human ducked under the cables to assumingly go back to sleep. The medic apologizes for the misunderstanding but the autobot just laughs it off. Apparently this happens a lot. They parted ways and the medic would stare at the autobot as he walked away, multiple life signatures showing up on his frame.

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There's some serious potential for a lot of cute moments but also some cool ones. Like imagine you're a decepticon and you kidnapped this autobot for ransom or something. They have tons of plants on them so you don't pay attention to the organic life signatures in your visor.

Big mistake.

As you're monologuing you get up into their face and gloat at them, stating how no one is going to save you and your alone. That's when the humans strike. They burst out of the autobots plating then grabs out his face plate. The humans jab something into both of his optics blinding him. As he fumbles about he can hear the other humans discussing how to free their friend. The humans on him start to rip and bite at his weak seams. The decepticon violently starts shaking them off and when the last human loses their grip he transforms and flies away.

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Ooh now I'm thinking about making a crossover child with my symbiosis au. Humans could clean all the hard to reach places in a Cybertronian. The bots can't transform but they can still provide transport and now shelter. There could be something about a transformer/human becoming of age and leaving their caretakers to find their first partner. Their small young adult frame only allows the Cybertronian to fit one human into them but as they get older they can take in more. They are bonded for life and it's amazing. ❤️

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Is it just me or does every adult in earthspark feel like they're either exes, have a crush on each other, or in some form of polycule?

Look hear me out, first we got Megatron and Optimus. That story has been told a thousand times already and we all know their divorce was just the war.

Next we got soundwave who gives off some serious bitter ex husband vibes. Who now has something with Shockwave over their mutual hurt of Megatron's betrayal.

Megatron and Starscream is a whole another mess of a toxic pile of a relationship. It wouldn't surprise me if there was some hate interfacing involved.

Next we got elita and Optimus. Which yeah that just his wife.

Then things happen (a lot of high en) and the trio of Optimus, elita, & Megatron became a throuple

Dot and Megatron definitely have/had a situationship. Look it was the war and you can obviously tell they care for each other.

Of course there's dot and her husband Alex and his boyfriend bumblebee. Like come in you are not that much of a fanboy and not at least have a crush.

Breakdown and bee are cute boyfriends. They just don't know it yet.

Prowl and Megatron definitely had spared before and it turned into a make out session. The hug they had was just so sweet.✨

Maybe Dr mandroid and Alex had a thing back when they were friends. The only one I can't think of something for is Wheeljack.

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Bumblebee
Extremely repulsed. There's no other words to describe it. That's not Optimus. Optimus is kind, his sire, values life so highly, and doesn't like hurting people. Bumblebee wants nothing to do with this "prime".

He is not Optimus.

Bulkhead
Maybe Dr mandroid and Alex had a thing back when they were friends. The only one I can't think of something for is Wheeljack.

Arcree
Put off. She's usually pretty in control of her emotions (except when it comes to her partners) but seeing Optimus like this is throwing her through a loop. For right now she'll observe him and make sure he's not alone with the children.

Optimus
There are not strong enough words in the English or Cybertronian language to describe his horror at what the other Optimus has become. Ever since he became a prime he's always feared that day he would become corrupt. This version of him just confirmed his fears in the worst way possible. He's subtly trying to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it.

Ratchet
Honestly he's not surprised in the slightest. He saw how crazy Optimus was when Raf got hurt during the dark energon incident. Ratchet is more concerned now that he has to look after two leader bots with no self preservation.

Miko
Thinks he's metal as hell and wants to be besties. She'll listen to all his war crime stories with rapt attention. (Remember when she saw Bulkhead disembowel that one vehicon and thought it was cool? Yeah she def into the face ripping.)

She's also glad someone is finally wants to truly kill Megatron, cause fuck that guy in all honesty. I think Miko has the personal belief that some people do deserve to die. She doesn't feel guilty or feel remorse about this thinking. She doesn't talk about because she knows that Optimus ex is still a sore spot for him.

Raf
Scared of him. Optimus is his pseudo father figure and seeing this violent version of him is disturbing to him. Doesn't help that he's not that keen on humans. Raf is going to stay out of his way.

Jack
Doesn't know how to feel. He can't really place his feelings on the matter. I mean yeah this Optimus is low-key a psychopath but he's still trying to do good? He's just conflicted to put it in simple words.

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Thinking about earthspark Megatron being sent to the tfp universe. He got here when a ground bridge malfunctioned near tfp Megatron. He was sucked in then was spar out with another version of himself. Despite looking very different they recognize themselves.

I know es Megatron would be much shorter than tfp but I love the gentle giant trope so I'm imagining him being taller. Anyways everyone is a little intimidated by him because he's a taller, more experienced, and stronger version of their Megatron. Doesn't help how mysterious this new Megatron is acting.

Es is being cautious, he knows this version of him is still a decepticon and well they're his only way home so he'll be vague about stuff regarding him. But... him seeing how this version abuses Starscream, how Megatron that disregards all life. He's revolted at what he sees. He won't- can't let it stand. He loses his cool and beats the ever loving shit out of him and puts Megaloser into statis. While es Megatron very much wants to disband the decepticons and free every bot he knows how much of a disaster that would be. So he reluctantly takes the overlord position and is slowly going to fix everything from the inside.

For the next few days everyone is on edge, waiting for their new overlord to explode. They don't know any of his triggers and what he's like. This Megatron looks angry all the time and they don't know what they're doing wrong. It's making everyone very paranoid.

Es is sulking big time, he feels terrible watching all the decepticons being so scared of him. Especially Starscream, the mech looks at him like he is going to wring his neck any minute. It makes Megatron want to hug him and apologize a million times over.

In his free time he's been doing research about this world and his alternative self and it's not pretty. The more he learns the more he wishes he didn't, this Megatron was even more of a monster than he is. He has purged his tanks twice already from sheer disgust. He trudges on though for the decepticons sake and the autobots. He's been trying to find a way to contact the autobots that won't out him. He decides to um... kidnap the humans for "ransom". Not his best idea not even a good one but it's the only one he has. He gets the kids alone for an "interrogation" and explains the whole situation. It takes a bit of convincing but they eventually believe him. So he helps them escape not before Miko gets his contact.

In the meantime es megs is going to detraumatize the entire ship while the autobots and es Megatron have to figure out what to do.

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Miko: Hey when The One created you guys he just said ”You are the gods of destruction and creation. Good and evil.” He didn't specify which ones you were right?

Unicron: That is correct child.

Miko: So theoretically you could be the creation god?

Unicron: Ha that is preposterous, I have destroyed many worlds and killed many. How could I be anything but the destruction god?

Miko: Well from what I learned from the bots the Cybertronian population never went above 10 million and there's like only a thousand different species on your planet. While here on Earth humans number in the billions and there's like 8 million different species living about. We still haven't discovered them all and keep finding new ones practically every week. So you have created more life, varied life too then Primus did.

Unicron: Well-

Miko: Then when the Cybertronian war broke out Primus didn't interfere at all leading to the near extinction of your species. You guys can't even reproduce to get your numbers back up because Primus designed you so you could only be made by the allspark. Which you guys can't use 90% of the time, this is like a huge design flaw honestly. Even when you were trying to destroy the allspark he still didn't interfere. Optimus had to die because of that. Primus indirectly and directly caused many more deaths than you did.

Miko: And the whole planet eating thing? The only planet you had eaten with life was at the amoeba stage. Everything else we're just dead worlds. Yeah you wanted to consume the galaxy but you didn't and eventually decided to stop trying to do that when you learned about humans. You than are now trying to better your creations to lead them onto the right path. That's more than could be said for your brother.

