#temptorians

[suleforgeraskmogahn]

So Weirrall, What species have you created over the aeons?

I have created various races over the aeons, from simple organics to 17 dimensional beings similar to the transformers, I have made so many species, so here a few of them:

Temptorian

Warunder

Logicon

Vok

Higher realms transformers(such as Scorpia, Autoceptor and Gong)

Proto-Celestialsapians (ancestors of Celestialsapians)

Proto-Naljian( ancestors of Naljian)

The ancestors of the Scarlet king's race

note that I have made many more species, but these are the most significant.

[askvectorprime]

Dear vector prime, as the guardian of time and space what cosmic beings have you faced and defeated that have almost destroyed the transformers multiverse and timelines(besides unicorn and hytherion)?

Dear Destruction Dialoguist,

There have been many, ranging from the small to the incomprehensible, and to list them all would probably take too many of your decades, so I hope you'll understand if I limit this answer to just the one. While the Grand Uprising raged across Cybertron, a grave danger had emerged offworld—a threat neither the Protoformers or the Builders alone could address, or even comprehend.

In their distant past, during Galvatron's war with the Human Confederacy, one of the worlds caught in the crossfire was the small planet of Temptoria. To Galvatron, Temptoria was just another organic-inhabited world, fodder for his conquest, and raw materials for his Grendel Gambit—but unbeknownst to him, Temptoria had come into being around a multiversal anomaly: a living breach in the barriers between dimensions. Prior to their extinction, the Temptorians had believed it to be a mark of the creators upon the world, which they called the Brand. They used it to connect symbiotically with other realities, with "the crossover" being one of their most sacred rituals—but as centuries passed without them, the Brand grew stagnant, and fell to ruin. Dimensional instability spread from the planet, and at the epicentre, a timestorm threatened to unleash itself.

It was when the first of the anomalies reached Cybertron that I was alerted to the danger. In that reality, Blackarachnia had successfully forged an alliance with the Darksyders prior to the Vehicon Apocalypse, pushing Megatron to be bolder in his operations; during an attempt to seize Grimlock from Builder custody, they came into open conflict with Hot Rod's forces. Major Mayhem was mere moments away from tearing off Dirgegun's head, when a small group of Autobots from a distant universe spontaneously materialised in the middle of the street, towering over the Micromasters and Protoformers. To Megatron's surprise, the Autobot seemed to recognise him—and he certainly recognised the Autobot, as impossibly, it was none other than Optimus Prime!

I intervened, cutting short a potentially disastrous battle between the gathered parties by sending everyone through a dimensional gateway to Temptoria, and spoke to them about the Brand. I explained that if we didn't mend the brand, it would devour everything, reducing every universe to an endless loop of spacetime, the same events playing out eternally without development or resolution. The parcity of new information would bring about a memetic equivalent to heat death, and the Multiverse would be forever ruined. The gathered Cybertronians agreed to help me; in the case of Optimus Prime and his crew, only I could return them to their home dimension—and as for the rest, I suspect that many of them had designs of their own for the Brand. Regardless, I voiced my thanks, as it had taken a great deal of effort to bring them all together at the same time.

The situation we were faced with was undoubtedly the greatest "crossover" in history, a nightmarish unending mockery of the Temptorian's limited events. The Brand was exerting a continuous effect on other universal clusters—even ones from the greater Megaverse—taking their properties to make itself even more potent, threatening to subsume them entirely. All around us were strange beings, pulled from dimensions undreamed of, and the Brand was trying to make them part of itself, no matter how impossible that seemed, destroying itself in the process.

Hot Rod, Optimus and Megatron led their teams against these aliens, who seemed more confused than anything (I admit to being rather confused as well, especially at how many sounded similar to the Transformers). Still, it was an epic confrontation: they valiantly fought off the aliens while I saved the Brand. No sooner had I done so than the anomalies began to vanish, in the opposite order to that in which they had appeared; I had just enough time to thank Optimus Prime's crew (and answer a few lingering questions they had about one of their number's origins) before they disappeared. And, with the last of the anomalies gone, the Protoformers and Builders suddenly found themselves in the past—before they'd even set out on the mission to begin with!

