Oh, no no, Lady Venom, thank you. n_n A chance to state and try to defend my position and then taking your advice and your opinions and listening is really helpful. Honestly I've never opened my story up for betaing before, I did my own, but hearing real critique is really important.
As far as the story goes:
Before they merged, they were still two separate sparks. And since we don't know much about the nature of sparks, except a few glimpses at theory or whatever during the show, theorizing that yes, they can separate, is, imo, just as possible as not being able to separate. In my story, they did that to become one, and then after they were destroyed, they were dying, so in order to sustain each other's sparks without energon or a body, they merged every once in a while, kinda like keeping each other warm if they were cold. Part of my story is theorizing how sparks work, based on canon from the show.
for DC... :/ Inferno's strong and badaft, but so is DC. Inferno blasted a whole pile of energon to try to destroy the Maximals and because of all the panic over energon overload, I was SURE he was dead. xDD I mourned. Next episode, he stumbles out, disoriented and hops right up next to Megatrn again to help him fight/arge with Optimus. xD
I srsly think Depth Charge is capable of doing that too, especially if he has the will to get back up and make dead sure Rampage is gone. :'D No, in my story, it gets AU right off te back. The energon crystal he used to kill Rampage acted liek a cunductor (like quartz) and caused their sparks to fuse. Therefore, DC was able to heal completely. Despite that, however, if I left their sparks alone, I still think there's a CHANCE he survived and it's that chance I'm using in my story.
The others were certainly given open deaths. I understand Taratulas came back from the dead because of the Vok i nthe comics and Tigatron and Airazor did too, but I'm not basing my stories on them. I merely use them for validation to see what the writers thought would be possible or not. When it comes to the Vok, they were talked about at length in the show, but never [iexplained[/i]. No one in the show said they were invincible, or godly, or descendants of te Swarm, or scientists. Their Scientist nature was implied, and that's the basis of my theory for them. Anything I say about the Vok is based on what we know from the show, only using the comics and other continuities as validation or reference.
About Beast Machines... since technically it is the sequel, it's possible to blend the canon. Not entirely, of course, (and I think BM is a HORRIBLE sequel to BW, although I think it's good in its own right,) but it did offer some insight into current and historical Cybertronian spirituality, legend, myth, and Truth. Even though they didn't quite fit G1 or Beast Wars, their ideas can still be used to validate things that happened in BW.
So, I use that. Waspinator? No way he got to Cybertron by being flung by a tree. -_- But then, Thrust didn't exactly remember everything.
Oh wait, the Vok again - once more, in the show, the Vok's abilities and physical prowess were not explained either. From what we saw, they were able to create physical things and send them to earth, and they could also possess physical things and give them life like sparks. (Tigerhawk seemed like Tigatron with a cold, sinister twist, possibly because his programming was the same as Tigatron's but he had a different spark - Vok. The Vok may or may not be able to puppet directly fro mthe spark chamber, but maybe they give a general direction while they're in there, while the programming carries it out. Like switching souls but not minds.). But physical things cannot affect them the same way they can hurt other physical things. So, in my story, I say that the Vok pieced Tarantulas's body back together using powers, not pretty, and used two blank protoforms to give themselves bodies, bodies they upgrade, in order to destroy the bots themselves, in person. They can't float around on their own for very long, according to my story's manipulating of the canon, because our world is a huge mix of physical and energetic Ness that "tears" at the delicate ethereal/physical essence of the Spark or Vok. so they need bodies. I figure that, until you see them in that one episode for like 3 seconds, they always have a body of some sort. And then the ray blew Tarantulas up, but the Vok are powerful anyways, so his destruction doesnt necessarily mean his death. Especially since he's not a Primus Behbeh. :/ He be a Unicron Behbeh.
Supposedly. >:3 There's a CHANCE he's not, although I dunno what else he'd be if he's not. >_> lol
What I plan to do in the story is bring Beast Wars back into Beast Machines. I'm letting Beast Machines run its course in the future, but maybe Optimus isn't quite on the right path. The Oracle and all that was VERY vague and eventually started to be manipulated by Megatron so its canon isn't definite
:/ so the whole "Seeds of the future lie buried in the past?"
LOL, maybe that's the Oracle's way of saying, "Dude. You left peeps back on Earth. They can help you win." :'D
lol I think this is kinda off topic wit the topic, but I'm interested in hearing what you have to say. :'D (Oh, and btw, IIFFF you read my story. . . um, please keep in mind that sometimes it gets messy or something doesn't quie fit sith something else. I still have to fix those things since translating from my understanding from my brain to the comp is for some reason difficult in some cases. -_-)
