#Soundwave mimic

[fruitful-gummies]

Happy 40th Transformers G1 !!!!

[bits-and-beasts]

sooooooo what if... the cons where like.. space bugs, and the autobots where a collection of people unlucky enough to stumble across them by accident?

thats, basically what this is?

essentially, cybertron completely ran out of resources, forcing it's inhabitants to search for other planets capable of supporting life. they find earth, but because they lack the whole -turning into cars- thing, staying secret and safe is a lot harder.

soundwave and the cassettes get separated from the nemesis while scouting for food, and wind up running into blaster. who does his very best to help.

tarn is violently obsessed with Megatron, unfortunately that gets taken out on soundwave (since they're corjunxed here) , he essentially stalks them the entire time they're separated from the rest of the cons.

thankfully Megatron finds the group before things get too dire

poor blaster keeps hearing stories about soundwaves precious husband, but the very first time he sees Megatron is horrifyingly violent lol.

(the cassettes are very happy he's back :D)

[weirdlookingreptile]

Consider the following-

A captured medic and a very horny cryptid

Every time I read 'Consider the following' all I see is the picture of the bottle opener held to someone's nail captioned with Bill Nye lol.

Anyways- Enjoy the boi being his cryptid self :3

Ratchet x Soundwave

Very suggestive

Ratchet has been privy to many courtship displays over his lifetime, especially in his more active 'party ambulance' days. The mech's doing the displays ranged anywhere from snobby high class vosians and praxians, all the way to near rusting slave workers.

All this to say, he never once expected to receive a courtship display from whatever pit spawned mimic of a sub class Soundwave is. Especially not in the brig of the Decepticon base. But here he is, watching the mech move.

It's almost unnerving to watch the mech's usual, stilted mimicry fall away into a more fluid, but even more horrific display.

It starts off with simple optic to visor contact as the beast steps into his cell, outer layers of fields just barely mingling in acknowledgement and soft interest. There's a strange quiver to Soundwave's frame, as if his movements are being purposely slowed as to not scare the medic away.

His frame slouches a bit, armour lifting and lowering in a wave motion on his frame as he starts up a slow side to side sway. Slowly, a rhythm builds and the swaying picks up into an undulation, plating clacking and engine humming in an almost music like quality.

When Ratchet displays interest (how ever clinical) instead of distress, Soundwave drops to all four limbs. His oddly configured legs bend in a very non cybertronian way, yet they blend seamlessly into his undulations.

Suddenly, Soundwave drops even lower on his front, plating spreading wide and displaying a myriad of pulsing biolights, all bright with aroused charge. The light show causes Ratchet's sparkbeat to pick up, his own frame instinctively responding with a flash of his own biolights in return. He's only just now realizing how much of an effect the out of pocket display is having on his frame.

The return only seems to spur soundwave on, as he damn near slithers forward, plating just barely grazing along Ratchet's kiddle. Sparks jump between them at the contact, a visual display of their shared arousal.

Soundwave continues to slink around him, frame and plating moving along in that almost water like wave pattern that has him so mesmerized. The grazing turns to rubbing, and very soon Ratchet has a very aroused Decepticon officer grinding in his lap.

The staticy churr he receives when he lifts his hips to grind up into the lanky mech cements his decision on getting absolutely fragged tonight, brig be damned.

[witchofthesouls]

I find the idea of Tarn existing in TFP absolutely hilarious because he would have a raging hate boner or be deeply, wildly in lust with Soundwave (and Megatron).

The gladiator that once tied with Megatron became his right-hand mech and a steady, unshakable pillar of Decepticon might.

Tarn wouldn't be Tarn without that Decepticon badge as his face mask, nor without his weird obsessions and extremism. He would probably dig hard into differences to shore up "openings."

Tarn's soft, eloquent prose to Soundwave’s Vow of Silence. Tank versus drone. A killer voice and a near mute telepath. Imposing power to lanky speed.

