well I was rereading 04, and I noticed something v interesting about the decepticons at Delphi, the ones that Fort Max eventually tears apart: they seem to be MTOs
now, u might say the size and shape is about rank, not construction method. This would make sense for Autobots, but Decepticons make their insignias out of their very spark chambers. You wouldn’t expect a class of people to have a certain color and size of badge, unless their spark chambers were all the same. And you wouldn’t expect their spark chambers to all be the same, unless they were built the same
Also “genericons” and “frontline fodder” is so MTO like
So this means u can tell who is a DCon MTO by their badge color and proportion to frame
U know who else has light grey badges in roughly the same places and with roughly the same proportions as the genericons above, and are also confirmed constructed cold
I’m not saying Spinister and Krok are MTOs but y’all they’re MTOs