#starscream/soundwave

[akita-kira]

Soooooo, I like very rarely do this at all but I, in fact, have an AO3 story, called "The Enemy of my Enemy" I would recommend. It's in the Transformers fandom so if you're not into that, especially ✨mature/explicit✨ stories, back away. BUT WHEN I TELL YOU this is some good stuff. Angst, plot, everyone's favorite divorcees whose divorce has taken 4 million years, a little bit of smut, it's got it all. The characterization is on point and the plot is so well written you won't look away from the slow burn. Really also the MegaOp relationship is a wonderful look into rekindling a lost love (which was never really lost) also low-key I'm always a sucker for when Megatron says that Optimus would make a good Decepticon. ALSO, the author has opened my eyes in regards to Soundwave/Starscream, it's like amazing. The story is unfinished but the words that the author @chills-of-fire (I can't properly link their Tumblr, as of yet but they exist, and are under ChillsofFire on AO3) shared were all amazing. The AO3 link is below, please keep in mind you need an AO3 account to properly see it. Happy Reading!

[cleverthylacine]

StarWave?

Before I answer, which Wave? I think you probably mean Soundwave but you could have also meant Shocky.

OK this is anon so you won’t know I asked.  I’ll just have to do both.

Starscream/Shockwave: maaaybe? could be fun! Mad science love affairs are always fun, and you know that each of them has at least one angle, usually more.  I would like to see this in a fic. I’m particularly fond of Shockwave discovers An Emotion fics so I am all for it.

Starscream/Soundwave: NOPE

This is almost NOTP for me, but it’s not as much of a NOTP as Cosmos/Soundwave is, so at least there’s that for ya?

First of all...Ravage/Soundwave is my OTP, except in Cyberverse where there’s no evidence Ravage ever existed. Now, Soundwave has two hands (and an immense number of cables even in G1 where you only see them a couple times). But I prefer that his other hand be attached to either Jazz or Megatron.

If they do it in Earthspark I will be very disappointed unless it’s a “Soundwave has two hands” situation involving both Ravage and Starscream.  I don’t know enough about ES Starscream to have an opinion on whether he is good enough for my space husband, but...Ravage/Soundwave is my absolute OTP, and in Earthspark, they have shown us all the cassettes giving up on Soundwave except Ravage. I know that it’s probably not going to happen because idiots will consider it bestiality despite the fact that she’s smarter than Bumblebee is, but that doesn’t mean that anything which replaces it will be easy for me to love.

In Cyberverse, Ravage doesn’t exist, but in Cyberverse, Starscream is the absolute worst, and Soundwave is as always the king mech of my heart. Plus, Soundwave and Hot Rod have hearts in their optics even at first when they’re still annoying each other, so in CV I ship Hot Rod/Soundwave, and yes, Soundwave has two hands, but CV Starscream is a Quint collaborator who tried to destroy their universe.  I like Starscream generally, but not this one.

In G1, I can’t see it.  Soundwave is deeply loyal to Megatron and Starscream keeps trying to murder him.

In Prime, people who write this are almost always Megatron haters and Autobot stans. And they make Soundwave helpless, which I hate. Megatron is pretty gross in TFP and he’s terrifying, but he respects Soundwave and they’re obviously very close. Every Starscream/Soundwave TFP fic I have ever read involves Megatron raping them both and usually getting one of them involuntarily pregnant, at which point they flee to Optimus and his amazing Autobot healing spike.  Gross. This makes me puke.

Megatron is an asshole when his brain is on dark energon, but he loves Soundwave at least as a friend, and since he was an ex-gladiator turned freedom fighter, I really don’t see Megatron raping anyone ever. Addictive, hard drugs make you do worse things than you’d ordinarily do, but usually they only make you do things completely outside your moral compass if you’re desperate to get them and someone else who has them is making you do that thing.

Ravage is canonically dead in TFP, but I like to think that Megs and Sounders both loved her and that this might even be part of what’s making Megs so whack, although he’s clearly not over his divorce from OP.

Anyhow, it’s possible that I could like this maybe if the people who wrote it weren’t always trying to make me pity them both and worship OP’s dick.

In IDW1, even Riptide, who is not on anyone’s top 10 IQ list, has managed to notice that Ravage was in a messy triad with Megatron and Soundwave and that Ravage is being forced to make a decision that Ravage does not want to make or acknowledge. The way Rav and Wave met in IDW is super romantic, and nothing shouts “broken triad” like telling your lover to go murder the other third of your triad when that person betrays you both and also you want to know which of you two she loves most.  Meanwhile, I don’t see enough interaction between Starscream and Ravage to have any basis for shipping them.

In TFA Soundwave is robot Pinocchio and not really Soundwave so who cares?

In the UT Soundwave is a Unicron agent and Starscream is desperately trying to be good so I don’t see that happening either.

[bloominglegumes]

shoutout to this fic for being the funniest thing ive read in ages

i have way too many sketches,, will be adding them in rbs to this post

(note. the fic doesnt have an age for soundwave, nor does any canon so i just made it up bc i wanted to include him

also note: this fic doesnt seem to be set in any specific universe, but based on the art in the fic + some descriptions im loosely taking idw/g1 designs and mashing them up to make my own life easier)

[fourphoenixfeathers]

A friend of mine said "Megatron and Starscream start throwing hands as someone calmly sips the Cybertron equivalent of tea in the foreground" and I had to draw it immediately

[009274937]

ravage deserves two energons

[gregemann]

[thelvadams]

TRANSFORMERS ONE (2024) • dir. Josh Cooley

[ninjasmudge]

g1 decepticons

[the-decepticon-apologist]

Soundwave’s files have to be WILD

[mostly-him]

Underwater base daily problems

(Soundwave's life)

[holographic-mars]

Tfp season 1 or something like that

[coefore]

New bag design for TFN2024. :)

[bloominglegumes]

a bit of pride themed doodling,,

(hcs/flags are largely just me being goofy dont take them too seriously)

[runawaymac]

Things got a bit too real

[milkhorns]

💥⚙️💫🔥🔧🔥💫⚙️💥

[lillified]

coming soon