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

[my_own_trope]

That all makes sense. And the latest issue of MTMTE will deal with Robots and language in the same vein you're talking about, and since I kind of pull from that series for headcanon roots, I can see where you're coming from.

And don't worry about the fight thing. It isn't a fight until the personal attacks come up. LEAVE MY MOTHER OUT OF THIS. etc etc.

AND I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY PLOT CONVENIENCE AND STARSCREAM'S RECHARGING, AUTO-EQUIPPING ARM ROCKETS.

[brokendown]

Vos is my linguistic hero. Uguu.

YOU SEE INFORMATION TAKES UP PHYSICAL SPACE WHEN STORED ON ANY MEDIUM, EVEN JUST PHOTONS, AND THE SPACE NEEDED TO STORE THE INFORMATION FOR A MECH'S MEMORIES WOULD TAKE UP AT LEAST THE SIZE OF A COIN IF YOU WANT TO ASSUME THEY'RE USING QUANTUM STATES TO STORE INFORMATION. LARGER IF WE'RE STILL USING ELECTRON STORAGE. AND YOU CAN'T FIT THAT MUCH INFORMATION IN THE TINY MINUTE AMOUNT IN A DROP OF EBNERGON. YOU JUST CAN'T. AND FOR EVERY DROP OF ENERGON TO WORK, YOU'D NEED TO ASSUME THAT THE INFORMATION IS STORED REDUNDANTLY IN THE ENERGON AND WHY HOW WHY HOW WHY. I AM SAYING THAT BASED ON THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE THAT INFORMATION = STORAGE SPACE, THE CLONING IN TPF IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. It's also stupid.

However, there IS a workaround. If we assume that the energon does not contain the information. Rather, if we assume that the spark of every Cybertronian regularly sends its information and memories for backup in the Allspark during recharge, then the energon is just used as an identifier to pull up the requisite mech's stored data.

[my_own_trope]

But the cloning in TFP is adorable, and that's all that matters. Haha, when Starscream gets a little uncomfortable around his clones I just, I laughed. A lot.

And I'm not sure how this will jive with your headcanon, but regardless if it is physically possible or not, because canon implies that energon stores the information, that's just how I'm going to play it. With all the supplementary TFP canon everywhere I have the luxury of picking and choosing what I want to use, but I do place canon above headcanon (even when it ends up being kind of ridiculous.) So no offense meant if you end up catching some of Starscream's BS technobable and there's nothing in there about Allsparks or backup.

[brokendown]

No offence will ever be taken! Canon trumps headcanon, even when canon is kinda stupid and physically impossible. It won't be the first or last time that happens in TFP, though it's one of the more glaringly egregious instances of "nope that just can't work." But let's face it : energon is magic.