#seekerling

[copperbora]

Fanart of @doomspoon888 's excellently wonderful fan fiction, *Accidental War Criminal Acquisition* which you can read and adore here!

(ART CONTAINS SPOILERS IF YOU AREN'T CAUGHT UP WITH THE STORY)

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[idkwhat132]

Starscreams first words

Audio isn't mine

[headlessbutnothopeless]

What's in this gift in under copious amounts of tin foil as wrapping paper?

Show me what you have-

A knife!

His wings flick once in curiosity as he picks up the package, turning it over in his claws. Peeling off and setting aside each sheet of foil, Starscream brightens upon seeing the contents.

"Ah, wonderful! A mecha can never have too many sharp instruments!"

He turns to pick up the tasty bonus treat foil, but Cumulus has beaten him to it and is chewing with a wide smile. Rolling his optics, he presents the dagger to the smaller Seeker.

0.0 "For me?"

Aaaaand she's now running around exuberantly with the knife held over he head, squealing with joy. BEST. DAY. EVER.

[brandwhorestarscream]

I have this. Really weird/graphic image in my head. Like I can see it SO CLEARLY

Just. Someone cracking a raw seeker egg over a dish, yolk and half-formed sparkling splattering into a hot dish to be fried. I can see some faceless aristocrat taking a searing knife to one of the eggs, this one boiled and cooked so it can be cut into thin slices like chips. The insides are solidified and gelled, scraps of dead metal that might be tiny fingers or wings suspended there, the crystal of the spark chamber right in the middle of one like a ribeye. Faceless aristocracy seated around an incredibly opulent table and eating with fine utensils, but what they're eating is just candied bodies harvested from the seekerlings stolen while still in egg form.

All of these images are being played to the second season op of TPN

Do I need to write this psychological horror fic? No. Am I going to??

......maybe

[cloudraker]

hi! can i request seeker trine with seekerling/sparkling reader? i just need some good ol found family fluff. preferably headcannons ^^

thank you! have a good day/night!

For sure! Since you didn't specify I stuck with G1 ^^

G1 Seekers with a sparkling

Under the cut :)

Whoever gave them a child is a fool and is banned from Decepticon HQ

Starscream is shockingly responsible when handling them, making sure they're taking in enough fuel and are properly maintained. He knows how questionable the medical skills of Hook are, so he takes it upon himself to deal with any and all minor injuries that might pop up. His approach might come across as clinical to some

He makes sure they're educated properly despite the war going on. As a scientist, he enjoys teaching them about whatever interest them, showing a surprising amount of patience. But still, not as much patience as he probably should

In true Starscream fashion, he's not above manipulation and doing what he can to turn them against Megatron, or at the very least, have them loyal to him

Starscream tries his best to keep them at an arms lengths, however. He's worried about Megatron using them as leverage against him

Thundercracker is tired. He's trying so hard to keep them out of trouble but between Skywarp's antics and whatever Starscream has been putting in their head, he's got his work cut out for them

He does is best to make sure they grow up into a respectable seeker, teaching them basic manners and making sure they don't step too far out of line. The responsible caretaker, if you will

Lowkey worries constantly about them. He knows that growing up in a war can't be easy, and that living at the bottom of the ocean on an alien planet in a leaky metal tube isn't ideal for anybody. He does what he can to make sure their basic needs are met, sometimes snagging them something he thinks they might like when he's out on a mission

Skywarp is that one uncle that isn't estranged but you only see at family gatherings and is chill and funny and sometimes slips you a $20

Of the three, he seems to be taking it the least seriously. He encourages them to join him when he does his pranks, and is constantly trying to get them out of their duties

But, like Thundercracker, he knows that growing up in the current environment is hard, and he worries for them. He knows he's not the smartest and can't provide them support the way the other two can, so he takes it upon himself to try to keep them happy and content

He encourages any hobbies they might have, sneaking them supplies for whatever it is they want to do when he can

The three of them are rather rigid in their training. They make sure the sparkling is able to fly properly and hold their own in combat. They know that the sparkling joining the war effort isn't an 'if', but a 'when'

