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witchofthesouls · 2 days

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Hey, for the other!tfp trio….let's assume that the team remained on really close contact despite the distance after the war (RID 2015 who knows you? Certainly not me). I wanna see a really touching reunion between the bots and their protegees, but here's the twist:

They return to their kids, only to find out that these three are no longer kids, but young adults (maybe late teens for Raf, because our future little Dragon always will be the youngest of the trio) and are no longer humans (cause they have fully embraced their other heritage)

This time-lapse could be explained by either A) the bots spending a bit longer on Cybertron and losing the human sense of time or B) The kids deciding to make a joint trip to elsewhere/the other side after the end of the war, where time doesn't move the same as in the human plane (they went as kids, but elsewhere spit them as grow ups even though this change doesn't make sense to the bots.... because they are seeing things from a human sense of time); now, when exactly these three got lost and then reborn, that's privy to them alone.... I prefer the B) option if you ask me....

Regardless, I think that these three would remain tightly nit, as tight as possible (they could be on the other extreme of the planet or any other plane, and yet they would return to each other...eventually). Cause after all the went through, separation is not an option for them

Reactions and talks/explanations are meant to happen in response to this..... and what roles June, the Esquivels and the Nakadais families had to play in all this

Ohhh, this is interesting. I hinted or understated in some pieces that time can get weird in Elsewhere as a call to the folktales and myths of humans stepping into an otherworldly space to spend a few hours there, and then stepping back to their world to find out decades had passed.

Perhaps it's their heritage, singing in their bone marrow and igniting from the Matrix's influence, June's own presence (haunting and hungry, no matter how muted or how well she hides her own teeth), or a strange combination. Perhaps it's the experiences they shared, forged in fire and blood as Earth's own chaotic nature. But these three are bonded. Intertwined with each other, even across the world.

Distance means both little and much to them now. They ventured onto foreign, alien planets and spaceships, traveled to lands across the world in the blink of an eye, and went on the run from a manhunt.

Miko keeps the Apex Armor and takes it back to Japan. At the right moments and when the urge gets too much to bear, she steps into the sea and goes farther than any of her relatives could go, even the ones that can hold their breath for 20 minutes.

She hasn't been the most filial of daughters, but she is her parent's child. Her sea-blooded mother stole back a human that survived and thrived from Elsewhere and claimed that man as a spouse. Bloodlust and wet works are no distant strangers to her. She's inexperienced but a willing learner. She already cut her teeth on foreign flesh.

Down in the dark depths where there's no difference between going up to the sun and going towards the abyss, but where her steps tread, she meets someone with pearly, iridescent scales across a long, serpentine body and a face so much like her own (and her mother's and her grandfather's and her-) with large, dark eyes with an amber ring.

After meeting the yokai that birthed her lineage centuries ago, Miko finds her way back to the Americas. A blessing and a warning kept in her heart.

(One day, Miko will understand what her sea-blooded mother meant when she told her that her father was a 'good Man.'

Raf's deep fascination (admiration, obsession) with space exploration and technology is taken in stride among the Esquivels. He doesn't raise any suspicion among them because that's how they all are.

He absorbs whatever he can, consuming the hard-earned lessons under Ratchet's care and oft-handed commentary. The Esquivels hunger and Raf is no different as he swallows how Cybertronian theory and application and attempts to further bridge between human and alien equipment.

Raf had found his teeth and his siblings recognized it as their baby brother doesn't disappear on them nor shrink away from their more vicious arguments.

(They are a family whose flesh descended from fire tempered by earth. Raging passion and violent temptations. Wicked protection and immense wrath. Voracious, cruel, and beastly, yet so very kind and vigilant.)

Mama kissed her youngest boy (because Raf will always be her baby boy) on his head and told him to be careful, praying for his safety as he went with Jack.

That protection will save them on a summer trip when Jack retraces his steps to all the places he once called home.

Ever since his mission to Cybertron, Jack dreams of strange, wistful things. An unquenchable thirst, an itch in his bones... he feels bereft for some reason.

He misses Arcee. He misses all of them. But for some reason, Jack

In the summer after graduation, he takes his new-used car and travels across the mainland United States. The windows are down as the radio blares, wind ruffles his hair as Raf laughs and tries to figure out maps since some locations are so off-beat that the GPS can't confirm the coordinates.

Deep in the bones of a decrepit old house he once called a home in his long-distant childhood because June and Jack moved repeatedly, hopping from place to place without rhyme or reason... there are the echoes of a wailing scream buried within it.