Miko: Plus you can't have creation without breaking things down. Like plants have to what's the word.. de- dim

Raf: Decompose?

Miko: Yeah that! Plants have to Decompose stuff to live and make many more lives. Things breaking down is an essential part of the ecosystem. Animals then break down them and predators eat them to also break down then when those animals die then the plants break them down. Boom life cycle.

Miko: So from where I'm standing you're the creation God. I won't deny your probably the evil one but hey destruction isn't inherently evil and creation isn't inherently good.

*Unicron is now having an existential crisis*

Autobots: ……

Optimus: (⁠ ;⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ;)

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Miko doesn't actually believe anything she is saying, she just wants to mess with Unicron and Autobots.

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I want a human to crawl into a decepticon and tear them apart from the inside. It's a shame I haven't seen it in fics yet. The horror potential is so good. Just imagine being a random decepticon soldier sent out to do soldier duties. You come across a lone human and decide to offline it while your buddies are doing recon or something. You fire at it but it just keeps jumping out of the way. Getting sick of it you decide to swish the organic into a red paste. You go for it but miss the squishy and trip miserably. Getting up you feel something on your lower back plate; it's the human. You scramble to shake them off but it's too late.

It's in your plating.

You can feel them bite and kick, wriggling in your body. It's painful beyond words and you beg for your fellow soldiers to do something, anything. They can do nothing but watch as you throw up energon and scream in agony. As sweet merciful death takes you after a what felt like hours you can't help but think the human is smiling with its cables in their mouth.

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Jack & Raf: We're normal looking kids who are actually pretty insane sometimes but it's just drowned out by the fact how much more insane Miko is.

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Aaaaah yes my favorite dynamic in transformers, the giant gentle-ish bot and their vicious little human who would kill for their family.

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Optimus drunk off his mind: I- I shouldn't have drank high en.

Optimus: I can't protect them.

*Holding like 50 random humans he kinda kidnapped*

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Miko: Give me a gun.

Megatron: Why should I?

Miko: Because I'll cause chaos with it and it be really funny to watch the autobots freak out.

Megatron: ....

Megatron: Valid point here you go.

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Sam: Let's be real here I would be in the Truman show out of every human in this room, I've had the most interesting life.

Sam: I mean like -

Miko: You look like you have a lot of evolutionary defects in your family.

Sam: Man what the hell does that mean?!

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Miko: Do you care if I take the skin off this furby?

Ratchet: Uuuuuuh what??

Miko: I.. I.... want to... make him god. 

Miko: Once he is free of his sinful flesh he can begin the path towards enlightenment. 

Miko: He will..... take care... of us....

Miko: Also I want to soft hack his circuits.

Ratchet: I literally could not care less but please never say anything as frightening as that ever again.

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You know the common trope of dragons stealing away princesses; It got me thinking about what if we apply that to Predaking? It's already implied in tfp canon that predacons inspired dragon mythos so why not take it a step further? Why would Predaking want to take a "princess" you might ask? It's quite simple actually, he wants a sparkling. In my au all predacons are born as femmes with most transitioning into mechs. So when a predocon couldn't have a sparkling they would just take a human girl to baby. The reason it's usually a princess is because they're much more high profile and covered in pretty objects like gold or vibrant fabrics.

Predaking who is very lonely wants a family, more specifically a sparkling. The only femmes he knows are that one blue autobot who's way too old and that human girl. He could kidnap a random human but he really doesn't feel like explaining anything plus she seems pretty interesting. He likes her spunk and fearlessness.

So one day while the Autobots and the human are looking for some energon Predaking shows up in his dragon glory. He flies at them and instead of attacking them he (gently) scoops up Miko in his claws and flies away. Everybody is freaking out because omg Miko was just kidnapped. What does Megatron want with Miko???

Let it be clear that the overlord had no idea Predaking was planning this and only found out about the human when he walked on Miko showering. Which promptly got him an optic full of shampoo.

Anyways Predaking took her to hi- their nest. Miko was scared/angry for a minute but she soon realized he ment her no harm. She quickly then didn't care anymore about being kidnapped anymore because holy ao3 she's interacting with a Cybertronian dragon.

Predaking did his research and got all the human essentials so Miko is good for a while. The girl can't really escape with Predaking constantly following her and she can't use her phone to contact the bots. So guess she's stuck here for now, so in the meantime she'll hangout with her new dad l, do some recon, and of course mess the decipticons as much as possible.

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Hilarious idea I just had. Twitch discovers polyamory and thinks back how she has multiple parents. She loves having a lot of guardians and wants more of them; so naturally of course her next move is to get all her parents to start poly relationships so when they get married they automatically become her guardians.

Alex has a fanboy crush on Bumblebee and the Autobot is really cool so she's got to get them together, Megatron and Dot would be the ultimate power couple and they're already Amica Enduras so what if they kissed sometimes? Wheeljack.... um she'll find someone.

Anyways she immediately sets off to do this not informing anyone of what she's doing, especially her parents. No way this could go wrong or back fire in any way. :D

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Bumblebee is definitely the crazy cat equivalent of a Cybertronian when it comes to humans. He has had like six different humans already? So imagine them all existing at the same time.

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Optimus: Bee don't do it.

Bumblebee slowly reaching for Raf: (⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

*Bumblebee grabs Raf and speeds off with him*

Optimus: Sigh.

Ratchet: We need to have an intervention that boy is addicted.

Optimus: No-

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*Bumblebee cuddling with all his humans*

Prowl: Ugh.

Bumblebee: You wanna go bitch? I won't hesitate to blast your fragging face off.

Prowl: Primus calm down.

Bumblebee: That's what I thought. Jealous fragger....

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Optimus: Primus give me strength.

Arcree: What's he doing now?

Optimus: Apparently buying matching Christmas sweaters for him and his charges.

Arcree: The human holiday? Isn't that five cycles away?

Ratchet: That's what I said!

Ratchet: You know an intervention is still on the table.

Optimus I'm too tired for this bs: Stop.

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If you're wondering how everyone rides in bee: Charlie gets driver seat privileges, Raf has shock gun, Spike is in the truck, Russell is wedged between Alex and Sari in the back, with Sam on the roof.

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If past bayverse Megatron met his future self:

P!Megatron: Have you discovered the allspark? Is the planet of organic filth praising me as their true mas-

*Future grasps past M very tightly*

F!Megatron: Leave.

P!Megatron: What?

F!Megatron: Leave this planet and NEVER. EVER. COME. BACK.

P!Megatron: Why?!

F!Megatron: This planet is pure fucking torture, and everyone on it is completely insane.

*Gestures to I like ripping off faces Optimus*

P!Megatron: 😟

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Inspired by the go to hell said by a human I can't remember the name of and Megatron saying this planet is hell moment.

I think this is the most genuine thing I have ever heard from Megatron in bayverse.

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Random dude: Aren't you scared of walking home at night?

Raf: No I got scary Miko privilege.

Random dude: Don't you mean scary dog privilege?

Miko holding a bat: You heard him.

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A mute Dragon furry YouTuber gets kidnapped by a decepticon

That's it. This is what the post is going to be about.

Anyways imagine some random decepticon is flying about when they notice this really bright bipedal creature. Upon closer inspection it appears to be an organic dragon! They thought the creatures were only fictional. The bot thinks to themselves well if they're as powerful as humans depict them to be if they could train the thing it could aid the decepticon cause. So the bot dips down and yoinks it. It's much smaller than humans portray as, maybe it's a sparkling they think? Well that will make things easier. The decepticon brings the “dragon” back to the nemesis, gets permission from Megatron to keep it and the rest is history.
The disguised human is freaking the fuck out because giant alien robots just kidnapped them! They also apparently think I'm a real dragon???? Well they can't take this costume off or they're probably going to be killed. Well on the bright side they still got their camera and Wi-Fi for some reason so they can keep making videos.

