#Specifically TFA Shockwave

[sythetik]

Yknow that moment when you open MSPaint expecting to make something of questionable quality and then you make a masterpiece or four?

Just me?

[fleshandwires]

god. I'm thinking of one-sided shockbee again

Love the idea of Shockwave being the one crushing on Bee first, maybe that little crush starts on boot camp. Bumblebee is always around him, trying to seem cool and great at everything, Shockwave thinks it's annoying at first, he can't wait for this mission to end and offline this annoying thing.

But then he gets used to Bumblebee. He actually listens and pays attention to every word that comes out of Bee's mouth, the minibot's grown into him, and he hates it. Bumblebee's annoying, immature, and a loudmouth, traits a bot who's trying to be part of Intel (and also hiding the fact they're a Decepticon) shouldn't find endearing. And yet, he has found himself more than once looking at Bumblebee and listening.

Bumblebee doesn't help the situation at all, he's making it worse. He'd go around holding Longarm's hand to drag him somewhere, or get too close during a simulation while trying to get cover and it makes Shockwave a mess, Bumblebee doesn't even try to keep his EM field to himself, it crashes into Shockwave's own when he gets close.

Toleration becomes something else, it starts making Shockwave go slowly insane about it, he's spending time with Bumblebee after he becomes head of Intel, buys gifts for him or other stuff Bumblebee has shown interest in. Bumblebee's probably aware of more than friendly feelings going on by now, but god they're probably both so stupid about it, no one confesses. ever.

Shockwave is infatuated with the minibot, he can't deny it, Bumblebee continues to plague his thoughts like a virus, he wants to crush him and put an end to all, he wants to hold him tight, wants to feel their spark fields interlace and beat like one, he wants to rip his spark out, it's a mess, and he dug himself deeper into it by indulging his feelings.

[transingthoseformers]

Strika should be in the Decepticon high command.

Soundwave is communications/espionage chief, Shockwave is the chief scientist, and Starscream is the air commander.

Instead of Starscream being in charge of the entire army, it'd make more sense for air force and ground force to be separate.

It would make sense, and Strika & Soundwave could have so many fun interactions together

[thewiglesswonder]

🔥 tfa Blitzwing

My hot take is that the actual fucking German language of the Indo-European language family does not exist on Cybertron or anywhere else except Earth. Accents are arbitrary at worst and correlated with Cybertronian colonies and cities at best and I am so fucking sick of seeing people pepper actual German into his dialogue like he's a native speaker.

This take brought to you hot from the fires of my irrational yet blazing rage.

[cometchasinglove]

The TFA Decepticons are fucking vicious, actually.

Megatron only talks about freedom whenever he is manipulating or rallying the Decepticons. (Not to mention: Authorizing the use of chemical warfare, killing anyone who betrays him, etc…I could talk about his evil-doings all day).

Starscream creates sentient clones of himself to kill Megatron, (including hijacking the Lugnut Supremes as an attempt to literally destroy everything and everyone in Detroit, Megatron, most specifically).

Blackarachnia betrays a vulnerable bot (Wasp) into becoming an experiment for her own personal gain.

Shockwave traps and crushes his “fellow agent” (Blurr) into a box, sentencing him to a fate worse than death.

It’s implied that Blitzwing cannibalizes other Cybertronian parts. (Well, Random said it, so who knows with him?)

Lugnut’s P.O.K.E. (Punch of Kill Everything) can literally do exactly that.

And this is excluding their crimes in the AllSpark Almanac.

Yes, the TFA Cybertron Autobots are bad too, but let’s not forget that the Decepticons are Decepticons for a reason.

[koumori-1999]

a redraw with my AU of a moment from an official TFA manga. because i couldn't stop myself.

anyways i think i figured out how to explain ratchet's situation in this AU... basically, it's all shockwave's fault.

so i imagine that in this AU at some point prior to the exodus from cybertron an specific situation leaves ratchet's status as presumed dead when in reality he was being held captive by the decepticons, and was later used for an experiment by shockwave. like the dinobots in FOC.

like in TFA, optimus wasn't aware at the time that ratchet was still alive but no matter how many times he explains that to ratchet he still doesn't believe him and holds a grudge, assuming he never thought of rescuing him. secretly ratchet is conflicted because he wonders if optimus is telling the truth, but because he's so ashamed of his new form and the things he's done he doesn't think he deserves to be by optimus' side again.

also fun fact i imagine he'd be quiet and soft-spoken as opposite of canon ratchet's more... vocal personality (something something i needed that) and would sound like TNBA's scarecrow because they have the same VA.