Of course, they would be foils to each other. Tarn's desperation for a scrap of attention for all of his devotion, whereas Soundwave is Megatron's very shadow of a sparkeater.

[lexisrobotcollection]

Sharing some Soundwave art I found (the artist is a massive inspiration to my overall style when it comes to transformers sbwuhwj)

Momma Soundwave (credit to Theamazingspino)

[puppetmaster13u]

Might make a DC transformers Au if I feel up to it idk

[salvaged-the-decaying-one]

Meet the watchers family

[dailymothanon]

Batwave concept 🤔… except also bugwave…. I wanna implement both of those thangs (because of how the poll went). I couldn’t figure how his face would look so I’ve come to the conclusion that his visor(?) Is his face 😌 (tho there’s a chance I might change it to a human head,, not sure yet) it’s just that he mimics a human by tucking his head in a certain way that’s convincing enough, trust.. as for the bug stuff? It’s more subtle I’d say, sure the exoskeleton is a clearer thing (yes that technically means he’s shirtless in this one, boy cover up!!!) but there are biological things happening that I don’t feel like explaining yet 😌 just know I spent a whole night researching certain bugs. For his bat side I mostly referenced fruit/flying fox bats cuz their slim faces worked best with him

I felt like there wasn’t enough obviously-bug stuff going on so I kinda wanted to give him two pairs of wings like bugs do, but I’m not sure yet if they Are bat wings or if they’re like bug wings that mimic bat wings 🤔 which would be preferred??? Usually though, in this au thing he’d have them covered/hidden, kinda like how mantids or beetles would have their wings flush to the body and typically seem hidden. Tho a part of me still wants to give him insect wings cuz it matches his usual streamlined body yknow?

I’ve been drawing my Human Soundwave always covering his neck because I always imagined it to be how he’d hide his non-humanness 🤔 not sure how tall he is yet tho. Likely very tall tbh, maybe his visor thing is the equivalent of a bug face (exoskeleton) ,,, yet is shaped like a bat’s head. If that makes sense

Bonus the line art just cuz I like how it is… since bugs are like the top dogs in mimicry I like to imagine Soundwave going in on that 😌 similar to how many people like to think Prime Soundwave looks like a sparkeater! Soundwave here? Mostly not human. But pretends to be and is good at it

[startheskelaton]

Sparkplug and her stage name “Shatter” (to mimic Rumble and Frenzy)

I really love the idea that she sneaks out with the twins to go play in a punk band. Not being allowed to leave the autobot base due to safety concerns, this is her way to rebel and scream out her frustration.

I like to think she finds a sense of mental escape in this as well, she’s no longer the failed experiment, she’s just one of Soundwave’s cassettes, nothing more nothing less. She’s able to confide in Soundwave a lot, mostly because he didn’t lose a partner and isn’t projecting on her most of the time. So he makes sure she doesn’t get in trouble and keeps his mouth shut. (He also gave her Ratbat, who acts as a guitar and axe power up for her…. Also as a little friend to have)

[revelboo]

Id like to offer my very small, menace baby Ravage! can we get more big ravage and soundwave fluff? 💜💜

Sure!

Warm Pt 2

Soundwave, Reader, Ravage

• Leaping silently up on the berth, she’s not all that surprised to find you sitting crosslegged, Soundwave’s head in your lap as you trace the lines of his helm with a finger, leaning forward as the mech stares up at you. And his own hand lifts to cup your cheek as your eyes close. Hears Soundwave rumble when she circles the two of you, pleased that her younglings are both getting along. You reach back, a hand rubbing one of her ears when she leans against your back before easing down behind you knowing you like to lay your head on her side sometimes to sleep. “It’s raining again,” she says on a yawn.

• Venting a protest when you ease back against Ravage, he shifts over you and those innocent eyes stare up at him when he hooks an arm against you to slide you so you’re laying tucked against Ravage’s side and he stretches out facing you. “I like the rain,” you murmur as he reaches out to run a servo from the tip of your nose up between your eyes. Over an eye brow to make you smile. Your own hands cautiously touching the mesh and cables of his neck. And he stops when Ravage’s head lifts to study him. Feeling oddly guilty.

