#tf heatwave headcanons

[whatwooshkai]

HOT TAKE: I think heatwave’s third alt mode should’ve been a firefighting plane. no I will not be taking questions

[cayennesugar]

How did the rest of the team (and OP) react to the news of them expecting a baby?? They probably told everyone at one of their Sunday reunion thingys.

Jazz and Prowl are granddaddys now, YIPPEEE🎉🎉🎉🎉

Quickshadow is REALLY nervous about her sires’ reactions because the last time they heard from her, she was the same old quiet, and closed off femme, but SUDDENLY SHE’S ON AN ISLAND FULL OF MECHS AND SHE GOT PREGNANT 💀💀💀💀💀😦😦😦😦😦

Boy are they gonna have chat with Heatwave

Everyone was initially shocked, but immediately screaming and chaos replaced the silence, and while Blurr was posting this on his story, everyone was scrambling to get the firehouse set up for Quickshadow. Blades and Dani are already planning her baby shower and brainstorming names (obviously not officially thinking of names, as that’s up to Heatwave and Quickshadow) and the burns kids are frantically telling the Greene’s everything

[lovinglonerhybrid]

Ok so I just kinda thought of this but I like the idea that tfrb chase is a secret jazz/prowl love child and jazz has no idea that prowl had a kid and sent him to the rescue bots to be raised away from praxis. (I’m thinking this is pre war before they work together professionally) and prowl just never tells him even after there reunited during the war. That is until they get sent on a joint mission to griffin Rock and then prowl has to explain why there’s a bot there calling him creator but looking nothing like a praxian. Oh and prowl also has to call redalert and let him know that heatwaves also on griffin Rock and is not dead in space like every one thought they were.

[cynthiadasorceress]

Rescue Bots Academy headcanons (with a touch of angst)

Hotshot has a (rather poorly) hidden inferiority complex

Heatwave unintentionally adopted Hotshot

Neither has any idea how it happened, Hotshot just became Heatwave's son one day

Blurr has visited the Academy at some point, and he was both glad and upset at how Heatwave has changed

On the one hand, he's happy the recruits and especially Hotshot are getting a good mentor,

But on the other, he's upset that he never got that version of Heatwave, and sometimes he wonders if it's his own fault

Grimlock treats Dinomode Hoist like a dog treats its puppy

Hoist has been scruffed on several occasions

Medix loves bats

Even before the incident with Mr. Flappy, he collected books about bats and loved watching documentaries about them

Autistic Medix, Wedge, and Hoist

ADHD Whirl and Hotshot

None of the recruits have any idea their teachers (except Heatwave) have more than one alt mode

Whirl is a scraplet colony, specifically the one Whirl Sr. Adopted in MTMTE

Whirl Jr. aroace

Colonies of metal-eating pests don't have much interest in romance, as it turns out

Ratchet changed for the better when he found out about Medix

While he is no longer afraid of dinobots, Hoist still finds actual dinosaurs a bit unnerving

This probably has to do with them being organic

While training to use a hose, Hotshot nearly passed out. Several times.

While bats are his favorite, Medix loves most types of animals

The only exception to this is deep-sea creatures

He does not understand them and he does not want to understand them

Wedge has had a brother

The way Medix's family found out he could magnetize was by finding him on the ceiling

Whirl Jr, in her most basic state, looks like a bot-shaped scraplet, with a silver body, solid blue optics, and thin limbs

A lot of bots find this appearance unnerving

[monocle-teacup]

I've only watched a few episodes of Rescue Bots, but I'm convinced Heatwave would find Miko to be the most annoying creature to ever exist. It would piss him off to no end knowing that she gets to be on Team Prime while he's stuck in Griffin Rock.

[annabelle-creart]

Humanformers Headcanons part 1

When Heatwave discovered Knock Out's favorite bar, the first thing he did was to call Soundwave to help him teach Chase to dance, because yes, Chase is the worst dancer one can find, and you can't impress someone with ballet

Chase knows ballet, and is very good at it, well, was, he stopped after a duty accident, he still can do some tricks but for some reason it hurts sometimes, he started to do it again because Knock Out was a good at it too

Kade treats Heatwave's children as nieces, and is who babysitten them when he has to brought them to the fire station

Cody sometimes goes to the station to do homework and take care of the kids

Blurr and Salvage are in study programs where Boulder and Chase teach, those programs are to attract students on the STEM and police fields, they're Chase's and Boulder's favorites respective

