development of a new OC in immediately-after-each-other Discord posts

Old character concept I’m picking back up again to try and make into someone:

bot who’s spent most of their life in their alt mode, plugged into a bunch of electronics and basically acting as a living computer bank.

No idea how to actually speak or walk or anything of the sort.

They’re on a ship somewhere. 

Bolted to the wall, probably, or the floor.

The crew of the ship is killed off somehow, and they decide they would rather not die, so they start broadcasting an alarm signal.

And only realize after rescue shows up that they… don’t actually know where they are.

The only sensory input they have is around the computer parts that are not them, to monitor things and make sure everything is working right.

meanwhile the rescuers are like “hi so are you the ship?? or”

much looking around in confusion and much unhelpful typing of words on screens

until someone finally scans everything and notices that one of those computer components has a spark signature.

They don’t really… know much of anything about how to function.

Sometimes people talk to them. Call them Computer, or swear words. 

But suddenly having a specific frame is very disorienting, and then someone does something weird in their innards 

and all of a sudden they have limbs??

and a limited number of optics??

and then they fall over and it hurts and they make a noise?????

they are evidently capable of noise???????

They’re also not good with subtleties.

Example: they learn that Autobots are responsible for trapping them in their alt for their entire life, immediately conclude that all Autobots ever are bad and that they want to be a Decepticon.

learning that the ship they are now on has a mix of both does not go over well.

Bracer has to explain to them that there are other categories, and subcategories.

Mind you this is done with Computer in one arm, kicking furiously with what little bit of dexterity they’ve learned.

f u r i o u s l y  tapping out swear words in what is basically Morse code on Bracer’s arm.

“So, yeah, not everyone is like that, and I’m not an Autobot anyway, and- what did you just call me?? that is rude!”

basically picture Tailgate but square and probably without much color.

Devoting their newly unoccupied processor power to things like having Emotions and being Pissed

and biting people

and this… drinking thing?? this is weird

and then someone grabs their crotch entirely by mistake while wrangling the Anger and their panels pop aside and they’re just like “oh, great, what are all THESE parts now that I have to learn what to do with”

“fuck this”

every new bit of mobility that Computer learns immediately goes to being Fucking Angry and trying to fight people.

People who, mind you, are doing things like trying to help them figure out how to walk and keep them from falling over all the time. 

They aren’t any good at emotions, they’ve only ever experienced very weak versions, their processor was too busy elsewhere. 

Mostly they’re mad about everything and are showing it the only way they can, without any way to speak.

just

PISSED

for like 3 days straight until they get too tired.