I also like to imagine the fursuit is the most cartoony sparkle dog thing ever. Looks like a rainbow puked right over it and not realistic in the slightest.

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Well this post about the tfp autobots reactions if Raf died to the dark energon got me thinking about how the humans would react. It also would not be pretty to say the least.

Both Fowler and June are devastated at the loss. He was just a kid involved in war he shouldn't have been anywhere near. I bet for the longest time they would blame the Autobots for the loss and resent them for it. They would also become extremely overprotective of the other kids. Especially June who was already protective. This whole thing made her lose complete trust in Arcree's ability to protect Jack. (The femme bot doesn't blame her for it) She would try to keep Jack away from the base for any excuse. Logically she knows he is technically safer there but her heart is too scared of being away from her kid. Fowler also can't help but agree with her. He is much more aware and strict about the kids now too. He was even tempted to sorta kidnap them and send them to a secret base in Washington or something. For now he is going to have the kids being monitored 24/7.

Jack is depressed as hell to say the least. He blames himself for not being able to protect Raf. He was the one "meant" to stop their trio from being hurt and he failed. It cycles through his mind constantly on what he could have done to prevent this, how he could have been better, why wasn't he better?

Jack visits Raf's family a lot and tries to help them any way he can. He feels like he has to atone for his failure in some way. Then when that doesn't work to help free himself of the guilt he would resort to "punishing himself." I'm pretty sure you can figure out what that entails..... 🔪

Jack also is much more aggressive about preventing Miko's reckless behavior. He will tackle, and even restrain her to prevent her from potentially getting herself hurt. They have many arguments now and aren't really on speaking terms. He will text her a lot though just to see if she's alive, Miko will always respond no matter what.

Miko at first just went into shock. Her mind went into a complete shutdown. For two days she barely spoke, ate, or just did much of anything; once the shock wore off though she exploded. She ripped off the posters off her walls, broke everything in sight, screamed, cursed out the world, and even smashed her hand through her mirror. Once the adrenaline wore off she clutched her bleeding hand and sobbed. She doesn't know how long she sat there crying but by the time she was done her hand had stopped bleeding and she was covered in dried blood.

Miko stared at her arm the glass embedded in the skin, and felt nothing but seething hatred for Megatron. It wasn't the kind of usual fiery animosity she held towards the man but a freezing loathsome whirlwind that had frozen itself across her entire body. This wasn't some superhero show anymore, where the hero would defeat the villain in a spectacular explosion of power but a cruel war that was going to end with the excruciating death of Megatron.

She planned, rewrote her plans, researched, planned again and did more research. For one of the only times in her life Miko didn't rush into something. Megatron was going to die and there couldn't be any way he would survive or somehow come back from death again. Miko had to make sure it was perfect, Raf deserved it she almost religiously thought. Early into her plans Miko recruited Bumblebee into helping her. The scout hated Megatron just as much as she did. Bee told Miko everything he knew about how Cybertronians could be hurt and the ways to do it. The autobots always feared transformers tech landing in human hands and they had a great reason to do so. Humans had remarkable twisted minds that could think of things that would disturb even some of the most callous of bots.

Miko is no different, especially when she is motivated by pure unfiltered hatred. It took many sleepless nights and three months of preparation but they finally had everything ready. They just had to wait for the right opportunity. By this point bumblebee's anger has calmed down slightly and he was now starting to doubt if they should really do this. The consequences could be disastrous.

You see Miko had realized scraplets or the rust plague couldn't really hurt her so she could easily use them to defeat Megatron. So she has been breeding scraplets, training them, and trying to selectively breed them so they would be able to resist the plague. Miko had the scraplets micro dosed with black energon so they would crave the stuff and be more powerful. Bumblebee would obtain metal for them to eat and he tried to make sure the other autobots weren't catching on. Once they could get on the nemesis Miko would command the scraplets to infect as many bots as possible. They had made around 100,000 of these suped up mega disease scraplets so there's basically no way anyone is escaping uninfected. They were basically sentencing every decepticon to death.

Bee questions whether Raf would want this and Miko just replies,

"It's not about whether he would want this or not but what Megatron deserves and he deserves to die. If I have to kill every decepticon to do it? So be it. I don't care what happens to them, every bot on that ship is a horrible person. "

He reluctantly agrees with the reasoning and continues with the plan.

After the ship would go down a infected wounded Megatron escapes the scraplets his priority would try and cure himself. When he tries to make it he's in for a horrible surprise; while they were preparing the scraplets they had also set out to purposely destroy ingredients essential to the cure (They of course made a lot of vaccines themselves) Any place he might look for the ingredients he would just find a data pad stating,

//Start message

"Hello Megatron, you may not remember me but I do. My name is Miko nakadai, and I was a friend of Raf, the human charge of bumblebee that you mercilessly had killed. He was just an innocent child but you didn't care, why would you? You're the powerful evil overlord of the decepticons, the bot who strikes fear to every Cybertronian who knows of you. Humans are nothing but organic trash that would be crushed under your foot. That's not going to be the case anymore. You're going to care, you're going to see what you have done, and you will regret having ever laying a figure on Raf. You shouldn't have messed with humans and you especially should have not messed with my friend.
If you don't want to die from the rust come to the coordinates X"00'X0.x" alone and we will provide you a cure. Also don't even think about contacting the other Autobots or you can kiss that vaccine goodbye."

//End message

Megatron then would come to meet Miko and Bumblebee. They would talk/integrate Megatron about Raf. Then Miko would pull out the apex armor, activate it and fight Megatron with Bee. If all goes well they kill him (maybe torture him a bit before that) and drop his remains on Raf's grave.

When they do get a hit on the Nemesis location they slightly panic and rush to get things in order. When they are ready the ground bridge opens and as they are about to leave they hear Ratchet say,

"I should stop you shouldn't I?"

The old bot is standing behind them looking at the ground bridge location pinned in on the nemesis. Miko and Bumblebee don't know what to do for a second before Ratchet's words register in their minds.

"Should?"

Ratchet monologues for a bit about how stupid, dangerous, this is and how he should stop them from doing it. But..... he opens his servo to look down at Raf's broken glasses. He just can't. Ratchet looks at them tears streaming down his face. The same look of pure hatred in his eyes and demands to be there to help kill Megatron. Miko and Bumblebee look at him, they both just simply nod.

Nobody had said a word about it but they all knew no matter what happens Megatron has to die. Even if that means destroying themselves in the process.

They enter the ground bridge together.

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I wonder if transformers ever yern for humans to be in their Earth alt modes. The vehicles are quite literally designed for humans to ride in. I want to put it in better words.

But just it must feel nice right? Their alt modes are essentially part of who they are. Human vehicles are not alive no soul just pure purpose. They are meant to be driven and take people places, nothing less nothing more. Yes of course there's nuance and different purposes for more specialized vehicles but still. When a Cybertronian takes over that form of pure technological purpose do they crave the simple satisfaction of doing what the vehicle was meant to? It could be very relaxing for a bot just to shut off their brain and let their human drive them. To feel the weight of the human in the driver's seat, the belt strapped against their beating chest, the gentle hands that guide the controls, the thing you love and want to protect safely nested inside of you.

Just the simple joy of it.

