#I Just Really Like Soundwave

[dailymothanon]

I can’t believe he so totally inherited his mama Ravage’s cat eyes 😌 the half blindness was just because I could honestly (purely experimental I doubt this is the face I’d keep for him exactly); but if you were to squint you could say that his intense hearing/telepathy from the intense and constant inputs caused migraines (or from the stress of all the inputs) that caused it to go blind (yes migraines can do that), Or simply he had damaged his optic way long ago and having been on the streets And near insanity it simply was left untreated 😌

But I have heard that bats when they use their vision (at least for shorter distances) instead of echolocation they do actually tend to crash more frequently cuz the visual inputs mess up their audial information… figured it could be the same for Soundwave, where being half blind actually makes him feel more comfortable since he hears so intensely

Also I wasn’t sure how a cybertronian’s eye would get cloudy so. I did one way here the pupil would just fade severely/just about offline completely, and another referencing actual animal blind cat eyes

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

the high guards littlest fan

[zorangezest]

thanks for listening

[suja-janee]

I’ve been losing my mind over these guys recently

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[cybertron-after-dark]

Average transformers g1 episode:

Megatron is attempting to black out the entire sky across a hundred mile radius and funnel all the sunlight into one, concentrated solar death ray to target a heavy duty solar panel he's having soundwave and the cassetticons build in order to convert it to energon. Then he plans to hit the autobot base with the death ray just for funsies. Starscream plans to push Megatron directly into the death ray, also just for funsies.

Optimus sends Wheeljack and Spike to deal with it, along with two bots you're pretty sure have not been in this show before this point, but you're kind of past asking how many of these fuckers were on the ark offscreen when it crashed. One of them has the worst fake Canadian accent you have ever heard, and the other's name sounds inexplicably dirty.

Starscream tries to get Megatron to stand in the spot he told Skywarp and Ramjet to direct the death ray, but is interrupted when Rumble asks why Starscream stuck him with extra work (a task Megatron assigned specifically to Starscream). This vexes Megatron. The autobots show up and try to figure out what the point of the blacked out sky is while Starscream attempts to talk his way out of it. Then the death ray goes off two feet away from Megatron, which only pisses him off further.

The Canadian bot yells "AH BINARY-BEAVERS!!" because the death ray caught him off guard and completely gives away the bots' position. Soundwave immediately fires on them. Gratuitous robot violence ensues. Spike is generally useless and tries chucking rocks at Rumble. Megatron is too busy trying to almost-murder Starscream to bother with the autobots and just lets Soundwave handle it.

Probably-an-innuendo-name-bot is luckily a flier and takes the chance to see what's blocking the sun now that their cover's blown anyway. He gets up there and the seekers are sticking tinfoil on the clouds to make the tops reflective. The writers are really just hoping you don't think too hard about it.

Skywarp starts firing on dirty-name and calls him a nerd. Dirty-name takes evasive action. Skywarp runs out of ammo and starts just chucking tin foil at him. Dirty-name calls him dumb and says his processor is made of spare toaster parts. Then he crash lands and canada-bot asks if dirty-name's wings are spare toaster parts as well. Wheeljack yells that they'll all be spare toaster parts if they don't focus on the decepticons. The death ray goes off again and barely misses the autobots. Wheeljack corrects himself to Melted spare toaster parts.

Dirty-name gives Wheeljack the rundown on the tinfoil clouds so he can figure out a way to get rid of them while Canada-bot fights Soundwave and the cassettes in the background. Spike is kind of helping too sort of almost. Those rocks hes chucking sure are damaging. Ravage gets straight up drop kicked. It cuts back to Wheeljack whipping up a good old fashioned Device™️.

Starscream flies up past the tinfoil barrier while Megatron shoots at him. All the holes he's shooting in the blackout barrier are just making more, slightly shittier death rays and the main one is losing concentration. One of them hits Megatron right in the optic and he keels over with an over the top screech. Starscream descends, breaking another hole in the tinfoil to see a golden opportunity.

"MEGATRON HAS BEEN BLINDED!!! I, STARSCREAM AM NOW YOUR LEADER!!!"

Wheeljack finishes his Device™️: A grenade that makes tinfoil entirely invisible, thus rendering the whole weapon unusable. The writers are hungover, please do not think about it too hard. Pretty please. Dirty-name doesn't know if he can throw it into one of the holes in the barrier on his own since he can't fly in robot mode and he cant throw in altmode. Spike offers to get on his back and throw it in for him if he can get close enough. And he's just SO good at throwing things. The other two agree he's their best shot, they're so happy spike is around, couldn't do it without him.

Starscream is hovering in the air as he gives his Decepticon Leader Acceptance Speech he's prepared for this very occasion, golden light streaming in from the him-shaped hole in the barrier. Dirty-name and spike zip past him and spike makes the best goddamn throw of his life. Before starscream can properly question the Fucking Audacity of these autobots interrupting him while he's trying to have a moment, the invisible explosion goes off that the animators are just happy they don't have to put that much effort into drawing. Starscream gets knocked out of the air and crashes directly onto Megatron. This vexes Megatron.

Sky's normal again. Don't worry that there's still tinfoil there, don't even fuckin worry about it dude. Spike and Dirty-name touch back down. Round of applause for spike for throwing super good. Wheeljack comments that he's just happy it blew up the way it was supposed to. Cue uncomfortably long laughing. Megatron manages to roll starscream off him and calls for a retreat.

