Sparked by Design - Chapter 1 - sifshadowheart - Harry Potter (2024)

Chapter 1: Slang and Language Guide

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Transformers Language/Slang

*Note: I’ve sourced this guide from various places so most of it isn’t original material, just a helpful cheat-sheet for those who aren’t that familiar with Transformers or to help along with what material I’ve cobbled together such as how sparkling development works, etc.

At the end there is also a working list of the Decepticon and Autobot officers and chain of command.

• Klik = About a minute
  • Breem = 8.3 minutes
  • Cycle = 2 hours
  • Rotation = 36 hours
  • Decacycle = 3 weeks
  • Vorn = 83 years
  • Microklik = less than a minute
  • Astroklik = about or less than a second
• Optics – eyes
• Pedes – Feet
• Servos – Hands
• Processor – brain
• Audials - ears
• Struts – legs
• Aft – butt, ass
• Primus – Cybertronian creation deity
• Unicron – Primus’s brother, the “fallen” deity of their pantheon similar in ideology to Judeo-Christian Lucifer
• Energon – refined energy consumed by Cybertronians aka their food or fuel
• Spark – soul (literal), heart (metaphorical) depending on usage
  • As a Cybertronian matures during sparkling-hood, they are moved into various frames/forms once their spark grows strong enough to support/sustain the new form. This is also how a Cybertronian moves from being a sparkling to a youngling and then from a youngling to a fully-formed mech or femme.
• Sparkling – youngest stage of Cybertronian development, similar to human infancy through childhood
  • Protoframe/Protoform – “infancy”
  • Second Frame – similar to toddler-hood up to early childhood
  • Third Frame – similar to early childhood through tween
  • Final Sparkling Frame – early to mid-teens
• Youngling – secondary stage of Cybertronian development, similar to human late teens to early adulthood
• Cassette – a sparkling created through asexual reproduction, such as Soundwave’s Frenzy, Laserbeak, etc.; their sparks are created by the carrier mech splitting off a piece of their own spark into a protoform that is then separate and autonomous from the original spark which grows and heals after the split.
• Mech – fully grown/adult male Cybertronian
• Mechling – affectionate name for a mech sparkling
• Femme – fully grown/adult female Cybertronian
• Grounder – wingless/flightless Cybertronian, can be used derogatively by winged or flighted Cybertronians
• Seeker – special classification of winged/flyer Cybertronians, elite flyers who owe allegiance to their Winglord
• Seekling – affectionate name for a Seeker-class sparkling
• Wingling/Winglet – affectionate name for a flyer/winged sparkling
• Bitlet – affectionate name for a sparkling
• Sparklet – affectionate name for a sparkling
• Winglord – combination of elected and earned position as leader of the Seekers, once given the title can’t be revoked except through death, considered the best/most dangerous Seeker alive
• Lord High Protector – elected position similar to a High General, military position meant to lead in unison with the ruling Prime
• Prime – a combination of an ability-based inborn power and a religious high priest-type position, the ruling leader of Cybertron
• High Council – an oligarchy that over time took power on Cybertron, diminishing the power of the Prime to a figurehead status (pre-war), currently destroyed/defunct
• Matrix of Leadership – artefact created by the original thirteen Primes, contains knowledge and memories of the Primes and has the ability to recall a dead/fallen Cybertronian’s Spark from the Well of Sparks, effectively resurrecting them
• Well of Sparks – repository of Cybertronian sparks or souls
• Vector Sigma – naturally occurring phenomenon where Cybertronians are effectively created out of base metals and gifted with a spark, harnessed by Primus to create the All Spark
• All Spark – repository of Vector Sigma creation power gifted by Primus to Cybertron
• Trine – bonded triad of Transformers, most often Seekers
• Split-spark – siblings who share a single spark or soul between them usually twins
• Bond – equivalent of marriage through sharing and bonding sparks, aka spark-bond
• Interfacing – having sex, f*cking, sometimes shortened to ‘face or ‘facing
• Batch-mate – sibling
• Ornament - Loosely translates to "useless person" with shadings of arm candy.
• What’s your malfunction - What is wrong with you
• Microchip moron - Another word for ‘stupid’
• Cybertron below me - Roughly equivalent to "my God" or "What on Earth?" depending on context.
• Glitched - Not normal… or f*cked up.
• Slag – waste, sh*t, sh*te (literal); slag it or slagger analogous to f*ck it/f*cker
• Frag – similar to f*ck; fragger: f*cker; fragging: f*cking
• Frell – also similar to f*ck but mostly used for frelling aka f*cking in the derogative
• Scrap – useless
• Scrap-heap – waste of space
• Burnout - Term for a robot past his prime.
• Knock-off - Approximate equivalent to "bastard".
• Kite - Effective, if mild, insult against jets with big wings.
• Glitch-headed - Crazy, insane
• Lump - Useless, stupid, and ugly besides.
• Mis-clock - Hints at a bit of insanity, too... they're more than just slow, their internal timing is off kilter enough that their processors aren't even working in a normal mode
• Spawn of Unicron - Loosely translated the same as ‘spawn of devil’
• My sine function - Similar to saying ’My left foot’
• I don’t give a flying frag - Used where a human might say, "I don't give a darn (flying f*ck)."
• Go jump into the smelter - General insult. Meaning ‘go jump from a cliff’.
• Dim-spark - Meaning is similar to "dim-wit".
• Tri-former – Transformer with three forms.
  • Known Tri-formers:
    • Megatron – mech, tank, aerial
    • Ravage – mech, cat-like mech, grounder
    • Laserbeak – mech, raptor-like mech, aerial
    • Buzzsaw – mech, raptor-like mech, aerial
    • Guardian Prime – mech, Mini-Cooper, Dark Sword UCAV
  • Gestalt – combined form made of at least two Transformers who share a connection known as “gestalt mind” which is similar in many ways to the bond shared by spark-twins.
    • Known Gestalts:
      • Combaticons
      • Constructicons
      • Aerialbots Gestalt
      • Safe Harbor Gestalt

Autobot Chain of Command:

• Commander: Optimus Prime
  • Second in Command/First Officer: Prowler
  • Third in Command/Weapons Specialist: Ironhide
  • Fourth/Medical Officer: Ratchet
  • Fifth/Special Operations: Jazz
  • Sixth/ Security Operations: Red Alert
  • Seventh/Science Officer: Wheeljack

Decepticon Chain of Command:

• Leader: The Fallen aka Metatronius Prime
• Commander: Megatron, Lord High Protector of Cybertron
  • Second in Command/Air Commander: Starscream, Winglord of Vos
  • Third/Communications Officer: Soundwave
  • Fourth/Science Officer: Shockwave, Steward of Cybertron
  • Fifth/Special Operations: Blackout