[cheesarbles]

Ah. I really don’t post art a lot do I…

Here’s some silo doodles

I think silo and bumblebee would be great friends (not a ship)

Here’s a few tfa things, as well as some shockwave and starscream drawings because I was giving them swaggy designs

And finally, as a birthday gift and partially part of an art trade, here’s a transformers sona I had made for my buddy @atlattacus this was fun to do

That’s about all I have

I’m going to make a large comp of all my transformers refs here soon.

Oh hey btw if there’s a transformer, specifically from g1 or animated or prime that’d you’d like to see in my style, go nuts and leave a request in my ask box.

[tsl-otherartblog]

“Enjoying your new look Senator?”

I couldn’t help myself, I had to do something that was based on the Senator Shockwave reveal panel. Also I really wanted to do something that had something touching each side of the canvas. Like this specific image was just bouncing in my head for awhile now. Had the idea that Shockwave has blemishes on different parts of his plating due to having his old purple accents being used during the welding portion; another way to just spite him. Besides just me doing it as a way to show him slowly becoming the TFA Shockwave we know and love. Anyways hope you enjoy this piece! 💖

[mychlapci]

I think TFA Shockwave deserves to be pregnant with a smallish litter of Sparklings, maybe putting on some baby weight after he gives birth

I specifically say a litter bc I like to think instead of his refineries being on his chest, there's four of them on his meshy abdomen (idk how else to describe it)

hrghh tfa Shockwave is the Shockwave that needs to be pregnant the most. He's so skinny and lanky, he needs to gain some baby weight. Paired with his little titties swelling up with milk, his chest and tummy sure do look chubbier <3

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

I think that tfp shockwave's voice absolutely fits him, low, rich, silent and unenthusiastic, works perfectly with his threatening inexpressivity. It's a specific stereotype which falls into a category considered hot

But g1, tfa and other projects' breathy, loud, a little moaning dry voice is more specific than that. They're well spoken and mostly compensate the lack of facial expression with vocal expression and dramatic accentations in his speech, making him into a rather sexy theatrical monster more than a cold machine (positive, as i am a mechanophile and that's my type in robots). You always know when he's smiling internally through his speech, unlike tfp who you know would never even if he had a face. That sore throat? And that accent? Slay.

I like how he sounds when he's kind of nervous and tries to hide it from Megatron. Pathetic and hot, you're attracted to the drama in voice, while tfp piques your curiosity with coldness

So, in conclusion, tfa shockwave's voice is scientifically proven to make people tickle their pickles

You think if Corey Burton ever found out we were talking about his work like this he'd have us taken out back and shot? /J

[wyrm-with-a-why]

You want a Megop au with weird plot I’ll give you a Megop au with weird plot(no one asked)

Ok so it’s Tfa and his repair crew gets scattered by the space bridge explosion and end up on earths moon. On the dark side of it they find a shipwreck so they investigate, cautious and slow. As they enter they notice there’s a weird amount of white flowers somehow growing from nothing all along the walls. Whatever, they continue. Into a specific chamber they go and there’s a corpse in there, sitting on its knees, head slumped forward. It’s Megatron, Optimus recognizes the frame from his history videos. Flowers cover his what looks like dead body. Then as the bots get closer he sits up a bit. His eyes are dull and hopeless. The Autobots freak out and run. Megatron’s sigh is heard echoing through the ship, hopeless and exhausted. Everyone’s back on the ship but eventually Optimus feels the overwhelming curiosity to see Megatron again. He had questions. So he heads back into the shipwreck when no one’s looking and approaches Megatron slowly. He was intimidated for sure but Megatron didn’t seem as intimidating in such a sad state. Megatron senses him enter and sighs and looks up. His eyes go wide with sorrowful horror. He cries out in pure grief. To Megatron, Optimus reminds him too much of his deceased sparkbond. Kiloton

Megatron’s grief is like an infection. It spreads rapidly like a shockwave. Soon, Optimus is feeling a terrible sparkache and he can feel himself crying. He can’t understand the grief but he’s just so sad, as if he’s lost someone. Megatron is hunched more now as tears fall which causes his body to shake as he sobs, and his tears are mirrored to everyone affected by his overwhelming grief.