The first mission the sparkling goes on, the trine is on them like gum on a shoe. They get called out on their hovering, but it's not gonna stop them. They lowkey expect the coneheads to keep an eye out for them as well

Like Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp worry about Megatron using them as leverage in some way, and as such have a hard time showing open affection. It's easier for Skywarp, but Thundercracker only does it when he's sure there's nobody around and even then it's rare

Soundwave is the designated babysitter in emergencies. He hates this and has enough kids to deal with please god let him rest

Overall, they're decent caretakers if not a bit distant. They're working with what they have and hoping for the best

[transingthoseformers]

Angst+ confort+ sparklings/eggs

Wasn't there a time when starscream lost his memory and he and Optimus became close?

That's right, but Optimus secretly (no one knows) has a particularly large egg

When it hatches, it reveals two seekerlings (jettwins)

The comfort comes from the truce and them reuniting with Star + the twins' reveal to the elite trine

Ooo??? Yes??

[witchofthesouls]

I have this image of Starscream taking pity on this poor Camien nurse. It happens occasionally. When an unrelated scheme trip takes Starscream to Cybertron Starscream gathers every datapad on seekerling and seekerkin development, unique developmental requirements, and documentation on the ailments of flight deprived seekers and seeker sparked and coded mechs in grounder fraims he can lay his servos on. Was it an excuse for why he took so long? Yes. Was it part of a complex triple bluff? Also yes. Does he think the New Sparks need all the help they can get with Tarn as their sire? Unicron fragging a unicycle, yes! Is it a ploy to get Tarn to give himself the idea he should become a significantly less armored flight frame? Absolutely!

I doubt Starscream would willingly seek out Tarn's presence, even to heckle over his fanatical loyalty. (But he would most definitely take the most convulated method to get datapads of Seekerkin development to the Peaceful Tyranny.)

Besides, it would take an Act of Megatron to part Tarn away from his tank frame-schematics. Plus, everyone and their creators seem to be sending Helex tips to give to Tarn via online communities because... Yeah, Tarn would need all the help to tackle parenthood.

Luckily, you're not afraid to smack sense into him on raising Seekerkin bitties, especially with a set of split-spark twins. And Nickel is there to drive it into his thick helm whenever you're down.

Everyone will need to come to terms that it's fucking Tarn, of all the mechs to do it first, that literally started a family in the aftermath of the war. And a ridiculously large one at that. Like there are mechs out there staring his armful of bitties and thinking he's starting another cult or raising the next generation of DJD.

[mychlapci]

TFA anon here who is actually not talking abt TFA for once again but is actually talking about G1.

Anyways, I feel like if Starscream actually carried and birthed out some sparklings he would be more respected. He may even be more tolerable while pregnant. Since he never birthed any soldiers for the Decepticons, he isn’t well respected by others. Maybe at some point he sucks up his pride and decides to carry some seekerlings and it actually mellows him out a bit because of it. Bots actually start paying attention to him and carries out his orders now. Maybe he becomes a lot tamer and calmer as his pregnancy moves along and his belly grows bigger and bigger.

Honestly, who the hell knows who got Starscream pregnant. Some speculate it might have been Megatron, but Megatron is confused on who the fuck willingly stuck their dick in him as well so it could be anyone.

The only real way they would know who the sire is if either when the sparklings are born (which will take a while) or if Starscream tells them, which when asked he just laughs and tells them to guess. The only hint they get is that it was a bot who could fly, which did not help in the slightest.

Some Decepticons say it’s Soundwave’s, others say it’s Thundercracker’s or even Skywarp’s, meanwhile very few swear up and down that it’s either Megatron’s (which was proven false) or Optimus’ (which was outrageous because he can’t fly).

I like the idea that through the grapevine the Autobots end up finding out that Starscream is pregnant.

All in all, the Decepticons descend into chaos and Starscream is watching it all with a smile while hiding who the sire is because he thinks it’s funny seeing them come up with hilariously wrong answers.

Really what I’m trying to say is that I want to see that twink pregnant and give birth.

Oh, we’ve had a “leaders prove their ability to lead by getting knocked up” thing before, haven't we… Starscream finally biting the bullet and realizing that if he is to get the respect he wants, he will have to carry young, so he gets himself knocked up and enjoys the bewildered stares directed at his growing belly.