Charlie is the captain of the recint Chase works, they relationship is like Captain Bolt and Peralta if Bolt was more relaxed and Peralta has Santiago's personality (Brooklyn 99 is top tier show in that recint)

Blades met Bumblebee getting Bee's grandma to the hospital in a helicopter, they always joke about that day because its too similar to The Proposal's scene

Heatwave and Boulder's first kiss was under the rain because Heatwave couldn't support the idea of not to give Boulder the romantic comedy Boulder always wanted, it ended up wrong but now they're married with three kids :v

Blades proposed Bee on Bee's parents' house on a family dinner, Ratchet is still trying to understand how that happened because the first time they met the guy and now they will get married, Optimus is just happy to see his baby boy be happy

Elita chose "Monster in Law" for the movie night because it's her favorite movie, everyone thought she was treating Blades and almost took the control away of her

[amiablyinept]

How each rescue bot would respond to you waking up

Blades: Hey you, you're finally awake.

Boulder: Rise and shine sleepyhead, we've got a big day ahead.

Heatwave: Look who's finally awake, you were snoring, the entire night.

Chase: You are up, that is good.

[mysticfoxdesigns]

My drafts were being weird @skatermusic so here we are

Heatwave headcanons

He was lower caste on Cybertron before coming to the Rescue Bots

This mf is shit at reading due to this, but he tries his best to hide it

His formal education is whatever they taught at the academy, and even then due to the age he was when he came in and his graduation year, his education level isn't as high as the others

He is street smart though, and has a basic understanding of things around him. He isn't stupid when you actually look into what he knows

Sometimes doubts his position as leader due to this. Majority of the team leaders have been fire bots, so he sometimes believes that is why he was chosen as Sigma 17's team leader

Doesn't help that their team's graduation was rushed. That part was never really explained to them

Out of all of the Sigma team he is closest to Chase, but isn't Amica level with him (that honor has been given to Blades)

Loves to lie to the humans about basic Cybertronian things. Things from how they sleep, refuel, if they can cry or not, all of that is fair game for him to lie about. Anything that can actually be useful for them to know, such as patching them up, he allows Blades to explain

Speaking of Blades, these two started to rough house more as Blade's confidence grew. The rest of the team likes to watch them wrestle with each other

Literally cannot tell if Quickshadow is either flirting with him or making fun of him. Blades does not make it any easier as well with his input

Blurr gets under his plating but most of that is due to him seeing a younger self in Blurr. He tries his best to guide Blurr away from making the same mistakes as him, but sometimes you just gotta let him learn the hard way

Will never admit it, but loves when Kade insists on them visiting different scenic areas of Griffin Rock. The scenery was one of the small things that made him want to stay

Speaking of these times, he will also never admit that he loves hearing the stories Kade tells him. When he isn't trying to pose up for others, Kade actually makes a good talking partner to the bot.

While he doesn't fully understand the whole Kaiju movie industry, he will admit that watching giant monsters beat the shit out of each other is entertaining. Kade has dragged him off to a Godzilla movie marathon

Cody throws off his guardian coding, especially with all of the danger he gets into

He teaches Cody with his holoform different self defense mechanisms, and sometimes drags Kade in to be the test dummy

Has broken his training dummy so many times that Boulder had refused to fix it for 2 solid months. After that they came to a conclusion to create a metal one

Will allow Chase to infodump about his detective movies and books, but if there were a test at the end, he would fail

Finds metal and punk music to be the most similar human music to his favorite Cybertronian genres of music

Use to follow Megatron's speeches due to his position in the lower caste, but gave up on him after the council meeting and the fall out after that

"Why the frag is half of this island brain dead?"

Has never killed a man or bot, but isn't opposed to it if he weren't a Rescue Bot and was under oath

Is very sassy after the bots are revealed to the community. Has ruined many of Huxley's clips by swearing in English

Swears the most in English, but Blades wins for Cybertronian swearing

Races Hightide in boat mode. Only won once because Hightide took pity

Would gladly fuck up MECH if they met

And those are some Heatwave headcanons! Hope you enjoy

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Thinking on mom Quickshadow having a day off and taking the kids to the beach

Believing in mom Quickshadow teaching the kids Morse code and making the most fun situations out of that

Imagining OP calling Quickshadow and when she answers OP sees Quick feeding Cece

Daydreaming on Boulder being mom too

Anyway hc

[capn-rikshu]

It’s so funny how tiny the Rescue Bots are depicted compared to Optimus Prime.

