#poor soundwave

[theshadow20]

"Soundwave knows now that the Megatron he devoted his whole being to simply never existed, that Megatron that won his trust and love (his spark at the palm of his servo) was nothing but a lie."

Some angsty one-shot featuring our favorite Prime Decepticon communications officer :)

Just a post to get back into writing (feel free to give feedback or just comment!) <3

Additional Tags: Mentioned Megatron (Transformers), False Memories, Unhealthy Relationships, Past Relationship(s), Regret, Grief/Mourning, Emotional Hurt, Emotional Manipulation, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Trauma, Angst, Angst and Tragedy, Hurt No Comfort, Realization, Betrayal, Post-Betrayal, Not Canon Compliant, Abusive Relationships, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Reflection, Acceptance, Self-Acceptance, Self-Doubt, One Shot

Series: Part 4 of Soundwave oneshots

[brandwhorestarscream]

What happened to Wavelength after Sound System took Soundwave

That's a good question! There's a couple of different ways this could go, long term

Soundwave of course has no intention of staying with his dad. Like, at all. This is the asshole that's been living in the lap of luxury his entire life, and probably got his mom pregnant and bailed. That's what Soundwave thinks. He escapes the second Sound System takes his optics off him, probably climbing out the window and flying away. He's not entirely sure how to get back to Kaon, but he sure as hell isn't going to stay in Iacon.

Wavelength can feel all of his son's fear through their bond at being kidnapped, and even though he's terribly distressed and worried, he's blind and the property of one of the mines. He can't go anywhere; even if he could find the exit through the confusing tunnels that all sound the same, they won't let him leave to go look for his baby. Soundwave is probably feeding him information the entire time, and a fuzzy image of Sound System passes between them

He's quietly terrified. This is the mech who, from his perspective, used him for fun and then had him blinded a second time and thrown away when he got bored. He shudders to think what Sound System will do to his son. Begs Soundwave to not provoke him and just get away as soon as he can

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a happy ending here. In an ideal world the misunderstanding would be cleared up and they could all be together as a happy family. But Wavelength's trust has been shattered, Sound System is struggling with isolation and depression, and Soundwave hates his sire for abandoning him and his mother. The best case scenario is that, yes, Soundy escapes and goes back to Kaon, and very rarely leaves his carrier's side for fear of getting snatched up again

But 👀 consider. Canonically in the Aligned continuity, Soundwave was a powerful politician as an adult

If we go that route, then Sound System probably kept him against his will. Held under lock and key, refusing to let him go because he's just so desperate to recover some piece of his beloved Wavelength. Soundwave lies and says his carrier's dead, hoping that this crazy rich asshole daring to call himself his sire will leave him alone.

For the second half of his adolescence, Soundwave grows up essentially as Sound System's spoiled prisoner; he gets private tutors and his files are manipulated--he was born to Sound System's secret late bondmate, who no one ever knew of, and that's why the rockstar suddenly retired, to take care of his newborn son. He has enough money to make it a reality, and anyone who goes snooping around will find fabricated health records and educational grades. Soundwave is never allowed to leave the penthouse, and his ire grows day by day. He misses his mom dearly but won't breathe a word of him, aftaid that this crazy mech will abduct him too. Who knows what kind of nefarious things he'd do to Soundwave's poor, blind carrier?

Idk what happens, be it a mining accident, murder, or suicide, but Wavelength dies while Soundwave is in his sire's custody. That's the final thing that cements Soundwave's complete and total hatred for the higher class. They abused his carrier, took him from his home, and now Wavelength's blood is on their hands. Soundwave's sure he would've been able to stop it, to spare Wavelength from dying, even if be doesn't know how. He remains stuck in his sire's care until he's an adult, when he's pushed to become a politician because his dad insists he needs a stable career. And then, well. We all know how that turns out 🤭 he leaves Iacon at the first possible opportunity to follow the gladiator Megatronus, ready to burn the entire caste system to the ground.

[zorangezest]

thanks for listening, soundwave!

[sp1cychamm0y]

wavewave requests are open?

Throw em in a tight place, please

Maybe even hidden from someone else

interface? at the office? its more likely than you think 🫡

uncensored on twitter :3

[mostly-him]

Morning coffeengex to endure your bosses 🤨

[ultra-phthalo]

He perished before he could get to the painkillers. F in the chat.

Didn't know pookie had a long-lost identical twin. Okay, bbg. We see u. ✈✨💅😘❤

edit: Why does Soundwave look like he is experiencing a painful ass period cramp??

[katofthestars]

Okay wavewave might actually be real cuz I've been playing Transformers: Earth Wars and my Shockwave refuses to heal anyone that isn't Soundwave.

