#hivemind seekers

[elitetrinetrash]

More seeker bee colony au?

YOU! I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU!

I have a lot to say

Vos is composed of spire colonies. Each colony fends for itself but seekers migrate between colonies as they see fit. A spire colony will have a stronger psychic connection. So a seeker from a Southern Spire will have minimal connection to a Northern Spire seeker but a stronger one from their colony.

If a seeker moves spires then their psychic connections will reform.

Kinda like a bee structure, there are worker trines and queen trines. Or in other terms, Sire Trines and Carrier Trines. Depending on the colony's size, there could be multiple carrier trines, but there is always the lead carrier trine.

It doesn't exactly mean the carrier trine is in charge, as they're mainly there to grow the population. A lead sire trine usually gives orders on structure building and organizing trades between spires.

Carrier trines are heavily guarded and protected. If a sire trine acts up they're kicked from the spire, forced to create a new one or join another.

Carrier seekers leave their home spire to join another or create a new one once finding their trine. It keeps diversity in Vos.

If a carrier trine is unwell it affects the whole spire. If a spire loses a carrier trine to deactivation then the spire will most likely fail.

Vos is secretive and doesn't let any other city-state inside its borders. If some mech tries entering they're quickly deactivated.

I'll stop here.

[thehoneypot11]

Earth's true layers.

-The crust, this layer is the outer most of the hive where reject species such as humans and exiled bees call home.

-Hot honey layer, the second layer into the hive is composed of honey storage. The honey that seeps to the crust is rejected honey that became too hot and started to burn.

-Honeycomb, as the name suggests it is the entire honeycomb for the hive. Unlike the exiled bees seen on earth's surface these honey combs are not used for storing honey instead is used strictly for the production of offspring and management of the dead.

-Queens nest, the inner most layer where the queen of the hive resides and lays the young before workers transport them to the Honeycomb.

[saxandviolins77]

Transformers Skybound #17 and #18 spoilers below cut

FINALLY, things are starting to move in this damn comic.

ISSUE #17

BLADES FROM THE PROTECTOBOTS??????

MOTORMASTER TRANSFORMERS MENTION???

Oooooh, this Bluestreak content is so fucking good, keep it coming, DWJ.

I really enjoy how Blue is like the voice of reason when Elita-1 starts giving it into despair. Don't think I haven't noticed that little crumble of backstory for him... Lost whom, hm???

THE STAKES!! THE STAKES!! REMEMBER. THE DANGER. THE THING YOU OUGHTA CARE ABOUT. HUMANS AND UHH, LIFE, FREEDOM TOO... UH, BUY COMIC.

THRUST!!! MY GUY THRUST! AND HE'S ACCURATE????

(also Ratbat, I see you.)

Nice Cybetronian Alt-mode.

I won't say this isn't innovative.

Middle school bickering type of shit be so fr rn LMAO.

(What part of Devy is that, btw???)

Nice fakeout, DWJ. Really clever.

How big is the car?

Wow, they look so ugly! I love it!

THIS is the non-binary character people were talking about? Guys... Do you think DWJ intended it to be rep, or is it because they're some sort of hivemind made out of a bunch of sparks?

This issue was FINE. As you have seen, I was much more interested in the sequences occurring on Cybertron.

ISSUE #18

I don't know if I'm too tired, but this new Skybound issue was funny as fuck, I'm so fr rn bro.

Am I crazy, or is Bluestreak genuinely afraid of creating someone so powerful and having some traumatic flashbacks?

All that while Eli is like, "Finally, we can kill those fascist fucks."

Side notes:

>Shredhead is badass.

>Nice use of obscure characters for fodder (no irony, I like the gruesome deaths.)

Things went to shit after this, but holy fuck... This is so sweet.

I love humans in Transformers. THERE I said it, smite me.

So cutes...

THIS BITCH EMPTY. YEET.

I dgaf about the Combaticons, but WHY is Bruticus so complaisant?? like, this HAS to be a plot point, or else it is just a weird writing decision.

"Why bad things happen to me? I'm a based blackpilled seeker entrepreneur. I need a glass of wine..."

SCREAMING, CRYING, CUMMING, THROWING UP, FAINTING, DYING, BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS.

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GIDDY I WAS TO SEE MY CHUD SON BEING SO AWESOME!! HE EVEN GOT A SPREAD PAGE OF HIM KICKING BRUH-TICUS' ASS!!!! YEAAAH!!!

(I am... Extremely easy to please...)

I actually really like Soundstar.

Bruh moment.

FINALLY BRO. SOUNDWAVE CAN STOP CARRYING RAVAGE LIKE A PROP.

(It would be so cool if Ravage was actually relevant and was a fucking person.)

THIS SHIT IS SO FUCKING COOL!!! HE'S ITALIAN!!

[tracklessreason]

My TF OC, Lovebug!!!

Welcome to another episode of "Track tries to make a tf character with limited success and bad art!"

Today's subject, Lovebug!

Lovebug is a seeker, very calm and collected, he carries himself with a poised, polite air. He adores sparklings, and babysat before he was old enough to carry. His pupils are hearts, the heart shaped panel on his chest lets him see the sparks orbiting his spark when he's carrying. He's very protective of his bitlets, and despises being called an oil bot. He may be a carry, but he's a trained warframe too, he would and has killed to keep his sparklings safe.

