Hello, @humbl3shark, ‘tis I, your Secret Santa! You asked for something cute or funny and mentioned that TFA Ratchet is one of your faves; this came out a little more feelsy than intended, but it’s very much found family fluff at its core. I hope you like it. (Rated G, no pairings, no warnings.)
The grim note in
Ratchet’s voice did not bode well.
He surveyed the
Autobots’ common room with the thousand-yard stare of a mech
looking out at the smoking remains of a battlefield. Which, to be
fair, was not an entirely inaccurate description. The room was
currently displaying a similar degree of chaos.
The difference was
that battlefields don’t tend to glitter.
Some Decepticon disability headcannons, because as a disabled who like’s cons, I wanted to think how that could work in decepticon society in terms of aids and philosophy if we go down the ‘war frame’ route of g1/tfa
Because ‘warrior society who kills the weak *cough*disabled*cough*’…well yeah, maybe lets do something different sometimes-
-Replacing a limb lost in battle or for an individual protoformed without one is normal, it might have an array of installed lasers, swords because decepticons
-chronic pain? the pain from your own body is a worthy opponent to fight
-processor illness’s are regarded the same
-hover chairs are small, light weight and practical. but still have space for needed weapon storage
-highly sensitive to light? poor vision? you get a visor to better see your enemies!
-non or partly verbal? hand is more practical for stealth attacks anyway
-can’t fight? someone has to do healing/record battles/cook/devise new things ect
A headcanon post by moi, and relevant for one of the fics currently on my poll.
When it comes to fanfiction, oftentimes the Spark is the most important aspect of a Transformer’s existence. Without it, they would die. It is insinuated to be the source of a Cybertronian’s sentience/sapience/intelligence, and it is often compared to the human Soul.
At the same time, there’s been instances of reprogramming ( in both fic and canon ) which forever altered the mech in question. The destruction of a brainmodule has been shown to be almost the same as death. Rung, with his brainmodule having gone through some trauma, was completely unresponsive and near comatose. Nautica held onto Skids’ brain module, in the hopes that his spark could be rekindled in some way.
So, even though the details are never explained in canon ( how wonderful, plenty of room for headcanoning!) we know that the brainmodule is at least equal to the spark in importance.
My personal headcanon, is that the spark is what generates emotion, attachments, and feelings. And that the Brainmodule is necessary to interpret the signals of the spark, and to translate outside events to signals that the spark can understand. They work in tandem, and develop set patterns and ‘shortcuts’ so as to say, as the Cybertronian grows older and has more life experience.
With that thought in mind, I wondered… What would happen if the sparks were swapped, but the brainmodules were not?
I imagine that, whenever there is a downpour and the nanites are taking shelter… there is also a mech in anti-corrosive gel trying to steal them away. The nanites bunch and knot into a big ball of safety, where just a single good whack can land every single one of them into a bucket – much like how a beekeeper knocks a beehive from a branch.
Mostly, it is done for bragging rights – stealing a bucket of nanites from an important building or memorial is not very profitable. Sometimes it is used by mecha in the dead end to create souvenirs and baubles made with authentic pieces of the memorial, but oftentimes it is cheaper to simply lie about that. To steal all the paint of a building would require more buckets and anti-acid gel than any mech would want to spend on it!
Cybertronian Database 