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Thinking about an au where humans introduce transformers to the concept of cooking. Yes the bots do use shavings of various metals in different ways for energon taste but that's it. They don't cook it, use other ingredients for components, or explore flavors. So when a human chef decides to give a gift to their Cybertronian for protecting them and just being nice they decide to cook something for them. The human always felt a little sad because their friend was essentially constricted to one food. So they decided to try to make a Cybertronian equivalent of pancakes. The autobot has always looked on in want when they made them. So they researched and learned all they could: what's considered “sweet” to bots, can any metals that can be used as binding agents, how hot must something be for energon to ignite? It took quite a few tries and energon but they did eventually manage to make “Energon pancakes.”
The human presented the gift to their friend and while the transformer was sceptical at first they did try some. At the first bite the autobot was astounded at the flavors they were experiencing. They wolfed down the entire plate and (politely) demanded more.
The news of this spread fast as the autobot wouldn't shut up about the experience. Other humans hearing about this got inspired and made food for their own transformer companion to great success.
When bots try to do cooking themselves 99.9% of the time it's a complete utter failure. No one's why this and shockwave is furiously trying to figure it out. He just locks humans in rooms with ingredients and equipment demands them to cook something and just observe. It's utterly baffling how creative and amazing the dishes that come out of these. It was really nice at first however it quickly became a problem.
Humans were overindulging their cybertronians and some were starting to get a little fat. They're not fat but big boned the humans would cry and how perfect they were in any form! Ratchet trying to stop an obesity crisis would constantly have to reprimand the humans. They just couldn't resist the big ol puppy bot eyes. So yeah until everyone could learn self control humans were banned from cooking for transformers. Nobody was happy about this, especially the humans. They could finally give back more to their bots!

An underground cooking ring was founded, decepticons were kidnapping chefs, humans were sneaking the bots treats, all kinds of chaos. Eventually Ratchet just kinda gives up and shoves it on to Optimus to deal with.

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I just want to throw Miko with the apex armor into various different continuities.

Why?

Because it would be funny.

You know how much she could fuck up these universes? A massive fuck ton would be the understatement of the century.

Lost light? Don't know much about it but I know her being transported there would be disasterly funny.

Bayverse? She's basically just bay Optimus 2.0. She gets a gun for one nanosecond and it's just instantly over.

Aus like EarthSpark or Rescue bots???? Might as well just drop a nuke. You get the same results either way. I'm not trying to disrespect these worlds but no offense they're not Miko proof AT ALL.

(Editor note here when I made this post I forgot that Rescue bots were in the same universe as tfp)

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Thinking about that post I made about Miko with the apex armor and how her going to different aus would seriously mess them up. And it got me thinking what universes of the sort would suffer the most impact from her entering them?

My first thought was Bayverse because you know ✨guns✨ and stuff but honestly they're pretty used to all types of transformer psycho bs so I think they could adapt. It might take a bit but they eventually get there. (Also if we're being completely honest here she would probably fit into this universe too well. They would get along like a house on fire and a arsonist.)

Series like tfa where everything is sillier with the bots being significantly much smaller than tfp would definitely feel more of the negative impacts of Miko. Then again in some continuities we're humans don't exist or aren't relevant there's definitely a major psychological aspect that would apply to it. I mean how would you feel if suddenly an organic alien child constantly ready to throw hands showed up in your indestructible relic armor? Definitely not thrilled to say the least.

Like just imagine it with a world like Tf one. They just went through some major politics of the century and as Optimus is about to start attacking Megatron out of nowhere this little pink screaming thing just slams into the decepticon. I do mean very little as tf one bots are ginormous dude, Google it. What would proceed to be peak comedy, not so much damaging but definitely entertaining.

I'm not that knowledgeable about many transformers continuities. I'm really only familiar with Bayverse, Earthspark, and tfp of course. So you guys gotta lock in for me with your tf knowledge. Debate in my reblogs/comments about this; would really love to see it.

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Ratchet walked out of one the bases many storage rooms, data pad in hand. He had needed some information for one of his latest projects and was taking back to his workstation. He could see the two humans Miko and Jack seemingly having an argument, from the sounds it was rather passionate. Jack looked very done with the girls' usual antics and…. disgusted? Miko also just had that special sort of smile she showed when the human was causing chaos.

They didn't look his way when he came into the room. Getting closer to them the medic heard,

“-aying if you get rid of the energon transformers are completely edible.” Miko argued.

Jack angrily responded "How many times do we have to have this conversation?! We aren't making a Cybertronian murder cake!"

Ratchet only took less of a nanosecond to process what the hell he had just heard before he immediately turned back around and started walking away. He didn't know what the context of that conversation was and he didn't want to know.
As he exited the room he could hear arguments of what “theoretically" the best frosting for cybertronians they should use.

He walked faster.

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Okay there's this incomplete fanfic about Megatron getting brain damage and thinking Starscream is his wife. I'm not too much of a fan of tfp megastar because Starscream is my baby and I hated seeing him being abused in canon. I do like them from an aesthetic point of view but that's about it.

This plot however could be extremely great for angst potential. I'm picturing as Megatron slowly gets more and more of his processor repaired he starts questioning weird behavior from Starscream. He notices how jumpy the seeker is around him, how he will startle if the overlord touches him unexpectedly, and his overwhelming fear of him. Starscream desperately tries to mask it or always seemingly has a valid reason for it but Megatron does notice this. He's extremely confused why his wife would be so terrified of him. He loves his wife so much.

Megatron would never hurt him.

So one night he decides to do some research. He sneaks out when Starscream is in recharge gets into a mainframe console and starts looking through files.
Other people, mostly Shockwave, have prevented him from accessing certain data files for his “health” but he does not believe him. He's no hacker but he is knowledgeable enough to know how to get around certain locks. Coming across a large folder labeled “Starscream” he unlocks it and starts watching the videos inside.

Not even halfway through he stops looking at the console, collapses onto the floor and starts to drive heave; he can't bring himself to watch another clip. Megatron is absolutely disgusted at what he saw. There were many, many recordings of Megatron hitting Starscream, quite severely too and just threatening to kill him.

He has reasonably come to the conclusion he was an abusive partner to his second in command. If cybertronians could cry he would be a sobbing mess. He finally “understood” why Starscream was so hesitant to be around him in the first place and the weird behavior when the subject of being his wife came up. He goes back to his and Starscream shared berth not even masking his loud footsteps. This rouses Starscream from recharge wondering what's going on. Before he can even get his processor straight Megatron pulls him into a tight hug making nonsensical ramblings about how much he loves the seeker and how he's never going to hurt him again. It takes a bit for him to understand but once he does his stomach drops. He starts to frantically explain away about how he's a great partner and that was made up. Megatron doesn't believe him and this just makes him feel worse.

Starscream isn't quite sure what to do.

Megatron starts talking about how he's not going to get his processor fixed if it means he'll go back to mistreating Starscream. This makes Starscream even more conflicted. He has to go along with the wife delusions so Megatron can get better but if he agrees with this when Megatron eventually gets his memories back when his self repair nanites fix the problem he's absolutely going to kill the seeker. So he tries to run away to seek help from Shockwave but Megatron refuses to let him leave. Megatron doesn't want to be an abuser anymore but he's still not the best guy and he's extremely emotional right now.

They agree to sleep on the problem and figure out what to do in the morning. I don't know what would come next though but I like to think after he gets his memories back this whole thing gave Megatron lots of perspective and he starts to treat Starscream more nicely because of it. In return Starscream would stop trying to overthrow him or assassinate him.

For me personally if I wrote about this I wouldn't have it end explicitly in megastar, more in a queer platonic sense. I like the idea of them occasionally cuddling in bed ever so often because they liked it so much when they were forced to share a berth. Plus Starscream has too much trauma from Megatron to engage with him romantically I would think. If we assume he's still going to be an overlord at least.

I just kinda want to just put this out into the world to see if anyone does anything with this. I think it's an interesting idea and I want to see what people do with it.