-Timeline and Lore beneath the cut!-

Lovebug is my Carry OC. Before the war, Carries were surrogates, helping conjunxes who, for one reason or another, couldn't conceive naturally. They would live with the host couple for the duration of the pregnancy, to allow for the sparkling to bond with the parents.

Some Carries only conceived for their hosts asexually, but Lovebug was open to all methods, including interfacing.

Due to this, he and many Carries like him were derogatively referred to as "oil bots", basically their word for sex workers.

Once the war started, bots stopped starting families, and Carries were only needed for one thing: producing soldiers. As a seeker, Lovebug's sparklings were highly sought, but his love for his sparklings prevented him from having any knowing they would be raised as weapons for the front lines.

He managed to stay covert for a good chunk of the war, but watching the population of cybertron fall broke his spark, and he decided to offer his services to everybot regardless of alliance, in something of a one bot repopulation effort.

At some point, while wandering unknowingly through Decepticon territory, he was taken in and interrogated/tortured by Starscream as a suspected autobot spy, but Megatron recognized Lovebug as a Carry, and offered him a deal: carry for the Decepticons, or be imprisoned.

Lovebug agreed, with a few conditions of his own: first, his sparklings couldn't be made into canon fodder. If they were to become soldiers, they were to be trained by Megatron's best. Second, no cold construction, frequent medic checkups, and good energon. The metals available to them were too low quality to make an adequate frame, and he was determined to keep his sparklings healthy. Last, and most certainly not least, Lovebug wanted to stay with his children, at the very least as a sitter if not as an acknowledged parent.

With the ground rules set up, Lovebug carried three times for the Decepticons.

His first was sired by Megatron, an intelligent and kindhearted mech, more inspired by his father's poetry than his war mongering.

The second was sired by Knockout, a headstrong, powerful, and strict femme named Mayday, who Megatron clearly preferred to her half brother due to her battle prowess.

The last, and the smallest, was Sequence, sired by a reluctant Starscream. Half the size of a normal femme, Sequence was quiet, thoughtful, with a heart as kind as her father's was cold. Originally a seeker trio in the forge, Sequence had seemingly absorbed her siblings, but after birth gained the ability to split herself into three, all sharing one hivemind.

(Anyways, I fucking love this OC, tell me how I did please, and don't mind the messy art, I'm still learning how to draw bots.)

[brandwhorestarscream]

Imagine this (Cybermorph AU TFP)

Cybermorphs communicate through dance. Like bees do. Also? Seekers do it too. But their dances involve a lot of Wingcode too, so it's a lot harder to learn (impossible without back kibble). So, we get Vosimorphs. And they know all the dances. So despite being the equivalent of walking horror shows... they are dancing. They get the nickname of "Deaths Dancers" during the war at some point.

Also? Little halfa KO has his wheels on his back. Imagine he spins/twitches them in a way that is vaguely translatable as rough Wingcode. Imagine Starscreams reaction. Imagine the two of them gossiping in the middle of meetings. Just twitching their wings, bc there is no way Megs knows wingcode (having inner wings so no back kibble; no reason to learn then; why learn to read it when he can just read his subjects minds instead?) Also, Soundwave totally knows Wingcode but doesn't even try to understand what these two dorks gossip about. It keeps them in line; why should he care what they're saying?

Ooooh I really like this! Body language is a big part of life in a morph hive, and for them it's as natural as speaking ot using the hivemind to communicate. Certain wing flicks or arm movements have very complex meanings, and the most dramatic ones are definitely the vosimorphs. I think that pairs well with the cryptid seekers Song of Death and echolocation 🤭

[bloodilymerry]

History of Cybertron

What happens when I try to write a Transformers G1 cartoon AU? This happens - I start writing a whole bunch of worldbuilding notes trying to cobble something sensible out of the mess that is G1.

So, this is going to be the first post continaining worldbuilding for the Bird of Prey-verse - the history of Cybertron

I started off with Five Faces of Darkness, and then did various tweaks to fit in Optimus's and Elita's backstory from War Dawn and the Hate Plague, sparks, etc.

Pre-Quintesson times

First Cybertronians are created by the All-Spark. They are solitary creatures at first, and only slowly build a civilization.

Hate Plague

A plague arrives at Cybertron which affects both mechanical and organic beings - the hate plague. Cybertronians, already not very numerous, are ravaged by it, until the most ancient of them–Primus–finds a way to contain it and shoot into the sun.

But Cybertron is not to develop in peace. The Quintesson empire is wrestling with developing AI, when they find Cybertron. They gather the bodies of the dead and dying, including Primus and melt them to use as material to build their own robots.

Somehow Liege Maximo, who is one of the survivors, figures he can make a deal with them and leads them to the surviving few others.

Quintesson Era

Only one Cybertronian evades capture - the prophetic Alchemist. All others are captured and experimented on, until Quintessons can devise the best way to build intelligent robotic slaves. And the way they devise is to convert Vector into Vector Sigma, which allows them to pair sparks with pre-created bodies, rather than relying on a spark to create a body around it however it wants. Solus is remade into a forge, which the Quintessons use to create prototypes. They establish two production lines: military hardware and consumer goods.

This is the period in which the first Prime appears. Primon has little claim to fame–they live a brief miserable existence and are eventually executed for reasons lost to history. The materials from their body are given to Solus, from which she builds Prima - a prototype of a new military hardware line.