A living corpse for a copse of trees that guard the area.

(A mother will tell her son what exactly brews in their powerful blood and what she has done to ensure he grew up safe to make a choice.)

Elsewhere exists in so many ways, shapes, and forms. At one point, the legends and myths had once walked upon Earth and left their marks. Something happened in the unwritten, unspoken past that corralled those legends away.

The trio will venture through the many portals and gateways and have many more adventures as they realize there are far more Cybertronian relics on Earth...

Mermaid queens and Seelie emperors, dignitaries of unearthly shapes painted in enamel and precious jewels, sharp animals with sharper intelligence that speak in prose, the faint imprints in slumbering environments, and empty, the lingering remains of humanity's role among such great and terrible things.

(Humanity was (is) great and terrible themselves.)

(Miko's father is a 'good Man,' and that means something different to such beings.)

"Long ago, Man made peace with with Magic." "Long ago, it was decreed that Man would stay."

Time isn't linear in Elsewhere which incorporates so much that a single or several maps would be useless. Time flows in so many directions that it's a constant battle to recognize and travel to and from their own particular section of a river.

Perhaps it's his heritage or a minor blessing from the Matrix, but Jack is more sensitive to flow and can locate the best spots for them to get back to their Earth. To the same week, month, or year they ventured away.

Miko explores her own bloodthirst and prey drive. The singing, thrumming chant in her blood and how the Apex Armor responds to it.

Raf hones his own instinct on his particular guidance to find portals and lucky happenstances. Between him and Jack's instincts for 'shiny' things, little can escape them.

In some worlds, they grow older. Aging and bulking, exploring how to reshape themselves and all sorts of careers. In others, they seem immortal compared to the rapid change around them in a species whose lifespan is a single human year.

"We could be gods here," says a man with a firestorm trapped in his bones and has become a dragon. Not a Dragon because he searches the stars for a mech he once called brother. "Are we not gods already?" The not-man made of shadows and feathers replies. He still dreams of a far-distant metal planet and realizes that it whispered to him back then. "Does it matter," laughs a woman encased in armor that's more like a second skin, tendrils sweeping upon the floor like the gentle motion of a calm tide upon the beach. Pink for her lost girlhood and passion, a warning and a sign from her many great-grandmother. Green as the metal she once called her kin.

When humans are pulled Elsewhere. Three things usually happen: they break there, they struggle or thrive, or they break at home.

"How many times have we done this?" A boy that's not really a boy, who shall become a dragon in so many lifetimes, asks his companions. (Raf keeps his sister's warning close to his heart as she once died in a foreign, strange desert and was resurrected in her own pyre to devour the city that enslaved her and so many countless others. Pilar has become a Dragon and that legacy between mortal and divine shall be her epitaph in a battlefield far sooner than later.)

Ratchet returns. Some things change, while some remain the same.

Jack tastes the grief and repressed anger upon the medic and leaves him be. Raf remembers Ratchet parked in the garbage and keeps the old medic busy between lessons and searches. Miko digs into the festering tangle of emotions, lapping into those wounds as she uses the Apex Armor on the training mats to absorb those fighting skills and grills for information about Cybertron and the rest of Team Prime.

She cares, she really does, but the boys' avoidance of Ratchet's issues won't help anyone, especially if (or when) the medic leaves the planet with no way to contact again.

Ratchet went Elsewhere twice. The first time was a rough pill to swallow as Team Prime never realized its existence. He wondered where the trio had scavenged a considerable amount of Energon crystals and the resources to guard the new base with all the newly acquired. He stiffly apologized to them because he had thrown hurtful words over their travels, calling them "superstitious" and "better than that" and "this is why you never applied yourselves" was the least of the insults. The second time, he realized just how much and fast humans age as he counted each tick on his chronometer as they ventured across new continents and strange seas. Those years and crippling injuries and strange bodies melt away from the trio as they return back to their native Earth and their baseline human form.

June visits them. Ratchet never thought to ask how she found them in Nevada when Agent Fowler would have never told a civilian about them. No one questioned how she managed to bypass all the security with her car.

He tallies all the strange, eerie signs as she leaves hints to solve their challenges, how she seems to appear when food is low and they're too busy to bring anything more substantial than a simple run to the nearest fast food joint or a quick foraging session, how all the security in the world, both Cybertron's and Earth's, cannot track her.

"I am what I need or want to be." The one called June Darby demurely answers.