I fear that the temporal trouble is why you haven't heard of this before, despite your universe's interest in the Uprising and the further adventures of Optimus Prime's team. In fact, as to whether or not the Resistance was able to overthrow their systematic oppressors in that timeline, I'm afraid I simply don't know: I myself only learned of the Protoformers' fate thanks to a spoken account of this adventure—"Cancel Culture", I believe it was called—plucked from spacetime as it settled. Such a shame it doesn't exist—I made for quite the dashing protagonist.

[thanksjro]

More Than Meets the Eye #12- Gay Rights: the Movie

Finally finished with our franchise obligations! Let’s get back to the main story.

Those are some ominous ellipses. Almost like something bad is going to happen!

Let’s take a look at Cover A for this issue.

When this was released to the general public, alongside the synopsis that stated the Lost Lighters were going to run into a group of Decepticons, a lot of people thought we’d be seeing them meet the Scavengers. This isn’t the case, and that’s not Fulcrum. It’s some other K-Con, one that has purple in his color scheme.

Our story opens up with a narrative framing device:

Welcome to “Before & After”, one of the more ambitious issues of MTMTE in terms of storytelling. Roberts really likes bouncing between scenes and POVs, and he’s really indulging that here.

Rodimus and crew have loaded up on one of the Lost Light’s scouting ships to check in on a planet called Temptoria. Whirl’s leading all the guys in the front in a war cry that wouldn’t be out of place in Hollywood’s version of the Vietnam war, while Brawn demonstrates how to not properly handle a gun. Rodimus tries to explain what exactly they’ll be doing, but no one’s listening, feeding off of the chaotic energy. The back seat isn’t quite as rowdy.

Oh, Ambulon’s here? That’s got to be awkward. And Perceptor’s looking mighty cross about having to pick up a gun again. Isn’t he supposed to be retired from being a science sniper?

Rodimus finally gets everyone to settle down long enough to explain the situation, though not without a little jargon mixup.

Basically, Ultra Magnus went down to Temptoria while the “Shadowplay” story was being told, and found out that the organic populace had been enslaved by a group of Decepticons, and, more importantly, the sovereign agreement that the planet had with Cybertron’s been violated. Also, these guys might have been the one’s who kidnapped the Circle of Light. You remember those guys, right? The guys who were supposed to be in the 2012 Annual, but they weren’t, and Drift got really mad about it.

Rodimus wraps up the briefing with a “’Til all are one!” And we cut over to see what Swerve and Tailgate are up to. Tailgate seems to be a little nervous, not the type to enjoy waiting, but Swerve seems to be doing just fine. Why is that, exactly?

Even if Rung’s still a steamed side dish of a vegetable, he’s still here, in a way. And good on Swerve for not assuming Tailgate can visualize in the same way he can. Aphantasia is more common than one might think.

Escapism is an interesting way of dealing with your problems, but I don’t know enough about wartime psychiatry to know if this is something that would actually be considered a viable solution or not.

Oh, now that I’ve said it, I’ve got the research itch.

Later, later.

Anyway, Tailgate gives it a spin, and his happy place is surprisingly domestic for such a seasoned professional.

Pipes, it’s a clear glass, it’s not hiding anything from you.

Speaking of Pipes, he’s seated next to Hound, as they discuss what happened to Red Alert. Or, rather, the cover story that’s been fed to the rest of the crew by Rodimus, which is that the engine room pretty much attacked him. This is how ghost stories get started.

Trailcutter’s gotten some guns installed in his legs, because he’s a hypocrite.

