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Team Cybertron getting introduced to Earth’s music
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I love you robots and artificial intelligence with mental illness. I love you repression being depicted as literally deleting archived data to preserve functionality. I love you anxiety attacks being depicted as a system crashing virus. I love you ptsd being depicted as an annoying pop-up. I love you anxiety disorder being depicted as running thousands of simulations and projected outcomes. I love you artificial beings being shown to be human via their own artificiality.
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Remember when a anon asked u if u liked another bot romantically?
Yeah I'm another anon guessing but......
Is it wheeljack?
[[ Wheeljack gets to the com first; unable to resist joking, joshing, or any other branch of hooliganism, he answers; „he’s soooo in love with me, it’s adorable!“
Well. Perceptor can’t let that stand. Heavens, bots might get ideas. „He’s lying.“ ]]
#transformers animated#tfa perceptor#tfa wheeljack#anon#answered#plot: one of us tells only the truth. the other always lies#being smart?? about interpersonal stuff??? never! never!! this is the autism department lads
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Transformers Robot Husband Poll (Round 4)
Make sure to vote on ALL of the matches here.
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Omg ur back Perceptor
How's ur vacation?
[[ Perceptor looks at the message, confused. “Was I gone long? I did not-.”
He cuts himself off. “Oh.” The data pad in his hand informs him that the ‘time since last answer: 1.5 years. (Dude, where have you BEEN?)’
“Oh, dear.” ]]
“I did not mean to leave for so long. If it is any consolation, I have not been on vacation.”
No, there is always work to be done.
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Hey Perceptor. Have you had feelings for another bot? Like romantically?
[[ “Mm?” Ah. Questions that always feel a bit odd to receive- and which should be easy enough to answer.
He fumbles it, taking too long. “Erm… No?” ]]
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The Wiki: Cosmos, Glyph, Mainframe, and Perceptor are all bad at relating to their peers and have a hard time interacting with others. Also Perceptor deleted his emotions
Me: The only thing I’m hearing is that they’ll all have developed different strategies for compensating/coping on the off chance they have to go and interact with Real Actual Other People. They all panic at the first sign of social danger.
Glyph is chatty. Nervous chatty. She will keep talking until someone tells her, point-blank, to shut up for Primus’ sake, and then she will Panic. Alternates between talking way too much and not a peep out of her. Apologizes whenever she realizes she was talking a lot.
Her writing is disorganized and chaotic; the proof-readers often have no idea what she’s trying to convey in her first pass. Half the words are missing because she has to use a short-hand to try and cram all of the thoughts into place As They Come, Or They Will Be Gone Forever.
Cosmos would Rather Offline than expose himself to the mortifying ordeal of being known by someone else. Good luck getting him to Speak A Word. Very easy to read his body-language. Stutters. Hides inside to avoid talking to people.
His words are actually very elegant, when he has time to prepare them before having to speak. His papers on astronomy are superb.
If he has to give a conference you can expect that he has bawled his spark out on no less than three separate occasions while writing and practicing his script.
Cosmos and Glyph are actually really close, despite their fields seeming to be completely unrelated. They met at a conference once and clicked.
Mainframe is like Cosmos, but more experienced in hiding it. You can, in fact, press words out of him if you so choose. He would rather not, since his primary language is mathematics and that is just So Much Easier than trying to tip-toe around which words are least offensive and all.
“Why can the proof not speak for itself. The proof should speak for itself. Why do I have to write a paper with words about the proof.”
Has transformed into a computer against a wall to hide from people before. It doesn’t work with anyone in the ministry but maybe,,, maybe the others won’t know that there’s not normally a computer here,,?
Perceptor has repeatedly asked Wheeljack to fill in for him at meetings.
Wheeljack is the only one that has successfully implemented “fake it till you make it” regarding confidence.
No one from the outside knows why he’s able to interact so easily with the others. No one from the inside knows how he can engage everyone else. He’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma and deep-fried in confusion. He happens to think it is the funniest thing.
#~[[from the mind a | headcanon]]#finally posting this. it has been in drafts for who knows how long. I still think I am correct here#~[[mun mutterings | ooc]]
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why is ur voice always robotic? its like ur a AI
[[ He sighs. “Do you not consider other Cybertronians’ voices *robotic*? (We’re all robots, after all...)” ]]
It happens every semester, of course; someone walks up after class to ask about his ...different vo-coder. Really, at this point, it should feel normal to him.
