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will be used for explaining a lot about cybertronians in my au adastra

notes

  • they are asexual (i mean c'mon)
  • the actual lifeform we refer as cybertronians is the spark only not the entire frame
  • their "dna encoding" is within the spark
  • the concept of good and bad mentioned in my primus talk about how personalities are developed
  • no gender
  • transformers brain modules are weaker than the human brain in terms of complexity and logic process to pick on cues. giving humans one relevant advantage
  • dark energon is quintessential for transformers development albeit all claims it's a cancer
  • they are classified as plasma-based lifeforms (since as I've specified earlier only part which is considered sentient [by humans oh well] is the spark). since things like changing your frame and going back to the well of sparks is a thing, it could be analogical to how certain snails grow their own shells. unlike humans who cnanot just shed their skin for a new one (albeit the concept of transfer conscisouness in my AU exists but it isn't grounded), cybertronians have an innate ability to switch frames. you could say it's in their set tools of abilities and are actually capable because it was designed to.
  • all of them have finials and they have some sort of ability for spacial awareness and heightened senses. some remove them since they are more sensitive and not neccesarily for mundane tasks. thing of cat whiskers
  • primus is a huge parasitic lifeform, something like that big mushroom from america idk. they are very old.
  • most cybertronians refer to themselves using non-gendered pronouns but a tingeof cultural adaptation since they explored space for million of years, absorbing cultural aspects like gender. this is interesting since it seems aliens have a tendency to gravitate towards how sex is defined. now it's not female and male but it became a nice aspect of their cultural exchange elements.
  • mri machines can damage them.
  • hot spots are adorned with energon flowers, a very pure type of energon source. its limited and needs yo be preserved for new sparks. when sparks barely have a shell, they have their "first energon" which is essential in providing a limited source of energy before they jump in a hot spot.
  • scraplets do not eat sparks contrary to the popular belief but can damage the frame of a cybertronian since the spark is interlinked with the nervous system.
  • cybertronians can have kids, but not in the way you think. their dna i need to find a name for, or encoding in spark is unqiue to every individual. for one to have something akin to offspring is biologically impossible but there are cases where encoding engineering can make 2 related. sparks can have damaged or missing encoding at birth, which disrupts their ability to form a protoform. so certain mechs donate a part of their dna to "complete", making a spark and that mech related. the closest to a traditional family.
  • sparks that shared a hotspot at a time are called hotspot brothers. they aren't related or anything.
  • humans cannot touch sparks since their temperature can cause obvious burns on their fingers but once they cool down (after certain periods of eating energon, it feels ticklish and like small needles tempering the skin). sparks also make sounds akin to fireworks.
  • when sparks emerge first time, they are the size of a human fist.
  • sparks must have their first energon to survive. they cannot survive without a frame for a long time.
  • cybertronians with forged frames have altered sparks in order for the spark to not reject the casing. usually that means surgeries of dna removal on extremely young sparks.
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Pub: 11 Jun 2022 20:54 UTC

Edit: 08 Feb 2026 22:55 UTC

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