Over with Chromedome and Rewind, there’s trouble in paradise, as they’re having a lovers’ spat. Chromedome’s giving Rewind the silent treatment, and Rewind’s having none of it. What exactly are they fighting about? We don’t get to know about that yet, but it’s digging up other issues, like Chromedome going back on his promise to stop injecting. The only thing keeping this from becoming a total meltdown is Whirl can-canning through the door to kidnap Rewind, so he can film Whirl getting in the zone before the fight. Whirl’s having a great time. This is probably the first time they’ve gotten to fight something since the Lost Light took off, and he’s all about it.

Rewind’s dragged away, and Chromedome just lets it happen, because he’s feeling cross. It’s good to take a moment to cool off, but I’m not quite sure this was the best time or way for it to happen.

Meanwhile, on the Temptorian surface, Blip the Decepticon, who is likely the dirtiest son of a gun we’ve run into so far, is asked to take a look at the monitor by a guy who sounds exactly like Megatron. It doesn’t particularly matter which Megatron, because comics are not an audio-based medium, so you can pick whichever one you like best. What’s on the monitor does not please Blip in the slightest.

I feel like maybe having guys who don’t turn into flying machines jump out of the bottom of the shuttlecraft isn’t the greatest tactical thinking, but I’m sure everything will be okay. Brawn’s got a gun, maybe he’ll figure out how to rocket-jump before he hits terminal velocity.

Then the narrative jumps to after the fight, as the ship flies away from the scene, and Chromedome isn’t happy. It’s for a different reason than earlier, though.

Man, Pipes just can’t win, can he?

Ambulon remembers that he is, in fact, a medical professional, and starts working on Rewind, while Chromedome tries to ask Swerve just what the hell happened. Swerve’s having his own issues, however.

I’d nearly forgotten they had skeletons.

On the production side of this issue, we’ve got two artists: there’s our usual guy, Alex Milne on the “Before” sections, and Brandon Cahill on the “After”. Cahill’s other Transformers work includes The Transformers (2009) and the sister series to MTMTE, Robots in Disguise. Outside of the franchise, he’s worked on several Marvel pieces, including writing Sable & Fortune and Legion of Monsters. Unlike a lot of the alternate artists we’ve seen for the series, Cahill won’t be a one-and-done; we’ll see his art again in Dark Cybertron, Season 2 of MTMTE, and even Lost Light.

Getting back to the story, we’ve jumped back to the point in the battle where everyone’s hit the ground and are just wailing on each other. Tailgate and Swerve watch the chaos unfold, as Ultra Magnus more or less takes on a platoon of Decepticons.

Drift’s having a great time, as he Naruto runs through the enemy, slashing as he goes with a big ol’ smile on his face. He stabs a guy in the back of the head who was trying to grapple with Rodimus, thus interrupting the little dialogue they had going on. Rodimus is vaguely upset that his moment was cut short.

In the “After”, the shuttle’s landed back on the Lost Light, and Chromedome rushes out with Rewind in his arms to find First Aid with a motorized stretcher. He was hoping for Ratchet- he wants only the best for his shnookums. As they run Rewind down to the medibay, Chromedome starts listing off his allergies- which include ultraviolet light, something we know reveals mnemosurgery scars. This is a holdover from a dropped plot point I’ll cover at a later time; as it stands in the canon narrative, Rewind’s just got an allergy to the friggin’ sun.

Back at the shuttle, Tailgate starts dragging Cyclonus down the gangplank. Oh, hell. You know it’s a bad situation when the guy who literally couldn’t die for six million years is out of commission.

Spoke and Lockstock are a bit of a gag- they always manage to get their asses kicked, but everyone on the ship really likes them. They will never be seen on-panel, and have no character designs.

Over in the medibay, history is being made.

Esteemed members of the jury, I present to you: canon gay robots. The first in a long line of them. This is the starting point of the queer community being handed the Transformers franchise on a silver platter.

Up to this point, Roberts hadn’t gotten any further than implied attraction and affection between robots, in either his fanworks or professional credits. Pretty heavy-handed implication in some cases-

-but implication nonetheless. Here is the first, honest-to-god direct confirmation of two male-coded robots in love.

