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

Re: LANGUAGE with deer that are teal

[sword_redemption]

This is probably not useful to anyone at all, but lol SINCE WHEN HAS THAT STOPPED ME.

I wrote into BV headcanon, because of the way the first film used it, that Cybertronian had both a visual and sonic component, and the visual was much like Chinese characters--a radical or 'root' meaning with various additions to alter or add to the base meaning. Since they didn't have our technological limits, any books/texts they produced could be like that as well--a sort of 'ebook' that has a sonic component. One without the other would make it hard to understand, so, like, in IDW's Death of Optimus Prime, they struggle understanding the inscription in the Matrix (or in IDW bayverse stuff, they can't understand the ancient inscriptions they find) because they're ONLY getting the visual, without the sonic component, so they're not getting the 'whole' message.

I threw into more Bayverse that the visual component (again, all of this based on the fact that the Cybertronian in the 07 movie appeared as glyphs at the same time the characters were 'speaking') that color could be used in the glyphs to express mode or modality. So an order or command would be one color, a basic interrogative another, sarcasm another, etc.

ALso adding to your language-root thing: In IDW, in what has to be for me the most CRINGEWORTHY moment, in DoOP we're told that nope, Dai Atlas's name is really Dei Atlas. God Map. It's...halfassed bad Latin.

And MAN I WANT TO PICK YOUR BRAIN OFF THIS POST SOME TIME ABOUT HOW YOU'VE DONE LANGUAGES, plz?

Re: LANGUAGE with deer that are teal

[brokendown]

Green is the colour of sarcasm. We all know this thanks to House. And red is the colour of truth. We know this thanks to Japanese video games. Anyway, yes that is a very cool headcannon for Bayverse!

As for glyphs in general, let me tell you about the calligraphic system I derived for the conlang that I also use as "Vos" derived from Heiratic...[no1curr]...and taking the past four paragraphs into account, this in sum presents a system of characters and alphabet for meaning and grammar respectively, which is FAR different from the mainstream phonetic alphabet probably used by Iacon and Kaon. I actually look forward to seeing if i can crack the glyphs being used in Prime right now. I'll just need to get HQ screencaps so I can see if they ever present an abecedary which will help crack it.

Milady, this genteman awaits you on AIM. You know how to get me. let's language together.

More validation for your headcanon

[my_own_trope]

In IDW's MTMTE, Rodimus scribbles glyphs into his desk, and an alternate cover for one of the volumes has Ultra Magnus in a children's classroom where there are glyphs on the wall all in individual colours. Might validate that colour helps give nuance to the glyphs.

Or, you know. It's cuter to have coloured Alphabets on the ways vs. Black and white. hahah, I dunno.

/helps?