Sparkling
A sparkling is a metaphorical child of a Transformer. Bots spawned from the hot spots carried by a colony Titan are sometimes referred to as sparklings of their Titan.
Fiction
[edit]2005 IDW continuity
[edit]When Camien cityspeaker Windblade met Navitas, the Velocitronian Titan identified her as a "sparkling" of Caminus. Race Against the Light
Notes
[edit]- The term "sparkling" originated in some parts of the fandom to refer to the idea of a Transformer child, often a literal "baby" robot. It was canonized in Windblade vol. 2 #4 to carry the similar connotation described above.