In love and space-married and recognized by the authority in power, in a comic written in 2012, as a part of a major franchise owned by a massive American company, three years before same-sex marriage would be legalized on a federal level.

As part of the story, it’s great. Within the context of the time during which it was published, it’s a whole other level. This wasn’t just good writing, it was important.

Let me part the kimono a little here, with some personal backstory- I grew up in Buttfuck Nowhere, NC, and went to a high school that was so homogeneous, they were threatening to bus students in after I graduated. I didn’t know what a gay person even was until I was 12. “Lesbian” was used as an insult, and it was one I was subjected to because I had cut my hair short in middle school and wore cargo shorts on occasion. It was something I really pushed against, because that’s how a lot of people react to being forcibly given a label.

Not the best environment for a little queer kid, clearly.

It wasn’t until well after I’d gone to college that I really started understanding who I was. Hell, I’m still figuring some things out, but at least I’m getting somewhere.

I remember reading this for the first time in 2015- yes, I got into the comics sort of late- and then having to reread it. I needed a moment just to process what had happened. As a person who had only recently come to terms with their sexuality at the time, it was kind of mind-blowing to have that sort of representation, especially since I was also watching Transformers Prime at around the same time. Talk about the duality of man, am I right?

These days, there’s a lot more representation in many different forms of media. Things are getting better. Which, y’know, yay! I’m glad. I just can’t help but wonder if things would have been a little different if this sort of representation had been available earlier on.

Anyway, so yes, Chromedome’s got a difficult choice to make for Rewind- either let his body try to sort itself out, or let First Aid break out the clamps and try to jumpstart him. Rewind’s got a relatively rare spark type, but luckily Chromedome’s the same type. Looks like everything’s coming up roses for our boys!

Tailgate and Cyclonus aren’t getting nearly as good a break.

My god, he’s filled with grape soda!

Back in the “Before”, things are getting a little silly.

Chromedome, what POSSIBLE tactical advantage could you be gaining from riding the giant, fire-breathing robot dinosaur? This is why they threw you in Kimia, isn’t it? Because you’re a dumbass.

While this bullshit is happening, Rewind and Tailgate are stacked on top of each other to look through a window, because I guess that’s just how things turn out when the resident couple on the ship is upset with one another. Rewind’s found something, but it isn’t the Circle of Light. Rather, it seems the Decepticons are dabbling in Pink Alchemy- a rather inefficient process that allows organic creatures to be turned into energon for consumption.

The good guy thing to do would be to save all the organics, but there’s a bit of a problem- the door is wired to a massive bomb. Good thing Tailgate was in Bomb Disposal, and is just generally an impressive and well-established dude. He gets to work.

Getting back to a point I made during Chaos Theory, Whirl can’t make a fist. Punching himself in the face is probably more akin to slashing it.

Tailgate’s got a weird approach to bombs, taking the time to teach Rewind how to do it, by way of student-led learning. They decide to poke a hole in the bottom of the bomb to drain all the explosive fluid out, which Tailgate does with little robot tears streaming down his face. Fear is a great motivator.

Oof, not a “Domey” in sight. That’s how you know things are rough.

Outside of this little scene, Whirl and Cyclonus are handling Decepticons. Whirl’s got a hold on that guy who’s voiced by Frank Welker, and we get a nice shot of his sad cat face before Whirl turns his head into a memory.

Swerve- who is also here- asks Whirl to loan him a gun.

GODDAMMIT SWERVE.

Not a single one of you bastards know proper gun safety! Between all the severe depression and reckless weapon-handling, I genuinely have no idea how the hell are any of you are still alive.

In the “After”, Chromedome’s just finished jumpstarting Rewind, and it’ll take a bit to see if it worked, so he’s left alone with his thoughts.

Just kidding, Tailgate’s come over to check in. Seems like Cyclonus is gonna pull through, something Chromedome’s not terribly thrilled about. Chromedome’s still miffed about the whole Kimia thing.

