Honestly, I need more transformers transforming in my life:
Like some of them do it now and again when they need their alt mode
But some of them do it obsessively, compulsively
Like mid-conversation with another mech they r just like “Ye I was talking to soandso chuchutsh[turns into a car like its the equivalent of leaning back in your chair] mech said it was suchandsuch.”
For others, its like a natural reaction like someone spooks them from behind and there like SHITFUCK turns into a boat.
And this can work both ways. During earlier missions, Prowl is ashamed to admit, the number of stakeouts and surveillance missions that went bust because a human sneezed next to a bot a scared them into root mode.
@ their therapist; I just SNEEZED and this motorbike just TURNED INTO A FREAKIN ROBOT!
Also in romantic situations just to bots chillin’ in a car park, not an inch apart bc they’re so gay.
And that’s how the Autobots found out about car insurance.
Don’t tell me the likes of both Sunstreaker and Starscream didn’t spend a week in their alt mode bc of a robot blemish on their faceplates.
If we’re talking G1 that Megatron didn’t put himself in a drawer to avoid his squabbling underlings.
Definitely a bots worst nightmare is coming during interfacing and transforming.
“Oh no in the face?” “In the face and then on the floor…” “Nooooooooo”
I bet that there were also mechs that, instead of having seizures or maybe as a form of tourettes, would change, or start changing without prompt.
Or mechs that either due to aging or injury take excruciatingly long times to transform.
Or in Blurrs case can transform very quickly but risk pulling something when they do.
Helicoptering: equivalent of planking/owling/etc. Contrive to suspend yourself or appear suspended in midair, out of alt, flailing arms in circles. Bonus points for grounders overcoming the subspecies-wide fear of heights to helicopter in high places. No image manipulation around! Also funny if done by actual helicopter-mech while not in helicopter mode.
Wormholing: equivalent of horsemanning (old human thing of looking like you’ve been beheaded). Appear to be halfway through a wormhole, i.e. conceal everything below one’s waist and have a friend conceal everything above their waist. Made trickier by the massive size differences possible between Cybertronians.
Combining: stack on ur friends and attempt to walk like one giant person
a thing that’s basically dabbing but w/ legs and/or wings
TF: Matrix doodles from the other day. Prowl likes to creep around in the dark and sometimes forgets that humans need so much sleep. it’s very inefficient. Seriously though waking up to eight feet of robot lit by glowing visor in the middle of the night would be terrifying.
MiB: Cybertronians are dangerous, hostile, and we must be extremely cautious in dealing wtih these mechanical aliens!
Witwickies: Optimus Prime saw a duckling and got so overwhelmed by how small they were he started crying.
I’m real bad at distinguishing voices, so I’ll probably leave selecting actual voice actors to others when I think about it. I generally don’t know a character’s voice, so much as a vague idea of what their voice might sound like.
This gets especially complicated in TF: Matrix because when Cybertronians are speaking to each other, they don’t use english or any human languages, they use Cybertronian.
So half the time the actual voice actor is going to be buried under, well, this:
And then there’s a lot of different kinds of sounds they make, too, so half the time Starscream’s also like- whistling, or very literally screeching and making like…teakettle noises.
They make a lot of grumbly rumbly sounds and screeching and roars, too. Cybertronians are noisy!
Tiny Headcanon: Cybertronians actually, most likely have a real good time doing things that would total cars- they’re far, FAR sturdier than an actual car is after all, and much more capable. An impact that would destroy a car might actually hurt a Cybertronian who isn’t prepared for it, but by large they’re just so tough (and capable of using their sparkfield to lessen the effects of gravity and inertia) that to them spinning out into a barricade or flipping over in a ditch or Optimus Prime’s favored tactic of “Climb a tall thing and do a superhero landing after jumping from it” are probably just…fun.
It does take them a bit to learn that humans are not very appreciative of their car suddenly engaging in acrobatics, though.
In no small part, Cybertronians and Humans tend to get along specifically because both species has the uncanny ability to look at something impractical, dangerous, and entirely unecessary
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