Prima's Rebellion

Eventually, Prima gets placed in an arena with most of her production line. There, she decides to rebel against being forced to fight others like her. Her rebellion however proves too small and too localized to really take off and is put down. Prima is killed, her body fed into Solus's forge to build Nova.

The few survivors of Prima's rebellion are stripped of their bodies, their sparks contained, until the Quintessons will find a use for them.

Other minor rebellions and slave strikes happen in the period.

The Quintessons start experimenting with merging sparks and for a time Quintessons use this as a method of disposing undesirables: a hunter-seeker hivemind that REALLY doesn't want to fight (Scourge and the Sweeps), an assistant bot who was too curious for her own good (Codexa), etc.

Nova's Rebellion

Nova escapes and starts building a network of rebel cells. Once her rebellion begins, it isn't a localized burst of violence: it's fires all over Cybertron, not allowing the Quintessons to focus their forces on one target. The Quintessons remove the merged sparks from Cybertron to a secure location before they are driven off Cybertron and retreat to Quintessa.

Inter-bellum period I

Cybertron's successful revolution inspires other worlds to rebel against the Quintessons and cast them out. The Quintesson empire falls and Quintessons abandon all of their vassal worlds and retreat to Quintessa.

Unicron begins to form his consciousness.

Nova focuses her attention on rebuilding Cybertron and establishing a functioning society. She is largely successful, but there are two blemishes on Nova's primacy: Jhiaxus's experiments and Exarchon's cult that venerated Quintessons. Overlord starts his political career at this point, building a faction that calls out for Cybertronians to arm themselves and potentially even strike out first to deter any future attempts at conquest. After the monstrosity of Jhiaxus's quest to construct the perfect warrior is exposed and Exarchon's cult commits mass suicide, Nova decides to suppress knowledge of the Quintessons, as the root of both seems to lie in fear of the Quintessons.

Eventually Nova finds her true passion: exploration. She has a powerful spacecraft built and forms a team of adventurers. This is also the only recorded instance of the Matrix of Leadership being passed onto a new Prime, while their predecessor is still fully functional. Guardian takes over as Prime, and Nova sets off for the final frontier. She establishes several colonies on uninhabited planets, before disappearing. Cybertron prospers.

With no crisis in sight to avert, Guardian Prime does not take a leadership role in the Cybertronian government, but more of an advisory one.

First War

But not all is well. Some don't take well to a peaceful existence–mostly military hardware. Overlord and Jhiaxus resurface, one leading a faction that calls for Cybertron to arm itself and subjugate organics, lest they strike out to enslave Cybertron. Jhiaxus, having learned from his mistakes, focuses on building weapons. But those are by far not the only factions that emerge to cause chaos in those times: the isolationist Straxus - the tyrant of Darkmount - or Thunderwing and his warband.

Those disparate factions become known as Decepticons and their opposition as the Autobots. Guardian Prime steps in at this point and attempts to resolve the situation with minimal casualties. He manages to best Straxus, but is shot shortly after by Overlord and his followers.

Zeta takes over as Prime, and continues to fight against the Decepticon factions. She is also eventually killed in battle.

Unicron escapes from the laboratory world and starts devouring small objects to make himself bigger and stronger.

Inter-bellum period II

The Decepticon factions divide Cybertron into territories. Several new warbands arise, formed either by opportunists and even former members of Cybertronian Search and Rescue. The situation in the gang territories varies, from districts in complete chaos, to small tyrannical fiefdoms, to functioning communities where the local warband would provide protection from other warbands. In general, however, this is a time of chaos and war, with Decepticon warbands turning against each other.

Second War

The last of the Sentinel line receives the Matrix, claiming the name Sentinel Prime. He and Ultra Magnus find Alpha Trion and several other Autobot scientists, who invent transformation. This allows Autobots to win the second war, by leading a successful guerilla campaign and using their new alt-modes as effective disguises.

Inter-bellum period III

Sentinel Prime establishes new governmental structures before stepping down as a political leader. A ban on teaching Decepticons transformation is implemented, to prevent another civil war. Politically neutral Cybertronians as well as minor political factions, however, are not banned–one such group that emerges in the Cybertronian military are the Seekers, who while programmed and built to military hardware specifications remain politically neutral at this point.

The period of stability is shattered, when an up and coming Decepticon information broker (Soundwave) manages to manipulate Security Operations and a group of Decepticon veterans into a shootout. This leads to a new outbreak of civil unrest, with new Decepticon warbands forming.

Some examples of warbands:

Deathsaurus's warband

Notable followers: Lyzack, Leozack

Soundwave's crime syndicate

Megaempress's Glorious Empire (of four)

Thunderblast's attack squad

Great War

Megatron enters the stage and starts building his power base by besting Decepticon warband/gang leaders in combat or reprogramming them to follow his leadership. Eventually, the Robosmasher is destroyed by the Titan Omega Supreme, at which point Megatron decides to gamble and challenges Sentinel Prime to a public fight. Sentinel entrusts the Matrix to Alpha Trion for safekeeping, which is proven to be a wise decision as Megatron wins and murders Sentinel, which leads in turn to a number of neutrals and even some Autobots to switch allegiance.