We finally learn why Chromedome and Rewind were fighting; it was because Rewind, as a walking historical database, has been deemed too important to die, and can opt out of any fight he choose to, but he doesn’t, thereby putting himself in harm’s way unnecessarily. Maybe he just worries about you when you go out there on the battlefield alone, Chromedome, you ever think of that? Maybe he doesn’t want to wonder when his husband will return home from the war.

Tailgate asks about all the little vials that are scattered around Rewind’s hospital bed, and we get a little Cybertronian tradition thrown at us.

The vials are filled with innermost energon, the stuff that surrounds the spark casing and never changes, no matter how much you modify or upgrade your body. Leaving a little of the stuff for someone in an offering signifies that you care very much for that person. Chromedome can’t give Rewind any, because he was “born dry”, but I think being space-married to the guy more than makes up for it.

Tailgate asks how the two of them met, and unlike in issue #6, Chromedome is feeling vulnerable enough to indulge the question this time.

But first we need to establish that Chromedome is insanely insecure.

So, Rewind is fucking old. He’s older than the Cybertronian civil war, he’s older than the calendar system, and he’s old enough to have been affected by Functionist society’s categorization system. Due to being a memory stick- something that there were millions of back in the day- Ratioism dictated that Rewind as an individual was worth very little, and made him and his like into slaves. Because he was a slave, he needed a master, and that master was none other than Dominus Ambus, also known as Cybertron’s Mech of the Year for 40,000 consecutive years.

Even on Cybertron, there’s a weird stigma about breastfeeding.

Rewind and Dominus quickly became friends, because that’s just the sort of guy Rewind is, and it made Dominus realize that maybe these slaves Cybertron had been working to death were sentient creatures worthy of respect too. He even developed a test to prove that all the slave classes were on the same level of functionality as everyone else.

On their quest to find a cure for the horrible disease Cybercrosis, Rewind and Dominus fucked off into space, on a wild goose chase to try and find Luna 1, the Cybertronian moon that just disappeared one day. Weird, that. They didn’t find it, and by the time they’d come back home, the war was well underway. They immediately became Autobots, and that was it for a while.

Then we move on to how Chromedome and Rewind met, and boy is it a doozy.

Chromedome had decided he wanted to kill himself, so he moseyed on over to the nearest relinquishment clinic- they did assisted suicides instead of body-swaps at this point- to do the deed. He was sitting in the waiting room, when he heard someone screaming. He wandered into the back to find Rewind weeping over a coffin, and he thought to himself “Maybe I don’t need to die after all” as he offered his future conjunx a shoulder to cry on.

What a fucking dark start to a relationship.

Rewind wasn’t upset about anyone who was dead though, but rather missing- Dominus had disappeared into thin air months ago, and Rewind was getting desperate to find him, looking in more and more awful places in the hope of recovering what he’d lost.

As it turns out, he’s still doing that. The reason the two of them are on the Lost Light is because Rewind needs to find Dominus- alive or dead, it doesn’t seem to particularly matter at this point. That’s why he buys snuff films in dark alleys.

See, Tailgate gets it.

Guys, bad news.

Chromedome’s spark is too weak to jumpstart Rewind. Unless they find another compatible donor, Rewind’s gonna be in big trouble. There’s nothing to do but wait.

Later, in their room, Chromedome is sitting on the floor and very much not following doctor’s orders to get some sleep. Someone on the opposite side of the door he’s leaning up against starts talking to him. Chromedome doesn’t seem to want to hear any of it, until he does.

Given who the basement dweller is, this probably won’t turn out so hot.

Chromedome gets a call from the medibay, and fortunately the universe has decided to play nice this go around, because someone came forward as a match.

But it’s not like Whirl cares about anyone, right? Not in the slightest, nuh-uh, not him!