Like I just played a round where my Skywarp was half dead standing right next to Shockwave, practically BREATHING DOWN HIS NECK, but because Soundwave had a sliver of health gone he had to take top priority.

My Shockwave has run away from so many mechs that were nearly dead just so he could be with Soundwave forcing Hook to work overtime. Like your husband is fine plz heal the rest of the team.

[hybridllily]

Tfp Soundwave playing a bass guitar. Context? This is the context.

[lmadsadness]

insert title

[gregemann]

the wavewave arranged marriage is BACK ON feat. @cripspy and @funneehawhaw

[witchofthesouls]

More Dad! Megatron but this time with some heavy angst.

As kids, I think we can all agree that we stumbled upon something our parents didn’t want us seeing/knowing about but did anyway no matter how careful they were.

Maybe one night, when she was supposed to be alseep, Megatron’s kid (who is young at the time like 6-10) sneaks out of bed for some reason or another and sees her dad doing something very bad and it scares her so much that she runs as quietly and quickly as she can back to her room and pretends to be asleep. The next day she is distant and fearful of her father, actively avoiding him.

Maybe Megatron knows she saw him that night or maybe he has to piece it together when she suddenly becomes distant and skittish with him afterwards but either way, their relationship probably won’t ever be the same.

Megatron knew exactly what his daughter had witnessed when she refused to meet his gaze, making herself small and quiet, even in her root-mode.

At first, he was going to leave it alone and just wait for her mother to return, but Soundwave had cornered Megatron because she had been tentatively asking the Cassettes not-so-innocent questions.

Megatron has no idea how to handle this. None of the parenting datapads and books had a chapter dedicated to navigating what to say to your traumatized child when she finds her creators in throes of rough passion and hard kinky role play.

He defers to his usual tactic: straight to the throat.

"Treasure," Megatron says and frowns when his daughter refuses to look up, field tamped down. "Look at me."

Never will he say it, but his spark breaks a bit when he sees the tears gathered in those optics, mouth quivering as her plating is closed off.

"I'm sure you have questions about what you've seen between your carrier and myself."

There's a loud sniffle, and Megatron wipes away those tears, fetching a spare rag from his subspace, coaxing her to blow her nose. Thankfully, she does, and he sets the wet rag aside.

"Adults," he begins, trying to formulate an age-appropriate response, "enjoy playing adult games. And those games can be very rough."

"Mommy said to stop..." And his spark really does break at her tone, confused and afraid at the sight of her sire dominating her fragile carrier in an extremely unkind way.

"Your carrier and I were playing pretend. You like pretending with your dolls, yes? It's like that. Because it's pretend, we have a secret code that really means stop."

She looks less tearful and more curious at that point, her field cautiously mingling into his as she begins to relax.

Mission accomplished.

"Do you have any questions?"

"What's a fleshlight?"

At that very moment, Megatron desperately wishes for a surprise Autobot attack.

(Surprisingly, the universe answers it.)

[cozzzynook]

For the Angsty Starbee ask. I can only image the very confused look Megatron has when he sees the Seeker's return from their 'raid'

Thundercracker is mostly un-harmed save for a few dents while Skywarp is head to toe covered in cake, engex and has a few deep wounds but a pleased overjoyed look on his face.

Starscream hasn't returned yet and the only answer the other seekers have given him is that 'He's on his honeymoon', Strange Megatron didn't know his SIC had a conjunx.

This is hilarious.

Star finally comes back months later with a happy conjunx in his arms and the large pile of data work he’d completed and up to date info he asked, yes actually asked, Soundwave to send him. Gives it to Megatron, tells him this is his conjunx Bee who will be staying with him and his trine who is no longer an autobot but not a decepticon and just goes off to the seeker quarters to introduce him to the other fliers.

Megs is looking so disturbed and shocked because one, thats Optimus Primes son and two, Starscream came in wearing feminine jewels and silks with a conjunx that WAS OBVIOUSLY OPTIMUS PRIMES SON!!!

Soundwave has to catch Megatron when he faints lol

[comicalcarnival]

with TFCon toronto this coming weekend, I suppose I should post all the plushies I made for the event this time! This time I had MUCH more prep time, thankfully 😂

[steelthroat]

I don't know how to explain this... but Telepathic by Starset is the soundtrack of idw Megatron/Soundwave angst.

[delicateartisantrash]

"All them little fellas" - Making Bread fanfic fanart

Inspired by the lovely fic written by @ss-shitstorm

[lets-try-some-writing]

Yo! Special delivery! *kicks down door*

So it’s safe to assume that TFP Soundwave has lost Buzzsaw, Ratbat, Frenzy, and Rumble and only had Laserbeak left. One could only imagine how much pain and grief that brings Soundwave but his Carrier codes must be going insane at the sight of humans given that cassettes and humans are ruffle the same height and are chaotic in nature.

