RE: Tentative test CYOA thread
05-23-2022, 10:32 AM (This post was last modified: 05-23-2022, 11:22 AM by classicdrogn.)
05-23-2022, 10:32 AM (This post was last modified: 05-23-2022, 11:22 AM by classicdrogn.)
What part are you seeing as a tech-god singularity? (I mean, my build intentionally goes there in combination with the other choices, but on its own?) You could swap in auto-repair/regeneration for knowing how to fix yourselves and drop the companion upgrade, but super-hacking is both a very common robot trope and canon to both G1 and bayformers, as is easily surmounting language barriers. The companion upgrade I added because the "immortality is a curse, everyone you love dies in a blink" trope is old, overdone, and not that interesting to begin with.
Effective immortality is also indisputably canon; basically the whole G1 cast except the Dinobots and a couple of combiner teams were either crashed onboard the Ark or chillin' off in space somewhere for five million years and treated it as no more significant than a short and unofficial cease-fire in the ongoing war when the leaders' groups did turn up again. Alpha Trion was present for the rebellion against the Quintessons and still has a body that hasn't been refit since before the invention of transformation, and he's pretty spry aside from having a sharp beard and mustache. Omega Supreme as one of the Guardians built to keep the slave-bots in line is at least on par and probably even older than that, to an unknown degree.
On the bayformer side The Fallen as Unicron's minion has to have been around since before the Earth formed if Uni is buried inside it, as implied in the post-credits scene from The Last Knight and definitely canon to at least TF:Animated and Prime IIRC. You could maybe drop it from "billions of years without a refit" to "tens of millions" but on a storytelling time scale there's usually no real difference after (at most) a few thousand.
The "change in a flash" bit I based on the Pretenders for the sake of easy interaction with human-scale characters. At least the Autobots had a fully human disguise mode but could switch to their toys' actual shells as power armor, and then do a burst-of-lights thing from there to the (IRL much smaller, but cartoon magic) robot mode. The first fifteen seconds or so of this video show it off, being a no-crdits version of the opening sequence of Super God Masterforce. (which refers to the Godmasters, aka Powermasters in Western markets, not Pretenders.) The Decepticon Pretenders only ever used their monster "shells" or full robots as far as I remember, but presumably could have gone full-human or at least full-biological if they wanted to and/or weren't Stupid Evil kid show villains.
No need for a different song with the tweaking, unless you just don't like the one I used. Making it fit the CYOA's style better for inclusion is always fair game, and I can't think of any other songs that particularly reference transforming even as tangentially as Instruments of Destruction. Made of Metal by Dream Evil is... not very good, but not too bad, and clearly meant to be about music rather than robots, but I guess it could sort of work? Unless you use one of the literal show theme songs (or one of The Cybertronic Spree's original songs) that's about as close as anything is likely to get.
edit: To be clear, I'm explaining my logic, not arguing for why my interpretation is the only correct way to do it. Like I said above, adjusting the scale and power of my suggestions to make it fit with what you want in your story or CYOA prompt is always fair game.
Effective immortality is also indisputably canon; basically the whole G1 cast except the Dinobots and a couple of combiner teams were either crashed onboard the Ark or chillin' off in space somewhere for five million years and treated it as no more significant than a short and unofficial cease-fire in the ongoing war when the leaders' groups did turn up again. Alpha Trion was present for the rebellion against the Quintessons and still has a body that hasn't been refit since before the invention of transformation, and he's pretty spry aside from having a sharp beard and mustache. Omega Supreme as one of the Guardians built to keep the slave-bots in line is at least on par and probably even older than that, to an unknown degree.
On the bayformer side The Fallen as Unicron's minion has to have been around since before the Earth formed if Uni is buried inside it, as implied in the post-credits scene from The Last Knight and definitely canon to at least TF:Animated and Prime IIRC. You could maybe drop it from "billions of years without a refit" to "tens of millions" but on a storytelling time scale there's usually no real difference after (at most) a few thousand.
The "change in a flash" bit I based on the Pretenders for the sake of easy interaction with human-scale characters. At least the Autobots had a fully human disguise mode but could switch to their toys' actual shells as power armor, and then do a burst-of-lights thing from there to the (IRL much smaller, but cartoon magic) robot mode. The first fifteen seconds or so of this video show it off, being a no-crdits version of the opening sequence of Super God Masterforce. (which refers to the Godmasters, aka Powermasters in Western markets, not Pretenders.) The Decepticon Pretenders only ever used their monster "shells" or full robots as far as I remember, but presumably could have gone full-human or at least full-biological if they wanted to and/or weren't Stupid Evil kid show villains.
No need for a different song with the tweaking, unless you just don't like the one I used. Making it fit the CYOA's style better for inclusion is always fair game, and I can't think of any other songs that particularly reference transforming even as tangentially as Instruments of Destruction. Made of Metal by Dream Evil is... not very good, but not too bad, and clearly meant to be about music rather than robots, but I guess it could sort of work? Unless you use one of the literal show theme songs (or one of The Cybertronic Spree's original songs) that's about as close as anything is likely to get.
edit: To be clear, I'm explaining my logic, not arguing for why my interpretation is the only correct way to do it. Like I said above, adjusting the scale and power of my suggestions to make it fit with what you want in your story or CYOA prompt is always fair game.
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