Having established a powerbase, Megatron starts stockpiling supplies to fund a campaign of conquest IN SPACE! Eventually, this leads him to try and steal Energon from the Iacon Docks, which leads him to shoot the workers there, among whom are Orion Pax and Ariel. The two are rescued and rebuilt by Alpha Trion, and Orion is chosen by the Matrix, becoming Optimus Prime.

Unicron reaches the point where he starts eating planets. He runs into Planet X, where he makes a deal with Sideways to serve him in exchange for not eating his planet.

[sonicasura]

Father and… father?

The creature larger than most was very confused. His Father was smaller than him. But, this metal similar creature smelled like Father too? Big Father smelled more like Father than Father??? Looked more like him than Father?

‘Godzilla.’

???????

Small-yet-powerful-one?

‘Er, yes? I was wondering what he thought of you, Dart. Anyway! I know you’re terribly confused right now. But, play along. Put yourself between your smaller Father and bigger Father.‘

Play?

‘…Yes, play. I forget he’s a child sometimes.’

He could play.

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Cortextual underestimated the strain mentally shielding Godzilla and the rest of HEAT from being mind-controlled took on them. The Tachyon was also levitating themself over the ocean in order to follow the HEAT Seeker. Whatever was going on, wherever this giant bat was heading had to be the actual Tachyons’ base of operations. Mental energy wise they could feel a slow building surge in what seemed to be the direction of even more ocean.

(They hoped Quetzalcoatl and its chicks weren’t caught up in this mess.) Cortexal ended up having to make a bubble around themself underwater to avoid being spotted… Only to then have to use their new telekinetic ability to fend off the Cryptocledius. All of this while they maintained mental shielding on several beings.

Several non-psychic beings who were a sixteenth of the world away from one another!

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The two Tachyons could feel victory within their mental grasp, even if the means of surviving this planet’s atmosphere were nauseating. Humans had so many unnecessary organs in the telekinetics’ superior opinion. The fleet would arrive soon once a majority of the native military expended their resources. All that was required soon was the rest of the mutations to wreck havoc on this backwater cesspool.

‘Hmm?’

Four familiar minds converged on the site of the Tachyon’s future triumph.

‘How disappointingly predictable of them.’

While the non-Earth lifeforms could simply seize control of HEAT, the slightly spiteful parts wanted to play with the humans. Humans who nearly managed to blow up their ship and force two of their own to wear these flesh suits!

Leader would perhaps relish the chance to personally extract the data of the one Godzilla was at the beck and call of. The good doctor—

‘What?!’

A whistling high-pitched screech of a fast approaching object sounded into the sensors, the noise near deafening. It only further grated on their ears when a blast went off aimed directly at the Telepathic Wave Enhancing dish. Ionized oxyacetylene nearly destroyed their entire operation, but the Tachyons thought faster than they physically moved. A shield went up just in time to save their tool…

(Unbeknownst to the Tachyons, Elusive fired off that warning shot to distract the aliens from how Godzilla wasn’t under their control. Not mentally shielding him anymore was an unfortunately necessary risk right now…)

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The humans tried to argue that being not of a hivemind was a strength. Such foolishness born of the naive and feasibly conquerable. The “Surge” hadn’t shown itself in hours, the presence had been all talk. The Tachyons had assembled the dish on dry land as a precaution toward the Frost-breathing giant reptilian…

They mentally ordered the mutations to begin the true phase of the plan and head off toward the various continents dotting this planet.

‘Sorry to burst your bubble, but they won’t be rampaging let alone getting any further!’

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Calderous, Grimstone, or Frostsmite were their only true nuclear options in order to fight the Kaijus on semi-equal footing. But, Dart was wary of fighting against creatures who overcame nature into what they were now. The Bewilderbeast transformation was still new not to mention better in the water. The Screaming Death lacked true physical bulk compared to the likes of Iguana-Godzilla the second. Calderous was the best “Titan wing” they had.

Hopefully, it’s enough.

A green flash eclipsed them—

AND THEN THEY GREW BEYOND THE PREVIOUS LIMITATIONS.

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Something in the atmosphere changed.

The Monsters could feel something that demanded their attention (even the Cyborg), the humans even under mind control could feel a sense of dread, and the Tachyons? The two who had to hitch a ride inside two humans…

They feared. Primal unfiltered fear.

Descending from the clouds was a silhouette far larger than any Mutation up to this point. A long glowing neck split off into three to reveal the actual amount of heads this monster had. A roar-hiss-call promising the arrival of lightning sounded out silencing the unworthy. Though sudden, the presence descending was palpable in demanding every ounce of attention to it.

‘Nononononono!’

‘It’s impossible!’

‘Unreal!’

‘Illogical!’

HEAT heard the Tachyons—even the ones orbiting in the original Leviathan ship—transmit their thoughts openly. Fear-dripping from every single barely decipherable sentence thought.

‘King Ghidorah is a myth!’

The aliens were disbelieving despite the very real evidence right in front of them—as if to prove itself, the… presence shot out emerald-gold tinged lighting at the Dish destroying it.

—ROB’d Anon.

The Omnitrix did go through a slight recalibration to be able to handle this new form. One of Kevin/San/Left’s skulls in Monsterverse was where Azmuth collected the DNA from. Thankfully, the transformation was scrubbed clean of any of Ghidorah’s consciousness. The Galvan learned immediately from the Ectoturnite first transformations fiasco…

The Mutations meet, arguably, a true Kaiju.

