Hat Writes Stuff

Title: The Shape of Daughter
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers (Continuity Soup) (also, Mashup)
Characters: Whirl & Whirl Junior
Word Count: 3,093
Rating: Teen & Up
Pairing(s): Gen
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Viewpoint Character thinks of Every Other Character as Edible, Author plays with pronouns

Author's Notes: This does not take place in any particular official Transformers continuity. It’s actually an attempt to bring Whirl Junior into a sort of... shared crossover roleplay-and-ficlet frappe Celaeno and I have been futzing around with since 2007. Celaeno insisted it was good enough to actually post, so hey, why not? It’s not IDW-- I have burgled characterization, as that is how we do Mashup, but events differ-- but any other continuity where you can picture these characters on a ship together is fair game.

Please note, our viewpoint character here is a sentient scraplet colony whose ability to handle sophisticated thoughts is in direct proportion with increases in mass. I had fun taking Whirl Junior from ‘ambush predator with minimal concept of self’ to ‘I accept these gendered pronouns,’ but I was deliberately trying for alien. I don’t know how much fun it would be for trans or nonbinary readers, so… If you need to brace yourself or bail out, this is your last heads-up, and if you have suggestions for clearer warnings, comment with them. I am always game to add more refined warnings.


Summary: Scraplet colonies under a certain mass mimic harmless things that a being made of delicious metal might feasibly pick up without thinking about it. Once contact is made, or perhaps once the intended prey has carried their touchable object off to a more private location, the colony will devour its prey, increase its mass, and get ready for the next meal.

That happens here-- but it’s not the only thing that happens.

( Everything is so much food. )