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You know if Isaac was petty enough he could have started a rumor him and Megatron made out. What's Megatron going to do, deny it? That's something a human kisser would say.

Megatron would be so pissed off by this but on some level he is impressed. He respects the craft of decepticon till the day he dies and he knows no matter how he responds to this he doesn't look good.

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*On the Nemesis*

Arct: Where could that relic be???

Miko: Let's check the flight deck!

Jack: Nah, nah the call of the void is too much temptation for you Miko.

Arcee: “The call of the void”?

Jack: Uhhh, you guys don't have that?

Bulkhead: No, what is it?

Jack:

Miko:

Raf:

Jack: You explain it Raf, I'm not doing it.

Raf: What- why me??

Jack: You're the smart one.
Raf: I- …..

Raf: One of these days that excuse is not going to work anymore.

Bumblebee: (⁠・^・)???

Raf: Well Bee it's… kinda dark to talk about.

Miko: If you don't explain it I will.

Raf: *Sigh* The “call of the void” or L’appel du vide as the original French phrase it was translated from is a psychological instinct where humans feel compelled to throw themselves into “the void.”

The autobots: 🤨

Raf: Aka want to jump off of really tall things that would definitely kill us or do other really dangerous stuff.

Arcee: W-WHAT??! WHY DO HUMANS HAVE AN INSTINCT TO DO THAT!??!

Raf: It's theorized that it's supposed to remind ours brain not to do things to hurt us or others.

Bulkhead: Your processer has to remind you not to do that?????

Miko: Yep! :D

Bulkhead: That's some Unicron type scrap.

Jack: I mean he is our planet.
The autobots: …..

Arcee: I need to start drinking again.

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I don't know about you guys but I want more “we fucked up” moments of realization from cybertronians when dealing with crazy humans.

They go into battle not seeing the “little squishes’ as threats- in fact as canon fodder. Suddenly something happens; a human gets a weapon, or one becomes just a little too determined, then just like that they kill a Cybertronian, or at least injure them greatly.

A prime (pun intended) example of this is with Megatron's reaction to Hardshell’s death.

I mean just look at Megatron's face right here and tell me it isn't immensely satisfying/funny to look at.

Megatron just looks so confused and maybe a little uneasy- as remember from his perspective this is like the equivalent of a chinchilla killing a grown adult man. Then afterwards he gives this sort of insightful look.

Personally I like to interpret this scene as him thinking whether to consider Miko as a real threat or not. While Megatron definitely has the mindset of looking down at those being beaten by “weaker enemies” even he knows or well recognizes that yes Hardshell was indeed very powerful but…. yet he was defeated by something smaller than his servo. Just something to think about.

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Humans love pack bonding; this is a well known fact. They will bond with anything from a puppy they just found, their “emotional support empty plastic water bottle,” to a little cleaning robot with a knife attached to it. They do this so effectively and to such an extent that has become an honest to Primus a problem a lot of the time.

One such now infamous example is when an entire town of people collectively decided to forcibly adopt Starscream (of all people) without his consent. The ex-decepticon didn't even try to manipulate this town into liking him, they just liked him for him. Which definitely said something about humanity's already questionable sanity.

The autobots couldn't let the bot go around roaming free with the potential danger he posed so they had to round him up. However when they reached his location the Autobots were met with quite the sight. All of the town had rounded up a resistance against them. They had made and gathered all the weapons they could and threatened to fight them if the Autobots had tried forcibly taking Starscream with them. Cybertronians unfamiliar with Earth and its people would find this kind of display laughable, feeling confident they will not be hurt by “the puny organics.”

Which always proves to be a terrible, terrible decision.

As previously stated humans LOVE pack bonding, some could say they were built for it. And with this huge emphasis on this in their psychic it has made them quite…… well psychotic whenever that bond is threatened, to use a less than a better word. Humans will show frankly terrifying feats of willpower and strength to combat any “threats” that will harm their companions. Most of which involves enduring horrific bodily harm to themselves.

With Optimus knowing this he decided it was best to leave Starscream be, so long as he behaves. The potential damage the townspeople may do to them or their own bodies was not worth the risk. The town would later go on to celebrate their victory and continue to love their new friend Starscream.
And this was just one of the many stories of similar instances. So new recruits with this information I implore you to be hyper aware of the fact that when you take on a human charge and have fully bonded with them you will be their bodyguard as much as they will try to be yours.

-Chapter 3, page 5 on A Guide to Human Companions by Ratchet

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Starscream wants to eat Megatron.

Not like in a romantic or smexy context, he literally just straight up wants to eat him.

Starscream is from a special species of seekers with a lot of cannibalistic tendencies- especially for strong mechs in positions of power. With Starscream being Starscream that means he wants the biggest baddest mech to devour. So instead of trying constantly to usurp Megatron, Starscream is trying to cook and eat him.

It would be mostly g1 style silly shenanigans with the undertone of really horrifying stuff if you think about it for too long. Like for instance when Megatron has taken a bath Starscream has multiple times, gotten out the salt and pepper then tried to turn Megatron into soup. It never worked obviously but it happened.
At first Megatron was, you know, pretty reasonably horrified at what was happening (it's not everyday someone is literally trying to eat you) but after a while he just kinda got used to it?

Every time Megatron thinks he's too quote-unquote “edible” he'll just casually step away from Starscream. Not because he's scared or anything but from his body's natural instinct for self preservation. Starscream will also constantly nibble on him too so just usually ignores it unless he's doing actual damage. Anytime Starscream is just staring a little too long at his neck Megatron will order him out of the room to do some name-less task, all sorts of things.

Let it be known no other seeker is like that TM and they think Starscream is a completely insane psychopath. Even his trine thinks he should be admitted as soon as a new psych ward is built.

Also if you're wondering- yes Starscream does have a Megatron themed cookbook that is as disturbing and funny as you think it would be.

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While doing some research on the Internet Soundwave came to learn of an interesting phenomenon regarding humans. They were quite susceptible to manipulation for anything they would consider “cute” in their eyes. A creature they called a cat that was especially adorable to them even made up 15% of their communication network. Sensing an opportunity to control the human population, Soundwave brought this information to Megatron's attention. He was immediately infatuated with the idea and ordered Shockwave to construct the cutest possible soldier. It only took him only a few Earth hours as he took in much easily accessible information from the humans' internet. Shockwave brought the blueprint back to the Decepticon overlord and said how they only needed a bot now, willing or not. Megatron's thoughts immediately drifted to Starscream. The form he was presented with was beyond hideous and he knew Starscream would absolutely hate it. Not one to pass up the opportunity to torture his second in command Megatron forced Starscream to undergo the procedure.

When it was done Starscream was half his original height now covered in a substance similar to organic fur, oversized wings, with two twitching ears, and much bigger eyes. Much to Megatron's disappointment Starscream's attitude had remained the same as humans would find it “more appealing that way” Shockwave had reasoned. (What in the pit was wrong with humans?) Regardless, Megatron would advertise Starscream’s form across the globe and demand the humans to adore the altered seeker. The plan was to get humanity infatuated with him so Megatron could order them to do his binding in exchange for more content of Starscream. To make sure it was extra effective all past pictures or videos of Starscream were altered to make it seem he always had looked like this. The humans quickly fell in love with Starscream.

It worked.

It worked too well in fact.

When humans did their own research on Starscream they would soon find out about his relationship with Megatron. Seeing their “precious baby” being beaten up set all of humanity into an outrage. They immediately began arming themselves to put Megatron into an early grave. Optimus at first tried to talk with the humans to make them calm down but he was promptly ignored. Seeing that his efforts weren't going anywhere Optimus quickly switched gears to do damage control. Optimus offered asylum to Megatron or anyone else who had “wronged” Starscream in the past. As much as they wanted to deny it no one could take on an entire planet of organics.

