#sism ravage

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Archive: what’s the history or worldbuilding behind x thing or event?

for the cassettes meeting Soundwave?

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I went WAY into worldbuilding for cassettes and how they work in SISM, but I’ll keep this answer to the worldbuilding behind Soundwave and veis specific cassettes - Rumble, Frenzy, Ratbat, and Ravage.

To summarize the entire paragraphs I wrote on the history of cassettes and how they’re deployed: cassettes are now data slugs, data slugs are one of the most common altmodes on Cybertron, and they’re ejected using extensions, with some of these extensions able to shoot them out at full force.

Rumble and Frenzy were orphaned due to both their parents perishing in a “factory accident”, and turned to street fighting to keep themselves somewhere in the realm of actually having money. Both of them found Soundwave through the Decepticons, choosing to join the rebellion once it was gaining traction and with Soundwave growing attached to both of them, viewing both of them as veis children of sorts despite not being all that much older than them (the Frumbles are the Cyb equivalent of about 16, and Soundwave is the Cyb equivalent of 24).

Ravage, on the other hand, was found by Soundwave. In this cont, Ravage isn’t necessarily a cat, more of... the best term I can use is ‘catboy’, DAMMIT I’ve put a catboy in my cont. Catboy crimes aside, it is part of a subspecies of data slugs that took on slightly more animalistic appearances. Ravage has never said a word about how it found Soundwave, and Soundwave has never said a word about how vi found it, but they’re very closely intertwined - some suspect the two are siblings, others that Ravage has been a spy working for Soundwave for many many years.

Ratbat is the oldest of the cassettes, much older than Soundwave, too. Originally the owner of a small but successful TV company, after fli allowed some very anti-government productions on fligs channels, fli was (nearly) government blackbagged and had fligs company dismantled due to some “infighting” that “grew too wild to control”. Left destitute and angry at government censorship, fli was left with a common choice of those left destitute in this world - join a gang or survive alone. In fligs case, fli knew fli couldn’t possibly hold fligs own, and joined a gang, in this case, a gang that soon osmosis’d into the Decepticons. Fli becomes an unwilling uncle of sorts to Rumble and Frenzy, who eventually drag him into the weird little family that is the cassettes.

If you want to learn about the history of cassettes, please ask, I wrote so much on it before realizing it didn’t relate to the question. But here’s your cassette lore.