Apparently my motif for The Thirteen are “spooky energy beings with angelic imagery” and i still got like eleven of these demigods I haven’t drawn yet
I’m all about this spooky aesthetic so have a Solus Prime, the Inventor! I figure I’ll actually put this over on the tfm blog when I write up a thing about each of them.
She has lots of little tool-arms that come out of her chest to work on stuff.
– Optimus was one of the original 13 primes but chose to be reborn with the new bots they created
– Megatronus was generally a Good Dude, even if he was technically closest to Unicron in nature, and he killed Solus Prime in self defense during a fight that they were manipulated into by Liege Maximo
– Megatronus became the Fallen by choice in honor of the friends he lost, and then swore to go around the universe protecting other species
– Optimus is older than Predaking by at least a few days
– The original Predacons were wiped out during a massive… solar events of sorts caused by a passing star that made their solar system go haywire. They were either too big or too proud to hide deep underground and go into stasis like the smaller bots, and thus didn’t survive
– Reflector and Preceptor created the first star map together
– the Quintessons showed up and kicked the Cybertronians’ evolution of knowledge into high speed, but as a result they created a caste system with bots most useful to the Quintessons at the top, and bots stopped caring to greet and name newly born sparks from the well
– Sentinel Zeta was elected as Prime during Quintesson rule in a very clearly not rigged election– the Quintessons were too proud and too confident to even bother to rig it
– Sentinel Zeta Prime eventually gathered together a secret task force full of scientists and sneaky bots and discreetly overthrew the Quintessons and kicked them out, but then didn’t bother to fix the caste system or really any major political problems beyond the invaders
– all of the bots in Aligned are genderless, they used to use only one pronoun before they started interacting with gendered foreign species and found adopting gendered language allowed them to better relate
– the easiest way to split themselves into 2 groups was by processor type– bots that were created in the image of Solus Prime had processors like her, meant for complex and abstract problem solving. Since she was only one of 13 primes, the gender division is 12:1
– there was a prewar bot named Cogwheel who was an Arachnicon like Airachnid, but she was a medic who trained Ratchet and used her many thin limbs for precision surgery and her webbing as bandages
– Alpha Trion describes himself as not understanding the point of romance, when close companionship seems more beneficial and less complex. Basically he’s aromantic
– Megatron’s first memory was watching a sunset alone right after he was born from the well, with the knowledge that he was going to immediately go into the mines afterwards and most likely never see the sky again (and then vowed to not accept such a fate)
– Combiners, when combined, are referred to by it/itself pronouns
– Alpha Trion has the world’s biggest hate boner against Shockwave and will routinely go out of his way to insult Shockwave whenever he’s brought up in conversation (and sometimes when he isn’t)
– The vast majority of bots right before the war were Majorly Racist towards minicons, thinking them untrustworthy, creepy, and suspicious. Both Megatron and Optimus shared this feeling towards minicons, ironically enough
The Thirteen having to deal with bad manufacturing since they were Primus’s first creations and basically His trial run. He may be a god but even gods make mistakes their first time around 🙂
Plugs accidentally popping out of ports during plug’n’play because Primus forgot to add the command code to keep them locked in.
When their vocalizer is taxed, be it from yelling, emotional stress, or otherwise, the vocalizer is unable to handle it because Primus didn’t expect them to be so dang emotional, and it ends up making a grating monotone sound until the bot calms down and the vocalizer cools off.
Having to reinforce their own spark chambers because it was all too easy for the code to activate them to open while sharing a powerfully emotional event.
Optics leaking at random times because their body was producing too much coolant [Primus didn’t realise how often His creations would sit around doing activities that didn’t require that much coolant]. Despite most of them getting this corrected quickly, Liege Maximo somehow missed out on that and people he talked to often recalled him crying for no reason. He claims he’s just so passionate about what he’s talking to them about, selling them on believing him a lot more easily. Also, he’s an angry crier because of this.
A Prime’s spark being knocked out of alignment because Primus forgot to add secure latches, and feeling effects similar to when you take drugs, and a sense of weightlessness despite having both feet on the ground. One can only imagine how trippy this experience would be for Matrix-bearing Prima.
all that weld porosity because He did n ‘t c lean the cfucknging metal before we ld ing it
Their interface panels accidentally springing open during combat because Primus thought it was a good idea to have them manually activated, and carelessly bumping into the panel can accidentally brush against the trigger to open it. So, you can only imagine how embarrassing sparring/combat was. Likewise, interface panels being jammed because Primus’s molding accidentally melted over the button to open the interface panel.
Limbs just popping off when touched because the sensors overreact to the sensation and the joint was too loose to keep the limb in place. Likewise, parts of their plating falling off because Primus has a knack for incomplete fusion when it comes to welding two piece s of fukng metal together
Adding on to that, when Nexus Prime first tried to combine, his entire body basically disassembled. It took Primus a decacycle to put him back together. A very messy process when you add in energon lines popping out everywhere. Cue the traumatizing visual. Thank Primus that he created the Thirteen. Imagine what would happen if you tried combining and He hadn’t had Nexus Prime to test it out first.
Amalgamous Prime getting stuck mid transformation because his cog wasn’t big enough to reach all the parts needed to transform.
Sleepwalking because Primus forgot to add a shutdown function. Quintus Prime refused to have this fixed on the grounds that sleepwalking was a perfect counterpart to his daydreaming. That doesn’t make sense but neither does Primus letting him keep the Emberstone after he created the Quintessons ᵖʳᶦᵐᵘˢ ᵃʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ʸᵒ ᵈᵃᵐᶰ ᵐᶦᶰᵈ
Solus Prime’s first hands were of those where the molding fused the fingers so she can’t bend them. Primus fixed that as soon as possible when He realised how loudly she could complain.
Primus getting frustrated with sculpting/molding hands and faces [and in the MTMTE continuity, legs lmao, goddammit milne you make it impossible to find leg references] because it’S HARDDDD.
One of them was once bedazzled to the max. Megatronus was not pleased. Another had a ridiculous amount of biolights compared to the others because Primus wanted to go all out on his OCs. Suffice to say that the design was not good and Vector Prime had to beg Primus to build him a new body in order for the others to take him seriously.
The Thirteen asking what that weird hunk of metal is that sits in the corner of a room, to which Primus admits was His first attempt at creating one of them, and it ended poorly because He didn’t know how to sculpt very well. To which the Thirteen were grateful that they didn’t turn out like that, and despite all the issues they had to suffer because of Primus’s incompetence in sculpting living beings, at the end of the day, they were proud to be Primus’s firsts.
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