While Chromedome gives Whirl what is probably an uncomfortably long hug, and they both most likely ignore the fact that Chromedome would be actively suicidal without Rewind, Tailgate’s off in the corner, having taken his hand off and begun pouring cartoon toxic waste into a vial. It’s actually his innermost energon. Boy’s making an offering, but it isn’t to Rewind.

It’s to this ungrateful fuck.

Cyclonus stalks away from Tailgate’s kindness, until he’s stopped by witnessing the power of love.

Everyone likes Rewind, and these displays of affection seems to have reminded Cyclonus that he’s horrifically lonely. Feeling some remorse over his actions- not that he’ll ever admit it out loud- he goes back to help Tailgate pick up the pieces of the vial he broke.

Wrapping up our story, we go back to the “Before”, right before the bomb is set to go off. Whirl and Cyclonus have more or less taken care of the Decepticons, Whirl suggests they set aside their differences and agree to stop trying to murder each other, in a surprising show of reason and, perhaps, self-preservation. Cyclonus doesn’t seem to agree with the idea.

I genuinely think that’s the most he’s said all series up to this point.

Rewind calls the two idiots over for help, because Tailgate’s about to pull a self-sacrifice to get this bomb emptied, and he just isn’t listening to reason. Cyclonus assists.

Once Tailgate’s been fastball-specialed out of the room, Whirl decides to get back to being a bastard, and locks Cyclonus and Rewind in with the bomb with 10 seconds left on the clock. Ah, so the donation was out of guilt, I see. Still a form of caring, in its own way.

With no way to escape, all Cyclonus can do is attempt to shield Rewind with his body as the bomb goes off.

That’s the end of the issue but it’s the middle of the story, and despite what Cyclonus says, dynamics are changing. Slowly, but surely, things are shifting. He’s headed for a lot of character development, and he’ll be kicking and screaming the whole way.

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Some known benevolent dire wraiths:

Back when Soundwave first met Rom, he had strong disagreements against the policy of killing wraiths on sight. Disagreements which as seen up here, he was not at all afraid to voice.

Unsurprising, considering his stance on equality and how you’re made/born not defining you.

Scarlett, of GI Joe is also against this policy too, defending a wraith colleague with:

And there is substantial evidence in IDW verse too, that they were both absolutely right to protest against the “they’re always chaotically evil” belief.

For instance, with a warning for spoilers being given here:

The Greer family possesses two, Carl Greer and Carla Greer, a father and daughter duo who also both serve as “Doc Snr.” and “Doc Jnr.” is GI Joe respectively.

Doc Snr. is not Earth born. He came to Earth some point but became attached and genuinely wanted the best for it. Hence his involvement with GI Joe.

His species was not discovered until he critically wounded himself taking a blow for a teammate.

Carla, his daughter, is however Earth born as well as half-human. Mostly, the result of this mixed appears to be that, she seems to essentially be a wraith - having the abilities and reading as one to scanners- just with a human looking default form.

Hence how she did not even know of her heritage until she was told. 

She now uses that heritage to aid her in Joe service, at least, as much as she can while upholding her strictly pacifist principles.

The categorisation of Camilla Bryer is more complicated.

As in, she was not born a dire wraith. 

She was born a human only to be later infected by a wraith and start to turn into one.

But the infection was botched when Orphion tried to cure her.

Something he did after she and Rom worked together for a while, taking advantage of her new ability to tap into wraith minds. 

Her ability to control herself was lapsing and other knights located her after she was unable to stop herself from attacking Rom and intervened.

But the attempt to cure her was also botched.

While she was no longer being influenced mentally and that was cured from her, the physical effects were not cured. She turned out to still possess the physical attributes of and limited ability to access wraith magic.

Traits which she continued to use to try assist against hostile wraiths, once she got a better handle of them.

Ruan Sablik is an Earth-born wraith:

He spent his entire life on Earth and viewed it as his home as a result.

He later on joined the US military, his experiences during which resulted in him having PTSD and having to join a support group.

That support group being where he met Darby Mason.