King Ghidorah wasn't the result of unnatural mutation so it would be a viable transformation. I think the other Titans from the Monsterverse would fit the bill too since it's the HTTYD situation with them too. Anyway the Tachyons are truly fucked now.

[begayeatdice]

Session 26 (3/12/23)

-Tina's mom is from fantasy Las Vegas, run by dragons -Tina was not conceived in fantasy Las Vegas -Kas is gonna casually make some bombs -Kas is a new god unto this world, beloved by death -Tina and Mira set up a fake store in Mira's wardrobe for Kas -Seeker brought Kas to a mushroom tavern run by a hivemind mushroom fascinated by humanoid culture -the menus are made of mushroom flesh -so is the food -Seeker's staff has boombox mode -how does The Gambler pee? -we get ready for Kas's next shadow monster

Kleioetheus

Featuring...

Ioustina "Tina" the Human Divination Wizard Zina the Hexblood Drakewarden Ranger Zelmoira "Mira" the Selkie Circle of Stars Druid Kasildyr "Kas" the Half-Elf Alchemist Artificer Barnacles the Human Battle Master Fighter (NPC sidekick)

Sessions 1-5 Sessions 6-10 Sessions 11-15 Sessions 16-20 Sessions 21-25

[ben-101-rewrite]

-Ben 101 Rewrite Note-

Every time Ben turns into one of his aliens, he tends to take on traits and instincts of them that can affect his personality. Some are more obvious than others, ranging from mild shifts in tone, to full on acting barely like Ben. Here are the UAF series aliens and their personality shifts. Swampfire - Reasonable calm, and seems to have a thing for looking out for the little guys. Got a sort of big brother attitude about him, and likes to be aware of the area around him. Also can be rather nonchalant about injuries to himself. Echo Echo - Calculated, very well organised, and likes things to go as planned. Unlike Ditto, Echo Echo doesn’t really have conversations with his clones, all acting as one, being a hivemind sharing one consciousness. Humungousaur - In battle he can be quite terrifying, loud and uses a lot of brute force, but outside of it he can be surprisingly calm, and even a bit awkward, but uses his deep voice and large build to give people a good talking to. Jetray - Thrill seeker who loves performing crazy moves in the air, and seeing how fast he can actually go. He also likes to perform skill shots with his lasers, and is known to sometimes taunts enemies to give him more of a challenge. Big Chill - Very quiet, calm, and rarely ever raises his voice. With an eerie aura to him, he’s very much like a ghost that can appear behind you without you hearing him, not helped by the chilly atmosphere he brings. He’s also known to be rather brutally honest, and gets protective over young children, especially his own. Chromastone - Rather regal in his mannerisms and speech, and keeps a level head. His has a natural authoritarian voice behind him, and makes a good leader in both guiding people during and out of battle. Brainstorm - Super smart, though can come off as a bit cocky about it. Because of how fast his brain is going, he often speaks the things he is doing, as a way to process his current thoughts. And when he’s not doing that, he uses quite fancy words in his speeches. Spidermonkey - Very curious, and likes to interact with the world in a kinetic way of learning, often touching or grabbing things he wants to understand. That or asks a lot of questions, wanting to use what he’s learned to help better understand situations around him. He also likes using ambush or trickster ways in his fights, using things like traps to help him. Goop - Bit of a naive goof, but also better at expressing his emotions in this form. Also super resourceful and creative with how he uses his powers in battle, as he is flexible to adapt to different situations. Alien X - He is a complicated one, since it’s more so Ben and two other beings piloting the body, each with different personalities and identities. So Alien X doesn’t really change Ben himself, but rather it’s a matter of who is currently in charge. Though most of the time he’s just frozen as a statue while the three argue.  Nanomech - Due to his nanochip DNA, he is very loyal, to the point that he rarely can ever say no to an order. He wants to complete tasks given to him, and even though his human DNA allows him to complain and be frustrated, he’ll still do the work given to him. Lodestar - A very logical being, but perhaps a little too logical. Not the best with his words when it comes to emotions, feeling a little alien towards them, but this does mean he knows how to handle himself in stressful situations. Rath - Loud, angry, prideful, we all know Rath at this point. Water Hazard - A bit of a loner, who prefers to fight on his own so he doesn’t have to worry about teamwork getting in the way. He often wants to get things over and done with, and when he doesn’t want to talk to people will shut himself in his shell until they go away. Ampfibian - Quite bubbly, though can come across as a little weird in his mannerism, saying unusual things from time to time. Though he is quite independent, and doesn’t need to be entertained by others, able to find fun in his own way. Armodrillo - Not the brightest of the aliens, and tends to follow his instincts first instead of logical thinking. Knowing to take action before thinking, and doesn’t often notice the destruction he causes. Though at the same time he’s good at figuring out how to keep structures stable, like the tunnels he creates, and does have a resourceful side to him. Terraspin - Calm, wise, and prefers to end fights without harming anyone too gravely. He finds that it’s very, very hard to lie, and is known to try and talk to people to give advice, or convince them not to fight. Whether or not this works depends on the foe they’re facing. NRG - Stubborn, hotheaded, and likes to do things his way. He’s not much of a team player, and doesn’t like listening to other people's ideas. Doesn’t help that he can be quite dangerous and rough in a fight, wanting to make sure the enemy stays down. Fasttrack - Has cat like mannerisms, leading to him being both prideful, though also loyal to people he cares for. He can sometimes come across as harsh, but really just wants to make sure his friends and family are alright, and does what he thinks is best for them. Chamalien - A trickster who likes to hide, and likes to taunt his foes from the shadows, preferring to mess with them instead of facing them directly. Can sometimes seem a little creepy to most people, even his friends. Eatle - Similar to Upchuck, he loves to eat, along with hoarding things he likes. But he is territorial, and will challenge those he sees as a threat to his things, getting up close and personal whenever this happens. Clockwork - Takes his time when processing things, or considering an action, wanting to be cautious with the choices he makes. He likes to use logic anywhere he can, not wanting to cause problems that can be avoided. Shocksquatch - He likes to have fun wherever he goes, whether that be doing a chore or fighting someone, as he seems to have an upbeat attitude. He likes to encourage people to be the same, but not in a hyperactive sort of way, more of a “Hey, why don’t we have some fun while we’re at it?” sort of way. Juryrigg - Basically behaves like he’s eaten an entire bag of sugar. Never slowing down, always wanting to break things before reconstructing them, and an absolute menace to the people around him. 