I also imagine that his codes go crazy at the sight of children, so~ add Jack, Raf, and Miko to a still grieving Soundwave, who’s protocols are SCREAMING at him that those three cassette sparklings need him.

I LOVE this idea. Thank you for throwing this request at me! Now I have an excuse to write about my fav spy master.

Organic Cassette Sparklings

To Soundwave, his cassettes were his everything. His mind and body belonged to the Decepticons and Megatron, but his spark was only for his little ones. As such the loss of his cassettes one by one in short succession very nearly drove him mad from grief. He was blessed to still have Laserbeak, but she was also suffering from the loss of her brothers.

Soundwave thought time would heal the wounds in his spark, but it didn't. It anything, the pain from the loss of so many of his cassettes grew worse as if time was an infection slowly festering within his shattered self. By the time he arrived on earth, he was so lost that he could hardly think beyond his orders, his sense of being so broken that he couldn't bring himself to care. The only reason he still marched onward was because of Laserbeak, his last remaining cassette. But sometimes even she wasn't enough, sometimes he just wanted everything to end- to return to silence.

On those days he left the nemesis behind and went to the ground to try and shake his thoughts. It didn't work all that often, but it was better than the sickening monotony of his room on the nemesis and the constant problems that always popped up. More often than not he just wandered around the area nearest to the nemesis's coordinates. But after being deployed on a mission on the ground for the first time in centuries, Soundwave found himself stunned as his instincts screamed at him.

Right in front of him were three small organics, human children he knew to be under the care of the Autobots. But as he looked upon their terrified faces and their small shaking forms, all he could see were three cassette sparklings that needed a carrier to protect and nurture them. He would have snatched them up right then and there if it weren't for orders coming straight from Megatron demanding he return. Even then he still hesitated, taking a photo of the children and burning every detail of their forms into his processors for later analysis. And when all was said and done and Soundwave was back on the nemesis, he actually felt alive for once. Laserbeak felt similarly after looking at the images taken of the children. Soundwave wanted to care for cassettes, his carrier instincts demanded it, and Laserbeak wanted siblings. They agreed and soon after threw aside anything not related to finding a way to get the human children in their possession, or at least find a way to gain interaction with them.

It was a difficult thing to figure out, mainly because organics require different care than cassettes, but Soundwave spent weeks dutifully reading parenting books, biology texts, phycology papers, education documents, and medical websites until he felt sure of himself. Then he slowly began accumulating things small organic cassettes would need. Laserbeak did most of the collecting (not that she minded), often bringing soft fabrics, the odd piece of furniture, and enough canned food to last a nuclear winter. Then once they got everything in order, Soundwave made his move, heading to every battle secretly to watch and see if the human children were present or not. And this he did for months until at last the opportunity came, one he did not miss.

Taking care to ensure none saw him, Soundwave snatched up the human children and hurriedly put them into his carrying chamber which he had fixed up beforehand to not be harmful to the children. Then before anyone could react, (Autobot or Decepticon) Soundwave took to the air and returned to the nemesis as if he had never left. Not even Megatron suspected a thing as Soundwave stalked back to his chambers, locked the door, let Laserbeak get settled, and finally pulled the children out.

They were decidedly unhappy if their screams were anything to go by. But Soundwave expected such a response, Rumble and Frenzy behaved similarly when he first took them in as well. Soundwave was accustomed to having to take things slow and let his little cassettes warm up to him. Besides, he had spent plenty of time learning what humans needed. He was feeling fairly confident in his ability to have the children relax around him eventually. And for six whole months, Soundwave had the children in his care, unknown to anyone and kept safely hidden away where only he and laserbeak knew.

Rafael was the first to warm up to Soundwave, caving in around two weeks into being under Soundwave's supervision. Soundwave paid special attention to him due to his need for glasses and his young age. The spy master was very dutiful in collecting food that met all of the nutritional requirements of human adolescents, and he took extra care to ensure Rafael was always able to get to his glasses. He would regularly pat Rafael on the head, ruffling his hair with gentleness reserved for his cassettes. He would teach Rafael bits and pieces of Cybertronian while also ensuring that the boy was taught things the human documents said were normal for his age group. This task was not at all hard considering the relative simplicity of human education, so Soundwave may or may not have thrown a few more advanced subjects into the boy's education as well.