Maybe it mellows him out, maybe people are just more likely to listen to a proven carrier in the first place, or a mixture of both, but Starscream is suddenly much easier to listen to. Not easy enough for people to spend more time than necessary near him, but just enough for 'cons to consider taking his orders more seriously nowadays....

Honestly, I hope Skyfire's the sire. Starscream's gonna have a very big litter.

[moonlight-tmd]

I imagine Bee would be a good caretaker.

Like, we know he's reckless and can't be responsible most of the time. But i genuinely think he would be a good parent. Like if something involves Sparklings or baby creatures, something in his mind switches and he goes full mama-mode and takes care of them.

Imagine a scenario: Bee was going back from a late patrol, things have been quiet as usual. He's in the more secluded part of the city, barely anyone lives there, he drives by an alley and as he passes he notices something.

He backs up and transforms, slowly walks into that alley thinking some not-good fella is there. Something moves and- it's just a raccoon. It gets scared and jumps on the dumpster knocking one of its lid down and runs away.

Bee was about to leave when he heard quiet beeps?- no, it was more like chirping. He turns back, the sounds are coming from the dumpster. He walks up to it and carefully opens the lid-

Inside there are 2 little Sparklings laying on the trash bags, wrapped in some tarp. One of them is crying and the other looks like it's recharging. They are dirty and dull in color.

He doesn't know what to do, he just stands there until the Sparkling cries louder snapping him out of this paralyzed state. He picks is up and comforts it.

Sparklings- in the trash- How could anyone do this?

The little one's cries have gone quiet, he takes one servo and reaches to the other Sparkling- it doesn't react, he shakes it gently but still nothing.

He can't leave them here- they are too big to both sit in his cabin, he opens his subspace and puts the crying Sparkling in it- like in a basket. The bitlet holds onto his shoulders and rests its helm there. Then he takes the other bitty, still wrapped in tarp and skates back to base.

The others are worried, Bee should have been back long ago. The sound of the shutter opening relieves their anxiety- but not for long. Next thing they know Bee is standing there with 2 Sparklings.

Ratchet gets them to medbay, the little ones get cleaned up and wrapped in blankets- they are chilled and very malnourished, it's a miracle Bee found them.

Bee(besides Ratchet) is the last one to leave their side for the night. He's the first one to get in medbay and watch them, he brought Ratchet his oil there too.

The Sparklings had wing-nubs, meaning their creator was a seeker.

The crying Sparkling was the first to wake up, the other one however- it was a bit smaller than its sibbling, it was still alive but wasn't reacting to anything. They were worried it wasn't gonna make it...

But 2 days later when Bee came into medbay in the morning, he was greeted with 2 chirping seekerlings happily chirping for fuel. The amount of weight that laid on his Spark since he found them was severely reduced. The little ones' colors brightened up, they had little features at their age, but it was enough to establish that their creator was Starscream.

Now was the question; what to do with them? They didn't exactly have the best situation to raise Sparklings in- Optimus proposed finding them a Carequarters and having Elite Guard transport them to it. The only one against that idea was Bumblebee, he kept coming up with 'what ifs' to not put them there. Optimus pulled him to talk privately after the failed plan-making. Bee was defensive but eventually softened up- he told him about being raised in a Carequarters and it being "not a good experience" and his concern about the Sparklings having to endure the same.

They came up with a solution- unless Bee approves of the choice of Carequarters, the Sparklings stay with them.

And so the team got to taking care of two little seekerlings on top of the rest of their "chores".

Bee was surprisingly good at parenting- he was the one to always play with the bitlets, he found ways to get the littles to recharge, eat their mineral-enriched energon and even distract them when Ratchet gave them their shots. He stayed behind and took care of them when something happened.

Eventually, they found a great Carequarters to send the bitlets to. They set up the meeting with Elite Guard to take them.

Bee was sad, but he never showed it. He has gotten attached to those little ones- and he was sure they were attached to him too. For once in his life he felt like he was doing something he was meant to do... and now it was about to end.