• Embarrassed like you were caught doing something you shouldn’t, you tuck your hands against yourself and he reaches to grip your hand, servos interlacing with your fingers. Feel Ravage shift against you, her rough, warm glossa sliding against your temple to spike your hair up and make you hide your face against Soundwave and she just turns her attention to him, absently grooming his helm. She knows you’re both adults, but neither of you bother to fuss when she treats you like her kittens. Trying to take care of you both and maybe she needs this. Needs someone to care for.

• Laying her chin on your neck and shoulder as Soundwave bumps his helm affectionately against her, Ravage relaxes, rumbling softly. And Soundwave unconsciously mimics her, rumbling back as you relax between them. Feels your breathing shift and knows she should pull you to your nest of soft things to sleep. That Soundwave will follow, reaching after you like he needs you nearby. That he’ll recharge like he’s holding you right now with your face pressed against his neck, bodies as close as he can get. Has yet to figure out where her son found you, but she recognizes a lost, youngling when she sees one. Even if you’re an adult by human standards.

Previous

[lets-try-some-writing]

Sparklings chirp. Birds chirp. Humans occasionaly too the mimics that they are. Cue bots and cons making fools of themselves

Cybertronians are known for their intelligence as a general rule. A technological species built for increadible adaptation and industry is not exactly the most likely to be fooled. However, there are a few things which are the most likely to trip them up across the board. The sound of a sparkling happens to be one of those things.

A sparkling has a unique signature sound that they develop a few cycles after their emergence. But a fresh sparkling does not have this signature song and instead spits out something akin to a chirp. It is simply meant to make noise as a sparkling tests their voice and develops their call. However this has in turn led to a few false alarms amongst Autobots and Decepticons.

Logically they all know that there cannot be sparklings on Earth. It is an impossibility. It is even more of an impossibility for a sparkling young enough to make a basic cry to be anywhere near and organic world. And yet, instincts are strong in those who have not seen a sparkling since the height of the war.

Arcee has tripped up more than a few times due to birds with calls just high enough to sound eerily similar to a smaller framed sparkling crying out for attention. She has, while tired, followed a few of these birds for several minutes before realizing her folly and turning back. No one will ever know, at least, that is what she tells herself. Soundwave knows everything.

Starscream doesn't like sparklings all that much as a general rule, or rather, he doesn't like the idea of any being around him during a war. He adores them in any other situation. Thus it was not hard for him to almost go nose diving toward the ground when a flock of birds got a little too close and had him frantically scanning the area in search of a fictitious sparkling before he figured out that it was just the organic fauna fragging with him.

Knockout had done more than a few hopeful rounds after hearing something small making a whistling almost chirp like sound while on patrol. He is fully aware that a sparkling being on Earth is impossible, but that hasn't stopped him from tailing such sounds only to end up very much disappointed when he finds a human messing around or some sort of bird chirping away. He wants to hope, and one can never be too careful. This has led to issues when Rafael made a squeak that bordered on a chirp during battle. Knockout almost dropped what he was doing to grab the boy on instinct before a punch brought him to his senses.

The bots at base have been led to panic on more than a few occasions when the children or even Agent Fowler whistled a little too high to be registered as normal. There has been scrambling and instinctual urges to coddle in response to the sounds. Surprisingly, Jack of all people has weaponized this to get Arcee's attention when he really wants it. He does not abuse this more than necessary. Rafael tends to accidently get Bumblebee to pick him up when he makes any sound a little too high pitched for comfort. Miko can't seem to get the whistle right, but Bulkhead has internally registered her attempts as her unique call and so he will respond anyway.

[yandereunsolved]

Yandere G1 Soundwave with his yandere cassettes for the human darling the Decepticons "adopted".

I can't stop thinking of the cassettes somehow getting a second cog implanted in them that allows them to transform into a cassette that fits into a human-sized cassette player.