[cryptidblue1]

So that Unbalanced AU idea...

So, I had a thought that if I ever had the spoons to write this idea in a proper story and not just make up snippets and such that each chapter would have like these excerpts from scholarly papers, journals, letters, etc. that would take place like far in the future when Hallownest is really gone and people are you know, piecing together its history. Before it goes into the actual, you know story of everything going sideways because of Vessels surviving and having a hivemind and stuff. *sparkle hands* so I'm just going to put those random excerpts here since I'm fighting enough as it is with the spoons for the one fic I started and trying to be motivated to keep going. So yeah, dumping ground time for fic bits and snippets.

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Kingdoms.

A word, a symbolism, a place of home, or a place of awe. There are many connotations connected to what seems to be a simple word. How this world has become such an important word for many, especially among bug kind is ambiguous at best; unknown at worst. All that is known is that Kingdom has become a word one attaches to a civilization that has transcended the boundaries of simple clan and groups squabbling for survival in harsh climes and dangerous locales.

Ah, but one can not just band a group together and call themselves a kingdom. No, while there are those who attempt such; creating clans and groups of villages under one rule. The title of Kingdom has always been of Sacred connotations. For every great Kingdom that has risen and whose name has been whispered among travelers and pilgrims, it has always had a touch of Divine to them. Whether it be by blessings, by the founding be from one of holy dispositions, by one with ichor flowing in their shell, or even by a god themselves taking interest in the realm of mortal affairs. These places imbued with sanctifying power have always risen higher and greater than any purely mortal civilization has ever achieved.

Yet, what causes these beings of higher and seemingly astronomical power to set foot onto a land and decry it to be under their domain?

A question that will likely be one of the questions pondered by scholars for decades to come.

It is these questions that have made many a scholar turn their gazes, and hone their blades towards a Kingdom that boasted not one, but at least five different gods through its rise, fall, and rebirth. A Kingdom of great renown and growth, and thus an even greater tragedy when its fall would show us why when Gods feud, all shall suffer. For who does not know of the great Kingdom of Hallownest? One whose origin seems tumultuous and mired in conflict and possessive grips of gods from times far older than even we may truly understand. The hints and findings of those brave enough to enter into the depths below the ruins of what had once been the great palace of the Pale King. The records of before the Pale King, where the Radiance had ruled, and even the scattered remnants that showed the rise of Hallownest under the Pale King’s gaze, and the plague that would bring it low. Each excursion into the depths, and the findings of those who had lived through this era of uncertainty and conflict have created a tapestry that each new thread only adds vibrancy and clarity to what we know of this Kingdom of Gods.

What is unclear in all of our findings of this kingdom from so long ago, the question that haunts every chronicler and history seeker wishing to know the truth of the path that led to its rebirth…

What stopped the Radiance’s curse for a time?

In all findings and piecing of a timeline of this city, there seems to be a blatant attempt to hide away the time period when the Pale King found a way to stop the plague riddling his subjects and when the plague returned somehow even more terrible than before. Even the means in which the plague was completely eradicated from the paths and depths of this kingdom is contradictory and purposefully shrouded from the attempts of history to record the ruins of this kingdom finding its footing once more and rising again for a time. Even the journals of those who had sought out answers when survivors of this time were alive and aware, can not seem to agree on what happened. The frustration in the words and pen strokes of these seekers of the truth is clear to any to see as they list the many ways that citizens refused, were clearly unaware, or obfuscated the answer to the main question being asked during the clean up at the plague’s end.

Perhaps there are answers hidden amidst artifacts that are rarer than the most precious of gems. Artifacts of the royal family, and of those that are only ever called Vessels when written about. A title only ever seen in passing within the few documents that point to there being more than just a battle of Gods in that era of Hallownest’s history. A title and speculations from a more radical branch of scholarly pursuit that have taken on the notion that there was another God involved in all of this.

An even more radical faction within the Studium has even begun believing that this tumultus time was the birthing of new gods.

