Loved the post about selkies. Can see many being bamboozled by those that look human but are not.
Humans don't scare them. Man is tiny and squishy and everywhere. Cybertronians are like Godzilla among small yet intricate city scapes.
Now Others can make them shit bricks, especially the mechanical beings/shapeshifters hit their own version of Uncanny Valley.
Optics too dark, EM fields too dull or sharp, and too many moving and naked parts at a drop of eye. It's one thing to transform between root-mode and alt-mode. It's a different ballgame for the librarian-of-place-that-doesn't-exist to create a clone by splitting themselves in half without a thought or care to energy expenditures and mass conversions and other silly things.
Shapeshifters, like the Selkie attached to Soundwave, give a strange, otherworldly aura. They seem untethered to reality, as if physics do not apply to them and gravity has no hold upon their frames. Their movements are too smooth and fluid to come from a mechanical species. Their strict adherence to certain quirks, yet casual dismissal to all else, is bamboozling to Cybertronians. Think of them like nudists eating roadkill that's meticulously prepared, and a portion is always ritually given to a specific tree or placed in a puddle.
@thiddleston are you the one who recommended this to me? Because UUUUH I LOVE IT SO FAR!!! Monster brides don't get the attention they deserve! I love that she's legitimately terrifying and that the narrative holds her accountable for her actions even when she's being manipulated.
Oh oh and! STAR LOVERS!!! Lots of Star husbands and star brides finding their earthly mates! YESSSS it's my jam!
If anybody buys the film rights, Guillermo del Toro should direct.
I saw one of your questions in regards to the Transformers and various interactions with the fae, and it has me laughing at the idea that some of the Decepticons wouldn't be intimidated at first until they fuck around and find out.
Like with Rumble and Frenzy stealing something strange from the beach or the Nemesis having a supernatural creature enough to shake the entire warship, it won't be long before the Decepticons endure the fae's wrath and that's hilarious.
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Selkies are shapeshifters, so what if they shift into a form that's suited to the thief's own species?
So now, Soundwave has a new spouse "roommate" of supernatural origins because of Frenzy's and Rumble's "Ohhh, check out this swag!" moment and the idiots lost it somewhere inside the massive chaos the their private quarters?
At first, the other 'cons are baffled, then snickering, and end up either terrified or put off because, despite her stunning looks, she is otherworldly, frighteningly bizarre.
The thing is, humans only recorded the tales of a seal-wife trapped in a human form upon land and separated from her colony.
There are no tales of a seal-wife living inside a massive ship at the bottom of the ocean, right at the bosom of the abyss and cradled between sea and earth.
(Oh, and that's a Kraken getting cozy with the Nemesis. At first, it was upset and apprehensive at another potential predator in its turf, but now it's quite delighted it's able to bear its titanic mass.)
Kij Johnson’s ‘The Fox Woman’ is a gripping novel of magical realism and fairytale, set in the backdrop of Japan’s Heian period. It tells the story of Kaya no Yoshifuji – a lord who falls in love with a beautiful woman only to later discover that she was a fox in disguise.
Tales of foxes transforming into humans to trick unsuspecting people are common in Japan and East Asia. It is said that as the fox grows older, they gain more tails and greater abilities until they are at their most powerful, with nine tails. In Japan, these foxes are called Kitsune, in China, Huli Jing, and in Korea, Kumiho. These foxes may transform into humans for many reasons, to steal from them, to eat them, or, as in the case of ‘The Fox Woman,’ to seduce them.