You're sitting on an old crate listening to Thundercracker and Skywarp argue over something when Soundwave walks over to you. He leans down and opens his servo to you, revealing a cassette player that looks inherently Cybertronian, yet small enough to mimic one you'd buy at the local mall.

Both Decepticons have stopped arguing and are warily eyeing Soundwave. This is your time with them! Soundwave doesn't get to just steal the show (and obtain your coveted affection)!

"Objective: protection. Must keep human sparkmate safe."

He ejects a mini-cassette the perfect size for your new player.

"Ally: Wingthing. Will aid you should the need arise."

He then walks off without another word.

Having Soundwave as a yandere is confusing because he rarely voices or shows his emotions. It's always his cassettes―the extensions of him―that emulate that of which is buried deep within his spark.

[vomitspit2]

concept with jade leech. (expansion from BACK TO CHEST (SOUL TO SOUL))

There’s a severed ear on his desk.

Controlling his excited breath, Jade shuts his eyes tightly and counts down from ten. Should he also pinch himself to make sure this is not some wondrous dream, a dream that shifts seductively to fulfill his deepest desires before raping him with cruel reality. No, a pinch would be overkill. But — he’s at four in his count — Jade has to make sure it is really there.

When he reopens his eyes, the severed body part still lies there, unmoving and unchanged. A squishy lump of warm sand flesh with curves and divots is lying on his desk. No imperfections. No miscalculation. Anatomically correct!

There’s a severed ear on his desk; Jade could not be happier at this development.

Jade sniffs back his bubbling emotions. Pain flares in his sinuses. Fumes have been burning his nostrils for a little over … three hours. My goodness, he has been really losing track of time in such a capricious manner; he is ever so unpunctual at this phase of his life.

Honestly, the clock does nothing for him anymore and he is only able to measure time passing by how many sticks or cones of incense he burns. He’s on the third stick of Worm’s Wart, down to five-sixth of itself, about to switch to a fourth.

He licks his lips, tasting metal and each swirling aroma of potions that suffocates the botanical garden. He could pick up a flower and only smell metal, metal, metal.

The ear is lucky it is not a nose.

After all, the body part Jade had been originally trying to make was an ear — which makes this potion a tiny, successful stepping stone to the bigger picture that he's hoping to accomplish. Next, will he attempt an eyeball or a tongue or a nose? He has the lumbar system which he could work through, picking and choosing his favorite vertebrae to make first, or there is always the complex organ in the whole body, perched up in the roost, a brain is simply three pounds and it is not hard for Jade to find three pounds of mushrooms.

To think, this organ started out as a white button mushroom and will soon perform the function of receiving auditory stimulus.

The body Jade will make for you is going to be clean. Unburdened by any scar and virgin of any tragedy. It will leave his nose raw but heal his heart.

Endlessly curious, he picks up the bloodless ear. The bottom is smooth, reminding him of a theater prop more than a real severed organ. A beam of light from his magestone shines into the entrance. Surgically, Jade peers in to make sure the inner muscles are in correct shape.

If you press your ear to a conch shell, you’ll hear the ocean.

This is incorrect — a conch’s size and shape causes an unique resonance of sound; unable to escape, air within vibrates and reflects soundwaves to boost the sea-esque frequency everyone seems to adore. However, the ocean sounds nothing like the inside of a conch. No mere walls of shell can mimic the cacophony of hunger, terror, and determination found in the Coral Sea.

‘The sound of home,’ Jade thinks longingly, analyzing where the flesh turns and twists to make up the ear canal.

Beyond the maelstrom of noise between life and death, you cannot possibly hear him, but he is sure you will recognize the vibrations of the words he softly whispers into your new ear, mushroom now flesh, like a blind student remembering the familiar patterns of braille. After all, it is his favorite words to say to you.

i love you.

[transformers-spike]

Hi it's me again

I wonder how disturbed/fascinated the auto/decept if a human reader was able to mimic their voices freakishly well?