The only family member of Raf's that Ratchet will officially meet is Pilar whose bones are filled to the brim with rituals, survival tips with monsters, gods, and hostile environments, and formal protocols in so many kingdoms, both dead and alive. She grieves as well. She had given up the Dragon to return home but her memories are bursting full of laughter and people and color when the crumbling ruins the new Team explores are long empty of an extinct people or a fallen kingdom.

"Sometimes I think I carved out parts of my heart and left it there. All I have left are the memories as I'm the only one that remembers the campfire songs and the lessons of all those who helped me."

Ratchet will never meet the Nakadai family face-to-face, but he gets a hint of what they are with all the messages and packages they send their only child. Izumi sends pointers on how to prepare certain sea creatures and how to differentiate the signs of an underwater portal in treacherous waters. Her husband will leave cryptid messages and strange, gold pieces. Sometimes he sends coordinates for Miko to dig up a weapons cache or an informant to cultivate.

Of course, things change when the not-quite-human trio spirit back a Primal Artifact of Quintus Prime...

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kawaimoonshine · 1 month

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Mmm I want to write something,,, I feel like writing but I just don't know what

Could continue with my TFP OC X Canon fanfic

Could continue making a script for Nyx's Revenge comic

Could continue with a script/story of my Mass Effect Andromeda OC X Canon story

Could start planning for another bigger comic project

*sigh* not sure what exactly I'm feeling like doing, Hazbin Hotel has me in a chokehold so

On another note, I should probs make a tag for my texts

#rambling #mass effect #transformers #oc #fanfic #mass effect andromeda oc #mass effect andromeda #hazbin hotel #writing

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critcallylowhp · 1 year

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If Nyx was in TFP, I’m not too sure on what all would happen with her, tbh. But I like the idea of, just like the other three kids, Nyx getting a guardian. Obviously, she’d need one right away, so not Smokescreen who comes later or anything. But I can’t decide between OP or Ratchet

I think Ratchet would be cute-

#cyberchatters

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roguescarlett · 4 years

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List 5 OTPs from 5 Fandoms

I recalled I had this sitting in my draft for.... a while and neglected to get round to doing this.

List 5 OTPs from 5 different fandoms then tag 10 people: (listen I cannot pick only 5 when I have a couple of them) - Mass Effect: Fem!Shepard/Garrus Vakarian. || Fem!Ryder/Vetra Nyx - Transformers: Knockout/Breakdown || Megatron/Soundwave || Optimus/needing a fragging break after the shit he went through, just let him rest pls Primus || TFP! Optimus/Ratchet - SWTOR: Consular/Felix Iresso, Inquisitor/Andronikos Revel, OC/Lana Beniko, OC/Darth Marr shhhhh, Agent/Aristocra Saganu two other fandom I am no longer apart of due to the toxic communities: - Dragon Age: Fenris/Fem!Hawke/Isabela || RedheadFem!Inquisitor/Iron Bull - Overwatch: Genji/Mercy/Reaper || Widowmaker/getting some happiness for once pls || Reinhardt/Ana

#scarlett does memes

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minnely101 · 5 years

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witchofthesouls · 2 years

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Why do I imagine that the TFP!kids turned sparkling would wreak havoc on the nemesis if they found themselves on decepticons hands? I mean, yeah, they will learn what they can from them, cause the bots simply can't teach them about being a warframe, but that doesn't mean they will be docile and easy to manage, even more with them simply being other. Would they get attached to the cons? Would megs (and soundwave too, cause he has other vibes) realize the otherness cause of the dark energon?

Because you’re not wrong. But it's hard to say if the Decepticons ever figure out the kids' Other heritage without major clues and a 2x4 to their prejudice. If anything, they'll make a lot of assumptions that their quirkiness is due to them rising above their flesh or weirdness from the cyberization process.

Should the Decepticons manage to get their hands on the sparklings, the ship will be very lively and the crew will be on their toes wrangling those three.

Much to everyone’s surprise, it’s not the little Predacon or nearly feral War-Forged that causes the most trouble, it’s the polite one.

Miko may be a ferocious, bitey slip of Seeker sparkling (Many had their servos patched if they didn’t catch her fast enough.), but Jack is able to suppress his presence to nonexistence and he moves so lightly that he doesn’t register on sensors that detect motion and proximity.

