Soulwave’s lore in a nutshell.
A femme who protects herself by being tough. Because she only had herself in the end.
She was born from the allspark, a little later than the ceremony of welcoming the new bots. (This world has both allspark born and born by parents bots)
Had no mentor, or friends at first, was just observing around a lot in silence. But was sometimes questioning her life, if this is all she could do? Being a seeker, patrolling around Iacon with the others.
Then she heard of Starscream who wanted to be a scientist, and was mesmerised by him, wanted to see his perspective why he wants to be something else, so she started to talk to him on a day.
And then Soulwave gained friends. Not just Starscream, but Soundwave and Ravage (he only had Ravage that time). They were the odd ones together.
She got an idea of becoming a medic and started to apply for becoming one. But like Starscream got rejected being a scientist, she was rejected too. It was hard to break out of a cast you were born into. But they didn’t gave up.
She even started to sneak into the medbay and learn through the files there. Ratchet caught her, and she was put in jail. There was actually a criminal going around messing with the files, and Soulwave got the blame.
Starscream and Soundwave rescued her, and they escaped Iacon. Many followed them, who had enough of the corrupt and dysfunctioning system under Sentinel.
They took residence on the surface. There wasn’t much energon around, but they lived happily, freely.
Shockwave wanted to do their experiments alone, and being the only with medical experience was not helping him. Since Soulwave wanted to become a medic anyway, he taught her what he could. It was logical.
Soulwave and Starscream got closer to each other, and when they finally got to be together, Megatron happened.
Everyone was quick to follow him, when he brought down Sentinel. Only Soulwave wasn’t. She was very afraid of the war, while Starscream got drunk on the power and the change Megatron could bring. He left her behind. As did everyone else.
She tried to find him days later, only to find herself in the middle of a battle. She was weak, and terrified. A building crashed down on her, before she could reach her family. Starscream and Soundwave both seen her perish. They thought she was dead.
She was alive under the rubble. The building fell down in a way, that it did not cause fatal injuries in her, but she was mutilated badly.
It was not just her body that broke. Her heart too. They not even searched for her after the battle ended. She felt numb, despite the pain in her body.
After Soulwave got herself free, she started to repair her body, bit by bit. There was enough dead bodies around her for donors. And Soulwave not just repaired herself, but upgraded it. Got various weapons built in, while she was still a functioning medic too. Had to even switch out her broken voicebox, but didn’t want to discard it. She has two now.
And of course she got the fusioncannon.
She did not scavenge the fresh battlefields for part only. But for energon too, as it was very scarce. Sometimes she took it from the dead in a barbaric, animal way of gnawing the cables out.
Ratchet seen it happen once, when he was searching for survivors. He can never forget the image. There were a legend going around of The Cannibal of Iacon.
Under the war she got strong. And the emptiness inside her filled with anger. Anger towards Megatron for taking her family away, and anger towards her family for leaving her behind. Anger towards the crueltiness of the world. Anger towards anyone who dare to hurt her again.
As the planet fallen dead, and the remaining bots escaped it, she did too, but before she made her stomach be able to use organic matter as fuel. Let it be plant or meat.
As Soulwave travelled amongst the star systems, she got a message from Optimus Prime. Calling all transformers who are still roaming around, to a little planet, Earth.
-Soulwave mirrors and remembers how you first approach her. If you are friendly, she will be friendly. If you seem aggressive, she will be aggressive. And it will decides other attempts of conversations.
-generally untrustfull, and very independent. Won’t asks for help until she is on the literal brink of shutting down.
-Do. Not. Piss. Them. Off. It will be like pouring gasoline over an already existing fire.
-likes alone time, people around them can make Soulwave uneasy
-skilled medic, powerfull soldier (even if a bit unexperienced)
-if she is mad, the plates on her face can move a bit
-the parts on the top of her head can slightly move, like ears
-the cannon might be the strongest weapon, but has the biggest downside. If Soulwave is using it, she can’t use anything else, cannot really move around, and since it needs intense cooling, she has to open her torso up for more ventillation. And if she isn’t even get hit, the extended use of the cannon can damage her anyway.
-actually can be a cool friend, and can be trusted.
-is not on either side, decepticon or autobot
