How does Cybertronian cooking work? Do I just stick “Energon” in front of any random food like Energon nachos, Energon corndogs, Energon fries and stuff???
Idk, TFWiki has a list of canonical Transformer foods, and the fandom has come up with a few staples (e.g. Mercury rolls, though no one can really agree if these are like cinnamon rolls or something else), but I think most things would work if you added ‘energon’ in front of them? I personally have looked into chemistry experiments and wondered if transformers could eat the results, like aerogel.
I know that energon is similar, physically, to honey in Matrix, so there’s a variety of flavors and textures it comes in depending upon trace elements and how it’s crystals form, or how it’s treated, but actual cuisine in Matrix revolves more around anything else they need- certain minerals or chemicals they need to ingest, metals they might supplement their diet with, etc
Though on Earth that winds up less “cuisine” and more, uh.
There are a range of domesticated Cybertronian animals (‘mechanimals’) that are kept as pets, from certain types of crystalline insects to photovoltaicats. Most of these species are native, but some of them are not.
The most common pets prewar were insects, metallifish (fish), turbohounds (dogs) and photovoltaicats (house cats). These were popular for a variety of reasons, but mostly due to owners not having to be licensed. Other pets, including turbofoxes, cybercats (think Ravage), arachnedroids and ramdroids (sheep), required licensing for owners due to the potential danger they posed and the knowledge required in owning them.
However, most common as ‘pets’ in the work-centred culture of prewar Cybertron were crystal plants, some ‘intelligent’ and reactive to stimuli, similar to venus flytraps and succulents, as they did not require as much attention as another creature being dependent on a bot for their care and company.
Houseplants may not love you back, but at least they won’t make a mess of your living room in anxiety if you’re not back from work at the usual time.
So this might be kinda sorta the Megatron from one of Agatharights ideas which had Megatron, when in Autobot custody, medically mutilated and forced in a bodytype that “fit” his sparktype while being harmlessly autobot-sized.
That was horrifying enough to catch my interest. So, here, Megatron, with altered facial proportions, and his body being the most average femme bodytype available, with pretty much no kibble or even the slightest possibility for intergrated weaponry.
One version without medical scars that looks socially acceptable, and one with scars, or maybe it just looks like that under uv-light.
Why, after all, bother to waste doing your absolute best to make it painless and neat for an enemy to become more appropriate?
(The main question here is: does he have a kill list, or just a list of facilities that are going to go kaboom once he gets the chance?)
THIS IS
AMAZING
OH MY GOD THIS IS GORGEOUS I LOVE IT????!! Poor Megatron. His life gets real shitty once the Autobots start fucking around with him. He thought being a disembodied head in Isaac’s lab was bad….
Concept art for the armor soldiers had to wear on the fictional battlefeild of Ra’el. Ra’el was the radioactive front line and so toxic that unprotected exposure could be lethal. So the soldier wore armor that protected them from it. Plus side, you didn’t get radiation poisoning and it protected against artillery better than normal armor. Downside, you couldn’t transform with it on.
I recall really liking these concepts when I saw them on DA a while ago. Glad to find them on tumblr. @chiren@koigikibble
Cybertronian Database 