Ultimately, while he’d before had little to do with the wraith hierarchy and had just been getting on with his life, he was called up by them. They wanted him to target Darby and assist in the plot against humans.

He decided no, siding instead with his home planet and revealing his nature to and also offering to help Darby in her plight against the conquering wraiths.

Unfortunately, while the mission was a success and Darby was able to get the Solstar gauntlet promised, Ruan was killed in the process, the wraiths having no tolerance for a “quisling”.

Cons4eva, the online alias of a wraith possibly called Symbols.

Much of his origins, particularly in comparison to others here, are unknown.

But, what is known is that he’s a follower of Temptorian religion and that combined with his Temptorian-esque four arms and scale suggests he was present on their home planet some point.

It’s also known that he’s a social butterfly basically. He wants to interact with and make friends with people instead of killing anyone.

This ultimately leads to him meeting Crankcase online, initially pretending to be a fellow decepticon, when he was so lonely and lost he wanted to find a way to leave the universe entirely.

When that didn’t work out, he went off on a journey of self-reflection and trying to see where he fitted in, declining an offer to join his boyfriend with the Scavengers.

But while the offer to join was declined, he and Crankcase do still remain long-distance boyfriends.

Stardrive is a camien, raised on Elonia after her protoform was rescued by Rom from a destroyed ship.

She later joined the Space Knights and worked to help fight against wraiths.

She went on to defect from them after being disillusioned during a fight which also lead to her meeting other members of her kind.

But now before she herself unknowingly contracted the infection, making her the only known surviving Wraith-Transformer hybrid:

Skip forwards 200 years later, she has managed to retrain control of herself and having fallen in with Prowl, is attempting to use her abilities to work towards a greater good.

[nihilismbot]

Teeny tiny chatfic! 

Fandom: Transformers Characters: Crankcase, Cons4eva Pairing: Crankcase/Cons4eva Rating: General Notes: I had to dig through TV Tropes for the right term

Grumpybox: He was never the same after losing his conjux.

CONS4EVA: I can understand.

Grumpybox: Do Dire Wraiths have something like conjux endrua?

Grumpybox: Or the Temptorians?

CONS4EVA: Not Dire Wraiths, but the Temptorians have a ceremony.

Grumpybox: The t'mup?

CONS4EVA: A T'mup is a short term mutually beneficial partnership.

CONS4EVA: I don't think this is like your conjux endura.

Grumpybox: No. A conjux endura is meant to be for your lifetime.

CONS4EVA: That's more like the C'non Weld, two lives are forever intertwined.

Grumpybox: What is the ceremony?

CONS4EVA: I admit, I don't know much about it. I had never thought I would find anyone that I would want to preform it with.

CONS4EVA: The two people hold hands and make a promise to never part. If this union is viewed favorably by the Brand, there is normally a subtle but ever-present shift in the universe.

CONS4EVA: I've never seen a C'non Weld, I don't know what this shift refers to.

Grumpybox: I hope you get to see it one day.

CONS4EVA: I hope we get to see it one day.

CONS4EVA: Together.

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Another fact further solidified in the Lost Light 17 is that the temptorians as a race seem to have terrible luck.

One of these four armed guys is hooked up and seems to be being drained here, their first appearance as a species also had many of them being hooked up and drained for pink alchemy:

With the added information that this is the aftermath of their homeworld’s capital city being overrun and occupied by Decepticons.

And it’s presumably not just Decepticons who occupied Temptoria either. 

Based on Cons4eva, that is.

A follower of the Temptorian religion, “The Brand”. He’s adamant that he didn’t steal it, but to know it in the first place indicates that there was definitely interaction with the species at some point.

We don’t know exactly how that went, but considering a key problem Cons4eva has is how every other dire wraith around him wants to slaughter people while he just wants to chat with them instead...probably not well for the temptorians.

So these guys really do just have colossal bad luck.

Not once have they appeared and had something good happen to any of them.

Perhaps if the one in LL17 is able rescued that will be a well-overdue exception.