“I am not an A.I., if that is of concern.”
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Transformers Robot Husband Poll (Round 3)
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@minminambus I believe it is Silly Time?
#~[[of the minutiae | perceptor]]#yeah I *would* come back over a year later with a good of a post. hello again friends :)#goof. not good*#minmin I hope there is enough space to draw a silly little guy in there :‘D
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Coffee or tea sir?
[[ “ah… neither.” ]]
“I really do not benefit from such beverages— I believe I would have more opinion if I were an organic creature. If the chemistry of these drinks were something which could affect me.”
He returns the cup to you.
#coffee-cupps#asks#perceptor#tfa#transformers animated#plot: if he were a human he’d drink black coffee out of laziness and disinterest in having a good time#thank you for the ask!! I’m clearing the ask box so I’m excited to actually get back to drawing these guys :)#just gonna use the tag system I use on sentinel’s blog
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I COMPLETELY forgot this bit of worldbuilding in Bullets because honestly, I hadn't read it in that long, and it's just fascinating to me. Everything from the idea that TFs have essentially undergone gradual "software/hardware updates" as a species to the idea that they've deliberately incorporated things from non-robotic species after contacting them is so INTERESTING. Particularly the implication that strictly verbal communication used to be the norm and what they've incorporated is largely the concept of non-verbal communication.
But also it's very blackly funny that this is basically like, "we went to war and learned new ways to express how awful and terrible it is and stole several ways to have breakdowns about it! neat huh"
#[[ queue-bit ]]#love the idea of them picking up nonverbal communication over time and from organic cultures :3c
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W-what would you say if a subordinate h-had a crush on you S-Sir Sentinel Prime!
[[ The Jet Twins bow their heads, adopting a look of mourning. “Please to be getting better soon. </3″
Though he is out of view, Sentinel Prime gives an indignant ‘hey!’ ]]
“You two are lucky I don’t send you to the brig with the Decepticons!”
He huffs, glaring as they vanish down the halls, before adding; “as for your question, I’d say set your sights elsewhere. I'm busy, ok?”
#actually I’m making people here look at this one too because I love the twins thank u#jetfire#jetstorm#not dead just drawin the sigma crew over here for now
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hold on, my brain is working..
what if, even tho he deleted his emotions, Perceptor still has physical responses to emotional input
as in, he won't FEEL sad but he might still cry, he won't FEEL angry but he might still clench his fists or make faces, he might not FEEL the emotions but he'll physically respond as if he does
other bots will comment on this and he'll be completely unaware he's even doing it, its involuntary
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Why do you assume your the smartest in the room? Cause with that attitude may be your doom.
“I do not assume I am smarter than others in all ways, but that which I study I know to a great degree; it is fair to assume that on topics I am an expert on, it would be rare for another to know more than I.”
#~[[of the minutiae | perceptor]]#yes I know this reference yes the kids also know this reference#~[[visuals | art]]#~[[grey face | answered]]
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"Nothing to apologize for,” he doesn’t quite laugh -- he rarely does -- but despite his monotonic voice, the smile that persists is conveyed.
Looking up, just in time to catch the transition in Megatron’s own expression, Perceptor gives a noncommittal bob. Considering the... ‘debt’. “It will be some time before I am able to join you on equal footing in that respect; you are quite safe. For now.”
"There are a lot of things we don't know about the universe. I do know, however, that it starts with U N I."
Perceptor goes over the phrase once, in his helm. “(Uni..?)”
Twice. “(Well, yes, the word does start with-.)”
The third time, the sound of the letters, instead of their function- it clicks-- and there! He’s cracking a smile at last, shaking his helm at the pun.
#~[[of the minutiae | Perceptor]]#~[[scientist in the lab | RP response]]#towardspeace#plot: master of puns he is not. but a game of questions is always on the table#(( don't apologize I love seeing your bucket in my asks thank u ;0 ))
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"There are a lot of things we don't know about the universe. I do know, however, that it starts with U N I."
Perceptor goes over the phrase once, in his helm. “(Uni..?)”
Twice. “(Well, yes, the word does start with-.)”
The third time, the sound of the letters, instead of their function- it clicks-- and there! He’s cracking a smile at last, shaking his helm at the pun.
#Hello!!!!#~[[of the minutiae | Perceptor]]#towardspeace#plot: tongue-tied because of goofy puns is a state of affairs
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