Rafael for his part adapted well to being in Soundwave's care. He learned quickly that no harm would come to him and came to even enjoy being with Soundwave even if he longed to return to the ground and the Autobots. He was fond of Soundwave and took pride in doing things Cybertronian young performed, which always earned him a loving nuzzle from his originally unwanted Cybertronian caretaker. Laserbeak for her part loved to sit with Rafael during his studies and play games with him, mainly some form of ball or a version of chess not too dissimilar from the human version. All in all, Rafael was content, if a little cooped up.

Miko was the second child to crack as she came to find herself enjoying listening to music with Soundwave and being caught before she could escape. While at first it was a desperate bid for freedom, it turned into a game and even a learning experience as Soundwave taught her how to better hide and use her size to her advantage in combat. By the time month three rolled around, she was invested in her studies with Soundwave and regularly sat on his shoulder to listen to music with him, often singing along happily and play fighting with Laserbeak. She hated being cooped up, but she liked being able to watch what happened on the nemesis, even going so far as to suggest funny pranks to Soundwave (who on occasion actually implemented the pranks because it was what his little cassette wanted).

Soundwave always took great care to foster Miko's musical capabilities, teaching her songs from Cybertron and showing her how to play sized down versions of their instruments. And while he did school her in other things, music was her passion and he did not take that from her, instead encouraging it and helping her to channel it into something practical. She was a small organic cassette, she needed a defense, so Soundwave gave her a set of blasters which would hook up to her instrument. Of course he kept it offline or at a low setting, but Miko loved the gift nonetheless. She especially came to love using it in mock battles with Laserbeak who would play dead to give Miko the gratification of victory.

Jack was the last to crack, taking nearly four months before he fully accepted Soundwave's affection. Soundwave took extra care of Jack's emotional state, mainly because it reminded him greatly of Frenzy, his emotionally scarred and battered cassette. He went to great lengths to make Jack comfortable and to help the boy work through his panic attacks and other mental issues. And surprisingly, Soundwave's attempts began to work, even helping Jack gain confidence as he tutored him in all sorts of subjects. Before long Jack was flourishing academically and showing an interest in combat after seeing Miko do so well. Soundwave offered his little organic cassette a set of energon blades in response, ones which he quickly began showing him how to use. And after only a month or so, Jack was proficient in their usage without having anything aside from the school work Soundwave assigned him to do.

Jack came to love simply sitting with Soundwave quietly, watching the security feed with him and sometimes discussing old stories and his problems. Soundwave of course always listened, never speaking up and instead letting Jack vent all his frustrations patiently. In his mind, Jack really was just like Frenzy, a tough exterior with a soft interior personality wise. And just like with Frenzy, Soundwave was patient and offered all the companionship and comfort in the world when Jack felt comfortable enough to speak with him. Laserbeak also came to love having Jack lay against her side as they watched a film or something of the sort, even purring to him when he had nightmares when he fell asleep by accident.

To Soundwave everything was going perfectly. He finally had cassettes to look after and they were opening up to him far faster than anticipated. He was ecstatic. But as will all good things, it came to an end too quickly for his liking when an attack on the nemesis forced Soundwave to put the children in his carrying chamber and hurry out of his quarters. By some means, the Autobots had confirmed that the human children were on the nemesis and they were angry. Soundwave ran for his life as he sprinted down the halls, heading for the upper decks to escape capture and to get his human cassettes to safety. But that was not to be. Before long the Autobots found him, having locked onto the human children's life signal stemming from him.

He tried to fight, but with the children in his carrying chamber, he eventually accepted capture and was dragged back to the Autobot base. When there he was strapped down and interrogated immediately, the Autobots not being nearly as kind as they were known for.

Optimus: Where are the children?

Arcee: What did you do to them!?

Ratchet: If they are dead I can promise you will re-join the Allspark before Primus can hear your prayers.

Soundwave: ...

Soundwave: Cassettes: Secured. Safe.

Sensing his defeat and only wanting his little cassettes to be safe, Soundwave opening his carrying chamber and allowed the children to clamber out in wonder. There were tears, hugs, and tender embraces, but Soundwave watched it all in apathy. He was going to lose his cassettes again... and he wasn't sure he could handle it.

At least that was what he thought until the children explained and fought in Soundwave's defense. The spymaster could only watch in awe of his cassettes as they spoke for him, pointing out that he merely wanted to care for them and that he never so much as touched a hair on their heads with harmful intent. In response to this, Optimus made an offer.

Optimus: Soundwave... you wish to care for the children more than you wish to serve Megatron, yes?

Soundwave: ...

Optimus: If that is true, why not join us? You can care for them without fear here.

Soundwave: ...

Soundwave: Offer: Will be considered.