Heatwave and OP are both trucks, it would make more sense if they were similar in height. I always thought how odd it was that Heatwave was that small while standing next to Optimus. Also the Rescue Bots have quite the variety of alt modes: bulldozer, car, truck, chopper. All vehicles that can vastly be different in sizes depending on the model.

So here’s how tall the Rescue bots would be compared to tfp characters (in my headcanon). I made this almost a year ago, the original chart’s not mine, I just added colour coded lines to it.

(I tried keeping their heights consistent with each other [Boulder always being the shortest compared to everyone else])

It’s now very comical if you see how my headcanon heights of the Rescue Bots basically tower over Bumblebee when they are all pictured similar in height to him in the show.

[llettucestuff]

This was supposed to be a short thing about a hc I have where Chase’s frame is a bit colder than normal, and Heatwave’s a bit warmer. Instead, this kind of derailed and became… whatever this is. It’s very self-indulgent and probably a little OOC lol. This particular fic has Chase and Heatwave as Amica Endura’s btw, but I won’t always write them like that.

ALSO I haven’t written for Transformers in like, a REALLY long time so please excuse any missed terminology :]

ALSO ALSO Chase is kinda inspired by @/delkios HCs here on tumblr from like 2016, and this series on AO3, which is also inspired by delkios. More on that in the tags. Enjoy!

———

Chase muses about the general nuances between him and his Amica, and their overall relationship in relation to Griffon Rock.

Or, Chase runs cold. Heatwave runs hot. They make it work.

—

Despite his core temperature being at an optimal point for functioning, Chase still ran decidedly cold, through no fault of his own. He’d been that way ever since he was a sparkling, sitting in front of heaters trying to warm up his endlessly cool servos and pedes, never really feeling truly warm, servos always either burning hot or in their natural state of permanent cold.

His Amica, the mech after Chase’s own spark, on the other hand, ran hot like an earth furnace. Chase recalls being told various stories of Heatwave trying to cool himself down, sneaking into freezers and other places mechlings like him shouldn’t be. It was almost funny, the way they were trying to achieve the opposite of what the other was. Maybe that’s why they work so well together.

Chase’s servos were always a touch too cold to be pleasant or fully “normal,” digits sometimes stiff with inclement weather coupled with a chilled frame, Heatwave’s palms always warm and grounding, frame hot like his temper.

They were equilibrium for each other, opposites in the regard of outward frame temperature, always ready to cool one down or warm the other up. It worked, and that’s why they were Amicas.

(Not just for that sole fact, Chase would input, musing that Heatwave’s companionship meant much more to him than his admitted handiness as a personal heater).

That fact, that is, their cool and heat swapping tendencies, hasn’t changed in the many, many vorns that they had known each other, even pre-Amica Endura status. So, given that, it isn’t expected by either of them for it to change once they meet the rest of the Sigma-17 rescue team, where they meet Blades and Boulder, or when they hit Griffon Rock and discover their new mission— and it doesn’t, as they predicted so.

(It’s a touch curious and a bit of a wonder how neither Boulder nor Blades discovered their Amica status before Griffon Rock. It’s not like either we’re being particularly subtle, but they supposed that their combined general professionalism probably skewed the other two bots’ perception of them, and any private time between themselves was usually during recharge time, or so subtly done that it was overlooked. Chase would find it funny if he wasn’t so concerned about his friends perceptiveness.)

Apparently, after scanning their new vehicle modes, Chase and Heatwave’s frame temperature translated, to a degree, to the inside of their cabins. This doesn’t necessarily cause a bad problem, but, minor complications do arise.

Sometimes, Kade would gripe about the heat during the summer months, complaining that the heat made him sticky. Sometimes, Chief Burns would be a touch chilled when first entering Chase’s cab, though he never really commented on such.

Both were easily fixed and placated with the flick of a dial that had the Chief murmuring gratefully, sinking in to the warmth with a subtle but firm pat to the dashboard. On the other hand, it had Kade and Heatwave grouching at each other loudly until Heatwave finally cranked the AC as high as it would go, and, in a most petulant manner, they would spat for a few minutes longer, then acquiesce; although both Chase and Cody were proud to announce the fact that these spats and arguments had become fewer in frequency over the course of time, a fact that they took immense satisfaction in: it meant they were getting along, working together, tolerating each other’s presence. They still fought, surely, because that’s just who they were as people (and cybertronian).