This scholar finds these hypotheses fairytale-like and outlandish with how little evidence there is to support these theories of just what happened during the era of the Dreaming Plague. Thus, they shall only be mentioned as proof that every avenue was listened to at the time of the writing of this report. However, as this is meant to be a postulation of historical facts presented from actual evidence and records found and excavated from the depths of Hallownest, these theories will not be given more than a passing mention as we delve into the history and mystery that was a Kingdom considered to have been one of the greatest of Kingdoms to have ever risen.

May the blessing of Argos, They who have given us, of the Kingdom of Aeldum, the gift of Knowledge, find favor in my report of the Kingdom of Gods.

—Tirchel, Professor of Archaeology and Scholar of Divine History. Citizen of the Kingdom of Aeldum. Season of Rain Year 785 A.P.

[elitetrinetrash]

I think my favorite concept/au I’m exploring with a friend is what we’re calling Hivemind Au.

Seekers work like a bee colony. There are small psychic connections between all of them/specific colonies. If there’s danger then they’re all on high alert. They live in colonies/spires and work together to find resources.

Course there’s the hive queens, the Elite Trine.

[teshadraws]

Hey I had read a question you answered about doduo earlier and wondered how the falinks would work. Unlike other Pokémon who share a body, falinks are completely separated from each other and can move freely so would it be that they each have a separate mind or is it a hive mind sort of thing? Also, I love your work and it was the first big pmd story that I ever read. Can’t wait for the next chapter!

Ooh, good question! I could really see it going either way.

I think in the Seekers universe they’re separate individuals, but their culture groups them up to form units really young as a means of protection. So they’re kind of socialized as a hivemind? Which sounds a bit more sinister than I intended it to, haha! ^^’

(And thank you! :D So glad you’re enjoying the story so far.) 

[hypnosiacon-archived]

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1✈️: My nonhumanity, even recently gained ones, are almost all linked to each other. This is weird, since I kinda have control over them, but also not.

2✈️: Hive and Hivemind parts of my alterhumanity linked to each other so much, that I can't even separate them even if I want to. Also they are connected in some way to Cybertronian nonhumanity forming insecticon paratype. Weird...

3✈️: I have another warfaren term to re-upload, and also I need to fill warfaren archive again, bah

4✈️: I have returned to our Social Media, but I don't plan on using it, only for getting role-play lines for these little silly games

5✈️: Turns out sometimes I write without any 1st person pronouns at all.

6✈️: Since change of theme, I have the weird urge to be referred differently. When @/catgirlprotag called me Whiteout it was THE BEST second in my life. Holy shit do I really need to switch between personas sometimes. Being close to singlets on median spectrum is weird.

7✈️: Also I plan on remaking my hoard... again. Remake my PT ID blog, and add Alterhuman coining blogs and Edit blogs too. Idk, I want everything organized... But that also makes me want to make another blog with different theme, since Amore makes angel, sweets and love related themes, I want a new one for.... something, idk. My median brain want's more personal blogs.

8✈️: Also about our system (sub-system) function! I have several ways to switch and make new facets, but it's uncontrollable, it's something that happens as the urge. If I get the urge to be perceived as someone else on a different blog be it a new or an old one - it's system thing. If I get to act differently even on my blog, and want to be perceived as someone else at this time - it's a system thing. Also sometimes facet might rewrite my subroutines, and take over my own blog. That happened with all my blogs, but since people still talk to me like to Iacon they know, I'm still acting like Iacon (though that does feels like heavy masking and also it sometimes draining)

9✈️: I don't know why I make PTs to be honest, It feels like I do it for the pleasure of feeling of accomplishment almost if I'm helping someone, but also I need to see the results, and since I see none, I feel weird xp

10✈️: I feel outside of aspec community since I believe that aspec means only "little or no attraction", but not the "EW EW I would never participate in relationship" kind of thing. I get upset every time I see someone making or headcanoning a character as aromantic or asexual and claiming that they would never get into these relationships or something. Because holy shit, what about gray? demi? what about non-repulsed folks? This thing was the exact thing out of two that got me out from the aspec community for good. Because I was bullied that I am not aspec because "You have attraction and you want relationships". Please, can we live together and stop fighting between repulsed and non-repulsed folks? Because I do see more positivity towards repulsed, but as a non-repulsed I feel so outcasted.

🌸: Mindless by DavZ

🌸: Phantom Anomaly by GRIMOIRE

🌸: Death Star ( Contiez Remix ) by Kontrol

🌸: Miss Me by Digitalz and Drymer

🌸: Disco Man by Madeaux

I'M SORRY SOME OF THESE ARE SO ANGSTY I REMEMBER THEM TOO MUCH, CRYING

💬: IDW post by Me

He asks a question and does not hear any answer in response. But he feels how con gathers words and thoughts together, tries to find a worthy answer.

💬: Post by partner

"Well… They're not injured, are they? So everything is fine." - He shrugs. "Alas, even now I am not ready to fall on my knees to make them feel better. They're gonna have to suffer through that."

💬: Post by partner

"Kaon," and then, after a little thought, he moves his hand pointing at Levi, right at the open chelicerae on one side of the seeker's face. "Levi!"

💬: Post by partner

Or maybe he wanted to see him first.

💬: Post by me

"Oh, if that were the case, I would have rushed far away from him." The seeker grins. "And he doesn't need my help for anything, I'm sure."