Megatron would quite predictably refuse and state he could take care of them himself.

Horrible mistake.

The humans soon cornered Megatron with their relatively primitive machines and vast numbers. They then proceeded to rip him apart.

Not figuratively, mind you, it was quite literally in fact.

They torn him apart bit by bit in front of a adoring crowd made up of all of humanity that were all collectively screaming for his torture. The videos that came out of that event would promptly be banned in six different galaxies if the psychotic humans ever made it out of their galaxy. Once Megatron was reduced to little more than energon mush the organics would “rescue” Starscream and spoil him with all kinds of gifts.

Seeing what happened to Megatron, anyone who was slightly negative to Starscream in the past quickly fled the planet or made a public apology video begging for forgiveness.

Starscream would rule Earth with a fluffy fist and turn out to be not that bad of an overlord. Humanity would prosper under his rule and make it clear to NEVER mess with Starscream.

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Jack

Out of everyone he was the hardest to think of an outfit for. I wanted him to look visually interesting but without taking his grey color pallet. It took some trial and error but eventually I got to this. He's rocking the skirt and jeans combo that I think looks pretty cool. It's functional while being aesthetically appealing. Outside of just looking nice the reason I gave him a skirt is for well 1. I don't think I have ever seen a main male character wear one that is not super effeminate (or exist in the first place) 2. It can give another reason why Vince would bully Jack outside of just being a “loser/social outcast” while also bringing attention to the issues gender non-conforming people face and 3. It helps unite the trio over their shared troubles of not fitting into what society expects of them. It's hard to see but Jack has a moon symbol on his shirt as a callback to June saying he wanted to be an astronaut when younger. He also got a black eye from the for mention bullying with a bandage covering up some other injury. No real reason for the shoes then just to complete the look.

Raf

Most of the time trying to make him was spent figuring out the hair. While the black person with pure white hair is very visually appealing it has been a bit over done. I wanted Raf to have something a bit different so I added a brown tone. I at first tried giving him dreads but I couldn't find anything I liked/that would fit. It was annoying figuring out the middle ground of messy but controlled. The rest came pretty easy, classic sweater vest over white button down, shoes and socks that I made green to match his eyes, with red shoes plus glasses that I thought looked nice. He also has a big scar on his face that I like to think he got when shot by Megatron. It would resemble something akin to a lighting strike scar. A sling bag instead of a backpack since it's used more outside of school while fitting his outfit more. Lastly, a bumblebee themed wrist brace. I think it would be cute when Bee gets his new colors Raf points out how they match now. Kinda like a foreshadowing Easter egg. Instead of it being support for needing a cane it's to help with especially bad JIA in his wrist. (Juvenile idiopathic arthritis) It also gives more meaning to “old man” nickname Miko gave Raf.

Miko

My God, were the colors a nightmare to figure out. The main reason my old Miko design was mostly two colors was because figuring the color palette was too hard for me. It was easier but it did not look like Miko enough. *Sigh* I'm pretty sure for their canon designs Miko has more colors than the rest of the kids combined. Regardless, I love how she turned out! I think I got a good middle ground for the “canon look” and my own interpretation. 

She has multiple scars on her face from the past “adventures” Miko has had. With how little self preservation this girl has Miko got to at least have some injuries from it. Pink shirt with a cat skull combo on it for cuteness and a bit of darkness. Dark blue overalls as her og design always looked like she had them to me. Some fingerless gloves that I think fit her vibe and her stockings being similar color to the little guys on a canon design belt. Gold colored shoulder pad for a “armor look” and a belt for a tail that matches her tail. In complete honesty the reason she has one is that I also wear a tail too irl. (FOR FASHION, SO DON'T GET ANY WEIRD IDEAS!!!!) Plus the way the animators animated Miko’s hair was kinda like cat ears lol. So it definitely helps the orange cat vibe Miko got going on. A bunny plushie that looks like Bulkhead on her waist. To once again reference the little guys she had and because it's just cute. With shoes that also match her hair.

The timeline:

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Miko has been transported from her world into a large inescapable flat arena by Unicron. He has captured everyone Miko loves and she will be pitted against an opponent to fight. Miko is told that if she loses, Unicron will kill them all.

The armor can be deactivated if she is rendered immobilized for ten seconds and the chest plate is pressed. The opponent will know this.

The transformer can be from any continuity.

Miko has a basic understanding of the blaster and knows how to fire it.

The energon blaster can pierce outer plating and joints but can only kill when directly fired at the spark or head. It has infinite ammo.

There is no time limit.

Miko will not get thirsty or hungry. She can get tired though.

The Cybertronian will have access to their basic arsenal and alt mode.

Miko will only be able to lift/throw tfp Starscream sized and weight Cybertronians. (There's no canon weight for Starscream but some person on Tumblr said he's probably 2,000 pounds?)

In the Apex armor Miko is 12.5 ft tall.

Scenario 1: Regular, as stated above.

Scenario 2: Miko is trained in basic combat, the armor, and weapon handling for a few weeks.

Scenario 3: Miko is trained and informed of her opponent. Which will include any weaknesses they may have, mentally and physically.

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To this day one of my favorite bits/headcanons is that humans are the equivalent to cats for transformers. It's just peak comedy and extremely cute while also being alarmingly accurate.

Small? Check.

Soft and pleasant to the touch? Check.

Always making you question how their species survived this long? Check.

Adorable? Check.

Simultaneously being the biggest assholes and the most compassionate things ever? Check.

There's definitely a lot more similarities but I can't think of anything else.

It's especially good with humans like Miko who is the equivalent of an orange cat. She also most definitely would have multiple warning stickers on her “vet” file. Bulkhead has to too warn all the new bots/medics that will babysit her lmao. If not properly supervised she would somehow end up on the moon or do something equally dangerous.

Yes humanity are truly those little shit animals that are completely stupid and smart at the same time that you desperately want to love you.

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I believe Miko is the peak of herbivorous animal with carnivore teeth energy to me.

And not just in the “Something that looks harmless but is actually really dangerous” kinda way. But in the way of something that wasn't designed to kill but sharpened their teeth into fangs anyway, an animal that doesn't fit into its plant eating family so they ran away to ones that could understand it, a predator amongst prey but prey amongst predators.

Miko twisted herself into something of her own making and delights in it. For she is free of her flat teeth and docile behavior, but not constrained to the pointed body of a carnivore.

Miko is Miko.

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I think of it like that of a god and their devoted follower. Megatron puts Starscream on a high pedestal seeing him as the person who freed him from his own personal hell. He feels like just a mere mortal (weapon) to his savior, with Megatron's only desire is that he could be of use for him. He dehumanizes himself to a large extent feeling like there's no point to existence if he can't do what he was saved from in the first place, being a gun. Starscream was the only thing “he had” and he grabbed onto that line fiercely, even as it was cutting into his hands.

Despite how much Megatron propped up the seeker, he deep down wants to drag Starscream from the heavens and indulge in him. He wants to be acknowledged and have all of Starscream's attention on him. For all followers of gods one day dream to be seen by the one they worship.

Starscream loves attention and sees himself above others, a gem among scrap metal. He also most importantly craves power above all else. That is just the type of creature he is, too chase after the highest position. He had seen Megatron just as another thing to help along his plans. He soon realized how important Megatron was. Most of his “followers” did not actually care for him, but for another mortal. So he used Megatron to keep his godhood and his ego afloat. While at the same time Starscream drowned himself with Megatron's worship.

Along the way though Starscream began to crave the devotion, that feeling of power over someone so much stronger than him. Maybe it's something more, maybe he had gotten attached along the way. Feeling like he needed Megs too.