He also has a sweet smile. Jack can and will try to finagle his way out of things, especially since his curiosity is too powerful to suppress. (Ex: the base cougar, his constant sneaking away into vents, walls, ceilings, and so on. A locked door is not a deterrent, it’s a challenge.)

Starscream and Predaking had relentlessly worn down Megatron on claiming guardianship over Miko and Raf, respectively. They actually worked together to push their claim; after all, they’re the only adults of the sparklings’ specific frame-types. Plus, neither of them wants Shockwave to have them.

Neither of them has to worry about the sparklings getting curious about the scientist, Jack had a terribly negative reaction to his presence that he immediately fleed from the medbay with Miko and Raf.

Between Predaking’s refined tracking skills and Soundwave’s constant surveillance of everything, the trio is found holed up in the walls where raw Energon crystals are stored for the long term.

Both of them are vicious, little things. Jack isn’t a mild child. When provoked, he doesn’t have any issues sinking his claws or denta on the softer bits between plating. Unlike Miko’s wild lashing to draw blood, Jack purposely targets the seams that protect the nervecurcuits and ligaments.

Jack is very driven by his curiosity. He can be bird- and cat-like in his mannerisms. The Decepticons had learned the hard way to not only indulge some of the constant questions but make sure it’s truthful enough since the bitty seems to have a sixth sense in detecting lies.

While all the kids can be omens in their own ways, Jack is downright eerie at times. It’s the way he keeps to himself, how silently he moves. He’s downright difficult to teek, so more than once he had a few of the mechs raise their blasters to his direction, especially when they see those off-blue optics above them.

Jack is a little ghost. In more than one way.

Megatron would be focused on the kids, particularly on Jack, especially since dark sparkling reminds him a lot of Orion. The unstoppable quest to satisfy his questions, the willingness to subvert the establishment, that smile when around friends, and the strange sense of politeness to accept gifts even when confused or unsure about the goods. The warlord can’t help but to laugh when Jack bit into a Cybertronian-version of the Kinder Egg. Poor thing was so confused since he took a hearty bite out of the chocolate, plastic covering, and toy. It’s a “unique” taste, alright.

Of course, Jack is his own person. And that person is a sparkling that can and will dabble into eating venom and poisons with little side effects.

He also has the worrisome habit of sneaking to the outer deck to sit at the bars to either way the sky or the scene down below.

With great reluctance and gritted denta, he had to give Jack over to Soundwave since Jack can and will sneak away from the warlord and everyone else if they take their optics off him.

Soundwave, as a spymaster and head of security, is constantly surveilling everyone and everything.

Miko is the loudest, angriest child. She squeaks and chirps up a storm. Climbing all over the place and isn’t afraid to jump and tumble down. Before mecha knew Starscream was coming based on the distinctive clip of his heels, now mecha know it’s Starscream based on the furious howling by Miko hanging by the scruff.

Much like the Autobots, she spends a lot of time in the medbay since she’s the only current War-Forged on Earth and she really does love jumping from ridiculously high places.

Death from above, the Vehicons tease with a sort of gallows humor, especially when one of them catches her from hitting the floor. If Miko ever survives to her adulthood, then she will really bring death to many mecha.

And if Miko is in the medbay, then Jack will suddenly appear in the vicinity. He pesters Knock Out and Breakdown with hows, whats, whens, whys as the medical berth keeps Miko dealing bolting away. Breakdown graciously allows the pink Seeker to chew on his armor as the medic sorts out the little damage and her systems.

Out of the three, it’s Raf that would get attached the most quickly. He’s very young in terms of development, he craves close emotional connection, so as far as he’s concerned, he has a caretaker that’s like him.

Predaking is attentive to his needs and very patient. He spends more time in his alt-mode since Raf either doesn’t know how to transform or simply doesn’t like going to two-legs form.

He will carry Raf by the scruff like a mama cat with her kitten, or let the kid ride his back as they cross halls. Predaking doesn’t trust the other mecha onboard to try something. (They just want to pet the potato. Honest to Primus.)

Even with a superior sense of smell, he does keep very close to the chonky pup since Raf will explore his new surroundings and will attempt to shove new things into his mouth. No little pup, you can’t eat that. Even if it’s tasty. Plus, keep the baby dragon from overeating and away from the long-term storage space.

Of course, Predaking grumbles but doesn't push away Miko and Jack that find their way to Raf.