Starscream: human since your in our custody you must do as we saydid I get that right

Human reader :*in Megatron's voice* how dare you starscream

Starscream: WHAT IN THE ALLSPARK!?

Human chilling with soundwave

Human:hey soundwave you think I can guess your voice?

Soundwave:......

Human:* clears throat* starscream infiror, soundwave superior*in deep echoy voice*

Human:did I get that right soundwave?

Soundwave:.....

Human:soundwave?

Soundwave:....

Human:.....

Soundwave:.. affirmative....

Human:HOLY SHIT!

Human reader walks into the autobots base

Human reader:*in Optimus voice* autobots roll out!!

The entire crew started to turn into their vehicle modes

Human:no wait! It was a joke!

Optimus turns back: human what was that??

oh that's way too much fucking power If the reader teams up with Miko they'll end up making everyone's lives hell (they should send you both to torment the Decepticons) Yeah - everyone's gonna be fascinated to a degree, and creeped out. Bumblebee is probably the one who's most fascinated. Everyone else is mostly put off by it

[witchofthesouls]

Do you have a favorite snippet/head canon/world building bit you'd be willing to share?

I got quite a few:

Soundwave's Cassettes are a mix between real Cassettes and hidden kids. Ravage came from a mentor host, and he made Frenzy and Rumble. Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Ratbat are his kids but reformatted for Reasons.

TFP Soundwave came to the gladiatorial clades as a sparkling, and it shaped his outlook on life and death.

I prefer Prima and Megatronus being split-spark twins as it mimics the formation of Primus and Unicron. Which leads to the next point-

Primes aren't meant to stand alone, so Prima is definitely Not Okay. Prima deliberately made choices that eventually made the Quintesson Occupation possible and led to the civil war between Autobots and Decepticons after Megatronus Fell and never returned since the first Prime became obsessed with his twin's return.

Solus isn't a victim of a tragic romance and crime of passion spurred by jealousy but the main architect of its masterpiece. It was a triumph of her own making, and Megatronus was completely on board with her vision.

TFP Optimus is a legit Prime, but not a fully realized one due to the Matrix's influence. This particular world building is hinged on if he's the reincarnation of another Prime, like in the canon lore, he's supposedly the Thirteenth Prime. Each of the Thirteen had their own unique paths to claim new Champions, but unfortunately, those were lost to time and distance as Cybertron only used Prima's own Matrix to determine a new Prime. Prima and Thirteen had different Domains and Aspects as well as philosophies of the world and spirituality. Of course, there will be issues if a reincarnated Prime attempted to utilize another Primal Artifact without understanding who they truly are. Optimus is capable of awakening other Primal Artifacts, but he doesn't realize they're still 'asleep' in a way and hasn't tapped into their true potential.

The reason why Unicron in TFP didn't just burst out of Earth immediately is because of Megatronus Prime's efforts to forever chain the Unmaker away (and that's why the war moved to Earth, why the planet is teeming with Energon and relics, and why Optimus is fond of the place...)

Earth is also its own entity as it's supposed to balance out Unicron. Gaea is a reflection of both Primus and Unicron, and the brothers don't know what to do with a sister-daughter in their balance.

Since Thundercracker is the tallest/biggest of the Command Trine, and fanon likes to compare Seekers to birds of prey, then Thundercracker is a femme.

Tarn is a deep romantic, but he compares every point and trait to Lord Megatron. That mech is also a Mess with his personal relationships that it's soap opera worthy.

[doshi-sukiru]

Divergent au

Yeah..so I made a new au so here we go-

Part 2!

this one I don't think I'll make a fic out of, mainly because I'm already trying to get back to my shadowpeach one (I have NOT forgotten, uni is just a bitch and for some reason I'm procrastinating too much which is scaring me but I can't stop it it's awful-)

So, this was something @/angstychilz and I discussed one day in our megop server and it was basically "what if Megatron and a few other decepticons got captured by the Quintessons while they were on the surface?"