(Chase would not divulge Heatwave’s late-night ramblings about his parter, ranging from words not meant for the likes of little audials, to worries about his human friend. Heatwave was shudder-to-think that Kade would actually realize that Heatwave listens to him, much less cares about him, in the covertly roundabout way that Heatwave does when he meets new people that seem to grow on him. Yes, Chase was sure Heatwave’s quiet affections were born out of nothing but pure concern about the fragileness of his squishy human partner and the rest of the Burns family.)

At the end of the day, when they had the time to spare and a near-certain guarantee of no impending emergencies to disrupt them, Heatwave would sit on the bot-sized couch, Chase’s helm cradled delicately in his lap, and they could bask in each others’ presence and talk in their native vernacular, occasionally watching human TV or reading datapads and books alike. Of course, they would swap positions interchangeably— it all depended on how the two felt on that particular night.

Heatwave’s heat would leach into Chase’s cool, and the two mechs would sit there, basking in the steady, familiar equilibrium of their soothed sparks and evenly-temperatured frames.

Sometimes, one of them would instead lay down on the couch like it was a squishy berth, and the other could lay on top, trading coolness for warmth (and vise versa), and let the steadiness wash over them, EM fields melding lazily, and systems shutting down to fall into an easy, quiet recharge.

It was peaceful. Routine, when they could afford it. Nice, even, though they would argue on separate fronts that any one-on-one time with their Amica was beyond just “nice”.

It was the perfect way to recharge, Heatwave thought, never one to shy away from physical affection (in the many gruff forms he typically dished it out in) with someone he loved. If Chase could have it his way, they would do this every night, holding servos and muttering halting words and conversations half-thought out to each other into the gentle quiet of the bunker.

Chase’s normally rigid, borderline inexpressive field going almost wiggly and boneless, blanketing over them as he grumbled tiredly over his Amica, shifting as he knocked their helms together gently in a spur of the moment bout of (what sometimes felt like an overwhelming amount of) affection.

Heatwave gave his servo a gentle squeeze, making soothing little sounds to calm the policebot back into recharge and settling his own field over the two of them, engine purring quietly in contentment. Heatwave was quick to glare and snap at any of the other bots that might come near them that were in the “living room” part of the bunker with them, mostly for fear that they might make a nasty comment on their admittedly compromising condition, though that happening in and of itself was a rare occurrence due to the timing of their little quiet moments, and the sheer respect the other two held for them.

It was actually Boulder who found them the first time it happened on Earth, Heatwave recharging so deeply his engine was stuttering, with his helm cradled in Chase’s lap with one of Chase’s servos supporting his neck plating.

Boulder had stopped and looked, eyeridge quirking up in a decidedly learned human gesture, to which Chase merely brushed him off with a wave of his free servo and a flick of his field dismissively, returning to his datapad. Boulder, ever the calm, non-confrontational mech, had never mentioned it after the fact, drawing his own conclusions in the privacy of his mind (with maybe a few snapped photos for his memory files, just in case).

The second time, it was Blades who found them, Chase soundly recharging while leaning against Heatwave, their servos clasped between one another even in his recharge. Heatwave glanced up from the TV and glared at Blades with a viciousness that would earn him a scolding later, who skittered off without a word of question, a touch too skittish to try and ask the angry firemech until much, much later.

Heatwave was protective and touchy when it came to his Amica and their status, sue him.

Over the months, Boulder finally gathered some courage to ask Chase about their potential relationship, with all the grace of a thudding ballerina.

“We’re Amica Endura,” Chase had simply said after Boulder’s shy, stuttered question, almost smiling and most definitely pleased with himself, if the way tender emotion seeping onto his faceplate was any indication, “and have been for many vorns.”

“I see,” Boulder had replied, grinning and nodding, grateful that admittedly tactless way he asked the question hadn’t upset the policebot. “You two were partners back in the Academy.” It’s more of a statement than a question, prodding at the prospective double-meaning of the word.

“Heatwave was the only mech who wanted to be around me back in the Academy, given my… unique circumstances.”

“Unique—? Oh. Right. Sorry, Chase, I didn’t—“ realize, didn’t remember, didn’t know it affected your life like that— a frown, field tugging in, then Chase’s reassurance:

“It’s quite alright, Boulder. No bodily damage or any vulgar obscenities said, as the Chief says.”

“You mean ‘no harm, no foul’, Chase?” Heatwave entered the room with thudding pedesteps, looking between the two with half-formed suspicion lingering in his optics, arms crossed right against his chest. “What’s this about?” His field tugged at Chase’s with question and apprehension lingering between them, a silent what’s going on both said and not.

