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Re: Are Transformers "Born" Decepticon?

by Flare » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:09 pm

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hellkitty wrote:Two thoughts:

If they've been breeding/reproducing separately (Autobots making little Autobots; Decepticons making wee little Decepticons), after some amount of time, they'll actually BE different. Like dogs. Say Decepticons are Dobermans, and Autobots are, I don't know, beagles. They can still interbreed (would you call that a Dobeagle?) and produce viable offspring, but breed two dobeys and you're going to get dobey traits; breed two beagles and you're going to get beagle traits. With dogs, this also counts for personality--any long time dog owner will tell you that each breed has a really distinct personality. It seems that this might apply to two separate 'breeds' (I hesitate to call them 'races') of Cybertronians, couldn't it?

Now, again, you can take a dog and work it against its breeding. You can make an attack chihuahua with training. Dobeys have reputations for being mean, but because how they're raised in my family, they're all marshmallows. So you could have a Dinobot who could work against his 'breed' and become Maximal. You can see that he struggles with it, though--he is *always* more physically aggressive than the other Maximals, and always in favor of more Predacon tactics. So even though he switched affiliations, there was something in the blood that showed through.

HK, yea verily, apparently quite Shakespearean-ly, as well. Forsooth, poor Dinobot.

Very good analogy. And I think you're absolutely right. I think these affiliations are now very distinct breeds. One of the characteristics people notice is the optic colors (Blue or Red). But those colors are not definite proof of affiliation. Things your ancestors did, become almost inbred in your gene pool in future generations. The very first transformers were probably one race and were all negative creations from the All spark. Which is why Decepticons predate Autobots. Somewhere along the way an Autobot was born and this first Autobot separated itself and created a new affiliation and evolved into a different race of Transformer. Over the eons these two breeds developed traits that are very different. Even if they suddenly decide to switch sides one day, it may be a lot harder to change their genetic nature.

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