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witchofthesouls · 2 years

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I loved the "TFP kids are eldritch/magical/supernatural beings, or descendants of" drabbles. Soo, Raf= dragon, Miko=siren and Jack=??, idk, Fae?? At least, that was what I got from reading the parts about "June"

Also, those drabbles about the kids getting their asses turned into sparklings and being as feral as they are adorable, but still obviously other, is something I didn't knew I needed

I think the team (idk if you would include Smokescreen, Wheeljack and Magnus) would notice that their kids are other sooner or later. Not that it would make them love the kids any less (I think that it would make the need of protecting the kids more intense, cause Megatron)

Also, Fowler? He knows, and is simply playing the dumb part. He is an agent, he has seen a lot, he simply knows what to look for. He also has a feeling that if he lets anything happen to those kids, he will answer to "June" (not only cause of Jack, but also because of Miko and Raf; you can't tell me she hasn't claimed them as her own)

Please, keep writing, I love your content :) :)

Ohhh, Thank you!

Miko is definitely has ancestors from the Deep Waters. I’m keeping it ambiguous since I’m still sorting out what kind. Certainly ningyo (Japanese mermaid), maybe an amabie, which have mystical abilities on prophecy and dispelling disease.

The Esquivel family are descendants of dragons. To what extent is uncertain, but all of them have some sort of pull towards things: a deep hunger for knowledge, a drive to collect, and enjoyment of ridiculous hot temperatures, both climate and food. (No fear of fire or heat, this family.) Raf’s talents with technology aren’t really out of place amongst his family. They simply accept that Raf has a Thing for it, like mama’s horde of cast iron and terra cotta cookware and extensive memorization of recipes and Maria’s (the eldest sister) love and wanderlust for lost cultures.

Tbh, the Darbys really switch depending on my mood and muse, especially if June even remembers what she is. They're definitely Other, but what kind? Who's the say? I mainly pulled from fae folklore and mythos, but then got sidetracked on witchcraft, the supernatural, and a divinity streak.

Jack has something for birds, and birds love him. Dark wings, glossy feathers, and secrets along with Sight. Even with a forgetful heart and drained memories, he still remembered to feed crows and ravens. The ones that always, will always find him. Jack often asks Agent Fowler for French fries and sunflower seeds. If the Autobots aren’t careful, Jack will sneak out of the base to watch the sky and pet the local animals.

Questions, questions. So many questions thing one has. He usually lingers around the computer or medbay on the walls or ceilings. Usually, Optimus and Ratchet find out where he is since he pipes up with a question about what’s in their hand or what are they doing or what does that mean.

If any of them want to keep him nearby, then tell Jack a story. Any story. He enjoys them, especially mythos or things about their lives. Or keep art supplies out and about.

Oh yeah, you're on the money about June. She definitely claimed the other kids via domain, allegiance, or the simple affection that those two keep Jack company. (If June had been caught in the blast range along with the kids, the Autobots would have had a very dedicated guardian for the trio of sparklings, for good and bad.)

Agent Fowler knows there’s something, especially it’s far more noticeable with Jack. As a human, the teen was quiet, but as a Cybertronian, the kid could fall absolutely silent: no vents, no boom-ing or thud of his steps, no whir of his joints. Jack simply likes to appear and disappear, so it’s best to keep the kid in line-of-sight because he can suppress himself to their sensors as well.

June has similar abilities herself. The way she can only be found if she wants to be found.

These kids would be well protected and they will keep them at the base. Small, vulnerable, and easily transportable. Between the Decepticons and humans… they would honestly would rather have them under Decepticon watch and pray to whatever deity that's watching them that Starscream's Seekerkin-coding is active.

Jack's abilities to completely suppress his own presence is simultaneously worrisome and relaxing. On one hand, he can go outside without an adult covering his signature. On the other hand, he can go outside without anyone knowing.

Example: The base cougar.

MECH has no qualms about strapping down and experimenting on living Cybertronians to dissect their biology… they have nightmares what would be done to the kids if they get caught.

Ultra Magnus would be the hardest to convince that Raf is a sapient being. This hardass would treat the baby Predacon as a misbehaving puppy.

Even working with bestial forms and Blaster's cassettes, he doubts that Predacons had higher intelligent thinking. Clever creatures. Fantastic hunters. But truly sapient? That's a question that was highly debated by venerated academics and geared towards no.

Jack and Miko hate him for that. They can pick up the difference on how he treats them versus Raf.

Of course, Predaking changed everyone's stance.

Jack is very smug about it. Smuggiest little bird, especially with that pleased-as-punch field and particular flick by his wings.