Back at the decepticon base, Megatron has an eyepatch and is skulking. Starscream yaps about how it makes him look like a proper tyrant, brooding and battle scarred, and, dare he say, darkly handsome? This vexes Megatron.

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

[smatterbrained]

Oh my godddddd! I've been trying to find a way to combine the best parts of the different continuities of soundwave and you've done it perfectly! I love your art!

Ty!! It was a fun time. Probably obvious, but my biggest influences were G1, Earthspark, and the tentacles from Prime!!

[parallelpie]

First off this absolutely cursed AU was inspired by Lemonomelette and a post they made -X Secondly I imagine it all being about bots and cons trying to one up each others factions and not actually helping in any serious way because their too busy with their own faction bs.

Think of two rival car dealerships across the street one upping each other to get business and instead of business with cars its interstellar robot fairys trying to woo sm children to let them grant their inconsequential wishes (which may or may not be worth it) instead of the other guy next door.

[sirassban]

Soundwave x Miku anyone? Mikuwave Perchance?

[quibbs126]

So I have some designs for the Decepticon trio in my AU now

Gonna be honest, I debated not finishing this because honestly, I’m starting to wonder anyone really cares, or that my designs are really bad. Maybe I should just go back to regular fanart and stop my AU. I do still like it, but I feel like I’m just doing something no one likes. The designs are way too simple, I don’t even know if they transform, which is like, the main thing about these guys. And maybe it would be better if I just stopped trying and ultimately embarrassing myself

But I didn’t know what else to draw this morning, so I finished Shockwave up. And maybe I’m just overreacting

But yeah, I have these designs. I started sketching new designs on Wednesday at work, then I made these at some point after

They’re also semi inspired by Megaman bosses in their designs, specifically Pharaohman’s head for Starscream, and just generally Napalman for Shockwave. Soundwave was more other versions of himself

I came up with Starscream’s head design on accident when trying to figure out how to incorporate his vents, but I think it looks semi fine

I also forgot his wings, or more accurately I was too lazy for them. He probably still has them, I just didn’t feel like figuring them out

He also originally wasn’t going to have blue eyes, but I wanted to reuse the blue on his arms, so he has blue eyes now. Only Shockwave keeps has red because I wanted at least one of them to have it, though maybe yellow would be better

Soundwave also originally had more red, but I changed some with yellow and I liked it more

I’d say Shockwave’s probably the one I feel most needs change, I wasn’t the most sure how he’d work. What I do know is that his top cannon thing probably isn’t his real eye, it’s the lower one that’s the real one. Not sure if I’ll keep it though

Sorry, this isn’t the most put together

I also don’t really know what any of their stories are. Starscream was a former scientist with Skyfire, and now he’s a top member of the Decepticons, and he’s not the most fond of the current leader. Soundwave I want to say originally ran a wildlife preserve (probably also where his Cassettes come from), and is also one of the Decepticon lieutenants. And all I have for Shockwave is that he’s also a top guy

Yeah I don’t know, I think that’s about it. I’ve both been unsure if I should post this, and also I know I need to finish the description quick because I really have to study for an exam and shouldn’t be distracted by this, so I’m not in full info dumping mode

But uh yeah, take these designs I suppose

[numberonetribble]

Babysitting Shenanigans Part 1: Piston goes to Shockwave's house. They have an okay(ish) time!

Bonus:

[gravelsong]

Okay there's already that post that talks about the parallels between the previous scene with Thundercracker and the humans vs Starscream and the humans but this is the direct moment after that and. Ohh this is so good. Thundercracker let them go because they're fragile and can't physically hurt them, and Soundwave agrees on that but he knows that they'll tell what happened (considering how Soundwave was a communications officer, he probably knows how fast word travels better than anyone) so they have to die anyway. "Regrettable but necessary", it's for the greater good of the mission

[starblitzy-started-a-fire]

Wavewave Week, Day Three: Research

@wavewaveweek2-electricbugaloo

[transingthoseformers]

May I offer tfp Airachnid pegging Soundwave with her ovipositor? Perhaps followed by the insecticons lining up to 'fertilize' them once he's all full of eggs.

Insect queens are the ones who lay eggs for the hive, but obviously Airachnid is a very busy woman who has better things to do than getting passed around just to be stuck laying eggs all day. And who better to take that place than someone with experience caring for smaller things?

I never considered that

Fascinating

Fun

Though I am wondering about the timeline here, because my first thought was "au where they left Megatron in Unicron's core sgsgdgdy" but also... This makes me wonder about a situation where Airachnid's one coup involving the insecticons succeeded. (Though it's also kinda funny to think Megatron's still here but he signed off on the idea lmaooo get bred Sounders)

Soundwave and Airachnid's interactions here could be golden

[immabebaby]

Man I didn't get the whole "I'm writing for myself" and "Man this story is so good, when's the next update... Oh wait it's my story and I have to write the next chap" until I started writing one that is so awkwardly niche that really only I can write it

I mean, where am I gonna find a Knock Out/Soundwave get together via meddling cassettes and symbolic paint jobs ft. background Breakdown/Dreadwing?

Or a pre-canon Boulder/Megatron that made Boulder decide to be a rescue bot, and Megatron never really got over him but technically they weren't really together?