After all, what is a god without their followers?

Hmmm, there's just so many ways to turn this into good fics. It's already dripping with mutual obsession and possessive behavior, which I am always a sucker for. Like what if a decepticon had a weapon alt-mode and Starscream started to use it to fight? Would Megatron feel insecure? He sees himself as a weapon and weapons are thrown away all the time without thought, or could he be secured in the fact there's no “better weapon” than Megatron so Starscream will never dispose of him?

Many many ideas.

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Miko: Okay so this is probably like really insensitive but I got to know-

Miko: Why are you always so moral superiority code about Starscream?

Acree: What?

Miko: I know he killed your partner and all which yeah, dick move, but…. don't you think it's a bit hypocritical?

Arcee: The frag do you mean by that?!

Miko: You and the rest of the autobots kill like fifty vehicons in a week alone.

Arcee:

Miko: Those guys are sentient too so they have their own feelings and friends! I feel it's pretty weird to get on Screamer's case about being a murderer when you're literally a serial killer.

Miko: I know they're bad guys and all but this is war so everyone’s got bodies under their name- even me!

Arcee.ex is now buffering: ………

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The thing I want to focus on is this specific part: “Arachnid: literally couldn't care less. Until she finds MECH, they are her murderous babies now. Likes to steal Jack for play dates.” This concept is amazing, Arachnid comes to earth to fuck with Arcee only to end up with like 20+ children.

When she meets Jack and chases him through the forest her spark is not really in it. She's not nearly getting as much enjoyment as she would think from this. Then when Jack blows up her ship Arachnid wasn't even really mad, she was a little annoyed but mostly ugh fond of him now. Obviously put off by this as she hasn't felt any sort of positive emotion towards someone else when they weren't screaming in pain for centuries. So the femme desperately tries to find stuff to make her more disgusted by humans only for it to backfire horribly. She founds out about the war worlds, our many torture techniques, the violence™️, and of course MECH. This just makes Arachnid only more hopelessly endeared by humans, especially this group who's actively trying to kill transformers. Arachnid knows when she's lost so she sets up the distress signal and waits for her new children to arrive.

Here's some headcanons now

• Extremely extremely possessive of her spiderling cluster and will venomously hate any bot that even looks in their direction.  
• Doesn't really know how to give physical affection. So she just awkwardly gives head pats, slightly strokes someone's back or just holds them. 
• When Arachnid is really content she'll purr. 
• One time a soldier accidentally called Arachnid mom and while she didn't have an outward reaction outside of freezing for a moment internally she was crying tears of joy. 
• Will regularly kill local wild life and bring it back to feed her kids. MECH will actually eat them and have specifically hired someone to clean/cook the animals.
• Arachnid does horrible dad jokes but she says them in such a way everyone ends up laughing. She also does plenty of dark humor. 
• Likes to carry mech members on her back like a wolf spider. MECH actually made magnetized shoes and gloves so people could hold on better. 
• Has a web set up in a spare room at MECH that she uses as her nest. 
• (My past Miguel stuff is definitely influencing some of these headcanons)
• Has to constantly hold back the urge of grooming her humans when she sees them dirty. They wouldn't appreciate being licked and she really doesn't want to taste unclean humans. In fact she doesn't want to know what humans taste like at all! 
• Arachnids nicknames for MECH members: Spiderlings, ankle biters, murder children, sparklings, stupid kids (affectionate), and my babies. 

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You know, sometimes people ship Sari and Miko which I think is kinda cute. Their relationship could be really interesting. Regardless, Sari is half cybertronian and Miko would be totally down for that, she would probably be jealous of it honestly.

Then I had a thought, when Miko grows up and meets more transformers (I refuse to believe the kids aren't hanging out with at least one bot) do you think she would try dating a cybertronian? I guess this goes for both Raf and Jack too. I doubt Jack would do it as he is too plain for that. Maybe Raf would consider it?

Miko is..... Miko.

Idk having lots of your socializing being down with cybertronians and most of your family unit also being them would definitely shape the kids. Especially when they were still young. Disregarding the size difference problem I think they would have at least thought about it at one point.

Like they're on the couch one day playing the racer game when the topic of dating comes up. Probably from the subject of Jack's loser boy crush. Then it drifts to the Autobots relationships and if they are dating or have dated. There are discussions of if Megatron is Optimus' ex, the Wreckers situationship, if Arcee and Cliffjumper were together, ect, just general teen gossip. Jack makes a joke about how with much of their time they spent around transformers they are just going to end up with only bot company. Miko jokes back about settling down with a femme. Raf then is like would you do that? Marry a transformer?

Miko has would I moment? The kids talk about how the only bots they know are the Autobots which are basically their parents and the decepticons which straight up don't like them. Raf mentions how there are other cybertronians out there so theoretically speaking when they're adults they could do that. Then Jack argues no bot would want to date a human. Humans are freaky but they aren't. This evolves into a full blown argument which ends up with them marching over to the nearest Autobot asking about it.

Which honestly might be a little horrifying for them at first as they are connected to the internet and well......... you know. The kids would explain what brought this on and it becomes a whole thing. Most of the Autobots would be disgusted by the idea. However Optimus just talks about how he's dating no one since he has an obligation to uphold. Then Arcee is like wait you said "obligation" so if you didn't have one you would date a human? Optimus doesn't deny it. Now the Autobots just have to live with the knowledge that their leader is a humanfucker. (Jack is definitely keeping his mom away from the base for a little while)

Smokescreen honestly might be down and Wheeljack gives me the vibes of "I'll try anything once." This got sidetracked but you get my point.

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With the lost light shelter au and all the other animal related tf universes I keep thinking about making my own version.

I want it to be centered around megastar as I've kinda fallen down the ship pipeline. (You can blame the spoon for that one) Megatron is a bunny as- firstly, it's quite contrasting as one of the most violent mechs in existence is a herbivore, in a more irl animal behavior sense while carnivores usually take careful planning of whether to attack or not herbivores usually just throw caution to the wing, going all out, he looks cute, can add to the backstory of him being repressed as “prey” and he is really cute. He's also really big, like a huge chunky Flemish one.

Now I just can't decide what Starscream is going to be. I am stuck between two options: a snake or a cat. In either case Starscream is smaller than Megatron.

Snake
Fits his backstabbing oily emotionally repressed personality, is sleek, and you get the cute image of Megs being lovely held in Starscream's coils. It also adds that a snake can't change its nature and Starscream is destined always to hurt Megatron. In the case if I add wings Starscream will be a plumed serpent, which is basically a dragon.

Cat
Also fits his personality but more in the princess, smug bastard way, cats, Starscream can clean him- which, fun fact: bunnies who are groomed are dominant but cats who groom are dominant, which just fits them well. Cats and bunnies can be good friends but they can also be extremely dangerous to each other at the same time. Symbolism. ✨

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Thinking about Miko with the apex armor in IDW again because there are just so many interesting places where you could put her!

For instance the Lost light ship, a place known for its chaos. Her interactions with Whirl, Megatron, Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, or anyone else really would be so rich. Her meeting Whirl alone is a story within itself. Especially since Miko has the protection and fire power to be involved in the more dangerous stuff.

Or have her be with this universe’s Wreckers and the potential relationship with Verity. They share a lot in common and can bond over their respective power armor, being the token human, and green solidarity. It would be quite a blast.

Maybe in the middle of Megatron's trial for the ultimate shit show that would cause.

For something darker perhaps meeting Tarn and the rest of the D.J.D. The apex armor would protect her from most of what they could do and maybe even Tarn’s voice. If we assume they can't just press the button on the armor’s chest and deactivate it anyways. It definitely wouldn't protect her from the severe psychological damage Miko would experience there.
Then again maybe Tarn might be softer on her since she is a sparkling and acts really similar to Megatron. Can't say for sure.

