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Insecticons idea

@harutemu sent me this wonderful little post about the introduction of a new bee Queen to a hive, and of course a bunny came into being!

Just imagine a poor Vehicon - sloppily operated on and then stuffed into a cage. There is no door to the cage, only a large hard energon-wall to protect him from the raging Insecticons on the other side.

Poor mech is springing a leak as they try to rip him apart through the bars, apparently enraged by whatever Shockwave has installed inside of him. They are howling and throwing their weight against the cage - … and they are gnawing and clawing their way through the energon goodie.

It takes a while, of course, but not long enough to finish the five stages of grief. By the time our poor vehicon is begging towards anyone willing to listen, the energon goodie breaks apart, and an Insecticon barges inside to rip him to shreds and-….

…-groom him?

Still terrified out of his mind, the vehicon is deftly passed on from Insecticon to Insecticon until they find him a nice and warm spot in the hive, well-guarded by the strongest warriors.

Observing through video footage, Shockwave marks the fourth experiment as a success. Now that he knows that the device works, if given enough time to tune to the frequency of the Insecticons, he can start working on a prototype that will function without the cage.

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Insecticon queen mutation ask

""Your recent Insecticons writing has an excellent idea and creative turn. I can see that happening in Shockwave's experiments. Although, I am curious to know, what if the chosen "queen" (vehicon) starts to show signs of mutations?"" (Asked by anon on tumblr)

Ohoo, a very interesting prospect!

It is not a stretch to think that close contact with Insecticons could lead to some odd mutations - it was in fact a planned feature of my ‘A new Queen’ story.

It is a personal headcanon of mine that in a world where transformers can naturally procreate, their nanites are capable of heavy modifications to the natural frame over time. It would also be an explanation as to how a Cybertronian could ‘grow’ to a different alt mode, as opposed to getting surgery to have necessary parts and then scanning the relevant vehicle. It is a simple matter of reprogramming the nanites in the frame, so that instead of doing upkeep on the frame, they start reforming in the frame.

It would probably take a while for mutations to happen to our vehicon. A lot of time spent sharing food, living space and habits with the Insecticons, but our Vehicon friend does not have the luxury of being left alone.
Shockwave is specifially creating a control module for Megatron to use so he can control the Insecticons. I doubt that Megatron would like sharing his berth with a hive full of Insecticons and being groomed and fed, so the project is far from over.

The mutations in question would depend on the nanites fed to the Queen vehicon. If all was left up to ‘nature’, than a focus would be put on the vehicon’s gestational chamber and reproduction capabilities. Perhaps with some added spikes and an ability to eat raw energon with small mandibles ;)

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Insecticon headcanons

""Do you have anymore Insecticons headcanons? Insecticultures always intrigued me thanks to RID15."" - Asked by Sedasan on Tumblr

I loooove Insecticons, oh yes.Regular Cybertronians are already very versatile, but Insecticons allow for even more out-there ideas, headcanons and cultures.

I usually pick between two different origins for the Insecticons, depending on what kind of story I want to tell. Sometimes they are a part of Cybertronian Wildlife, grown way too numerous after the ecosystem was destroyed. Sometimes they are an experiment made by Shockwave, much like Predaking in TFP, and sometimes they are BOTH. Depends on what works best for the story I am writing ;)

In A New Queen ( an older fic of mine ) , they are part of the regular Cybertronian ecosystem. Living off crystallised energon and underground pools and deposits, the war and the energon crisis hit them very hard.
Just like earthen insects, the speed of Insecticon reproduction is one of their biggest strengths. It is still very slow, and requires a ton of fuel over a longer period of time, but when compared to Cybertronian reproductions the Insecticons win by a long shot.

As opposed to every insecticon having mating capabilities, I headcanon that there is a singular Queen that is capable of carrying CNA with them for a longer period of time and create eggs that with enough care and food can grow into Insecticons. There’s really no security net for when there is no more queen, or any brood that is capable of turning into a queen. Before the war decimated Cybetron, a queenless hive would disperse and join other hives - ensuring CNA variety and keeping the species alive.

In RID15, I only remember the one grasshopper Decepticon, and the Zizza. Her powers are very interesting, and they explain how a single insecticon is capable of controlling a hive when all of its members have some sort of consciousness and awareness.

I also like to headcanon that there is a difference between mecha with an insectoid alt mode and Insecticons. Insecticons have their insect form as their primary form, taking a root-mode or a car-mode as their second mode. Other Insecticons ( think Wasp and Airachnid ) are regular mecha who scan an animalistic altmode.
Insecticon are intelligent, but they are very focused on finding a group and someone to follow. It will be very rare to find an Insecticon alone, and if you do it is usually a mecha with an insectoid altmode instead of an Insecticon. ( This is not to say that a mech with an insectoid alt mode does not experience a form of Insecticon instinct, because I headcanon that they deefinitely do)

Insecticons can also eat or melt metals. They use these metals to provide food for newspark insecticons, or for building a nest.

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