Optimus wants to help because Optimus is the goodest boy. He doesn’t understand Megatron’s sorrow but will try.

And the story may dramatically unfold. Optimus sort of being like therapy to the absolutely shattered Mech. Then bam, he catches feelings when Megatron musters the strength to leave the room he’s been rusting away in.

This will be continued more often istg I kinda like it. But I’m sleepy. Also, this au will be called Mourner Megatron and is inspired by Hollow Knights grey mourner.

I’ll probably make more storyline and little scenarios to come. But I need sleep

[radio-wavelengths2]

Imagine TFA Bumblebee getting spike mods for Shockwave's pleasure (I'm specifically thinking of a knot and ovipositor bc I'm a kinky bitch)

HE FUCKING WOULD Shockwave would be satisfied with his original array and such, it does the job it’s supposed to, he won’t ask for more. He thinks it’s cute too, very suiting for Bumblebee. But after Bumblebee finds out some of his kinks (don’t as me how, he’s a nosy bitch) he decides he wants to surprise Shockwave with a few upgrade for the next time they see each other

So he gets the mods in secret and doesn’t say a word until they meet again. When the time comes he opens his spike paneling, Shockwave thinks something looks different but he’s too charged up to care. It isn’t until Bumblebee is enthusiastically knotting his valve and depositing a clutch of eggs into his forge that he realizes what’s changed, and he overloads so hard it knocks his systems offline

[ricegobbler]

Tfa Shockwave with gn human reader who does silly little experiments (that are actually somewhat dangerous) like nilered does

Ex: https://youtu.be/NIVkBs7oWDI?si=FxOBzkkEaoQXTVJx

TFA Shockwave x gn!reader who does silly experiments!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO REQUEST TFA SHOCKWAVEEE!! LOVE THE GUY SM😭😭

TY FOR REQUESTING, SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG FOR THIS. I HAD THAT MONTH BREAK AND I HAD TO ATTEND SOME GRADUATIONS IN LIKE MAY😔

SPEAKING OF I GRADUATED AS WELLLLL YAYAYAYA🎉🎉

ANYWAYS ENJOY!!!

Requests OPEN!

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-Shockwave would definitely be confused about this all at first

-He does experiments as well but not like…well this.

-He makes machines that could kill and you’re here making some cotton candy outta cotton balls😭.

-when he first saw you setting up your materials for a specific experiment he already knew it was gonna be something wild. He didn’t even wanna ask what it would be because he knew it was gonna be stupid to him.

-about 30 minutes later that same day you came up to him, showing him…cherry soda??

-he was speechless and confused.

“Cherry soda?…seriously?” He said

“Well, it’s actually made out of paint thinner!” You said, smiling up at him.

“WHAT??”

-after that day he realized the experiments you do werent that stupid. Some were dangerous asf..

-sometimes if he wasn’t busy he’d js watch you do your lil experiments, and maybe even wanna add in some touches of his own.

-sometimes he’d even show you some of the lil experiments he made as well!!:D

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SORRY FOR HOW SHORT THIS WAS!! I WAS IN A RUSH☹️

REQUESTS: OPENNNN!!!

[transingthoseformers]

Still thinking about that au where tfa Shockwave Longarm doesn't know he and Blurr are dating because he's unfamiliar with autobot courting practices

Also I just imagined Shockers drinking a cube of energon and something causes him to jerk, spilling energon all over himself and his antennas to perk, and it's related to this

[thenamesblurrito]

Tell us more about your megadac fic. pretty please with sugar on top

oh man you mean the one i drew here?? haha hoooooo boy megadac is only like. one third of the main focus. it's a concept that started with "hey what if this one fundamental surprise about a Very Specific Character in TFA was actually secretly different?" and spiraled from there as i put in more and more ideas. like Agatha's fem!Isaac Sumdac. and Charlie. and background characters given the spotlight. and several characters who don't exist in TFA but my city now. and some proposed season 4 concepts that i stole and reforged to fit.

but the MAIN pastiche of the story is... well the whole point of it is a surprise. so i guess i'll put it under a spoiler