In either scenario you deal with the conflict of people trying to obtain the armor. (Once again let's assume only Miko can take it off) The Apex armor is an incredibly powerful relic and almost everyone is going to be scrambling after it. Miko wouldn't just wingingly give it up either! Not only is it really important to her own world, it also keeps her safe from harm. She's not an idiot, Miko does idiotic things every so often but she's not an idiot. The girl could recognize how grave of danger she is in. The armor being the only true advantage she has in this world.

Doing some basic research Miko is also going to be about waist height for most bots in this world which sucks for her. Miko is only a few feet taller than Tailgate. (12.5 feet) Though since tfp has pretty big transformers too Miko is probably used to it.

Edit: Okay, wait I just had a thought! There's this au where the Apex armor turns a Cybertronian when worn by a human. Now take that and add it to this idea.

Hmm I like both of these aus! The main conflict now would be hiding being human from everyone else. This would be both much harder and easier for Miko. No one else to help with her organic needs but no danger of the Apex armor being stolen. She might give off a weird “spark” energy but most will just think Miko is an ordinary- if really extrinsic mech.

Another idea I had is that Miko from the phenomenon that brought her to this universe in the first place, will make her teleport around the IDW through both space and time. So she can appear anywhere and do all the things I mentioned above in the same fanfic.

Both ideas have their own appeal and IDK which one I like better. I do love the idea of DJD trying to murder Miko but can't as she's indestructible. Like imagine Tarn trying to use his voice trick but nothing happens so Miko just stands awkwardly there. So queue a long montage of attempts on Miko's life, methods always being weirder than the last and by the end of it Miko is not even scared anymore, she's just annoyed.

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G1 Starscream in tfp would be pretty interesting.

Especially when you consider he would like tfp Megatron more than his own at first but grow to hate him while tfp Megatron would hate g1 at first but grow to like him.(Not really but let me have this)

Okay so hear me out, in g1 Starscream’s main beef with his Megatron was that he never listened to him on stuff he was objectively right in. Especially something science related which drove him nuts. In Tfp while Megatron did have questionable sanity he wasn't (completely) stupid. If Starscream told him an island was going to blow up because of geology reasons so they should leave he will listen. He is also much less of a “brute” and speaks with quite flowery words. Which g1 Starscream would find quite refreshing at first.

He would then see how much more evil this version is and his treatment of prime Starscream. Which yeah his relationship with Megatron is not the best but holy shit what in the pits is going on here????? Then comes in the drug addiction, which as a mech who personally met and tricked Unicron he is not fucking with. G1 would eventually realize how messed up in the head this version of Megatron is and quickly try to leave.

Tfp Megaton would despise that g1 somehow had an even worse voice then his own Starscream and his more childish antics. He however is going to get (mostly) over that when he realizes how useful this version of Starscream is. In G1 he is a scientist (I know prime maybe had a science background but we never see him use it) with many science feats including: making the Decepticon Brutus, creating electricity in the middle ages, technically infinite energy, and I know there's other things but I can't find any solid information on it. He also can teach this world on how to turn human energy into energon which is pretty invaluable. Yes I know it's probably “grossly inefficient” but I don't think the bots have any right to be picky.

This Starscream would also be much more easy to manipulate for Megatron which he would like. G1 is also less of a coward- well when compared to tfp anyways so there is also that.

Tempted to imagine Megatron with an unrequited crush on g1 Starscream as that would be hella interesting.

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I remember this post about the tfp kids wanting to avenge bay!Ratchet’s death and now I'm just thinking about a fic where it's just 5k words of the kids going on a murder spree. Those crazy children are pretty capable of destroying a small city if they were given the right motivation. I'm not joking btw, I fully believe this. (If we're assume the Autobots are not trying to stop them anyways)

If they are careful about their identities I don't think they need to hide the bodies. I mean who's going to think a bunch of teens from a different universe came and kill- what, like 30+ people??? Especially with the obvious alien technology they're using and access to such a high tech hacker.

I don't know how many humans were actually responsible for killing bay!Ratchet and on principle I refuse to watch the movie. So I'm assuming there were a couple of government officials that ordered the attack, the generals in charge of it, and then the people who were actively involved in his death. So I'm going with the 30-50 range on the amount of guilty humans.

Anyways the fic would be pretty dark in theory but it's written completely covered in a thick layer of crack and humour so it's not so bad! I mean of course some horrific stuff is going to shine through but that makes sense considering the subject matter.

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Fic where Starscream gets turned into a sparkling and instead of the Autobots or Decepticons meeting him it's the kids.

Because they are humans and humans going to human they immediately adopt the fugly ass robot bird thing they found. For whatever reason they don't want anyone to find out about this. So baby Star is kept in a comfy nest hidden in one of the kids' backyard. The children are actually pretty decent parents, all things considered. Cybertronians have a pretty hands off approach to raising sparklings and if anything they are over-parenting Starscream.

When he turns back to an adult Starscream expects things to go back to normal, but oh no buddy. You're fucked now. Star is not ready for the extent of human pack bonding, especially with their attachment to their offspring.

So now Starscream has three slightly murderous human children each with questionable levels of sanity forcibly trying to adopt him. (They're much more effective than his willing to admit)

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Megatron

Locking these two in a room together and waiting to see how long it takes them to destroy the world.

Starscream

Dramatic Shakespeare-esc villain with their orange cat.

Soundwave

Giving the already most stressed out bot on the planet more problems.

Breakdown

The girl's robot dad but moved slightly to the left.

Knockout

Two divas talking shit while painting their nails.

Arachnid

Making an already violent teenager infinitely worse and the local sadist marginally better.

Steve the vechicon

Too see what happens.

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I sometimes wonder how certain cybertronians would react to being on the other side of the “Young and technologically inferior race with God like beings” dynamic for once.

As they are quite used to being the one who's always “superior” in the “grand scheme of things,” the biggest fish in the pound. But as the saying goes there's always a bigger fish.

So just imagine one day a Quintesson crash lands on Earth for whatever reason with the Autobots or Decepticons coming check it out. They were in an accident involving some planet eater which the resulting blast from it imploding flung them here. The entire time they are there they make little comments but how far behind their technology is, all that primitive behavior, the short lifespans (Oh you can live for billions of years? Yeah try surviving to a few octillion then will talk) all in a similar fashion to you know who. Cough cough Ratchet cough.

It would provide a much needed ego death for many of them and help revalue their place in the universe. Hmm those pathetic fleshies not looking too dissimilar to you now when compared to something like this huh?

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Someone introduced me to the fantastic crack ship of a sentient colony of scraplets (Whirl Jr) and Miko being together.

I have thoughts.

From what information I have gathered, Whirl from RBA or “Whirl Jr” is popularly headcanoned to be the daughter of Whirl and the scraplet colony he obtained in the MTMTE Christmas special. Which I also will subscribe to my belief system.

I don't know Whirl Jr’s age as it's pretty ambiguous outside being a “kid” but from what I've seen I'm assuming it's in the 14-16 range. Regardless, this ship could have a pretty interesting dynamic. Miko is pretty invested in Cybertronian stuff while Whirl jr is pretty invested in Earth stuff. They can and would teach each other quite enthusiastically about their various cultures.

I also just love the idea of Miko having access to a metal eating swarm that she will absolutely abuse for power and Whirl Jr is going to let her do it lol. Jr is chaotic enough to encourage reckless behavior but not so chaotic they destroy the world. Which is btw just barely under that line.

Also Whirl would adore Miko and make her just that much worse. He meets her for five seconds then just immediately adopts her.