#jazzravwave

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This is the Leverage video that made me realise @jamoche was not only right about Voice of Stanix Ravage and Soundwave being robot Parker and Hardison, but also that Jazz is their robot Spencer.

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I absolutely see Ravage as sapient, capable of consenting, and a perfectly appropriate partner for any Transformer she desires that's into her (my Ravage is a she, mostly).

I may have written an entire series of fics on AO3 under this username that has RavWave as its central pairing although there is MegaRav, JazzRavWave and NautiRav in it as well :)

If you read and like them...tell people? :)

(Be warned though. They have smut in them, they are actually canon soup Decepticon alternate history...with politics and intrigue and gossip and stuff...)

Do y'all see Rav/age as a fuckable character? Like genuinely- They're a cat yes but they're also sentient and can speak?

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WIP Wednesday

(and yes this is absolutely influenced by the discussion we’ve been having about robot ageing, I added some bits in this morning)

This is from Designs and Persuasions, fourth fic in the Voice of Stanix series and half of the third arc of that series.

I almost spoilered this, but then I realised that Jazz/Soundwave/Ravage is already in the tags for this fic so it’s already spoiled.  It’s first person from Ravage’s POV in this section. (If you haven’t read Voice of Stanix, you should know that in this AU, Ravage and Laserbeak, Stalker and Buzzsaw, Stripes and Sundor, Glit and Squawktalk, Howlback and Garboil, and Pounce and Wingspan were a defunded pre-war military experiment that was sold off illegally rather than being destroyed, and spent the first ten years of thelr lives living as siblings and training together.

The cats and birds were designed to work as partners, and Ravage has never forgiven Stripes and Sundor for joining the Autobots and leaving to follow Orion Pax when he quit the Decepticon movement.)

“I shouldn’t say this,” said Jazz, and before I could tell him not to, if he knew that he shouldn’t, he said it: “Stripes never stopped caring for you. I believe that he still hasn’t. He got into fights with Steeljaw about it.”

“That’s crazy.” I sighed. “I still can’t believe he let the Autobots cassettify him, and that he hasn’t had it undone. Do you know how much better my rotten back feels now that my spine gets to unstretch itself half the time?”

“It was an arms race.” Jazz shrugged. “Soundwave didn’t tell me your back hurts all the time—”

“My chronic pain issues were not his first thought when you were in bed with both of us and the thing you were doing to him was amazing but would have hurt me,” I said, laughing. “But I’ll take it if it means we don’t have to talk about Stripes.”

“We should,” said Jazz. “I think he was in love with Blaster, actually.”

“You’re going to make me pity him. Stop,” I said.

“Ah, but you should. Blaster wouldn’t touch him. Or any of his others. He thinks it’s wrong, and that Soundwave is using you and that he whored you out to Megatron.” Jazz groaned. “Fuck. He hates me now too, I’m sure.”

“He’s always hated us,” I said, “so yeah, so probably. I know what Blaster thinks of us, and I don’t care. But I’m sorry he’s turning on you; the war isn’t over, it’s just gone cold. Sorry but really, he isn’t anyone’s friend.”

“He was Beachcomber’s friend,” said Jazz with a sigh, “and I know Soundwave regrets that. You don’t have to tell me.”

“Then don’t say things like that.” I sat up and hugged my knees to my chest. “Do you really love me, Jazz? More important, do you really love him?”

Jazz shrugged. “I don’t actually know what that means sometimes,” he said after a moment. “But I know I need Soundwave, and I care for him so much more than someone in my old position should ever have let myself care, and he is a part of you, and you are a part of him, and you are very, very beautiful, and kinder than you know.”

His smile went crooked. “And I think I do.”

“That’s fair,” I said, though I was still mad that he’d brought up Beachcomber, who was alive, and well; I didn’t mind that Blaster had been angry, I minded that he couldn’t take the win and give up on killing my conjunx, after three million years.

“You’re mad.”

“I’ll get over it.” I gave him a crooked, frustrated smile, and a long. slow, luxurious blink. “I know it’s hard for you right now. It’s never fun to find out what the people you thought were your friends are, not when you know you were wrong.”

Jazz shrugged. “Yeah.” He did not mention Megatron. He didn’t have to.

“I love what you did for Soundwave when I couldn’t be there. I love what you did for us both at great cost to yourself, and how much you’ve done to end this insanity. I want to know you better than I do, which would be easier if you would stop trying to hide who and what you are. And I love getting fucked by you. But I’m terrified of becoming a triad again, especially since a triad with us is always a little lopsided.”

Jazz laughed. “That’s fair, too. But please keep in mind that I want it lopsided. I don’t want to go where you go when you go there. Not with him or with anyone else. And I don’t want a spark-bond. I don’t like it when things are too heavy, and it doesn’t mean I feel any less, it’s just…”

“I know,” I said. “There’s a war on, even if it’s cold now. And these are immense vulnerabilities, even though I cherish them.”

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Chapters: 27/? Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Ravage/Soundwave (Transformers), Marissa Faireborn/Thundercracker, Howlback/Grimlock (Transformers), Rosanna & Glit (Transformers), Miko Nakadai/Rumble (Transformers), Jazz/Soundwave (Transformers), Optimus Prime/Starscream, Ravage/Soundwave/Jazz (Transformers) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Substance Abuse, Transformer Sparklings, Human/Transformer Relationships (Transformers), Plug and Play Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Spark Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Energy Field Sexual Interfacing (Transformers), Mood Whiplash, Colonialism, Fix-It, Transformers Spark Bonds, Functionalism (Transformers), Genderfluid Ravage, Hate Crimes, In-Character Poetry, In-Character Political Essays, Primax 1020.27 Iota, Past Sexual Assault, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Neuroatypical Characters, Starscream being Starscream, Decepticon cuddle piles, Ridiculous Robot Pig Latin

Series: Part 4 of The Voice of Stanix (Primax 1020.27 Iota),              Part 8 of All Hail Ravage

Summary: Operation: Sanctuary--if you can't go home again, make a better one.

Chapter Summary: Viridian tries to give Jazz a shovel talk, and they find out that they have a lot more in common than they thought they did.

Soundtrack on YouTube

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My Soundwave's original alt-mode was basically a sapient electronic musical instrument, though he did have wheels so he wasn't immobile in alt. (In IDW-verse, nobody is "born" a cassette or a host.) When they were broke-ass kids in Rodion Drift used to call him "the music box". Which was accurate, but it pissed him off because he actually built the deep web imageboards and forums that the resistance ran on...when he was barely more than a sparkling. I will listen to these when it's not almost midnight.

I don't think any of them should be limited to one language, all our languages are probably simple for them decode, although there will be concepts they just don't get because not organic.

Half of Glit's playlist (do you know Glit?) is Japanese because he hid out near Kyoto between the Grindcore and Kiss Players eras of his life. He loves enka.

okay you know what? "Destin" is a jazzwave and jazzravwave song.

Soundwave loves Céline Dion, you can pry that HC from my cold dead hands.

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reblogging because the first post ate the link and I had to edit it and people have already seen it.

(also now I know what their holoavatars are)

(parenthetically I hate it when people give ravage only an animal as a holoavatar rather than that as just one option, or make her an actual animal in a humanformer AU)

This is the Leverage video that made me realise @jamoche was not only right about Voice of Stanix Ravage and Soundwave being robot Parker and Hardison, but also that Jazz is their robot Spencer.