Conceptions - 10.b

[meicailya]

Title: Conceptions of the Self - Home - Mei's Fanfic Master List
FIC Summary: [2007, AU] Sore throats, nightmares, and the differences between organics and Cybertronians - something is terribly wrong with Sam. To live is to evolve, and shape alone is not enough; think of it as a mutual learning experience. (Bot!Sam, PTSD, Mech/mech)
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Comments

[meicailya]

:< I seem to be doing that to more than a few people. I do feel badly for tricking people, especially because I didn't even think of it. I am not that devious! (Whoops, haha, I'll try to remember not to use that to avoid confusion. I don't much care for the 'BB' and 'BBB' abbr. anyway.)
I've caught a few places where I forget and I've used human terms, but it normally jars me out of typing when I'm writing it and catch myself messing up, haha.
You know, you don't have to only say good things :B Let me know if you read something that seems odd or you just personally don't like. General commentary is good, too.

Yeah, I don't think they would ever willingly give over their technology. Humanity already went bonkers with what they stole from Megatron, and I feel that Prime's concerns of the strain of responsibility on Sam's mind is legitimate. (I feel so strongly about this that I would write them as leaving Earth completely if pressed. How many times has aliens giving humans highly advanced technology ever worked out right in fiction?)
Then again, if an unbalanced jerk ever DID get fitted out as a Transformer, the Autobots would probably sigh, roll their optics, and say, "YOU'RE ABOUT TEN THOUSAND YEARS TOO YOUNG" and boom. Can't be that different from Decepticreeps, amirite?

[porphyrogenitos]

Ja, the problem is that I can't think of anything really negative to say about this story as of yet. But fear not - if I take issue with something, you'll definitely be the first to know. ;>

Indeed, Bumblebee's musings and the lingering unease he feels towards humans simply for being, well, human in this intermission pretty much answered that particular question for me, and was a nice touch of realism as well. New allies (to say nothing of two different species) are hardly going to trust each other implicitly, even after the events of the movie. So yes, I certainly agree with you there.
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Autobots realize that wide swaths of humanity already harbor very Decepticon-like traits, so giving potential psychopaths the opportunity to make themselves Decepticons in reality as well as in ideology would probably not be the wisest idea, heh. I was merely thinking over the implication that they could create more Cybertronian life-forms through the process that Sam is undergoing...

[meicailya]

Yay~! (I should hope you're not talking smack about CotS behind my back :B )

Yeah, I foresee some questions about the fact that the Autobots don't ask the government for help, and it's exactly that. They just feel better doing it themselves the way they always have.
I took out some of the more blatant hints in the various Sam-Bee discussions of the Decepticon traits of humanity. Besides, S7 makes that rather obvious, haha.
Oh, I wasn't trying to lecture you, I apologize if I made it sound that way. I was just throwing in my more blatant two-cents, :B so I guess you could say I always sound like I'm lecturing someone. Mostly, I was laughing at the thought that humanity would think it might be able to fight the Autobots, who have been doing this for longer than we have records. (Of course, sure, it's just a better idea not to give away the technology, because there is always THAT ONE GUY who makes you regret having ever been so relaxed about something.)

[porphyrogenitos]

Bah, why would I want to insult what is probably my current favorite fanfic? Blasphemy, I tell you. Blasphemy. I have in fact been recommending this fic to everyone who will listen. 8D

No worries! I need to improve the brain-to... (er, fingers?) ratio. I was basically trying to ask, in my own roundabout way, just how defensive your Autobots (whom I generally take to be closer to canon than some other sources, at least in behavior) would be about sharing such technology, even if supposedly for 'benign' purposes like helping crazy-but-not-evil transhumanists 'transcend the flesh' or some-such, which is why I separated the related question about would be Decepticon!Humans in parenthesis. But yeah, they'd definitely be reluctant to help out humanity either way - humans are, after all, very chaotic and unpredictable by Autobot standards, and how do you know that the human who 'just' wanted to become a minibot won't turn around and start killing people? As has already been established with Descendant, human minds tend to come unglued when given the mechanoid treatment; especially when it's done 'the hard way'.

And BTW, I liked all the little inferences you packed into this intermission. The idea of Ironhide/Ratchet makes me cackle with glee, I tell you. Ratchet is so oblivious... And, as I inferred earlier, Jazz is probably my favorite Autobot. (CotS is making up for the fact that he had so few lines in the movie, ha.) For someone who was only recently (somewhat) dead, he's a surprisingly well-grounded character.

Count me in as one of the people who is also looking forward to the reunion scene, as well. And seeing what happens to Skywarp, oh yes.