#i wonder how many mecha think he slept with someone_ got sparked_ and is lying by saying it's Unicron's fault

[transingthoseformers]

Okay just a tiny bit of sparkling biology for Galvatron: Literal Hellspawn, just for fun.

To get a sparkling, two mechs need to interface and then sparkmerge up to a day afterwards, or so. Still a very small chance. Obviously, none of this is necessary if an evil deity decides to impregnate you with their possible heir.

Gestation time is fairly short, between one-two months. The sparkling is attached to the sparkcasing, soaking in the energy of the spark while it forms the most basic systems required for functioning.

And compared to their carrier, they're often tiny. You know the drawings of sparklings called beans? Basically soft blobs with no distinct features, basic optics. Rudimentary limbs. Beep beep.

Eventually they form the harder outer armour plating, proper limbs with actual fingers etc. Sparklings often require additional metals, but Unicronians are ravenous for it.

Physical maturity, as in they appear as full adults, take about five years. Mentally? It takes a lot longer. More individual. They're generally treated with more leniency.

Carriers and sparklings form extremely close bonds to the point that the shock of being separated can kill a young enough sparkling. Sires also form a bond, if they meet the sparkling, but not to that point. If a carrier bond is 10/10 on the intensity scale, a sire bond is like 8/10.

The bond does lessen in intensity as the sparkling matures, however. At full adulthood it's a faint presence, not really noticed unless you concentrate.

Bonus fact! It's considered way better if the carrier is not elderly exactly, but older. Human equivalent would be 50s, basically? Siring fits the young better. So Megatron would totally get some side-eye for getting sparked so young, even though he's not young.

.... okay word vomit and a bit of society I guess????

Oo okay that's a pretty fast development time!

It's adorable that they start out as practically living jellybeans like kangaroos do, that's always an interesting sparkling take that makes sense to me.

So with the bond Galvie is gonna have to be pretty damn close to Megs for the first little while isn't he?

I wonder why older carriers and younger sires are selected for (spark strength? Some sort of socially encouraged family set up??) because it leads to interesting situations like Megatron here who's younger than you'd expect but but not not like. Actually young.

#i wonder how many mecha think he slept with someone_ got sparked_ and is lying by saying it's Unicron's fault #because surely some think that #maccadam #transformers #galvatron: literal hell spawn #galvatron #tfp megatron #tf worldbuilding? #cybertronian biology