And so the day came, he had a smile when he handed the two Sparklings to Jazz. "Are you okay?" Prowl has gently asked as they watched the Elite Guard drive away. "Yep! I'm fine" Bee said before he went back to the plant.

He was ugly sobbing in his room short after- no one could get him to calm down so they just left him to mourn. They knew how close he got with those bitlets, it did hurt them to give them away too. Bee was there for them 24/7, he was the only one who managed to calm them down when they were crying. It didn't help that before they were taken, the Sparkling called him "mama" when they were watching cartoons and playing.

It hurt- but not for long.

Literally 3 hours after they gave the Sparklings to Elite Guard, Sentinel and his crew were back again. Turns out, the little seekers got feisty when they couldn't find their caretaker and started crying. They made such a mess and almost wrecked the controls- None of them could stand the constant screeches and crying so they opted to return to Earth.

The joy Bee felt as the littles in the Jettwin's arms reached out and desperately chirped to him was immeasurable. He ran to them, took them in his arms and comforted them, all 3 crying.

They ended up raising the two, and to add to the happiness Bee got to be their adoptive Creator.

As they grew up, they turned out to be 2 femmes. In their full size they tower over Bee, they are almost taller than Optimus. They also have amazing voices like their Mama.

So that's a thing. There is room for romance so leave me asks about which one you'd like me to include in this multi-route story. (BlitzBee, ProwlBee- dunno how ShockBee will fit in this)

Another option is merging this with the 'Optimus being Bee's adoptive dad' post. Lemme know if you want more info- or not cuz i'll probably post more on that, BUT the asks are very appreciated and give me an idea of what to tell you so please do send them! Thank you!

[maxicaiman]

so while I've only started drawing two, I now have plans for my ocs!

Mixtape: a cassette player I'm shipping with rodiblurr in TFA and soundster in g1/idw

Scout, M1-RA, and Alex: Scout is an Autobot who crashed on Earth, and is now in the care of robot maker Alex and her bot M1-RA (they become a throuple)

Tailpipe: little seekerling being cared for by Jetfire

Twister: younger seekerling under the care of the Elite Trine/Starscream's clones

Mainframe: Decepticon spy shipped with Shockwave

Astro/Astronimus Prime: child who initially lived in a secret, zealot filled village on a desolate planet before it was found, later became a Prime and a successful scientist/theologist under the care of Drift and Ratchet

Flint: a Torchbearer from Caminus

Pulse: a medic in training as Ratchet's assistant in TFA and IDW, might ship her with Optimus and Blackarachnia

Tbh I'll probably come up with more, Astro, Scout, M1-RA, and Alex were the first ones I thought of and then the rest just appeared in my mind

THESE ARE SO CUTE OH MY GOODNESS

Tailpipe is such a cute name omfg this is my favorite one immediately. That’s my child now /j

[ultracreativelywritten]

Okey, sparkling Starscream waking up from recharge only to see Soundwave watching him.

Soundwave looked over the escape pod, the model old. There was barely a dent in the pod. It was decorated with gold and volsarian glyphs. A rarity, and tragedy. The seekers were killed off at the start of the war. Anyone who survived would be suffering from the loss of their trine. They wouldn’t last too long after that. Soundwave let out a soft coo, a silent apology to whoever was inside.

Tapping the top of the escape pod, Soundwave watched as the lid lifted up. Inside there was a sleeping seeker sparkling. The poor thing was so small, so helpless. Carefully Soundwave picked up the sparkling and held him close to his spark. When he woke up, the poor thing would be scared.

Soft whimpering from the sparkling made Soundwave lift him to his visor. The little thing screamed when he realized that Soundwave wasn’t his carrier or sire. Soundwave felt his spark ache, he wished he could do something that would calm the sparkling. Walking over to the pod, Soundwave red the glyph above where the seeker was recharging. Starscream. That was the little sparkling’s name.

“Soundwave: will take care of Starscream. Starscream: is safe now.” Soundwave’s words didn’t calm the seekerling in any way. Soundwave sighed, and hailed for a ground bridge. Soundwave was going to keep this seeker safe.

[rxng]

"Here I'd thought Squall took entirely after his father, but..."

He holds up the Seekerling, who has a glowing helm. Like someone in a lightbulb costume, actually. Or a reverse firefly.