Wheeljack adores Miko. Loves how bitty, bitey, and aggressive she is. Likes how sharp she is and how you really have to get some force to claw her off your plating. She likes leaving marks on armature. If anyone wants to find Miko, then she’s climbing and chewing on Wheeljack, Bulkhead, or Optimus, found in the main lounge around the kiddie pool and the TV, or napping in the nest of pillows and blankets.

Yep, definitely had a hand in building a sturdier playpen for Raf. The old one worked well until Miko and Jack helped him dig his way out of it.

He thought it was ridiculous how locked up everything was. Wheeljack understood that with little ones running around that shouldn't be weapons, wires, and ammunition on the floor. But really the scrap metal? The diagnostic equipment? The cleaning supplies? Paranoid copters and jazzed-up creators all of them.

And then he saw Raf cutely toddle his four, little legs to make a mean attempt to inhale the wrench out of his reach...

Wheeljack gets it now.

Even helps develop a contained fire alarm because of Miko and Jack's budding arson tendencies to give Raf things to flame on.

The kids practically adore Smokescreen. He lets them run amuck on the floor, walls, and ceilings. Not afraid to really get into their play and would build their settings for background. Everyone finds rock blocks and wood pieces in the weirdest places.

Smokescreen is that babysitter that shouldn’t be a babysitter or in charge of mini-anything. Raf would absolutely go ham on all the rocks and garbage-dump scrap metal left to the side, Smokescreen’s shins would be dented as hell from the swordplay, and they all find out the dangers of gas fire and water.

Smokescreen is absolutely dramatic in death scenes. Taking his time to expire while rolling around. He makes sure to lie on his back because once the kids stuffed slime at the base of his door wings to resurrect him. And they got it deep into the seams and systems, right down to the protoform even.

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witchofthesouls · 2 years

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Sorry, I was running out of character to write. Also, Magnus needs to apologize for treating Raf like some mindless beast, although I think he will be sad out of his own accord when he realizes that he was being very demeaning to a kid; he may be the face of professionalism, but he is not cruel, and it has been shown that he simply wants to fit in the team. Sorry if I'm bothering you with the messages, but I simply love the content, so original. I wish you the best, see ya! :)

Ultra Magnus strikes me as the guy that knows the theory but never had the practice and real life is off the balls.

He knows about sparklings and bitlets. He had read about them since there's only so much material a med bay has to take a mech's mind off, so between a sticky edition of Handy-Dandy's and Diamond Tiara's Bam-Bam-Boozing Adventures of Tarn and Kaon, a worn-out Tin Tin's Explorations of the Dark Caverns of Camnius, and Medix's Comprehensive Texts of Newspark Development and Sparkling Growth. He picked the last one since someone already made off with Tin Tin.

This mech has a hard time with children. They're not adults or newly sparked mecha that can be left only with instructions and no supervision. Sparklings are emotionally all over the place and need to be regulated. Miko will chew on mechas' armor because it's comforting to her and what's to be close to someone. It's harder for Miko and Raf since their communication is limited to almost newspark-levels. Miko and Raf tend to sprawl their fields everyone, particularly flagging and tugging on mecha to grab attention.

Ultra Magnus tried, in his own way, to watch out for the kids. He literally thought the tiny Predacon as a pet that may have... developmental issues, especially 1) Predacons were extinct, 2) Shockwave brought them back as experiments, and 3) their encounters had been limited to a grown Predaking, rabid ones that had to be put down, or within testing vats. He didn't want Jack and Miko to be hurt if the cute potato made off to meet with its adult-counterpart among the Decepticons. He had honestly thought that they were projecting either their own feelings or anthropomorphizing Raf.

Yes, the rest of the team explained what happened, but it was so... far-fetched to believe an ancient artifact from Cybertron transformed the local organics? What the Pits did they drink from filched Decepticon wares!?

Ultra Magnus is closest to Jack. That's because he further extends Jack's experience with Neocybex. Jack likes stories. He also likes learning, so he wants to learn how to read the pretty scriptures and code that Optimus works on. (He also likes listening to Neocybex. The language has a lyrical tone and trill to it, so he wanders the base as a Ceiling Bird to catch snippets of the 'bots talking.) He has the most time to spend reading and writing out simple glyphs and easy scriptures. Ultra Magnus has a mountain of patience for Jack's endless questions.

So when Predaking actually shifted to root-mode and spoke, Ultra Magnus made his apologies to a small Raf, who then nosed his belly and conked out in his lap.

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