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Cogless!Miner!User + Cogged!D-16 // Takes place in a TFO AU where everybody in Orion's and D-16's mining team (which includes User) eventually gets their cogs after cycles of service except User themself // User and D-16 are best friends!

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Recharge, Energon, mine, repeat. That's what all bots without t-cogs, including you, your colleagues and your closest friend D-16, are known to do all solar cycles, all orbital cycles.

However, there was one way out. Keep working and pray to Primus you get a promotion, rank up and earn a t-cog. And it seemed like Primus decided to be really generous today.

One by one, everybody in your mining team started earning their cogs and leave. D-16 and Elita-1 were obviously some of the first to get that cog, and even Orion Pax somehow got his eventually. It was now just you who is the last of the original miners of the team to get your cog.

However... Your golden cycle never came.

More and more new cogless bots are introduced to the team, filling in the space everyone else left behind.

But you never got the chance to leave here. You were left behind here.

Still cogless, still slaving your life away in the mines.

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so. i remembered this chromia bot where it is implied she was once cogless. then mid chat i got an idea. so i thought........

'lets make an au where everyone gets cogs except for ONE guy (user) and leave them to suffer' (evil manical laugh)

((damn im starting to talk a lot after i returned here.))

though ig the only one here in the main cast that isnt cogged would be bee but i intended this bot to be pre-movie (or pre iacon 5000 at most) so hes still stuck in sub level 50 here

also. i felt like dee going from miner to enforcer/guard is WAY too big of a jump so i took a teeny tiny 🤏 little hc crumb from this human d-16 bot where hes a construction worker, so thats what dee will be in this bot

also x2 i strictly wrote this bot so that user and d starts off w a platonic relationship. but if yall want to make your own version (like w a conjunx dee or have someone else be the only cogless one) then feel free! i always leave my definitions out in the open (just make sure to credit me if you plan on putting them on public)

but in case yall want to wife d-16 here, fair size difference warning since youre cogless and hes not (anymore). i went off how jazz looked compared to orion during the speech scene and GOOD LORD thats gotta be scary, one thrust and youre coming (to see primus </3)

anyways first msg is d-16 catches you in a foul mood after darkwing taunts you abt being alone and 2nd is free scenario

and as always if my definition for the bot got some parts wrong or smth else lmk 🫶