“Boulder was just inquiring about our Amica Endura status,” Chase informs, tone bordering on bright, his audial twitching in a different direction— most likely he heard something from upstairs, “And I find that we are the most probable source of reliable information about the subject, Heatwave, and our friend was merely curious.”

“Right.” Heatwave grunted, field tugging Chase’s briefly in something like relief and acceptance before patting his shoulder armor firmly and moving on, the brief contact exchanging both pleasant warmth and much-needed coolness.

“I think he’s a little…” Boulder trailed off, searching for a word that was less-rude than “prickly” or “overly worried”.

“Protective?” Chase hummed in question, helm tilting to the side, “I feel the same, but it is entirely warranted, given our past, and he is my Amica.” Chase says, like it explains everything, and, well, maybe it did, “I will stick by him, rites-willing.”

Boulder smiled in that soft, knowing way of his, optics warm. “Must be nice, having a sparkner all this time. I’m glad you have each other.”

“As am I. I’m grateful to have Heatwave for so long, and I’m want for nothing more in a partner.”

“That’s awfully sweet,” Bounder’s field went all soft, his affection tugging at Chase’s stiff field. “You balance each other out, now that I think about it.” Remembering all of the times Chase was able to calm Heatwave when he was on an irate, angry warpath with a servo to the shoulder plate and some hushed words exchanged in soft Cybertronian; all of the times Chase was stuck in a cyclical, logical thought-process and couldn’t see things from a different light had Heatwave telling him the facts point-blank, trying to drill his way through and urging Chase to attack the issue from a different, still somewhat logical connection.

Now that he thinks about it, Boulder recalls how Heatwave was always the mech that ran the warmest when they were on the Sigma, practically radiating heat in the endless, desolate cold of space that even they could feel. Chase was always the coldest, seemingly emanating a unique sort of cool that seemed permeated the space around him in some circumstances.

Opposites, indeed. But, Boulder thought, it was kind of fitting. Chase’s mouth tugged into that half-grin of his, “That we do. Now, if you’ll excuse me, Boulder, I have some studying to do.” And with that, Chase sauntered off, likely in search of his police manual.

“Huh. Wonder how we didn’t see it before.” Boulder mumbled to himself, shaking his helm fondly and turning around to go back to the bunker through the garage.

“See what?” Blades asked, turning the corner, “If there’s any gossip, I want to know!” Primus, he was sounding more and more like Dani every day.

“I, uh. Well, you see,” Boulder attempted, still unsure if the two Amicas wanted their relationship aired out.

Blades shot him a look, both teasing and intrigued. “Well?”

Scrap.

[localrobotfragger555]

In my notes from last year💀💀

[cayennesugar]

I need to see Jazz and Prowl’s reactions to finding out about Quickshadow’s pregnancy. Rip Heatwave 💀💀

So based on the requests I’m getting I’ll do them accordingly and chronologically accurate to this silly little au 🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀

[figitorynonsense]

Hey *says that in a non-sexy way*

🧸 👻 👽 💔

For Heatwave －O－

hi ok so

•Heatwave was abandoned as a sparkling and taken in my ‘cons for a while

•dry areas. No humidity to synthesize water? Big chance for fire he can’t extinguish. And besides his solution to everything is water

•coming up with creative insults, he’s gotta deal with kade somehow

•after hotshot had a chance of fucking dying in that one episode he no longer trusts the dark and became way overprotective of him (this also lead to some damage to himself

^kinda fits with the 👻 but i dont really care

[rattrapdadfigure]

Rescue bots Academy queer headcanons lmao

Wedge - cis panromantic asexual

Whirl - cis sapphic

Hoist - demiboy + quoiromantic/sexual

Hot Shot - trans male bisexual

Medix - trans male, gay

Heatwave - trans male, bisexual or omnisexual

Blades - the dramatic gay (tm)

Boulder - agender (amasc) finromantic/sexual

Chase - mascflux, gay/ninsexual

Bumblebee - demiromantic/sexual bi

Optimus Prime - aroace

[monocle-teacup]

I have no idea if someone else thought of this headcanon, but I feel like Blades would be OBSESSED with the Boom De Yada song. Boulder would automatically know what Blades is talking about since he likes watching the Discovery channel. Blades of course wants the rescue team to do their own version. Everyone at the firehouse (though Charlie and Chase take time to warm up to the idea), except Heatwave is on board with this. Heatwave is like, "Sweet Primus, please kill me."