Very cute either way.

[headlessbutnothopeless]

Your birthday isn't that far off.. what do you want this year? What about kiddo? When is her decided creation day, since we don't really know?

He stands there, flummoxed, for a moment before flicking his wings in confirmation. "I suppose celebrating on the relative planetary orbital period of this frame's (re)activation is a tradition worth continuing."

What could a grey-face even give him?

"Candy!" shrieks a voice, rooms away, followed by the CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP of tiny pedes. "Wan' swee's, pre'y please!"

"... I have been missing Vos' delicacies these past millennia."

:D

"There are some traditions, like Trining Day, that haven't been honored in..." Starscream trails off, optics dulling.

//pLEASE, aNON/// Cumulus types, not wanting to force her request out through her vocalizer. //hE never TALKS ABOUT vOS AND THE OLD DAYS>//

"Decorations. Make sure they're scaled down to fit her. And a very special polish I cannot recall the components required."

[brandwhorestarscream]

elite trine x elite trine

I'm telling you right now that Starscream is the one getting sparked up, solely because he is such a size queen and demands double penetration every single time the trine faces. Double the spike means double the transfluid, and even though they're all stocked up on contraceptives, eventually having his gestation tank so full bites him in the aft.

Now, the elite trine are old lovers. They've been around a long time. You will never convince me that they didn't have at least one litter of sparklings sometime before Vos fell. Probably more. They all died in the fall. So Starscream knows what this feeling is--the swelling, the nausea, the sudden rampant hunger.

And he's in denial.

He's terrified. This can't be happening! Not now, not again, not here! Not while they're stranded on earth, not while he and Megatron are at their very worst, not when Vosians are on the very brink of extinction and there's less than a hundred of them left! No, no, no! This could not be worse, it really could not be any worse-

There's nine of them.

Starscream screeches in devastation and anger and a million other emotions when he bears his spark before a mirror and there's more than three, more than six, and sure enough seven, eight, nine teeny tiny sparks like little sprinkles of stardust orbiting around his. That's nothing crazy for a seeker, they always have sparklings in threes, but nine! It's just him and his mates--there's the rest of the airforce, of course, but they're not a proper aerie! He can't possibly terminate them, not when Vos's people are one bad battle away from total annihilation, but he can't keep them!

He dusts off some old protocols and tries desperately to put the sparklings into diapause, refusing to breathe a word of their existence to anyone. With their growth frozen he can double his efforts to finish this war and then they can go home and the little ones can be born safely. That's the plan, anyway.

Unfortunately, diapause takes a lot of energy. It has to keep all of the sparklings suspended in what is essentially a cryosleep funded by his own body, for all nine of them, and that's got very serious demands on his frame. Demands that he can't realistically cater to for long. He's very sneaky for awhile and does everything in his power to distract, misdirect, keep anyone from noticing the extra fuel going missing, but it's not long until Soundwave catches him. Recognizes the shift in his EM field and the way he walks, and promptly rats him out to Megatron.

Big boss is far from happy, but is honestly more exasperated than anything. Of course. If anyone was going to get themselves knocked up during wartime, it would be Starscream, wouldn't it? Then, he does something that's worse than anything he's ever done before:

Assigns his SIC to desk work

Starscream is seething! His position as air commander has been handed over to Thundercracker (who's none too pleased about the situation either), and he's been taken off active field duty for the foreseeable future. He's more prone to making mistakes and having lessened reaction time in his "condition", and Megatron wants these new seekerlings born healthy. Which will be kind of hard if their carrier gets himself blown up, so Starscream is stuck at the base devising battle formation strategy and barking at the air force not to get sloppy in his absence.