Optimus gets out of the Archa 7 incident with amnesia, and his road to recovery is shaky. when he and the bridge repair crew find the Allspark, the ensuing duel with Megatron shatters it in orbit, sending shards raining down across all planet Earth. Isabel Sumdac finds a robot head and uses it as inspiration for decades, making a deal with him to provide a human disguise when he wakes up before the Autobots ever emerge from the lake. uncomfortable in his new Earth mode, facing down Decepticons for the first time in his life (that he remembers), Optimus works on repairing his sense of self, and doesn't like what he's finding

hm? Longarm Prime? there's never been a Longarm with the Autobots. oh, Shockwave? no, he's in deep cover but... he hasn't reported in for centuries

don't worry. Megatron and Opti-i mean Shockwa-er. Shocktimus, spend a very long time meeting and talking with one another without ever realizing who they're talking to :3 because how could i pass up on that kind of chicanery?

lots of secret identity nonsense, lots of misunderstandings, lots of sticking my grubby little hands into some Decepticons to yoink at their heartstrings and force them to experience emotions. yknow, the whole shebang

i WILL write this someday. i WILL. i just have to get around to it like everything else auhgghhhhhhh

[passportclown]

So,, I got some input on my Shockwave in the replies of this post that really helped with my characterization of him for my AU!

Originally, my Shockwave was a Senator who wanted to prove that all Cybertronians, regardless of class or frame, were equal. And to prove that, he'd dissect them and study their frames to see if there was any physical difference (specifically in the spark) that proved an innate superiority or inferiority.

When he presented it to Sentinel Prime he was (rightfully) deemed insane and told to 'knock it off' because he had a genius mind that they didn't want to go to waste.

Instead he made a public broadcast showing off his research, and proclaimed he'd dissect Sentinel Prime as well to prove not even a Prime has an innate superiority.

Here's where I'm changing things!

Originally, he was forced to undergo an empurata (to conceal his identity so he could still perform experiments for The Prime) and had emotional inhibitors installed (in my AU shadowplay isn't really a thing, but there are inhibitors that can limit or dull emotions).

Shockwave fled because, realistically, he knew after his public broadcast proclaiming his plans he'd definitely be arrested. And because he fled instead of barricading himself in his office (which he did in the previous iteration), he gets to keep his original personality! (Which I talked about in the post linked at the top.)

This way I can keep the goofy scientist, but still have his hubris and twisted experiments be his eventual downfall without using the empurata.

Instead of undergoing an empurata, he meets Soundwave while on the run (who he still met in his previous iteration, but the circumstances will be different this time) who encourages him to switch to a combat-based frame so he can join The Decepticons without being useless on the battle-field. (Soundwave is the Decepticons spy and recruiter, and he knows of Shockwave's circumstances and potential usefulness already)

AND! Here's the perfect part! My Shockwave is constantly accidentally infringing on others copyrights, because he's a genius BUT everything he comes up with has been done before, (Which isn't a problem when you're a Senator who can buy the copyright, but IS a problem when you're a criminal working for a future Warlord.)

His new body he makes for himself, resembles an empurata victim.

It still fits with his characterization! Because, again, he's an objective and genuine genius, but he never comes up with original ideas!

'Faceplates are unnecessary, I'll just install a complex optic capable of scanning instead!' Etc, etc,

And the end result, is this:

I'm pretty anxious to post my art, but I'm proud of this concept for his design. It's just messy sketches, and I have a few more ideas jotted down, but I think it fits him well! (I have no idea how to properly color or render, but I can sketch and do decent-ish line-art, I think.)

He wants his body to be functional and powerful, but he doesn't really know what a warrior looks like because he was a privileged senator.

So he installs claws, a massive gun, a loincloth, thick frame for tanking attacks, etc.

But also the classic Shockwave appearance, which is the classic 'empurata' appearance.

(If it wasn't clear, this Shockwave design is based off TFP, TFA, and G1/IDW)

After I design Soundwave, I might draw a comic or write a short story showing his reaction to seeing Shockwave's new body. (It would be silent amusement mixed with bafflement.)

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But I'm really happy with his new iteration for my AU! Thank you to the people who left suggestions and recommendations for different approaches!

I might make an actual post going over the actual story in detail and going over some parts I glossed over, but I was just so excited with my new ideas for him that I just had to write it all out!

But I'll definitely be making a post going in-depth on his personality in the future!