💬: Post by partner

Saber awkwardly looks away and for the first time in their entire conversation does not know what to do next. Of course, if he still treated Leviathan as an envoy, it would be easier. But how to treat Levi when one look at the seeker confused him. Especially now that he was… Cute? Joyful? Happy?

💬: Post by me

The whole conflict forced them both to withdraw all emotions in the same way, so that later, without explanation, without anything, they could reunite again. And how? By the light that bound them together.

💬: Post by partner

You are the one who lit me up, who kept my flame burning all this time, melting yourself. Let me support yours this time.

💬: Post by partner

Will the seeker then be the one he really loves, or will he just turn into his puppet. Fake and weak-willed.

💬: Post by me

"I won't hear your voice anymore." The seeker whispers in a trembling voice, trying to remove the stutter from his vocalizer as quickly as possible. "I won't hear your sweet voice again, not a single word of yours." He can't contain his pain. "Not a single word from you. He sighs with a noticeable shudder and the shuttle runs his finger along his cheek. "I'm sorry..."

[taniushka12]

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Sorry anon if you're not into tma but there's an au that i havent been able to stop thinking in the past few hours (and sporadically for about 3 years)

Like..... corruption!sasha jonsasha au, right? The man who accidentally became a dream parasite eating the horrors of other people and wanting to know more, and the woman who survived death at the cost of slowly leeching away the ppl she touches like a mold, leeching away their knowledge and thoughts as well to keep herself alive. Both knowledge seekers that became parasites despite themselves.....

Thats the premise of the au but rn im actually rly thinking abt the fact that (considering the au is set more or less in s4) they're both p touch starved and like, if they had prolonged physical contact let👏them👏kiss her hivemind-y properties and his whole Archivist thing would start mixing and meshing together and after a while they have to pull away bc his skin is all covered w/ superficial mold and her head started aching w/ the pressure

(ah, the fine line between loving someone and unconsciously kinda wanting to consume them w/ your weird eldritch powers, am i right?)

[Send me a 🌻 and I'll talk abt whatever I want :)]

[brandwhorestarscream]

Cybermorphs AU Orion being a monster lover is something I wanna read. Also, to mimic a hive; maybe the Vosimorphs are the guards and Orionmorphs (Civimorphs?) are the worker drones like in a bee hive? MayBEE (hehe. See what I did there?) if another is added the harem, it's a tank of sorts? Idk which one tho. And these offspring could become the hive protectors?

Then you've come to the right place, because now I'm obsessed with the idea of tiny husband Orion being so in awe and in love with his giant cybermorph queen husband. If he ever gets dragged off to be made into a Prime he's very >:c about it and regularly escapes to run back to his monsterfucker paradise

The vosimorphs are definitely the hives' aerial security, especially if they have the cryptid seekers' ability to camoflauge. The hive strikes a delicate balance between work and pleasure: they're all siblings, after all, and while they're naturally hardwired to be loyal to the hive and their carrier, they're also not controlled by a massive hivemind like the baseline xenomorphs are. They have a wide range of emotions and genuinely love and care about their family, same as any non-mutated cybertronian. They all have their pre-assigned place that helps the hive function as a well oiled machine, but they're not always working, yk? When they're off shift they hang out and just enjoy spending time together

Idk what exactly to call Orion's sired offspring, but civimorphs is a great placeholder for now. They're much smaller than their siblings when fully grown, so I'm thinking maybe they primarily work in the nurseries, watching over newborns and monitoring those still incubating. Maybe also help teach the younglings to fight and hunt. Some of them also operate outside, though: they make excellent spies. Their relatively small size and ability to disguise themselves as civilian mecha makes them invaluable for infiltrating the northern half of the planet. I'm thinking that all cybermorphs can, at least for the most part, transform to look like normal, unmutated mecha. Bipedal with a single pair of arms, two optics and a mouth, that kinda thing. They can either be gathering intel on the opposing autobor forces or maybe snagging fresh incubators if Megatron has an awaiting clutch and they don't have enough bodies for them 🤭

I'm super down for a tank to be added to the harem line up. My first thought goes to Tarn, but I kinda like the idea of him being one of Megatron's many offspring. Maybe Kiloton could work? I'm vv soft for him 🥺

And one final thought: from what I've gathered through reading, the praetorian guards aren't born, they're made. Specially selected from the queen's broods and then fed royal jelly (I'm still not entirely sure how the queens make it but. Whatever. We can figure it out if we go this route) to trigger the transformation. It's kinda like metamorphosis, I think? If that's the case, I imagine competition is steep: becoming one of the hive queen's personal guards is a big deal, a very prestigious assignment, and also gives the lucky chosen ones a size and power buff. Could definitely be smthn cool to explore, and maybe Megatron chooses one child from each clutch for the great honor. Maybe their sires or teachers or older siblings' recommendation holds some weight, or maybe it's left up to his sole discretion 🤔 regardless, how do we feel about that? About the special guard morphs (do we? Still wanna call them praetorians??) being specially chosen for the position? Maybe there's a whole hive-wide event when Megatron decides it's time to choose another guard, and everyone competes to prove themselves worthy. Could be kinda fun!

[vessel-and-the-players]

Susie, do you remember how you got there? So we and Kris(and Seeker) can come there? It will be easier if we have a controllable body there. And some good thinkers other than a huge hivemind of souls.