His two mates are no help either, he'll grumble to anyone that will listen. Skywarp's been following him around like a lovesick puppy and always wants to feel his belly and coo nonsense to his chassis, and no amount of wriggling away will get him to stop. He's so clingy its suffocating, always sneaking cheeky kisses and tummy pats. He thinks Starscream is just more and more adorable the more his belly grows 🤭 and Thundercracker remembers perfectly all the things Starscream likes when he's expecting, exactly what kind or sour snacks and how he likes the cushions for his wings, and also has the dietary supplement table memorized. If he's having 9 bitties they'll each roughly be X amount of weight when 30% grown so he needs to drink at minimum Y number of cubes a day to keep up with their growth demand and-

So on and so forth. Overall, they're excited, but deep down... they're all individually terrified of loss. When Vos was bombed, the seeker population lost 95-98% of it's members. They lost everyone, every parent, aunt, uncle, cousin, and distant relative: it's only by sheer luck that they survived. Their previous litter of bitties was lost then, though they don't know how they died. Every familial bond they had shattered that day and the bodies were never recovered. They don't know if they suffered. They don't know if they were scared. They don't know if it was instant or if it was dragged out and torturous. All they know is the deep, gaping loss left behind by the lost sparkling bonds still ring so painfully and clear-cut it's near debilitating sometimes. They're afraid that the autobots will take these ones away, too: that they'll die at the hands of bigoted grounders that think they don't deserve to live just for being children of the sky. They're so afraid that they won't be able to protect them, and that they'll lose them, too.

It shows in the way Starscream paces and mumbles feverishly to himself at 3 a.m. It shows in the way Skywarp becomes vicious and bloodthirsty on the battlefield, and it shows in the way Thundercracker carefully curls his shaking hands around his mate's belly in the middle of the night when he thinks they're asleep, muffled sobs overlayed with whispered prayers to please, please let this time be different.

When the bitties finally arrive they're in little eggs, 9 perfect little spheres with rubber outer shells and stuffed to the brim with gelatinous filling. Every egg pulses strongly with the force of the infant spark within, and they can see outlines of their children, all curled up in the fetal position and almost ready to hatch. They've already prepared a nest for their eggs, a perfectly warm and secure spot where one of them will always be there to watch them. Mostly Starscream, as the other two have more work to do, but he doesn't mind. He can read and draw up plans while sitting next to them, occasionally reaching to turn them if he thinks one looks cold, and making sure to talk to fill the silence. Sometimes to them, sometimes to himself to narrate what he's doing, just so the sparklings know they aren't alone.

When they start to hatch Skywarp and Thundercracker both get a frantic keysmash text from Starscream falling out of his chair, then another with ITS TIME!!!! followed by a blurry picture of their nest, and one of the eggs has a noticeable hairline fracture in it. Skywarp, bless his spark, is so excited and also very much not thinking straight, grabs Thundercracker's hand and forcibly sprints out of the command center dragging him along. It takes him a full 10 seconds to realize his mate is telling him to, "Just teleport us!"

"...oh yeah!"

They arrive just in time to witness the birth of their first son: a darling little seekerling that's all blue head to toe with a deep gray faceplate and Skywarp's eyes. These babies are tiny, as there are nine of them, they can easily be cradled in their hands. Skywarp moves to pick him up and promptly gets nipped at: Starscream laughs, and lowers his helm to chirp at the little one. Bitty responds in turn, knowing instinctively that this is his carrier, and reaches out both tiny servos to him.

His siblings come quickly after, all range of lovely color combinations: a red and purple one, white and blue, black and white, on and on it goes! They're all beautiful and healthy, and the proud parents give them all names befitting Vosians, as well as a solemn promise: to never, ever let anything hurt them. To love and protect them now, for always, and forever 💖

[updatesatbase]

There is nothing to do today but toast in the sun. So that is what Starscream does. Lying spread out in the sound he enjoys the rays of the sun. The smallest seekerling keeps close to the carries, hiding in the shade of his wings.

The sparklings that's old enough are playing close by. Wrestling in the sand or climbing Starscreams body like a playground. He allows it, it lets him keep an close eye on them.

[transingthoseformers]

https://www.tumblr.com/transingthoseformers/739546183187546112/so-ive-seen-fics-where-steve-simps-endlessly-for

Yes Yes Yes!

Even better if Star is still aware of his surroundings, he just stopped worrying about the fact that he has a soft spot for the vehicon.

A few months later there is a blue seekerling with a suspicious "visor" in the eye area (jetstorm)

Exactlyyy, Starscream plays favorites and Steve is delighted that it's him

Hsdhdh yesss jetstorm time