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agatharights:

Frequently, people ask me if I actually think about what I’m about to say before I say it

and then usually I’m like sssssometimes???????????

I mean…like, they’re pods/eggs? But they also have a “root” structure to attach to things, so you can plant them? Maybe these are spores or barnacles or something.

This is why I usually just call them “Pods”

Spores come from fungi, and barnacles are adult animals, so it’s not either of those. They aren’t seeds, either, seeds have plants inside

If it has an animal fetus (I think Cybertronians count as animals despite being metal, since they’re multi-cellular{ish} living things that consume stuff instead of making their own energy), a yolk or similar structure which attaches to the fetus, a surrounding of fluid, and some variety of shell or coating, it’s an egg. Pretty sure roots don’t invalidate that? Even if they’re the sucking-up-nutrients sort of root. 

True enough. I’m pretty sure “egg” is the right terminology here.

Plus, it makes it real awkward when Optimus Prime assumes that all these kids hatched from eggs at some point and they’re like “uhmmmmmmm”

Photos of an ostrich nest are being passed around for some reason and one of the bots is like “oh, is that what human nests look like? Messy.”