Ideas Welcome: Cybertronian Cultural Arts!

[winged_knight]

Soooooo of course this is Wing's fault. We are not shocked are we?

Since this topic is mostly going to be head canon, I thought we could get some idea sharing happening on what Cybertronian cultural arts might include.

There could be a wide range of things and not everything needs to apply universally. Some things could be region specific, limited to certain universes, or just something your character made up. This would explain why different characters may have never heard or seen certain things, allowing us as players to pick and choose. Likely the more popular ideas would be the most widespread arts/activities.

I thought it'd be cool to form a melting pot of ideas that players could then pull from in the game. I would love to see any and all suggestions! Let's Collaborate!

I also welcome any and all notable references to these things in canon so that we can use that as a basis. I'll try and gather them all together.

Cultural arts generally include: song, music, dance, theater, architecture, visual arts and literature, etc.

Comments

[mccrane]

For canon examples, I remember distinctly somewhere in G1 Season Three there being a show where robots were dancing on a stage. I'll try and track that down, but also in Season 3 there were the 'Cybertronian Olympics,' which had a whole bunch of odd stuff going down.

Headcanon wise, I extrapolated on both those ideas at various points to come up with 'Seeker Trials' where jets performed various feats every decade to rank themselves in the world seeker ranks and find their most compatible trine-mates.

And then, I wrote a chapter of Signature about Cybertronian opera. No knowledge of the rest of the fic is really needed to read it, thankfully.

[automobile_enthusiast]

At least one of the events in the Seeker Trials was midair transformation, detailed in elaborate length in this fic here that I wrote concerning the subject. (I know, I know, it's Bayverse. Forgive me the indiscretions of my youth?)

[not_halfbaked]

It was a good fic though with cute believable bb!Starscream and intriguing old man Jetfire/Skyfire. Sorry, I'm kinda now interested in the idea of Jetfire/Skyfire being an elder.

[not_halfbaked]

You're the author of Signature? Wow, cool!

[mccrane]

And now this is me in a corner blushing. #o.o#

[not_halfbaked]

Hee, blush away, it's good work!

[brokendown]

Cybertronian opera must be a thing. It's a perfect harmony of music, dance, staging, and story into a gestalt greater than the sum of its parts. Opera isn't just about music. It's an entire performance, and it's no coincidence that many types of human "play" around the world incorporate music and dance as a vital part of the play alongside the story and words. /operafan

Doubtless there are different levels of Cybertronian performance, probably regional variants, as well as hoary culturally bound performance styles dragged out during festivals contrasting with more artistic works and hip and popular work that flourish in every day life.

[mccrane]

Oh heavens yes. I imagine it translates into all sorts of theatrical works, all the way down to street performances. But at the highest end, its simply art.