And of course I'm in a chokehold so now you're forced to deal with this horrifying au I twisted with my knowledge of sci-fi / doctor horror.

**TW!! I might get a bit graphic with some details so please tread carefully! I don't want to scare any of you with what I have for this au, it is disturbing in some areas**

So, to start, I've considered that for now, Megatron, Soundwave, and Blitzwing would all be taken by the quintessons to be experimented on, mainly to help the quintessons understand their anatomy and to use it to their advantage in order to help conquer Cybertron (suggestions for other bots to be taken and experimented on is welcome!)

Of course, it is considered that they are different species, and in a way I believe that the quints would see cybtronian's as lesser beings (especially seeing how they managed to persuade sentinel easily with the idea of having more power in return for killing the primes and providing them with energon). This would play a big part during their experimentations, especially with Megatron because he carries a Prime's cog, that too Megatronus's, who was definitely one of their biggest enemies.

Megs and the others are kept with other mechs, some dead some alive, and they all go through terrible transformations (I'm still deciding how to ruin blitz, especially with his split personality).

I'll just summarize how Soundwave's transformation becomes bc it's really easy- he just goes from tfone sound to tfp sound (angsty's idea), since he has moveable cables similar to the quint's tentacles. He is still in control of his body and mind, and even holds conversations with Megatron to give him some sense of normality between them, but will black out whenever the quints need him to go scout on cybertron to avoid autobot patrols and seek out new victims.

Megatron's treatment I have more detail on (and why wouldn't I, he's my comfort character I need to detail his agony-). There is no anesthesia, Megatron is staying awake as they tear through his chassis and tear out the cog, forcing him to go back to his cogless form. I will also add that before he was taken, he also lost his right arm in the fight before capture, so he's dealing with two types of pain.

Through that the quints learn that mech body's can shift, so while Megs is sent to recover with the other bots they grab some poor mech and experiment with their cog, and they take their time just experimenting on how to make a cog of their own. This also includes them doing several types of dissections on a lot of mechs, pulling and twisting wires, tearing apart limbs and then forcing them to reconnect after forcing the mechs to transform. Keep in mind none of them are under anesthesia, so it's like an old victorian surgery, you're awake and watching a bunch of aliens piercing through you, dismembering you and forcing you to stay still as they go through your systems and organ parts, and even through your spark (guess how you think they learned that was what kept them alive).

Through all that, once they get some form of a twisted, functional cog that mimics an original one, they immediately do everything they did to those mechs to megatron.

By then, he's no longer filled with rage, but fear. Indescribable fear of whether or not he'd survive this. He was a miner once, and while he had his moments he was always assured by Orion he'd be fine and he'd be safe. Orion's not here anymore, and most of the time Sound isn't either, so he's stuck spiraling in fear.

Obviously he's more resistant against them, but he can't fight them anymore. At the same, his helm is forced open, leaving his core processor open for them to dig in and used what memories he has to twist him into a more submissive mech, especially his momentary regret that he got when he shot Orion, and later after dropping him to die. He's forced to endure several procedures, most that left him bleeding out or vomiting blood to the point of exhaustion, and waking up in a tank only to be pulled and put through it again. And again. And again. And again.

Until- they get it right. Now, he looks like a normal mech, similar frame and shape, but with changes. His frame color no longer is a silver/grey hue, it's green with how often he's kept in the dirty cells or in the tanks. His arm got replaced, but with a quintesson-like arm. His voicebox is damaged from the constant tests, so he speaks very little before his voice gets glitchy and incomprehensible.

His body, while accepts the cog and gives him a new alt (flier), will still reject it after a long period of time (consider it between every 8-10 orbital cycles/months), which causes internal bleeding and erratic movement from his body, often times leaving him disfigured and in agony when it occurs. This can range from his body trying to transform mid-form into his alt, to whole on twisting his limbs, or both.

I'll open my inbox for you guys again for this au, I'll do a part 2 for orion's part. But yeah, here's my twisted horror au that I keep a latch on. hahaha-

Bonus art!