#btw if anyone's wondering he has a mouth like idw Tailgate's

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Shockwave redesign!

It's everyone's favorite guy! ;D

Shockwave has always had a love for science, but sadly, he was assigned a job in politics. He showed no interest for politics. Defying cybertronian laws, he secretly studied science, often skipping work just to work on secret projects in his hidden lab.

At the begining of the war, he was caught helping Megatron and other Decepticons by hiding them in his lab, which led to his lab as well as all his secret experiments be found and revealed to the public. As a punishment for betraying/defying the Cybertronian laws, he was forced to go through empurata, one of the most painful punishments on Cybertron :(

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why is shockwave so eepy 💤🛏 ?? OwO

Shockwave has an obsession with science, more than normal. When he gets an idea he researches and works on it nonstop. This means he tends to ignore things like sleeping and just taking care of himself in general, which is why he's almost always exhausted.

And he's a war machine:

He's full of weapons, (since the empurata punishment he went through was to turn him into something he hated, which was war and destruction) and these weapons use a lot of his energy as well as a lot of his energon. Plus they weigh him down.