There was so much sad face from headspace

[the_lost_robot]

So, I was skimming through this fic when I hit WTFery.

First Timer

Mirage and Hound have a sparkling, but after Ratchet tells them flat-out no. The stories of danger associated with a sparkling these days don't interfere with the scout and noble's plan; in fact, it starts a whole new generation.

(My comments in bold and brackets)

Comments

[fly_buggy_fly]

The thing I'm most confused about?

Why couldn't Hound just have the sparkling, if it's so dangerous for Mirage. I can't really picture him not volunteering.

[a_scattered_me]

I'm detecting a little YMMV here :D

[the_lost_robot]

Skimming through later bits of the story revealed that Prowl and Jazz decide to make a sparkling. After Jazz had a miscarriage or something and he specifically did not want to have more babies and but they accidentally spark merge and he is then completely fine with it.
*shrugs* So at first, the author is like no, can't have baby robots carelessly, then everyone is doing it.

[vulora]

Hmm... I kind of detect a hater outright, that or you're very enthusiastic.

You make it sound like lying is a sin in fanfic... it's a plot device. So Hound wanted to get his way? Big deal. I also find it highly improbable that Transformers DON'T have medical conditions. Why would they have a medic? They clearly aren't perfect machines, and birthing theories are everywhere and fun to mess around with.

Clearly the author wanted to emphasise that yes, having a sparkling is important to the Decepticons and the Autobots. There hasn't been one in eons. Why make one when the Decepticons will make it their prime objective to destroy it? In previous wars of our own time, some made it a point to avoid women and children. While not strictly honorable, I don't see why the same principle wouldn't apply here.

You said sparklings are a peeve of yours. Don't just go out being a hater. It makes you look bad. :/

[vulora]

er, honorable with the Decepticons that is.

[the_lost_robot]

Ha, I'm probably very enthusiastic.

I have read plenty of fics that inevitably involve sparklings and most of the time I don't let it bother me; I accept that it's the easiest way for people to write because it is familiar, even though it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and continue reading the fic but this one just left me baffled. I would prefer a more interesting concept but it normally doesn't stop me from reading and enjoying a fic. This case, it did.

I would like to see more creativity with Cybertronian biology and reproduction...this fic just didn't make a lot of sense.

The author didn't do a very good job with explaining the importance of the sparkling. Yes, it would be a target to the Decepticons, but the way it was written, it came off more as, Don't the Decepticons have a say in this(Which in some ways, they technically do)/Have you spoke to the Decepticons? The idea wasn't expressed very well.

And I found Hound lying to Mirage to have a sparkling kinda disturbing.

[death_hendry]

The energon flowing through the Autobot's frame changes to a more silky, condensed formula, especially made for the sparkling to drink once it was born. The partner would preserve the saved transfluid in a cooler, located in the rec room, where it would be ready for the sparkling whenever they needed it, since neither could produce anymore once the sparkling was out. *histerical giggling* THEY FEED THE SPARKLING JIZZ OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[kookaburra1701]

LOL - fics w/ any sort of TF reproduction have 2 strikes against them, it takes quite a special author to pull it off. Unfortunately everyone thinks they are that author.

Also, really, Hound lying? He'd be soooo obvious.