Tag: rust

nerdcrawfish:

dynasty-of-primes:

dynasty-of-primes:

Would rust taste sweet or kind of sour to Cybertronians? Like y’know in rust sticks and such.

@nerdcrawfish

I like the idea of it being bitter and I forgot it’s considered a disease oops. Maybe there are like different strains of rust? and some of the strains aren’t toxic or damaging to the TFs so they eat it? Or maybe it’s like sour patch kids and some tfs find rust disgusting and terrible to eat and others really like it.

@betarayatlas Oooooo. When I was thinking of a rust inspired drink I was thinking along those lines. I wanted it to be kind of gritty and spicy. But I couldn’t pick if I wanted spicy like hot peppers or spicy like cinnamon or cloves. And I love your idea of the spiciness depends on the metal type, quite like peppers. I’m very partial to this, if you can’t tell. 

@dynasty-of-primes The idea of certain types of rust/metals being poisonous is really nifty. Like how if you don’t ferment stuff correctly you can get some nasty

C. botulinum. Plus, some molds to us are beneficial while others are beyond unhealthy. That’s a very good idea, I love it. And I’m all for some tfs hating the taste of rust because it’s bitter. 

About the rust and it affecting transformers. It’s really weird because generally TFs are indeed not made of the same materials that our cars are. And overall, I think the idea of rust affecting transformers like it does on our cars, only really occurred in the G1 Marvel comics. 

Apparently all metals rust (I didn’t know that till now, forgive me science teachers), typically by oxidation (but not always). Many just forming tarnishes very slowly. 

So the ability for variety is definitely there. 

I did a quick search and TFWiki and reread MTMTE issue 43–”The One Where They Go To Earth”. First Aid inquires Velocity how Swerve could have gotten a rust infection and she says: “A scratch? A stabbing? He must’ve patched himself up without cleaning the wound.” I know of one other time in IDW where they refer to rust as an infection. 

But generally it looks like how we get infections. Which when you think about it, is pretty much how our cars get rust. Expose the flesh/metal to bacteria/water-or-whatever makes it corrode and ta da an infection/rust.

And with my new found knowledge of ‘every metal rusts’ I think it’s safe to say they can rust like our cars–just it occurs less often due to constant maintenance and usage of their parts, probably regular cleaning, and they may be made of metals that don’t typically rust like iron. Or metals that don’t rust via exposure to oxygen? Or…

I’ll stop. I’m very divided now…

I’m so sorry for this essay and I apologize if I’ve annoyed anyone. Also someone smarter and more knowledgeable  than me please get up in this and correct me.